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It's around noon now, Tobias went to Zeke earlier and received the proof we need. In a few minutes we will both be heading to candor, everyone thought it would be a bad idea for me to go but I can tell them my statement when I arrive. On top of my clothes lays a black hoodie with a hood to cover my identity until it's safe to show myself.
The kids will be staying here, though Corey doesn't mind it's a different story for Blake. She refuses to leave my side unless she's next to Amar or her brother, I guess leaving the bureau must have been stressful for her.
As I'm leaving the bedroom, Blake attacks me and wraps her small arms around my legs as if her life depends on it. She may be only three but her grip is quite strong to get out of.
"Blake hunny, I have to go. As soon as me and daddy get back we can have a normal life, move into a new apartment and you'll be able to make friends here just like Corey will." I try to convince her to let go and after a few minutes of pleading she finally does and walks towards uncle Amar. With her head hanging down, I see a couple of tears start to fall and it breaks my heart. All I want to do is run towards her and scoop her into my arms, I know I can't though, I'll never be able to have personal space ever again.
Tobias is standing close to the door with a small smile that convinces me that I made the correct choice. I return the smile then slide my small, thin hand into his as we leave the tattoo parlour.
My hood is already placed over my head as we walk through the pit, I keep my eyes facing the ground and don't look up in fear that someone may notice me. As I think we are in the clear, a shout stops us in our tracks. Her voice brings tears to my eyes, I haven't heard it in so long.
"Four!" She shouts again. "Where are you going and who's that with you?"
I turn my gaze from the stone slightly so I can just see glimpse of her. Christina hasn't changed a bit, still the same tanned mocha skin, short black hair (that is a little longer than I remember) but it still suits her.
"Um..." Tobais struggles with his words at first, not a clue with what to say but he soon gets his head together and starts to talk. "Christina, I really can't talk right now. There's somewhere we have to be but I promise I will explain later."
As the last words leaves his mouth, I'm being dragged behind him towards the door that exits the dauntless compound. I can imagine Christina's confused figure, still standing in the pit clueless. If there's one thing she hates, it's secrets so she won't drop this until she finds the truth. I'm quite surprised she didn't run after us.
The metal door seems wedged in place so after some continuous shoving from Tobias' shoulder, it grits across the floor and opens. Bright sunlight, floods into the darkness we have just came from. The heat on my face feels foreign, I've missed the outside world while I've been stuck inside Tori's cramped apartment.
Tobias, not wasting anytime, goes straight towards the tracks, he glances at his watch and tells me that the train should be here in a few minutes.
I take this time just to truly look at him. He seems determined, eyes fixed straight ahead, he doesn't even appear to blink. He has the same hooked nose and slightly pointed out ears, a bit of scruff has grown around his chin that used to be naked and smooth. I guess after the past few days, he hasn't had time to shave.
He must notice I'm staring because his eyes look downwards, towards me. A small smile appears on those gorgeous lips that I would just love to devour right now. As I'm about to snake my arms around his neck the sound of a train interrupts my thoughts.
It's like a blur. The whole city rushes by us as I sit on the edge of the train, gazing outside the door. The wind twists through my long, blond strands of hair, whipping it in my face a little.
"So what's going to happen when we get there?" I ask Tobias. He comes closer to me and places himself on the cold metal floor.
"I guess we will just explain that we need to talk to someone about a crime and then we'll just see how it goes from there." He explains, I can feel his stare on me but I don't turn my head. Not yet. I've missed my home so much I just want to breath it all in right now.
Once I've watched the city a couple of more minutes, I gently close my eyes and drift my head towards tobias' shoulder (that seems very comforting right now). His arm wraps around my petite frame, it's like we are lock and key, fitting perfectly together.
He gives me a smile, a true genuine smile that I've missed being able to see every day. People may think he is this tough, scary Four but really he is a wonderful man. I'm so lucky to have him.
One minute we are sitting side by side content and the next I'm on top of his lap, his mouth worshipping my lips. My hips move in a circular motion, provoking a low moan from deep down his throat. Our lips move together perfectly, he's the only one who knows how to kiss me right. I pry my lips away from his and start to pepper kisses down his throat and towards his covered chest. Oh how much I want us to be skin to skin right now.
"Mmm, Tris. We can't do this here, I wish we could but we ca-" I cut him of by joining our lips again. My hands go on his chest, I feel all the hard muscle that lays beneath that black top, which I want to badly rip off. "I won't be able to stop myself soon, we need to stop." Tobias mumbles between our joined lips. I sigh and lift myself off of his lap, I know he's right.
"I know." I say, "it's just I've missed you so much and I guess I can't keep my hands off you."
