So thank you so much for the reviews I got for the last chapter! It made me happy! I almost wish this wasn't the epilogue, but it is.
:(But thank you for telling me to write the epilogue, I really wanted to. Thank you all for what each and everyone of you guys has ever said to me, it made me a better writer, it motivated me and encouraged me and I want to thank everyone for that, I never expected my writing to get liked like it was. If you want to read more of what I write I have more stories, including a Divergent High School one, which is currently in a 'best divergent high school' poll on Sunni96s' page so please read and then go to her page and vote!:D So enjoy the last update ever for this story!
EPILOGUE:
Many things had happened since that night that Tris, Tobias, and Uriah arrived back at Dauntless. Throughout the years, Tris worked as an ambassador, at least during the times that all the factions weren't at war. As soon as the story of what Erudite did to the Dauntless members got out, Dauntless declared war on Erudite. At the beginning, the other factions stayed out of it but by the first year Amity was fighting with Dauntless, Candor with Erudite and Abnegation divided equally between both. After most of the city had been destroyed, the factionless decided to help out with the war efforts, by joining the Dauntless side. After more conflict, a film was found, speaking of a world outside. Immediately more chaos erupted. Everyone -everyone being the less than 40 percent of the community that wasn't killed- wanted to find out what the world outside was. However there was a conflicting group - consisting mostly of Amity and Candor- who did not want to leave their little 'bubble' of safety. And so, just days after the initial war ended, another began. This one however only lasted six days. While the majority of people had continued to fight, a small number, including Tris and Tobias, had left in a small group to investigate the world beyond the gates.
Unlike most people seemed to think, the world outside was not just a fantasy world separate from the faction society- it was a wasteland. The world they had been living in was, in fact, a 'bubble of safety . The whole world was annihilated: nuclear waste, radioactivity, mutations, everything the film that had ended the war had stated. The small group returned with the news.
As soon as the news had been reported, the war ended for a second time. Not long after that a new government was elected, consisting of 10 representatives, each some kind of war hero or leader, someone who people believed had the right to lead an entire community of people. As time went on the government continued to be tweaked with, until six years later, was finally settled. In the year that followed, the 10 leaders disposed of the factions. In their place, the society was aiming to embody all the traits of the factions as one. Although many people fought against this idea at first- threats of a third war taking place were common- it finally sunk in. However, the factions never could be erased from peoples memories. Most people tried to break free of the shackles the factions had put us in but some refused to change their mind set. Many gangs were formed, all of which the new government tried to disassemble. One of the first laws laid out by the government stated that gangs formed in the mindset of a faction were illegal. After two years of only 10 people ruling an entire society people decided more people needed to be involved. Each of the 10 leaders had a council board. Each board had their own beliefs, each originating from the 10 leaders. No one way of thinking would rule the community. Many more job opportunities became available, such as ambassador, Tris' job.
She had become the ambassador for the 7th council. Their motto is the unity of all. This council believed in accepting all the ways of thinking, allowing what you want to be carried out, and allowing freedom of belief. Many of the 'cases' Tris was sent to settle involved old faction rivalries and distaint: an old Erudite quarreling with a Dauntless about what happened in the past, or something along those lines.
While Tris was an ambassador, Tobias had become a computer operator at the government headquarters.
Two years before that, right as the new government was forming, Tobias decided to make Tris his wife. They got married a year later, when Tris was 23 and Tobias 25. They moved into a small house, in one of the newly created neighborhoods. During those first years, everything was under construction, cleaning up and rebuilding. Everything with factions done away. The old Erudite members fought to allow faction headquarters remain intact for future generations to see what life had been like before. In the end, the headquarters stayed up but no one lived in them.
Three years after the wars ended, everything seemed normal, people were adjusting to their new life styles, most settling into new houses and raising their families like normal. Just like many others, Tris and Tobias had their first child. It wasn't the first time Tris had gotten pregnant. During the second war, when she had ventured outside of the fence, the radioactive exposure caused the six month old embryo die in Tris' stomach. Her second pregnancy had been long awaited by Tobias, who was eager to become a dad, however Tris was still haunted by her first unborn child.
When the child was born, Tris and Tobias moved to a larger house. After their first born reached his second birthday, two new members were added to the family, and one was almost lost. Tris had twins, one girl, one boy, but the effort had almost been too much for her small body. But like everything else she had endured, she made it through.
Like a typical morning, Tris woke up to the small voice of her three year old daughter, Amaris. She turned her head towards Tobias, checking to make sure he was still next to her, a habit she had developed from the wars, and climbed out of bed, following Amaris into the kitchen.
Sitting at the table was Alexander, Amaris' twin, and Gabriel, who was five. Gabriel greatly resembled Tobias, with his deep set eyes and hocked nose, but was blonde with Tris' blue eyes. Alexander greatly resembled Tobias, with his hair and eyes, but had Tris' smaller nose. Amaris was practically a carbon copy of Tris, resembling her in every way and acting just as Tris does.
Tris went to the stove and prepared a pan of plain scrambled eggs, an Abnegation dish that holds many pleasant memories of her family, all of which are dead. At Alexander's persistence, buttered toast is always served with breakfast as well.
As she begins preparing coffee, a pair of sturdy arms wrap around her, like the do every morning, bringing with them the feeling of safety and assurance, of love and a life full of joy. Tris turn around in Tobias' arms and is greeted by a gentle kiss to her forehead.
It is like this every morning, one of the things that never changes. It reminds both Tobias and Tris of the simple lives of Abnegation, a part of them that they hold onto despite everything that's happened. Even though so much has happened to them, so much loss, destruction and death, neither of them would take back a second of it. For everything that happened to them was something that molded them into who they are now.
If given the choice, Tris would not have changed her decision to not stayed at the shelter during a bombing despite Tobias' pleas for her to stay safe. Although her misbehavior was the cause of an enormous fight, an almost breakup, Tris would never take it back. It only strengthened their relationship.
Some things, even the bad, were not meant to be taken back.
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