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Sorry that I didn't update when I said I was going to. Writers block seriously sucks, and having some finals, and other school work going on doesn't help with the writing process either. So enjoy the next few chapters that are to come.

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Chapter 21 – A Gift for Tris and A Story

Tobias' POV

After leaving the hospital, I arrived at the pit in the Dauntless compound. By the time I get to the stores, it's 9:30 p.m., and half of them are closed, so that makes my options for Tris' surprise limited. I look around and find a store that sells things to dauntless born babies.

Walking into the store, I see Shauna working at the register. I'm surprised to see her here, seeing as I haven't heard from her for a while. Or even Zeke for that matter. I go up to the register and she is surprised to see me as I am to see her. "Four! I haven't seen you in while. What brings you here?" she asks whit a curious and suspicious look on her face. Great, how am I going to explain my being here when Tris wanted to keep the twins a secret until we couldn't keep them hidden any longer. I have to come up with an excuse, and fast. "I'm here to pick up something's for a friend of mine. And since they are busy, they asked me to come here and get they needed for them." Nice excuse, Four. Not…

Her face shows curiosity and some understanding but she doesn't say anything. Does that mean she knows I'm lying, or does she believe me? "Well, Four. I never expected to see you in here since Jake and Jenna." She smiles, and I smile as well, thinking about the two little monsters. "Speaking of them, how are they doing?" "They're doing great. Jake just turned 8 and Jenna just turned 7. You should come visit sometime next week when you're not working." She smiles and says ok. "Oh and by the way, Shauna. Have you seen Zeke around lately?" I ask her.

Her face goes blank for a split second then speaks again. "You know Zeke. Always being who knows where doing who knows what." She says. We both laugh a little, then something comes to mind. "Hey, Shauna, how come you're working here? I never expected to see you working in a place like this." I say to her full of curiosity.

"Well, I heard what is going on with Bear from Will. So I thought it would be a good idea to get earn some money and help out to pay for the care Bear needs if and when he leaves the vets." She says with a small smile. I smile back at her. "Thanks Shauna. Did you hear about Tris too?" I mentally smack myself in the face. Nice going Four. Of course she doesn't know, idiot. Only Will and Christina know.

"No. What about Tris?" she asks so I start to explain. "Shauna, please calm down. Tris was admitted to the hospital a couple days ago-" she cuts me off before I can finish my sentence. Why is everyone doing that lately?

"She was what?! Is she ok?" She starts panicking. "She's fine. She was having trouble with her appendix, but they were able to remove it a couple hours ago. Will is watching over her until I get back from running an errand for a friend and after I check on Jake and Jenna, who are being watched by Christina." She sighs in relief.

"That's good to hear. I'll be there tomorrow before 11:00 a.m. ok?" I nod. I go to the back of the store and pick out two little charms. One is a rattle, and the other is a pacifier. Tris has the charm bracelet that I got for her when the kids were born. So I thought I'd do the same thing for the twins. As I finish picking out the charms, I pay for them after saying good night to Shauna, and I head back to my apartment.

Christina's POV

I wake up from my sleep to see no sign of Will. Looking around the room, I see a note on his pillow.

Christina,

Four said that he needed me to watch over Tris at the hospital while he goes back to Dauntless to get something for her as a surprise when she wakes up. He said to tell you that her surgery was successful and her wound won't fully heal for two weeks. That means she can't go overboard with moving around like shopping, Christina… I laugh a little at that last part. Then I continue reading.

Four also wants Jake, Jenna, you, and I at the hospital before 9:00 a.m. tomorrow before she wakes up. He said that we apart of his surprise to Tris. Now, by the time you finished reading this, you are probably really tired. So go back to sleep. I already checked on the kids, and they are fast asleep.

Love you always, Will

I smiled the throughout the entire letter. I am so happy that Tris' surgery went ok. Now she can do things without being in pain. Well for the next two weeks, that is.

I decide to get up for a late night snack. I look at the clock and it reads 10:00 p.m. and by the time I get to the refrigerator, I hear the door to the apartment open. I turn the corner with a slice of pizza, left over from our dinner from earlier, in hand and see Four walk in and close the door behind him. I rush over to him, glad to see one of them since they left for the hospital.

"Four!" I whisper yell. "What are you doing here? Will left me a note saying that you had come back to Dauntless for a surprise for Tris, but didn't say that you were going to stop by here in the middle of the night." I start talking a mile a minute. He lets out a small laugh then puts his coat on the dining room chair and sits down. "Christina, I did come back to get a surprise for Tris. But I came back here to see my kids. Not being able to see them for a few days kinds started to get to me and well… I just wanted to see them quietly sleeping before I went back to the hospital." He says all this and both him and I have a small smile on our faces. I offer to get him a glass of water, and he agrees.

