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Her soft hands were slowly tracing my jaw line. I had her wrapped around me like silk. Her head rested on my chest while I ran my fingers up her waist. The serenity of the moment was perfect. Everything I ever wanted was now laying on top of me. I had never felt more secured, relaxed and loved as I did right now. Slowly though, things seemed to fade away like a dream. My chest was getting colder and felt more hallow. In fact, there was a piercing pain coming from my back.

My eyes fluttered over to see nothing but a dark concrete ceiling above me. I tried looking around and saw an IV and a few other tubes in my arm. I couldn't move much and my head was still fuzzy. My shirt was gone, instead now wrapped with gauze around me. But what concerned me the most…was something in the dead venter of my chest. A small metal ball was implanted in my chest, from it was small wires that looked like they were under my skin that were connected to smaller metal balls all around it. I tried grabbing at it to see if I could get it out…but it sent a lightning bolt shock through my heart that almost made it feel like it had made it stop for a moment. My fingers were shaking and going numb from a strange shocking sensation running through my like a wild current. I knew at once what it was, my father had designed it. It was meant as a torture device to get information out of people except no one except high up Erudite officials knew about it. It was one of their secret inventions saved for their purposes only. It had a tracking device, and electric wiring that could shoot the same amount of electricity as a bolt of lightning through my whole body. Erudite had implanted as quick and easy killing device directly into my heart.

I tried sitting up, growling as pain shot through my back. I scooted up so I could sit and looked around me. I knew I was in Dauntless, I recognized the main entrance, but off through a large opening in the wall was a white clean room. I saw many blue coats and dresses all with their backs to me. A familiar short blond haired woman stood in front of a monitor watching it intently. I noticed another familiar person in the lab. He had broad shoulders and same dark blonde hair properly cut in place. His big hands were messing with the screen in front of him as he looked over some notes in his hands. It was my brother Jed. This was the room that the Erudite had been hauling stuff into Dauntless for weeks.

I looked around in the front entrance…and saw Four. How the hell did he wind up here? He was sitting in a chair with all sorts of wires hooked up to him there were a few monitors next to him too, all displaying what he was seeing. Had Erudite managed to get into his head even though he's Divergent?

I started panicking thinking that Tris may have been caught, if she was she' wasn't here. But I was damn near ready to start tearing apart Dauntless piece by piece if she was here. However I didn't have to…she slipped right through the door her hand griped on a gun. Her eyes widened she saw me. She took a step towards me but I shook my head no, and indicated towards the Erudite lab.

There was something wrong; I could see it in her eyes. Her pony tail was falling out and she looked exhausted. Her eyes tore from mine over to Four. She looked probably just as shocked as I did to see him. She glanced from me to him for a moment and then quietly headed over to him. On the monitors I could see Tris approaching him from his point of view. I wanted to tell her to stop…but the Erudite still hadn't even glanced over their shoulder to notice that I was awake or that Tris was here.

She was muttering quietly to him. I couldn't really hear it, but I did notice her pulling a knife from her hip and started sawing off the straps on his wrists. He quickly reacted, pushing the knife out of her hands and up against one of the pillars. I started grabbing at the IV's in my arm but stopped when I noticed that the Erudite's attention had been caught, including Jeanine's. I leaned back onto the bed closing my eyes…I needed to keep myself a secret as long as I could.

"Four," Tris started to say desperately, "it's me…it's me you're in a sim."

"He can't hear you," Jeanine's calm controlling voice came in. Her stupid high heels clanked on the floor as she walked, "Amazing isn't it? Everything we think of that makes up a person, thoughts, emotions, history…all wiped away by chemistry."

I opened my eyes, luckily no one was watching me. I started pulling the IV's out of my arm. There was a table nearby that had my two guns, a bloody shirt and my jacket. I reached for my pistol.

"Four," Tris tried again.

He was staring grimly at Tris…he was going to attack her. I was going to kill him if I had to. Tris may hate me…but I would strangle the life out of Four with my bare hands before I let him hurt her.

"He's gone," Jeanine said standing behind him, "and we're all safer for it."

