All for You.

Chapter 65 - Don't Know Anything

Chapter 65 - Don't Know Anything

— Tobias

"What are you doing now?" I emerge from the bedroom when I see a light on in the kitchen.

It's almost two in the morning.

I take back what I said when I see her shirt pulled awkwardly and One's little legs moving around.

"I have it all wrong," she shakes her head scribbling on the notepad in front of her.

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"I've heard of that before... the butterfly effect," Caleb takes his nephew in his arms, brushing his little blonde curls. "It's a reference to chaos theory."

"The theory that a flapping of a butterfly's wings in one location can create a disaster halfway around the world." Cars says as if she is reading from a textbook.

But she's not.
Of course two Erudite would know exactly what this theory is.

They were coming over today to visit anyways, because Will and Christina come home tomorrow, but Tris urged them to help her think through this new information she has remembered.

"Oxycodone. Tris, we give that to people at Erudite Medical who are in grave pain— which I mean you were too. Were they trying to help ease your pain maybe, even though I doubt that was the goal...?" Cara's face converts similarly to her husband.

All Erudite are the same in some ways.

"It was manipulated though," Tris goes on to explain the exposure to elements resulting into issues within the body.

"Tris, I get your reference to the butterfly theory with the killing of the New York Ambassador," Caleb's green eyes look deep at her before shifting to mine. "But the Oxycodone doesn't sound like it works with the butterfly effect." He says and Cara nods. "It just sounds like simple cause and effect, geared around a specific manipulated drug."

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"It's not simple cause and effect," she shows her scratch work to me, pointing with the pencil. "It is the butterfly effect, I just didn't know how, but it is!"

"Show me." I sit and she begins.

"It's not guaranteed, each step of the effect from the drug. I mean, if my heart were to of stopped before I even was exposed to light, I wouldn't have been blind before I "died", obviously."

I nod and yawn.
It's really early in the morning.

"There is no specific way that the drug works. Derrick did tell me this when I was first given it. If I were to of never left the building, I would have just had the wear down of my reflexes from the Oxycodone, and that would have been it most likely."

I think back to how she wasn't able to catch a ball when she was in rehab, or catch herself when she was falling.

The Oxycodone addiction caused that, and yet, none of us knew she was dealing with withdraw.

I set my hand on her knee as she continues.
"It's a theory, but I think I was in the early stages of whatever testing this drug was. I never lost my hearing, Tobias, and this wouldn't have been some kind of decibel that couldn't be reached for me too loose my hearing. The drug I was given was faulty."

"I'm not seeing butterfly effect though."

"It's all psychological," she looks at me and I see the gears turning in her head. "Loosing senses one by one, it was meant for a massive butterfly effect psychologically."