Blue Flames //Divergent Fanfic//

Brown Masked Men

Chapter 15:

Tobias' Perspective

    "No!" I shout running at one of the masked men. One of them shot Natalie with a syringe. For some reason they also shot the kid she was staring at too.

Two other men come and grab Natalie and the boy. I try to grab the one that shot her, but he shoots me before I can wrap my fingers around his neck.

    My eye lids feel very heavy, but I wake up anyways. I look around, and find that I'm in a dark room with a light bulb hanging from a string in the middle of the room.

I'm tied in chains that have blades attached to them, so if I move around they'll cut into my skin. I look down at my arms, and find blood dripping down my elbow, and into a small puddle of it on the stone ground beneath me. I want to thrash and kick around, but the blades dig deeper into my arms as I move. I wince as I feel a metal blade dig into my wrist.

This is cruel, this is just.......I see a light turn on in the corner of my eye. I look up and see a brown masked man standing in the corner. He doesn't do anything, he just stands there.

I can't see his eyes. I realize that my wig is still on, but one of my contacts fell out and is on my knee. Great, now I have one blue eye, and one green eye.

    "Why the hell am I here?!" I shout. The man just tilts his head in a creepy way, and laughs. Not, a ha-ha laugh, but a menacing laugh. I've heard that laugh before. Is this a simulation? I can't tell, because I don't know what I was injected with.

I try kick my leg forward, but my legs are tied together too, and I wince in pain as a blade digs into my calf. The laughing gets annoying, very quickly and I get more agitated. I don't see Natalie or that boy anywhere. I'm seriously wondering how this guy is able to laugh this loud, that long without stopping. The only thing I can think of is Natalie, Natalie, Natalie.....

Then I hear a door bust open, and a man rolls a huge glass case on a dolley. He sets it down in front of me, and I find that Natalie is laying at the bottom of the glass case. I yell in frustration, and thrash around, but wince in pain.

Natalie is laying at the bottom of it, her hair all in her face like they just threw her in there. Gosh, I hope she's sleeping. The one laughing walks over and beats on the glass case. Natalie jerks awake and looks around.

    "No!" I yell. They're gonna fill the tank with water, so she can't use her flames and she's gonna drown, and I'm gonna watch her die. She stands up and beats on the case.

I swear this is a simulation, but I was calm when I woke up. If it was a simulation it would have gone on to the next stage. She yells and screams for me to save her, but I can't I just can't.....

    The water comes flowing from the bottom, and she tries to melt the case but all she does is singe out, and choke on her own smoke. I grit my teeth and yell for her, but she can't hear me.

 Please let this be a simulation......The water is up to her knees and she beats on the glass but her hand just keeps bouncing back off. It comes up to her waist, and by then she just stops flameshooting and leans up against the case.

She starts to cry, and kick at the bottom of the case. By this time, I've cut huge gashes in my arms and legs. The man keeps laughing, and I mumble cuss words at them as Natalie cries in the corner of the case.

It's up to her collar bone, and she's floating and kicking her legs to keep afloat. She grips the sides of the case, and swims up further to breathe. I yell at the men, and Natalie's nose is at the top of the case and she's crying.

The case is completely filled to the top and Natalie is floating to the bottom. She faces me, and puts her hand up to the glass. I see little bubbles float from her mouth as she shuts her eyes. Her hair is floating around her head, locks of it touching her pale cheeks.

She puts her hand down and opens her eyes. She mouths something with her lips, but I can't figure out what she tried to say. She shuts her eyes again and lays on the glass bottom.

More bubbles escape from her mouth. By now, I'm crying. This is how she's gonna die. She can't even hear my cries of pain. And she'll die knowing that I didn't say goodbye. 

And then I realize it all.This is just like one of Tris' fears. These people know that this is Tris' fear. I wasn't the only one who saw her simulation. They know me. I stare hard at the men that are standing before me.

    "Eric!" I shout. The man looks over at me and has a gun. He stares at me hard in the eye, and shoots the glass case. Water spills out, and Natalie kicks to the top and inhales. She's coughing and choking and water continues to spill out.

She beats on the bullet hole and it cracks. She kicks it one more time, and the case wall breaks. She comes spilling out, and rolls onto the stone floor, facing me. She looks up at me, and cries. She has a cut on her forehead from the blades on my legs. She jumps up to me, but Eric grabs her and says, "Never got to see you cry, Stiff."

Natalie flashes around, but Eric's grip is tight on her arms. I kick around, and realize that I'm only hurting myself. He holds the gun to Natalie's temple and she stops crying. Her eyes have flames in them again as she stares at me.

    "This doesn't surprise me at all." I say. "I've been wanting this kind of revenge since the Abnegation attack. Well, I couldn't think of anything so I heard some rumors that you had a little rat baby, and I thought hmmm. Maybe, I can get a little creative on this one. You know since Tris has that one fear she hated so much and thought maybe her rat baby traited those fears." he hisses.

I look at Natalie, and her two fingers are on fire. She tears from Eric's grip, and pokes him in the eyes.  He yells and releases her.

    "Actually, I fear burning someone alive." she says. She burns him and shouts, "Looks like I don't have that pathetic fear anymore." and flameshoots the other man. She cools down, and turns to me. I start crying again.

    "I love you." she says and runs to me. She melts the chains and grabs Eric's gun. She hands it to me, and hugs me.

    "I thought you were gonna die in that case. I don't know what I'd do without you." I say and cry into her shoulder. She lets go, and she has blood all over her shirt. I look down at my shirt, and blood is coming from it in small groups.

She lifts my shirt up, and gasps. I feel her fingers brush over a scratch, and she sets my shirt down. I'm used to having cuts all over me, and she probably knows that. I walk to the door and Natalie follows. I beckon her to keep behind me, as we move through the hallway.

Her arms are held slightly out away from her body, like she's ready for anything. She looks so much like Tris doing that. Tris. 

Oh, gosh. What if they found her? Damn it! I should have gone back home after the others attacked us. But, we needed more food and bullets. Both of the people that I love more than anything, the people I couldn't live with out. I had to watch one almost die because of this. The other may be dead. No, this isn't my fault. Somebody's controlling these masked freaks.

Somebody knows about Natalie. Somebody's been keeping an eye on us. Natalie nudges my arm and points down the hall. A masked man is about to turn the corner.

I shoot him in the chest, and he falls backwards. Natalie turns the corner first, and I follow. She stops dead in her tracks and puts her hand over her mouth.

Tears fall from her face like a waterfall. I look up and gasp. Tris.

Cliffhanger!!! This chapter was also really dramatic.... This was the chapter I needed an idea with, but nobody shared any ideas so I came up with this one! Thank you to those of you have read all of the other chapters and liked them! You have motivated me to keep writing! THANK YOU!!!!! Don't forget to vote and comment! PLEASE!!!!! :)