Divergent High

Chapter 20

Tobias
She wasn't dead. She wasn't dead. She wasn't dead.
I kept repeating this silently to myself as if my brain couldn't fully wrap around it. Tris wasn't dead. It was all I'd ever wanted for her. Now came the hard part; staying away from her. I needed to protect her and to do that I needed to stay away from her.
I had started making a plan on how I would do it when I realized that I couldn't leave her. Not only did I need her desperately, but she needed me. She still had her own abusive father at her own house.
I sighed and stroked her cheekbone, feeling her cold hand under mine again and longing to have her in my arms again. I couldn't leave her, not with her father anyway. I kissed her forehead, letting my lips rest there for a minute, being honest with myself for a minute. I didn't wanna leave. I didn't want to. I wanna stay with her, with my love. God, sometimes, my subconscious is a very smart subconscious.
I sit up in my chair when I hear someone come into the room. It's a doctor, his white coat almost reaching down to his knees, and his glasses pushed down onto his nose.
"Hello, Mr. Eaton, how are you today?" he asks calmly, pushing his glasses up and writing something on the clipboard he was holding.
I ignored him, asking him a question of my own. "How is she? Will she wake up soon?"
He sighed, pressing a hand to his forehead, briefly, and sat in a chair, motioning for me to sit next to him. I do, clutching the chair so hard my knuckles turn white.
"Mr. Eaton, she's not doing very well. Her body has started shutting down, signaling that she's slipping into depression. After everything that's happened to her, she's been through a lot of stress. She just needs to rest now. But, uhmm...."
He trails off, tapping his fingers on his knees.
"But what?" I ask loudly, jumping out of my seat and glaring down at his face. He looks up at me with sadness in his eyes, showing me that he really did care about her, his own patient, and that he had something he didn't wanna tell me.
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Tris
I heard Tobias and another man talking, and I longed to talk with them and to be with them. I mentally sighed; I would have to settle with this for now.
"But what?" Tobias said loudly, something making a squeaking sound when he said it.
The doctor paused, probably looking at him, and said quietly, "If she doesn't wake up in 48 hours, we will have to take her off life support."
It was silent for a few seconds, and then I heard Tobias quietly say, almost in a whisper, "No. No, you can't do that. I won't let you." His voice broke at the end, and I realized he was probably crying.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Eaton, that's how it has to be. I really am sorry. Tris was an amazing young woman. I hope she rests in peace."
Right after the doctor said "I hope she rests in peace", Tobias slammed his hand down on something, hard. Most likely a table or something. I could almost see his chest rising up and down rapidly as he hyperventilated, something he always did when he got angry. I could also picture his icy blue eyes melting, turning to flames as he tried to burn the doctor with his stare. I also heard him say in a very deadly voice, quietly once again, "Don't even go there. She's not dead. Don't frickin talk about her like that, like she's already gone, like I already lost her. That's bullcrap right there. She isn't freaking dead yet. Don't gimme that kind of crap."
I smiled mentally, happy that he was protecting me even when I was in this kind of crappy state. I loved this man to death, and I thought about what he was probably thinking about. He was probably thinking that this was all his fault, that if he hadn't met me, this would've never happened.
Well, if I was in his position, my thinking would be like this: I don't regret meeting him, whatsoever. If I could go back and change it, I wouldn't. But would I give up meeting him for him being safe from all this drama and my father?
Absolutely.
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Hola my initiates! How are you today? I wrote this whole thing on my laptop, and lemme tell ya, it was REALLY annoying. I had to keep doing LShift + Enter and it was really annoying. I hope you guys enjoy dis! I am currently grounded from using my iPod, so I was trying to use my iPhone 4 (hehe ;)) but it was being a butt and wouldn't lemme see muh story :/ I'll try and fix it for ya guys.

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