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Chapter 6

"Uncle Four!" Gracie runs through the halls to outside Tobias's apartment. Tobias stands outside, leaving against the wall, talking to Christina.

"Hey sweetheart." Tobias, eyes brighten at the sight of his niece.

"Are you really going to let him do this?" Christina asks Tris glancing up from the clipboard and hands it to Tris.

Tris looks over the clipboard finding nothing wrong. "Yeah, it's been cleared by Johanna, and he's earned it. Besides looking at his charts, I see nothing wrong." She looks over at Tobias. "Did you take your medicine this morning?"

"Well yeah, Christina was there to watch me."

"Yeah we're proud of him, he even ate all of his fruit this morning." She turns to Gracie. "See Grace, he's the reason why you should eat all your fruits and veggies. Or you'll end up like him.".

"Haha Christina, very funny. Can we get going? I want to see my brother." Tobias groans impatiently. Truth being that he wants to get out of this hell hole.

Christina gives Tris a pointed look, not directed towards the fact that her unstable patient is being sent out of the hospital. More towards the fact that Tris is dressed nice and so is he, and they are going to be gone for the day. Tris shakes her head at Christina and turns towards Grace, "Yeah, let's get going. Come on Gracie, we have a program to get to."

Tris makes them take the steps and watches carefully as Tobias goes down them. Luckily only 3 flights, but enough to ware him down. Gracie keeps encouraging to go faster, and Tris had to scold her, but Tobias tries. He tries for her.

They get him situated, then Gracie gets situated, and they're off. They head to Tobias's old high school, Roth High. The program starts at 11:11, so they have time to check things out. "You see Grace, this is where I went school." Tobias's says making his way down the steps of the commons.

"Where did you go to school Aunt Tris?"

"Um...well, I went to high school in Abnegation, New Jersey. That's where I grew up."

"Where's that at?"

"Well, if we find a map I'll show you."

"We should probably make our way to the gym. It's about to start." Tobias interrupts, his attention span is not the best since he's been taking his medicine.

"We have a half an hour." Tris protests.

"I want a good seat." Tobias leads the way, Gracie following closely behind.

Tobias relives part of his past, just walking through the doors. Years of weight lifting and practices and games happened in here. A star basketball player, shot those 3 pointers. He got that concussion sliding into that wall, on the north side. His blood stain isn't there anymore. He jumped off those bleachers many times, almost breaking a leg the last time, on the seniors last day. The heights scared him, but he didn't care. He had to show the guys that he wasn't scared.

"Mr. Eaton, I swear if that's you, I'm going to be so happy." An older lady with blonde hair and glasses on her nose, says from the podium that sits in the middle of the gym.

Tobias smiles at his former teacher, glad to be see her. "Why yes it is. Hello, Mrs. Grey."

The older lady, goes over to hug Tobias. "Boy, look at you. I knew that you would be handsome. I heard about the accident, how are you holding up?"

"I'm fine, doing well. Glad to get out of that hospital, but I had to bring a ball and chain with me. They wouldn't let me watch Danny without her."

"A nurse?"

"No worse, my physical therapist."

Mrs. Grey looks over at Tris, who is walking around looking at some of the pictures that are set up. "She seems like a sweetheart. Don't give her too much hell, I know how you can be."

"It seems to be working the other way around." He mumbles, and Mrs. Grey's hands fall off his shoulders.

"Well, I've got to be going. I put my lead senior in charge of tuning the instruments, and if I don't head back now-"

"The other seniors will be giving him hell. I know, I've been there."

She gives out a short laugh and starts walking away. "Goodbye Tobias, but please don't be a stranger, come and see me whenever you want." She disappears, causing Tobias to shake his head. She's always been like that.

Tris unable to hide her curiosity asks. "So you were in band...what instruments did you play?" She comes towards Tobias, asking the question. He heard her come up even with her cat-like tread.

"I was a trumpet player, and a percussionist. I was basically put where I was needed. Before this side of town got really populated, we had a tiny school, so hence we had a tiny band. We made it work though."

Tobias turns back towards her. "Where's Grace?"

"On the bleachers."

He turns, "Oh. As long as she's not getting into trouble."

"Yeah, she should be fine."

"So your a Jersey girl?"

"You can say that."

"What happened to famous annoying Jersey accent?"

