The next day at school, Beatrice tried looking for Tobias. She was amazed that she had never met him before, especially if their fathers worked together. Tobias even knew who she was! He must have told his father that she had been there yesterday. That's how Marcus knew to call her father about it. But Beatrice didn't really know anything about Tobias. She could tell that he was a couple years older than she was. But she couldn't find him anywhere though. She started to worry halfway through the day that he was in jail somewhere or had gotten into a lot of trouble.

She stayed after school that day to speak to one of her teachers. He wanted to inform her of a new community service opportunity. Beatrice smiled politely and took the flyer. She knew that she still needed to complete her quota for the year, and time was running out, but she wasn't jumping up and down to do it. She made a mental note of actually following through with it this time. She left the classroom with the flyer in her hand and almost ran into Tobias.

"Tobias! What happened to you? Are you ok?" Beatrice eyes settled on Tobias's black eye. Tobias put his forefinger on his lips to get her to stop talking and motioned to come with him to an empty classroom. Beatrice guessed that he didn't want anyone overhearing their conversation.

"What's going on?" Beatrice asked when they were sure they were alone.

"I'm sorry I told my father that you were there yesterday. Did you get in trouble?"

"No, well… I mean yes, but it's ok." Beatrice said fumbling over her words. "Don't apologize. I'm not going to keep apologizing that I was there and you shouldn't have to either. My father was mad because he said something about our actions discrediting them at their job. I don't understand why they would think that way. I mean what we did…well, what you did was right. They should see that."

"Well, they don't."

Beatrice looked at Tobias, and for the first time thought that maybe Eric didn't give him that black eye, maybe Marcus Eaton did. She wasn't going to push that conversation on him now. This was their first conversation ever and she didn't want to say the wrong thing and spoil it.

"What you did was really brave." Beatrice didn't want to sound stupid but she wanted Tobias to know that what he did mattered.

"Yeah, well… maybe I'm in the wrong faction then." Tobias said, his tone getting rough.

Beatrice thought that she had said something wrong. "No, I didn't mean that."

"I know what you meant and thank you. I'm sorry I snapped at you."

They were quiet for a moment and then Tobias asked, "Why did you come down the alley? It wasn't a very smart thing to do."

"Gee thanks," Beatrice replied sarcastically.

"No, I'm serious. You could have been hurt." He said taking a serious tone.

"I know. It was stupid, I guess. But I heard someone screaming and I wanted to help. I honestly didn't know that there were two bulked up dauntless down that alley. But I didn't want to do nothing."

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Tobias said.

Beatrice just looked at him, surprised. Where did that come from? Tobias smiled. She started liking that smile. Tobias smiling was a rare event and she would enjoy it. "It's from something I read in an old library book."

"I like it. It's true." Beatrice smiled in spite of herself.

"Yes it is, Tris." Tobias replied softly with a smile in his eyes.

"My name's Beatrice." She said correcting him.

"Yeah, I know. I think Tris suits you better."

There he was smiling again. Someone picked that moment to barge into the room. The erudite girl looked at us. "Sorry, the science club is meeting in here in a few minutes."

And with that we left the room. Tobias had to go get the work he missed from school today so they parted ways. Beatrice wished that she asked him why he wasn't in school today, why he had the black eye, what happened yesterday after he left with the dauntless patrol. Maybe they would have time to talk again soon. She hoped that it would be very soon.