As you all know I do not own Divergent
I open my eyes and even though I am alone in my bed, I am positive I could not be any happier. I know I probably sound like a girl but I am marrying the girl of my dreams today. Well, I guess I could be happier considering my best man, Four has been missing for 2 days and we have been searching literally everywhere for him but have yet to find any trace. The wedding isn't until 7 tonight so we are going to do a little searching before then. Lauren has been ansolutely inconsolable but Tris has tried to be there for her as much as possible even foregoing the traditional bachelorette party to stay with her.
I rise from the bed and throw on some clothes and as I am making myself a cup of coffee I hear shouting coming rom the hallway. I rush to the door and open it to find Uriah with his hand up getting ready to knock. "Eric, Four is back he is getting checked out in the infirmary you better come." I slip on my shoes and grab my keys and rush as quickly as possible with him to the medics. When we reach the infirmary Four is sitting in the first bed and he looks really beat up. This is not the Four I know he has never lost a fight. Something feels off to me but I push it aside and instead focus on my friend. "What happened? Did they jump you from behind?" When he looks up it's like he is looking right through me. You know the look when you can tell the hamster wheel has been vacated. "Huh?" he asks.
He looks confused as he takes in his surrounding and my concern continues to grow. "Why am I here Eric, this doesn't make sense?" I walk over to the wall and pull downa mirror and make my way back over to him. "What is the last thing you remember?" I ask him wholly convinced that memory serum is involved. "I was on my way back to my apartment from the control room and as I passed the chasm everything went black." I hold up the mirror and show him what his face looks like. "I knew you were going to be the one to ruin my wedding photos, I just thought it was going to be more subtle." I laugh. He looks at me and says. "I've got 3 days for it to go down." I shake my head at him and look at my watch. "You have 5 hours until wedding photos you have been missing for almost 3 days." At this moment Lauren comes bursting into the room tears streaming down her face. Deciding they needed some privacy I remind them to be at Navy Pier at 5 and leave the room.
Deciding I would need to get something to eat I make my way to the Mess Hall. When I open the door I am met by applause and people congraulating me. I hate all the attention usually but I smile because for the life of me I can't help it. Although I am starting to feel the strain of not seeing Tris, another tradition that she wnted to keep. I haven't seen her since yesterday and it is the longest we have been apart since we became a couple. Athough I can't say I'm not excited to see her in her dress. While I am musing about this I feel a heavy hand on my shoulder and whne I turn to look at its owner I am face to face with father and my mother is behind him. I smile and stand to embrace them both.
"You guys are early." I say as they grab a piece of bench beside me. "Caleb told us about Tris staying with her parents until the pictures are taken so we didn't want you to spend the day alone." My father says looking at me proudly. "We also wanted to give you you're personal wedding present." My mother says as she hands me an attractively wrapped box. I look down at it as my eyes become misty thinking about all the events that lead to this moment. This is the best my relationship with my parents has ever been and conincidentally I owe it all to my amazing fiance. As I open the lid I look at the pocket watch that I coveted my entire childhood. My father got it from his father on the day he married my mother and since I figured I would never get married I removed it from my mind. A choked up "thank you" escapes my lips and my father pats me on the back.
I clear my throat and straighten myself. "Would you guys like a tour?" I ask replacing the lid on the box. They both nod at me and we make our way through the compound until we reach our apartment. After they look around I hear my mother tell my dad to pay up. "What are you two on about?" I ask laughing at how playful they are being. I don't ever remember them being this way. There is a knock at the front door. "Your father bet me that your OCD would dissipate after coming to Dauntless." My mother says as I answer the door. I let Max, Four, Zeke and Uriah in and introduce them to my parents. Looking at my watch I see that is already 4 o'clock. I start to panic slightly and excuse myself to shower and tell the guys to take care of my parents and that I would meet them at the car soon.
It never ceases to weird me out everytime I see myself in this suit. I am not a suit guy but everyone assures me that I look great. I place the pocket watch in my pocket and grab the ring from the closet and place it in my other pocket and with butterflies in my stomach I slowly make my way to the motorpool. When I reachthe car my mother turns and gasps. "You are so handsome, you remind me of your father on our wedding day." She whispers as she hugs me tightly. "Where are the guys?" I ask as I hold the door open for them. "They went ahead to make sure everything is in place for when we get there. I wanted to ask you about something if it isn't too much. Something seems off about Four is he okay?" I look at my dad and smile not wanting to bring them into anything. "He's just had a rough few days."
