Beatrice POV
""Eaton, Tobias."
This is it. My best friend/boyfriend is about to make the biggest decision of his life up to this point. I feel my "twin" brother, Uriah, grabs my hand. He's the only one who really knows about Tobias and I's relationship. Everyone else thinks we're just best friends, but we haven't been that in years. I haven't been able to tell Uriah about last night yet. No doubt he would have threatened Tobias to stay behind but he needs to change fractions. I'll join him in a year, and when you look at your whole life, one year separated isn't that bad.
My older brother Zeke has already transferred to Dauntless. That's where he and Uriah were originally born. Their mom and my mom grew up together so when their parents were killed and my mother was asked to take them in and raise them she said yes. Her and my father really didn't have a choice but to say yes because it would be selfish to say no, but I have no doubt that no matter what faction she was in she would have said yes. Zeke was 1 when they came to us and Uriah was just a newborn like me. Caleb, my biological brother, was just months younger than Zeke but because of the way his birthday falls he will be choosing with Uriah and I next year. Uriah and I are only 10 days apart so everyone just refers to us as twins.
Zeke and Tobias are friends, not as close as me and Tobias, but enough to where I know they'll look out for each other in Dauntless. I just know that's where Tobias is headed, and where Uriah and I will join them next year. Caleb hangs out with us, but while the rest of us are awful at being selfless, Caleb is a natural. He'll probably just stay here and be the amazing Abnegation that he is.
While I've been lost in thought Tobias has cut his hand. This is the moment of truth.
"Dauntless." The master of ceremonies announces.
The Dauntless immediately start cheering, Zeke is probably the loudest of them all. Two Abnegation transfers, it's unheard of. This is the last time I'll see Tobias till next year when I join him. Well, I may get the opportunity to see him at Visiting Day, but you just never know. He may not go so he doesn't have to see Marcus.
The rest of the ceremony goes by and I can tell my parents are upset. While there was never any doubt that Zeke would be going back to Dauntless, they've been his parents for 15 years, and they love him and Uriah just like they love me and Caleb, so it's not easy for them to let him go even if it is what's best. When we get up to leave I make eye contact with Tobias quickly. I mouth "I love you" to him and he responds with a "me too." I finish our conversation with a "wait for me" and he continues with "always" and then he's off running with the Dauntless. I may have been the driving force behind him leaving but I'm still going to miss him. At least I have Uriah here to keep my life interesting. And while people think that I'm closer to Uriah and Zeke than I am with Caleb, which is not entirely untrue, I still love Caleb very very much so this gives me another year to spend with him, because there is no way he's following Zeke, Uriah, and I to Dauntless.
I let one tear fall for Tobias and I's lost year and then I calmly walk down the stairs, a tad envious of the Dauntless running down. Uriah has yet to let go of my hand, even though he really shouldn't be touching me by Abnegation rules and it's only so long before Dad tells him to stop.
We get back home and my mother follows me to Uriah and I's room. She gives me a hug and whispers in my ear, "it's only a year baby girl, you'll be with him soon." She leaves my room as if nothing happened. I had no idea my mother knew how close Tobias and I were and I defiantly didn't know she knew that I would be following him in a year. We had the perfect goodbye last night. It was beautiful. I know in Abnegation we're supposed to save ourselves for marriage, but we made the decision not to wait together. We'll end up married anyway. Uriah walks into our room.
"Hey sis, you okay?"
"Yeah, I'll miss him, there is no doubt about that, but next year we'll join him. Plus, I have you and Caleb here to keep me company." Uriah has always been a little jealous of Caleb because we're biologically related, but I've assured him over and over that the DNA doesn't matter to me. Uriah is just as much my brother as Caleb is. Caleb is also jealous of Uriah because we're so close and live in a room together. I've also told Caleb that they're equal brothers to me, but he's stubborn. Because of this Uriah and Caleb don't get along as well. They of course love each other like brothers do, they've just never really seen eye to eye. Caleb joins us shortly.
"Well, I guess there's just the three of us now. Beatrice I'm sorry you lost of brother and best friend in one day."
"Thanks Caleb. I'll be fine. I've still got two brothers left" and I give him the best smile I can muster up right now.
"Right well, it's my turn to make dinner so I'll see you both down stairs in a little while."
