Hello!
This is the sequel to my very first Eric's story, Enmeshment.
I changed POV from Roxy to the third person, so I decided to continue it as a sequel.
Setting right in the attack in Candor's headquarters.

I hope you guys like it. Please leave a review and let me know what you think.
Thank you and cheers!

Disclaimer:
I do not own Divergent by Veronica Roth.
I do own my OCs, Roxy, and the twins, Jack and Jen.

PS:
Sorry if there's any grammar mistake. My first language isn't English.

Roxy squeezed through a line of people in front of her. She tried as fast as she could to reached Eric before it was too late. Her screamed suddenly was filling the silent room. Nobody noticed her when she was running to the center of the room. It happened so quickly and the next thing everybody knew that Roxy was standing between Four and Eric right when Four fired his gun. The sound of gasped was coming from the Dauntless who circled them.

Roxy was standing there, trying to understand what was going on when she noticed there was blood coming out of her chest. Her breath suddenly was out of place. She kept breathing but there was no air filling her lungs. She helplessly dropped to her knee as she tried to reach her bloodied chest. Her body fell into Eric who was still in zip-tie cuffs.

Eric's eyes were full in horror when he saw Roxy got shot. Their eyes connected right before Roxy fell into him. He wanted to catch her before she fell down but he couldn't. The handcuffs prevent him from doing that. Eric was screaming in agony as tried to break out from the zip-tie that tied him up. He didn't know where he got that so much strength but it snapped and freed him. He grabbed her now slowly turned cold body and hugged her tightly into his chest. She was breathing for her life.

The rest of the Dauntless was too shocked with what they saw to do anything until Tris screamed. "Medic! Help! We need help here! Medic!" She kept screaming while Four was stunned on his feet. His hands were shaking even after he already dropped his gun.

Jack was running all over the building looking for any doctor who wasn't unconscious. He was screaming for help and shook everyone's up but there was no use. They wouldn't wake up until some periods of time. Probably one or two minutes left until everyone who got shot by the serum awake, but Roxy didn't have much time.

"Roxy... Roxy please! Please stay with me. Stay with me!" Eric took off his jacket and pressed it to her wounds as he turned her injured body side down to kept her lung open. Eric cupped her cheek and whispered to her. "It's ok. It's ok baby, please..." Roxy was slightly smiling when she heard him pet called her. "Please stay with me..." Eric's voice started to crack for holding his tears.

"E... Eric..." She shuttered and blood was coming out of her mouth. She wanted to tell a lot of things to him but every time she tried to talk, she was choked.

"Shh... Don't talk. It's ok, just stay with me. Stay with me ok?"

"I... I wa... I want..."

"Yes, yes, it's ok shh..." Eric tried to calm her down. He didn't want her to talk or it'd make her bleed more. "Okay, okay, just look me in the eyes. Look me in the eyes, Roxy. Stay with me okay..."

"I'm sor... Sorry..." She whispered back.

"What are you talking about? There is nothing from you to apologize. Just relax ok, stay with me. The medic will come. It's not that bad. You'll be okay. You'll be all right..." Eric kept talking, he was mumbling things, and his jaw was clattering. His eyes started to get red but he tried not to cry. He didn't want Roxy felt worried.

But she couldn't stay awake any longer, her eyes started to feel too heavy for her to keep open. She slowly closed her eyes and Eric was frantic. "No, no, no, wait no please no wait, wait! Stay with me. Look at me! Roxy! Roxy! Roxy!" Eric was screaming.

"I can't..." Her heart started racing and her body went into shock.

In the meantime, Jack finally managed to wake some medics from the Candor infirmary. He dragged him back to the hall in a rush; the medics stumbled several times trying to keep up with Jack. He pushed his way through a bunch of people just to saw Roxy was lying on Eric's arms with no signs of life. "Help her!" He screamed to the medics.

The medics were a little afraid how defended Eric was. Eric was holding her, not wanting to let her go. He didn't care about anything anymore, except her.

