Author's Notes: Also I still need a Beta, please PM me if you can. Sorry about not posting soon enough, first I had problems with my laptop and then the school work started to pile up and then lots and lots of sleep. Thanks. So here is another chapter for you. And this I promise is much longer then the last chapter and gets more into the Divergent book plot line. Hope you guys, like. Please read and review!

Selfless by 3sth3r

Disclaimer: I don't own the Divergent.

Chapter 8b: The Morning After

Beatrice POV's

The sun had yet to rise when I woke up. I dress and made it downstairs before my father has a chance to wake up. I am just about the walk out the front door when the sound of running water got my attention. I turned around and saw my mother heating water on the stove and pull open two chairs. "Come and sit with me." She said as she fixed us some tea.

I was nervous, and stood there for a while. "I'm not getting any younger." She said pouring the last of the secret honey she kept in the back of the cabinet. "He left an hour ago. There was some emergency he had to get to. And I don't think he will be coming back any time soon." She placed two hot and sweetens teas on the table, sits and waited for me to come.

"I think it would be better if I got going." I say turning away from my mother.

I had my hand on the knob and about to walk out the door before she spoke again, "Your little secret can wait a few more minutes. I mean you did clean out the cabinets in the last two days if I'm not correct." I looked back as she slips her tea soundlessly.

I sigh and sat down at the table in front of my hot tea waiting for it to cold down. "Your father only wants to best for you."

"Really?" I ask. "Because last night I sounded more or less he was threating me."

"What he has done over the years and what he does now is protect this family, to protect others like us." She places her tea aside.

"Protect us. Since when?"

Mom places her tea on the table and looks up at me. "Your father may not be the most loving, or caring man in the world. But he has done his part in protecting us. We are different from the other factions. Sweetheart, he is doing what he needs to. It's getting hard to hide what we are. And some other people in the other factions don't like it."

I sigh. I know she is right on some level. "I guess but what does he expect when he is cruel. Does he expect me to outright and obey him." I suggest. "I mean, I love him, because he is my father. But right now, between work, you, Caleb and my new side project, I didn't have time to deal with father." I push away my tea, stand up from my chair, and pick up my bag. "If war is coming I'm sure father can handle it."

As I walk to the door I hear my mother sigh and say, "But what if he can't? What then?"

I shrug my shoulders and said, "Then I guess father didn't do a good enough job.

To be continued…