"I know exactly what you mean, you can see just how much I really want you." I look down and see the growing bulge beneath his jeans, heat rises to my cheeks. We may have been intimate before but it's still an embarrassing topic for me. "Anyway, I don't want our first time in years to be on a train, where we could be interrupted at any moment." I have to agree with that.
I nod to him then look out of the train to see that we are near candor, my suspicion is confirmed wen I feel us start to slow down. I stand with Tobias following close behind me then leap out of the cart.
We make our way to candor in silence, I think we are both a little embarrassed by the affection that we let get out of control on the train. I can still feel the heat in my cheeks when we enter through the glass doors of merciless mart. Inside all the wall are a crystal white as the polished floors are black. Many people rush past us with paper work or on devices, not bothering to check where they are walking. We get a few comment like "watch where you are going" or "I'm trying to walk here", in starting to believe that some candor are as rude as erudite.
Me and Tobias walk straight to the main desk that is nearly as long as the room, it's has many people spaced out, working on their computers. I count around 8. We go to the only person available which is an orange haired man. He seems quite pale and has vibrant green eyes that remind me of someone but I can't put my finger on it.
"Hello how can I help you." He asks without actually lifting his eyes from the computer screen.
"We need to talk to-" Tobais starts but gets cut off mid sentence.
"Of course Mrs Austin, your appointment with your lawyer has been booked in for Friday at 9 am... Yes thankyou... Goodbye." I stand there with my my mouth slightly ajar, then I look closer and see a black earpiece wrapped around his freckled ear. He wasn't even talking to us. "Sorry about that, I had a phone call. How can I help." We now have his attention.
"Yes. Well we need to talk to a leader here at candor, we have some news on dauntless that needs to be discussed privately." Tobais states with a cold voice, he must be pissed that the secretary didn't listen to us at first.
"I'm sorry but you would need an appointment and anyway only leaders may talk to Jack Kang."
"But this is an emergency, as in life or death." Crap, I said too much, the mans eyes widen then he presses a few buttons on his key pad and simply nods to us. Within seconds two men come from a corridor and stride towards where we are standing.
"You need to talk to Jack?" We both nod in reply. "Well what's so important that it needs to be with a leader."
"Trust me, it's a long story that shouldn't be in ear distant of loud mouth candors. It's private and needs to be dealt with before we can't stop it." Tobais explains.
"Well how do we know this isn't some stupid dauntless dare." How blind is he, we are talking about people's lives here.
"I have spent the last six years believing my girlfriend was dead or kidnapped and not knowing I had a son or a daughter, who by the way I never got to witness grow up. Then a few days ago they show up and explain how people's lives may be at stake in the city. If you think I'm going to take this shit from you, then you thought wrong. I will see this Jack Kang, even if I have to do it the hard way!" Tobais' voice becomes louder and louder as his debate carries on. By the end I was flinching just a little by each word, hopefully it has the same effect on this guard.
"First I would like you to lower your voice and second you would still need a leader to be present." Shit. What the hell are we going to do now, run for it? It might just work actually because we are-
My thoughts get cut short as Tobias grabs my wrist and drags me back out of candor, so much for my plan. I lift my eyes towards his face and see a disturbing look planted there. It's a mix between determination and worry. I've only seen it once on him and that was in the fear landscape. Oh no. No we are not doing that!
"Tobias! No we can't do what your thinking, no! You don't have to go through that." I try to persuade him, I even stop walking by his side, that seems to work because he turns round.
"Tris, we've got no choice, I need to do this. We need to do this, this is our family we are talking about." He pleads with me, I'm still not sure but I guess we have to.
I just nod in reply and we start walking again. There's no point in getting the train because it doesn't go the route we need to go to the abnegation centre, so we travel there on foot. I don't mind though, it reminds me of those morning when I would walk to school everyday. It was the only time I could actually be alone or enjoy something that wasn't helping others. I loved my life with my parents and brother but I would never go back to that life, dauntless gave me a real one.
After a half hour of walking, the plain grey abnegation houses are in view. Maybe I will see my parents, what do I explain to them? I haven't seen them in seven years and in that time I've had two kids, been kidnapped, left the fence, been undercover because I'm wanted and most, I've found the love of my life. Wow. I want to ask Tobias if we could visit my parents but this isn't the time, we need to get back to candor and stop this war.
Tobias' trembling hand is placed in my small sturdy one, I can see a few sweat drops forming on his forehead. He really doesn't want to do this, I can't put him through this pain.
"Why don't I just go and ask him, you don't have to come. Just wait here." I suggest but he seems to hate the idea as soon as it leaves my lips.
