Sorry for not posting on Tuesday. I had some stuff going on that kinda effected me emotionally. I had this entire chapter planned out where I kill off Four. yes, the lovable Tobias Eaton. Then, I went and read over it and went "wait, what am I doing? This is FOUR! He can't die in this story especially not like that!" So i had to scrap the entire thing which was about 4K words I believe. I will try to post on Saturday to make up for it. Anyways, Enjoy.
Ps: watch out for POV changes there are three different POV's.Tobias POV:
"This is for your own good." Marcus's voice echoes in the dark space. I look around, but there is no one there. "Tobias." His icy voice rang through my ears. I Turn at the sound of my name. There in front of me is Marcus with one other person, Tris.
"Tris!" I yell out running towards her. My legs move, but I am not getting any closer to Her. He pulls out a gun.
"Like I said. Your own good." His voice is cold and Flat. He places the gun up to Tris's head and holds her by the neck to keep her steady.
"I'm sorry Tobias." Tris says, flinching as the barrel touches her temple. Bang
I shoot awake with heavy, staggered breaths. The air refuses to go through my lungs. My heart beats faster than you could measure. "It was just a dream." I keep telling myself. I looks over to the peaceful looking girl sleeping next to me. I will never let that dream become reality. She is too special to me. I plant a kiss on her temple before getting out of bed to go take a shower. After the shower I walk into the kitchen to see Tris in her abnegation dress with her hair pulled up in the bun. she is making eggs. I walk up behind her and wrap my hands around her waist. "Hey." I say planting a kiss on the top of her head. She looks up so that we are looking at each other.
"Feeling better are we?"
"Whatever you want to call it."
Tris looks back down on the food and I sit at the table. "Do you think this would have happened if we both stayed in Abnegation?" She asks
"What?"
"This. Our relationship, the house, maybe a family in the future."
"Maybe..."
"What do you think would have happened?"
"Umm, I would choose someone to court. Probably that little blonde girl I would see walking in the hallways at school, and at my mother's funeral, and on the sidewalk walking with her brother."
"And who was that?"
"Guess."
"Susan?" She asks
"No, silly. It's you."
"Me? Really?"
"Yes really." I say kissing her.
"I would like to continue this." She says breaking the kiss "but we have to eat and be down at the factionless sector soon." I groan. "Quit your yapping and eat."
"That's not very Abnegation." I say laughing.
"Shut up, we aren't outside the house yet."
"Yeah, sure."
"Well, Tobias are you going to eat or not?" She asks placing a plate on the table.
"I think I'll eat." She places the eggs down in front of me "thanks." They were bland and just all around tasteless.
"I miss dauntless food." Tris says before taking a bite of her eggs.
"Mhm. This is good, but imagine what we could do with some spices." I say taking another bite
"Don't talk with your mouth full."
"I'm sorry, I'm the one that needs to be taught manners?" I point to Tris' elbows. She was resting her head on her hands.
"I think we both have a lot to remember."
"To think you've only been out of this faction about 3 months."
"Yeah, it's weird how fast a person can change."
"I doubt you changed. You were just freed. The Tris we know is the person you have always been."
"Maybe," she says. I get up to go make the lunches for today. "Where are you going?"
"making lunches" I answer
"So I have to make dinner as well?"
" I suppose so."
"That means you make breakfast and dinner tomorrow."
"And you make lunch. It's just a basic rotation."
"Right." I quickly put a slice of bread and some snap peas in a bag. I hand Tris one of the brown bags. "We have to get going." I say holding the door for her. She looks at her watch before walking out the door
"Hmm, I guess we do."
Tris' POV:
We have been giving away food, clothing, and blankets for a good thirty minutes or so. Tobias is looking more fidgety than he did this morning. He keeps on looking around as if he was trying to avoid something. "Is everything alright?" I ask putting a hand on his back.
"Yes, Beatrice. Everything is fine." I am shocked to hear him call me Beatrice until I realize that we are in Abnegation right now. I play with the ring on my left hand, trying to go through my thoughts. It was a very simple ring; Just a thin silver band. "Where did you get that?" Tobias asks pointing to my ring.
"It's my wedding band."
"What?"
"My wedding band. You know, the thing you gave me when you married me"
"Oh!" Tobias says. I assume he understands that we are supposed to be married in this faction. I walk over to a middle-aged lady in a building. "Hello?" I say coming in. She stands up. "I'm not here to hurt you. We just wanted to give you some supplies."
