Life after Loss
Chapter 26: Building a home
After a week of resting in a hospital bed and occasionally walking around I am finally allowed home. Thank God, I can't stand hospitals. My bump is still getting bigger, even though it's still small, and the baby is nearly perfectly healthy now that I have been eating more. He or she is almost the size they should be for how far along I am and their heartrate is back to normal.
Tobias walks into the room, a bright smile on his face and a bag in his hand. He gives it to me and helps me get dressed. He's seen the scars before. He doesn't like them, neither do I, but they're permanent. There's no getting rid of them. Something he does like though is my bump, his hands always hover over it after he pulls my top down. I'm still sore, that's why I need help getting dressed.
I slide on my shoes and he takes my hand in his, leading me out of the infirmary after he has signed me out. We walk back home in a comfortable silence, thinking about life.
I think life is going to be good now that the war is over and we can relax. We can be a family. I just hope that nothing bad is going to happen again. I still have PTSD, and after the war it has gotten worse, especially after the things that happened in Erudite. But I'll cope. I hope so anyways. And Tobias will be there to help me. So will everyone else.
As soon as we're through the door I am plopping onto the soft, cushioned sofa, sinking into it. Relaxing.
"Are you in pain? Do you need anything?" Tobias asks, concerned as always.
"I need you to hold me." I answer and that is what he does. He sits next to me, takes me into his warm, strong arms, and holds me. "I love you, Tobias."
"I love you, too, Tris. And our baby." He plants a kiss on my forehead, I can feel him smiling.
"What are you thinking about?"
"We get to find out if Munchkin is a boy or a girl in six weeks." This also brings a smile to my face.
"Yeah. What do you want them to be?"
"I want a girl that looks just like you. But I really don't mind, so long as they're happy and healthy. What about you?"
"I would like a boy that looks just like you. But I also really don't mind. Him or her being healthy and happy is all that really matters. And we have time to have more after this one. But not straight away obviously. I mean, I'm only seventeen. Maybe in a few years we can have another, so long as everything's okay with this one." My hand rests on my belly and Tobias' rests over mine.
"Why don't we think of some names?"
"Okay. What names do you like? Bear in mind that I want the middle name, or names, to be after my family. So for a girl, her middle name is going to be Natalie, and for a boy he's going to have two middle names, Andrew Caleb."
"That's fine. I knew you'd want that anyway. For a girl I like Grace, Meghan, Sophie, Lucy, Peyton, Taylor and Jade. For a boy I like Hunter, Chase, Louis, Liam, Kyle and Tomas."
"I love those names. How about for a girl, Taylor Natalie Eaton? And for a boy, Tomas Andrew Caleb Eaton?"
"They're perfect."
We kiss gently, our hands don't leave my belly as we do.
"So, we're having a Taylor or a Tomas?" He says, smiling.
"Yeah."
"That means all of our names will begin with a T."
"It could be our little family thing. If we have other kids after this one then we have to give them a name beginning with T."
"I love it. I love you as well."
"Ditto." We both laugh, it's the happiest I've felt in a while. "So, are we going to start getting the stuff we need for Taylor or Tomas soon or are we gonna wait until we know who we're having?"
"I think we should wait. That way we know what kinda things to get."
"Okay. Then we can start building our home. Though, if we have anymore we will have to move out considering we only have one spare room."
"Yeah, but this will be our family home until then."
"Mmhmm."
I kiss him again and we put on some TV to pass the time until dinner. We meet our friends in the cafeteria, they're happy to see me out of the hospital and I'm happy to be out of there and to be able to spend some quality time with them. We talk, eat, laugh, and enjoy ourselves for the first time in a good few weeks. They're my family and I love them all to pieces.
Half way through dinner they announce the new leaders. Tori is one of them, so are Harrison and Uriah, which shocked us all. But they will be good for Dauntless, they will bring back the old ways and life won't be as dangerous as it was with Max and Eric leading.
And I'm glad to be building a home here, a family, with my family.
I just really hope everything goes well and that we won't have any troubles anymore.
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