Epilogue! Yay! :)
I hope this lives up to your expectations everyone. Thank you for sticking by me.
Eric, Tris and Four are 22 and half.
Shanda and Catherine are 3 while Andy is 4 years old.
They stand on top of the Hancock building. The beautiful breeze, blowing past them, making the night scene all more lovely. There is a makeshift aisle, leading towards a small platform.
The floor looks absolutely stunning. It is covered with different, colourful flower petals and glitter. Tris was always a simple person. She didn't wanted to do something extravagant.
The entire area is entirely lit up with beautiful pink and yellow fairy lights. Most of the area was illuminated by the celestial moonlight, casting a magical yet natural look to the scene.
There is quite the crowd, dressed in their best clothes. They all want to get a glimpse of the waiting couple.
Tobias looks around nervously, as he stood in the near the platform holding a hand of a four year old boy. The boy, Andrew Ray Eaton was an exact copy of Tobias. Dark blue eyes, tanned skin and chocolate brown curls. The boy looks up at another man exactly like him. Marcus Eaton.
It was a shocking revelation and also a sick one. After Evelyn's supposed death, Marcus began raping women from different factions. Due to his night time activities and disguise, no one knew who it was.
After Marcus was sentenced with memory serum, Eric found an Amity woman crying. She had a baby in her arms who was surprisingly sleeping. It turns out the baby was Marcus Eaton's who had raped the said woman.
The case was investigated and shockingly, the physical description of the serial rapist was identical. After a DNA test, the baby was found to be Marcus Eaton's. He was also the one who had raped all women.
Tobias had never tried to get in any romantic relationship after what went down with Tris. He knew in his heart he loved her and no one can be enough. So he decided to be a lone wolf. The baby changed his life along with Marcus. He adopted his half-brother and named him Andrew Ray Eaton. He also became Marcus' legal guardian since Marcus had a total memory wipeout.
And so, there he stood holding Marcus and Andy's hands. Marcus was worse than Andy. He was very stubborn. It felt weird to be baby sitting such a big, old baby, but oh well. Tobias had decided to drown his loneliness under responsibilities.
David, Peter and Drew were taken to foster care. They learned a lot of things and are currently having a mental age of three years, along with Marcus.
Caleb had transferred to Erudite. He worked extra hard and earned his spot in Erudite as Secretary to the leaders; Tris, Cara and Fernando.
Cara, was the second in command for Erudite. She was also happily married to Caleb Prior.
Jack Kang became the Chief Justice for the city of Chicago and Niles, the ever loyal and truthful Candor resident, took his place as Chief Interrogator.
Robert and Johanna began leading the faction of peace. They also decided to stop drugging their people, thanks to majority opinion in the city.
Mr Black became the leader of Abnegation while Susan was the leader in training.
Evelyn and Therese rule the Divergent and over the last few years, she has become like a mother to Tris. Evelyn also is known as 'Gramma Vee' to the Coulter twins. And she is one hell of a proud grandma.
Dauntless was working amazingly with the newest leaders. Tris also happened to become one of their favorite leaders and was one of the reasons for the friendly relations between Erudite and Dauntless.
The leaders and representatives of each faction had a small elite group called 'The Allegiant' to honour the services of those who had stopped the war.
Eric looked around nervously. His eyes landed on his parents. They weren't forgiven by any means but they were invited nonetheless.
(Flashback - 1 month ago)
He walked in the Erudite housing area, two tiny hands holding one of his. He walked with the destination in his mind.
He knocked on the door and within a minute it was opened by a tall man with graying hair and brown eyes.
He stared at Eric and then the twins and motioned them in. Eric rolled his eyes but followed nonetheless.They talked or rather argued. Eric still was furious with his parents but gave them the written invitation to his wedding.
They were happy, their Erudite vanity and pride still reflected in their eyes when the realized that the Erudite leader will be their daughter in law. They were also extra nice to Catherine and Shanda, who didn't feel like talking to the old couple.
Needless to say, Tris still hasn't forgiven them for their sick behaviour towards young Eric.
Eric fidgeted with his fingers. This is it, he thought to himself and a small smile crept up his face. Four, who was currently standing beside him socked him in his shoulder.
"You are getting married Eric because you are a grown man. Act like one too."
Eric groaned good naturedly. They had decided that they don't need to much.
Four was the best man only. They didn't need bridesmaids and groomsmen or maid of honour. Tris was perfectly content with walking down the aisle with her brother. It's not that they would have carried her or something.
Eric felt a tug at his hand. He looked down and saw Catherine standing there, looking adorable in her white frock and butterfly hair pins. She was proud to be the ring bearer.
The music changed and Eric looked up. There stood Tris, looking gorgeous as ever. She had a beautiful knee length blue dress that blended into white as it progressed. She wore a silver necklace, her mother's necklace and her ear rings were made of silver with sapphire dangling gems. She looked breathtaking and Eric felt himself harden at the sight.
