Authors Note: No matter how many time I wish upon a star: Eric will never ever belong to me. Nor will Tris and Eric be a couple.*sob*

Fanfiction is written for the Author's enjoyment. I write for my readers too but if you don't like the pairing please don't send me reviews or pms saying it sucks. I'm not forcing you to read it. You chose to read this and you can stop at any time. I'm all for constructive criticism or even idea's (you will be credited for giving me it) and I'm not a mean person I swear!

Notes for My readers

All characters look like the movie version, and are now two years older. So Tris is 18, Four and Eric are 26.

Divergent belongs to Veronica Roth

OC's belong to me (Suzanne, Vivian, Hades, Ares)

Recognized Character's might be OOC at times (Just giving you fair warning!)

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Chapter 3

Two years was a long time to be away from home. Tris sighed as she stretched out her legs on the airplane and settled again. She had just had her eighteenth birthday while away at school in Paris, France, and her roommates had made it a night to remember. Crossing her legs she glanced out the window beside her and thought back to the last time she was home.

After Eric had driven her home the day his daughter had arrived into his life, Tris had gotten her acceptance letter to one of the best schools in the world when it came to childcare. The very next day she had gone to Jeanine Mathews and shown her and together they had double and triple checked Tris's graduation requirements before graduating her two years early. A week after that she was on the plane to Paris, alone for the first time and nervous. She had been glad to leave since Marcus Eaton was around more and she really wasn't keen on marrying Four, Tobias or whatever he was calling himself.

School had been challenging but she had loved every moment of it. She spoke French fluently, as well as Spanish, German, Italian and Russian, thanks to the other students and teachers. She had wanted to go back to Chicago with the best education she could get and she was. She was looking forward to seeing Will, Uriah and even Lynn face to face again. Christina for all her talk about being best friends never contacted her while she had been away, but Lynn had and they had developed a strange friendship. Uriah was still his loveable self and dating Marlene if she heard him correctly, and Lynn was coping with it. Will was single and enjoying it and often would spend times with Lynn, regardless of knowing Lynn had feelings for Marlene.

Slipping her headphones from her ears she listened to the stewardess before replacing them and got comfortable for the decent. She was ready to get off the plane and back home to see her parents and older brother. She had talked with her mom more than anyone else, since her father was always busy and Caleb was jealous about Tris graduating earlier than him. Sighing she started playing with her multicolored streaked hair. She had grown her hair out so it was almost waist length now and she had streaked it a steel pink, a sky blue and a spring green. Working her fingers slowly through the strands she started fishtail braiding her hair as the plane touched down. Grabbing her backpack from the overhead rack she walked out to the baggage claim and waited for her paintball splattered suitcase. When she finally found it she started for the main doors before she was tackled by a figure.

"Tris!" Looking at her attacker she smiled.

"Lynn!" Hugging the other she ran her fingers over the partly shaved side of her head where the design was fresh, wanting to see it and Lynn didn't seem to have a problem with it. At least she knew that Lynn wasn't going to hit her for touching her.

"It looks good." Tris said as Will helped them both to their feet Uriah bouncing in excitement.

"Trissy-poo" Uriah said hugging her making her laugh.

"I missed you to Uriah." Tris said as they pulled apart and hugged Will who had been waiting.

"What are you three doing here? You're supposed to be in class" She did her best to sound disapproving but the smile on her face ruined it.

"Max said we were able to come get you. Eric said we could even bring you to class with us so you could see his daughter." Will said as Tris's jaw dropped.

"He what? Mr. Asshole as Lynn calls him said that?"

"I told him you wouldn't believe me" Lynn said as they walked to Will's car and packed her things into the trunk and Tris crawled into the backseat with Lynn.

"He noticed you weren't there when he came back Trissy. He asked where you were as he did a head count" Uriah said as Tris smiled at her lap as Lynn nudged her. Tris had admitted that she had a crush on the older man and Lynn had been supportive since Tris had listened and supported her when it came to Marlene. Sharing a smile with Lynn, Tris leaned against the seat and crossed her legs.

"Alright I'll come to the school with you." Tris said as Uriah laughed.

"You want to check out Eric don't you" Uriah teased before Tris flicked him in the back of the head.

"Shut up. Or I'll start on you and Marlene" Tris said as Uriah glanced back at her looking horrified.