"No! That is not happening, I'm not letting you go into that house on your own with that monster, no way." Okay I guess that's decided.
We are now on the door step of Marcus Eaton's home, none of us are knocking so I decide to do it. A few long minutes later, one of the people I most despise opens the door. He looks just like the simulation, without the pit like eyes but close enough, he has a head full of grey hair and growing scruff on his chin.
As soon as Marcus realises it's us at his door, his slouching structure becomes straighter as he sends us a scowl. "What are you doing here?"
"We need you to come with us, it's a matter of life and death and it involves abnegation. So as their leader I think you should hear this" Tobias says confidently in an emotionless voice.
"I don't want anything to do with you or your little girl, now get off my porch." We just stand there, he's not the only one that is stubborn.
"We are not leaving until we have a leader come with us to candor to sort this problem out." I say.
"Wait. Are you... Your Beatrice Prior, don't think I've ever seen so many abnegation traitors in one place." I grit my teeth, I would love to punch this son of a bitch in the face right now. "Your poor parents were distraught when both their children left, I was the one here to help them get through it because I had experience in the matter." He eyes Tobais throughout his explanation.
"As I said before Marcus, we are not leaving until you come with us."
"Well are you going to drag me there because I would rather be arrested then help you two."
"Beatrice?" I freeze. Slowly turning, I see a familiar man dressed in grey. My father. Tears start to gather in my eyes at the sight of him, these last years have been torture. "What, what are you doing here?"
"Um.. Erh." I stumble over my words.
"These two are both harassing me into joining them at candor even though they have no warrant saying that I must go," Marcus adds to the conversation.
"Is this true?"
"No dad, we have things to talk about, a lot of things. Can we please go back to the house and I'll explain everything." I nearly say our house but quickly correct myself.
Leaving Marcus, me, Tobais and dad walk to my old home. Where I grew up and spent many years with my family. Dad invites us in, memories start poring through my mind as I picture me and caleb arguing when we were younger, a clumsy toddler falling down the stairs but one of my favourite moments in this house was when me and my mother would make banana and walnut bread in the kitchen. Of course I was never allowed any because it was for the factionless but from time to time she would allow me to sneak a piece into my greedy mouth.
We walk into the front room and take a seat on the quite uncomfortable grey couch. Dad goes into the kitchen, once we are seated and doesn't return for a couple of minutes. When he does my mum is by his side. I can see tears in her pale green eyes, I'm sure I have some in my own. A hand flies to her moth to muffle the sob that nearly escaped.
I stand up and run into her arms, his body engulfs me as we share this moment together. I've missed her so much, if I never had went to the bureau then I definitely would have visited a lot more regularly.
"Beatrice, I've missed you so much. How have you been, what's your new life like." She asks after we pull apart, I turn to Tobias and take a seat next to him again. She must not have realised he was here because her eyes widen a bit then raises her eyebrows to me, It suddenly feels quite hot in the bare room that's made of stone. "Oh, I remember you. Four, is that right?"
"Yes Mrs prior." He says with a kind smile.
"So what do we owe the pleasure." My dad asks with gritted teeth, I thought he would have been over that I transferred by now.
"Well it's an extremely long story and a complicated one but it has to do with outside the fence, abnegation and the leaders of dauntless." My mother gives me a curious look as if asking me to continue. "Okay so when I transferred I met Four who was my instructor and by the end of my initiation we were together. We had been together for a year when I received a letter from a place called the bureau, explaining that I must come to the fence or they would kill Four and anyone I cared about. I had no choice so I went. There a man named Mathew picked me up and took me outside the fence." I pause for a minute to see if anyone is confused yet. My mom has a worried look so I raise an eyebrow to her.
"Are you a hundred percent it is called the bureau?" I have no idea why she would ask that, but I nod anyway. "Beatrice there's something I need to explain before you carry on. Only your father knows this information so I'm sorry sorry if I sound rude but can you definitely trust t-four." My eyes widen, she knows he's Tobias because she nearly called Tobais and what the hell is more important then what I have to explain. "You thought I was from dauntless but the truth is, I'm from outside the fence."
I sit there gobsmacked, I think my jaw is hitting the floor because I'm in that much shock. I was surprised at first that she was from dauntless but to know that she is from the bureau, well I've got to admit that it sickens me. How could she be part of that cruel, disgusting place?
"What..why." I stutter to find a sentence.
