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A twisted return

Chapter 69

Tobias P.O.V

So many emotions are running through me right now, anger, impatient, hurt, thankful and fear. Peter says he won't harm Tris, just like in return we have to keep his woman safe. The moment he told me her address and full name we wasted no time in recovering her. We place her in a safe place with three of the best cops in the city guarding her. We knew the next step was to arrest Evelyn on charges for kidnapping, assault, and trafficking. I wanted to go with them to arrest her, I wanted to confront the woman that calls herself my mother. I want, no I need to know WHY! Why and how could any person that calls themselves a mother, do this to their child? Too bad Zeke wouldn't let me go with them to arrest her. Too many liabilities to allow me to go.

I take a breath trying to steady myself. What if Evelyn didn't go to Peter? What if she found someone that would do the job she wanted no questions ask? I would have lost Tris again, this time for good. I am so grateful to Peter right now.

Peter hated himself at the end of the war. He wanted a new start, to not remember the evil he did. I remember him taking the serum watching his memories drain out of him. You could see it in his eyes, he was no longer the evil, monstrous Peter any more. He was a honest, innocent man. I wonder what he will do now that he has those memories back. He has baby himself on the way. He can't just retake another serum, he would risk loosing the family he created. He wouldn't do that, would he? To think once again, Evelyn has managed to destroy so many lives to selfishly get what she wants. I wish I could hate her, wish her to be gone. But she is still the woman that gave me life. But Tris gave life to our daughter, and she choose to be here. She continues to choose me as well. She chooses to be where she belongs with her family, and love us day in and day out. I wonder how she is feeling now that she remembers everything... Damn it, I hate that everything is so out of wack. All because of one woman, my fucking mother.

I am escorted into the interrogation room. Zeke on my tail, "I can get you ten minutes. But that's it." We walk in , I take the seat across from Evelyn and wait silently. At first I can't meet her eyes, but than I stare endlessly into her. I can feel my "Four Mask" taking residence on my face. Zeke movements catches my eye, I watch him turn off the cameras in the room. My mind can't help but wonders to the bond him and I share. This man, who as always accepted me as his brother, who for 9 months thought I had a hand killing his brother... Yet he always stuck by me, always supported and looked out for me. Someone I don't share any D.N.A with, yet some how I share this unconditional bond with. Zeke didn't think twice when we left for the Bureau, he was there every step of the way.

Yet my mother, the woman whom gave me life, who cared me for nine months under her heart, who watched me take my first steps, my first words, my first smile, and she has no regards for my happiness or my family's well being. I sigh to myself, how stupid I must be, I let her fool me.

Two years ago she reached out to me, wanting me to leave Dauntless to join her in the factionless sector of Chicago. What a selfish act, to ask your child to leave what can give him stability in life? I knew at the time not to trust her, she left me behind, didn't give me a second thought when she left me behind with the monstrous Marcus. How can a mother do that? How could someone you love just up and leave and not look back at her only child?

I pondered for days after that... looking internally what I must have done wrong. But then I realized something, her leaving me behind says everything about her and nothing about me. I choose not to persuade a relationship with her. Sure I thought about leaving dauntless at one point. Things were changing and for the worst. But than that all changed with the sight of one woman, jumping into the my heart. Tris even told me she didn't trust her, and it didn't take her long to come to that choice.

Than all hell broke loose, and even though she did betray the factors and tried to take over the city. I wanted so badly for her to choose me, over power. For her to be the mother that she should have been, the mother that she said she wanted to be. At the end she did, she choose me over power. I was so relived. Tris showed me that I deserved to be love, that I was worth being loved. It gave me the confidence I needed to ask for what I needed directly to Evelyn. Than the next day my world shattered, seeing the love of my life "dead" in the morgue at the Bureau...

It was than I let all the walls down for Evelyn, sure we were still having rocky moments. But I needed her love, I needed my mother to help me through the pain. Even if I am a grown ass man. I needed all the love and support from her and everyone else. Even if I had a hard time expressing it.

When I brought Tris and Abigail home, I had hoped that Evelyn and Tris could get passed their difference. That some how the four of us could learn to be a family. Maybe Abigail could have two loving parents and at least one loving grandmother. Boy was I wrong, and for so long naive. She knew Tris was alive, she knew Tris was pregnant with Abigail, she knew the hell she was being put through... yet she did nothing. Even if she hated Tris, she should have thought about the innocent child she placed in danger. For what? To keep me by her side? Than to make matters even more worst, Evelyn arranged Peter to kidnap her before our wedding. She tried to make it look like Tris left both me and Abigail behind. Evelyn thought so little about the love I have for Tris. I know Tris would die fighting to be next to me, I also know that she will stop at nothing to be with Abigail. She would never abandon her child, even if things went south with me and Tris. She would NEVER leave her children behind.

I finally see Zeke glaring at me as he leaves the room. Ten minutes, I won't need that long.

My hands are resting, clasped together on the table. I lean back in my chair, finally giving her the death stare. She doesn't back down, it's obvious I got the glare from her.

"How could you?" I ask her.

"She shouldn't have come back, you were fine. You were moving past everything. We were finally a family." She says not meeting my eyes.

"I was fine? I was moving past things? Is that really what you thought Evelyn? Wow you could be farther from the truth. I wanted nothing more than to join Tris in death every day. No matter how much time passed, the feeling was getting stronger to be with her. Honestly, I don't know how much longer I would have been able to hold on." I sigh, no one knows the deep dark thoughts that were hitting me. The most they knew were about the memory serum, Chris almost was too late to stop me. "Evelyn, there will be charges filed against you. A trail, and judgment will be carried out. After all this, I want to make this very clear. NEVER COME NEAR ME OR MY FAMILY EVER AGAIN! I want nothing to do with you. You did this! We could have been a family, you could have had me and Abigail. All you had to do was accept Tris, to have a heart. To love and respect me. The moment you found out about Tris you should have came to me. Should have told me and helped me get her. But no, you needed to control everything. You know, you and Marcus are not that different." I say.

"Don't you dare compare me to that Monster." She says glaring her emotions at me.

"You and Marcus are not that different." I say again. "Different actions, but same result. You both want to control everything and will stop at nothing to get what you want. Not caring who you step on in the process. Both of you neglected me as a child. All actions, from hitting your child to walking away is still a form of neglect, Evelyn. Even if you didn't want me to be factionless, you could have told the authorities about Marcus' abusive behavior. They could have had me adopted, or best case thrown him to the wolves and you remains with me. But you wanted none of that. You took the easy way out and left me with a abusive father. A coward that would come home and beat me til unconscious, who would lock me up in the closet for days, not to mention that slavery and mental abuse. Yet you did nothing. You might as well had held that belt yourself." I sigh getting everything off my chest. "Have a good life Evelyn. Please leave us alone." I say getting up and walking out of the room, never looking back, never letting her respond to me words.