Chapter 24:

Tobias' Perspective

    My lips move against Tris' as I hold her face in my hands. She laughs. "What?" I say. "You have mud in your hair." she says. I reach my hand up into my hair, and pick out a chunk.

I stuff it in her face, and she scrunches up her nose. I love it when she does that. She starts to laugh, but stops. I keep my hand on her face, and she shoos my hand away. I laugh, and she rubs it off of her face. "That was nasty." she says.

    "Hey, you have even more in your hair." I say laughing. She starts sniffing the air. "What's that smell?" she says sniffing my chest. She scrunches up her nose, and pulls away. "Is it just me, or is that some kind of terrible cologne you got, or is that gasoline?" she says. She pinches her nose. I take the collar of my shirt, and take a whiff.

Yeesh, I smell bad. It is the gasoline that we were dumping on the building. "Oh, I think our daughter would like to explain that." I say. She sighs, and sits back. "Stop." she says.

    "Stop what?" I say confused. I check where my hands are to make sure I'm not accidentally groping her anywhere. "Kicking me." she says annoyed. I'm not groping her, what is she talking about? "I'm not kicking." I say. "OW! Stop! That wasn't funny!" she says.

I glare at her. I lift both of my legs in the air, and smirk at her. Then I hear an ear piercing scream. I look down at Natalie, and she is screaming and kicking around. My eyes go wide, and I sit up. I grab her and yell, "Natalie wake up!" I hold her in my arms, and Tris can't move so she sits there, with a mortified look on her face. She screams louder this time, tears falling from her face.

I wipe them from her face, and Caleb gets up from the chair and runs over next to me. "Why is she screaming?" he says. I don't answer. Tris reaches her hand out, but it drops. I shake her shoulders, and her eye lids remain glued together. She flails around in my arms.

    "Natalie!" I yell. I am frantic now. She's not waking up, and whatever she's dreaming about, seems to be killing her from the outside. I bite my lip, and hold her arms down with my arm, and with the other I hold down her legs. But, she's kicking to hard and I lose my grip. I stand up and hold her underneath her arms.

    "NATALIE!!!!" screams Tris. I lay her down where I was laying. "NATALIE!!" I scream. I pin her arms to her side down with my arms, and sit on her legs. I bounce around under her strong legs. She knees me in the nuts. I groan against my teeth.

    "Wake up!!!" I yell into her face. Caleb shakes her shoulders, and pieces of hair fly into her face. Natalie screams even louder. "Get away from me!!!!" she screams. She lights her hands, and burns my thighs. I yell and jump off of her. Caleb steps back. Tris screams out, her face turning red.

I yell out for her, and before I know it Caleb has lifted her into his arms. I grab Natalie under her arms and run her to the bathroom. I grit my teeth as she continues to kick around. I lay her on the bathroom floor, and turn the bathwater on. It fills up quite quickly, and I grab Natalie and hold her against my chest avoiding her arms.

I jump into the shallow water, and she continues to scream. I am soaking wet. The cold water stings my burns, and I hold Natalie tight to my chest and wrap my arms around her pinning down her arms against her chest. She kicks around in the water, but I keep my grip this time. I hear Tris screaming, and Natalie continues to light her hands and the room fills with smoke.

She's lighting them in the water, and it keeps making smoke. I cough and choke, and bury my face in Natalie's back. I can't escape the smoke. I can't breathe. Natalie's screams echo off the walls. I hear other people yelling. Once Natalie stops flameshooting, I jump from the tub, and out of the room. I fall onto the ground hunched over, and I feel Tris' arms wrap around my body.

My eyes are burning from the smoke, and are watering. I grab Tris' arms, and pull them around my arms, and tuck her into my chest. I cry into her hair, and she cries into my shoulder, and rubs my back. My arms are wrapped tight around her small, but strong frame.

I hear Natalie's screams, and they all of a sudden stop.

I thought you guys would want to know what Tobias was thinking and doing when Natalie was having a nightmare and wouldn't wake up. I'm sorry that it's so short..... I am really happy because I am really close to getting 700 reads!!!! Yayyy!!! I know some of you guys have written stories that have over a thousand reads, but for me it's a big deal, because I thought only like 20 people would actually read it! Thank you for reading!!!! Don't forget to vote and comment! :)