Torn 11
"What the hell is going on?" Your best friend asked looking back at you confused and slightly upset.
"He is going after Four. I have to stop him!" You sprinted to the small closet by the door that held you and Jen's shoes and coats.
"Why is he going after Four?"
You turned around to Jen with sneakers in hand.
"I'm pregnant."
"Your WHAT?!" Your friend nearly screamed at you.
"I can't go into this now Jen. I have to stop him." You threw your sneakers down on the floor and shoved your feet into them.
"But…..but why would he go after Four…ooohhhh It's Four's baby." Realization hit her face.
"Jen I don't know who the father is." You said exasperated.
"You….little…slut." Jen said with a playful smirk on her lips.
"Oh come on! Sleeping with two guys does not qualify me as a slut. Men do it all the time. Hell Eric was doing it and I doubt anyone in Dauntless would call him a slut."
"I'll call him one…well not to his face. What do you mean was doing it?"
"He is breaking up with Raven." You said triumphantly.
Jen's face did not hide her surprise. Eric was giving up Raven for her best friend?
"Girl! How the fuck…no pun intended…. did you pussy whip two of Dauntless top leaders.
You laughed as you reached for the doorknob.
"I gotta go before hell breaks loose." You said quickly opening the door.
"I'm coming. I'm not missing this." Jen called after you as she sprinted out the door behind you.
You and Jen could hear the yelling before you even opened the door to the Dauntless leaders quarters.
Eric and Four were at each others throat both arguing so loudly and on top of each other you could not make out what they were saying.
"Get out of my face Eric!" you heard Four shout as he pushed Eric in the chest effectively removing him from his face. Four looked over and notice you and Jen standing at the end of the hall.
"Why am I finding out from this bastard that you are pregnant?" Four hissed over at you.
"Because I just found out. I was going to tell you but Mr. Coulter beat me too it." You glared over at Eric who glared right back at you with anger in his eyes.
"Do you know who the father is?" Four asked walking up to you.
"It's my baby!" Eric adamantly told Four.
"We don't know that. That is why you both need to submit to a paternity test."
"I'm not going through that shit when I know it's mine." Eric barked.
Four looked over at Eric disgusted. He was so sick of him.
"How do you know it's not mine?" Four shot back at Eric. "You are such a cocky bastard."
Eric charged at Four, picked him up and body slammed him to the ground as if he weighed nothing. Eric was on top of Four in record speed landing punches to his face. You were in shock as you watched the two men go in on each other. Four got the upper hand on Eric and ended up on top landing blows to Eric's face. Eric grabbed Four's neck and started to squeeze with all his strength pushing him off him and climbing on top of him again to squeeze the life out of him. Four tried to loosen his grip. When that didn't work he landed hard blows to Eric's sides. Eric grunted but kept pressure on Four's neck and you saw Four start to become weak in his punches as he struggled for air.
"Stop it!" You screamed from the top of your lungs. "If you don't stop fighting neither of you will find out who the father is! You both are acting like children! What kind of father would either of you be if you can't control yourselves?" You walked up closer to both men with a disapproval look. Eric slowly let go of Four's throat and Four gasped for air as he pushed Eric off of him. Eric stood up glaring at you as you ran over to Four to help him up.
"Are you ok?"
"You tried to fuckin kill me!" Eric ignored him still glaring at you. Four walked up to Eric and punched him the face.
"I said stop it!" You shouted again just before Eric could react. You looked at both men, faces bloodied standing looking at you as they both tried to catch their breaths. "Look at you two! A hot damn mess!"
You were so disgusted with both of them.
"I think we need to go to the infirmary and get this settled." Four suggested as he wiped the blood from his nose.
"No. I can't even stand to look at you two." You snapped. Jen pulled you to the side.
"You need to go and find out who is the father before they kill each other." She whispered. You shook your head no.
"I can't Jen. Not now. Look at them." You gestured over to Eric and Four.
"Yeah they do look like shit." Jen agreed.
"Y/N this needs to be settled tonight. They will draw blood and we can find out in little as ten minutes." Four pleaded with you. You put up your hand to stop Four from coming towards you. You looked at Eric who had yet to say anything. His face like stone as he looked at you. Was this the same man that made love to you earlier? Eric truly confused you. Without another word to either one of them, you turned and headed back to your apartment.
Jen held you as you cried in her arms while you both sat in the middle of her bed.
"What did I get myself into Jen? How could they act that way toward one another? Are they even father material?" You sniffed and then blew your nose adding the discarded tissue in the pile collecting in Jen's small trash can.