"Tobias?" She asks. I turn around to see him behind me.
"Yes." He says
"I..I thought you transferred to dauntless."
"Ma'am. You must be confused."
"No, I am not. You transferred to dauntless. You were in dauntless clothes when we met on the train station."
"I have no idea what you are talking about." He says straightening up.
"Tobias Eaton, you tell me right now what is going on"
"Do you need help? Tobias Eaton transferred to Dauntless three years ago. How would I be him I am Abnega-."
"Who are you? How do you know him?" I interrupt walking in between them
"Evelyn Johnson, but you may know me better as Evelyn Eaton." What?!
"Evelyn Eaton is dead. I remember clearly going to her funeral when I was younger." Tobias says pushing me away from her.
"Tobias, stop this nonsense. Please."
"Beatrice, leave the supplies for her and we will leave." I do as I was instructed, because I am extremely confused on what's going on. We leave through a small doorway.
"Who was that?" I ask Tobias pulling him into a secluded area
"She told you."
"I thought your mother was dead?"
"She reached out to me about a year ago. Saying that she was alive. That she was in the factionless sector."
"That's crazy!"
"Tell me about it."
"What do we do?"
"We're going to ignore her and avoid contact."
"Tobias, you can't just act like that didn't just happen."
"Tris, I want nothing to do with her."
"Why though? She's your Mother."
"Because." He says louder than usual. "My 'mother' left me alone with Marcus! She left her son to be abused, Tris. Why do you think!" I bow my head as he yells. We can't draw attention to ourselves. Stop yelling. Stop yelling.
"What's going on over he-" I hear a familiar voice say "Four? Tris? What are you two doing? Why are you in Abnegation clothes?" Uriah is standing in the bed of a truck with four other people. "Hey, did the Stiff miss home?" One of the men asks. Tobias walks over to the bed to see who it was "ooh and her boyfriend joined her!" He says standing up. I can see the orange-red hair. Unless it was dyed there was only one person I knew with that shade of hair.
"You might want to shut up. We don't want a re-play of what happened at the chasm" that confirmed it. That man was Drew.
"Are you two going to answer my question?!" Uriah says louder.
"Umm... Tris got shot." Tobias says
"What?!"
"Tris got shot while she was at the wall. We rushed her to the hospital and the Abnegation gave us some clothes while she was there, so we weren't in the same clothes the entire time we were there."
"Who shot Tris?!"
"It doesn't matter."
"NO! It does!! Who shot Tris?!"
"Excuse me! I'm right here." I say.
"Oh yeah, Tris who shot you?" Uriah asks anger building in his face.
"Apparently, I did."
"What?! Why would you do that?!"
"I don't remember I got really drunk and the next thing I remember I am in the hospital."
"You were drunk?"
"Yes. Is there something wrong with that?" I say sternly signaling that this conversation was ending.
"No, no, not at all! One more question." I let out an exasperated sigh.
"What?"
"Why are you two in the factionless sector and not the hospital?"
"We are walking back to the wall."
"Do you want a lift?"
"No, I would rather walk."
"Yeah, sure. If you need anything whatsoever please remember that you still have friends at the compound." Uriah says sitting back down in the truck. "Everything's clear. Let's move on!" I don't think I have ever heard his voice that serious. Wow!
"That was close." I sigh.
"Yeah. We better get closer to Abnegation. We can't risk being over here with Uriah and. The rest of his buddies patrolling around this area."
"Yeah, but first, I was shot?" I ask
"Did you have a better plan?"
"No, but how am I supposed to explain not having a scar?"
"Who else is going to see your body?"
"Christina."
"Ummm... Crap... tell her the shot wasn't deep enough to leave a scar."
"But it was deep enough to hospitalize me?"
"Hey, worry another that when it's asked. She was Candor not Erudite." We get back to the abnegation compound around lunch. We pull out our lunches and eat inside one of the buildings.
Uriah's POV:
I don't believe it for one second! Tris doesn't drink! And she is most definitely too careful with a gun to shoot herself on accident. There were definitely lies. She was either shot or did it on purpose. Neither of those seem like good alternatives.
"Who was that?" Ethan yells back from the cab
"Just some friends."
"I don't remember any Dauntless transfers to Abnegation this year."
"They aren't abnegation they were given some clothes by the abnegation because they had to stay in the hospital overnight."
"What happened?" Ethan legitimately sounds worried.
"The girl, Tris, got shot."
