The wedding was eventually finished, with Daja even more ecstatic than she was before, and Gabriel had been dragged away. Dragged away and dead...which meant millions of things, most of which Tris didn't want to know about, except for one. It meant that there was an opening to fill at the main Temple of the earth, and everyone knew Briar was one of the best people to fill it. So did Tris...

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The reception was set up just as beautiful as the wedding, with even more metal and fire plants lining the trellises which surrounded the garden it was being held in. A dance was just about to be started, so Tris left, she didn't feel like talking about how beatiful everything was for the 15th million time, so she left, to seek refuge in the back of a bush somewhere.

She finally came upon a wall covered in vines, most of them looking brown...but in the shadows enough that no-one would be able to see her. So when she sat down, and someone said "hi", she nearly jumped up.

"Briar! You could have at LEAST said something before I sat down..." she said, practically screaming at him.

"You must be pretty pre-occupied if you didn't notice me...I was right here working magic on this dying vine! I thought you SEE magic..." He said in a teasing tone.

She made a face at him, and smoothed her skirts out, what she DIDN'T want to do right now was talk, she wanted to be alone, so she started to get up, but a hand around her wrist quickly pulled her back down.

"I need to talk to you Tris, it's something that's been bothering me for weeks, and I need to get it straightened out."

She looked at him from the side of her eyes, and scooted farther away from him. She knew this was going to come sooner or later, but she had always hoped later rather than sooner.

"I know it's an awful thing to do...and I didn't do it on purpose, but Tris, I know what you...well, and me...and what you feel..about.."

"About you? Is THAT what you want to ask Briar? What I FEEL about you?" she said, spitting the words at him like they were fire.

"Well...I know how you feel, I just want an explanation..."

"Why? You love Sa-"

"Tris, what did you do for me when I was battling the halo of green light? What did you just do for me today? You saved my life Tris. You're always saving me, you're like...you're more than a sister, you mean so much to me. I don't think I could live without you. Whenever I need someone to talk to, or have save me...you're always there. And whenever I have good news, you are the first one I want to tell it to. Maybe it's because I was too naive before, or was just stupid...but Tris, we're meant to be. Don't argue with it. I knew it from the moment you opened up your mind to me. We can help each other, we can lean on each other, we can be together. It can work! Tris, I didn't know it before, but I do now, I love you, nothing can change that. Not Sandry, not anyone. Sandry is a strong woman, very strong, and as much as I loved her, and still love her like a sister, it'll never be like us. I can take care of you, and you can take care of me, even until we become old mages just sitting at the top of the hub mantaining the flow of energy! Tris...I just know this, it's like intuition or something...We know each othr so well...it's like it was written in the stars..."

His grip was long gone from her wrist, and his hands were in a posistion of pleading, as if he wanted her love back so badly. She didn't know what to do...so she blurted out, without thinking:

"Are you being annoying, or just plain mean Briar?" She said, stepping back a few inches, she hated teasing and false commitments...So if he was joking...

But the look of utter dismay across his face told her he wasn't.

"No! Tris..."

"I believe you Briar" she said softly, looking into his emerald green eyes.

The smile on his face was priceless, as was the hug he wrapped her in, and kiss he planted on her lips.

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Briar had just been gone for 2 hours, and already the house seemed way too empty. Tris sighed, and continued to play with Little Bear to pass the time, when suddenly, something wrapped around her ankle, pulling her gently to the outside of the house. Her first instinct was to rip the thing around her leg off, with a wind funnel of some sort, but something about it seemed so right...

When she looked down to see what it was on her leg, she saw it was a vine...coiled ever so gently around her ankle. The next thing she saw was Briar's face, looking down at her and smiling. He reached down to help her up,

"I thought you were taking the job as the head of the Earth Temple! Briar! That's a wonderful opportunity for you! Get back there!" she babbled, while he held her in a long hug.

"Tris..I realized something on the way over there. It was that Home.." he said, but then pulled back, with his hands still holding her elbows, so that he could look at her straight in the eyes. "Home is Where The Heart Is".

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THE END!!!!!!!!

A/N: I hope you liked it! I LOVED writing this fic! I hope you enjoyed reading it! But now it's done...la la la la

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