After The Fall

by theimpossiblepond

Tobias is still struggling to come to terms with Tris's death, memories that still bury him with their weight. That is until he meets Alexandra, gradually Alex helps him through the pain and they fall for each other. However, after Tris reveals that she survived to Tobias, he is stuck in the middle of a deadly triangle. He has to decide whether he is loyal to Past or Present.

Chapter 1 - Tobias

I wake up to the sunlight streaming across my face. As a dull, searing aches throbs through my heart. With a single word echoing through me.

Tris.

Letting out a small groan, I turn over and bury my face in my pillow, struggling to bury my memories with it.

I see a blond and grey flash high above me, the net creaking under increased weight a second later. As I offer my hand until she stands, tall, unafraid before me. A shock goes through me as I take in her clothes, her faction.

No not her Faction anymore. She left them. She chose us.

She smiles, a genuine smile that seems to light up even the darkest choruses of my heart. It travels down my body for one moment before the sun comes over the clouds striking her hair and turning it into a mass of flames.

I grin in return and say, "Welcome to Dauntless"

As I push down the memory another one resurfaces.

The feel of her cool hand , pressing against my spine at the tattoos that spin their message across my back as she asks "Why all of them?"

I reply "I don't want to just be brave, I also want to be Honest, Peaceful, Intelligent and Kind.

Her deep blue eyes bore into me as I turn to face her.

She presses her lips to mine and I dissolve.

Memories upon memories pressing down on me, how much I wish to succumb to their weight.

I can't lie here all day, wishing for things that have happened and will never be.

I need to be Honest, Peaceful, Intelligent, Kind and above all

Dauntless.