(Divergent is not mine)

Sunday is a calm and peaceful day and Monday starts without a hitch. At lunchtime I go to collect Tris so that we can go down to the Mess Hall together for lunch and she is nowhere to be found. I go down there by myself thinking maybe she was just hungry and search for her but don't find her. I do however Christina and decide to ask her if she has seen her. The look that she gives me could burn through my skull if I let it. "What's with you?" I ask going over in my head if there was anything I did to her recently. "I just can't believe that you could do this to Tris after making her trust you and love you and then out of nowhere you do this!" she yells at me grabbing the attention of the entire Mess Hall.

I grab her shoulder and pull her out the door with me and then turn to face her. "Do what?" I ask extremely confused. "You know what you did you sick bastard, now get away from me!" I turn around and make a beeline for our apartment. When I get there Tris is packing up her stuff. "What are you doing?" I ask trying to get her to look at me. "I don't understand what is happening Tris please talk to me." I say trying to reach out to her. She backs up and says, "oh really, why don't you ask Marlene since apparently you slept with her two days ago!" she spats at me.

I take a second to think about what she said and instantly get angry that someone is trying to split us up. "Tris, stop and think about what you're saying." I say trying to make her realize what happened two days ago but she removes her ring and throws it in my face. "How could you make me love you and then... and then sleep with someone else?" I can feel myself getting angry that she is not listening to me but I hold it back and calmly say, "Tris, I haven't slept with anyone other than you in over a year. I was tired of the girls here and resolved to be alone until I met you. Please do me a favor and think back to Saturday, when would I have had time to cheat on you, we were together all day." She sits down on the bed and puts her head in her hands and tries to hold back her tears.

"I'm so sorry." She chokes out and I lose it. "You know what. No, after everything I have done for you, everything I have been for you. You think me capable of doing this to you, I'm going to go back to work and cool off and you and Christina and whoever this other bitch is and whoever else you told better be here when I get off ready to apologize. I never thought that I could be this angry at you Tris and you better hope to God that you find your ring!" I open the door and slam it shut on my way out. As I get to my office I am still extremely angry. Of all the low down dirty things to lie about. This bitch better hope I'm feeling generous when I get home. I sit down in my chair and my mind won't stop. Does Tris think that low of herself or me to think that I would propose and then cheat on her the same day? Do my actions and words mean nothing to her?

I feel myself starting to get emotional so I buzz Max and tell him that I am taking off for the rest of the day to go to the training room if he needs me. I change into the extra workout clothes I keep in my desk drawer and put my comm device in my pocket and turn to leave the room but Max is standing in the doorway. "Is everything alright Eric?" he asks a look of concern on his face. I shake my head but let him know that I do not want to talk about it right now and move past him.

After a couple of hours in the training room I check my watch and it is 5:15 so I make my way back to my apartment (yes, my apartment) a little more composed than I was before. I open the door and the 3 of them are sitting on the couch Christina and Tris sitting away from Marsha. I calmly close the door and go sit in my reading chair thinking about what happened the last time I was in this chair. I shake the thought from my head and cross my legs and wait for someone to speak up. The brunette Mindy or whatever her name is, is the first one to speak up. "I'm sorry, I must have gotten the wrong Eric, I really didn't mean to cause any trouble." At this I laugh and everyone of them look at me like I am crazy. "First of all, I am the only Eric not only in Dauntless but in the whole of Chicago. So I want to know how much you were promised and by whom." She takes a deep breath and avoids my eyes looking at the floor. "I don't know what you're talking about." she says shifting her eyes side to side. Christina almost jumps out of her chair. "You're lying! I used to be in Candor and I know how to tell when someone is lying and you're doing it right now!"

Millicent stands up to leave but Tris stands in front of her to block her path and crosses her arms. "Marlene, why would you do this, you are supposed to be my friend. Who would want to do such a thing?" she asks almost too calmly. "Ugh.." Marlene says and sits back down. "I was doing a patrol in the city and this Erudite came up to me and offered me 100 credits if I could get you two to break up." I growl a little and ask what she looked like. "She was an older lady with brown hair and glasses and she had a scar above her right eye." All of the air expels from my body. "Rachel." I say in a whisper. I am truly appalled that this shit is haunting me again.

