You and I

Chapter 2: Questions

"Caleb Prior."

What?

I'm in shock.

My own brother planned to kill the whole of Abnegation.

He planned to kill our parents.

I look over at my parents and find them standing there, in shock also. My mum has tears in her eyes and I can feel something wet slide down my cheek.

I look over at my brother and he stands there, grinning.

I can't believe this.

I feel someone place a hand on my lower back and look up to find Tobias looking at me, worried. He mouths 'Are you okay?'

I just shake my head and he pulls me into him. His arm wrapped comfortingly around my shoulder.

"Thank you for your honesty." Jack says and the guards take the smiling Jeanine away. "Is Caleb Prior here?"

"Yeah. I'm here." Caleb says, his hand in the air as he walks to the front of the group of Erudite.

"Can you come and testify for us?" Jack asks as a guard walks over to my brother and drags him to the chair in the centre of the room.

Jack injects Caleb with truth serum and it begins:

"What's your full name?"

"Caleb James Prior."

"What was your birth faction?"

"Abnegation."

"What faction are you in now?"

"Erudite."

"Why did you take part in the plot to kill the Abnegation if you are from there?"

"Because I believe that Erudite should be the governing faction. Abnegation is full of people who don't deserve to lead the city. They aren't clever enough to. Erudite knows a lot more than any of them do, so I believe that Abnegation should be removed from the powers they hold in the governing of the city and Erudite should replace them. Just because they put others before themselves, it doesn't mean that they have the right to make laws and lead the city. They aren't doing a good job of it. We also wanted to find out who the Divergent were in the Dauntless population. The serum wouldn't work on those who were Divergent, so we would be able to find them and kill them. Or test on them to make serums that do work on the Divergent, then kill them. Divergents need to be controlled or they will destroy the society. So we either need to find a way of controlling them or we need to kill them. Or both."

"Why do you believe that Divergents need to be controlled?"

"Because they're dangerous and will destroy society."

"Are any of the people that conspired in plotting to kill all Abnegation members Divergent?"

"No, we were all tested."

"Then couldn't you say that a bunch of non-Divergent people were just about to destroy society, and order, because they wanted something that Abnegation had?"

"No, we were going to make society better."

"By killing one of the factions, taking out a puzzle piece in what keeps this society full, and taking over for yourselves."

"Yes."

"Wouldn't that cause some sort of a war. Which would mean society is no longer peaceful, and stable. So you would have destroyed society. Which is what you think Divergents do, but none of you are Divergent yourselves."

"You can think what you want Jack. We would have made this city a better place to live in if we were able to kill the Abnegation and the Divergent population. Not to mention that many Divergents harbour themselves in Abnegation, to keep themselves safe. Well, we know a lot of them are there. That was another reason for us to kill them all."

"Are your parents still alive, Caleb?"

"Yeah."

"Would they be if this plan went ahead?"

"No."

"How do you feel about that?"

"It's for the best of the city. I believe it's selfless to give up something you care about for the best of something else. I wouldn't have minded."

I let another tear slip down my cheek.

He would have killed our parents and not even cared.

I walk to the door and leave, not wanting to hear anything else come out of Caleb's mouth.

I leave the building and lean against the wall, sliding down it so my knees are tucked into my chest and I am sitting on the hard pavement, crying into my hands.

"Beatrice?" A familiar voice says.

I look up and see my parents standing there, looking at me with sad looks on their faces.

"Mum? Dad?"

They sit down in front of me and my mum wraps her arms around my shoulders.

"It's okay." She says in the voice that calmed me when I had a nightmare, or when I was sick.

"He wanted to kill you. He was going to kill you."

"Beatrice, he didn't kill us though, did he? You stopped him. You stopped them all." Dad says.

"You're so strong and brave, Beatrice. I'm so proud of you." Mum finishes.

"It's Tris now." I inform them.

"Tris, I like it." Mum replies, trying my new name out.

"Tris?" I hear Tobias say.

I look up and see him walking towards us.

I smile at him, wiping the tears off my cheeks with my sleeves.

My parents and I stand and Tobias grabs my hand.

"Are you okay?" He asks, stroking my cheek with his thumb, getting some left over tears off it.

"I will be."

"Beatrice, who is this?" Dad asks.

"Mum, dad, this is Four, my boyfriend."

My parents look shocked but my mum is smiling.

"Aren't you a bit old for my daughter?" Dad questions.

"I'm only two years older than her, sir."

"What are your intentions with her?"

"Andrew."

"I love your daughter very much, sir. I wouldn't do anything to hurt her, or anything she doesn't want to do, ever. I care about her wellbeing. I want her to be happy and healthy, and I will do whatever I can to make that happen. I would never disrespect her or do anything to harm her. I promise."

He loves me.

"Very well. I think I know you from somewhere, you look familiar." Dad says.

Shit.

He can't find out he's Marcus' son.

Tobias stands there. Scared.

"Dad, can we please not talk about this?"

"I want to know who he really is. I know Four isn't a real name. Who would name their child after a number?"

"It's original."

"Just tell me who you are or I won't allow you to date my daughter."

"Dad!"

"Andrew!"

"Fine, I'll tell you who I am, if we go somewhere private."

I look at Tobias, shocked.

"Are you sure, Four?" I ask.

He nods.

"You can come back to our house." Dad says.

"No, he can't. Why don't you come back to his apartment?" I suggest.

"In Dauntless?" Dad asks.

"Yeah."

"No, Tris, it's fine. We can go to your parents' house." Tobias replies.

I just nod and my parents lead the way. Tobias and I walking a few steps behind them.

"Are you sure you want to do this?" I whisper to him.

"Yeah. I have to get them to like me. They're your parents after all."

"Did you mean what you said? About loving me?"

"Yeah. I know I should have told you first, but I love you more and more with every day. I also know it's probably too soon, we haven't been dating very long, but I can't hold it back. I love you, Tris."

"I love you, too."

I kiss him briefly and it isn't long before we arrive at my parents' house.

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