**AN: Thank you guys for the reviews, keep them coming. Warning: gets a little graphic towards the end of the chapter. Now on with LTM...
"What are you doing here, Peter?" I ask, watching his every move.
"You should have spoke up when I was at Eric's, Stiff; I would have liked to join in." He gives me a smile which makes my stomach turn.
"Which is exactly why I didn't," I reply, "again, what are you doing here Peter?" I glance towards the door.
"Nobody is going to bother us, Molly is making sure of that," He says in my ear. I start to panic.
"See, I would've taken better care of you than Eric did. I bet you didn't even get off with him. He seems selfish that way," Peter says while getting on my bed. I try to push him off but between Peter's strength and the pain medicine capacitaing my reactions, I'm not successful and he moves to straddle me on the bed.
"What the fuck Peter? Here to finish what your puppetmaster started?" I decide to taunt him hoping that if I make him angry, he'll start causing a scene and someone will notice.
"I am no one's puppet!" He shouts before he backhands me.
"Seriously, a bitchslap Peter? Even you can do better than that."
"Shut the fuck up, bitch!" I'm successful in getting Peter mad which makes him yell, but as he yells at me, he punches me in the gut which makes me cry out.
"Yeah, I'll make you feel real good, Stiff." He says while unzipping his pants.
"Hel-!" I try to shout but I'm stopped by Peter's hands around my throat.
"Do you really think I'd let you call for help? You shouldn't need to if you're really Dauntless, you can fight me off; or maybe that's what I'm hoping, it'll make me enjoy this more." He squeezes my neck tighter in his massive hand and I try to claw it away while the other starts shoving his pants down. When it doesn't work, I try to claw at his face but it does little to faze him. Just as I'm about to succumb to the darkness, I see a figure come around the curtain and feel Peter's hands loosen and a weight is lifted off of the bed. I see the figure knock Peter around quite a bit before Peter is able to escape my saviour.
"Tris! Are you okay?" I hear a familiar voice but I can't seem to place it, the darkness coming over me fast.
"Tris!" I hear again one more time before I succumb to the dark.
" I swear to god, I'm going to kill these bastards." I hear and realize it's Zeke's voice.
"You and me both, man." Lynn agrees. It sounds like everyone is here. I stay still with my eyes closed for a minute before I open them and look around. Sure enough everyone is here, except for Tobias. I was about to be raped again, by Peter this time, and he's nowhere around.
"Four went to get extra security to help guard your room." Uriah tells me when he sees me looking around. Well, at least he's gone for a pretty reasonable excuse.
"You're awake!" Christina yells as she jumps over to the bed to hug me.
"What happened?" I ask
"Peter tried to attack you while Molly distracted Janice, she's the only one on duty and Molly was pretty convincing at needing help; at least now she doesn't have to pretend." Marlene speaks up.
"How?" is all I ask though everyone knows what I'm saying.
"Four. He was coming to check on you and heard Peter shout all the way down the hall. Molly knocked Janice out before she could get out of the room but Shauna took Molly out. Our man Four didn't waste any time with that fuck-head Peter, though. Once he saw what Peter was doing, he grabbed him and started beating the shit out of him." Zeke says.
"Is Janice okay?"
"You were almost beaten by Peter and you're asking if Janice is okay? You really are Abnegation, aren't you?" Shauna asks. Before I can reply, I see Tobias come into the room. Our eyes meet and I see the relief flood in his eyes while he looks at me longingly and I suddenly wish it was just us in the room so he can comfort me; but that will have to wait. He just pulls a chair out and sits.
"Janice is fine, Tris, Molly only got her once." Four states.
"What the hell was Peter doing here?" Chris wonders aloud.
"I guess he was here to finish what Eric started, at least that's what it seemed like to me. He made a remark about me not letting him know I was at Eric's and that he would've 'taken better care' of me, whatever that means." I say although I know what he meant.
"What a sick bastard." Uriah says and everyone agrees.
"How are you doing, Tris?" Tobias asks me.
"I'm okay considering that's twice in less than twenty-four hours I've been attacked. Luckily you heard him yelling at me and stopped him before it got worse."
"I was heading here to see how you were doing when I heard his voice yelling out and I immediately knew something was off so I ran in here." Four tells me.
"I couldn't fight him off since Janice had given me the medication not too long beforehand so I figured my best option was to taunt him to get him yelling; thankfully it worked."
"You won't have to worry about anyone else coming in here. We're going to have someone guarding your door until the doctor releases you and they have strict instuctions not to let anyone in unless it's one of us, Janice or the doctor." Four says.
"I wish I could say I don't need it but those pain meds knock me for a loop and I'm no good at holding my own with them in my system, so thank you; were you guys able to find anything out?" I ask.
"I looked at the footage when I got back to the control room and seen Eric leaving the compound; he hasn't come back yet from what I can see on the cameras. Four helped me look at the footage to make sure then went and talked to Max." Zeke speaks up.
"What did Max say?" Shauna asked Four.
