Divergent High

Ch.40

I wake with a raging pain in my chest and arm. Tobias is sitting with his hands over his face. "T-Toby? Help." Is all I can say. Hot tears have already started pouring down my face. "Tris! Be as quiet as you can!" He says, placing a hand against my cheek. He plants a kiss on my lips, quick but loving.

I am leaned against the wall of a cave, and I see the entrance is covered by thick underbrush and hanging vines. My shirt is soaked with blood, and the pain is unbearable. I let myself cry, but I can't move anything above my waist.

"W-where are we? Why aren't the shooters gone?" I ask. "After you slipped down the ravine, I slid down and acted like I got hit, and once they left, I pulled you in here. I wrapped your wounds tightly. They stopped bleeding, but as soon as we can get you to a hospital, we have too." He explains.

I groan, why is my life so complicated? "How do we know when to leave? We can't leave Audrey parent less!"  I say, even the thought of her becoming an orphan making my eyes burn with hot tears.

"I haven't heard anything for about thirty minutes, and I heard sirens and planes, maybe we should head back." He suggests. I nod, and he grabs me around the waist, lifting my useless torso. I scream in pain as my stomach seems to tear open to the firey depths of hell.

"Are you sure?" He asks. I nod, grimacing. We both limp against each other, me heavier on him, and he pushes back the vines at the entrance. We can't see any of the shooters, so he helps me walk on the slippery mud.

"I went an looked out earlier, there's a slope you can walk up easily a two minute walk from here." Tobias says, kicking a stick from the path, then strengthening his support on me.

I nod in response, most of my focus on the awful pain resonating through my shoulder and arm. I feel like a useless hunk of meat that's slowing him down.

There are faint footprints in the mud, probably from his walk earlier, and we follow them to a smooth slope that leads out of the the mud covered ravine. I take in a deep breath, and Tobias helps while I walk up the mud ramp, wincing with each movement.

"It's ok baby, I'm here. It's alright." He repeats, and honestly, his voice is the only thing keeping me from collapsing in a heap of screams and tears. We finally make it up, and I let out a huge sigh as I see the densely wooded area. It's seems so much fuller now that it isn't practically pitch black.

"Slow and quiet," I say, my voice trembling. We crunch through branched and leaves, getting closer and closer to the hotel. Tobias grasps me harder each time I stumble, letting out groans and moans of pain.

After what seems like an hour of limping half heartedly, we come up on the back of the hotel. I see a police officer, and I melt into relief. Tears of joy start to stream down my face.

"See baby, we're safe!" He says. I look around, and see a couple more officers near bodies. It's awful how many there are. Tobias finally pulls me into his arms, apparently now ignoring his knee that he smashed, and walks quickly to the officer.

He turns around, but the look on his face seems wrong. "Officer! My wife got shot, twice, we need to get her to a hospital!" He yells. The officer puts his hand behind his back. "It's ok sir, we'll take care of her."

I eye his arm, and see what he's reaching for, a gun. I scream as it comes to me, those aren't officers. The bodies are the officers.

"Baby what's wrong?" Tobias says, worry filling his voice and body. Before I can even screech, the 'officer' pulls out his gun, and fires. Tobias falls forward, landing on top of me.

My head slams into something hard, and my vision starts to go black. His weight is crushing me. I can't move. "Happy honeymoon!" The man laughs, before walking over to my unmoving body.

I let my eyes close, before he slams the butt of his gun onto my head, and the world disperses into pain and darkness.

You guys must hate me right now! People are getting shot, Tobias and Tris can't have a normal honeymoon, geez I'm evil! So soon I'll have the story separated into two endings, so you can read one or both. Thanks initiates!!