Enmeshment

Chapter 12 - The Factionless

A scream rang out and I suddenly woke up from my sleep. The entire dorm sprung into action. "Someone turn on the lights!" Shouted Christina. The lights flicked on and I saw Edward lied on the floor next to his bed, he was clutching his face. A halo of blood surrounded his head, and a knife jutting out of his face. "Oh my God!" Christina shouted from behind me.

Myra, Edward's girlfriend walked up to him and she screamed out loud. Another initiates also screamed in shock and some other in the back of the dorm yelled for help. I could also hear someone was puked.

"Take it out! It hurts! Take it out!" Edward screamed in pain.

I was about to move forward to help Edward but Will pulled me. "No, no leave it!"

"Are you kidding me!? We have to take that out!" yelled Christina.

"We need to get the medic!" replied Will.

"I will carry him to the infirmary," offered Al as he squatted.

"No! Don't move him!" told Will.

"Will, we need to move him," screamed Christina.

"He needs help, Will!" I shouted. "He could bleed out!"

"Go get the medic now!" asked Will and I saw Jen ran out the dorm immediately.

"Take it out!" Edward screamed again and it made Myra cried harder.

Tris knelt next to Edward. "No. You have to let the doctor take it out. Hear me? Let the doctor take it out. Now breathe. It will be all right."

"It hurts!" He kept screaming.

"It will be all right, now breathe..." Tris tried to calm him down. She was the only one who took action while the others were too shocked to do anything other than panicking, including me.

A few minutes later Jen back to the dorm with Louisa and some other Dauntless nurses. They looked so startled when they saw Edward. "Is he gonna be ok?" I asked Louisa while the other nurses carefully took Edward out from the room and probably immediately went to the infirmary. Tris got up with hands and her knees were now soaked in blood. Peter showed up behind some other initiates, his eyes were menacing and a sudden smirked showed up at the corner of his lips made me make a lot of assumptions.

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I was walking on the Pit when I saw Tris was talking to Four. Judging by the look on Four's face, Tris must be talking about what happened last night with Edward. I walked toward them curious to know what they were discussing At the same time I saw Eric who was standing not so far from them, was also tried to listening to their conversation.

"Do you have any actual evidence?" Asked Four to Tris right when I joined them.

"Because I saw him right afterward and he was..."

"We're not interested in your theories. Okay?" Four glanced at Eric and then cut Tris out before she could finish.

"I saw him too!" I added. "He was smirking right after!"

"See! Roxy saw him too! Four, you just lost your top initiator and do anything about it!?" Tris raised her voice.

"He's not my top initiate anymore!" Eric showed from behind us. "In fact he can't continue training, so he's out!" Eric told Tris coldly. I looked at Eric and then moved to Tris and Four. Tris did the same thing. "Everybody needs to watch their backs!" Added Eric. "Okay!?" And then he left the three of us.

Tris and Four were facing each other. "Why is this ok?" She waited for Eric to walked somewhat away before she asked. "I don't get it. Are we supposed to be cruel, or just stupid? Or is this supposed to be part of the new rules?" She yelled at him.