"Thank you for finally coming clean Madge." I say looking at the brown haired girl. She rises fast and yells "it's Marlene!" I look at her as she tries to make her way to the door. "Hold on, you need to know that if you ever try to fuck with my relationship again you will find yourself in the bottom of the chasm, got me?" She nods her head and slams the door shut on her way out. Christina gets up and extends her hand to me. "I'm really sorry for not listening to you, I was just trying to protect my friend." I place my hand in hers and shake it firmly. "I understand that, I really do but the next time something like this happens don't jump to conclusions. You are forgiven now, please leave I need to speak to my girlfriend."

Both of their eyes begin to bulge and I know that Christina wants to say something but she wisely goes through the door not another word on her lips. "Who is Rachel?" Tris asks as I join her on the couch. I place my head in my hands and take several deep breaths before beginning my story. "She was my fathers work associate and he was really busy working one night but needed her to see what he had found, so he gave me the necessary papers and sent me to her house and told me to wait there for whatever notes she would make. Almost immediately she started coming on to me. I was almost 15 years old and though I was smart love and sex were nothing that I could comprehend. At home things were cold and lonely and I craved some sort of attention, so that night I lost my virginity to her. We kept up the relationship for an additional 6 months when I began to have an issue with what was happening and 7 months before my choosing ceremony I tried to call it off." Tris looked at me trepidation in her eyes she opened her mouth to speak but I shook my head.

"She wouldn't leave me alone, she was constantly calling and showing up all the time and trying to touch me. Finally it was time for my choosing ceremony and on my aptitude test I got Erudite and Dauntless, I did want to stay in Erudite but I couldn't take being by Rachel anymore so I made the decision to come to Dauntless and I thought I would be free of her forever. She must have heard about us from my parents, and now she is trying to get to me again." A tear escaped my eye even though I willed them not to fall and whispered. "I thought this was over." Tris scoots closer to me and tries to comfort me but I don't want her to see me weak and useless, no self respecting man would.

"How could you believe her?" I ask quietly. The question has plagued me all day and now I need to know. She pulls a chair from the table and sits so we are knee to knee... well shin to knee really but you get it. "I'm from Abnegation Eric, I'm small and stubborn and I have no curves. I've often wondered how someone like you could love someone like me, but now I see that you are just as hurt and damaged and tough and as lonely as I am." She puts her hands on my knees. "I am so sorry that I ever doubted you, I'm sorry I almost threw away what we have because of my own insecurities. How can I make you see that I made a huge mistake?" I raise my head and shake it from side to side. "It's going to be tough." I say honestly. "I have never been anything but there for you. Never done anything to endanger you and I have given you every ounce of love I have inside of me, but today you broke me. Today you hurt me, if you would have just been listening to what she told you, you would have figured out that she was lying. I'm going to go get dinner. I just need some space." I say rising from the couch.

I head out the door refusing to look at her, I know that it isn't her fault but all of this could have been avoided. I go to the Mess Hall and grab a dinner to go and head to the roof. When I get there Shauna is already there waiting for me. "Why?" Is all she says. I look at her the anger building again. "I think I have every right to be angry all of the information she needed to exhonorate me was right there!" I all but yell at her. She takes a small step back and said. "As a woman I am going to tell you when we have questions about ourselves and someone, really anyone tries to play on those sometimes we take things at face value because that is how we feel about ourselves. Can you imagine what you have done had it been the other way around?" I stop for a second and think of myself in the exact same situation and nod my head and nibble on my sandwich even though I am no where close to hungry.

"Now go home and make up with your woman so I can finally start making wedding details with her!" she yells laughing. I laugh along with her and drop the bag off the side of the building. "Thank you Shauna, but before you go I need you to please do me a favor." I tell her everything and because she is in charge of the city patrols she is getting Marlene moved to the Amity sector and is going to find a way to handle Rachel. I make my way back to the apartment and open the door. When I walk in everything is spotlessly clean and there are about 90 candles lit all over the house. I walk in further and close the door and Tris comes around the corner wearing the same dress that she wore on Saturday.

