Chapter 10

He kisses my forehead and whispers against it "Good. I am going to walk you in, wanted to talk to Bud about something."

With that he puts his hand on my back again and walks in with me. Tori already had the whiskey and was in the back room with Tris who waved me in. Eric waited until I was in the room and then walked over to where Bud's station is.

Tris handed me a box "Before we get started you can go over to Bud, he is waiting for you. Those are from your Aunt."

She looked at me smiling and I took the box with a frown. What would my Aunt be giving me that Bud would be waiting for? I open the box and break out into a big grin and squeal. My Aunt had given me the most Dauntless gift she could think of, titanium steel 6mm gauges with a dna strand pattern in them.

Tris laughed "She said to tell you that is actually your DNA strand, said you would know what that meant."

I clapped my hands giddily, and put my bag down and started back out the door "It means it has me in it, or the pattern my blood or makeup comes out in."

I get to Buds station and he grins at me. Eric is still standing there and I quickly take out the gauges and move to put the box away. "It's time Bud. Do you have the dermals for me, because I have these beauties for you."

Bud holds out his hand and I drop them in his hand. He frowns "Well shit, that is titanium, but what the fuck is that?"

I roll my eyes "It's me…can we get on with it?"

He shakes his head "What do you mean it's you?"

Eric walks over and takes one and grins but quirks an eye "It means that symbol is her DNA sequence. If you were to take your blood and her blood in a lab and ran it and wanted to know what your symbol was from it, it would look different than that."

Bud rolls his eyes "Damn Noses. Of course you would love these. I thought you were thinking of the ones with those constellations in them."

I take off my jacket and put it beside his station. "These are even better. You never answered me do you have the dermals I wanted?"

He smirked "Of course I ordered them the same day you told me what you wanted. Not like I am going to forget that you wanted bloodstones, and six of them. I am telling you the spine dermals are going to hurt."

I shrug "Pain don't hurt."

Eric laughs "Says pretty much only you and maybe me."

Tris comes out and frowns when she sees Eric but moves to grab the box after I indicate it with my eyes when I turned towards her. "Want me to stay out here while you get it done? We are just setting up the guns and inks right now."

I shake my head "No that is ok I will be in right after."

She nods and heads back in with the box in hand and kisses my cheek "We won't start on the whiskey then." She pauses and looks back at Bud and then gets a mischievous look and I groan.

"Wait until after the piercings are done please, then you can release the Kraken." I plead with her.

Eric snorts "Now are you going to tell Tori you called her that."

I shrug and take the seat and pull my hair back away from my ears "Maybe after the whiskey." I wink at him.

Bud starts to get everything ready and Eric sits in a rolling stool and slides beside me.

"I don't see your father as the type to send you those, so who would have sent them?" Eric asks and I try not to tense or react.

"My Aunt probably got the order for the titanium and added a bit of flare." I say simply.

"Okay." He smiles "You going to go into your void for this?"

I smile in a 'are you shitting me' look. "What do you think?"

He tilts his head "I think even I thought they hurt."

I just continue to smile at him and he laughs. "Fair enough I still wouldn't have gone into any kind of void even if I could have. You are right it is kind of the point. Although you made it sound a hell of a lot sexier." He said that last part softly enough for just me to hear and I instantly turned red.

That made him smirk but he rolled closer and laid his hand over mine, where it rested on the chair beside me.

Bud came back and started. I turned my head towards Eric since that was the one that he started with. We locked eyes and I didn't look away once. I felt the pain of course but I just breathed through it. Eric had also started to move his thumb over my hand softly so I was fixated on his eyes holding mine and his skin on mine. The combination between the pain and his touch made for this odd and wonderful combination that left me slightly breathless. My pulse was racing and my lips parted.

Too soon Bud was done with that ear and he had me turn my head away from Eric. Whatever Bud thought of Eric sitting there with me I am not sure because he didn't say anything and he didn't even move to get to my other ear from that side. Eric didn't let go of my hand or move away either.

"All done." Bud called gruffly "Not one fucking peep from you. Lost that damn bet."

I laughed as he held up the mirror for me and I smiled looking at them. They were perfect size and design. They would still let me wear my normal earrings right beside them.

"Alright don't get up just sit up so I can lay the back part down then you will have to lay down on your stomach. Let me go grab everything for the dermals after that." Bud said moving to put the mirror down as I sat forward and let him lower the back portion till it was flat.

Eric moved so I could swing my legs back over the side and I went to lay down but he stopped me and rolled between my legs. With a quick look around he moved in closer to me and kissed me. This time though the kiss did go deeper.

At first he gave me a chance to push him away and when I didn't his tongue pushed forward to claim entrance. I gladly let him and sighed and gave a soft moan when his tongue made contact with mine. His hand moved to the back of my head at my neck as he delved deep before slowing the kiss and pulling away.

He held his hand at the back of my head for a second more and smiled at me. "I'll help you get settled." His voice sent warmth through me because I could hear the desire for me on it.

"Thank you Eric." I sigh his name again a bit and he looked pleased and a bit smug about that.