"I was born in a city called Milwaukee which was an experiment like Chicago, but my city failed so it was shut down. I lived with my mother and father, but your grandma was a strange and disturbed woman. One day when I was very young I had to witness her kill my father and bury him in the dirt outside of our small house. After that day I ran to the fringe and had to survive on the streets. It was hard I must admit, starving and fighting to live but one day I saw an older boy beating a young boy. I killed that older boy to protect the younger one, I know it was the right thing to do but at such a young age I was already a murderer. The bureau soon arrived at the fringe and took me away. There I found I had almost perfect genes making me genetically pure. I stayed there till I was sixteen but once the erudite started killing divergents I was sent in to try and solve the problem. My mission was to live in dauntless for a year, transfer to erudite and stop the killings. During my year at dauntless I fell in love with your father and we decided to transfer to abnegation. A place we would both be safe. David, my friend at the bureau, wasn't pleased with my decision and never contacted me after I dropped the plan. I wanted a life, a family, children and that's what I received."
"I cant believe you never told me any of this."
"It was never meant to be heard by anyone." She replies. "I know I lied and that's selfish but I wanted to keep you safe, I guess David still found a way to put you in danger." David never even told me that he knew my mother, he's even more of a dick now. "Now carry on with what you had to say."
I nod and start to tell her how David wanted me to work there, how I stayed for six years and watched everyone I lived from the screens in the control room. I left out the detail of me being a mother because I will have to explain that under a less tense atmosphere. I have no idea what my dads reaction will be to that. I say how me, George and Amar returned to dauntless and discovered that the leaders are planning and attack on the abnegation.
"We need a leader to talk to Jack Kang so we can stop the dauntless leaders and erudite from starting a war." Tobais says.
"Is that why you were at Marcus' home." My dad asks.
"Yes."
"Well your father was elected to be a leader two years ago so he can come to candor with you." Relief spreads throughout my body, maybe this could end today.
"That's would be such a huge help, we need to end this today before hundreds of people die." After Tobais says this, I look at him and see a mix of relief and also shock on his face. He must have been just as surprised as I was about my mother.
"Four if you don't mind me asking, you look quite familiar." My father says while narrowing his eyes.
"Mr prior, I trust you and I will explain one of my biggest secrets. I don't want any lies between us because I plan to be with Tris for the rest of my life, I would die for her if I have to. Some people may think that we will only last for so long but for the last six years she was gone I became depressed, anti social and nearly lost all my friends. She is my best friend and my reason for living so for us to have a good relationship I believe I must tell you my real name." My cheeks are moist off the water that has fell from my eyes, he truly does love me. "My name is Tobais, Tobias Eaton."
My mother doesn't look surprised at all but my father does, he looks like someone has slapped him but then his mood soon changes. I can see the anger radiating off his body. "Your a traitor, to your faction and to your father. Do you know what hell he has been through since you left!" He raises his voice, I've never heard him like this but it just turns my anger on even more.
"The hell that piece of shit has been through is nothing compared to Tobais! Marcus Eaton fucking disgusts me and he should to you too. If Tobias is a traitor then it makes me one too."
"Don't raise your voice to me young lady and watch your language."
"I'm not a child anymore dad! I'm 23 years old with two childre-" shit. I slipped up there.
"What did you just say?" He asks in a deadly low voice, that I've got to admit scares me a bit.
"Um.. Uh."
"She said we have two gorgeous children who we both love, a son and a daughter." Tobais helps me and says this with his head held high, proud that he is a father. I smile at him gratefully.
"I have grandchildren? How old are they?" Mom asks who seems really excited and happy about the news.
"Corey, our son, is six and his sister Blake is three." I explain.
"So you mean to tell me that you were pregnant at 17!" Dad looks really pissed off now.
"Yes but as I said I was brought to the bureau, at the time I didn't know I was pregnant so I raised Corey on my own there."
"So if Tobais is the father of Corey then who is Blake's dad because you would of still been at the bureau when she was born." My mother asks curiously.
"I found Blake in the fringe as a baby, only a couple of hours old. I brought her back to the bureau where I adopted her and became a mother of two."
"Boy, I can't believe you have the nerve to get my seventeen year old daughter pregnant and not even be there to raise either one of the children." Dad says sternly to Tobias.
"My biggest regret is that I never even knew that Tris was leaving, somewhere inside me the guilt is impaling my organs because I never got to witness my children growing up, saying their first word or taking their first step. All I can hope is that maybe I will be able to see those precious moments in the future." He wants another baby? I certainly don't want one right now, maybe when everything has settled down I might think about it but raising two toddlers on your own can kind off put you off of the idea of more kids. I love my children no matter what but thinking of more hurts my brain a little.
All dad does is nod his head in acknowledgment, mum looks convinced that Tobias is the perfect man and he is.
Dad breaks the silence, "Okay, so I guess we need to get to candor to prevent this war from happening."
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