"Officially he's disappointed that a leader would do such a thing and will exile Eric should he return to Dauntless. Unofficially, I don't think he gives a shit though." He says, confirming what type of person I had figured Max to be. About that time, Dr. Graham walks in and ushers everyone out.
"I hear we had some problems earlier. Are you okay?" He asks me.
"Yeah, it would seem Four got Peter before he could do any real damage. He did manage to punch me in the stomach before pretty much choking me out right as Four got here."
"Well, let's be thankful Four showed up when he did."
"Definitely." I agree. Dr. Graham looks over my injuries and tells me that even though Peter got in a good punch, it hasn't put my progress off track and he expects I can leave tomorrow if the exam goes just as well then as now.
"Thank you Dr. Graham, for everything." I say when he leaves the room. He replies with a 'you're welcome' and lets my friends know they can come back in.
"Well, Dr. Graham is pretty confident that I can leave the infirmary tomorrow; Peter didn't have a chance to do any real damage so there aren't any setbacks." I inform the group.
"That's awesome!" Uri says.
"I have been thinking about what you and Marlene asked me earlier, Uri, and I want to talk to all of you after I'm discharged tomorrow. What I've got to say may have changed since certain events have happened that didn't before but I think I've figured out why things are changing." I say, looking at everyone in the face.
"What things?" Four asked.
"Well, for starters, I wasn't raped by Eric before." I say, Chris and WIll gasp and I forgot they didn't know everything that Eric did to me.
"That sick bastard. I hope he gets an infection that causes his penis to fall off." Chris says, and something I didn't think would happen did- I laugh. Not just a haha laugh but I start a full laugh and soon everyone joins in.
"We should figure out a way to arrange that." Lynn says when the laughter dies down, which causes everyone to laugh again. I look around at my friends and I notice how much I've actually missed this. Since I've been back in this time, I haven't had a chance to be with everyone and it feels nice. Too soon, Janice is kicking everyone out saying that I need my rest.
"It is dinner time anyway. Do you want my piece of cake Tris?" Uri offers.
"I'm honored that you would do that Uri, but I don't think cake would be a good idea right now." I reply.
"Good, cause I wanted my piece anyway." He says with a smile and everyone chuckles. I say goodbye to everyone and they leave, except for Tobias. He finally gets up from the chair and sits with me in the bed without me having to ask this time. Once in the bed, he wraps his arms around me and my head finds his chest just as I let out a yawn.
"Sleep, Tris. I'll make sure nobody else tries to hurt you."
"How, you going to fight them?" I ask.
"With my bare hands if I have to." He replies before I let sleep take hold again.
No peaceful sleep this time, I briefly think. In this nightmare, I find myself back at Eric's- tied to his bed- but my mouth is taped shut and Peter has made his way into the scenario. I thrash about on the bed, trying everything I can to release myself from this hell but nothing seems to work. I can hear Eric and Peter laughing at me and discussing something with an unknown voice. When I calm down a little, I can make out what they're saying.
"Are you ready to prove to me how Dauntless you are?" I hear Eric ask Peter.
"Of course. Whatever it is, name it." Peter replies.
"My orders are to break the Stiff, so yours are simple enough. Break her down; she's divergent and a threat to us all."
"What, no fun in it?" Peter asks while looking at me with that look that makes my stomach churn.
"Oh no, we'll have fun; plenty of it." Eric says while getting on the bed before ripping the tape off and forcing me to suck his dick. While Eric has my mouth busy, Peter makes his way to the bed and starts forcing his fingers inside me; meanwhile the unknown figure watches. They go at it for a little bit then switch places- Eric is now rubbing my sensitive spot while shoving his fingers in me hard and Peter is forcing my head back and forth on his manhood. Peter suddenly stops and Eric gives me the most menacing face before replacing his fingers with his cock.
"Yeah, take it Stiff. Show me what a whore you are." Eric says
"You dirty, dirty girl; you like this don't you, you slut?" Peter taunts me. They take turns having their way with me while humiliating me, calling me deragatory names. I feel angry and hurt at the same time. My body seems to not be able to do anything against my attackers so tears silently stream down my face; while these monsters do what they want, I feel helpless and hopeless like this will never end. I turn my head to the side and see the figure standing in the shadows so I can't make out if it is a man or a woman but I hear them say something to me when I look that way.
"How much will it take to break you? This is nothing compared to what will happen, in time you'll see that. You will fall and I will prevail, it's the only logical way." The figure says in a shrouded voice. Something is trying to call out to me and tell me this person is familiar but all I can think of is the violation of my body with the two psychopaths. Strangely, I start hearing the voice echo, repeating the phrase over and over until I can no longer think of anything except the voice. It suddenly dawns on me who the figure is and the voice that belongs to it. I awake, startled, with this nightmare fresh in my mind.
"You okay, Tris?" Tobias asks me, worry written all over his face when he takes in the state of my tear-stained face.
"I know without a doubt who is behind the orders."
"Who?" He asks me, and I look into his eyes.
"Jeanine." I say quietly and the calmness in my voice makes it sound deadly.