"Of course" Uriah answers him. Caleb walks out. Uriah waits the customary 30 seconds that we always wait to make sure no one can overhear our conversations then quickly turns to me. "Spill it Bea."
I think ignorant is the best way to go here.
"Spill what?"
"Oh no missy, that's not going to work on me. Maybe Zeke and Caleb, but we're twins remember, we've been side by side of 15 years. Literally. I know you too well. I want to know how last night went."
"If you must know, it was perfect. It couldn't have been any better" I can feel myself blushing.
"Oh my goodness. You slept with him!" he whisper yells at me.
"Maybe I did. So what? And you better keep your mouth shut Uriah. You're the only one I'm telling and we both know Tobias isn't stupid enough to tell Zeke so you better not say a thing to anyone."
"Alright, alright, you know I won't but Bea, are you sure you're okay with this?"
"Of course I am. If I wasn't I wouldn't have done it. Just like if I wasn't sure about doing those training sessions with you three goons I wouldn't have done that."
"We're still going to do those things right?"
"Of course. We're not going to slack for a whole year because Tobias and Zeke are gone."
"Good. We're going to need it. Is it bad that I'm dying for visiting day to hurry up and get here so we can see the inside of the compound?"
"No, I'm anxious for it too."
Zeke POV
Today is Visiting Day. I won't lie, while I'm absolutely loving the Dauntless life, I miss my twin little siblings. I also miss my parents and Caleb. I'm just happy that Tobias or Four as he's known as now came here with me. It's nice to have someone from my childhood here with me. It's been about a month since I've last seen my family and I can't wait to see them in a few hours.
"Yo Four, you coming see Mom, Uri, Bea, and Caleb?"
"I don't know man. Do you think I should?"
"I think you'll regret not at least seeing Bea. This is your last chance until next year you know."
"I know you're right, but you don't think you know who will be there do you?" Oh right, Marcus. I had almost forgotten that Tobias had confided in me about him after his fear landscape.
"No. I really don't, but if they are you can always just leave and come back here or hide somewhere. Visitors aren't allowed out of the Pit."
"I guess you're right. Bea would never forgive me anyway if I didn't go see her."
"You're not wrong there."
"Who's 'Bea?'" Eric asks, but more like spits my sisters name.
"Bea's my little sister. Not that it's any of your damn business." God I hate this kid. He pisses me off and he hates Four for no reason other than he's impossible to beat.
"Is she hot?" I see a flash of rage flash through Four's eyes and briefly wonder what that's all about.
"Dude, I promise you, she's not interested. Come on Four, let's go to the Pit." I can see this turning into a he fight if we don't get out of here soon. No one messes with my siblings. No one. I'm not even okay with them messing with Caleb.
Tobias POV
Thank God Zeke pulled us out of that situation. Bea is mine. She has been for years, and after what we did the night I left I'm not okay with anyone talking about her like that. The girls here have been throwing themselves at me and I couldn't be more annoyed. Bea is it for me, these girls can't even compare to her. She's beautiful, smart, funny, brave, rebellious, and so many other things. We complete each other like no one else can. I'm actually kind of nervous to see her. We arrive at the Pit and start the hunt for the Prior's.
There she is and many she looks good. Even in her baggy Abnegation clothes. I point them out to Zeke and we take off towards them.
"Hey" she tells me shyly.
"Hello" I give her a smile. If anyone else around here saw me smiling at her, or anyone really, they'd be shocked. My "Four" persona doesn't allow things like this. I give her a hug and can feel that she put on some weight. Good, she needed to. She was way too skinny for my liking. Zeke comes up to her and twirls her around. She laughs and I can't help but smile again. I love it when she's happy, and that's usually only around her brothers and me. We all talk for a while until it's time for Zeke and me to head back to the training room. I give Bea a hug and whisper in her ear, "Keep training. Add knives. I love you Bea, don't ever doubt that. I may be different her, but we'll always be us. I'll see you next year."
I have to let her go because if I don't now I never will or even worse I'll cry and Four does not cry. I leave her and Zeke to say their goodbyes and go over to the rest of her family. I pull Uriah in a hug and he is so confused until I tell him about the knives. Zeke and I leave and I just try to make it through the next 11 months without my Bea.
