Hello again- I can't sleep tonight so here's another half chapter. Enjoy!

"Hey Sofie. We need to talk." Eric says as he walks over to Sofie in the waiting room.

Sofie stands when she sees him but Karen steps in beteeen them. "Eric if you have Erudite business I think it best if you speak to Jeannine."

"It's not... no." He looks past Karen to Sofie. ". I need to talk to you about something else."

"This isn't really the best time." Sofie finally says.

"It's important."

"Eric, you need to leave." Karen says still standing between them.

"Sofie Matthews?" A nurse calls from the doorway.

"Eric, I need to go. We can talk later." She takes a couple steps in the direction of the nurse.

"That'll be too late. We need to talk now." He says following her.

"Sofie Matthews?" The nurse calls out again.

"I need to go." She turns to the nurse.

Eric grabs her arm. "You can either come with me willingly or I can throw you over my shoulder and carry you out of here kicking and screaming. I doubt anyone could stop me." He says the last bit to Karen.

Sofie huffs. "Damn Dauntless." She looks to the nurse. "I'm sorry. I'll be back in a minute." She follows Eric out of the waiting room. Once outside he leads her to the side of the building where it is empty."Well?"

Eric paces in front of her. "Sofie... I know."

"You know what?"

"I..." He pauses.

Sofie shifts impatiently. "Eric I don't have time for this."

He walks to her and grabs her shoulders firmly. "I know why you're here at the hospital." Sofie gives him a confused and concerned look. "Come to Dauntless. They can do the test there."

"Eric, I... how did you know?"

He lets go of her shoulders and takes a half step back. "It's not important. Come to Dauntless. It'll be safer." He holds out his hand for her to take.

"Safer? Than what? Erudite?"

"I'd rather not go into it right now. Just please come with me. With any luck it won't be positive and this mess can be over. If it is positive we can take care of that too."

"Take care of it?" Sofie steps back. "Eric, I haven't made a decision one way or the other yet."

Eric sighs. "We can talk about that later." He holds out his hand again. "Come on."

Sofie doesn't take his hand and just stares at him.

"You can trust me."

Sofie hesitantly takes his hand. Eric smiles.

"Sofie?" They both look over in horror to see Jeannine standing there.