a dauntless love

chapter 9 (part 2)

Tobias POV:

The next morning I wake up to a very quiet dauntless. This wont be good. I walk out to the pit and I see some dauntless pulling something out of the chasm. When they finely pull the thing out I stop breathing, my jar drops and I hear a few screams, but they're muffled. What I'm seeing cant be true. The thing they were pulling up was a body. Maxes body. He's pale as a ghost and his face is gaunt. They rest his body gently on the cement ground, his eyes are rolled into the back of his head so all you can see are the wights on his eyes. I look around, there are people in tears, others are emotionless probably too stunned to know what to do. Max would never have jumped off, he had a family he loved, he was about to retire, he was happy. But I cant think of anyone in dauntless that would, or had the motives to push him over the chasm. I look around again, I don't see Tris. I wonder if she knows? It's already 10:30 am, so she must be at work. As Im thinking about work, I realise I'm late. "shit" I say, 'did I say that out loud?' I turn around and sprint away from the terrifying scene behind me and head for the control room. I can catch up with Tris in my lunch brake, but right now I just need to not loose my job. Once I get to the control room door, I stop for a moment, and walk in. Zeke is at his desk and Will is engrossed in what seems to be an article, Once an Erudite, always an Erudite. Im about to sit down went I feel a tap on the shoulder. I turn around and its my boss, his arms are crossed and he is scowling at me. "were have you been" he exclaims, Zeke looks up from his screen, surpassing a giggle. But all I can think is, 'do they know'. "I'm sorry I was late, I stoped by the pit, and had to stop when I sore the, umm..." I clear my throat, "the incident" I lower my voice as I say 'incident,' it's the wrong term to use but I don't know how ells to describe it. "what incident?" By boss raises his voice, 'they don't know' is all I can think. "you haven't herd have you?" I answer, Zeke chirps in at this point, "What, haven't heard what?" He says rising from his char walking over. Will is still oblivious to what is happening. "Max. He's... he's dead" I stutter. There faces go slake. "w-what" Zeke says, "on my way here, they pulled his body up from the chasm. Thats why I was late." They all go silent. Will looks up from his article confused. "wait, who died?" He says, my boss look around me and at him, "Were you Evan paying attention Will?" He asks, will goes bright red. "Max; they found him in the chasm" I sum up for him. He looks me dead in the eye, and says "was he pushed?" Will asks in a monotone voice. "they don't know" I answer with. "that means Eric will take over today..." Zeke adds. We're all silent after that. I know that no one here likes Eric and I know that none of them think Eric is a good choice for a dauntless leader. "dear god help us" my boss mumbles, then snaps "right! Back to work, and see if you can find some footage from the past 24 hrs of the chasm to see what happened last night with max." He shouts. We all nod silently and sit back in out chars. This is going to be a long day.