TRIS'S POV

Then

They let me out of the hospital today. I'll need crutches for a while because of my leg, but other than that I've made full recovery. I've been seing a therapist aswell to help with my grieving. Tobias and I still talk when we see each other, but he's been giving me my space , which is what I asked for so it shouldn't come as a surprise.

I'm still not used to there being so much distance between us, and I still get the urge to kiss him everytime I see him, but I'll have to get used to it until my mind has fully recovered, or at least mostly recovered. You can get shot and wait for the wound to heal, but there will definately be a scar, no matter what. I guess I'll just have to handle this the same way I deal with getting shot. I have to wait.

We're going back to the city soon, so for now we're staying at the Bureau. The Dauntless and Abnegation are currently in the process of figuring out the locations of their scattered members, sorting out their factions. It's not taking as long as I thought it would, but Erudite has a lot of explaining to do to the rest of the city.

Johanna Reyes will lead the city, and there will be a council with a member of every faction a part of it. This will hopefully make things easier than it was before.

When I get back to Dauntless with Christina, Uriah, and Tobias, I will be a leader with Uriah and an instructor with Christina, Four, and Uriah. As a part time job I will work at the tattoo parlor. I guess I have everything figured out for now, but things will be more complicated with Tobias since I might be seeing a lot more of him, but I guess I'll have do deal with it the same way I'm dealing with everything lately. I wait.

TOBIAS'S POV

Now

We sit on the floor of the train, shoulder to shoulder. Tris tells me about her day at the parlor and a crazy meeting she and Uriah had and how they were planning to get a drink afterwards but he had to cancel for sme reason. I think she's just trying to keep talking so there are no awkward silences.

When the train stops, we are near the Candor sector. She jumps off the train, and I follow her. She no longer stumbles a few steps after she lands. Now she lands gracefully on her feet, something that takes years of practice to master.

She starts running and I run after her. When she stops short I almost slam into her. I follow her gaze a little ways in front of us and see what looks like a track for running. "A track?" I ask her. My words come out harsh and cold, but I don't think she notices. Or maybe she does but she's just hiding her emotions. She was Abnegation. She's good at that.

"Yeah." she replies. "I was thinking we could use it to train initiates next year. What do you think?" ]

"I think it's a good idea." I admit.

We walk around the track in silence. She looks up at the sky occasionally, and sometimes at the city lights in the distance. A few times I can feel her look at me out of the corner of my eye. I steal a few quick glances, but that's all. We jump back on the train, still not saying anything, and I let her take me to our next mystery location.

Tris can be difficult and confusing, but nothing has surprised me more than watching her climb into the drivers seat of the pick up truck in front of me.

"Are you coming?" she asks.

I climb into the passenger seat as she produces a key and starts up the car.

"Do you even know how to drive?"

"Not really." She admits.

She sees the look on my face and lets out a laugh. "Don't worry, if we die, you can kill me afterwards, no questions asked." Now it was my turn to laugh.

Here's a fun fact about Tris: She can drive. She's just really bad at it. And I mean really bad at it. But we haven't died yet so I guess that's a good sign.

"You know, I think I have five fears now, because this is truly terrifying." I tell her. She laughs and playfully punches my arm. I would've told her to not take one hand off the wheel, but her hand sent a wave of electricity through me. I think she noticed the look on my face, but she doesn't saw anything.

We've been driving for about an hour now, and it must be around midnight by now. I look out the open window and see something I've only seen in textbooks or pictures. The woods. How far have we driven?

Then Tris does something pretty stupid. She drives off the road and into the woods, almost crashing into about 7 trees inthe process. "Careful!" I tell her.

"Sorry, still getting the hang of this." she replies truthfully.

"You do know where you're going right?"

"Of course."

"So where are we going?"

"It's a surprise."

I raise my eyebrows at her.

"Don't worry it's a good surprise!"

"Somehow that doesn't make me feel better."

She laughs and focusses on where we're going.

We drive through the woods for about 10 minutes before we stop.

Tris jumps out of the pick up and I climb out aswell. When I'm next to her she produces a flashlight anturns around. I follow her for another 10 minutes before she stops and says "We're here."

I look around and see what I've been seeing for the past 20 minutes. Trees and bushes. But the next thing I know she's pulling out two knives, ands one to me, and points to the cluster of trees infront of us. "Start cutting." I take the knife and start hacking at the branches, and Tris does the same. Once we've made a path big enough for both of us walk through, I finally see what our destination was.

A beach.

"Here we are."