"Please be nice to me Trissy" Uriah said making Will and Lynn laugh at him as she leaned back smiling. The rest of the ride pasted with them catching up with each other. Pulling into the Dauntless Parking lot Tris's eyes scanned for Eric's truck amused to see it still around even with his daughter. Stepping out of Will's car she walked with them into the main building only to stop when she saw an adorable little blonde girl spinning in the foyer.

"You need to come with me" Veronica said talking to the little girl who stopped and Tris bit back a laugh when she saw the same glare Eric used.

"Your father is going to murder me" Veronica whined as Vivian looked around the foyer again. Fighting a smile Tris made her way over and kneeled down.

"You looking for someone?"

"My Daddy. He runs away" Tris let herself smile knowing that it shouldn't surprise her that Eric's daughter was well spoken.

"Well you're in luck then. I'm good at finding people that run away." Tris said as Vivian smiled.

"Let me guess, your daddy's tall with tattoos on his neck and arms and his ears are pierced" Tris said recalling what she knew of the Eric from two years ago.

"How you know my daddy so well?" Vivian asked her blue eyes wide.

"Well, if that's your Daddy then you must be Vivian. I say you when you were just a baby." Tris said as Vivian frowned a little bit before brightening.

"You Tis?" Tris blinked a couple times before she smiled.

"Yes. I'm Tris." She was touched that Eric had mentioned her. Tris offered Vivian her hand and after a moment Vivian slipped hers into Tris's.

"We find my daddy now?" she asked as Tris stood up. Tris hesitated for a moment before crouching again and offering Vivian her arms which the she shyly moved into.

"We're going to find him. Do you want me to carry you so we can look into the windows together?" Tris offered as Vivian's eyes lit up.

"Pwease?" Lifting Vivian onto her hip Tris started walking down towards the gym, Lynn, Uriah, Will and Veronica behind her as Tris humored Vivian and looked into every room that had a light on as they passed, but only if she looked in first. As they reached the Gym, Lynn, Will and Uriah broke off for the change room leaving Tris to look in and smile slightly.

"I think we found him" Tris said before allowing Vivian to look, her reward was giggles.

"Come to my daddy?" Vivian asked her blue eyes wide as she looked at Tris.

"Alright. I'll go with you" Tris said as they opened the door and walked around the outside of the room towards the instructors, Tris recognizing Eric as he played with one of the knives, Four pacing back and forth and Max surprisingly leaning against the table talking to Eric who's shoulders were tense.

"Relax Eric. Veronica wouldn't let Vivian get too far" Max said as Tris got closer.

"No, But she let her out of her sight. It's bad enough I can't find anyone to watch Vivian when I'm here working, but If I can't trust Veronica to help out when she offers then who can I trust?" Eric said clearly frustrated with the situation.

"Well I'm back now." Tris said causing Max, Eric and Four to look at her.

"Daddy it's Tis!" Vivian said as she threw her arms around Tris's neck and hugged her, Tris laughing and hugging Vivian back. Eric visibly relaxed as he saw Vivian before he openly looked Tris over.

"Well you don't look like you did two years ago" Eric said as he set the knife on the table and walked over to them, Vivian holding her arms out to her father who took her without a second though.

"Yous run away daddy" Vivian said as sternly as she could for two years old as Eric looked at her.

"I think you are the one that ran away Princess." Eric countered as Vivian shook her head Tris chuckling.

"She was spinning in circles in the foyer. Veronica tried to get her to come back but she glared at her. She has you're glare down perfectly. I promised to help find you and she came with me" Tris said as Vivian looked over at Tris.

"And you helps me finds Daddy!" Vivian said happily as Tris gave Vivian a smile.

"And we found him" She said watching Vivian lay her head on Eric's shoulder and her fingers going to play with the plug in his ear, which he either ignored or was used to her doing.

"She's not the fondest of Veronica, but she's the only person that can watch her when I'm working. No sitter or nanny I hire lasts." Eric said before turning to look at the class who was staring at them.

"Did I tell you to stop?" He said coldly as Tris shook her head, Lynn, followed by Will and Uriah joined the class. He watched them pick up their knives and start throwing with the rest of the class as Tris watched.

"I miss doing that. I used to throw knives at a dartboard in the apartment I was sharing with my roommates and I scared them so much since I started hitting the center all the time, I had to tell them when I was going to so they could go to their room. Then they surprised me with dartboards all around the apartment for me to throw at." Tris said as Max laughed, and Eric shook his head chuckling.