"Tied him up!" Suddenly Jack shouted to the fellow Dauntless. The stunned inferiors followed his order and tried to tie Eric back, so the doctors could tend Roxy but he got up and punched one of them. The others tried as hard as they could to overcome him but Eric was too powerful even after his grief. One of the Candor guards took initiative and tazed him. Eric grunted on the floor.

The medics quickly tend Roxy right after Eric let her go. Seconds later other medics came with a rolling bed and other medical kinds of stuff. "Any pulse?" One of the medics asked. "Barely," answered the other one. "She hardly breathes. The bullet must've hit her lung and she's bleeding out from her mouth. Might be pneumo-hemothorax."

One of them quickly did decompression with a large bore needle inserted between her ribs so the air allowed escaping. The other one kept Roxy's head steady and tried to help her breathe with mask and bag. The other one gave her painkiller and fluid to keep her blood pressure up. All of them tried their best to save her life.

Tris and Four were standing next to them silently. Tris knew how guilty Four feel about him shooting Roxy, but it was an accident. A very terrible accident, she kept repeating the words on her head. Tris knew one of Four's fears was killing an innocent person. She held Four's hand, trying to be supportive of him yet Four kept breathing heavily.

As the doctors busied saving Roxy's life, Dauntless and Candor guards strapped Eric back, now with a real handcuff. His body was still in pain as the result from the tazer, he could barely feel his own hand but his eyes were sticking to Roxy. He didn't see anything else other than her. He wished that Roxy would somehow open her eyes and walked toward him, telling him that everything's fine and this was just a simulation. But no, it was real. As much as Eric kept closing and opening his eyes several times trying to wake up and hoping he was in a sim, but it wasn't. He was in the real world and Roxy was lying there, bleeding. Shot in front of his eyes. His biggest fear turned into reality. "Save her..." He weakly whispered.

"Lock him up!" Shouted Tori and that was when he realized he was dragged out of the hall. Eric tried to release himself from the guards but there were six of them holding him, with his arms behind his back, handcuffed, it was hard for him to get away.

The medics carefully move Roxy to the rolling bed to send her right away to the hospital. "Roxy! Roxy!" Eric screamed her name but there was no response from her. He hardly saw her face. He wanted to know if she was safe. If she ever going to make it, and get back to her feet. Smiling at him. Hugging him. Be there with him. But the last thing he could see was her hand weakly fell off from the rolling bed before he was taken out from the hall straight to the Candor cell.

-o0o-

It has been three days since the incident happened. Eric was still locked up in Candor's cold dark basement that was made of a very thick glass that separated each cell. It made the prisoner felt like they were not in confinement yet felt trapped from the outside world.

Eric couldn't stop thinking about Roxy. Is she made it? Is she survived? Or is she gone? Gone forever leaving him in this insane world? Eric's mind was full of thoughts about her. He barely eats. Every time a prison guard slides a food tray into an opening of his cell and took the previous one, it was always full, untouched.

He has always been a tough guy for all his life but now... It was like part of his soul has been taken. The bright light that has been showered upon him for the past few months was no longer there. Yet he was angry. Angrier than ever. He was so angry at Four more than he could imagine. Four shot her. He was the one who shot Roxy and God's knows what happened to her right now. But on the other hand, Eric was blaming himself. His mind was split into two. Somehow he felt regret with everything he did. He should've listened to her. Runaway with her, when she asked him to do it. And now his stupid decision for staying and sided with Jeanine has cost him her life.

Every time his mind started to play him, Eric was screaming and punching the wall making his knuckles bleed yet the pain he felt on his body was nothing compared to what he felt on the inside. The bleeding on his skin could stop but the ache his heartfelt still sting him like a bitch.