Uriah POV (one month after Visiting Day)
Bea and I have climbed into bed and I know I have to talk to her. I'm not the only one noticing these differences in her, but I'm the only one that knows what probably lead to them.
"Hey Bea."
"Yeah Uri?"
"You know I love you no matter what right? And that I'll never judge you?"
"Yeah Uri, what's your point?" She starts to softly cry and I know I'm not wrong.
"It's just that you've been changing a lot lately. You know, you throw up a lot, and you've gained a good bit of weight. I was just wondering if you know…."
"You want to know if I'm pregnant right?"
"Well, I mean, I just want to know if there's something we should be doing you know."
"Uri, I think I might be. How did this happen? I mean can I even still leave here? Or am I going to have to stay here and raise my kid without their father? Tobias would freak out if he knew that that is what was going to happen. He'd hate himself for leaving me, but I told him to."
"We'll figure this out sis. Don't worry."
Oh my goodness. Bea pregnant. This is crazy. She has to be able to leave, she just does. All I know is that I'm going to be by her side no matter what, through everything, even if it means that we're both staying here.
Beatrice POV (A week before her Choosing Ceremony)
I have to meet with Jeanine Matthews about my choosing ceremony and if I can leave or not. It turns out that since this happened since the war they had to have a whole meeting with all the leaders to see if they'd be okay with me and the twins joining their factions. The twins are 4 months old now. They were born a month early as most multiples are. I try not to think about they're sibling that didn't make it. She was just too small. I lost her rather early on, so it wasn't really as tragic as it could have been. Uri and Caleb has basically been my watch dogs. They didn't let me go through a minute of this alone. When kids picked on me at school they were there, when I had to tell my parents, when I threw up all morning, when my moods were all over the place, when I had stupid cravings, when they twins woke up in the middle of the night, when I told them I needed to find out about transferring, they were there for it all. Which is why it's only right that they come with me to this meeting. We're on our way to Erudite now with the twins. I'm holding Justin and Uriah has his twin sister Taylor. We get to Erudite and make our way to Jeanine's office. This is it. This is when I find out if I can reunite with Tobias. If my family can actually be a family.
Tobias POV
"Four!" I turn around and see Zeke running up to me. Surprisingly we've only gotten closer this past year. He doesn't know everything Bea does, but he knows enough about me.
"What's up?"
"Did he hear that all the leaders left to go to some meeting in Erudite? So basically we should throw one hell of a party."
"What kind of meeting?"
"That's actually really cool. Apparently someone choosing this year has kids. Two of them, twins can you believe it? So all the leaders have to have a meeting to see if they'll allow her to transfer or if they're going to make her stay behind in her original faction."
"What's her original faction?"
"I don't know. I tried to find out but they never really said and I was kind of spying with the cameras."
"You know that's no allowed."
"Yeah well, I didn't get caught so whatever."
"Why would she want to transfer? Wouldn't it be easier to stay where she knows everyone and hat about the Dad?"
"Yeah, one of the leaders asked the same questions. Apparently the dad went and switched before she knew she was pregnant. She hasn't said it, but they're thinking she's going to try to follow him. Catch is she won't tell anyone who she is. She says that he should know he's a father before the rest of the world knows." That sounds weirdly exactly like something Bea would say. Man I miss her. Wait a minute. I transferred. Bea wants to follow me. We had sex just before I left. She wouldn't have known if she was pregnant. Oh no. This cannot be happening. Zeke would kill me. I mean since I'm a trainer this year we weren't even going to be able to tell people about our relationship until after initiation anyway, but throwing two kids in the mix? That's crazy. I could be a father, that's crazier.
Wait, I'm getting ahead of myself. It's probably not even Bea. Not to mention someone would have told Zeke he was an uncle somehow right? Right. I'm worrying myself for no reason.
"Dude, you look pale. Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. What about this party?"
"HECK YEAH! It's so on. Shauna and Lauren are going to help us set it up. You know, Lauren definatly has a thing for you…"
"No Zeke. For the millionth time no. To all the girls. Just no Zeke. Bring it up again and I'll tell everyone about the time you got that rock stuck up your nose and you cried for hours while Uri, Bea, and I tried to calm you down and get it out."
"Not fair!"
"Sorry kid." I laugh a little and revel in the fact that I'll get to see Bea in one week.