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My Soldiers Boots Part 5

On her way home Tris gets a text from Susan saying that Cate passed on 10 minutes later. She kicks ground and picks at the small sock that's in her pocket. Becca's sock fell off on their way out of the airport, and she whined because the cold air tickled her feet.

Now Tris is whining as she walks back to the Eaton's house. The air is no longer that chilling, but the sky that's just clouding over. Geez Cate, why do you have to let it rain? Can't you make sunny? That would make me feel less like crap.

A black Cadillac passes her on the way back, all the windows are completely tinted. She watches it pass, slowly but it passes. She turns the corner and looks at the Eaton's house down the street. She turns her heel and marches back down the opposite direction.

She can't go back there not yet. Evelyn will hug her and make her more depressed than she already is. Marcus is the only one who didn't actually try to make her feel better, and well he's a jack-ass, but she wouldn't expect anything else.

Becca and I are going to have to get out of there. What's the point of us staying there if there isn't going to be any news of him for Lord knows how long. We are going to have to go on with our life like nothing happened and learn how to live on without him being here. This is going to be good for Becca, maybe healthier for me. We can do this. We have to do this.

Tris catches the bus and gets off at the stop near her house. She walks in and starts to clean up the place a bit for when her and Becca get here. They toys go in the bin, the dog food gets swept off the floor, the bathtub looses half the toys that were in it to entertain the baby. She makes her bed again, puts away some dishes, and vacuums the living room. Then she starts dusting, she cleans up so much and so fast she just can't stop.

She then texts Christina to bring the dogs back here, and then she makes her way home. Will and Christina will know what to do. Knowing them they will probably hang around the house. She says to herself as she gets onto the bus and heads towards the Eaton's house again.

Tris knows that she's late for dinner when she walks towards the door, but of course she doesn't care. When she opens the door she hears fighting going on in the kitchen and Becca is sitting on the couch with her two sleeping cousins around her. "Come on baby were going home." Tris says picking her daughter up. "We are going home and we are going to live a normal life, now lets go get packed up now shall we?"

She and the small child walk out of the living room. Tris grabs the suitcase that she took for her and Becca's stuff to go into and then turns on some music and puts in one her headphones in to drown out some of the fighting. "So today an old lady that I work for told me something. She told me to tell you how your father and I fell in love, how I first felt when I met him, the things that drive me crazy about him, and what he did for you that is still apart of you. Well I am going to tell you everything.

"I first met your father when he was a senior in high school. I was supposed to be a junior but you know I hated high school and I hated living at home so I decided to get emancipated and get my GED. Most people call the GED a 'good enough degree' but you know you can prove them wrong, I did. I went to college and I decided I wanted to be a physical therapist, but that doesn't matter, I'm telling you about your father. We met at a party that Uncle Caleb drug me to. I was mad at him, but you know I'm glad that he did. I was drug into a game of truth or dare by one of my friends I met who was also in college. She got her GED too and she is into cosmetology. She's probably the best hairstylist in all of Chicago now. Well were playing truth or dare and I was dared to play a game that your never allowed to play called seven minutes of heaven with a boy that I didn't know. Well that boy was your father. We didn't do anything, when we got into the closet I just crossed my arms and glared at him, which he thought was absolutely hilarious. Apparently when I did that I was 'cute'. Which wasn't what I was going for. Of course your father being the trickster he was and he had a reputation to maintain decided to act like we were doing something. So I'm going to skip this part cause you are a little young for it yet. Christina might tell you about it when your a lot older.

"Well that is how I met your father and after that night I hated his guts. Of course though I couldn't stop seeing him where ever I went. We worked at a youth center together and of course after that week I was paired up with him for all the activities that year. I started to like him a little bit, we teased each other. He took my shoes and hung them around the rim of the basketball hoop and I pushed him in the pool and the water activated a dye that I put on his swim trunks that turned them pink. Then one day your father asked me out. I had to agree cause Christina made me. We went to the park actually and talked and he bought me a hamburger. Because he was paying and I felt like being a jerk I got a double bacon cheese burger that was absolutely amazing. He watched me eat the whole thing and then teased me afterwards because it was apparently bigger than me. He later told me that he liked me after he saw me eat that burger. It was a test. If I turned down the burger then he knew I wasn't the girl for him because he thinks its lame if girls turn down such good food. But I went to the next level and got a huge burger and ate it all. I obviously passed the test.

"We dated all the way until I was 18 when we decided to get married. Your father was going to go into the military that year and we were crazy about each other. So we decided to get married. It was a small wedding, just our family and friends. It was a beautiful June day, the grass was green and everyone was in good spirits cause it rained the night before. A few months later your father had to leave. It was hard to let him go. I was alone without you to keep me company. I was sad because I no longer was able to yell at him for putting his shoes by the door, or he wasn't there to get the stuff I can't reach, or he wasn't there to stand behind me while I got ready and make funny faces in the mirror to distract me to the point of me kicking him. But he came home and we were both happy. You soon came along and your father and I would fight to see who would get to name you. We didn't want to find out if your were a boy or a girl cause we both thought we knew. You see I thought you were a boy, don't take offense to that I still love you even though you aren't, and your father thought you were a girl. The part of the bet was that whoever was right about what you were would get to name you and would get out diaper duty. Well your father won, he named you Rebecca Jade Eaton. For the sake of my sanity I call you Becca and Becks for short. But your father calls you Becky, and he is the only one that does.

