Those Five Words

28.

Chapter 28

JEANINE POV

Caleb have we been able to get into the Dauntless secure files yet?" I ask. I am starting to get irritated with this situation. It has been over a week and no one in Erudite has been able to get me the information I need.

"No Jeanine. We think they have taken the files off their server."

This is not what I want to hear. I have no other way to get the information I need. Jack Kang has always had secret files at Candor but we learnt a long time ago that you can't access them. Maybe I should put him under his own truth serum, and then I could find out everything I need to know and more. I will have to keep that idea for later.

Caleb has proven to be a bigger asset than I thought he ever would. He isn't as smart as his father, which is a benefit. It has been so much easier to manipulate the truth with him. His father was always too moral for my liking. How he could leave Erudite and run off with Natalie to Abnegation still makes me sick. But now I can have my revenge, I have his son right where I want him.

I have to come up with a new plan. I don't even know if Marcus is delusional or if there is any truth to what he was saying about Tobias. I think it's time I take this to a whole new level. There must be someone out there who would like to speak about what happened. It may have been nine years ago but no one has ever forgotten what happened.

"Caleb I need to talk to the editor of the newspaper. Set up a meeting for today?"

TRIS POV

I walk into the dorm room to find a group of initiates standing around Peter, who is holding a newspaper. He sees me and starts to read:

"The mass exodus of the children of Abnegation leaders cannot be ignored or attributed to coincidence. The recent transfer of Beatrice and Caleb Prior and Robert Black calls into the question the soundness of Abnegation's values and teachings. Why else would the children of such important men decide that the lifestyle that has been set out for them not be an admirable one?"

"Or are there more sinister revelations to be had? Everyone remembers the horrific murders of both Evelyn and Tobias Eaton nine years ago. It has recently come to our attention that this may not be true. What is Abnegation trying to cover up? Is Tobias Eaton still alive? Why else would there be so many defections? Do the children of our leaders hold the answers to this question and many more? How far does the corruption spread?

"Is it time to for a new government? A new system that can help lead us into prosperity and away from the poverty the city has been enduring for so many years under Abnegation."

I can't believe what I am hearing. Tobias alive? That can't be true; I watched them carry his body away. How could this be happening? I'm supposed to be trying to start a new life, with friends and freedom that I could never have before. This was supposed to lessen my guilt, my pain. I'm broken from my thoughts with Molly asking me a question.

"Is it true Stiff? Is Tobias Eaton alive? Tell everyone the truth. Are abnegation deceitful liars?"

I am so angry. I want to tear shreds from her back. I am about to launch myself at her when Christina and Will grab my arms. "Leave her, she wants this reaction," Will whispers into my ear as they drag me out of the room with Molly, Peter and Drew laughing at me as we leave.