"The famous annoying Jersey accent?"

"Yeah like the ones that I've heard before."

"On t.v.?"

"Well yeah. I was watching Melissa and-" Tobias's sentence breaks off as he watches someone come through the door. Red hair, dark violet eyes, tall. His old girl friend, Vanessa. She's the Kindergarten teacher in this school system. Following behind her is the class of Kindergarteners and a few high school students, probably seniors. In that pack of seniors in his younger sister, Paige. Paige is talking to her twin, who follows closely behind.

"Oh hey, there's Danny." Tris states waving, he waves back at her, but stays by the girl's side.

"Yeah he's with his twin sister."

"Danny has a twin?"

"Yep, Paige."

"So you have a younger brother and sister, who are twins, who are not in the same grade, and live with your mother?"

Tobias thinks about it for a second, then nods like it's completely normal and he knows it's not. Nothing about his life has ever been normal. "Yep, I have twin siblings, one being a genius and graduating a year early leaving the other behind in the dust, and I have a step sister who is in the first grade named Mia. My mom remarried, and Mia was born so after. Let's just say, I have young parents because I was a mistake. Which like most things leads to early marriage and then divorce when they realized that they just weren't right for each other."

"It's a shame that you were a mistake. If only your parents would have been more careful, I wouldn't be having to deal with you right now."

"That's what I thought too." Tobias mumbles mostly to himself. Tris turns her head closer to listen, but he's not going to tell her what he just said. "I'm going to get Gracie, you go find a nice place by the wall to stand."

"Don't you want to sit?"

"Tris, I just spent 4 months sitting on my ass, I'm going to stand."

The program starts soon after, two trumpets playing taps starts everything. During that time Tris thinks about her brother, wondering what he's doing. He's supposed to call her tonight. Tonight she's also supposed to get her things out of Turner's place. Caleb calls at 4, and it depends what time Tobias wants to leave. Knowing Tobias, he'll want to milk it and be out super late. Tonight will be a crammed night.

"Thank you, Dr. Wheels. Ladies and gentleman, my name is Daniel Johnson. Son of the retired General Marcus Eaton and brother of Staff Sergeant Tobias Eaton. To me knowing those two things is the most important thing in the world. You see those two people are my heros. They may not have gone to college and became brain surgeons or are actual super heros, but they are the next best thing.

"Not having a father around, when I was little, seemed completely normal. Then kindergarten rolled around I learned that it was pretty unusual. I would get asked all the time, 'why isn't your daddy home?' And I would simply answer 'because he's saving lives.' That's what he was doing everyday.

"Then my big brother, the famous 'Four' made the decision of becoming a Marine. Those of you who know him, or remember him, know that he's a fighter, and bull headed, and kind of a pain in the butt." Tris looks over at Tobias, who smiles at his words. It's obvious how proud he is. "When he left I was pretty mad. I needed him here and he wasn't here to watch my back. It didn't take me until now to realise that he was watching my back, he actually had it every day. He has all of our backs actually. Even today, I look at the crowd and I see him smiling at me." Danny looks over at his big brother smiling. "He may not be over in Afghanistan right now, but I'm happy that he is here today, having my back.

"So today, I want you all to have one common goal. Thank a veteran for having your back, as I know that they have mine. Thank you."

The crowd applauds, and Danny comes to stand by his brother. "Nice job Danny." Tobias says clapping him on the back.

"Thanks, Tobias. That means a lot."

The program continues on, Grace gets restless easily. Tris has to keep her from running around the gym. As soon as it's over, Tris waits for the gym to clear out a bit and let's the small girl run. Tobias's sisters come over to talk to him, and he introduces her to Paige and Mia. Paige, has dark hair like Tobias and Danny, but like Danny she has dark brown eyes. She is also really tall, just like the boys. Of course Tris only really thinks that because she's about 5'2 and Paige is about 5'11. Mia is still small because she is much younger. She has the same dark hair, but her eyes are green instead of brown or blue.

They soon leave because the two girls have to go back to class. Danny says that he needs to catch a flight. "So do you want to walk around the school again? Go down memory lane?" Tris asks.

"Yeah sure, just for a little bit. Then I want to go get some pizza."

"Fine I'm down for some pizza, in return that you come with me to go get some things from my old apartment."

"Sure, why not. It's not like I have anything important to do. Wait should I check my schedule?"

