After the kiss and confessing our feelings, things had gotten strange with Eric and I, he had become busier than usual, starting to take over from Max after he was stripped of his leadership for allowing Jeanine to inject his faction for the sole purpose of overtaking Abnegation and turning the faction into soldiers. I tried to push his absence to the back of my mind to focus on taking over Eric's role in leadership. Since Max had been exiled the leaders had all moved up a spot with on spot left opened. I was brought out of my thoughts and away from my paperwork when I heard a soft knock at my door. Thinking it was weird if it was Tris or Tobias, I cautiously made my way over to the door and creaked it opened slightly. I saw Ange standing there nervously fidgeting with her hands. When I opened the door the full way, she looked up at me.

"I know this is really out of the blue and random, but I needed to talk to you." I nodded and she walked right on through to my living room. She looked around at my large apartment before nervously sitting down on my couch as I made my way back over to where I had my paperwork sitting on the coffee table. "Eric came to see me last night, and I know there's something going on with the two of you, I've known for a while. But I just wanted you to know that we hooked up again last night, I didn't want you to hear it from someone else." I nodded as she stood back up and walked out of my apartment. As soon as the door to my apartment slammed closed behind her the tears cascaded down my face. I took off my glasses and threw them onto my coffee table as her words finally sunk in.

He didn't really love me; he never really did. He should have let me die and let Jeanine kill everyone around her. I took a moment to compose myself before my door was thrown open hitting the wall behind it. Tobias and Tris stormed in and saw me on my couch with my knees to my chest and red puffy eyes. They knew too, it must be going around the compound and that's why Ange showed up to tell me, that or she wanted to rub it in my face. Fresh tears streamed down my face as I looked at the face of my brother and his girlfriend. They both wore looks of shock and horror with a slight amount of sympathy.

"It's not like I slept with him, but it still hurts all the same." I choked out before laughing manically. Tris was the first one to reach me and she pulled me into her side and rubbed my shoulder, Tobias joined us and rubbed my back. I felt silly crying over him, after everything we've been through he still chose her.

They let me cry for a little while before Tobias went to make some coffee. He came out of the kitchen holding a pair of glasses and holding them up to me.

"These aren't yours." He said it as a statement but I knew that he was asking me a question. I wiped furiously at my eyes starting to become angry with myself as tears pooled in my eyes once more.

"They're Eric's, after capture the flag we stayed here and read together fore training started again. I just forgot to give them back to him." he nodded and made for my apartment door. "Where are you going?"

"To give them back to him, you don't need anything else to hold you to him anymore." I nodded and he headed out. Tris and I made our way to the kitchen where I made our coffees that Tobias had not finished.

Eric P.O.V

"It's done, she knows." Ange told me as she walked into my new head of leaders office.

"I'm sorry want to run that by me again?" I finished writing something on my laptop before I looked up at her.

"Amaya knows we hooked up last night. I went to tell her myself because she hasn't been seen around the compound for a couple of days." She shrugged and made herself comfortable on the sofa in front of my desk, I squinted at the test on the screen of my laptop before her words registered in my brain.

"We didn't hook up last night Ange, you and I haven't done anything for over a month now." She shrugged and lounged back into the soft fabric of the sofa. "Wait! You told Amaya that I slept with you last night?!" I was beyond furious now that the words had sunken in. why was she trying to ruin anything I had with Amaya.

"Yeah, figured you'd want the deadbeat stiff off your back eventually, and now you don't have to worry about it while you take over the compound." She shrugged as she stood up. I quickly and calculatingly made my way over to her as I pushed my forearm against her throat as I pushed her body against the wall. "Oh, I like this position." Her voice had lowered, and eyes became hooded. I pushed on her throat a bit harder before the door to my office flew open. My head whipped around at the sound, and I saw Four standing there holding something in his hand. He took in the position I currently had Ange in, and his anger rose to the surface. I gave her one last push successfully cutting off her air supply before I let her go and faced Four. Whatever he had in his hand he threw at me hitting me in the chest before I noticed they were my glasses, the ones I had left at Amaya's apartment after capture the flag.

"Nothing happened -,"

"Nothing happened my ass, I just walked in on something happening." He interrupted me.

"Of course, something happened he loves m-," I pushed her up against the wall again, cutting her air supply off immediately.

"You try to ruin my relationship again and you will end up in chasm, understand?" I punched the wall right by her head as she nodded, and I let her go again.

