Divergent UNIVERSITY ✅

chapter 29

It has been thirty-nine hours since Tris' disappearance and the FBI has managed to locate the van. It was stolen from a company in Tennessee five days ago. They found the van in the industrial district of Lexington, about fifteen miles from the university. This discovery reinforces their theory that she is being held in one of the warehouses in the area. There are three warehouses near where the van was found.They begin surveillance of the three warehouses to find if anyone is coming and going from the buildings. They all seem to be empty but after a couple hours of watching they spot a tall man, with a thin but muscular build, exiting one of the empty warehouses. He wears all black and matches the height and build of one of the men that abducted Tris from the hotel.The agents watch him as he walks down the street. He stands on a corner and seems to be waiting for something.Soon another man enters the street from another warehouse owned by one of the local companies. This man is slightly taller and is built bigger than the first. He also wears all black.Together they walk back to the warehouse that the smaller man came from. When they enter the building the larger man looks around suspiciously before closing the door behind him.One of the FBI agents doing surveillance is Tori. She is sure that these are the guys that abducted Tris. She watched the videos over and over trying to learn their mannerisms and behavior. These two fit the description perfectly.She calls it into Brian who was appointed head of this investigation."Tori, did you find something?""Yeah, I'm pretty positive that we have located the proper warehouse. We observed two men fitting the description of the men that abducted Tris entering an unused warehouse.""Where are you now?" Brian asks."The warehouse is on the corner of Amsterdam and Washington. We are sitting on Amsterdam waiting to see when they leave. Something must have happened though because only one of them was in the warehouse but he went and retrieved the other and they both went in.""It may be now or never to catch them in the act. Reinforcements will be there in approximately ten minutes. Don't engage the targets until we arrive.""What if they attempt to leave?" Tori asks."Do not engage the targets under any circumstances, do you understand agent?" Brian asks with authority in his voice."Yes I understand," Tori says reluctantly. She hates when he gets like that. She knows that he is in charge, but she doesn't like it when he talks to her like that.She hangs up the phone and just glares at it for a moment before she shoves it into her inside coat pocket. Her partner looks over at her and sees the annoyance in her face."I take it he wants us to sit tight?" he asks."Yes, reinforcements will be here in ten minutes. We are not to engage the targets for any reason," Tori explains. You can hear the distain dripping from every word.~oOo~Eric walks out of the warehouse where he is holding Tris to meet with his partner, Albert.Albert used to play football with Four and is the person that introduced Eric to Marcus two years ago. Albert was a walk-on on the football team. He came out of high school without any offers to play football at any colleges. So when he arrived at the university, he decided to try out for the team. He was a quarterback and because he was going against Four and Will, he never saw any field time. He became very bitter toward Four, very quickly. It didn't take long before he started to try to sabotage Four to make him lose his starting position, but everything he tried to do backfired. Four always managed to come out looking better than he did before.One day following a scrimmage game at the beginning of his junior year, Al came across a man that was hovering around the locker rooms following a game."You are the third string quarterback, aren't you? I've watched you practice, you don't stand a chance at ever starting against my son.""Who are you and who the hell is your son?" Al asked the man."My name is Marcus Eaton and my son is the quarterback, number four.""Well thanks for the vote of confidence. But I'll figure out a way to get Four out of there so I can start a game.""No, you won't. But I have a job offer for you. You see, I need for the Tigers to lose the next scrimmage game. I need you to figure out a way to cause them to lose. Do you think you can do that?"Albert did everything he could to throw the next game and subsequent games, but he never could manage to get into the position to hold that much influence over the games. It was apparent to the coaches after a couple weeks of preseason that Al was trying to harm Four and trying to cause the team to lose. Before the start of the regular season, they cut Albert from the team.When Eric and Al meet outside of the warehouse, they begin talking about Tris and what they are going to do with her.She is another reason that both Eric and Al hate Four. Before she met Four she didn't pay attention to any advances from any guys. Both Eric and Al had tried numerous times to get Tris to go out with them, but she never acknowledged either of them. When Four came around it didn't take long before he and Tris were inseparable. This infuriated Al even more. It was bad enough that Four had his position on the football team, now Four was stealing his girl.Eric felt very much the same way. Eric had been stalking Tris since her freshman year and she would never pay any attention to him. He went to every game and sat outside of the locker room to wait for her to leave. He even slept in his car in the parking lot of the hotels that the softball team stayed in so he could be closer to her. She would never pay any attention to him and she would always get one of the coaches or her trainer to