Life during a war
Chapter 15: Evelyn
It has been a week since I woke up in hospital after being rescued from Erudite. I am now fifteen weeks pregnant and am getting bigger by the day. We are still in Dauntless, Jeanine hasn't done anything, no one has done anything. I am home again, in mine and Tobias' apartment. All of our friends come here, every day, to check on us and to make up plans for the war.
Hana, Zeke and Uriah's mum has been great. She's been helping me with the pregnancy a lot, and when the others are out she stays with me. They have all been great, but I'm not allowed to leave the apartment unless I have two or more people with me so that I don't get kidnapped again.
Right now Tobias, Christina, Zeke, Uriah, Will, Marlene, Shauna, Lynn, Hana, Tori, Bud, Harrison and I are in mine and Tobias' apartment, discussing the war and such.
"We need to do something. We need to take down Jeanine and her gang of idiots." Zeke says.
"How?" Will says.
"I don't know, that's why we need a plan. Tris is due in twenty five weeks and I'm sure we'd all like for the war to be over before the baby is born." Zeke says, they all nod in agreement.
"We need to do something they're not expecting. Something that doesn't seem logical to them." Uriah says.
"But we also need to make sure Tris and the baby are safe, and we need an army." Marlene says.
"We need Candor to join forces with us, if they don't join forces with us then they'll join forces with Erudite and we'll be outnumbered. We may have Amity on our side but they aren't going to fight." Christina says.
"Some of them might, if it's for the good of the city, and to protect their families. We also have Abnegation as Erudite did attack them and kill a lot of them." Tori says.
"So, we have the two factions that aren't going to do anything. The kind ones and the selfless ones." Lynn says.
"That's why we need Candor; they might actually fight with us." Christina says.
"I agree with Christina." Will says, the others nod, so do I.
"But how are we going to get Candor to join us? We left them." Tobias asks.
"Well they don't like this war, and they don't like the Erudite. I know this because I come from Candor. They only wanted a peace agreement with them because they didn't want to be on Erudite's bad books, but that didn't turn out the way they wanted. They'd join us if we could promise them good things. Also, we're the warrior faction, there are more loyal Dauntless than there are traitors, and they know we'll have a better chance of winning this war than the Erudite will." Christina says.
"Yeah, the Erudite may be smart, but we're smart and strong. Our job is to protect the people, and to do that we need to wipe out Jeanine and her lackeys." Will says.
"What is it the Erudite wanted anyway? What did they start this war over?" Uriah asks.
"It's a bit of information that the Abnegation wanted to show to the City, but the Erudite didn't want them to show it so they turned Dauntless into zombies and attacked Abnegation. Though, they were able to get the information that the Abnegation wanted to leak." I say.
"What's so important about that information that they started a war over it?" Zeke asks.
"I don't know. But all I know is that it's important and they didn't want anybody to see it. The only people that are going to know what it is are the leaders of each faction. Meaning, Jeanine, Marcus, Johanna and Jack Kang know what it is. My parents knew what it was and were trying to protect it, that's what they died for. Max and Eric also knew what it was but they're dead now so we can't use them. I've wanted to know what it is since I found out about it. But Jeanine has it now, the only way we can find it is to get her, or someone close to her to tell us where it is. We also need to kill her and her followers. And I think we should show it. If it's important and Abnegation thought the people should know its contents, I agree with them." I say. They all nod.
"How do you know all of this stuff?" Lynn asks.
"I overheard Marcus and Johanna talking about it when we were in Amity, but they didn't actually mention what it is. I just know it's a video and that everyone apart from Erudite thought that it was a good idea for the people of the City to see it." I say. Just saying Marcus' name makes me mad.
"So, that means either Johanna or Jack can tell us what it is. I'm not talking to Jeanine or Marcus." Tobias says.
"They're not going to tell us. We have to find it and release it, as that is the only way we will ever find out. But first we have to kill Jeanine, we have to storm Erudite; and to do that, we need an army." I say.
"Okay, so we have to convince Jack to join us. That's going to be fun." Lynn says.
Just then there is a knock on the door. Tobias gets up, walks to the door and opens it. He freezes when he sees who's on the other side.
"Hello son, are you going to let me in?" I hear Evelyn ask. I freeze.
Tobias nods before opening the door wider so she can walk into the room. She enters and looks around at all of us; her eyes linger on me, shocked. Tobias shuts the door and comes back to the sofa, sitting next to me.
"I thought you were in Erudite?" She asks, harshly.
"Yeah, but these guys rescued me." I tell her.
"Why is your stomach so big?" She asks. "Wait, are you pregnant?"
"Yeah." I say, quietly.
"You got my son to knock you up, wait; it's probably not even his, you slut." She says.
"What did you just say?" Tobias asks, angrily.
"I called her a slut. You don't really believe that it's your kid, do you?" She asks Tobias.
"Of course I do. Because it is my child. We love each other, we had sex, it's my child. If you ever call Tris a slut again, you will never be able to call me your son." Tobias yells.
"Toby, I'm your mum, I'm a permanent thing in your life. Beatrice, she's just a thing, you'll find someone better than her in no time. I mean, she's not exactly pretty, is she? I mean, look at her. Also, do you really want to have that bastard of a child in your life? You could do so much better." Evelyn says, laughing. I feel tears pool in my eyes.
"Get out." Tobias says.
"What?" Evelyn asks.
"Get Out!" Tobias yells.
"You can't tell me what to do." Evelyn says.
"Yeah he can. You're not his mum. You're not anything to him. You don't get away with saying those things about our friend and that baby. It's his apartment and he told you to get out, so, get out!" Zeke yells.
"Tobias, please tell your friend not to speak to me like that." She says.
"No! You can't speak about the love of my life and my baby like that and get away with it. You're not my mum anymore. So get the fuck out of my apartment." Tobias says.
"But I came here to help you." She says.
"We don't need your help." Tobias says.
"Fine. Just don't come crying to me when you realise Tris isn't who you want to be with." Evelyn says before storming out of the apartment, slamming the door behind her.
Tears fall out of my eyes. Tobias embraces me, rubbing my back as he does.
"It's okay, don't listen to her, we're okay, we always will be." He whispers into my ear. I just nod against him, not trusting myself to say anything.
After a few minutes he suggests that I go to bed, get some rest. I just nod, dry my tears and walk into our bedroom, shutting the door behind me. I lie on the bed and fall to sleep as soon as my head hits the pillow.
Hey Ravens, I am so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so sorry for not updating. I have had tons of work to do and I have currently got a cold and feel terrible. Good news, I should be getting a new laptop during this week, if not then it should be the week after, so I will be able to update more often, just not as often as I would like as I still have college.
Again, I am sorry.
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