A/N: Didn't think I'd update this fast, but since a few people actually liked my first chapter, I thought I'd give a teaser into Tris' life. I won't lie she's a bit different from book Tris, already without her fear of 'intimacy'. This will be considered chapter 1 within the plot.
A Different Life CH1
Tris, 11 years later
I never thought I'd be able to make it past initiation, let alone rank first place. As I stand with all my friends, looking up at the list of names presented, there I am at the very top. Cheers and screams sound from all around while Christina, Will and I hug each other tight, sounding our excitement. They leave me to find Marlene and Lynn, while Uriah comes up to give me a huge bear hug, lifting me from my waist to spin us around.
"We did it!" His smile shines bright as we continue to twirl, I lean back with my arms out wide and laugh out loud. Setting me down, he gives me a sloppy kiss on my cheek before running off to find his girl.
"I think someone needs to pay up for a certain bet." With butterflies in my stomach, I turn around to see my leader and instructor.
"Are you sure you can handle it?" I smirk.
"Oh hell yeah, you do know who you're talking to right?" He wraps his arms around my waist, pulling me against him. His warm, firm body sends chills up my spine. Sliding my arms around his neck, I lean up and press a confident kiss against his lips, us both melting together smoothly. Sparks fly between the two of us, hands latched to each other without any feeling of apprehension. When we come apart, he looks down at me with a wicked smile, then licks his bottom lip that was just between my teeth. He clears his throat, looking around at the people around us. He takes my hand nonchalantly and we leave the hall.
Later, when all the parties are over and the cheers have finally been silenced, I lay beside Eric in his bed. After a night of learning each other's minds and bodies, he sleeps soundly with our clothes decorating the room. His face soften almost looks happy, the studs on his face glistening in the light left on from the bathroom. I run my finger down from the bridge of his nose to his pink lips, tracing their rounds curves until he stirs, opening his mouth to take my finger lightly between his teeth.
"Ouch," I giggle, pulling my hand away and sliding down the pillows to be face to face with him. He opens his eyes to look straight into mine, half hooded and groggy, and pulls me closer to him, resting his hand on my lower back.
"How long have you been up?" He asks, voice raspy and husky, making warmth fill my lower abdomen.
"Only a little while, couldn't get back to sleep after I woke up." I run my finger along his eyebrows, brushing the metal imbedded within, following course along his body until I get to his defined chest.
"So you just decided to play with my face until I got up to entertain you?" He jokes.
"No, I was actually hoping for round three..." My finger slides down to his belly button, circling it slowly and softly.
"How Dauntless of you," he chuckles, taking the hand I have on his stomach and intwining our fingers. "but you seriously tired me out last time, how about some breakfast first?"
"Sounds lovely." Smiling, he gets up and leads me to the kitchen. Sitting on a stool along the island, I wait for him to finish up with our eggs.
"You transferred from Erudite," I say, breaking our silence.
"Thank you for noticing."
"You don't need to be a smart mouth I was just starting a conversation." He turns from the stove to look at me, turning fully with a pan in hand, pushing some of its contents onto the plate settled in front of me and the spare seat to my left. Setting the pan down, he walks around and sits beside me, eating slowly.
"Why do you want to talk to me about defecting?" He says without looking up.
"Why wouldn't I. Shouldn't that have been a big part of your life? If I'm gonna be sleeping with you, I'm gonna have to get to know you a bit." The sharp tone in my voice obviously proves that I'm serious about this. I mean why would I sleep with a guy if he's just gonna be all secretive? Finally looking up at me, he sighs and turns to face me, his eyebrow raised.
"What do you wanna know?"
"Well first, of course I wanna know why. People don't transfer without a reason. People may throw 'faction before blood' around, but it's still a hard thing to come to a decision about. Believe me, I should know." His face stays his usual stone cold expression, but now that I have spent more time with him, I can tell he's really thinking through whether he'll tell me or not. With a long huff and the avoidance of my eyes, Eric finally starts to open up.
"I defected because of the test. There's not much else to say. The simulation proved I was Dauntless. What else do you want me to say?" He's lying.
"Eric," I rest my hand on his, leaning closer and putting my chin on his shoulder, my lips centimetres from his ear. Whispering I say, "you can trust me with anything." He shakes his head.
"Why should I believe you?" The weakness in his voice kills me the second it comes. Taking his face in my hands, I turn him to look at me. I look between both his eyes, mapping his bright grey-silver irises. Leaning in while Eric does the same, our lips crashing together with fevered passion. Pulling back, I feel something I've never felt before.
"You can trust me, because I know I can trust you. I can prove it to you." My heart pounds out of my chest as each word slips through my lips.
Breathing heavily, he asks me how I could possible do that. I giggle, taking his hand and telling him something I'll never tell anyone else again.
"I'm divergent."
I know the timeline might be confusing at first, Tobias in the first chapter was 7, this is 11 years later, so Tris is 16 and Tobias/Eric are 18. I know 16 is a bit young for what they've done In this chapter but is Allegiant any better? I don't think so.