Competition:Divergent Fanfiction

Ch 17

sorry I haven't updated in a couple days I've been busy with stuff! So enjoy the chapter

CH 16: POV TRIS

"As promised, I will tell you what I plan to do due to the outcome of your previous test." Jeanine tells me. "So, I came to the consensus that no matter how hard I try, the Divergent brain is always able to distinguish reality from simulation. Therefore I will not create your reality, as I have done with previous simulations. With this simulation I will not alter your reality, but your outlook on reality-I will alter your emotions. You see, you, like every Divergent is heavily emotionally driven. Therefore, if I am able to alter your emotions, as I plan do do in this simulation, you will have no desire to come out of the simulation." She laughs gleefully, as if she is a child who found out she got exactly what she wanted for her birthday.

I try not to let my doubt show, even though that is what I am right now. I am doubtful I will be able to wake up from this simulation.

"Because I plan for you not to be able to wake up from this simulation, once I get my information, I will wake you up manually." Jeanine says, still much too giddy. She walks over to a small refrigerator and take out a vial of liquid. She pours it into a needle and walks towards me. "Even you won't be able to get out of this, Divergent."

POV TOBIAS

I jump off the train taking me to the Erudite headquarters. I plan to go through the whole compound if I have to- whatever I have to do to find Tris.

During my walk from the train to the headquarters I think over our short relationship. I'm practically giving up my life for a girl I've known for less than a month. I don't even love her. Right? I don't even know any more. All I know is that I told her to let me protect her, and look where that's gotten her. All I know is that if Tris isn't okay, I never will be either.

POV TRIS

I wake up in my holding cell. I hate all this testing but there is one thing makes it bearable: Eric. Through everything, he's tried to help me. He hid my Divergence, and when he couldn't keep me safe from Erudite, he came with me to keep me safe. I know that he can't prevent me undergoing simulations because that would give away his identity.

Just then the door opens, revealing the man who has been capturing my thoughts. He comes in cautiously, as if expecting to be caught. As soon as he closes the door he run up to me, encasing me in his arms. Something very small, almost unregistered, goes off in my mind. Almost like an alarm. But for what? What could possibly hurt me when I'm in the arms off the man I love.

POV TOBIAS

I've finally reached headquarters. I look through the glass doors and see that there isn't any guards, only blue clothed people wandering the headquarters that doubles to be a library. I walk through, I look like any other citizen. Before I came here I dressed in blue so it would be easier to fit in. I'm now glad I did.

I have no idea where to even start so I decide to ask someone. I go up a child and tap politely on their shoulder. "Hello, do you know where the labs are?" To me this sounds like a very broad question but the kid seems to know exactly what I'm talking about.

"Oh, yeah! They are located on the fourth floor of this building."

"Thanks." I say, and walk as fast as I can to the elevators. Happy to see that it's empty, I get in and jab the fourth floor button. I get out quickly and look around, trying to find something that might lead me to Tris.

I turn to the left and see Eric quickly slip into a small holding cell. I walk at a normal pace so I don't stand out from the rest of the people here. I catch the door of the cell before it can close completely and rush inside.

The sight in front of me send a billion emotions rushing through me. Relief, excitement, happiness, shock, sadness, jealousy, and so many more.

Tris stands encased in Eric's arms, looking as happy as can be, Eric looking just as happy.

"Tris?" I say quietly. They both spring apart.

"Four?" Tris asks uncertainly. The lack of emotion in her voice drains me. It's as if she has no memory of me other than who I am.

"What are you doing here?" Eric hisses. "Run!" Wait, what? Why is Eric trying to help me? Even if it is something as obvious as telling me to leave, it's better than his usual self.

"No! I came here to get Tris back and that's what I'm gonna do!" I say harshly.

POV TRIS

"Tris?" I hear. It's a quiet, hurt sound. It comes from some one I know and truly care about. I turn to the man who said my name.

"Four?" I ask. I don't know him. Why did those feeling arise when I heard him say my name? Four is my Dauntless instructor- nothing more. But I can't deny the feelings I felt when I heard me say my name.

"What are you doing here? Run!" Eric says.

But Four doesn't move. In fact Eric's words seemed to make him even more rooted. "No! I came here to get Tris back and that's what I'm gonna do!" What? Why would he do that? He's my instructor...

Then guards come rushing into my holding cell and grab Four by the arms, wrestling him to the ground. Emotions come flowing out, and I can't control them or understand why they come. I feel like I need to help him, to protect him. I look into his eyes and see love in his gaze, although he's being dragged away, I don't see fear, only love.

And I can't help but feel the same way.

Later in the day I'm taken by Eric- whose presence confuses me thoroughly, I have no idea how to feel about him any more- to a lab for Jeanine to test on me again.

Several steps before we enter the room, I hear Jeanine's voice. I stop walking and listen. "-Quite convenient that you just happened to be Divergent as well. Of course your Divergence isn't nearly as strong as Beatrice's but it will do. I will still be able to test-" I continue walking and interrupt Jeanine talking. Next to her I see Four is situated in a chair. As I look at him I see his eyes have already found mine.

"Eric! You're early!" Before Jeanine can say any more, Four busts out of his chair and sprints towards me, grabbing my hand and dragging me out the door. After a few steps I regain my balance.

"Tris? Do you remember me?" Four asks in between pants. I try to think past anything, any block that might stop me from remembering him, but I get nothing. All I know is that I trust this man and I care for him very greatly.

"All I know is that I trust you." I say with difficulty. By now I can hear foot steps of guards following behind us. After a few more seconds I hear gun shots. We turn as many corners as we find and the bullets narrowly miss us.

We turn a few more hallways and then I see it. I grab Four's hand so he turns with me and I run towards the stair well. It's about 100 feet away.

Bullets come, firing towards us.

Then he falls, taking me down with him. I hear a groan escape him and look to see a bullet wound in his chest. I look back up to his eyes, seeing the same loving gaze that seems so familiar.

The next thing I know our lips are touching. With the feeling of his lips on mine, everything comes rushing back. I remember him. I remember. I was in a simulation that prevented me from remembering. But I am Divergent; I can escape any simulation.

"I love you Tris." He says weakly, and I can practically see the light fading from his eyes.

"I love you too, Tobias."

Guards come, draging his dying body away from me.

I love you. Then everything is black.

OMG YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW HARD IT WAS TO WRITE THAT! But I did, so please refrain from killing me... I'm sorry. But I did do something that someone suggested in this chapter, the whole love Eric simulation. And in the next chapter you will hear what Eric thinks about everything, just a little though because I'm mainly focusing on Tris...

But yeah, so bey for now, please review, it helps more than you know!