"They are Dauntless men Y/N. You know how proud and stubborn they are."
"Eric was going to kill Four. How can he be a father to my child when he was so willing to take a life?"
"Y/N I think Eric loves you and obviously is willing to kill for you because he loves you so much."
You looked at your friend.
"Seriously? You think that? I felt something was different when we were together earlier but I would not go as far as love." You sighed with frustration.
"You know how I feel about Eric but I have to tell you I found it a little exciting he fought for you. You had two Dauntless leaders at blows over you."
"Not really anything to be proud of."
"Y/N I know you. You can't tell me you were not a little excited seeing them fight. For God sakes you let Eric spank you, bite and scratch the hell out of you and you did not find that display of action from him a turn on?"
"Well to be honest it was until Eric started choking the life out of Four." You said sheepishly slightly embarrassed by your confession.
Sensing your embarrassment Jen told you that you had nothing to be ashamed of.
"Y/N, Eric has brought out another side of you that I had no idea you had in you. You are a lot tougher then you think."
A knock at the door startled you both.
"I don't want to see anyone." You told Jen quickly as she got up to answer the door. Jen opened the door to find Four. He had cleaned his face but it still showed the trauma of Eric's assault. Jen cringed when she saw the bruising starting to form on his neck.
"She does not want to see anyone." She told Four before he could get a word out.
"I just need a minute." Four started to enter into the apartment and Jen blocked him.
"I'm sorry Four but she does not want to see anyone. She will contact you when she is ready to take the paternity test."
"Do you know when that will be?"
"Maybe in a couple of days. I don't know but I do know she is not in any mood to see you or Eric."
Four looked defeated as he retreated back out of the doorway.
"Can you tell her I stopped by?"
"Yes I will tell her." Jen promised as she shut the door. Jen felt so bad for Four he looked so sad and she could tell he was hurting emotionally. It must be hard for him not knowing if he was about to be a father.
"That was Four." Jen told you when she entered her bedroom.
"I heard him." You told her as you got up. "I'm going to take a shower and go to bed."
"Ok sweetie. When are you going to have them tested?"
"I might do it tomorrow. I need to know." You looked down and rubbed your stomach. You still was trying to get use to the fact that you had a child growing inside of you. Jen pulled you into a tight hug.
"Everything will work out for the best." Your best friend assured you.
"Thank you Jen." You kissed Jen on the cheek and went to take a shower. When you finally crawled into bed all you could smell was Eric. You could not help it as you became moist at his scent and memories of him making love to you flashed through your mind. You were half asleep when you felt Eric's presence in your room. You wish he would not just feel free to let himself into your apartment. You needed to find out how he always gain entrance.
"I don't want to talk to you right now." You slurred half asleep not opening your eyes. You felt Eric kneel down by your bed and brush a strand of hair out of your face. You finally opened your eyes and gasped as you saw how bruised his face was.
"As much as I hate to admit Four was right we do need to go to the infirmary now to go ahead and verify I am the father." Eric said ignoring that you did not want to speak to him. You sighed as you sat up in bed.
"Why are you so sure it is yours?"
"I know it's mine and as soon as Four knows it's not his the better."
"You were going to kill him earlier. Why would you do something like that Eric?"
Eric rolled his eyes as he let out a big annoyed sigh.
"I was not going to kill the ass. I just wanted to scare him."
"It did not look like that to me."
"I don't care what it looked like to you." He snapped at you. You were fed up with his bullshit and you hauled back and slapped him across his bruised face. Eric did not flinch.
"Stop talking to me like I am an initiate!" You shouted at him.
Eric smirked as he looked at you and it made you even angrier. You slapped him again and again he didn't flinch.
"Asshole!" You hissed at him.
"Are you done?" he asked with a raised eyebrow and an amused look on his face. God he knew just how to get under your skin. You didn't answer him as you laid back down in bed and turned your back to him.
"We need to go to the infirmary now."
You rolled over and looked at him. Even with his bruised face, he was stunning.
"It's too late at night to go."
"You know they are open twenty-four hours."
"I'm not going now. I want to sleep."
"Get up Y/N! We are going tonight." He barked at you.
"Fuck you!" You barked back.
"That's later….we are going tonight. Now get up!"
"Shit!" You muttered as you threw the covers off you. He was right you needed to get the paternity test out the way. You were just so damn tired.
"You get fuck face and I will meet you there." Eric instructed as he got up.
"Fine."
You and Four found Eric pacing back and forth impatiently waiting for you two. You did take your time in getting dress.
"What took you guys so fuckin long?!" He snapped at you both.