"He loves you so much it probably hurts. I graduated from grad school shortly after you were born and during the graduation he got to hold you the whole time in public and everyone thought that you two together were so adorable and you two were. You almost style my day with all your cuteness. Oh I'm all done packing I'll tell more about it later. Let's go get in the car and had home. I'm sure Bear and Rex are dying to see you."

Tris picks up the suitcase filled with stuff and grabs the baby and they walk out of the room. Fighting is still going on in the kitchen so they had out careful not to disturb anyone. "I'll just call Grandma later tonight."

They make there way onto the porch and a man in a suit comes to them. It's the same black Cadillac that she saw earlier. "Ma'am I forgot to get you these earlier. These are some of your husband's belongings." Tris takes the small bag.

Tris stands quiet until the man leaves in his fancy Cadillac. Then she starts to shake, and she sets the suitcase down and she slowly sinks down on the steps. She doesn't cry, not wanting to cry in public.

"It's okay Becca, we will get through this. It's okay baby." Tris mumbles more to herself even though that message was meant Becca.

Becca manages to get in the small bag and she dumps out the contents. A very outdated phone falls on the porch along with a picture of Becca and a picture on Tris lands on her little lap.

Evelyn comes racing out of the house, "Tris what are you doing?"

"Leaving, we don't need to be here all of us. Not when- not when-" She breaks off and leans against the railing.

"Here come inside." Evelyn pulls her in.

"I was going to tell you, but you guys were fighting and I didn't want to interrupt." Tris sets down Becca who runs to the kitchen. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"We were going to tell you, but-"

"Beautiful?" A low rumbling voice comes from behind her. Tris whips around and sees three men stand in the kitchen doorway. Marcus, John, and Tobias.

"Tobias?"

"Oh Beautiful." Tobias comes up to her and picks her up and kisses her. He holds onto her tight afraid to let her go. "You have no idea how long I wanted to do that." He says as he pulls back, setting her down.

Tris, who completely forgot what she was going to say smiles and wraps her arms around him, her head resting on his chest. "I love you, I love you."

"I love you too." He says, his voice rumbling wonderfully in her ear.

Becca starts whining at their feet causing both of them to laugh.

"What?" Tobias says pulling out of his wife's grip. "Are you finally ready to be part of the family reunion." He picks up his baby girl and hugs her. "I love you too Becky."

"Daddy." Becca squeals when Tobias picks her up and she rests her head under his neck.

Evelyn gives her daughter a side hug and watches the whole thing play out. "Its a good thing you watched Tris walk out of the house or else we wouldn't get to witness this."

"Yeah no kidding." Sarah looks at her mother. "What's for supper I'm starving."

"So are your brothers." Evelyn says with a small laugh. "We are having hamburgers and fries, I even picked up a cake after work."

"Dauntless?"

"Of course."

"Yes. I've never more happy."

"Either have I. I have three beautiful children, all happy, healthy and not to mention all alive. Three happy grandchildren, who could want anything more?"

"Tobias just stop kissing your wife. Lets eat I'm starving." John groans from the corner. Kendra slaps his stomach, because of his outburst, but John doesn't care. He's just happy that his brother is home and that they will be together so they can tease each other again.

"So then because he has to have the last word he decided to throw the baseball at my head, but his aim sucks and he ended up throwing the ball over the fence hitting our, then elderly neighbor right in the back." Tobias says recalling a childhood memory of him and John when they were about 10 and 7.

"Hey my aim was better than yours."

"Who's the sharp shooter of the family?" Tobias says smirking.

"Oh he got you." Sarah says from her spot by the counter.

John makes a very un-mature face at his little sister.

"Son how come you didn't come home with the rest of your squad?" Marcus asks leaning in looking Tobias in the eye. Tobias glares at his father not happy bringing up this subject. The mood in the room changes from light and happy to a bit more serious. Tobias was going to tell Tris how he got home later tonight because he didn't want his wife to freak out here.

"I don't know, I ended up on a totally different course than the others." Marcus looks at his son, expecting him to tell the whole story. "It was 9:00 in the morning there, I just gotten done with my morning jog with Zeke and we were heading into the building that we took over for our purposes. We were talking to some of our other friends trying to get them to cool down. Eric was being a dick. " Tobias learned to lay off the swearing around his daughter and nieces and nephew because they did repeat him. "I just pulled Rex -Ben- away from Eric and we were going to get ready for the day. Amar had Zeke, Rex, and I get some stuff from outside and the next thing I knew there were gun shots and Rex went down. A bullet skimmed my right shoulder and my right side. Zeke and I managed to move Rex away from the gun fire and we ran back inside to help evacuate the others. Bumpers layed on the floor of the buildings lobby so I grabbed him and I managed to get Monkey outside. Gun fire was everywhere. Zeke and I headed to where Rex and the others were at and I got shot on the way, on my right side right next to where the last bullet skimmed me. A bullet hit a few tank near by and the building blew up and everything went black to me.

