Hey yall…(smiles a bit sheepishly) I know it's been like FOUREVER since I've updated and I am sooooo super sorry! BTW: I've started a story all my own on wattpad called Incendiary (by KATO13) and it would mean so super much if yall would be awesome and check it out? Hmmm? Okay, well without further ado, I've definitely been keeping yall waiting (sorry about that again!)

Tris's POV:

Tobias tenses his entire body at the man in front of him.

Marcus.

His friendly greeting seems to do nothing but further agitate the muscles I can see through the back of Tobias's shirt.

Well, this is my job, what I really came for.

I walk up, and shoulder my way in front of Tobias.

"What?" I snap a little angrily, knowing what this man has put Tobias through, but then again, not completely sure of all the details. I feel something twinge at the fact that I don't know everything, the small part of me that is perfect for Erudite clawing it's way to the surface.

"I am here to see my son," Marcus says smiling. I feel Tobias's nervous fingers slightly touching my back, as if the action is helping to keep him steady.

"Is that even allowed?" I quip.

Marcus hands me a piece of paper, signed by many of the leaders that had originally put Tobias in his position away from his father. One of the signatures belongs to my own father. I squint at the neat cursive, identifying the penmanship that is singularly that of my father's hand. I nod, and Marcus steps into the house.

Tobias reflexively takes a step back. Marcus flashes me a smile. "Could you let me talk to my son in private…"

"Tris," I say curtly.

"Tris," he repeats, his grin etching itself further into his face.

I give Tobias a look, and he just looks back at me blankly, his dark eyes cloudy, his eyelids a little higher than where they normally rest. Marcus clears his throat. My eyes flicker to the father, then back to the son. I give him an apologetic look, and an encouraging nod. The letter did allow him to come here, and I can't argue with my superiors.

I walk out of the corridor, where I can feel the tension between them growing with every step I take away from the duo. I turn quickly, and circle back to a wall that is right next to where they stand, and press my ear hard against the cool wall.

"Son!" Marcus says, and then there is silence. I hear Tobias's stifled moan through the thin walls, and I can easily see Tobias's rigid frame in Marcus's embrace in my mind's eye.

"What do you want?" Tobias's rumbling voice echoes.

"Why did you leave me, son?"

"Do you really need to ask that?" Tobias's voice, cut and cold and dry, asks.

"I gave you better than you deserve," Marcus starts, and I feel my own muscles tense.

"I deserve better than that."

"You are being selfish son."

There is a pause in the conversation, and my mind begs to fill in any type of movement or looks they are giving each other.

"I know," his voice sounds scared.

"THWACK!" I hear a loud hit, and a moan- deep and stifled- it must be Tobias.

I sprint around the corners that lead back to the main room.

Both men stand, tall and menacing, Tobias's back against the wall. Tobias takes a swing, which lands squarely on Marcus's jaw, and I feel a surge of pride ripple through me. Marcus holds his jaw, shock registering on his features at what I assume is the first act of retaliation he's ever witnessed.

But it doesn't matter. Tobias may even be stronger than his father, but Marcus seems to have much more experience. He swings over and over on Tobias, beating him, and Tobias curls against the wall further.

I don't need to see any more, I take off for the duo, and slip my small frame between the two. Marcus is obviously stronger than I am, but I already know I am the better fighter. I place my knee behind his calf, and hit hard in both his face and torso. He stumbles back, but I keep my foot firm, and he falls with a hard thud to the floor.

"He started it!" Marcus yells, as I pounce on top of him, pinning him to the cold floor and hitting him repeatedly in his already injured jaw.

"Yeah right!" I growl back at him, my face inches from him, and I stare coldly in his eyes- a warning. I see fear flicker in his eyes, but then in an instant, it's gone.

I feel him flip me so that I am on the floor, and he pulls back to hit me in the jaw. I brace for the hit, I'm used to the sparks of pain, to the heat that will lace through my body.

But it doesn't come.

Tobias is holding his father's fist, and I take that as my opportunity to flip him again. Tobias lets go, and I pin Marcus to the floor. I pull back, and he flinches.

"Don't come here. Ever. Again," I hiss, and Marcus stares at me, eyelids low in hatred. I climb off, and he leaves with a slam of the door.

I turn to Tobias, who stares in awe at the door.

"Why did he come?" I ask, a visit doesn't seem like something either of them would have wanted.

He just stares, and I take that as his way of saying that he doesn't know.

"Tobias?" I ask, stepping towards him, snapping my fingers in front of his face, and I notice a bruise forming along his jawline. I touch my fingers to it, and press a little, trying to see how bad it is. He doesn't flinch, but his eyes flicker down to me, then move to my shoulder, up my arm, to the hand that rests on his face.

He encases my hand in his, and he pulls it away, resting it on his own torso. He pulls me lightly at first, then basically picks me up, pulling me against him.

"Thank you," he whispers into my hair. My feet dangle in the air, and I wrap my arms tightly around his neck and nod in response.

He sets me down, a slight blush on his face. He gives me a small smile, and then goes to the kitchen, where I hear him getting ice for his bruise.

My fingers run through my hair, right where his nose had nuzzled against me, and I feel the heat of his breath still lingering on the locks. I smile a little at the craziness of the thought: for the first time since becoming a body guard, I feel so incredibly vulnerable.

And I'm not quite sure why.

But I still like it.

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