"Safer?" Tris demanded, "How are we safer?"

"The brilliance of the faction system is that conformity to the faction removes the threat of anyone exercising their independent will," Jeanine explained, "Divergents threaten that system."

As quietly as I could, I pulled the blanket out from over me and got out of the bed. However the movement, caught someone's attention.

Like looking in a mirror at my brother he looked up at me, his equally broad face gazed at me in surprise. He looked like he was about to open his mouth to say something but I raised a finger up to mine, indicating for him to shut the fuck up.

"Don't get me wrong," Jeanine's voice came as I quickly ducked behind the bed where no one would see me, "There's a certain beauty in your resistance, your defiance of categorization. But it's a beauty we can't afford."

I could hear Jeanine's heels heading back to the main lab followed by many of the other Erudite's. I slowly stood up with my pistol in my hand and snuck over behind one of the pillars closer to Tris and Four. From the pillar I saw Jed move over to a tablet that must be controlling Four.

"Four," Tris said walking up to him, "it's me…Four it's me."

Jed pushed a few more buttons on the tablet and Four charged at Tris slamming her by her throat into a nearby pillar. The two of them grunted as he started throwing her around. I ran up to Jed putting the gun at his throat.

"Make him stop," I said trying to be quiet to not attract attention.

He glanced over at his shoulder and jumped when he was me, "What are you doing?"

"Make him stop, now!" I said a little more forcefully.

"I can't," Jed said with a nervous look in his eye, "they'll- they'll…they'll kill me."

"And I'll kill you if you don't," I growled clocking the gun.

"What?" Jed said flabbergasted, "kill your own brother?"

"Faction before blood," I muttered.

Tris was struggling; Four was too much bigger and stronger than her as he threw her to the ground harshly.

"You wouldn't," Jed said staring at me with a face that I could tell meant he was unsure.

"I don't like faction before blood anymore than you do," I said now lowering my gun a little bit, "Please…please just help me."

"Why is this so important to you?" Jed asked.

I looked over my shoulder. Four punched her hard in the jaw sending her hurling towards the ground. She was loosing… Tris crawled on the floor and grabbed her gun near the chair and lifted it to Four.

"Four!" she yelled, "Stop."

Four stood over her looking down on her with the same dark cold face. Tris held the gun up to him but her hands were shaking. A few of the Erudite in the lab were now looking in on them. Some even noticed me holding a gun to my brother and stared at me in disbelief, no turning back now. What Tris did next made me feel like I was shot all over again.

Tris turned the gun around pointing it to herself. Four took in immediately kneeling down over her.

"Tris!" I screamed," No!"

I ran up behind Four pressing my pistol into her neck and put my finger on the trigger.

"No! Eric!" Tris yelled looking up at me, "Don't!"

Tris was crying now she switched her gaze from me to Four.

"It's ok Four," she whispered, "It's ok...it's me, it's me."

Four started to turn his head. He was breathing and sweating madly. I wanted to shoot him, a part of me wish that I would. But I doing so I knew Tris was never forgive me…but I was prepared to if I had to.

"Eric?" Jeanine called from the lab looking at me.

I glanced up at her…her mouth was open in shock and her eye brows were raised. So was Jed's. the tension and silence in the room could be cut with a knife. Everyone was staring at me as if I had lost my mind. No one could believe the truth of the moment so no one did anything.

Four started to turn his head away from Tris.

"Hey…" she said reaching up and grabbing his face, "it's me…look at me."

She managed to get Four to look at her again as she whispered, "it's me…it's me."

He was still panting and under his breath I could hear him whisper, "Tris…"

A wave of relief spread over Tris's face…did she love him? I was sure I shared a similar look of shock as the others. I glanced around…there were six Erudite men gathered next to us each with two guns pointed as each of us.

Four turned his head slightly and glanced up at me from the corner of his eye.

In a flash I turned my gun on the two pointing at me and killed them, Four did the same; we went down the line together killing all six of them. In the lab people were scrambling now. Together, Four, Tris and I headed towards the lab, taking out more Erudite as we went along. Tris pulled another knife from her waist band stabbing people in their arms or legs to get them to go down.

