chapter 45

We step inside the room, the walls here are white and the ground is grey. Of course people in blue uniforms are stood around the massive computer. The screen shows them camera footage of the attack on Abnegation. Though there isn't much to see other than piles upon piles of dead bodies. Which brings me to what happened on the outside. To what I did.

I have killed someone. I have killed someone.

Me and Tris both look around for any sight of Tobias. "Tobias?!" Tris says in a tone of voice which has tasted hope. I look at him and see that he is tied to a chair with wires strapped all over his head and leather straps around his wrists. He doesn't acknowledge us. Even when Tris cuts him free with a knife. When he is free he hastily stands nearly knocking Tris onto the floor. I see Marcus in him now, more so than ever before. It makes my skin go into chills. Footsteps approach us.

"Impressive isn't it? His thoughts and emotions are all wiped away by chemistry. Look Sonia your brother is gone and we are all safer for it." A female's voice proudly says. It is Jeanine with her lackeys following her. I look to Tobias again and he hasn't taken his stare off me and Tris. Jeanine smiles. "What have you done to him?" I ask Jeanine who still has red marks over her neck. Thanks to me. "As I have told you he has gone and he isn't coming back." She says. She steps closer to me and Tris. "Divergents are nothing but a mixture of impulses and impurities. Especially you Sonia you are nothing but a victim of your father's abuse. You are damaged goods." She spits.

"Don't define me." I reply. She laughs again.

"I think we should leave it to these three. We have work to do." She says typing onto a tablet. Tris rushes over to Tobias and she lightly puts her hand onto his shoulder. "Tobias." She whispers but he pushes her hand off of him and punches her face. Tris falls to the ground and her gun falls out of her hands. Blood draws from her bottom lip covering her chin. He picks her up and throws her into a shelf of test tubes, a few fall off and the contents inside them splash onto the floor. I try to run to him with an elbow but he easily catches my arm and flips me to the floor. My back smacks the metal and tears come to my eyes and I struggle to breathe. He drags me up and like he did Tris throws me to the white wall making my vision go grey and hazy. He turns his attention back to Tris who is trying to get to her feet he elbows her cheek and she falls back down.

But she grabs her gun and points it to him with a pair of shaking hands. "Four it's me stop!" Tris screams and pleads for him to stop what he is doing. But he simply turns to the gun to her head and puts one of his long fingers onto the trigger. He's going to kill if I don't do anything. I look for my gun a see it is across the room, I can't beat Tobias in a fight especially not like this he would kill me and I don't have a clue on how I will stop the simulation in time. I close my eyes not wanting to watch what will happen and then I realize that there are shards of glass nearby me. I crawl to my feet and pick up a shard of blue glass and run over to Tobias and hold it to his throat. "C'mon please don't make me kill you as well. Snap out of it." I say quietly. A few long moments pass and I hear the gun drop to the floor and Tobias slowly moving the glass shard away from him. "Tris? Ruby?" He says with an unsure voice. I sigh and so does Tris. She stands and hugs Tobias.

Us three all look at the computer. "We need to stop the simulation. Now." I say. I pick up my pistol as Jeanine watches. Worry takes over her emotionless state and she begins trembling in fear as we run towards her. "Shut the doors!" She screams but I shoot the male with curly blond hair in his chest before he can flick the switch. He falls to the ground and Jeanine briefly watches she rushes to the computer pushing a young woman with glasses out of the way. Soon we are being shot at by various Erudite but you can tell that none of them have used a gun before as their aiming is ridiculous and doesn't even come close to us. 

Tris and Tobias quickly shoot down those that come close to them and I do the same. 4 people, 5 people, 6 people I have killed tonight and the number continues to rise rapidly. Blood splatters all across the white walls and onto the various computers. Jeanine isn't phased by the death of her workers as she blocks the sound of gunfire out and she continues to type onto her computer rapidly. A male with a silver knife charges at me but I shoot him in the throat and he collapses. And I soon see that Jeanine's workers are all wiped out. At least 21 people killed by three Divergents. Now I know how dangerous we can be. If we are capable of this much damage. I run over to Jeanine and pull her hair until her head is far enough to be away from the computer.

"Shut the program down." I order her. She pulls out a watery smile out of the fear she has.

"No. I admire your willingness to die for what you believe in but I am also willing to the same." She says. I let go of her hair and she chuckles to herself. "See you can't do it can you? You're not as Dauntless as you were expecting." She adds. "You can't kill me."

"She might to be able to. But I can." Tris says behind Jeanine who quickly turns around.  Tris has her pistol pointed straight at Jeanine. "I will not be ordered by a set of Divergents." Jeanine says fighting to keep her composure. We are wasting time here in a matter of minutes Abnegation will be no more. I bite my tongue and turn Jeanine around and punch her straight to the jaw and she falls to the ground with closed eyes. "We need to hurry and stop the simulation before the rest of Abnegation are slaughtered." I say. Tobias nods. "But how do we stop it? Only Jeanine could." He asks looking at the images of Chicago. The Hub, the marsh, the Amity farms and footage of the attack on Abnegation.

"Connor will be able to stop it." I say running out of the room. I run past the dead bodies as they are beign covered by white sheets and approach Connor who greets me in surprise. "Everything Ok?" He asks. I quickly shake my head. "We need your help." I say and I grab his soft hand and take him to the computer room. "Why what's wrong?" He asks not looking at the people I have killed. I take him to the computer room where Tobias is trying to stop the simulation himself.

"We need you to stop the simulation." Tris says. "Can you do it?" She asks. Connor cracks his knuckles.

"I'll try." He says. He lets his fingers onto the keyboard and quickly types in a sequence of numbers and letters. Beads of sweat begin to form on his forehead and he bites down on his lip. I watch the footage of Dauntless lining up the remaining Abnegation members to execute. One guy in grey robes tries to run away but he is shot in the back several times by Christina. "Connor you need to hurry." Tobias says as he observes the footage.

Connor doesn't reply and his typing increases and becomes more furious by the second. He presses down on a blue button on the computer screen goes black. And I watch as the Dauntless regain consciousness and they drop their weapons. Connor smiles and sighs. "There that should do it." He says. I smile and hug Connor's damp body and despite Tobias being in the same room as us I kiss his sweet lips and hold his hands. Tris looks up to the screen which shows the corridor of the Dauntless compound.

"We need to get out of here now." She orders. "Max is coming with reinforcements." We follow her running and we meet Caleb, Peter and of course Marcus outside who nearly jumps out of his skin when he sees Tobias. "T-Tobias? Son?" Marcus says in joy. Tobias shakes slightly but it is isn't out of any fear it is out of anger. "We should hurry before Max finds us." Tobias says to the others. We all begin to run out of the compound by the train tracks. By the time we reach them daylight has begun to break out and people are beginning to wake up oblivious to what has happened. We all jump onto the moving train. Caleb first, Peter second, Tobias who helps Tris on as well as reluctantly helping Marcus and then Connor manages to get on and like the day I first met him he helps me into the car.

We have all made it on to the train. Then the guilt and grief comes.