I come back from the kitchen with a cup of water, and see four looking at appears to be two small silver objects in his hand. "Four, what do you have there?" I ask him. He looks up quickly and surprised. He then quickly puts the two small objects in a box and puts the box in his pocket. "Uh, it's… nothing Christina. They are for a friend." he seems to be trying to come up with a convincing lie, but it's not working. That's one of the advantages of being from Candor, being able to tell when someone is lying to you. But I just let it go because he has been through so much, with trying to deal with Tris' appendix causing her so much pain.

I look at the chair next to him and sit down. He drinks the water in less than five seconds. He must have been too anxious while at the hospital, that he hasn't even thought about having something to eat or drink. Soon, after he has the water, he gets up and goes to wash the cup, and put it in the cabinet. When he turns around, he stops short, having a full few of the living room.

"Christina, why are Jake and Jenna sleeping in the living room on my recliner?" He asks, not taking his eyes away from the living room. I turn and see what he's talking about. The kids are sleeping and huddled under Jakes blanket on Four's recliner. Why are they sleeping out here for? I ask myself.

Tobias' POV

When I turn around from putting my glass away, I see the two little monsters sleeping under Jakes blanket on my recliner. "Christina, why are Jake and Jenna sleeping in the living room on my recliner?" I ask her, not taking my eyes off the kids. She has a confused look on her face when she turns around to see what I'm looking at.

"I have no idea. When I got to reading Will's note that he left, it was 9:50 p.m., and he said that he already checked on the kids and I'm guessing they were in their beds. What time did Will get to the hospital before you left?" she asks he got there at about 9:15 p.m. se he must have left here at 9:00 p.m. So they must have gotten up and one of them decided to wake the other and sleep out here for either Tris or I to come home." I know my kids all too well, because I know that that is exactly what they would do. Jake did the same thing when I was at the hospital with Tris when she was having Jenna. Will told me that Jake didn't want to leave the living room when we didn't come home for a couple days. When we did come home with Jenna, Jake crawled right up to and hugged as tight as he could. Even for a 1 year old, his grip was pretty strong.

I walk over to the kids on my recliner, and see that Jake has a story book in his hand. I gently take it from him, so I don't wake him up, and read it. It a book full of his little handwriting. I flip through the pages and see that he had little drawing in it too, along with mine and Tris' story that we tell them when they have to go to bed.

"It was choosing day for all sixteen year old kids of Dauntless, the brave. Candor, the honest. Erudite, the intelligent. Amity, the caring. And Abnegation, the selfless. Mom was Abnegation, however that wasn't the faction that she would choose to stay in. Yesterday, during her aptitude tests, I found that Mom was Divergent. For those who have these results were in a lot danger if others found out about us. Mom said she fit into two of the dive factions. Which is more than any other divergent has ever received. Anyway, Uncle Caleb, others sixteen year olds, and her went to the Hub with the other families. That might have been the last time some of them ever see our families again until visiting day, a couple weeks after initiation beings."

Reading what he has so far, it look like he has written, off of memory, what Tris told them in their story. I continue reading what he has. The whole time I'm reading this, it seems like Jake wrote all this down in a book so he would always have something to have from us. And by the looks of the Jenna sleeping on Jakes shoulder and his arm is hanging out from the blanket while he was holding the book, he must have been re-telling Jenna their bedtime story.

"Welcome, to the Choosing Ceremony." The head of abnegation, Marcus, announces. "Where we will see our, soon to be members, join the faction of their choice. Without further ado, let us being with the choosing of the names." He finishes with the cheers of the factions that will soon receive new initiates.

Mom said that she waited next to Uncle Caleb because they went in order from A to Z. She said their neighbor, Susan Black, and her brother, Robert, are called to choose first. They had to go up to Marcus, where they would receive a knife to make a little cut on their hands. They then would spill drops of their blood into one of the five bowls in the center of the room. A bowl with a plain grey rocks for Abnegation, lit coals for Dauntless, dirt for Amity, water for Erudite, and glass for Candor. When the others before them had finished, there were only a few of them left. "Caleb Prior." Marcus calls out. Uncle Caleb made his way towards the bowls. As nervous as Mom know he feels, she said that he did his best to look brave. As if he knows what he's is going to do with his life in the faction of his choice."

