Lost.
Some days, Tris couldn't decide if it was she who wanted to get lost or if she just wanted everyone else to.
This was one of those days.
Tris took in a deep, shaky breath as she slowly slid down the door of the bathroom she had locked herself in a second ago. They (they being the Dauntless party come to Abnegation for the funeral service of those Abnegation lost in the massacre) had just come back from the service were she had said goodbye to her parents.
She hadn't cried during the entire thing, even though she'd desperately wanted to, no one from the group of Dauntless had, but now she was alone and she could, and damn did she.
She cried over the fact they hadn't let Caleb come, apparently it was because "officially" he was an Erudite war prisoner of Dauntless and thus it was to "risky" to let the grieving son who had lost both his parents in the same day come say goodbye.
Tris choked a bit and she cried harder, uncaring of her destroyed makeup.
Caleb hadn't cried or acted out when she had told him, he'd simply closed the book he had rested on his lap and taken a deep breath before nodding and leaving.
It had broken what was left of her heart.
"Tris? Love, please come out! Christian's having a mild fit out here worrying about you and Tori's began to wear a bit of a hole in the floor pacing."
Tris smiled a little and rubbed the heel of her hand over her face. Tobias's voice was deadpan but she could hear the first strings of urgency leaking in, and then Christina and Tori…
Christ, did she think she was going to go catatonic on them and slit her wrists with the travel sized dental floss (which was the most dangerous thing in the little grey bathroom as there was no mirror or pills and just a tiny shower. So unless she got creative with a toothbrush…) they had been provided with?
Tris snorted.
"I'm fine, Tobias, really, just g-" her voice broke a bit, adding less credibility to her story, " Just give me a second, I'll be out in a bit."
The other side of the door was quiet for a time and Tris thought he had left before his voice came through the door again.
"You have ten minutes to get decent before I start picking the lock, I'm not leaving you alone to cry all night."
Tris blinked owlishly for a second before jumping to her feet and hurrying to unlock the door, the last thing she needed to do was explain to the Abnegation leaders was why they needed to replace the locks in the bathroom.
As soon as the grey door swung open Tris was wrapped in his muscled arms, the spicy, all-male scent of his black leather jacket enveloping her senses as she pressed her face into the crook of his neck.
It was silent between them, no murmured assurances or sweet nothings like in the books she had caught Christina with a while back. It was just the two of them. The beating of their hearts and the sound of their breathe the only sounds they needed to draw comfort
His fingers ran lightly, almost unnoticeably, through her hair and she fisted her hands in his jacket and relaxed into his hold, her body no longer tense and her tears pouring freely.
Tobias had always been good at this.
Good at soothing her when she started crying, good at taking care of her when she didn't have the time to.
Just plain good.
She didn't think anyone would expect him to be like this, so comforting and gentle, not after what he'd gone through with his father.
But then again only a close knit group of people even knew who Tobias was, everyone else just saw Four, the tattooed tough guy trainer-turned-leader who was dew to marry the tough ass, semi-compassionate Tris Six Fears in a couple months.
And then, even those who knew Tobias didn't see this side of him.
No this side, this little world they constructed during moments like this, was solely hers.
And when she looked up into his stunningly deep blue eyes, she found her self completely content to just get lost in this little world, their little world.
Hello again my friends! And how are you? Hopefully, you're in forgiving mood because I am very, very sorry over my epic lateness! Sigh, I even did this super long drabble to help try and appease you! It's like 800 words! That's got to count for smoothing right? Especially considering that I had to deal with a triple gym black today and lets just say my body isn't made for that kind of pressure, especially not just coming off of summer break.
But anyway, moving on.
Super amazingly huge thank you to the completely awesome HyDrOmAtlc! (Note the underline!) This amazing Review has now officially Reviewed all the chapters off this story (sans this one at the moment) and offered some great feed back that lead me to fixing all my earlier gimps in other chapters! (So unless you're reading this chapter after Thursday September 8 2011 please go back and reread)
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