Resurgence (Life After Allegiant - Divergent Fanfiction)

Chapter Seven

Tobias makes his way over to me. I just stare at Anna asleep on the floor.  Thinking she’s makes me feel better about our new situation. Maybe if I say it enough times it’ll actually become true. Tobias crouches next to me, his breathing is exceptionally slower than mine, I guess mine must be racing.

“It must be the sight of the gun.” Tobias says with certainty in his voice. I know what he’s talking about, my freaked out reaction. I’ve never been like this before. It hadn’t occurred to me that it was the gun which had scared me but it makes so much sense. My death only adds to Will’s death and the sight of a gun sent me into a panic attack. How am I going to cope now? I need to get back at Samuel for killing my brother. I can’t call Samuel my brother; after all he’s just a secret, not a brother. But how can I do that when I can’t even stand the sight of a gun?  I already know revenge isn’t going to be as easy as I first hoped.   “I’m sorry I blamed your brother for what happened.”

“It’s ok, I kind of did too.” I say through big breaths.

“Concentrate on your breathing. In and out.” He breathes in in an exaggerated way, I copy his movements. I feel better now I’m calmer.

“Thanks.”

“It’s normal, you’ll get over it, and I’ll be there to help you.” I can only guess he’s talking about my fear of the gun. He leans in and kisses my forehead. A light bulb moment suddenly pops up in my head.

“I have an idea.” Tobias tilts his head to the side, his eyes telling me to continue. “We use the Resurgence serum on Anna, that way we’ll know more about Samuel and those horrible people that just killed her.” I feel triumphant at my idea, I’m like my old self again, always the one who knows what to do, the person that people turn to.

Tobias kisses my head again and says, “You little genius.” I laugh, feeling back to normal, not worrying about my freak out. We both stand up and make our way to Anna, a circle of blood lies on the floor, her right hand swimming in it. Her stomach is punctured and blood is still pouring out of it, it makes me gag inside but I conceal it. Tobias picks her up, her blood dripping down his white shirt, he doesn’t seem bothered though.  Her arms wrap around his back as she’s lifted behind his head, her stomach around his shoulder and her legs flopped over his front.  I look around for any trace of the three men but they were like ghosts, nothing to track. Tobias gets up and retrieves our clothes and throws mine back and we quickly re-dress.

“Let’s get out of here, it’s giving me nightmares and I’m not even sleeping.” I say to Tobias, he nods in agreement. Both of us leave the infirmary room behind, looking around in case of an attack. It seems empty but safe, we get to the door that will lead us out of the infirmary but I see you have to push a button down for 5 seconds for the door to open. I push down on the green button and a light in the middle shows us how many seconds are left to escape here.

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The sound is air being sliced gets louder and louder. It reminds me of Tobias throwing knives at me in Dauntless initiation. It must be the sound of a knife. And it’s coming straight for me.

“Duck!” I scream, hoping it’s not too late for Tobias to get out of the way of the knife. Thankfully his reactions are as fast as mine and he’s on the floor next to me. I hear the knife lodge into the button, blocking our only escape. Adrenaline starts to rush through my veins, replacing my blood. I feel Dauntless once again.  I spot our attacker, squatting on a filing cabinet. It’s one of the three men, waiting to finish us off.  The dark skinned man leaps off the cabinet and lands a few metres from Tobias, Tobias tackles his knees as the man starts to stand and he thuds on his back.  The man slightly reminds me of a menacing Uriah, but he’s so different.  I spring up onto my feet while Tobias and the man punch and kick each other.  I try to pull the knife out of the button but it’s completely jammed in, there’s no way I can get it out. I swing my head to find a weapon but the infirmary is deserted. I wonder where all the staff and other patients went.  Tobias yells out in pain and I see him, blood dripping like Anna when she was shot. Has he been shot too? The realisation that I could lose Tobias right now scares me into action. The man leans his whole body on Tobias, Tobias lies on the floor unmoving. Tobias jumps into action, obviously getting enough energy to fight again. I guess he hasn’t fought for several years since the memory serum was released in the Bureau. He bites down on the man’s side and I run and pull the man off of Tobias, he swings his arms around violently and his nails carve into my arm. I feel his body go tense and he flips his legs over his arms, which I have hold of. His legs hit me in the head and I fall the floor. This man is tough, he would’ve been Dauntless no doubt about it, maybe he was Dauntless and I just never knew him but with this amount of fighting skill I’m sure I would’ve at least met him.