A/N: Again I would just like to apologise for anyone that might have been offended by my last chapter. It was never my intention and I know i should have put a trigger warning at the start in the first place but it completely skipped my mind. Anyway hope I haven't lost any readers due to that and I hope you love this chapter. Still not really fluffy, just Eric and Amaya still trying to work out their feelings for each other.
The next couple of days had just been a blur of emotions as Tobias and I stayed in my apartment and wrote down everything that we thought Marcus might need to be executed for. Mainly everything he had done to us. I hadn't seen Eric except for maybe in passing in the dining hall. There was a part of me that didn't want to see him at all but I knew I would have to eventually. He knew more than my own brother did at this point and I couldn't understand why he hadn't even come to see how I was feeling. I will admit it did hurt a little bit, but I didn't let it get me down. Eric was his own person and he was a very confusing person that's for sure.
"Dinner?" Tobias asked as he rubbed his face with his left hand. We hadn't left the apartment since breakfast and my stomach had started to eat itself. I didn't have any food in the house, only coffee and coffee just would not be sufficient at this stage of hunger. I followed him down to the dining hall where Tris joined us on our table, along with her she brought Christina and Will. Christina elbowed me in the ribs and before I could growl at her she nodded her head behind me. My heart dropped to my stomach as I took in the sight before me. Sitting over on my usual table, or as most initiates liked to call it the 'Leader' table, was Angela Hodgkins with her arms and lips wrapped around Eric as he just sat there taking it all. I took a deep breath and pinched the bridge of my nose, why did he has this effect on me? How could I shake his grasp on me? I took a large shaky breath before I pushed myself away of the table and started to walk away. I felt eyes on me as I walked quickly out of the dining hall, but only one pair of eyes mattered to me.
"Amaya! Wait up, I'll walk with you." Tris caught up to me just before we rounded the corner towards the chasm. It honestly felt good to be with another girl for once instead of one of the boys.
We walked in silence until we got to the chasm. Suddenly, my mouth was covered and an arm wrapped its way around my throat dragging me backwards towards the edge of the chasm and back the way we had come before. I started screaming and thrashing about but my screams were muffled by the hand. I looked over and noticed Tris was in the same sort of predicament. Our attackers, or more Tris' attacker, was wearing a black ski mask and I couldn't make out any distinctive tattoos or anything else. I had been able to twist around in my attackers arms, clearly this was just an initiate as it was almost too easy to move in their grasp. I got in a few good punches and kicks before I gripped the black ski mask and yanked it off his head. Al's face came into view and I noticed Tris had done the same with her attacker; Peter.
"Why did you tell me you didn't want to date? You could have just as easily told me you were dating someone, or is it supposed to be a secret? I see you two are always together and I noticed that you both left your apartment this evening together." I blinked back a few times just trying to grasp at what Al was insinuating when I started laughing.
"You think I'm dating Four?" I asked as I looked over to Tris, peter still had his arm around her neck and looked like it might have been a little too tight. I went to take a step toward them when Al's hand reached out and pinned me against the wall by my neck. His hands large enough to be able to hold me still even as I struggled.
"You see I did think that, and for a while I believed it, but then the other day I noticed that you eft Eric's apartment and that got me thinking. Are you seriously too stupid to realise those two hate each other? Why are you leading Eric on while you date Four? You must be a real whore to do that and to a Dauntless leader no less." I started laughing all over again. The look of pure confusion on Peter an Al's face was hilarious.
"One; I am not leading Eric on, there is nothing going on there. He feels nothing for me and I feel nothing for him. We are co-workers and we live on the same floor, that is all. Second; Four is my brother. That is why you saw him coming out of my apartment tonight. We are going through how to execute our father in a couple of days." I told Al through gritted teeth. I heard peter laugh cynically, I turned my head in his direction.
"You must be seriously daft 'stiff'" I stiffen at the old nickname for an Abnegation. I hadn't been called that since my initiation before I kicked Eric's ass gaining a new sense of appreciation from the Dauntless leader. "Eric is mad for you and you're just too blind to see it." Peter throws his arm forward hitting Tris in the jaw and as I pull my arm back to take a shot at Al, Peter and Al were pulled off us and thrown over to the other side of the hallway. Four and Eric stood over the boys as Tris started to visibly shake. I squared my shoulders, I was no longer going to be the weak Dauntless leader, I needed to re-establish my leadership. Max had made me a full leader recently for a reason, and the reason was not because he felt sorry for me.
