Prestigent

Prestigent (Chapter 2)

This chapter mainly focuses on Tobias and his strive for normality. Enjoy! I do not own any of the characters in the Divergent Series.

Also, note the dedication. beatricefray is awesome!!! She, as said before created the cover and is in my awesome Divergent group. She is the Abnegation Leader!!!!

CHAPTER TWO

TOBIAS POV

Some time, later that day, I walk over to Millenium Park to see Caleb. I have blocked him away since he betrayed Tris, so I never got to discover why she would ever risk her life for him. I have shut out one of the only things that Tris wanted to preserve. I walk to his house, on the opposite side of the old Erudite Headquarters from the Dauntless glass building. Far away from Tris’s life, I see. I knock on the door and wait for someone to answer.

The door opens, and Caleb peaks his head around it.

“What are you doing here,” he asks accusingly.

“What?” I remark, “I’m just trying to get to know the jerk that my girlfriend died for.”

“How nice,” he answers opening the door wider. He scratches the back of his neck, “So, do you want to come in, or stand on my doorstep like an ignorant man?” That Erudite nonsense will never leave him, will it?

I walk inside and look around. Everything is covered with papers marked with equations, diagrams, charts, and a lot of other junk I don’t understand. I come across one thing I do recognize, though, a diagram of the simulation serum that Tris was injected with for the aptitude test, Stage 2, and again in stage 3 of initiation.

“What is all this?” I ask.

“Oh, nothing,” he claims, gathering some of them off of the couch. I snatch the one with the simulation serum.

“Working for the Erudite cult again?” I ask suspiciously. I look at some of the other papers. Files from Dauntless initiation, CDs with numbers written on them, when I realize that all of them relate to Tris in one way or another. The Erudite grieve in a very strange way.

I grab the CD and walk over to a corner of the room where there is a dusty laptop lying on an oak wood desk. I turn it on, as I used to every day in the control room, and push the CD into its tray.

An image appears, a long, grassy field, and there, standing in the middle of it, is Tris. And then, the crows come. I see now how horrible it must have been to stand there, awaiting death. How ironic.

Although it is hard to watch my girlfriend suffer, I absorb the information as if it were a lifeline. I watch all seven of her fears until they reach the very last one. Her mother, father, and Caleb are standing in a spotlight, waiting for Tris to shoot them. But Tris lets herself die before that, just like the Abnegation I always knew she had. There are tears in my eyes.

Why did she do it? Why did she leave me to save her brother?

Why?