Hey guys, so I decided since all of you are begging for a new chapter, that I would give to you one day early. Now, it might be a little confusing at the beginning, but it will all make sense towards the end. Here is chapter 33. Enjoy!
Tris POV
I wake up the same way I did yesterday, except there is one significance about this day that makes me just want to roll over and go back to sleep. I don't want to face everybody today. Just living in this place is a bad enough reminder, I don't need anybody else to remind me of this tragic day.
"Tris," Tobias says as he walks into our bedroom, "do you want to go get some breakfast?"
"Yeah, I'll be out in a sec." I tell him. He leaves, I get get dressed in my normal outfit; a tank top and some pants. I pull on my combat boots and put my hair up into a ponytail, then walk out into the living room where Tobias is waiting for me.
"You ready?" He questions holding out his hand.
I take in a deep breath and grab his hand in my own, "No, but let's go."
We walk silently down a corridor and to the dining hall. Christina, Uriah, Marlene, Shauna, and Zeke are waiting at our table when we sit down.
"Hey guys, how are you two doing this morning." Uriah asks.
"How do you fucking think I'm doing?" I snap at him. Tobias places his hand around my waist, and I calm down, "Uri, I'm sorry. I... I didn't mean to say that."
"Its fine Tris. It was a stupid question to ask." He accepts my apology.
"I think I'm just going to go back home," I quickly stand, "see you guys later." With that I run out of the cafeteria and back to my apartment, tears running down my face as I do so.
Once I get inside, I slam the door shut and collapse to the floor, crying.
A few moments later, I hear the door open and close and somebody's arms wrap tightly around me. I turn my body so I am crying into Tobias' chest.
He holds me while I shed my many tears and tells me that it is okay. "Tris, look at me." He says once I've calmed down a little.
I look up at him, and when I see his blue eyes, I lose it again. They look just like Emma's.
"Hey, it's going to be okay." He tells me, but I can't believe it. I stand up and look at him with a mixture of anger and grief on my face.
"How can you say that?! 'It's going to be okay,' well, it's not! It's been a year Tobias!" I almost yell, "She would be one today. How can you tell me it's going to be alright when haven't seen my daughter in a year?"
He looks at me with a look I can not describe. "Because I don't know what else to say. Tris, I have been there for you this entire time, but you are acting like I don't know what is happening. Like I don't even care."
"Probably because you don't."
His face and shock and rage written all over it, "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?" He shouts. "TRIS YOU MAY HAVE FORGOTTEN, BUT I LOST MY DAUGHTER TOO!"
"WELL YOU CERTAINLY DON'T ACT LIKE IT!" I shout back, but then lower my voice just a little bit. "You promised me you would find her. You promised that everything was going to be okay." The tears start to come back, "you lied to me. And not only to me, you lied to yourself, and your friends."
His face turns softer when I say this; the rage completely gone from his face. He still doesn't say anything after about ten minutes of silence, so I speak up instead.
"Tobias, I lost one of my best friends and my daughter. Don't make me lose you too." With that, I walk out of our apartment and down to the training center. I just feel like hitting something.
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After about three hours of beating up punching bag til my knuckles bled and shifting guns til there was no more ammo, I go down to the cafeteria and get some food.
Christina and Marlene are at our table, so I decide to join them.
"Hey Tris." Marlene says and looks around the room. "Where's Four?"
"I have no idea." I sit and look down at my food with a frown. "We had another fight."
"Tris," Christina sighs.
"What was it about?" Mar asks.
I look up at her and get her the 'really?' look. "What do you think? It was about Emma."
"Tris you have to stop this. If you two keep fighting, it could turn out for the worst." Christina warns. I know she is right of course. Tobias and I have been fighting at least three times a week since about two months after Emma and Will disappeared.
"You think I don't know that? I wish to God that we could stop fighting about something so stupid, but we just can't." I tell them.
"Okay, first of all, you guys are not fighting for some stupid reason that nobody cares about, and second of all, Tris I know you don't want to believe it, but Emma is gone. Possibly forever, so are you just going to fight about with the love or your life, or are you going to finally let it go and move on? Have you ever thought about having more kids?" Marlene suggests, but before I can scream at her, Christina chimes in.
"Mar is right Tris. You need to move on and live your life."
"Yeah because you have totally moved on from Will? I don't think so." I decide that I am done hearing them criticize me, so I gt up and start to talk off.
"Where are you going?" Marlene shouts after me.
"To go punch something... again!" I shout back, without turning around.
Marcus POV
I pick up Emma, and get ready to take her to Natalie and Andrew's house, so I can go to work. It has been one year since I had my accomplice take the child from Beatrice and Tobias.
He should have known I would teach him a lesson sooner or later, and the lesson I have taught him this time is that he is not ready to be a father.
Walking out the front door of my simple Abnegation home, I go down the walkway that leads to the Prior house and knock.
Natalie opens the door and smile when she sees Emma in my arms. "Marcus, how is your morning?" She asks as I hand her the child she didn't know was her granddaughter.
"Excellent. How is yours?"
"Good, thank-you for asking." After a few more minutes of chit-chat, I bit her a good day, and head off to work.
Tris POV
Once again, I punch the bags full of sand until my knuckles are bloody and bruised. The door to the training room opens when I pick up a few knives. I look over and see you Tobias walking towards me.
"Tobias, I really don't-" I start, but am cut off by his lips crashing into mine.
He pulls back and wraps his arms around me, "I'm sorry, I don't want us to lose each other. I love you Tris, and I stand by my promise that I made a long time ago, when I said that I will never leave you."
I smile and he pulls back just enough so we can look at each other. "Even if I blame you for every bad thing in my life?" I question.
"Even if you blame me for every bad thing in your life." He confirms, "I love you Tris, and I am never letting you go."
My smile grows bigger, and I give him another long kiss. When we break apart, he takes my hands in his and examines them, "come on,"he says taking the knives out of my hands and puts them back on the table, "let's go get you cleaned up."
I nod, and we walk out of the training room and back to our apartment.
_ Did you like it? I really hope you did, because I absolutely love this chapter. My new story will be up soon for all of those people who may be wondering, and I encourage all of you to go and read it. That is all for today, see you on Monday with a new chapter. Love you guys bye! XOXO