Someone was coming up behind four; I managed to take him out before he got to him. Four glanced up at me in thanks but soon raised his gun. For a second, I thought he was going to shoot me but the bullet whizzed past me towards someone behind me as he fell to the floor.

"Damn," I said with a small laugh in the moment, "we make a pretty good fucking team."

"Top two initiates in our class," Four said with the same amused look, "of course we do."

Jeanine was up at the main monitor clicking away on it frantically. Tris and I both looked at each other in the moment as she held the knife in hand.

"Aim left!" I shouted to her as she raised the knife and threw it.

It landed straight through Jeanine's hand and through the monitor.

A few more lone Erudite came wandering in, charging at Tris. Four and I managed to keep them at bay. Meanwhile up at the monitor Tris was demanding for Jeanine to shut it down. Up on the monitors there was a live feed of a Dauntless soldiers killing a few Abnegation. Tris pulled the knife from Jeanine's hand, placing it at her throat.

'I'm not going to ask you again do it!" She demanded, "Shut it down."

"I admire you're willing to die for what you believe in," Jeanine said with her typical calm controlled voice, "but so am I…you can't do it can you?"

There were no more Erudite's coming for us. Four and I stood there… Should I shoot Jeanine? No… those repercussions would be too much.

Tris glanced over at my then down at my feet.

Following her gaze, there was vile of the serum and an injector gun. I picked up quickly and loaded it.

"Maybe you're not quite as Dauntless as you thought you were," Jeanine said snidely then turned to me, "as for you…you're going to be wishing you were-,"

"Shut up," I said like a moody teenager, God I was tired of hearing her obnoxious voice as I tossed the injector gun to Tris.

"You're right…" Tris agreed to Jeanine, "I'm not…I'm divergent."

She sunk the injector gun into Jeanine's neck and slowly stated, "Now shut it down…and wipe the program."

On command the same mindless look grew over Jeanine's face while she used her good hand and turned the program off on the monitor. All the others were black as the system shut off.

Tris sighed and walked over to me…she glanced up at me with a relieved expression. I raised my hand up to her, pressing a few strands of hair behind her ear and rested my hand on her face.

Jeanine started panicking and tried to get the monitors to come back to life.

"Don't get me wrong," I told her sarcastically as I wrapped my arm around Tris's waist, "there's a certain beauty to your existence."

Jeanine, furiously grabbed an empty injector gun and ran at me with the needle. I grabbed onto her wrist…she was surprising strong for an Eruidte. I didn't have to fight her off long when something large connected with the side of her head making a loud clang. Jeanine fell limp to the floor as I looked over, it was Jed holding the bigger gun Jeanine had gotten me. he had hit her with the opposite end, the metal part of the handle.

"You're using it the wrong way bro," I said to him as he nervously handed it back to me as if waiting for it to explode.

"Bro?" Four and Tris said in unison.

I glanced at the still working monitors that were the security cameras outside the main doors. I saw Max and a few of the dauntless leaders charging towards us.

"You guys gotta go," I said quickly shoving them towards the back enterance, "Jed, lock the doors! We need to stall them."

Jed stood there dumbfounded, glancing at the security system.

"Now!" I yelled at him.

Hastily he made his way over to the system enacting a bunch of codes making the extra lock on the doors kick in. with that it would give us a few extra minutes before Max and the others would manage to get in.

"Eric!" Tris called out, "Come with us."

"I can't," I said to her, "Tris… I can't."

"Why?" she asked frantically.

I unzipped the jacket…showing them the device in the middle of my chest. Now even Jed looked up at me.

"Oh my god…" Jed said his face dropping, "Eric…they didn't…"

"What the hell is that thing?" Four demanded.

"It's a toutrure device," I explained feeling tears forming in my eyes, "it's-it's wired into my heart. It'll electrocute my heart until it kills me if Erudite wants it too."