Once I was laying down he moved the braid so it would be out of the way but he wanted my head facing towards him. My tank top has spaghetti straps and was a crop top so at the back and side portion he could see the black of the tattoo I already had. His hand lightly traced what he could see with an almost feather light touch.

"Can I see it when it is all done?" He asked quietly.

I blushed "Some of it no one but me, Tris and Tori will see. Unless I am wearing my bathing suit. But I don't think that will happen. Unless you guys did get that pool set up for the training coming up."

He smirked "As a matter of fact we did. Should be ready sometime tomorrow."

I blush "Well damn, I guess you get to see it then."

"Want to be the first in it?" He asked in an almost purr.

"I don't have a bathing suit yet. My old one I couldn't get to even if I wanted to wear blue again, which I very much don't."

He shrugs "I am sure we could find you a much better one here."

I laugh "You're just impatient and want to see the tattoo."

He winks and smiles "Sure we will go with that." He says smoothly as Bud moves around in back. "Where are you getting the dermals again?

"Start of the spine starting with the neck area."

"Hmmm…so right here?" He lightly moves his fingers, which are calloused and wonderfully rough. "To about here?" I can hear the smirk on his voice as a shiver goes down my spine.

"Yes…" I gasp slightly.

Bud comes out and Eric moves closer to my face and covers my hand again.

"Don't move your eyes from mine Raven" He commands me quietly and I nod. He smiles and bites his lip for a second "Good girl."

Bud cleans the area. "You ready Raven? You are going to need to be still."

"She's good Bud. Raven here is tough." Eric says proudly while staring into my eyes.

"Oh I believe that." Bud murmurs.

It is painful and my nostrils flare, for a second I lose my breath but I don't break eye contact with Eric. His own eyes turn stormy again and I think I know for once and finally why. They are stormy right now because he feels desire for me, though I can't believe it. Why he would feel it for an initiate when there have to be plenty of more experienced and gorgeous women here for him? Right now I don't care though because his hand is holding mine along with his eyes.

When Bud says he is done we both have to blink a bit before we realize someone else is even around us. He helps me sit up and holds up a mirror Bud gives him as Bud holds up the other one. I smile as I see the six stones the shade of blood shimmering. One on top of the other in a straight line and spaced one inch apart.

"I fucking love them." I smile and the men laugh.

"Good because you just really cost me even more credits. Teach me to never bet against you. You will have to tell me if you ever go to The Gallows nights." Bud mutters.

"The Gallows nights?" I ask as innocently as I can. But I already know what they are. Peter had told me about them and when I asked Four he turned the worst shade of red and forbid me from going. Of course that makes me want to go more. I just had put it out of my mind when I stopped doing anything but train. Once I got done though I was seriously planning on at least checking it out.

"Something you don't need to know anything about Raven." Eric glares at Bud who quickly agrees.

"Yeah not really something anyone needs to know about." Eric rolls his eyes at Bud's overzealous attempt to discourage me.

I shrug "Okay." I say casually but Eric doesn't buy it and grabs my chin and make me look at him.

"I mean it Raven it isn't anywhere for you to go and it could get you booted if you even think about doing it during initiation." He forcefully said.

"I don't plan on trying to find it." Right now.

"Find it? But you know about it?" Eric caught me in that.

"My brother might have mentioned it. But obviously not where it is." I sigh.

"Of course he fucking would." He growled. "Because that is who is down there, Peter's."

I looked him in the eye and I let him know that I know he did or still does go.

"Your brother is a fucking dead man for running his mouth Raven, or at the very least I will just make it hard for him to speak for a very long time. That was a while ago and I have since grown up at least a fucking little bit." He pulled me closer to him "Don't go there."

I smiled "I hadn't planned on it, really. I tossed the idea around only because Four basically ordered me to not even think of the name much less go there. And sometimes as much as I love my brother I just feel this need to do the exact fucking opposite as what he demands I do."

He huffs and laughs a bit. "Well on this one we can fucking agree. I know right? Holy shit they agree on something."

I fail to suppress the laugh. "I didn't say it."

Tris comes out and sees me and Eric almost nose to nose and sighs. "Please don't let Four choose right now to walk in. Are you ready Raven, we are ready in there."

Eric gets a bit of a wicked smile and pulls me closer by using my hips to slide me to the edge of the chair I am sitting up on. "She'll be right there." I start to smile before his lips meet mine and this time the kiss is more passionate on both our parts.

I grab his vest and pull him closer while his fingers of one hand dig into my hip and the other moves to hold my head and keep me in the kiss. As if I could or would want to pull away. He is intoxicating and not even my mind could prepare me for how much I would feel or want from him.

A cough comes from behind us and we break a part. My chest is heaving and I swallow trying to catch my breath. Eric isn't in any better state. I look away and Tris is waiting in the doorway and looking worried.

"I need to go." I whisper and he nods.

"Just remember what I asked. I will be messaging later for sure now." He pulled me up to stand after he stood on his own then handed me my jacket. He walked me to the door and looked at Tris. "Make sure she gets to Shauna's if that is where she is staying. If needed have Zeke leave Control to take her."

Tris smiles "Uriah is going to take her over there."

He nods and kisses my forehead before I go into the room.

When the door closes Tris turns to look back at me. "So that just happened."