Eric groaned lowly in his throat. Noticing his problem, Tobias began snickering. Eric took a deep breath and decided to think of dead puppies and half eaten bunnies but his mind kept drifting back to his sexy as hell bride. Their eyes locked and Tris smiled widely. Eric grinned back.
Caleb offered his arm and Tris took it. They began moving towards the platform, Shanda hot on their heels as the flower girl. She was dressed similar to Catherine.
As they reached the platform, Caleb kissed his baby sister's cheek who smiled softly at him. He handed her to Eric, on behalf of his deceased parents and watched her take Eric's arm with tear filled eyes.
They held each other's hands and looked towards Jack. Jack cleared his throat.
"Today we are all here to witness the reunion between the Dauntless and Erudite's head leaders. They have proved themselves and their love for each other many times. We have been a witness to the ups and downs in their life as well. As the chosen pastor, I will be performing traditional formalities. That said, please proceed with the vows."
Eric clears his throat and looks into his bride's eyes as he begins speaking. Speaking what only his heart and mind and concocted at the very moment.
"I vow to love you without reservation or conditions. I vow to always do my best to give more than I take, and not keep score. When I am with you, I am the best version of myself because I am utterly and unapologetically myself. I promise to continuously work on myself, and to be the husband you want and deserve. I promise to be there for you, in cold winter mornings, to warm you, on soft springs to watch our love grow, in our summers to play in the light of the sun, and in our autumn to kiss your fingers and say, it has all been worth it - every moment of our love. I vow never to stop loving you as I do today. To carry the warmth of our love over years through difficult times, up hills and over oceans. To be the bannerman of our love and yell to the wide open spaces filling them with these words: This is my wife and I love her!"
Tris smiles lovingly at Eric; who wiped the tears from her eyes. She had never heard a more loving and passionate speech. She looks at him with a grin and starts speaking her own vows, she came up with those when she was reminiscing a day before.
"I promise to love you, to be your best friend, to respect and support you, to be patient with you, to work together with you to achieve our goals, to accept you unconditionally and to share my life with you forever. I promise to keep our lives exciting, adventurous, and full of passion. I promise to persevere when times get tough, knowing that any challenges we might face, we will conquer them together. I promise to treat you with compassion rather than fairness, because we are a team, now and for always. It is clear to me now that everything in my life has led me to you - I think back on all my choices and consider even the bad ones blessed, because if I had done even one thing differently, I might never have met you and become your wife. One lifetime to pledge to you is not enough. You are my partner, my friend, my lover, my hero. to you I pledge trust, understanding, and to raise you up when you are weary, to hold you, to love you always. You are my husband, you are my treasure and I love you for ever and always."
Unable to hold himself after hearing those heart taking words from her, he pulls her in his arms as she hugs him back. Their vows along with Eric's display of affection elicited many 'Aww's' and 'So adorable' from the crowd.
"If you have any objection about this marriage, speak up now or forever hold your peace." Jack says. Satisfied with no interruption he tells them to exchange rings.
Catherine looks up at her parents and smiles as they take the similar rings for each other. The rings are designed like a claddagh made of gold but the only difference is the blue, heart shaped jewel in Tris' ring.
Eric smiles lovingly at Tris, his eyes showing her all of his emotions. Love, compassion, loyalty, lust and trust.
He never knew he could ever be loved. His family never showed him affection. But for some reason the incredible woman in front of him loved him and he was grateful.
"I pronounce You husband and wife you-" but Jack's speech was cut of by none other than Catherine Coulter.
"You may kish youh bide now!" Catherine speaks up, enthusiastically.
Everyone laughs at the innocent girl who bats her eyelashes at her parents.
Eric cups Tris' cheek in one hand and with the other on her waist, he dips her down as he captures her sweet lips in his own. Their lips fit perfectly together and Eric loves the way they move in perfect synchronization. Tris wraps her arms around his neck as she kisses him back.
They might have had their good and bad moments, but they will always find their way back to each other.
She was his just as he was hers and there's no one else he would rather be with.
She was All he ever wanted.
They break apart and grin as the crowd hoots and hollers.
"Ladies and gentlemen! Give a round of applause to Mr and Mrs Coulter."
And the crowd bursts into applause and cheers.
When things are right, then you just know
There is something in your eyes that brings me home
'Cause when there's love, you don't let go
So as long as you're with me you're not alone, you'll never be
I wanna tell you what I feel and really mean it
I wanna shout it from the rooftops to the sky
'Cause if you ever need a friend you know I'll be it
From tonight until we see the end of time
I'll cross my heart
And hope to die
We're always and forever, I'll be by your side
When days are dark
And stars don't align
We're always and forever 'til the end
The end of time. *
*(End of Time by Alan Walker)
A/N:
Thank you so much everyone for patiently sticking by my side throughout this story.
A few things you should know:
I am not a native english so I have a limited vocabulary.
I live in Asia so I had to search about weddings,vows and stuff.
This is my first fanfiction so it is, by no means perfect.
My life is pretty different so i never update on fixed days or time.
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-Stella