Missing

Chapter Sixteen

Tobias POV.

I'm not allowed to leave my cell, but I have learned when I ask the guards if I can see my mother they are supposed to obey and say sure, probably because I'm her son. Evelyn is finally standing right in front of me so I can tell her how I really feel since she won't listen to Tris.
"Hello Tobias." She says smiling clasping her hands and letting them hang in front of her.
"Everything she said was true, Evelyn. I brought you down here so that I could tell you myself. Since you'd probably believe me. I know you love me, and I know you want me by your side all the time but Evelyn I can't do that when you've become the new Jeanine?" I say sympathetically to get her to believe me, she just looks at her shoes. "Continue.." She then speaks up.
"Evelyn do you really want to know the way to my heart?" She looks up as if with hope and nods multiple times.
"I know you don't like Tris but I'm sure we can make a change if you let me live the life I want to live and love and cherish. I want to be free with Tris and not have to obey any rules defining who we are and how we act. I want to have children with her so that you can become a grandmother, and care for them when we are away. I want a future that holds my precious Tris in it. Because if we can be free and you are who you once were when I was six," I say looking down shaking my head because of how silly I sound. "Who you were before this 'power' took over your mind and created a monster. Then I'd see you all the time, visit you all the time. Tris isn't wrong when she says killing her will push me away, in fact it'd kill me. If she dies I die too." She looks up at me with wide eyes, Tris must've said that to her already. Her mouth forms a line considering her response and after a while I think she's going to say no so I put my hand up to the glass door, look into her eyes and pleadingly say,
"Mom.."
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Tris POV.

I walk up to the door of my cell and speak right after Tobias says his last word, mom. I put my hand to the glass separating us, me and Tobias. I look at him with sympathy, and smile a little he then looks at me and smiles. I speak up to the glass on my cell door and say "I'm willing make a compromise with you if you truly let this happen Evelyn." She immediately gets teary eyed and says. "I'll think about it." She then turns around to a guard and whispers something to him and he nods.
"Wait!" Tobias says pounding the glass, making Evelyn jump and spin around. "If you're thinking of killing her... please at least let us be together in our last moments in our cell?" He asks.
"I'll do that when and if I decide on killing her." She then turns and leaves. I walk to the back of my cell and then immediately run to a wall. I starts to slide down slowly because I need to lay down, I feel so light headed. When I reach the floor I lay my head on the cold floor. I look at Tobias and how handsome he is. I'm so lucky. So so lucky.
"What?" He says to me with a confused grin, then I realize I'm smiling like an idiot. I laugh breathlessly and just lay on my back.
"I'm so lucky, we're so lucky." I almost whisper.
"Tris you don't sound so good are you alright?"
"Just light headed, probably dehydrated. I'm going to sleep."
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The next day...

I wake to an intense pain in my stomach. My hand shakes as I lift my shirt and see greenish whitish bubbles coming from my ripped stitches I had forgotten about. I cough from the pain and my voice sounds like a kicked puppy. Tobias notices I'm awake and scoots towards the glass separating us. I scoot back against the wall and clutch my stomach. I look to the ceiling as tears threaten and then eventually do spill down my face. My breathes in sound like gasps and so do my exhales they shake as the oxygen enters and exits my body. "Oh my god, Tris!" Tobias yells. I feel something in my throats and I immediately start coughing out the same bubbles coming from my stomach. "Someone help! Please she's choking and her wounds are infected she needs medical help immediately help!" Tobias pounds on the glass door. The guards run to my cell and go wide eyed and come and pick me up gently and take me to the infirmary.

I am lay down and I feel the stitches in my leg being cut open and taken out. Someone inject me with a serum which makes me go numb so fast I just felt them starting to work before I felt nothing. They make me take some pills and the bubbles have vanished from my throat and I can breathe again. I gasp for air, and then they start restitching my wound. It's as if as soon as they started, the were done. My wound looks fresh and newly attired. They slowly walk me back to my cell, ever since Tobias spoke to his mother they have been very careful. That's probably what she whispered to them before she left. They walk me to the door of Tobias' cell.
"Evelyn has made her decision." One guard speaks and then they walk me into the cell. I'm immediately greeted by Tobias' embrace when I start crying.
"Tobias... I'm going to die." I say through sobs. Tobias lets go of me and just looks at me in shock and then says "No, she can't I'm not going to let her." I can't stand this anymore so I just believe him and hug him again. He sits on the floor and I straddle his lap like I did on the train in dauntless when I was an initiate. He cradles my neck and then kisses me. We stay there for a while because I don't even want to be sitting beside him, I need to be held by him. Even though I'm going to die. The last thing I'll remember when I'm awake and living is Tobias' kindness and gentle touch. I'll miss it forever and always..