Reminder: I do not own any characters but I do own D.

Chapter 3:

The net day I woke up in my bed with Zeke's arms around me. I don't remember how I got like this; wearing Zeke's shirt with no bra, just underwear. I got up and went to the bathroom. I still had the make up from yesterday on, but only it was ugly and smeared. I took it off and washed my face. I left the bathroom to go to the kitchen. I slowly walked toward the door, being very careful not to make any noise. I close the door, and from the corner of my eye, I see that the door to one of the spare bedrooms was slightly open. I open the door and I see Lucas sleeping safely under the blanket. He had his pajamas that he leaves here on and there was hair in the middle of his face. I smile and move the strand of brown hair. I walked out of the room, and to the kitchen to make coffee.

I hear a knock at the door. I run to it, hopeful that my efforts to stay quiet are not blown by the hooligans that knock at someone's door at six in the morning. I look through the peep hole and see it is just My dad and Zeke. I unlock the door and they don't look worried, but then again this is dauntless and not candor so looks can be deceiving.

"What's wrong?" I ask.

Max "Sorry to wake you, but we need to talk to you and Zeke."

"About what?"

"Please. It's important." Eric pleads.

This is very suspicious to me because I Eric never says please. Not even to me. I move out of the way to let them in. I watch them sit on the couch. They still don't look worried, but I have a feeling that my face does not say the same thing.

"Hold on, I'll wake up Zeke. But, be careful not to wake up Lucas. He's sleeping just in that room."

They nod and I go to my room. He was still sleeping, and I decide to wake him up like I normally do, with a small but gentle kiss on the lips. I kneel down beside him and kiss him. He wakes up and smiles between the kiss. I pull away, but not before he gets the opportunity to pull me on top of him. I pull back and I smile.

"My father and Eric are here, they want to talk to us."

He looks at the clock and says, "It's 6:05 in the morning…"

"I know… and Eric said please."

"That's weird."

"Come on, get dressed. Coffee is brewing and I love you."

"I love you too."

I give him another kiss and walk out the door. I pour some coffee and offer some to the guests, but they were quick to deny my offer. Zeke comes out of the room with a shirt on and boxers. My father's face is very stunned, and Eric just looks at him with disgust. I look up at him and ask him if he wants coffee. He nods and sits on the couch on the opposite side of the one My father and Eric are sitting on. They are in the formal living room, so there is no T.V but a stereo system. I give Zeke the coffee just the way he likes it, three teaspoons of sugar, and sit down next to him.

Max begins, "So you are probably wondering why I came here this early…"

I respond, "Yea daddy, what's wrong?"

Max, "Well, there are two things. I know that you two are Lucas' parents. I am not his father, nor will I ever be. You probably don't understand my choice, but for me it is easier. I am always being put in danger because I am a leader. I know that you are his mom and Zeke, you are his dad. I don't want him to ever know that I was his father, or your mother was his mom."

Zeke interjects, "Why?"

Max, "I just don't want to. I have made peace with her death, but I will not love the thing that took her away from me."

"No! He will find out one day. Weather you like it or not, you are his father and nothing will change that. Mom would have been so ashamed of you. Abandoning your son."

Max, "Courtney… it will be hard for him. He will begin to believe that his life is not his. It is easier this way. But that isn't the only thing. I don't want to be apart of his life."

"Absolutely not! This is unacceptable. I gave up my fun years to raise him. I was fourteen when you abandoned him. I will not just allow you to walk out of his life."

"I'm sorry you feel that way. Lucas is not allowed to live with me anymore. He will move in here or become an orphan. Your choice."

"my choice? It seems as if I am dealing with consequences of your decision."

"I am giving you an option. You can take him or leave him. You can have your fun years."

"That is so unfair. You know that I will never leave my son alone. He will never feel the abandonment that you are inflicting on him. Move his stuff in, then you are done."

"Courtney, this is your decision."

"I will love him more than you ever could. But I'm warning you dad. If you walk out now, don't bother walking into his life again."

"I understand… The other matter we must discuss is…"

I stand up and say, "I cant look at you right now. Tell Zeke and he'll tell me later."

I storm out grabbing my keys and my bag. I start running, I don't know where too, but far away from him.