"Where is the doctor?" You asked ignoring his question and moody attitude.
"Dr. Johnson they are here." Eric called out to a man who was across the room checking vitals on a patient.
"I will be right there. Have a seat please." Dr. Johnson told them as he pulled the stethoscope from around his neck.
Eric and Four sat at the opposite end of the seats and you sat in the middle. There were a few empty seats between you three. You felt awkward as you sat waiting for the doctor. The enormity of the situation you found yourself end had hit you hard. You fought back tears and looked down at your feet to keep Eric and Four from seeing your face.
"Eric." The doctor called and you sighed with relief as the tension was getting too much for you as you all three sat in silence. You all three followed the doctor to a workstation that had everything set up for you three.
"I'm just going to draw a little blood from all of you and see who matches the baby's DNA that is naturally in your blood stream Y/N. I will take your blood first" You nodded and stuck out your arm. The doctor was quick and efficient as he took all three blood samples and labeled them.
"Have a seat and I will have your results in about ten minutes."
You hated to have to go sit back down with Four and Eric who were giving each other a death glare. You let out a heavy sigh as you rubbed your temple. You were starting to get a headache. Both men looked over at you.
"Are you alright?" Four asked concern.
"I'm fine." You whispered and smiled at Four. He was so sweet. You looked over at Eric who had stretched out his legs, crossed them at his ankles and had his arms folded over his chest. He looked absolutely bored and he showed no concern toward you like Four did. Figures. If you two did not share the intimate moment you shared earlier where you knew your relationship with him had shift you would think he didn't give a rats ass about you. You knew he cared for you but he refused to show it.
"Y/N" Dr. Johnson called. You got up and met him at the workstation you were previously at.
"Here you go. It is 99.9% accurate." He handed you a folded piece of paper. Your hands shook as you open the paper and looked to see who the father was. There it was in black and white:
Eric Coulter-99.9% DNA match.
You went numb. You did not know how to feel. You looked over to the two men looking straight at you. You were about to break Four's heart. You slowly walked over to both men and they stood up from their seats. You let out a heavy sigh and found yourself biting your bottom lip. How were you going to word this.
"Spit it out!" Eric spat impatiently.
"You are the father Eric." You said barely above a whisper but they both heard you. Hurt displayed on Four's face and Eric's face went stone cold. You expected a different reaction from Eric as he was so dead set that it was his child. Eric snatched the paper out of your hand and read the results. He hand the paper back to you after he confirmed what you just told him. Eric looked down at your stomach, turned around and without a word to you or Four exited the infirmary.
"What the hell!" You were shocked at Eric's reaction. He just walked out and left.
"I wish it was mine Y/N. You see what type of man Eric is. What kind of father do you think he would be?"
You broke down in tears and Four gathered you in his arms.
"I'm sorry Y/N. If it was mine I would be the best father to the child and a great man to you." Four rubbed your back and you cried even harder.
"Come on let me walk you home."
When you got home you woke up Jen and told her everything.
"That fuckin bastard! He just walked out without saying anything?"
"He just looked at the paper, handed it back and walked out without a word. Just when I think I can began to understand him he does something crazy. He was so adamant it was his child. You saw how he fought Four and he doesn't say a word to me. I don't get him. I really think I will raise this baby on my own. I can't have him and his mood disorders in my life." You fought back a set of new tears that were threatening to fall.
"That might be for the best. You know I am here for my God baby."
You smiled. "So you just anointed yourself God-mother huh." You chuckled feeling a little better.
"Of course I am the God-mother." Jen hugged you tight. "Get some sleep you had an eventful day and we have work in a few hours."
"I am exhausted." You sighed. You were emotionally drained. You look forward to a new day tomorrow. Hopefully it would be a better day. You pushed all thoughts of your baby's father from your mind as you crawled into your bed. Still smelling his scent you got up and changed your sheets. Better, you thought to yourself as you climbed into bed.
"This motherfucker!" Jen said too loudly in their small cubicle.
"What?" you asked turning around.
"Eric left for an assignment to Erudite this morning for two weeks."
"What!" Why would he do that? Feeling nauseous, you jumped up and quickly walked to the bathroom. You barely made it to the stall when you started to vomit. As you purged you found tears dropping in the toilet. Why would Eric do this to you? You were carrying his child for God's sake. When you were sure the nausea had passed, you flushed the toilet, wiped your tears away and wiped your mouth. You checked yourself in the mirror, put on a brave face and went back to work.
"Are you going to be ok?" Jen asked seeing your red, puffy eyes.
"Yes I will be fine." You assured her as you popped a mint in your mouth.
