A/N STILL DON'T OWN DIVERGENT OR I WOULD BE VERY RICH
Tris takes a deep breath and looks at the figure trying to decide if the person is here to threaten her, hurt her, or kill her. She takes a deep breath never expecting him to be hear lurking outside of her hospital room. She glances at Toby the bear that Four gave her and takes a deep breath almost as if the bear is giving her strength, and takes a deep breath.
"What do you want? Why are you here? If you don't leave in one second I will alert the nurse."
In one quick movement he grabs the remote to alert the nurse, and with his other hand her throat.
She tries to grab his hand and get it off her throat but his grasp is too tight around her throat. She just looks up at him fear in her eyes wondering is this the end after all this. She is helpless no one can help unless a nurse walks in to check on her.
"Listen to me and listen to me good. If you say anything to your new boyfriend the cop that will be the last thing you ever say. You will tell him that it was all accident, a big misunderstanding. And the day you get out of here you will go back home. And tell that new boyfriends of yours keep his lips to himself or else he is a dead man. And don't you dare u breathe a word of this discussion to anyone."
He squeezes her throat a little harder releases the remote for the nurse and presses a knife to her throat.
"Do you understand me?"
She shakes her head and then feels a slap across one cheek and the across another. Then he punches her jaw which she feels automatically swell up. She watches him with tears in her eyes and begins to cry. How could she ever think she would be free of him? She is not going to go back she refuses to she doesn't care what happens to herself, but she is going to break off whatever this is with Four. As soon as he comes tomorrow she will pack all the stuff he gave her and give it back and tell him never to come back.
She just spent most of the night thinking and crying. Why does it bother her so much to have to let go of a stranger. Why is there a small part of her that feel like there's butterflies are in her stomach when he enters a room, or electricity that runs through her when he touches her. What did he mean when he said have him keep his lips to himself? Four never kissed me not even close to it. He was probably just talking to scare me. She finally falls into a restless sleep dreaming of Four getting beaten up, shot, stabbed all different ways he is tortured while she is forced to watch. She wakes up with tears on her face and the pillow soaked knowing today is the day she says goodbye to first man to ever care about her.
Four wakes up calls the hospital to check on Tris and then doesn't even bother to work out he just wants to get there to see her as fast as he can. He stops at Starbucks in the hospital to get himself a coffee, and tea for her with two muffins. He figures she sick of hospital food and he can sneak her in this. He finds himself whistling as he walks to the ICU not able to believe how this small girl has such a hold on his life already.
He walks in slowly not sure if she is sleeping and hears her crying. He throws the drinks and the food down on a table and rushes over to her.
"Tris, what is wrong? Why are you crying?"
"Nothing, I decided I don't want to press any charges against Peter. He didn't do anything wrong it was just a big misunderstanding. You need to leave, and not come back. I appreciate all you done for me staying with me and helping me, but I have a boyfriend and this is not helping. Please just take everything you got me as well. I am so sorry!"
He looks at her confused what had happen since last night that changed her. He felt like he was finally breaking down the walls a little that were surrounding her. Then he notices fresh bruises on her throat, and her jaw is newly swollen like she has a small piece of gum stuck in it. Most people wouldn't recognize these little signs, but as a detective he does.
"Tris what the hell happen to your throat, and jaw? Who did this to you? It was not there last night?"
His hands are balled into fists and he is trying to contain the anger that is building inside of him. He knows someone was here and made Tris say it but who it must be one person… Peter.
It was no one she gasps no one was here but Toby and I she gestured at the bear.
He looks at her and walks to her grabbing her hand and says
"Tris I need you to tell me the truth. I know someone came in here and hurt you. Please let me protect you by telling me the truth. I know something happen to you while I was gone. You can tell me the truth or I can go down to the security office and check the footage which I can get as a cop, and considering you are here because of a domestic abuse charge, and rape.
She looks at him and starts crying hard her whole body racked with sobs. He sits down on the bed and wraps his arm around her body trying to console her. She finally blurts everything out that Peter had sent her boss and his best friend Eric here to threaten her that if she doesn't say he didn't do any of this, come back to him and their, he will kill him and her. She keeps crying non-stop. He takes her face with his hands lightly and says
"Hey look at me you are safe. I am not going to let that happen to you. I am going to stay here even if I have to sleep here to keep you safe. I am also getting you a cop to watch your room while I am at work. I should have known this could have happen. I am so sorry."
She stops crying and just looks at him not knowing how a stranger could take such good care of her, and slowly the walls of distrust begin to crumble down around her.
He looks at her and says "By the way who is Toby?"
"My bear you gave me for some reason the name just was haunting me like I have heard it before in some form."
He begins to laugh and says "when you were in coma I would talk to you and tell you things maybe you heard them from wherever you were. My real name is Tobias."
"That name it does sound familiar. I guess I named him after you."
He is about to get off the bed realizing he is still there. When she says "please stay I like laying with you. I feel safe."
He settles in and holds her in his arms as she finally falls into a real sleep for the first time in 3 years.
A/N
SO YOU GUYS WERE WRONG IT WAS ERIC WHO WAS IN THE ROOM! SORRY I KEEP YOU IN SUSPENSE ALMOST THE WHOLE CHAPTER BUT IT WAS WORTH IT. ESPECIALLY THE SWEET MOMENT AT THE END. HOPE YOU ARE ENJOYING R/R
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