Chapter 18- Tris POV

One thing is for certain, I am going to find out who my attacker, Max's attacker and Jane Jackson's attacker is.

No matter how long it takes.

I toss and turn the thick blanket around me, in the bed in the early hours of the morning. I feel Tobias hands graze over my back but I don't open my eyes. The stress of investigating Jane's assault has been making me sick to the mouth. My head, pounding a little, rests on something soft yet hard, I imagine it's a pillow but I don't open my eyes to investigate. I sleep on my side and nuzzle my head into this 'pillow' softly and raise my hands near my face. I move my head into the hard pillow a few more times and move my hands around to get comfortable.

Eventually, after what seems like years my eyes flutter regretfully open and are blurry for a few seconds. I rub them a couple of times and what I see in my not-so - blurry vision startles me, I gasp. My head lays on Tobias lower shirtless stomach and in front of me are his legs; my hands are on his hips. I am snuggled up into a ball, lying sideways on the bed. Suddenly, I push myself up off him quickly, my cheeks flushing red with embarrassment and turn away from an already awoken Tobias.

'I'm so sorry,' I hardly whisper, hiding my face and going back to my side of the bed. He chuckles a deep laugh and gazes at me with sexy smirk. I stare at him and a smirk etches onto my face too. He reaches over and pulls me back towards him. I have no clue how I even slept in that position. I pull my lace nightgown that I have been wearing to bed every night more securely around me and snuggle up towards Tobias, this time my head lies on his chest.

'You couldn't get comfortable and when you finally fell asleep you were lying on my stomach,' Tobias answers my question I have been thinking.

'Oh,' I respond awkwardly. 'Sorry,' I trail off. He kisses my forehead and I move my head so I am looking at him. I trail my fingers in circles down his chest slowly.

'Big, uh day,' he loses his concentration, 'today,' he finishes.

'Yes unfortunately,' I respond gazing at my fingers that are dancing around his chest.

'I want to sleep all day,' he says tiredly, his eyes full of sleep. He closes his eyes and I nudge him gently for him to wake up. His eyes stay close. Suddenly, an idea springs to me.

I move slightly and straddle his hips and bring my mouth to his neck. His eyes are shut. Slowly I make a trail of kisses down to his chest, right from his jaw to his lower stomach. A smirk etches onto his face but his eyes stay close tightly. I kiss him harder on the lips but frustratingly his eyes do not open.

I lean my lips down to his ear and whisper: 'I'm going to take my nightgown off now.' I take my lips of his ear and sit up straight, moving my hands to the hem of my dress, pretending to take off my nightgown. His eyes fling open instantly. Laughter escapes my lips and I get off of him.

'Wow, that was the best wake up I have ever gotten,' he smirks. 'The worst was when Zeke splashed ice cold water all over my head.' I laugh again and begin to get off the bed. Unfortunately, like a prisoner he doesn't let me go very far. I am at the edge of the bed when his defined arms find my waist and pins me down suddenly on my back on the bed, knocking the breath out of me for a few seconds. His entire body leans over me.

'Where do you think you're going missy?' he jokes playfully searching my face. An innocent smile emerges on may face.

'Nowhere,' I say in a high-pitched girly voice dragging out the letters.

'You're trapped,' he whispers, lowering his face to mine. His arms, both sides of me, prop himself up so that his weight doesn't crush me.

'Indeed I am,' I reply smirking. I crash my lips towards his. Fire, passion, love; that's all I feel. His tongue slips inside my mouth and dances with mine. My hands move across his back, touching every tattoo I know so well and then my hands slowly trail all the way down to his butt and I squeeze it playfully, over his boxers. This surprises him.

'Tobias,' I moan when he starts to kiss my neck, 'we really have to get ready.'

'Dammit Tris,' he laughs 'stop ruining the moment.' He pulls himself off me, pulling me into one last kiss and walks into the bathroom to get ready.

Although it's only been a little more than a day since Jane's assault, I am now able to question her in the Infirmary since the doctors have allowed it. I walk towards her private room in the infirmary and peak my head through the door. The bright white lights I unfortunately know too well shine down on Jane's body half submerged in a hospital gown and blankets from the bed. Her eyes are open and she smiles a week smile at me. The reason why I am here is because Louise my superior boss asked me to ask Jane a few questions. I build up my courage as I walk in, remembering how it felt when I was laying in the bed.

'Hello,' I say with a pleasant smile.

'Hi,' she responds quietly. I pull up a chair from the corner of the medium size room and place it next to her bed, she watches me as I do it.

'How are you feeling?' I ask, looking over her face. Her whole face is a canvas of dark colours.

'As good as I'll ever be from just being attacked.' She laughs slightly then winces from the pain. My eyes fall to the ground. 'What are your questions?' She continues. I exhale smoothly and begin.