"Zeke, can you take these two to the infirmary, Four you and I will take Tris to your apartment to get her cleaned up. Eric, can you look on the cameras for the evidence and lower their rank as well." Everyone, but Eric, nodded at me. He made to step towards me with his hand slightly outstretched in my direction and a look of concern quickly flashed through his eyes. But it had disappeared as soon as I sent him a quick glance and glare as I helped Tris stand and followed Four to his apartment where he sat her gently down on his bed. Four cleaned her up and made sure she was alright while I busied myself around his apartment. I needed to get my mind off Eric for a small amount of time. And Tobias' apartment was just the right amount of disorganised for me to be sufficiently distracted long enough that my heart didn't hurt anymore and my head was a little bit clearer. I felt like li could finally finish the announcement that I had to make at my fathers' execution in 24 hours.
"She's asleep, what happened out there? And why aren't you freaking out? What made you run off in the first place?" Tobias asked me as he walked into his kitchen, he knew I needed coffee and I wasn't about to decline as I continued to scribble down the announcement for tomorrow.
"Eric is with Ange now. And I needed to remind the faction that I am a leader, it seems the initiates have forgotten that little bit of information. I'm fine Tobi I can't keep being weak. I'm Dauntless, better yet, I'm a fucking Dauntless leader. I have got to stop being a scared little girl, I've been here over a year now." I took the mug from him gratefully and took a long sigh and a deep sip. He seemed to understand where I was coming from with my little rant and we finished our coffees in silence before I took off towards my apartment and decided that I would call it a night. Eric's reading glasses sat on my nightstand and I fell asleep thinking about him and his grey blue eyes yet again.
Eric P.O.V
I slightly pushed Ange off my lap as I watched Amaya walk quickly out of the dining hall. The stiff initiate followed her out and I gave Ange a quick kiss before I looked over to Four. We may hate each other but we would do anything to keep her safe, even if that meant joining forces. We could hear yelling and laughing from near the chasm. I knew that laugh from anywhere. Amaya. At east I knew she was safe, but I was also starting to think she may have lost it as I heard her next sentence.
"One; I am not leading Eric on, there is nothing going on there. He feels nothing for me and I feel nothing for him. We are co-workers and we live on the same floor, that is all. Second; Four is my brother. That is why you saw him coming out of my apartment tonight. We are going through how to execute our father in a couple of days." My heart just dropped, I knew I was dating Ange just to get over her, just be able to function normally to some degree and to also keep my reputation up, it had started to slip the more I hung out with her, but I had turned to Ange the other day and asked her out. I hadn't seen Amaya since the night she had spent in my apartment and I didn't expect to see her for a while longer.
The sound of a fist hitting flesh brought me out of my head as Four leapt forward and pulled Peter off Tris' body and I reached forward to pull Al off Amaya, even though I could clearly see that she was about to give one of her good ones. Even I knew how much they hurt. I subconsciously rubbed the spot n my jaw where she had given me a good one when I pushed her too far in training during her initiation. I noticed her pull her shoulders back as she cracked her neck and stood up just that little bit straighter. She started to bark out orders and to be honest when she turned to me the breath was just knocked out of me. I didn't even hear what she had said to me before she glared at me and walked off helping Four and the stiff walk away. I turned to Zeke who was helping Hector with the two initiates.
"She told you to look at the cameras for the evidence and to lower their ranks as well." He sighed at me before he and Hector pushed Al and Peter towards the infirmary. It wasn't until then that I had actually gotten a good look at them. Al had a decent sized shiner on his jaw and had blood coking out of his nose and left ear. I smiled knowing that Amaya had done that to him. Peter wasn't as bad but Tris had apparently gotten a few good hits in as well. Maybe she wasn't as weak as I first thought she was.
As I made my way up to the control room to check out the security camera's Ange came up to me and pushed me in an empty training room. As I felt her hands glide down my torso and rest on the waistband of my jeans, I suddenly couldn't stop the thought of Amaya finding out about this. I pushed Ange off me slightly. She's always had a thing for me and there have been a fair few times where we have snuck around and done the deed in secret. We had decided that now would be a good time to actually become official but I'm not too sure I was ready for public affection just yet. I had to get my reputation back. I pushed her off me gently.
"Later. My apartment." With a nod of her head she was off. I blinked, that had been easier than in the past. I shrugged and continued my walk to the control room. There had been nothing on any of the cameras so I just lowered their rank and went about my night. Ange had been dressed up or should I say dressed down when I had arrived home. Instantly using her to forget the day I had just had I pounced and we went at it for hours. But I couldn't shake the thought of Amaya as I fell asleep for the night.