Brick by Brick (BDTW #2)

Chapter 6

Okay so here's chapter six cause I feel bad for leaving you guys hanging like that foor so long! Hope you enjoy!

Chapter 6

A few hours later, after the simulation wore off (I made a big fit of pretending like I was waking up that consisted of multitudes of blinking and rubbing my eyes and looking shocked) Jackson finds me curled up in a ball in the corner of my cell. I’m still crying and shivering and shaking away hands I that aren’t there. He sighs when he sees me and I hear his footsteps come closer and closer.

“I’m sorry,” he offers.

I scoff, “For what? You didn’t do anything.”

“I should’ve known he would’ve tried something like that.” He shakes his head. “He’s disgusting.”

“You don’t know the half of it,” I murmur.

He half laughs half exhales. “Yeah I do. We were in the same initiation class.”

This makes me turn and face him. “Really?”

“Yeah, you think I just stumbled onto your brother one day in the Dauntless compound? We were friends in initiation,”

“Oh.” I say. Three years. He’s three years older than me. Actually, two. I’ll be seventeen sometime in the next month.

Then I remember his hands on my chest and his lips on my neck and I start sobbing again.  

Jackson stands there for a moment, watching me. Slowly, he takes me by under my arms and pulls me closer to him. he hugs me to his chest, and I clutch to his shirt. His shoulder is wet where my tears stained them. He offers a few quiet words of condolence, and by his tone he really means it. If Jackson knows Eric, than he knows that Eric would’ve went farther if he hadn’t stopped him. I’m so grateful.

After my sobs stop, Jackson says, “I should go.”

I nod my head. “When is everything happening?”

“Tomorrow,” he says. “I’ll warn you through the earpiece.”

“But…” I start. “The simulation she tested didn’t work on me. Does it work on non-Divergents?”

“Yes.” He says. “But it’s better to at least have some people to help us than no one at all.”

I nod. Jackson makes his way toward the door.

“I’ll see you tomorrow,” I say.

“Tomorrow.” He confirms. The door slides shut behind him with a thud. I cross to the other side of the room and stretch out on the uncomfortable cot. After I get uncomfortably comfortable, I sigh.

Only one more night of this. One more night and I’ll see Bass and Tris.

But…no. One more night and the Erudite will have declared war on the Abnegation. One more night and this whole city will be lost in battle. There will be no going back.

We can stop it. Jackson and I are prepared.

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I wake to the sound of alarms wailing and footsteps running down the halls. I bolt upright in my bed to the opening doors. Jackson appears in my line of sight with an alarmed expression on his face.

“We have to leave,” he orders urgently. I swing my legs over the side of my bed and join him.

“Why are the alarms on? What’s happening?”

He sighs. “They think the serum is working on everyone, even Divergent. The alarms are going off because I broke the locks on your door. We have to leave now before they come. Do you understand?”