"Oh no! Is she alright?"
"She seemed fine."
"They were obviously lying." Drew casually says kicking back. "The stiff was probably homesick."
"Shut up." I say
"What are you gonna do about it?"
"You have no idea what I am capable of." I say cracking my knuckles
"Is that a treat?"
"No, it's a warning. It's your choice to acknowledge it or not." Drew laughs and lays his head back. We pull up to the tent right as he starts to fall asleep.
"We should wake him up." Ethan says
"Do we have to?"
"Unfortunately, yes." He pulls out a gun.
"Ooh can I do it?!" I excitedly reach for the gun.
"Just don't actually shoot him." Ethan hands me the gun and I empty the bullets of it. It makes loud clicking noises with each bullet being taken out. The noise startles Drew and he wakes up. I start laughing and he scowls. "Wake up." I say as he gets out of the truck. As he walks past me he pushes me slightly. One shot. Just one. I can hide the body. Just. One. Shot.
"I will take this back." Ethan says carefully pulling the gun out of my hands. My knuckles were white from my grip on it. He laughs "if we are going to shoot him I think we should let Piper get the first shot." He says we place all of the guns in their places and put all the bullets back into their drawers. I run by the train and jump into the Car that everyone else is in. Piper seems to have calmed down a bit since we first joined. Instead of going through each car to check on everyone she would now stay in our car. I don't know if it's because she trusts everyone else more or if she trusts us less now. Probably a combination of both. We wait out the train ride trying to stay awake. Piper May have calmed down, but with Drew in our squadron we were always In trouble. She hated us. We all jump out of the train in front of the compound. We walk down the stairs together and separate to go to our apartments. "Hey," Marlene catches me in the Hall and wraps her arms around my neck.. "Anything interesting happen at work?"
"I saw Four and Tris."
"Really?! How is Tris doing?"
"Ummm.. good." I say
"Your lying." She can read me like an open book, no, a giant sign. Who reads books? She gasps "what happened to Tris?"
"She shot herself.
"What?! She's dead?!"
"No, God No, she is alive." She lets out a sigh of relief.
"What happened?"
"I would rather talk about this in the apartment."
"You need a shower anyways." Marlene says scrunching up her nose. I hit her on the arm. She hits me back. We walk to the apartment and I get into the shower. We talk through the door. I tell her word for word what Four and Tris told me. "So Tris was drunk?" Marlene asks as I get out and dry myself off with a towel.
"Yeah."
"I don't believe it for one second."
"Thank you!" I yell pulling on a pair of pants.
"Now what do you think happened?"I throw my sweaty shirt in the laundry and step out.
"In all honesty, I hope their story is true. Otherwise someone else shot her or she shot herself while she was sober. Both are worse than what she said."
"What's that?" Marlene pokes my side and I laugh "Uriah Pedrad, did you get a tattoo without telling me?"
"Yeah." I had completely forgotten about the tattoo I got. I have had it for so long. "I got this forever ago." It is dauntless fire that goes up my side. "How did you not notice until now?"
"How long have you had that tattoo?"
"Umm, I got it the night after rankings."
"That long?" I nod
"You never noticed." I laugh. She gasps
"I should tell Christina about Tris!" She kisses me on the cheek "bye" pulling on a jacket, she runs out the door. I pull on a shirt and run to the dining hall to meet up with her. When I make it to the dining hall with my food the scene displayed infront of me surprises me. Christina is hitting Marlene and Marlene is apologizing. There is mascara running down Christina's cheeks. "Hey, what's happening here."
"You. Made. Me. Think. My. Best. Friend. Committed. Suicide." Chris says between each hit.
"I said I'm sorry!"
"You could have started off with Tris is Okay, but.., but no! You had to start with Tris shot herself!!!"
"Calm down." Christina hits her one more time, hard, on the arm before stopping.
"So I take you've heard the news?" I say
"Mhm."
"And you know she is fine."
"Mhm"
"And you are aware that we don't think she was drunk."
"Mhm."
"Good job Marlene. I thought it would take you longer to explain it all."
"No, it did take a little longer than expected with Chris hitting me and all that, but I did a pretty good job." I nod and finish eating my food. I wonder what really happened.
hey guys! This chapter was fun. Yada yada yada..The reason I almost killed four was because I just discovered I lost my scholarship to my new school and that was hard. Anyways, I don't mean to bring down the mood. Remember stay awesome, stay lucky, and peace out!