"They were those types of girls?" Four said joining the conversation and Tris turned her eyes slowly over to him.

"If you would call two twenty-three year old men girly then sure. Ares and Hades were kinda girly at times. Don't get me started on them in the morning without their coffee, or when they had to go out." Tris said as Eric snorted.

"Ares and Hades?"

"They gave their mother a hard pregnancy. Twins aren't easy to carry" Tris said before pulling out her phone and tried to find a picture of her old roommates.

"Hades is the one with his hair all messy and Ares in the one with his hair pulled back and shaves on the sides. We were all in the same program and they were the only two willing to share an apartment." Tris said as she showed Eric and Max her old roommates.

"You lived with two guys?" Four said dumfounded.

"Men actually." Tris corrected mildly as Vivian giggled at the picture of Hades with his messy hair.

"Daddy have messy hair when he gets up!" Vivian said helpfully as Eric gave Vivian a look that she ignored since she was talking to the lady with the pretty colored hair.

"You should see my hair when I wake up. It's all poofy and tangled." Tris said as Vivian's eyes got wide.

"Me too!" Eric glanced at Vivian who was now holding the collar of his shirt with her fingers as she looked at Tris. Vivian was never like this with anyone and yet his former student had managed to get his daughter happy and comfortable with her. She had even let herself be carried by someone she had only been told about. Tris pushed her braid over her shoulder her shirt shifting so her tattoo of three birds flying across her collar bone came into view, Eric's eyes unintentionally staring at it before Tris's hand fixed her shirt, Eric finally lifting his eyes to see Tris looking at him before looking back at the class a slight smirk on her lips. Setting Vivian down and watching her go to his chair and curl up on it rubbing her eyes Eric turned his attention back to his now legal former student. He found he liked the changes he saw in her. She wasn't the shy flower she had been two years ago. Sure she hadn't been too scared of him back then but she was clearly different now. Anyone that had lived with two older men would be.

"Did you go to school to be a nanny like you wanted?" Eric asked looking over at Tris again as Four set out correcting people's aim and posture.

"In Paris, France. Hades and Ares were in the program too. Idiots at times but realistically perfect for children" Tris said as Eric smirked slightly before glancing over at Vivian who had fallen asleep, her thumb in her mouth.

"She's even cuter now. She's two and a half now isn't she?" Tris asked as she followed Eric's gaze.

"Almost out of her terrible two's. She's not big on tantrums but when she throws them, they are a nightmare." Eric said shaking his head slightly and glanced at Tris again.

"I bet it doesn't help she's as stubborn as you are." Tris said giving him a smile.

"Not really no. Are you looking for a job yet? Or are you going to leave Chicago?" Eric asked looking at Tris as he crossed his arms over his chest loosely, Tris's lips turning up into a naughty smirk.

"Depends on who is offering" Tris said, running her fingers over the collar of her shirt, tugging it gently as she went, exposing both her bra strap and her tattoo on her collar bone, Eric's silver eyes darken with lust. She had teased poor Hades and Ares often enough to know the sight of it in a man's eyes.

"If I was offering you a job to watch Vivian?" Eric said licking his lips slowly hating himself for wanting to see if he could actually get a date with the changed young woman before him. Tris reached into her back pocket and pulled small piece of paper from her pocket and tilted her head to the side before taking the pen Eric offered her, watching as she wrote something down and pressed it into his hand along with his pen.

"Call me to talk details. It's my cell so you can always reach me" Tris said watching Eric lick his lips slowly as he read the number before he slid it into his pocket.

"Just potential job details?" He asked his voice dropping slightly making Tris bite her lower lip and smile.

"Why don't you find out?" Tris said as she turned away from him and wandered over to the wall and slid down it and watched the class her eyes travelling over to Eric more than she wanted but Eric would catch her eye and gave her a wicked grin when he caught her looking even going as far as winking at her, amused that she blushed only a little bit and openly looked like she was stripping him with her eyes. Turning his attention back to the class he was supposed to be helping teach he started pacing behind them making them nervous, His eyes darting over to Vivian and Tris as often as he dared. Max raised an eyebrow after catching Eric looking and smirked.

"I'm going to pretend I saw nothing. Thank god it's legal though. I don't want to fire you because it wasn't" Eric chuckled as he watched Max leave the gym and focused on teaching the mindless drones he had in front of him.