"No, no, you've convinced me, but thanks." She looks at Grace. "Come on Gracie, let's get going. Uncle Tobias is going to give us a tour."

"A tour of what?" She asks running over.

"The school. He's going to show us around, but you'll have to be very quiet." Tris puts a finger to her lips.

"Okay." She whispers. Tris picks up her niece and Tobias leads them out of the gym and into the school.

"So you walked these halls everyday for 4 years?"

"Technically 6, because 7th and 8th grade classes are in here too, but yeah I did. I made some great memories here. Like you see that the set of stairs right there?" He points to the middle of the hall to a set of stairs that move upward.

"Yeah."

"Zeke Pedrad and his younger brother and I rode our bikes down them for homecoming. It was all to impress a cheerleader, but it worked. Oh and for 4 years, my locker was right there. Locker number 246, I'm pretty sure that it was lucky."

"Lucky? Your superstitious?" Tris asks raising an eyebrow.

"Not really, but it seemed to help me through the years. I never had really bad high school troubles, and I think that locker had something to do with it."

"You are odd."

"I know. Well this is the main floor, all of my boring classes were on this floor, you know math, science, history, English... Now if we head upstairs, via the elevator, I can show you all the cooler part of school."

They ride up in the elevator, it's small, and she can easily watch Tobias's reaction. He has a death grip on the elevator railing and he's breathing heavily. "Are you okay?" Tris asks in case he's having a flash back.

"Yeah, yeah fine. I just hate small spaces."

"So no on a flash back?"

"Definitely not a flash back."

Luckily the elevator opens so she can get him out of the elevator as soon as possible. "So this is the cooler party of the school?" Tris changes the subject quickly, so Tobias can get his mind off of the elevator. "It looks like a normal second floor of a school."

"Well the senior lounge is pretty cool, it's by the stair case. That's where I spent most of my senior year, making out with the drill team."

"You were a duck boy?"

"Duck boy?"

"I'm carrying a 3 year old who's impressionable and likes to say the same things that her favorite Auntie Tris says. So I'm hoping that you can figure it out."

"I can, I'm not an idiot."

"Oh really? I'm surprised."

"Oh haha, I'll have you know I was Valedictorian."

"That's cute, I was also Valedictorian of my class too."

Tobias rolls his eyes, always had to have the last word. They make their way to the senior lounge, "This is the senior lounge." He was right, it was pretty cool. Leather couches, popcorn machine, even a massage chair, a few pool tables dot the corners. "I was also a pool champion."

"This is cool. I'm not going to lie, I wish we had one of these."

"Your jealous."

"Slightly."

Tobias nods, "I'm hungry, do you want to blow this popsicle stand?"

"Fine, so do you want to go to Homeslice? It's closest and I'm dying to have some of their pizza."

Tobias nods, "It's like you read my mind."

After Tobias scarfs down three pieces of pizza, he leans back and watches the two woman in front of him try top finish their first. Tris is almost done, and Grace is working on trying to be halfway. The little girl, has sauce all over her face and cheese dropping from her chin.

"Here Grace, let me help you." He dives in to wipe off the sauce and cheese on her little face.

"Uncle Tobias your hurting me." She whines, trying to get the pizza to her lips.

"Sorry Gracie, but you have sauce all over your face and you need to get it off. Okay you are all done."

"Thanks." She mumbles and goes back to her pizza. All of Tobias's hard work, was a waste. He laughs a bit and finishes his water.

"You ate way too fast. These pieces of pizza are huge."

"The hospital food sucks. This is the best food I've had in years."

"I'll give you that. I hate to admit it, but I'm full. I definitely cannot finish this today. Grace and I had a big breakfast and I admit defeat."

"Me too. I'm not hungry." Grace agrees.

"You two girls are weenies." Tobias says picking up Grace's piece and scarfing it down.

"Our you just have a bottomless pit for a stomach." She looks down at her watch, "Oh crap, we need to get going it's almost 2 and I need to get my stuff, drop you off, and then be home in time to talk to Caleb. So we need to go."

"Why isn't your fiance helping you?"

"He's at work, and we need to be out of there by the end of the day...so..."

"Your doing this by yourself? Your fiance is an ass. I mean but, don't swear Gracie. Sweating is bad." Tobias looks at Tris. "How do you do this?"