"There's no relationship to ruin Eric, she's done with you. All because you can't keep it in your pants." He threw Ange a sideways glace and she scurried off out of my office slamming the door behind her. "The whole compound knows about you and Ange hooking up last night. What did you think that would accomplish? You thought my sister would give you more attention if she had competition? Is that what this is?" I turned and punched the wall again as realisation washed over me. She was done with me? Before we even had anything to start with. I lent down and picked up my glasses noticing the glass in the right lens was cracked from falling to the ground.

"Look Four, I need you to calm down and let me speak-,"

"Why the fuck would I give you that luxury? Jut so you can tell me that you never loved her? That everything you told her was an outright lie?" I got fed up with him and pushed him into the wall that I had Ange held up against minutes before.

"I need you to listen and listen carefully." He nodded slightly, the pressure of my forearm crushing his windpipe. "Ange and I haven't hooked up for over a month now. Last night I was here, in my office still trying to sort out the shit that I have been left with thanks to Max. if you don't believe me check the security footage. I love your sister. I have since I met her, she's the only one that can make me weak but stronger at the same time. She is the only one that knows how much of my past I hold onto. You wanna know something? She is also the only person I'm terrified of, because she holds my heart so securely, she has the means and the opportunity to crush it in those delicate hands of hers, and now she has the motive too." I started to pace halfway through my rant leaving Four to stay standing against the wall. He made his way over to the computer on the desk as I continued to pace pulling at the roots of my hair. She hates me now, she thinks I don't love her. Four stepped in front of me effectively stopping my pacing and placing a hand on my shoulder.

"Stay here, do some work or something, but I need to show her the footage from last night." He nodded and took off our of my office leaving me to my thoughts. I slumped down in the sofa and covered my face with my hands. How could I be so stupid, we hadn't spoken much since the kiss due to the both of us having to take on a larger workload in preparation for the opening of a leadership role. I gripped at the roots of my hair once again as I thought about all the missed opportunities I had to tell her how I felt. All the times in the past year after she became a fully fledged Dauntless member that I could have told her, could have made my move but instead she thinks I only made a move because my dad tried to kill her.

Before long Four came back with her hot on his heels. She didn't look in my direction as she followed her brother to the desktop sitting open. I took in her appearance, her eyes were red and puffy and she didn't have her glasses on but I also knew she didn't have her contacts in as she rubbed her eyes furiously. She squinted at the screen before her eyes flicked to me.

"I told you, no one came in or out of here last night, and yes I have checked to see if the footage was tampered with." She nodded as Four shut the computer off and headed out the door, leaving us alone in the office together. I took a deep breath as I felt my nerves get the better of me the closer she stepped towards me.

"I would never ruin whatever it is that we have." I told her looking down at my black boots. She sat down beside me on the sofa and reached forward to push my hair back into place. She grasped my chin gently and forced me to look her into her eyes.

"Everyone in the compound thinks you 'cheated' on me, Ange felt the need to lie to me in regards to it. The way I look at this now as it stands is as an opportunity. I know some of the newer members have been feeling like you and I are slipping as leaders and this just further proves it, 6 months ago no one would ever think about spreading rumours about us. But now here we are caught in the middle of one. Eric, what's going on between us is real, I know you feel it too, but I also know that we both need to take a step back and revaluate what's best for Dauntless as a whole. We can't have new members thinking that you and I have gone soft. We make each other weak but strong at the same time. We need to have a public fight, a real one where I get mad like I used to, to show them neither of us have been slacking off just because of things that have happened. You're going to have to do a bit of work to gain my trust back but for now we need to work together." She held my chin firmly in the palm of her hand as she spoke. I tried really hard to listen to her whole speech and was pretty impressed that I hadn't gotten lost in her eyes. She leaned in slightly and I followed as our lips connected fireworks erupted inside me. I forgot how much I liked kissing her. I wrapped m arms around her waist and pulled her closer to me and she deepened the kiss, and her fingers found the small hairs on the back of my neck. I shivered at her soft touch and felt myself melting into the kiss. Before things got too far, we both pulled away slightly out of breath.

"Do I have to stop doing that?" I asked her as I rested my forehead on hers.

"Not if its just me." She placed a soft quick kiss on my lips again. "Tobias and Tris need to think that I'm over you too." I nodded and pulled her lips back to mine again