I smile at his writing. He has very good memory for an 8 year old. I continue.

"Uncle Caleb looked back at their parents, who are waiting to see where he chooses to go. They, like Mom, might have thought that he would stay in Abnegation with their family. Then he looked back at her in the line. He gave her a look, as if to tell her goodbye for the last time. And he did the unexpected. He chooses Erudite. Of all factions to choose, he chose the one that our family despises the most. Mom said that she didn't think she could ever forgive him for that.

Their parents were shocked, along with her and the other Abnegation members. Erudite, on the other hand, were glad that they have a new member. Especially one that chose to leave the faction they to despise. "Beatrice Prior" Marcus announced. This is it, the last time Mom will stand in this room. The second to last time that she might ever see her parents again if she chose to leave Abnegation. That is where her blood would spill into one of the three bowls that she fit with as a Divergent.

Mom said that she was thinking back to her aptitude test, she had a Dauntless member test her. Tori told her about her results were different from anyone else's, and that it was very dangerous if that news was to ever get out to anyone. She walked up to Marcus, who gave me a knife as she approach the bowls. She cut her hand, but it only stings a bit. She studied the bowls that were most suited for her. She looked at the hot coals of Dauntless. Mom said that she had always wanted to be a apart of them having a life of care free days, time to do whatever she felt like without the need of thinking about others before myself all the time.

She said the blood is filling her hands and feels warm with the heat the rises from the coals. She had to make a choice. She closes her eyes, put her hand over one of the bowls, and heard sizzling. She looked down at the sizzling blood on the coals, and look around the see the Dauntless cheering and pumping their fists in the air. She looked at abnegation and her parents, and the sadness of her mother, and the disappointment of her father.

She went to stand in line with the other transfer who picked Dauntless. She looked over at Uncle Caleb and they shared the same look of knowing that they would never see each other again.

After the others choose to stay, or leave, her and the other Dauntless run out of the building like a herd of wild animals. They yelled and cheered, bringing attention to themselves and getting looks from others who would never do this sort of thing."

By the time I finished reading, I'm smiling like an idiot. My 8 year old son wrote all this off of his memory from their bed time story that we only began telling them when he was around 6 and Jenna was around 5.

I place the book on the table and pick both my kids up in my arms. They are getting a little to big for me to pick them both up together.

I whisper in their ears, "Hey, little monsters. It's Daddy. Wake up." They start to shift around in my arms. Realizing that they aren't getting very far, they wake up to see what's stopping them from turning around. They have the look of surprise and excitement on their faces. "Dad!" yells Jake. "Daddy!" Jenna yells. I always get this warm feeling inside when she calls me 'Daddy'. It makes me feel proud to be a dad.

"Why are you two sleeping in the living room? On my recliner?" they have a look on their faces like they've been caught doing something wrong.

"I couldn't sleep. So I went to Jakes room and asked him if he could tell me a story so I can go back to sleep. Jake found one of his books, and said that wrote down everything from your and Mommy's story that you always tell us." Jenna says, but her sentence fades away as she yawns a little, causing the rest of us to yawn as well.

After Jake yawns, he continues from where Jenna left off. "So, I brought out my blanket, and we sat in here because she insisted that I read her the story in your recliner because she said it makes her feel like you're here." He says. I smile and hug them both.

"My little monsters. What would I do without you two to take care of each other?" I smile and laugh and they laugh along with me. They both tightly wrap their arms around me and I hug them back, and we just stand there for a while.

After a little while of just standing there, I turn to Christina, who is just leaning against the doorway smiling. She looks to be smiling at me with the kids and staring off into space. I try to get her back to normal. "Christina? Hello, earth to Christina." She shakes her head, coming back to reality. "Huh, what? Oh, sorry Four. What did you say?" I just laugh. "I wanted to ask you to help me get them back into their beds. I have to get back to Tris in the hospital." She nods and takes Jenna while I take Jake to his room.

I am looking at the charm for Tris that I bought for the twins. I can't wait until I get to hold two more little monsters of mine. I also can't wait until if they're going to be mini me's, mini Tris', or one mini Tris and one mini me.

I'm almost about to open the door to leave the apartment, when Christina stops me. "Four. What else is really going on with Tris?"

I am very sorry that I haven't updated in a while. But I wrote a long chapter that will hopefully make up for it.

So what do you think? Will Four end up telling Christina about what else is really going on with Tris? Let me know what you think and whether or not Four and Tris will decide to let Christina in on their little secret on the twins.

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