Conversion

Chapter Seven

Caleb

It's amazing how everyone has adapted quite easily, I think, it must have been a terrible struggle for some people. I remember the day when my sister had revealed the video of 'Edith Prior', things were thrown into chaos. Then we found out about the bureau and that didn't help anything really. I felt like it just made some things worse, way worse.
"Hey Caleb, you in there." Cara says, snapping her fingers in front of my face.
"Oh, yeah. Sorry. Just thinking."
"Okay so, I want to advance our design. make it more flexible and controllable."she says.
Recently after I made the braces for Shannon, Cara teamed up with me and we started creating multiple types of braces for handicapped people. After seeing what happened to Shannon, I wanted to help those who had lost certain abilities, to give them a second chance.
"I was wonder how we can increase that especially with the prosthetics."
"Do you have the layout of our older designs?" I ask.
She opens her binder which is overflowing with sheets and pulls out a few. "Here you go this one was the first one." she says pointing to one of the sheets.
"Then we changed the materials." flipping the page over to show a chart and a diagram.
"Can you show me one from last month?" I ask. She opens her binder again and shuffles through it. finding the sheet, she hands it to me.
"Now this one hasn't been proofed yet-" she begins, but gets interrupted by her cellphone. With a small sigh she pulls it out of her pocket. Her eyebrows lift as she accepts the call.
"Hello."she says, I hear a muffled 'hi' come from the phone.
"What?" She asks, "I'm kind of busy right now." a pause. "Well, just tell me now." she says slightly irritated.
"Can you calm down, I'll come but just tell me why." Her eyebrows furrow slightly.
"Just Caleb."she says
"Who is it?" I ask. she covers the speaker and whispers "Tobias."
"What does he want?"
"He says he needs to tell me something important." and then into the phone, "Okay I'm coming." Hanging up she says "I'll be right back, okay. I wish he would calm down." And with that she walks out the room.

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Cara

He said to meet him at Millennium Park. "What could possibly cause him to be so flustered." I say to myself. I push the down button for the elevator, with a beep it opens and out come two people. I recognize the first person immediately.
"Hello, Matthew where are you going." I ask him
"Oh we were headed to see Caleb. Do you know where he is?"
"Yeah, at the room at the end of the hall." As they walk away I finally catch a glimpse of the other person, a girl. I stare at them until they leave my line of vision.
That girl
I turn back to the elevator and quickly jump in, almost getting caught in between the doors. Hitting the 'ground' button and the elevator zips down.

"Glad you can make it." Tobias says nonchalantly although his posture is anything but.
"Why do I have a feeling this meeting is about that girl."
"So you've seen her?" He asks wide-eyed.
"What do you know? That 'girl' looked awfully familiar and I doubt I'm going crazy."
"I didn't know if it was true, but earlier today Christina came to my apartment and told me that...um...that Tris was back." He says the last part so quietly, I almost don't catch it.
"Yes, that's who this 'girl' looked like. And no, it wouldn't be hard to believe if she had disappeared, or something along those tracks. But she is dead, Tobias. We scattered her ashes, even if someone was able to collect all of her itty bitty grains of ash, it is impossible to bring her back." I say answering some of his most likely questions. "Sorry, but the true hurts. Maybe for some reason are brains are playing tricks on us. Why now? I don't know, but I sure wouldn't believe that she was brought back from the dead."I don't realize I am practically yelling until I finish talking.

Tobias has his eyes cast down at the ground, mute. I walk over to him placing my hand on his shoulder.
"Hey, I didn't mean to sound so harsh. It's science, there's no possible way to get her back..." I trail off as a thought comes to my mind. Tobias notices and lifts his head. We stand in silence for a moment as I pick through the idea.
"I can almost see all the gears in your head spinning." Tobias says. I look over at him, with my I-have-a-theory look.
"Tobias you know how Tris gave herself up to the Erudite, they ran tests, scanned her, analyzed her brain, genetics, DNA. There are probably files with all this information." A spark lights in his eyes and I know we are on the same page.
"Who knows who could have gotten a hold of them after all that has happened. Someone must have used that data and made another Tris." Tobias says, the last part less sure.

"The only questions are, how did they do it so fast? And why did they do it?"