Tris whimpered as her hands flew up to her mouth. I grabbed her and wrapped my arms around her waist. I placed one hand on the back of her neck holding her as tightly as I could as she cried into my shoulder.

"Tris…" I whispered in her ear, "I love you too…go with Four, I have to stay here."

She lifted her head up to look at me. Her face was damp as she looked miserably up at me. I wiped some of the tears off her face.

"I can get an in with these people," I started to explain, "I'll keep them from you as long as I can but you have to stay away from me from now on! If you ever see me you have to run! Run away from me as fast as you can."

"Eric…" she said barley audible, she seemed to by choking on her own sobs.

"I'm not you're hero Tris," I said letting her go and taking a step back, "I'm a fucking prick…Four can tell you all about it."

By the way he was rolling his eyes I knew he agreed with me…but his eyes kept glancing down a the device in my chest.

"I can stay here," I continued, "so that I can try to keep them from you…so I can protect you from me. I'll find a way to get whatever information to you that I can…just go."

Max and his team were clawing at the door now; Jeanine was still limp on the floor.

"Jed!" I called to him, he was still working frantically at the computer, "Do you have any of that memory serum?"

"Yeah," Jed nodded opening up a drawer and pulling out a small familiar purple vile.

"Tris! Four!" I yelled to them as Max was getting closer to opening the door, "Go!"

Tris shook her head in anguish. It killed me to see her this way.

"C'mon," Four said grabbing her arm and started pulling her away.

She tore her wet eyes away from me as her and Four ran through the door. All I wanted was to follow them. For the first time… I wished I was Four. I would take Tris to the nearest train, cross the wall and run away with her taking her as far away as I possibly could. Instead here I was with a one way ticket to death wired into my heart…and my fucking bother that I haven't seen in five years.

"Here," Jed said tossing me that purple vile with the serum, "by the way…it's nice to see you again."

I took it, loading it into the injector gun. Jeanine was starting to stir. I walked over to her, lifting up her head.

"Get all the surveillance footage from inside this room," I demanded of Jed, "erase all of it."

Jed nodded, "one condition."

I glanced up at him with a grimaced look.

"You need to protect me," Jed demanded with an equally menacing grimace.

Is that what I really looked like when I grimaced? Either way I nodded my agreement to him.

Jeanine's eyes fluttered opened and went icy cold as she saw me.

"You…" she muttered with a look that could kill.

"Yeah…" I muttered, "me…you can look at me like that for the rest of my life. Like a monster…because I am."

I sunk the injector gun into her neck, she gasped in surprise as I sunk the serum into her.

"I saved your life," I said sternly.

"You saved me," she repeated slowly.

"Tris and Four got away," I added.

"Tris and Four got away…" Jeanine stumbled over her words.

"Tris and Four are not divergents," I stated boldly.

"That won't work," Jed said walking up to us, "that serum's not powerful enough. You can plant an idea in her head…but really it'll only erase the last hour or so of her memory. She'll remember if you try to plant an idea that big in her mind."

I looked back down to here; she was still groggy as I asked her, "Who saved you?"

"Eric," she replied numbly.

"Who do you owe your life to?" I continued.

"You," she replied coming more to it.

"Who do you trust the most out of all the Dauntless leaders that work for you?"

"Eric…" she said as she shook her head and blinked a lot. She seemed to register for the first time that I was right in front of her, "Eric? What- what happened?"

"Divergents," I said simply as she started looking around the destroyed lab and numerous dead Erudite's. I glanced up at Jed who stood over us sternly.

The larger metal doors out in the entrance were thrown open. Max and the other Dauntless came crashing in. I zipped up my jacket quickly, hiding the device in my chest.

"What the hell happened here?" Max demanded looking around at everyone.

"Eric…" Jeanine said as if she were still confused, "he…he saved me."

Max beamed at me happily.

I smiled back when really inside…in my heart, I was slowly dying. I was going to die…if Tris would live it would all be worth it.

Alright guys...it's the final chapter.

Thanks for all of the favorites and follows! You guys are the best!

Look out for the next fanficiton, sequel to this one in the works...