We reach Navy Pier in 15 minutes and we were ushered very quickly to the photoshoot by Christina. As soon as I am in place she tells me to close my eyes for the big reveal and not to open them until she says my name. I am standing here for what feels like forever when I hear her tell Tris to open her eyes. I hear her gasp and the clicking of a camera and I immediately want to see her. It's amazing to me that just hearing an intake of air can set my heart on fire. "Alright, open your eyes, Eric." As soon as she says my name my eyes fly open and instantaneously all of the air leaves my body. She looks like an angel. Her dress is white and hugs her body closely. I think the fabric is lace but my vision is beginning to blur as I ran forward to wrap my arms around her.
During the photoshoot my eyes never leave her and when they tell me that we need to separate for the last half an hour I nearly punched Christina. So here we are sitting in the "groom tent" having a drink to calm my nerves and once again Four is missing. "I am beginning to regret making him my best man." I tell Zeke as I finish my whiskey. Not two minutes later Christina comes in and says it's time to take our places so I ask my dad to take take Four's place. "His loss." I say to Zeke as we exit the tent. As I make my way down the aisle I am astounded by how many people are actually here. Thankfully Rachel gave up on Caleb a few days ago so I don't have to worry about that.
As the music starts I push everything else but Tris from my mind and see her at the beginning of the aisle my heart begins to race. Today my best friend is going to become my wife. This woman was made for me and I was made for her. She has made the most profound impact on my entire existence. As Andrew places her hand in mine I struggle to hear the words that Max is saying. The electrical current that is passing between us is like a drug I can't get enough of. We are standing there staring at each other unspoken words of love passing between us when I feel Max's hand on my shoulder.
I shake my head and break eye contact and face Max. "Sorry what?" I ask. "You'll have to excuse our couple everyone they have been apart for a while." The audience laughs but it is short lived as Lauren begins running up the aisle toward a dazed looking Four. He doesn't acknowledge her as he continues walking down the aisle quickly. Something doesn't feel right but I make a split second decision to give him the benefit of the doubt. That is until he raises the gun. I search his eyes looking for some sort of cognitive thought some sign of life but he was off it was like his soul was no longer his. Four pulls the trigger and like he has passed out he immediately drops to the ground. I wait for the pain but it did not come. I look back to Tris and her eyes are wide and her dress begins to turn red. I hear Natalie scream and Tris falls foward into my arms. Everything is completely quiet except the cackling coming from the back of the crowd.
Epilogue
Five years ago my life changed forever, it was supposed to be the happiest day of my life. The day my fiance and I became one. Instead it began the most bleak time in my life. The bullet that pierced my Tris took away the use of her legs, for a time. My mother worked diligently on finding some kind of fix or cure. It took her a year but she finally did. Waiting that year was difficult. Tris was depressed and was wholly convinced that I no longer wanted to be with her because she was broken. Regardless of what she said or did I stayed with her. She was still my heart and I needed her.
After the surgery that fixed her legs we worked on us. I worked hard to show her that my love for her never died and she did the same for me. We got married in a quiet ceremony in Max's office with only our families there. Which coincidentally now included Cara and our nephew James. Now I sit here in our apartment that is filled with life thinking about everything that led to our life now. We have our son Stephen who is 2 1/2 and our 6 month old daughter Courtney who is as gorgeous and defiant as her mother. I come home everyday to the people I love the most and I can't imagine life with out them. I look back at the person I was before I met Tris and I realize I was surviving on fumes. That girl breathed a new life into me that I am sure I would have died without.
I am sure that the events of the wedding changed the course of time for a lot of people. I know it did for us. Four and Rachel were detained in Candor and it turns out that when Four was missing for those 2 days that Rachel was testing serums on him and trying to get the right combination to work to be able to take control of his mind. Four was exhonorated by Candor and he is now the godfather to our children. Rachel on the other hand was convicted of abduction, testing illegal serums on human test subjects, and attempted murder. After all of the leaders from every faction met she was sentanced to death by firing squad. She sat in that cell and rotted for 18 months because everyone agreed that Tris and Four should be the ones to take those shots and they did.
The way that we got where we are was not easy by any means. However, I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. It took a tiny little girl from Abnegation to change my view on myself and on the way life is supposed to be. When I saw that blood on her dress a piece of me died. If my mother had not been there she would have and I would have joined her soon after. Luckily the universe had different plans. No matter what happens when we fight or I get frustrated with the kids. I take a step back and think about if things were different and calm myself. I often remember who I was before and think about the moment I took my first breath.
Alright everyone this is the end. I would like to thank you all for sticking with me. This was my first fic and I greatly appreciate all of the love I have recieved on it. Not one negative comment and that makes me very happy. I have plenty of others for you to enjoy.
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