Zeke POV

After D stands up, I stand up with her. She stormed out of the room, I am tempted to follow her, but I know that she would probably go to Four's place, so I know she's safe. I turn and walk back to the couch. Max and Eric are standing up as well, but we all just sit back down.

"What is the second thing?"

Eric says, "Since you and D are training the transfers this year, we want to know who the divergent are. You know as a dauntless leader that we chose which divergent to kill. We want their files and their fears."

Eric continues on about the procedure for the divergent but my mind goes somewhere else. My thoughts begin with Allegiant. The meeting we didn't attend last night. Then my mind goes off to the legal situation of Lucas. I got snapped back to reality when Max taps me.

Max says, "I know that Courtney is mad right now, but I need you to convince her that this is the right choice. I cant be a father to him. I know that you are. Part of the reason why I didn't protest as much when you began to date my daughter is your ability to know her. When to talk to her and when to be rough with her. Then I saw how you were with Lucas and how you helped her. I want to say thank you. That's most of the reason why I gave you my blessing to marry her."

"I know her because I love her. I have a few questions though."

Eric and Max look at each other and then tell me to go on.

"Well with the divergent, why would you tell D that? She's not a dauntless leader, nor does she want to be."

"I have a feeling that one day she will change her mind. So she wont need the training before she actually becomes one."

"About Lucas, how do we change his birth certificate? When and if he ever digs into his past, I want to make sure that he never finds out."

Max, "So you agree with me about Lucas?"

"Not necessarily… But I am his father, I wan to make sure that he has proof of it."

Eric begins, "Dauntless has access to those files, all we have to do is change the names through the system."

"I can have four do that. But Max, D is serious about the whole 'not coming back into his life' thing. Once you close that door, in a way you will be closing the door on D too."

"How so?"

"All the holidays, we will spend with Lucas. If you really want to be 'out' that is what you are sacrificing."

"There is no other way…"

"There is. You can still be the cool and giving granddad that you are now. Distant but he still knows you."

"Courtney will never agree to it."

"Let me talk to her. Just agree. Right now."

"Very well. I will be his grandfather. Just stress that I will be distant… very distant."

"Noted."

Eric says as he stands at the doorway, "Don't forget about the protocol."

"I wont."

Almost on cue, Lucas walks out and runs to me. I pick him up and swing him around like I always do. He looks at Max and gives him a hug. Max does nothing but pat his head. He smiles at me then leaves the room with Eric. Lucas jumps on the Island chair and waits for me to say something. He looks at me with his brown hair and his deep brown eyes. Kinda like me, but he is much more handsome. He is my son, and I will never leave him like Max did.

"Daddy, what's wrong? Where's mama?"

"Oh, well we have some time." I glance over at the clock and it says 6:30 AM. "We can go find her."

We walk out of the room and walk over to Four and Tris' apartment. Lucas grabs my hand and we walk without a word. I look down at him and he is not even up to my hip, but mid thigh. I cant believe Max is leaving someone so perfect.

Lucas POV

My dad looks weird when we walk. He told me that my mama was at Aunt Tris and Uncle Four's apartment. We get to there and I knock on the door. There's no answer at the door, but then Aunt Tris opens the door, asking us to come in. I don't see my mama. They all talk then my dad has a worried look on his face. The one he normally gets when my mama gets mad at him for eating her cake.

Dad comes down to my level and says, "I'm gonna look for mama and your aunt and uncle are gonna get you ready for school. Okay?"

"Daddy, I know something's wrong. I can go with you. I heard mama yelling at Grandpa when I woke up. I think she's mad at me."

My dad asks, "Why would she be mad at you son?"

I reply, "I heard mama yelling something about me."

He says with a sincere tone, "She's not mad at you. She's just mad at grandpa."

"She's probably at the place with the knives and guns. That's where she took me when she was mad at you for eating her cake."

Uncle four says, "You ate her cake, I'm surprised you're not homeless right now."

My dad punches uncle four and gave me a hug goodbye. Then he left me with my Aunt and Uncle.

