( I do not own Divergent, I just thought you would like to see it from my perspective)
My eyes fly open and I am trying to figure out where I am. I try to move my arm but it is weighted down, when I look at it I see the beautiful hair of the woman I love and then I feel her hand in mind and I give it a gentle squeeze. Tris' head whips up and her eyes meet mine. "Hey handsome." she says her face wrinkled, red and blotchy from tears and sleep. "Hey baby." I say pressing my hand to her face. "What happened?"
At this she rises, "Hold on, I need to go get your mom." She says. "Shit." I think to myself. This is not how I wanted her to meet any of my family. When she comes back with my mom I also notice that she has a comm. device in her hand. I raise my eyebrow at her and she says. "I'm just sending a message to Max because he wanted to know when you woke up." She resumes her position next to my bed and once again puts her hand in mine. I look at my mother and nod my head.
"Hello son." she says. "I am sure you would like to know what is happening, would you not?" I roll my eyes at her and she smirks just a little. "You were stabbed twice, once in the back thankfully that one missed your organs by centimeters. You were also stabbed in the abdomen and unfortunately the knife penetrated your liver. I went in and repaired the damage and we would like to keep you for observation for a few days to make sure that your levels are okay and that the sutures are holding."
"How long have I been here?" I ask. My mother looks down at her watch and says. "about 15 hours." I nod my head in thanks and my attention turns to Tris. Through the corner of my eye I see my mother exit the room. "How are you holding up?" I ask her as tears start rolling down her face. "I was so worried." she hits my arm, hard. "They told me that you would wake up within the hour and that was 12 hours ago. When they took the ventillator out it was a little easier knowing that you were breathing on your own but I don't know if I could ever take seeing you this way again. I have never been so scared in my entire life." I want so bad to get up and hold her, but since I am unable I just put my hand on her head. "I'm so sorry baby."
After sitting there for about 10 minutes we are both frightened by my stomach that at this point is apparently completely empty. I push my call button to hail the nurse and ask her if I can get some food and something to drink. 20 minutes later she walks back into the room with a tray and a cup filled with ice chips. She explained that since I had a breathing tube that this was all I was allowed to have for now or at least until my mother orders differently. I uttered my thanks and slip a few ice chips into my mouth.
It feels really nice to have some relief in there. I take one sip of the broth that the nurse left and almost spit it out because it is disgusting. I push the tray away and and then bring my fingers up to cup Tris' chin and pull her face up to kiss me when suddenly from the doorway I hear. "Hey, hey, hey none of that now we can't get him too excited he doesn't need to pop a stitch." We all chuckle as Max hands Tris a suitcase. "I didn't know what you needed so I just grabbed an assortment and I purchased all new bathroom supplies for you. Toothbrushes, toothpaste, shampoo, conditioner, razors that kind of thing" She sets down the suitcase and gives Max a huge hug and I instantly feel a pang of jealousy.
"Thank you." she says. "For everything." He gives her a wink and comes over to me. "How are you doing son?" he says. "Actually I am really hungry." I say lifting the hospital tray to show him what they have given me. He gets a look in his eye and goes back over to the door and grabs a paper bag. "So, being the good friend I am I had Uriah go to the Mess Hall and get you both some food and it turns out he is pretty good at deciding what you all want to eat." He sets the styrofoam container in front of me and I lift the lid. There is a steak and mushroom omelette and hashbrowns and sourdough toast.
My eyes light up and I give Max my thanks and make sure that Tris is eating as well before I dig in. "Watch the door." I tell him. "I don't want my mother to come and try to take this away." I laugh. I finish every single bite and don't even feel sorry when I get a stomach ache later because everything tasted like I had never eaten before. This continues for the next 3 days Max bringing food and staying in this God awful bed. Tris never leaves my side.
As we are driving back to the compound on Thursday I marvel about how little pain there is while Tris is huddled in my arms talking about not leaving the apartment for the next 4 days. We finally get home and when I go to open the door I freeze because it is unlocked and immediately push Tris behind me. When I open it however all of our friends are there to welcome us home. Shauna and Zeke, Four and Lauren, Uriah, Christina and Will. Christina hands Tris her key and says. "I told you it wouldn't scare him to death."
Tris laughs as Shauna runs up to me and gives me a hug and then punches me pretty hard in the arm. "Don't you ever do that to me again!" she yells and everyone in the room laughs. We all sit down and have a piece of Dauntless cake. "Yum, I missed this." I say "That jiggly stuff was disgusting." Once again everyone laughs and after a little while they are all on their way. I give Tris a kiss and let her know that I am going to go take a shower.
I stand and look in the full length mirror that we have in there looking at my newly acquired scars thankful that the Erudite have learned how to speed up the healing process. I linger in the shower as it is my first one in days plus I was secretly hoping that she would get curious and join me, but I know that is not going to happen because she would not want to hurt me. These last few days have been so hard on her and even though I have no idea where she got it I am grateful for how incredibly stong she is.
When I walk into the bedroom Tris is laying under the covers softly snoring so I decide to go into the kitchen and clean up the mess from our guests. When I reach it however, I see that everything is already cleaned up and not just tidy or a little clean but it is like Eric clean. That beautiful woman must have known it would bother me. So I go back to the bedroom and lean down and kiss her hair lightly. "God, you're amazing." she moans in her sleep and I instantly get hard. It feels like forever since we were last intimate. I calm down a little bit and then climb into bed and as soon as I hit the bed she rolls over and attaches herself to me.
I mean like nails digging into my back almost can't breathe kind of clinging. "Don't leave!" she yells. "I need you." he voice is a little weaker. At this point I am desperately trying to wake her up. I try to move her arms. I try to shake her and that doesn't work. Finally I sit up and her eyes fly open and she throws her arms around my neck. "You're here, you're here." she chants trying to catch her breath. She puts her hands on either side of my face and touches her nose to my nose. "Please don't ever leave me." she breathes. I hug her close to me and whisper that I won't.
We sit like this for what seems like forever. My legs crossed and hers draped over mine face to face. I kiss her neck and and run my fingers through her long, silky hair and over her back trying to calm her. I look at the clock and it is around 3am. "Baby, we really need to get some sleep." I say before pulling her off my lap and laying down. She cuddles as close as humanly possible to my chest in the crook of my arm and falls asleep almost instantly. As I begin to join her I can't help but smile and wonder how I could get so lucky.