Divergent: Dead By Daylight

Chapter 14

Tobias' POV

1 inhale and exhale like an animal who has just lost their dinner.

My foot was throbbing in pain and my hands were ready to kill something. But none of that mattered. I was trapped and I was going nowhere.

"Tobias! T-Tobias!" I now hear Tris call my name again and I force myself to look up and into her petrified face. Her eyes were swimming with fear for me and all she could do was just stare at me.

"Well." There suddenly then comes a chuckle from behind Tris, and my muscles tense with so much rage.

"I told you I would get you back, didn't I, Four?" Eric now mutters darkly and I force myself to avoid his figure, his eyes pinning me and stripping me from every title I thought I had.

"Or should I just call you Tobias...?" He then sneers, and with this I finally jerk my head at him. I couldn't contain anymore anger. I felt like my heart would just explode with velocity at any moment.

D-Don't... Don't you even dare.

He was prodding at me with anything he could use. But he knew what was about to get me the most.

I now watch as he slowly turns his body back towards Tris and all she can do is brace herself. She was too injured to try and outrun him again.

"Let's get this over with." Eric finally concludes before he then suddenly just swings his sledgehammer forward and into Tris' side which gives me a dying feeling.

I clamp my eyes shut as Tris screams in such agony next, her high-pitched voice just clawing into me and choking me from the inside out.

Her scream echoes throughout the dense forest around us which then causes flocks of crows to go careening into the night sky.

She cripples to the ground now and I look to see that we are only about an arm's-length apart from each other.

I convulse with unbelievable pain and I yell.

"Tris! Tris, no!" At last I could no longer contain my voice. I call out to her now in desperation and sorrow. I cry out to my Tris, her figure beaten and her eyes readying to close out of exhaustion and defeat before me. I had failed her and now I was paying the ultimate price.

"Pssh. Save it for later, Eaton." Eric then suddenly cackles sadistically before he then just reaches for Tris' limp state and the event just scars my mind on the thought that he was about to place his gnarly and nasty hands upon my girl.

I hurriedly try and pry my hands now in between the jaws of the trap that secured my foot below. I couldn't just sit here any longer.

I then pull as hard as I can to break the jaws open; but nothing happens and with this Eric just gives me a smirk from overhead, his shadow casting down upon my broken self.

He chuckles as he then continues to collect Tris.

He heaves her onto his back and as he does so, he turns to me with a new stupefied and sarcastic look and grins. "Geez Four, you could do better in choosing these." He scoffs tauntingly and I feel my spine prick with so much seething anger.

I can hardly think anymore.

He then purposefully places one of his large hands around one of Tris' thighs, smirks, and then begins heading off into a direction; but not just in any direction.

He was heading back for the tower.... And towards the basement.

My mind reels and my blood is pulsing through me. I couldn't think straight or hardly see straight from the way that Eric had taunted me.