A week passed and it seemed it took forever. Even though you tried not to think about Eric you were anxiously waiting for him to come back so you could talk to him. You rarely saw Four and whenever you did he would always ask if you were ok.
At home one evening after a long day at work you took your prenatal vitamins and crawled into bed. It was only six in the evening but you were worn out. You just wanted to sleep and not think about Eric. Just as sleep took over a knock at the door woke you. Jen was out so you had to drag yourself out of bed to answer it. Looking through the peephole you saw that it was Four. You slowly opened the door.
"Can I come in?"
"Of course." You answered stepping to the side. His handsome face was healing nicely.
"I need to talk to you."
"Ok. Let's sit on the couch."
You both sat on the couch close to one another as Four looked at you with such a caring expression on his face.
"Have you heard from Eric?" he asked.
A stabbing pain shot through your heart as you shook your head no. Four grabbed your hands and held them tight.
"Four what are you doing?"
"Eric is not ready or even fit to be a father to your child. You see how he just took off."
"He will be back." You defended.
"Do you think he would man up and take care of his child? He left you knowing you are carrying his child. I care for you Y/N and if you let me be your man I will raise the child as my own."
Your mouth fell open at Four's proposal.
"Are you serious?"
"Yes I am serious." Four leaned in and softly kissed your lips and you opened your mouth to him. You and Four passionately kissed until Eric popped in your mind and you pulled back.
"I can't…..I'm sorry Four. Eric will be back and considering how much he despises you I doubt he would let you raise his child even if he doesn't want to be in his or hers life."
Four nodded his head and got up from the couch.
"Just think about what I said. I will always be around Y/N whenever you need me."
You smiled up at one of the sweetest man you ever met.
"I will keep that in mind." You told him as you walked him out. You shut the door behind him and touched your lips. Four really gave you something to think about if Eric did not come through. You shook your head of the thought, Eric would never allow it.
Two weeks had finally passed and Jen told you earlier that day that Eric was back from his assignment and Raven was back. You fought the urge to go knock on his door. Was Raven there? Was he still going to break things off with her? You were driving yourself crazy with all the thoughts that were running through your head.
Eric's Apartment
"You are breaking up with me?" Raven asked in shock.
"Yes I need you and your things out of here by tomorrow morning."
"Where am I supposed to go?" Raven started to shake with anger.
"I don't know and I don't care." Eric told her matter of factly.
"It's that little mousy bitch isn't it? You are leaving me to be with her?"
"She is carrying my child and to be honest Raven I want to be with her."
Raven let out a blood-curling scream as she charged for Eric. Eric dodged her blows and grabbed both her arms.
"Stop it Raven! Now woman up and do as you were told. I want you gone!" Eric shouted at an enraged Raven.
"Let me go!" Raven yelled trying to pry her hands out of Eric's tight grip.
"Are you going to come at me again?"
'No." Raven snapped. Eric let her go and Raven stepped back and looked at Eric.
"Fine. I will be gone in the morning." Tears rolled down Raven's face as she realized she lost the only man she ever loved. To add insult to injury she had to lose him to someone like you.
Eric nodded and went to pack an overnight bag to stay at your place. You two had a lot to talk about.
You moaned Eric's name in your sleep as he pleasured you in your dreams. The feeling was becoming so intense your eyes fluttered open to find it was not a dream. Eric was kneeling by your bed , his fingers in your boy shorts pleasuring you. You moaned and closed your eyes as you felt an orgasm rise. Forgetting how mad you were at him you leaned up to try to kiss him and he pulled back, burying his fingers deeper into you.
"Eric….I need you inside me." You moaned as your hand pushed his fingers even deeper.
"No…I want to see your face. I've missed your beautiful face. Come for me." Eric whispered as he found your g-spot and massaged it. You gave him what he wanted you came long and hard and Eric watched your beautiful face as pleasure took over. When your orgasm subsided Eric finally leaned and gave you a hard passionate kiss.
"Why did you leave?" You asked as he lifted up from your kiss, pulled his hand out of your shorts and licked his fingers of your juices. Eric walked to the other side of your bed, stripped off his clothes and got in the bed with you.
"I needed to think." He finally said.
"About being a father?"
"Precisely." Eric pulled you in his arms.
"You were so dead set on the child being yours why would it scare you away?"
"It didn't scare me away Y/N but when I actually saw my name on the paper it hit me like a ton of bricks that I was going to be someone's father. I was going to have a kid. I went home to see family and to remember what kind of father I had. He is not the type of man I want to be for you and he is not the type of father I want to be for my kid. I can't promise you I will be hands on in the beginning but I will be around and in my child's life. As you know I am not a very emotional man but I will be here for you and the kid as best as I know how."
