Resurgence (Life After Allegiant - Divergent Fanfiction)

Chapter Six

“Tris, come on, we need to get out of here.” Tobias says softly.

“I can’t leave him.” I whisper. I can’t. I just can’t.

“He’s gone, Tris, there’s nothing we can do for him.” He stands up and holds out his hand to me. “Come on, we need to get you help.”

“Can we give him a funeral?” I ask, avoiding Tobias saying I needed to seek medical help.

“Anything you want.”

“Thank you.”  Tobias comes and puts his hands on my shoulders. He’s trying to get me to move without asking me once again. I pretend that I don’t notice his signal to leave, and carry on brushing away debris from Caleb’s body.

“Tris, if we don't move thius place is going to collapse on top of us. We need to go.” Emphasing the last sentence with so much seriousness that i never thought possible, even from him.

“I know.” I say bluntly.

“We need to go. Now.” He repeats, his voice getting slightly angry this time. How can he get angry with me, the last of my family members just died in front of my eyes? The scenes I will see in my mind when I sleep from weeks, months, maybe years to come. “Please Tris.”

After a deep breath I nod. Tobias smiles appreciatively at me as much as he can  and helps me to my feet, putting his arm around me so I can lean my body on his.The loss of my brother has made me weak, i don't know why. It was never like this before, with my parents' deaths. I guess i had a mission then, to save the abnegation. But now i have nothing to move for and the loss is taking it's toll on me. I take one look last look at my brother before we start to head up the stairs. The flames have been put out and men in the black and yellow outfits are coming towards us. They take a firm and nasty  hold of Tobias and I and march us out of the house. The daylight is fading, and I squint through my still wet eyes. Every single person turns their head to look us, then slowly but surely the crowd cheering and whistling. I manage a smile, but I can’t uphold the false presence. It’s like we’re heroes. We’re far from being heroes.  

All I feel is a numbness, not really sure what’s going on, only picturing Caleb over and over again in my head.  People crowd around me, now I know what it feels like for Tobias being claustrophobic.  Some of those people have a small electrical looking piece of equipment in their hand. They shove it in front of them and draw eye to it. They press down on the thing and it flashes a bright light into my eyes. I freeze, stopping in my tracks, the yellow and black people bump into my back at my unannounced sudden stop.

“Keep moving.” One of them says to me, but I can’t. “I said move.” He pushes me and I’m thrown forward. His sudden force against me makes me fall to the ground, I shield me face with my elbow as i falls towards the ground.

“Hey!” Tobias shouts, his voice already fuming with anger. I don’t move from where I landed, the dark shadow of my elbows somehow makes me feel like I’m not here. I hear Tobias wrestling with the yellow and black people and I hear the groans as he inevitably hits them, to free himself. The stressed breathing of the man who pushed me is above me, and then comes the impact of a fist, the crack, the manly yelp.  “What the hell did you do that for?”

“It was an accident, Sir. We need you two to get away from the fire imediately, i didn't know she was so unstable. .” He replies nervously. I can see his eyes flicking between Tobias and the house getting more engulfed in flames with every second. Suddenly the corners of my vision turn black  and i start to see two of everything.

"Ma'am i'm awfully sorry." The man continues, I try and nod as i don't think i could do much more. He reaches his hand out to me but by now the black has taken most of my vision and my head feels light.