D POV

I stopped running and just ended up at the training room. I realized that I was just wearing Zeke's shirt and not even wearing any shorts. I dropped my keys and bag at the chair by the door. I walked in and grabbed some knives and a gun. I loaded it and went to the targets. I started to throw knives. I pictured my dad's face. I still couldn't believe what he said to me about Lucas. How could someone be so kind to me and so mean to Lucas? I picked up the gun and every single bullet went through the bulls eye. I went to the punching bag and started hitting it. I threw punch after punch. Kick after kick so mad that I started to cry.

Someone grabbed my waist and I just stood and cried. Not even knowing who was behind me, hugging me. I looked up and it was no surprise who it was. Zeke. He kissed the top of my head and stood there with me. I looked at the clock and it said 7:20.

"We have to get ready. I cant train initiates with just your t-shirt and panties on."

"You could but then I would have to kick all the guys asses for staring at yours."

I laugh a little and we walk back to our apartment. I go to the bathroom and jump in the shower. I close my eyes and let the hot water run on me. I turn the shower off and wrap myself in a towel. Zeke stands at his sink just looking at me.

"What?" I ask.

"You are just so damn sexy."

"Well not so bad yourself… Why aren't you wearing a shirt?" I look at him and he is shaving. He looks so hot. Him and his rough muscles and hard abs. Normally I'm use to seeing them because I'm in dauntless, but he is just one in a million.

"Well someone keeps wearing my shirts to sleep."

"Well, I don't remember taking off my bra last night, or even putting on your shirt."

"Well, you were tired and I know how annoyed you get when you sleep with it on. So I took the liberty to take it off for you."

"Oh really?" I ask moving closer to him.

"Really." He says moving forward to me.

He is just so dang cute, I couldn't help myself. I kissed him and he kissed back. When we released, I had shaving cream on the side of my cheek and he wiped it off. I walk to the side of the bathroom with the closet. I open the drawer with all of my undergarments and decide to tease him a little. I pulled out a matching set of red underwear and bra and put it on. I walked with just that on for a little while and Zeke looked even hotter. I kissed him when he was done shaving. I looked at the clock and it said 7:40. I knew we had to hurry up. Four and Tris were setting up today, so we could take our time.

Once we are done kissing, I decide to dress comfy- badass. I throw on a tight but stretchy tank top and some black yoga pants. I wear my engagement ring and we walk out the door. On the way to the training room, I realized that Zeke was wearing the comfy-badass attire as well. I was staring at him then he finally looks at me.

"What? Do I have something in my teeth?"

"no, my fiancé is just so damn sexy."

"So is mine."

We kiss then walk into the training room. 8:00 on the dot. We walk to the front of the room and we explain what we are doing today. I step up and before I talk, I look over to Rory, the girl I beat up yesterday. She has a black eye and a fractured nose. Damn, I wish I would've broken it.

"Today, we will be learning how to throw knives. Four, Tris. Would you like to demonstrate?"

Tris responds, "Of course."

Tris walks over to the targets and the initiates look scared as hell. Four did this to Tris when she was an initiate, and they have been doing it ever since. I think its romantic, but the rest of the initiates look pale.

Four asks, "You ready Six?"

Tris replies, "Absolutely Four."

Daniel, the initiate who likes Tris says, "Are you insane?"

Zeke steps up, "If you have a problem, enjoy life among the factionless."

I say, "Wait…"

Everyone looks at me. I need a little fun right now. I need to relieve some stress. So I grab Rory and tell her, "Stand in front of the target."

Rory, "What?"

"Just do it or be factionless."

She looks at me and then walks slowly to the target. Then the next thing I know, Tris has Hannah, the one with a crush on Four, Zeke has Jett and Four has Daniel, all standing in front of a target. Four counts down.

"On three…one…two…three."

We all release our knives and none of them hit the initiates, but they come pretty damn close. All of the knives landed by their head. They all run back and away from the targets. We get the knives and put it back on the table.

I say, "With practice you can do that too, or you could kill them. Your choice. Get three knives and start throwing."

They all do as such and we all head towards the wall. Once we get there, we all laugh. Before I know it, it is 3:10. Four makes the announcement that it is lunch time, so they need to be back in an hour. We did the same as yesterday and had a race. Zeke and I were determined to beat them, so we didn't because we love cake too much.

We sit at our normal table and eat. It was taco day. Right when I was about to take a bite of my taco, I feel a hand on my shoulder, it's my dad.