I sat on top of the communications tower that Max had restored while everyone was away. I watched the sunset once again, closing out a day, preparing to start a new one.
"I thought I'd find you up here," I hear Eric call from below.
"I am not very hard to find."
"Mind if I come up?"
"Come on up," I say, my heart flutters when he smiles.
He begins climbing and gets to the top where I am sitting.
"I missed you," he says kissing my cheek.
I laugh at his childishness, "I've only been gone for a few hours."
"A few hours is too much baby."
He was right, a few hours was too much sometimes...especially now that I was realizing how much I loved this man.
"What are you thinking about?" He asks wrapping an arm around my shoulders, pulling me closer.
"You want to know?"
"Of course I do."
"I'm thinking about Jake, and the others we left back in Milwaukee...I was hoping we'd have some sort of communication with them by now," I watch Erics face fall when i talk about Jake.
"When do you think they will attack," I ask, changing the subject.
He just shrugs his shoulders.
i watch him take a few deep breaths. I can't hold it anymore.
"Eric," I turn his face to mine, his grey eyes bore into mine, "I love you..."
His face lightens up immediately.
"What?" He asks as if he hasn't heard me correctly.
"I love you, Eric."
I look to the matching tattoos on our wrists...
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"So what is this crazy thing we're about to do?" I ask Eric as we walk towards the tattoo parlor.
"Tris, marry me." He says.
"What did you just say?" I stop walking looking dumbfounded.
"Marry me, Tris." His eyes looked straight into mine, so deep that I knew he could see my heart and soul in them.
"Okay."
...
"No rings, no tattooed rings, I want our initials, scripted together...because you and I are one, Eric," Bud smiles and gets to work on my tattoo first.
...
"Do you have the rings?" Max asks us. We give each other a sheepish grin before holding our wrists up to show Max.
"Will this do," Eric asks him. Max lets out a hearty laugh.
"I promise you Tris, to love you and protect you, no matter what happens..."
"And I promise you, Eric, where you go I go, when you fight I will fight, and if you die...I'm going to die right beside you."
"Alright then," Max continues, "by the power vested in me as leader of Dauntless, I pronounce you Mr. And Mrs. Eric Coulter."
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"I love you too, Tris, God I love you so much it hurts." Eric hugs me tightly and puts his face in my neck.
I shiver when his hot breath meets my skin, and smile to myself. When this war was over, I would be back to being the Tris everyone remembered. Right now I was still finally remembering myself.
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Milwaukee
"Ahh, Jake," David looks up as Jake walks into his office, "sit down, please."
Jake obliges and sits down in one of the white chairs.
"You were good friends with Ms. Prior, were you not?"
"For a time, I was, sir."
"Did you, help plan her escape, Jake?"
"No sir, I have told you before, her boyfriend, Eric, attacked me."
David nods his head slightly.
"You know, I told Tris, that to prove her loyalty, she was to kill Eric..." David walks to the window and look so out, "she wouldn't do it."
"Sir?"
"I want you, to go to Chicago. She trusts you, I want you to kill Eric, he knows far too much and he knows far too many military tactics that could compromise the war."
"Sir, you need to think about this, Eric, is a top soldier yes, but so was Tris, so was Tobias...hell all of Dauntless is on their side, all of the factionless are on their side, and they can fight."
"Jake," David shakes his head, "can I trust you?"
"Yes, sir you can."
No. You can't, Jake thought to himself.
"Then do as I say, and eliminate the target, with our luck, Tris will fold and they will surrender easily."
Jake watched David's face turn dark, he wanted him to murder Eric, for no actual reason. He thought by murdering him, he would get Tris to surrender the entire city.
"You are dismissed."
Jake stood and stalked out of the office, he then ran to his apartment to pack up a bag of a few clothes and weapons.
"I'm coming with you," a deep voice came from behind him. Oz.
He turned to see the tall man standing in the doorway, behind him stood Dallas.
"We're coming with you."
"Why would you do that?" Jake asked, careful not to give away the fact that he was in fact not on David's side.
"Because, for one," Oz started, "this man we work for, is fucking whack. Two, I've never seen Chicago."
A smile crossed over Jakes features, realizing he could trust Oz and Dallas.
"Are you packed up," he asked the two men.
Dallas nodded and gestured towards the window, Jake looked out to the compound below where at least a hundred soldiers stood, armed and ready.
"They're packed up too," Dallas said standing next to him.
"Let's go then," he said clapping Dallas on the shoulder, "We're going to Chicago boys!"
Just a quick reminder in case anyone has forgotten!
I do not own Divergent or any of its characters!
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So tell me what you think about this Jake guy? Not a bad dude huh?
I have been asked why Tris doesn't want to tell Eric that she remembers some of the events from her past...
Her past is still spotty, she doesn't remember it all yet, but she's getting the important events down, the reason she doesn't want to say anything, is because she knows a war is coming and in her mind she believes that it would be easier on both of them to move on if she dies, or he dies. I hope that answers the question:)