Immediately I fall to my knees and tears stream down my face. The stress from the day finally overtaking me. She rushed to me and joins me on the floor. "Please forgive me." she says "I can't be in a world where you aren't with me. You are my family, you are my love, you are everything I have ever needed and everthing I never knew I needed. Please don't leave me." I wipe my eyes with my sleeve and look up and take her face in my hands. "Tris, I love you and I know that your feelings blocked your knowledge today, but the next time that someone tries something like this please use your head. I don't think I could take another day like today." I bring her lips to meet mine and lick her bottom lip and she willingly opens her mouth deepening the kiss. After a few minutes I pull away from her. "We should blow out these candles and I desperately need to take a shower."

We complete the task and laughingly I tell her to leave the candles out next time. I move over and lock the front door and we both head to the bedroom. I continue on to the bathroom and disrobe and get the shower water nice and warm and then step in. I deliberately turn my back towards the door and in less than 30 seconds I feel strong little hands massaging soap into my achy muscles. I let the water rinse off the soap and then kneel in front of her on the floor and hand her my shampoo. As she washes my hair I close my eyes and moan because it feels absolutely amazing. She rinses out the shampoo and does the same with the conditioner. While she is doing this my hands move to her hips and I tenderly move my mouth along her stomach nipping here and there. She finishes with the conditioner and brings her lips to the top of my head.

I stand up and turn her around so that her back is facing me and give her the same treatment that she gave me. As soon as it all is complete I shut off the water and grab a towel and hand it to her. Tris puts her hair in that one and then I had her another one to wrap her body in. She frowns slightly but tries not to let the disappointment show. I smile secretly and grab my own towel quickly dry my hair and wrap it around my midsection. I move quickly to the dresser nad pull out some boxers and pajama pants and put them on and move under the covers and settle into bed.

Tris kind of huffs as she watches my little show but walks into the closet and gets one of my t-shirts and slips it over her head. On the way to her side of the bed she flips off the light and climbs in as well. I reach out and pull her to me back facing my torso and hug her to me like a child with their favorite teddy bear. We lay there silently for a few minutes and I am almost asleep when I feel her ass begin to grind against my already semi-hard cock. I feel myself getting harder and harder and I know she does too and she begins to pick up her pace. I grab her hips and move my hand under the shirt and slide my hand down to her already wet slit and slip one of my fingers into her hot folds. As i push my fingers in and pull them back out I put my other hand around her throat cutting off her air supply. She moans hard from her chest and her eyes roll back into her skull so I release my hold on her throat and remove my fingers from her core and move so that I am next to her on my knees.

I turn her over and make it so her knees are on the bed and her face is on her pillow and move behind her. I push into her and hard and fast and her head jerks from the bed and the next thing I know her back is flush to my chest. I thrust into her over and over while bringing her face to mine and with one hand I reach down and play with her bundle of nerves while continuously thrusting. She falls forward and pushes her ass onto me meeting me thrust for thrust. Right now we are a mess of moans and touching and I feel myself being hauled closer and closer to the edge. My fingers are digging into her hips and soon I feel like I am going to burst out of my own skin. I continue to thrust as she comes around me and soon I explode into her not knowing when my orgasm will stop. I have never come so hard in my life. I pull out of her and flip her onto her back and crawl in between her legs and kiss her so hard and so passionately that I am not even sure who I am anymore. Her hands twist into my hair and then move down my back and she marks me with her nails as she goes. I push into her throbbing pussy once again but this time I am making love to her, before it was primal fucking but now I go slow and steady wanting to show her that I love her and only her. I kiss her tenderly and gently suck her neck. Moving my head down I suck her nipple into my mouth and bite down almost softly and all at once we come together. We are looking each other in the eye still coming together. I kiss her once more and then fall back onto my pillow and pull her to me and immediate we both fall asleep. I love you's the last words on our lips.