"I woke up two days later in a hospital in Germany. Apparently a bunch of Amity Insurgents came in after the Erudite Insurgents left and they took some of the wounded ended up with them. I don't know who the others were, we all ended up in a bunch of different hospitals. I needed surgery apparently, and they couldn't do it on me right away because I had a bunch of this serum in my body that the Amity injected into me. Then when I was able to walk around and lift things a few hours later, I was shipped to France to answer questions. Trust me having a bunch of people yelling at you in French is not fun. Lucky me all those foreign languages classes that you made me take helped." He says looking at his mother.

"I was shipped to France, Denmark, Norway, Ireland, Italy, and Spain. They all wanted my take on what happened and what we were doing to cause that, of course I don't know what we did to cause that so I was at a complete loss. When all those countries realized that didn't know anything I was shipped off back to the United States and then I ended up in New York where I met up with Amar and then he took me to back to Chicago. Now I'm here." Tobias grabs his wife's hand from under the table, she just looks at him.

Evelyn and John join in on the staring contest, Marcus starts to look smug and Sarah stares at her plate.

"Now, now before you say anything, I'm fine they patched me up I'm fine." Tobias says mostly to Tris and she shakes her head. He shifts uncomfortably in his seat. "You know I don't like it when people look at me like that, like I'm a kicked dog or something like that."

"Well your are not a kicked dog but-" John starts.

"That's right I'm not a kicked dog and that's it."

"Tobias-" Evelyn starts.

"Mom I'm don't talking about it."

"Will you stop being so stubborn for once in your life? Tobias this is news for us. So of course we are just going to freak out. Why can't you see that?" Sarah says to her brother.

Tobias puts down his napkin and isn't worried about gets up. "Come on Becky you are ."

Evelyn looks at her husband, extremely mad at him. "Thank you Marcus for ruining this night."

Tris walks into Tobias's old bedroom where she finds him laying on him bed with Becca sitting beside him playing with a doll. "I'm sorry for being such a jerk tonight, I'm just tired and cranky, I guess." He says not looking at her and she sits in his old computer chair.

She doesn't say anything, she just sits in front of him. "You know the last time we were in my old bedroom together was my high school graduation day." He places his hands behind his head and stares at the ceiling. "We decided that we were going to get married that night. That doesn't seem so long ago. Its been five years. I remember telling you that night I was going to get you a ring when I could afford one.

"I remember that night very well. You snuck into my room that night, saying that you had a bad dream about something and I wasn't answering my cell phone. Then we spent that night together, in my bed. That was the first time ever." He smirks at the ceiling and sighs.

"I remember that night too. I remember that you almost had a panic attack when I snuck into your room. You said something about a break-in in some of the houses down the street and your house being next."

"I didn't want you getting injured by that thief."

"Or you didn't want Mommy and Daddy catching us together in bed."

"That too-"

Tris slightly laughs and curls up next to him. "You can be a big chicken sometimes."

"Yeah, yeah."

She snuggles under his shoulder, "Are you conceding?"

"Just a bit."

"Holy crap I never thought I would ever see this."

He rolls his eyes.

"I love you." She kisses him right underneath his chin.

"Does this mean I am forgiven?"

"Maybe."

He rolls to his side and kisses her, she kisses back hard and they were really getting into it right when Becca starts making a bunch of noise. "We will never be able to do stuff like that alone again." He says.

"Yeah you better get used to it."

"That's going to be hard, especially because you look extremely hot. Especially when you are angry with me."

She rolls her eyes. "Whatever, do you want to go home? Where we will have more room in a bigger bed, in a house of our own."

"That sounds nice, really, really nice."

"You know did I tell you that you look extremely handsome in uniform, but you look even more handsome out of it."

"Wha-ah-oh look who is having dirty thoughts now."

"Well I was thinking about how long its been since-"

"You had me at bigger bed, lets go."

Tobias pulls her up and they leave to go home. Both ready to spend the rest of their lives together.

When Tris gets home Tobias takes off his boots right by the door, like he always does. He leaves to take a shower and Tris goes to put his boots away. These are my soldier boots. They took him on many journeys, kept him safe in times of trouble, they made many memories without me, they spent time with him even when he didn't want anyone around, they reminded him of the task at hand and the goal of the that task, and they brought him home to me. Just what they were meant to do. My soldiers boots are my friend.

That's the end. its was fun to write. Do you want a chapter just in Tobias's point of view on the day that he came home? Review and tell me what you want! But it really has been fun writing this story and I loved it. We hope you did too and we hope that it touched you in some way that you will remember.