Chapter 55 - Can it?

Tris

"Come on Tris! We've got to go! He'll be here any second!" Tobias says rushed working with the keys in the lock of my cell.

"Tobias. Is that really you?" I say in awe, like I'm barely awake although my heart is going at like ninety miles per hour.

"Of course it is, now we got to run. David is looking for you and I." He takes my arms and pulls me to my feet. I immediately collapse and cry out in pain as it feels as if my leg has been set on fire from the searing pain of my weight added to it.

"Tobias! I can't walk! It hurts!" I cry out in pain.

His face converts into a look of confusion until he looks down at my leg bleeding onto the cement floor. Then his face shows pure sympathy.

"Here." He says. He puts his arm under my knees and the other on my mid back as he gently picks me up.

"I've got you. It's okay. Just relax. You're safe with me." He says calmly as I let my head rest on his shoulder.

His smell has not changed.

It's still the smell I associate with safety.

He carries me out of my cell that was basically home to me for the past three years.

All of the blood and bad memories kept in that cell.

It's not a bad place to be leaving.

Tobias speed walks and carries me out of the cell and towards the door to the left of my cell.

'This is it. I'm finally going to be out of here' I think in my head as a few stray tears escape my eyes from the burning sensation that still lingers in my leg from attempting to walk; yet alone stand.

Tobias shifts me a little bit in his arms to open the door but a scream of terror escapes my lips when the door opposite where we are standing slams open. Standing there is David and some of his 'minions.'

"Put the girl down and no one gets hurt!" He screams holding the gun at me from across the room.

Slowly, Tobias puts me down on the ground gently as if I was a feather floating to the ground or if he dropped me to hard I may break.

But it's too late for that because I'm already broken.

Too broken to return to my old self.

"Tobias, no." I grab hold of his black shirt collar before he can stand back up.

"I love you so so much. Never forget that." He says and brushes his lips against mine.

When he stands back up it isn't long before the gun goes off as I scream.

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"TOBIAS!" I scream. I jump up in a cold sweat. The pain shooting through my leg just like it was in that dream; no, nightmare.

"It was a dream. It was a dream. It was a dream." I mumble shaking against the cold cement with my eyes sealed shut like the seal on an envelope that my father would sometimes put in the mail to sent to someone for work.

My mouth is dry from screaming, but I don't stop mumbling.

"Ahem." Someone really close to me clears their throat. My eyes spring open and out of second nature I scoot on my bum to the back wall of the cell.

My eyes finally focus and I see David standing there. Then I look to my left, right and behind him.

My family still isn't here.

I want to jump up and slap him and ask, more or less scream at him where the hell my family is, but all that I can manage to say is, "M-My f-family?"

"Oh little girl. I'm so sorry. They've all died. Killed by yours truly. Not only them," he signals to the empty cells, "But your friends back in Chicago as well. Especially your boy toy there, but what was his name... Oh yeah, Tobias Eaton."

I want to not believe him, to know for sure that he's lying, but I really cannot be sure. He's clearly shown that he has the power to do something of that kind of power; murder that many people.

I shake my head no. It just can't be true.

It can't be, can it?

I really don't know that though.

He could be dead; my whole family could be dead right now for all I know.

David nods his head mocking me.

I just hide my head around my arms and curl up into a ball. I scream as loud as I possibly can.

My lungs burn, my mouth is as dry as sandpaper and my heart is racing.

I hear David laugh and walk away.

It can't be true.

Can it?

A/N-

Hi humans!

Mwahahaha I feel evil with this chapter

So 2 chaps in one day! Whoop! They aren't that long though... I mean chap 54 is just over 1000 words and this one is just over 900.

Should I try to make them longer or do you prefer them like this? I'll do either, but what do you all prefer?

Yeah, I've been in the car so I've pre-wrote these two so lucky you all!

⭐️⭐️⭐️I'm going to post an authors note chapter later today or tomorrow and I'd really appreciate it if you all read it.⭐️⭐️⭐️

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