"I'm not perfect, but I figure it out as it goes. I could be the first one to admit that it's hard."

"This is a lot of sh-crap. Who has this much stuff?" Tobias kicks a box marked 'pillows'.

Tris grabs the last box and moves it into the corner with the others. Watching as Grace and Tobias make a fort, out of them. "Okay that's the last one, let's get going so we don't have to be here anymore." She says the last part venomously, completely ready.

"Hey your fiance is Turner?" Tobias asks not really even paying attention. He picks up the picture frame, starring at the picture of Turner and Tris together. They were at a Blackhawks meet. That picture was definitely one of her favorites.

"N-yeah yeah. Yes he is."

"That bast-mean person. We're friends and he didn't even tell me. Next time I talk to him he's going to get it."

"He is? I can't even trust you to lift a box of pillows. How I'd he going to 'get it's?"

"Bea?" Another male's voice rings through the almost empty apartment. Turner appears from behind the stack of boxes and looks at Tris. "Hey I heard- wait Four? What's up man? I haven't heard from you in ages. If I didn't know you any better, I would think that your dead."

The two guys clasp hands and bro hug. "Nah man, Hell isn't getting a new member just quite get."

"I'm glad to hear. I don't want to go to your sorry a" Tris clears her throat, Turner understands the signal perfectly. "-butt funeral. Grace, I didn't even know that you were here. Why didn't you give me a hug?"

Grace pops out of her fort. "Because I'm playing house. Uncle Four is supposed to be playing with me, once I get everything ready."

"Grace you aren't taking everything out of that box are you?" Tris asks ready to scold and clean up if she is.

"No silly auntie. I'm coloring on the boxes. Uncle Four have me a maker to play with."

"He did?" Tris raises an eyebrow in surprise.

"Yep."

Tris shoots a glare at Tobias who just shrugs. Turner looks at the two of them, wondering what's going on. Clearly she couldn't have rebounded this quickly. No matter how much sex he has, the whole that she left is still there. "So Bea, how do you know Four?"

"Well, he's my patient. I've told you about him, he's the one who is a giant pain to deal with."

"What Four? Nah, can't be."

"He can. Now looking at the time, we better be going back. I need to drop him off and head to a phone call with my brother."

"So rushed, can't you stay for a little longer?"

"No, Turner, not now, but I'll see you later. Come on Grace, you need to grab your back pack, and you need to make sure she gets down there fine." She commands the last part at Tobias, hoping he'll leave.

He takes the bait and grabs his canes. "Come on Grace let's go, before your scary aunt has our butts." He helps Grace with the back pack and she walks ahead of him chatting away. Tris can't help to notice how cute they are. Tobias surprised her with how good with children he is.

"Here I'm going to help you. Look Bea-"

"Don't say your sorry. Just don't, it's not even worth the breath."

She stacks 4 boxes in her hands and he takes the last 4.

"I wish that it didn't have to end like this."

"Yeah but it does. You were the one who screwed that up."

She moves to hit the elevator button, he helps her by getting it. "You really are a nice beautiful woman. It's just too bad that your standards are just too high for me. I would like to wish you the best of luck in finding that guy." The elevator opens, they climb in. "You deserve the best, and I can't give you that. I know that one it's all over, that you will be fine and be even more successful, because that's who you are. If there one thing I know about you, it's that you always get what you want, when you know that it's what you need. I hope that he brings you happiness, and what you want. I also hope that he makes you smile just as I made you smile once." The doors open again. "Don't give up on love just because I screwed up, go and find someone else, who will love you even more. Because I know you deserve so much more."

They walk the rest of the way to her car and put the last of the boxes in. Then they shut the door and face each other.

Tris looks him in the eyes. They are full of memories, some happy, some sad. All formed her in the woman that she is today. Letting go is hard, but it's like ripping off a band aid, and Turner is right. She deserves better. "Good bye Turner." She hands him the key, gets in the car, and drives off.

She gets a few blocks away and starts to fight off the tears. "What's the matter?" Tobias asks, concerned.

"Nothing, just sad to leave." She answers plainly.

"Well this move is going to help the two you isn't it?"

She's quiet for a minute, then nods. "Yeah, yeah it will."

He shrugs and looks at her in the eye. "In life, unlike chess, the game continues after check mate."