You nodded your head as you listened. You leaned up and softly kissed his lips.
"I just want you to try your best. That is all I ask."
"I will I promise." Eric made love to you gently again and you did not ask for any roughness. You wanted to slowly feel his desire for you.
"You have my heart Y/N." Eric whispered in your ear as you both came together.
"And you have mine." You told him as he gathered you in his arms. As Eric caressed your face, you fell into a deep sleep.
Eric gently moved from your tight embrace, threw on his boxers and went to the bathroom.
After returning from the local bar, Jen tried to focus as she tried to put the key to her apartment in the keyhole. She kept missing, as her vision was showing her two doorknobs. Jen closed her eyes and tried to focus she opened her eyes and finally only saw one doorknob and successfully got her key in. Just as he turned the lock she felt a sharp heated pain in her back. A hand covered her mouth from behind and she heard Raven's voice warning her to be quiet.
"Open the door bitch!" Raven hissed in her ear. Jen felt another sharp pain in her back and she realized Raven had stabbed her twice. Jen looked to the floor and saw her own blood dripping on the floor. Jen began to become faint and Raven turned the doorknob and pushed her and Jen in. Before Jen could scream to warn you, Raven hit her in the back of the head with a heavy object knocking Jen out.
You were jolted awake by what felt like a punch to the stomach. You opened your eyes to find Raven straddling on top of you stabbing you in the stomach. Before you could scream, she covered your mouth with her hand.
"Shut up you filthy whore!" She hissed in your ear. "You will not take Eric from me!"
She continued stabbing you in the stomach with a butterfly knife and you tried to block her stabs to only have your hands sliced. You felt numb as you saw the knife plunge into you repeatedly.
Eric stopped short when he walked out the bathroom and saw Raven straddling you, stabbing you in the stomach and you trying to push her off. He lunged for Raven when she turned and pointed the knife at him releasing her hand from over your mouth.
"I knew you would be here with this mousy slut. If I can't have you no one will. I will kill her and the baby." Raven seethed at Eric.
"Raven…."
"If you come any closer I will slice her throat right now and then I will kill you."
"Eric…." You called to him hoarsely.
Jen came to in a pool of her blood. She carefully got up wincing in pain and as fast as her body would let her, she went straight to your room to find Raven on top of you and Eric trying to calm her down. With Raven's back to you, she did not see Jen come in. Eric saw Jen in his peripheral vision but he did not react to Jen's presence in hopes not to alarm Raven. Jen mustered all her strength and despite her wounds, she charged at Raven effectively knocking her off you. Raven landed on the floor as she got up Eric charged for her.
"You bitch!" Eric roared as he grabbed Raven. Knife still in hand Raven stabbed Eric in the chest. The stab wound did not faze Eric as he knocked the knife out of Raven's hand.
"How dare you come after her!" Eric grabbed the sides of Raven's head and quickly and efficiently twists her head with such force he snapped her neck. He let Raven go as her lifeless body fell with a loud thud to the ground.
"I'm going to call emergency!" Jen said rushing out the door to her phone. Eric dropped to his knees beside you as you cried out in pain holding your stomach as blood gushed from your stab sites.
"Eric the baby!" You cried as the pain began to become unbearable.
"The baby will be fine." Eric assured you. You looked at Eric's handsome face and despite your pain you realized just how much you loved him. He just killed to protect you.
You started to become sleepy. You lifted a bloody hand and caressed Eric's face leaving trails of blood on his cheeks and lips.
"I love you Eric." You whispered.
"Don't you dare! Don't you dare say goodbye!" Eric was beside himself. He could not lose you.
"Where's emergency!" He yelled to Jen.
"On their way." She called back as she tried to wrap bandages on her wounds until she gets to the infirmary.
"The hell with this. They are taking too long. Hold on baby." Eric wrapped the sheet around your naked body and lifted you up in his arms. You cried out in pain from the movement.
"I got you. I got you. Just hold on Y/N! Don't leave me. You can't leave me."
Seeing Eric carry you out the room in his arms, Jen quickly opened the door for him and followed behind him to the infirmary. You laid your head on Eric's chest which was bleeding from his stab wound and closed your eyes. You just wanted to sleep. You wanted the pain to go away.
"Y/N don't close your eyes. Stay with me baby!" Eric shouted at you to jar you awake. It wasn't working you couldn't keep your eyes open. You closed your eyes despite Eric's pleads and went limp in his arms.