Suddenly someone opened and slide a food tray inside. Eric took a glimpse and noticed it was Jen. He remembered Jen was Roxy's friend, the twin sister of another guy that he hates so much. Eric quickly got up from his bed and went to the glass door. "Hey, you!" He shouted from the small circular holes in the door. "You stop!" He shouted louder when Jen was rushing back. "How is she!? Is she ok!? God dammit tell me how is she! Hey!" But Jen kept walking and ignoring him. "Fuck you!" He screamed and kicking the glass door, and this time Jen stopped as she reached the stairs.

She walked back to Eric's cell and stood two meters from the door. "I don't get what she sees in you..." She spoke making Eric stunned. "You're a nasty person. We all know you're a sadist. A very terrible person. I should've told her to stay away from you..." Jen's eyes started watering. "And now look what you've done to her... You're a monster!" She yelled at him.

There was silence. Both of them didn't talk and just stared each other. Jen was full of anger toward Eric and Eric was progressing the words Jen said to him. He didn't mad at her. It'd be different if she said those words to him a few months ago. He would be flipped and break her neck but now he accepted it. He knew he was the one who responsible for what happened to Roxy.

"I just need to know... How is she? Let me see her..." He begged her. This was the first time Jen saw Eric's vulnerability. She was shocked. At first, she thought Eric was playing her. Tricked her, acting out like he cared about her best friend so maybe she would release him, even when he kept acting fearless and arrogant like he used to, but she saw from the expression on his face that he was sincerely do care about Roxy. And it broke him. Wrecked him not knowing about her condition. Jen could see it.

"Uhm..." Jen started to talk and Eric waiting for her to continue. "I'm sorry but uhm..." She kept looking back and forth between Eric and the stairs like she was afraid of someone coming. "Sorry... But she's..."

"Jen!" She startled when she heard her brother called her name in a sudden. "What are you doing? You're not supposed to be here," he said. "Get back upstairs. We're about to have a meeting."

"I have just delivered him the food. I'm about to leave," answered her. Jen slowly walked away but Eric called her.

"Hey, you! Why you said sorry? What's wrong with her!? Jen!" But Jen didn't stop and kept walking toward her brother. She took a glimpse over Eric and went upstairs while Jack kept giving him a death stare before leaving him alone screaming for any information about Roxy. "Get me the fuck out off of here!"

-o0o-

Eric lost counts how many days he already spent in Candor's cell. There was no light of the sunshine in the basement. The black marble filling the wall made it darker and colder than usual. Eric was waiting for Jen to come back and told him anything about Roxy but she just never showed up again.

Eric was resting his head against the wall when he heard small thump coming to his cell. He opened one of his eyes just to see Jack was the one who stood outside the door. Eric didn't move from his bed. He felt if he responds to whatever Jack's plan, he would end up taunting him. He tried to keep himself calm by closing back his eyes.

Jack on the other hand also did the same thing. He just stood there, staring at Eric and not saying any word. Eric was fed up with this situation, "what do you want!?" He shouted from behind the glass cell.

"I want you dead," replied Jack in an instant.

Eric got up from his bed and jogged to the door, slamming the glass, "then why don't you just fucking kill me!?" He screamed. His lips shut tight afterward and he kept clenching his jaw.

"Killing you? And letting you free from all the pain you have right now?" Jack took one step closer. "Seeing you like this, living in hell like this is. This is what you deserved. I'll let you suffered, thinking and regretting every single thing you did for killing her!" Jack screamed as he pounded the glass wall that separated him with Eric.

Eric's eyes were widened. He started hyperventilating. "What do you mean?" He asked but Jack didn't answer him. "Is she ok!? How is she!? God dammit tell me!" Eric wanted to get out and ripped him. He was frustrated. He could no longer hold it. He needed to know what happened to Roxy. "Please..." He growled yet he begged for it.

"She's gone! Thanks to you, she's gone!" There was also anger on Jack's face that he could not hide it anymore. "So no. I won't kill you, so you can feel the same feeling that I feel right now!"

The words kept repeating in slow motion inside Eric's head. He wasn't ready for this. He would never ready for this. Eric dropped to his knees and screaming. Screaming in pain alone in this dark basement.