escort her places. She even went as far as to file a restraining order against him during the end of her sophomore year. Eric had no idea why she did that. The order said that he had to stay five hundred feet away from her, but he still managed to find ways to get close to her without her realizing it. He was always lurking somewhere.They enter the warehouse together and suddenly Al gets a strange feeling that they are being watched. He stops and looks around the area, trying to see if there are any cars or people that look out of place here. He doesn't see anything that raises any suspicions, so he turns and follows Eric into the building where Tris is being held.When they enter the room, Tris is lying on the floor passed out. From the look of her wrists, it is easy to see that she probably struggled against her bindings for a long time. The effort is more than likely the reason that she passed out.When they enter the room Eric shouts at her to wake up."Hey you little Bitch, wake up," he yells at her. He walks over to her and nudges her with his foot.She stirs and flips her head around trying to find where the sound is coming from. "Who are you?" she asksShe knows who Eric is from their earlier encounter, but she hears the breathing and movement of another person. She tries to maneuver herself so she can see who the other person in the room is, but he isn't close enough yet."What do you want with me?" she asks unable to mask her fear."It doesn't matter who we are. We are going to keep you here until we make a point to Four that he needs to find a way to get Marcus out of jail," Eric says."We? Is there someone else here?" Tris asks. She needs this other guy to speak so that she can try to identify him. Either that or she needs to find a way to get him to move closer."It doesn't matter if there is someone else or not. What matters is we lost a lot of money because your boyfriend couldn't follow through with Marcus' plan and lose one game. So now I think I'm going to take my money out of you."Eric crouches down in front of Tris and starts to run his hand down her chest. He takes hold of her shirt and rips it open, revealing the sports bra that she is wearing underneath."I didn't know you had so many tattoos," he says running his fingers down her side where her roses and butterflies are imprinted on her skin.Al starts to get angry at the way Eric touches her. By the look in Eric's eyes, Al can see that he intends to force himself on her. His eyes are hungry and cold, like the eyes of a predator who has found its prey."Get your hands off of her," Al says in his low distinctive voice. He walks over to where Eric is crouched over her and he pushes him, knocking him down."What the hell man. I just want to have a little fun," Eric says."You will not be having that kind of fun with her. Do you understand me?" Al says glaring at him.When the other man moved across the room and knocked Eric off of her, Tris got a good look at him. His name is Al. He used to be on the football team, but then for some reason he wasn't. He asked her out numerous times but she never reciprocated his advances. Now she can see that he is apparently working with Eric."Who are you?" she asks again. "What do you want with me?""I want you to shut up," Al says to her. "You keep your mouth shut and are a good girl you'll get out of here with minimal harm. But if you keep asking questions, I'll let my friend here have his way with you. Do you understand me?"She nods her head but doesn't say a word.~oOo~Brian goes over to Four after he gets off of the phone with Tori."They think they have found her. I'm getting a team together and going there now. We are going to get her back.""I'm coming with you," Four says."No, you can't. You are not a federal agent Four. You cannot interfere with an active investigation. I allowed you to come here so that you could be near when we find her, but you can't come. I can't be responsible for taking care of you and her.""I won't interfere. Besides if you don't let me go, I'll just steal a car and follow you. I have to be there when she's found.""Fine, but you stay in the back seat. Do you understand?"Brian and Four arrive to where Tori and the others are staked out waiting for further instructions."Are they still in there?" Brian asks."Yes, they've been in there for about twenty minutes now. We have got to get in there and get to her. God only knows what they are doing to her in there.""Do you recognize either of them?""No, they both look like college age men, but that doesn't mean anything really," she says. Then she turns her attention to Four sitting in the back of Brian's car. "What is he doing here?""He was coming whether I allowed him or not. I thought it would be better if I could keep him locked in the back of a car as opposed to him running in here half cocked.""You're probably right about that. Well, what's the plan?""Alright, well we have the building surrounded. We are going to storm the building as one and attempt to get to her before any harm comes to her. You, I, and three others will enter through the front entrance. The others will enter through the other entrances around the building. Other units will be stationed outside in case one of them manages to get past us somehow. We aren't taking any chances losing them.""When are we going in?" Tori asks."As soon as you stop asking me questions and we can get ourselves stationed at the main door," he says with a smirk."You are an ass, do you know that?""Yeah, but that's why you like me so much!"Tori snickers at him and adjusts her bulletproof vest. "Let's go."They run quickly across the street and take their positions. Brian talks into the communication device that is on his throat to synchronize their attack."On three," he says. "One... Two... Three."