AN: So I had no intention of not uploading for week & I am sorry. I wish I could tell you that it was writers block but my Grandfather passed away an hour after I posted the last chapter. So the past week I have been in South Carolina. My grandfather had a good life. 86 years old and 59 years with my grandmother. I just got back in to town yesterday and after spending quality time with my hubby and my cats I found time to write – Hope you enjoy the next chapter. Please Review/Follow/Favorite.
2 months later….
I am tending to Edward in the hospital wing. 2 months into war and we were winning. Or we have won, just depending on how you look at it. 6 weeks into fighting we were able to protect the other factions and bring down most of Factionless. We were highly surprised when it turned out that Four's mother Evelyn Eaton was behind the destruction. When Eric's team took her out the Factionless surrendered. So for the past 2 weeks everyone out there has been getting everything back in order and that includes setting up better housing positions and jobs for the Factionless. There are some Factionless still running around trying to start fights but it seems settled almost as soon as it is started.
Edward came into Dauntless Hospital 1 week ago when he was stabbed in the eye in an attack. He is a part of Eric's front line and they were attacked from behind. Thankfully Edward was the only one injured enough to warrant him a stay in the hospital.
"You know with only one eye you still are beautiful." Edward says with a small smile.
"I think you have had enough pain medicine solider." I say cleaning up the medical tools.
"If Eric wasn't the leader of this faction or the leader of my group I would ask you out on a date." Edwards smile grows.
"What does Eric have to do with you asking me out? Everyone in the faction is pretty aware that we are no longer together." I say walking away.
"Yeah but that doesn't change anything." Edward says. "It's Eric. And it's you. You both have been together forever. And everyone with eyes can tell you both are not over each other."
"Good Night Edward." I smile as I walk out of his room.
I am putting clipboards away and getting ready to walk out of the hospital after my 10 hour shift. It is now 7am. As I am starting to walk down the hallway my communication device starts beeping advising me that we are going to have people coming in to the infirmary. I walk back in and I see nurses and doctors walking to the doors waiting on the soldier's coming in from battle. This is the part where I get more nervous than anything. I am terrified that I am going to see Eric being carted in. And just then I think my worst fears have come true when I see Eric being carried in. I run forward, it seems like 20 people coming in bloody. I run straight for Eric and put my hand on his cheek willing him to look at me. He is breathing heavy and looks straight in my eyes. I look away from those big grey eyes and see that his left leg is bleeding.
"Hey I'm okay." He winces when he talks. "Go to someone else. I will be fine." The 2 guys carrying him lead him over to the first empty gurney they see and set him down. I run over to Will who is not conscious and looks to be shot in the shoulder. I lead the 2 men carrying him over to a gurney and grab a doctor and head off to the operating room with him. I look back and see Eric comforting a crying Christina.
3 hours. 3 hours of surgery and we have removed the bullet. Will is going to live but he is going to have to go through Therapy on how to move that arm of his again. I remove all of my bloody clothes and head out to the main hall. I hear from other nurses that we have 11 more soldier's in. Apparently they were ambushed by 5 Factionless who were waiting on them to start evacuating volunteers from other teams. We have 1 dead and 10 injured. I have also heard that those 5 Factionless were eliminated. I look at the board and see that Eric is in 124. I start walking down the hall and see that his door is cracked. I knock lightly and see that Eric has Christina and Harper cuddled in his bed watching TV. When they see me Christina sits up immediately looking at me.
"He's fine Chris." I smile and she relaxes. "Bullet missed all things important. We were able to extract it okay. He's in room 111."
Christina gets out of the bed and runs to hug me. I hug her tightly back. She goes to Eric hugs him and grabs a sleeping Harper and leaves the room.
"You know. When I said that you needed to come back I didn't mean you had to take a bullet to the calf to do it." I smile as I walk around to the side of his bed.
"Hey. It barely even touched me. 18 stitches is nothing. I will be out of here by tomorrow morning." I says smiling.
"You're going back out there aren't you?" I ask my heart stopping.
"Tris. Please don't look at me like that. You know I have to go out there. The faction is out there. I need to bring them home." He drags his left hand down his face and sighs. "I have to. What happened today was just a fluke, honestly. Things are calm out there. I will be home within a month."
"But I am in here. I am asking you to come home. To stay home please." I am begging him.
"Tris this isn't fair. You make me choose things that I cannot control. I am leader. I have to go back out there to bring the 500 dauntless still out there home." He says.
"Fine." I say looking at my hands. He grabs my hand and tugs a little. I look up at him and he has a small smile.
"Does that mean you miss me?" Eric says with a smile.
"Eric I want to be back home with you. All I thought about is how I didn't really say goodbye to you. I am willing to give up everything if that means I can be with you again." I say leaving my left hand in his and using my right hand to wipe away tears.
He smiles at me. "I hope you won't give away everything."
"What do you mean?" I question.
He looks at me with the same smile and lets go if my hand. He leans over to the stand next to his bad and goes through the inside pocket of his black jacket.
"When we were in Abnegation clearing the Factionless out of there I stopped and found your parents." I perk up. "They are fine. I told them about how you have been and what you are doing now. I told them about us." He laughs a little. "I also told them that I was completely foolish and let you walk away from me." He took a deep breath looking at the small tube in his hand. It looked like an old camera film tube.
"Your parents gave me something and I was hoping that it could be used to show you that I made the biggest mistake of my life when I let you walk out." He opens the top and empties the contents in his left hand. "These are your parent's wedding bands. Your father's ring is a little small, I would have to get it re-sized. But, they said that they had no more use for them and that they would be proud to call me their son-in-law and that is when it truly hit me. I had a family this whole time. I had you. We always have gotten into our fights but we have always gotten over them. You would never treat me like my parents did. And that I could always count on you for loving me."
He stops talking and instead of looking in his hands and at the rings I am looking at his face, in his eyes and he is looking back. I sit down on the side of the bed and the tears fall and I don't dare to wipe them away.
"I let you walk out of my life because I was scared. I was scared to turn out like my parents but I didn't realize for 6 years you never judged and only cared. These last 6 or 7 months have been the most painful for me." He sits up a little straighter and shows me the ring. "Tris, if I ask you to come home. If I ask you to wait for me to come join you at home when this war is over can you please tell me you will? Please tell me that you will be home waiting to make me the happiest man in the world by coming Mrs. Coulter?"
I look up at him with a smile. "I thought you would never ask." I lean forward and capture his lips with mine and at the same time he slips my mother's golden band on my left finger.
"I love you." He says.
"I love you too." I say back.
^^ Now that would be a good place to end it. But I am not going to end it there. 1 more chapter!