HELLO THERE FANGIRLS AND FANBOYS OF THE UNIVERSE WHO DECIDED TO READ THIS CHAPTER. I HAVE OFFICIALLY FINISHED MAPPING OUT IN LITTLE DETAIL WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN THE REST OF THE STORY MEANING IT WILL SOON BE COMING TO A CLOSE. BUT DON'T WORRY THERE WILL BE MANY A CLIFFHANGER TO TIDE YOU OVER FOR NOW. HOWEVER I WOULD SERIOUSLY LIKE TO THANK ALL OF THE PEOPLE THAT REVIEWED AND ESPECIALLY FOUR SIX TOBIAS TRIS FOR GIVING ME SOME AMAZING IDEAS :D SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CHAPTER
TRIS POV.
We wake up the next morning with the the sound of someone singing. I look over and see Tobias right up in my face singing. I of course start laughing because I have never heard Tobias sing ing his lifetime and he is actually pretty decet. He pulls me out of bed and starts dancing. I am laughing my head off by now and Lily is just sleeping on the bed watching this whole thing transpire thinking that her parents are crazy. Which in fairness we are. We are still dancing around the room like goons when we realize that our door i open and there is a tiny crowd of people watching us intently. I stop as soon as I realize that they are watching and out of instinct hide behind Tobias. Everyone is laughing now and thanks to Zeke the whole house is now blasting She Will Stay Beneath the Moon, by Adam Barnes. Everyone is laughing and singing and we totally forget that in the next 3 hours we have to get interrogated by the police about the "incident".
After the dancing and singing and the unavoidable pancake batter fight we all went to get ready. It took a while for everyone to shower and then give all the babies a bath but after 2 hours everyone was ready to go out of the door. We drove down to the station and told the cleark who we were.
"Hello may i ask why you are all here?" he said in a rather irritable voice that reminded Uriah of Professor Flitwick from Harry Potter.
"Yeah we are here about Marcus Eaton and Andrew Prior." said Tobias.
"Great how many of you are there" the man asked looking down at the documentation the entire time
"Nine" Lynn said from behind us.
"Ok great, who out of you guys are Tobias Prior and Tris Eaton" he said. We both raised our hands. "Ok come with me to room 2 and the rest of you go with Jack over to room 4" He said jumping off of his swirly chair and walking out of his office.
"great and what about the babies?" Christina asked.
"They can come with you guys, it doesn't matter as long as they are not hiding anything" he joked. And with that he brought Tobias and I down a series of corridors that I could not for the life of me tell apart. We then came to a room with a huge 2 on it and walked in.
"Great welcome we are sorry for the inconvenience but this is completely necessary" the large man said. He later revealed that his name was Max. "Now I need to ask both of you some individual questions before i can question you together so who would like to go first" he asks. I step forward handing Lily to Tobias. Just then his alarm went off and he went into the hallway to give her some food.
"Now Miss Eaton, I am going to ask you a series of questions and you promise to answer them truthfully" Max says as we sit down on either sides of a rickety folding table.
"of course sir" I say with a small smile.
"great now can you tell me when you FIRST started getting abused by your father"
" when i was 10, my mum had just died"
"do you know why he started?"
"because he got drunk and took his anger out on me?"
"Has he ever raped you?"
"Yes"
"How old were you?"
"15"
"has he done it any times since then"
"yes"
"how many?"
"3". We continue this banter until he has finished taking all of his notes and is satisfied will all of the answers i have given him. I then start to get up and leave.
"Wait, i have one more question"
"Yeah?"
"Were you ever hurt physically by Tobias in any way shape or form?" he askes a bit nervously.
"No sir"
"great and one more, sorry to take up your time"
"Yes?"
"How many times were you forced to have sex with Tobias"
"13 sir" I say and before he can ask me any more questions i am out of the room. Tobias is sitting in the hall on the floor holding Lily and checking his phone. When i get outside of the room he gets up and looks at me. All i can do is walk over to him and hug him. I place my head on my chest and slowly calm down as he rubs tiny circles into my back to comfort me. Max comes out a few minutes later. Tobias hands me Lily and walks into the room.
TOBIAS POV.
Tris walks out of the room and i immediately stand up. I know that something bad has happened just based on the look she gives me. Before i can say anything she crashes into me squeezing me tightly. All i do is rub circles into her back in a feeble attempt to calm her down. After about 5 minutes of doing this Max walks out. I hand Lily to Tris and walk into the room. I take a seat on the cold folding chair on the opposite side of the rickety table and prepare myself for all of the awful questions to come.
"When did your father star abusing you?" he says getting right into the questions.
"when i was 10, my mum and brother left us"
"Why did he do it"
"I dont know, mostly because of all of the times he came home drunk"
"How often would it happen"
"every 2 to 3 days or so"
"were you ever witness to Ms. Eatons rape"
"yes"
"how many time?"
"all of them"
"did this happen frequently"
"double beatings" I ask he nods "yeah"
"did you ever hurt Ms. Eaton yourself"
"no"
"are you sure"
"are you asking me if i am sure that i didn't inflict pain on the only good thing in my life? Yeah im sure" i say getting a bit annoyed.
"how many times were you two forced to have sex"
"13"
"thanks that is all for both of you could you please bring Ms. Eaton and your daughter in?" he asks and i nod. I walk over to the door and pull it open. Tris gives me the look of, is this seriously going to happen, and i nod. She comes in carrying Lily and comes and sits in the chair next to me. We set Lily in her carrier on the floor with her binky and blanket and start the "interview"
"Were you two present for the others beatings often" we both nod.
"What was the quote tools used to inflict pain on you both" he asks
"their belts, broken glass bottles, anything they could find really" Tris says grabbing my hand and squeezing it.
"Ok now this is the harder… part" he says with a bit of unease in his voice, "we need to have evidence of the scars in order to make sure that they were not self inflicted" I almost snap at his comment.
"self inflicted?" i cough out, "why on earth would we take a belt to our own backs?" i say almost yelling now. Tris squeezes my hand and i calm down.
"Mr. Prior we just need photographic evidence so if you dont mind we need to do it in here. I will someone else in here for you Tris but Tobias can you stand up for me" I look at him blankly. I know that this is not going to end well for either of us so i let go of Tris's hand and stand up peeling off my shirt revealing my scars. I hear the camera click a few times, Max thanks us and leaves the room. Tris walks over to me from across the room and squeezes me. Even without a shirt on the heat radiates from both of our bodies.
Next thing we know a new woman comes into the room. "Hey my name is Tori, Tris i know this is gonna be awkward but can you take your shirt off" she says. I let go of Tris and go to sit by Lily. I look at Tris and see her back for the first time in a while and the back does not look anywhere near better based on all of the time it has had to heal. I cringe as Tris turns around and Tori sees all of the other marks on her body. Tris whimpers and Tori takes the pictures and leaves. Within seconds Tris has a shirt back on and is still shirvering. I hand her my sweatshirt and smile.
Max walks back into the room a bit later holding a file.
"thanks both of you for coming you can go now" he says, and without another word we walk out of the room holding the baby carrier.
We somehow navigate our way back to the lobby and find Zeke Uriah Shauna Will Lynn Marlene and Christina sitting in chairs looking bored out of their minds.
"What took you guys so long" Uriah comments obviously annoyed.
"they had to talk to us together and separately" Tris explains, They all nod and we walk back to our cars climb in and drive back to Zekes apartment.
When we get there we all make our way into the apartment Will comments, "you guys want to order chinese food and then play some Truth or Dare?". Instantly everyone agrees and Will calls up for Chinese.
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