I Remember You

Prologue

"Just go Tris," he says, choking on his words. "It's okay. I understand."

Ash and fire surround us, and rubble- the remains of the fallen Candor. The air is smokey.

I feel tears shining in my eyes. "But I can't just...leave you."

He looks up, dejected. "You have to. Or the entire world as we know it will collapse. Please. You have to save everyone."

"Who cares about everyone? What about you?" I ask in despair. 

He swallows. You'll have to move on. Make the ultimate sacrifice, like your parents did. If there was ever a time to behave like an Abnegation..." he pauses. "It's now."

He's right. I have to be selfless and think of the world before myself and my feelings. But how can I, when it means losing the one I love?

He walks towards Erudite Headquarters to meet his doom, and embraces his broken new life. "We'll come together again. You'll see."

As he moves toward the distance, I see a blue-clothed woman take hold of him, smiling. "Jeanine," he spits. "What a pleasure."

Despite everything- the pain of losing him- I find a smile. Tobias isn't a wounded animal, and I completely forgot about this part of him, the part that is more likely to come up fighting than lie down dead. 

He will survive whatever Jeanine does to him. He is strong. We will find a way back to each other. I know we will.

We are Divergent. People don't like us, like we are a threat to society, and they try to kill us. So we must fight back.

I walk away from Erudite, from the only one who loves me, slowly, sobbing. How can I do this? 

Well, I have to. It's okay. I just have to bide my time. We'll see each other again. 

Suddenly the fires stop. The air clears, and I see Jeanine coming towards me. 

"What did you do with him?" I demand. She merely smiles. 

"Your...friend...he was very wise to turn himself in. Not to mention selfless. He just saved the whole world. And you...I can't imagine how hard it must've been to let him go. You cared very much about each other, yes?"

"Shut up," I murmur.

"What are you going to do? Tobias has already started testing. He's in the middle of a simulation now. Try to take him and he will be killed by the chemicals. He's lost forever."

"I said SHUT UP!"

"Poor Beatrice," she says in mock-sympathy. "Losing one person after another. Al, Will, Marlene, Lynn, Uriah...and now the one you care about most. Tobias."

"I SAID SHUT THE FREAK UP!"

I punch her in the jaw as she crumples down. "Well, don't say I didn't warn you," I mutter as I walk away, face buried in my hands. 

Tobias is in a simulation? Which one? He won't be stuck there forever, will he? Jeanine wouldn't do that, would she?

Who am I kidding? Of course she would.

But...he can't be lost to me forever. He can't. I don't accept this.

Well too bad, Tris, a voice inside my head says. He's gone. Now you can cry for the rest of your life or you can move on. You know what he would want you to do.

Of course I do. He'd want me to move on. But I have to believe that we'll see each other again. I have to.

And when we do, I'll remember him. And be ready. 

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