'I would like to know why you were in the Pit at exactly 1:34 am.' She looks intensely at my face for a few minutes and then lets out a loud sigh.

'I had just come back from the bar because I was having a girls night out when I went to my apartment around 1. I saw a note from my husband Matthew asking to meet him in the Pit, he had been out too. My 4 year old son was at a friend's apartment. Around 1:15 I went down to the pit,' she pauses, water entering her eyes. 'Only it wasn't Matthew, I was too drunk to recognize his handwriting and when I went near the chasm, looking for him,' the tears flow freely from her, 'two big men in dauntless clothes hit me multiple times and I screamed and then everything went black.'

I jot down everything she says to me on a small notepad.

'Do you know what the men looked like Jane?'

'No, they had masks,' she responds.

Typical.

'Thank you Jane, you have been very helpful,' I say.

'You're welcome,' she replies clearing her throat.

I smile and get up off my chair and place it back where I found it. I walk outside, notepad in hand.

I'm one step closer.

My short legs glide me towards the cafeteria. I walk over to grab some food for lunch and I begin pouring some stereotypical Dauntless food on my tray. My eyes roam the cafeteria as I see Will and Christina and some other friends sitting on a table. More importantly, I notice a very handsome smiling Tobias walking up to me, stopping quickly to grab a tray. He walks up to me and kisses me on the cheek.

'How was your interview with Jane?' Tobias' asks.

'Productive, I found out a lot of clues. I would prefer to discuss it with you behind closed doors though.'

He nods while pouring some sauce onto his food. 'I searched through some of the camera footage in the control room today, secretly,' he whispers.

'Any success?' I ask while picking up a piece of Dauntless Cake and sliding my tray along. He picks up a piece of cake too.

'No, nothing. This person must know where the cameras are,' he responds sighing. 'You look hot today by the way,' he mentions smirking. I didn't even bother to look nice today. I am wearing a simple black leather top and tight black skinny jeans with my combat boots.

'I don't, but thank you,' I smile at him. His arm wraps around my waist securely and then slowly falls down until one of his hands are in my back pocket, squeezing my ass. I contain my gasp. I look at him with questioning eyes. This makes him chuckle more.

Thankfully, we are facing the cafeteria so until we walk no one can see our backs. Or, should I mention that fact that no one can see he is cupping my ass in public. He looks at me quickly, smirking. His other hand is full with a tray and he slowly removes his hand out of my back pocket.

'Just trying it out,' he smirks. Somehow, even with a little bit of blush on my cheeks I manage to let a grin emerge on my lips.

While eating my chocolate cake, my mind ponders to a different universe. I don't know exactly what I am thinking about, but I am not intensely listening to everyone's conversations. Tobias is sitting next to me on the cafeteria bench making small talk to our group of friends. I listen but I don't make a conversation. Tobias squeezes my hand almost to bring me back to reality, I notice I have been playing with my cake, moving my fork back and forward but never attempting to lift the fork to my mouth. This is odd. I never do that. I chuckle to myself and shove a small amount of cake into my mouth. Making me make a soft mmm noise once i taste the mouthwatering cake. My mind still wonders aimlessly around though. I can't stop it. My eyes roam around our smiling friends and land on Lynn. She isn't smiling. If anything she looks pale.

'Are you okay Lynn?' I ask her. She looks up startled, as if no one would notice her. I study her more now. Her eyes are a bit puffy and dark from lack of sleep. Why is she not sleeping? Her food is barely touched and she has remained quiet the whole time.

'Yeh,' she says quickly. 'I'm fine.' She begins to chuck down the rest of her food almost at an alarming rate. For now, maybe she is just acting weird since she is tired but if this continues I am going to have to investigate. By now, Christina has noticed Lynn's and I exchanged and is glances at us.

'Tris,' Christina says eyeing me and Lynn, 'you looking forward to the Night of the Fearless Stars?'

'The what?' I ask, generally confused.

'Oh my god!' she squeals making all our friends look at her, 'how could you forget! It's Dauntless Ball, it is in a couple of days!'

After all the stress with Jane's assault I have utterly forgotten about the ball. I haven't even got anything to wear.

'Chris, I'm not going, I don't have anything to wear and I am busy,' at this Tobias looks at me and I wonder if he actually wants to go. I mean he strongly dislikes dancing and social events in general. Why would he look at me almost as if he is pleading? He quickly turns his head.

'Of course you are going Tris! I already have a surprise for you!' she winks at me. I am now utterly scared.

'What surprise?' I ask, curiosity dripping in my voice. 'I don't like surprises.' She glances quickly at Tobias and then back at me. In that second if I wasn't studying her like an Erudite I wouldn't of notice her exchanged with Tobias but I did.

'Well Tris,' Christina starts while Tobias grins, 'the thing is about surprises is that they are supposed to be a surprise. But you will be going to the dance. And that is final.'

'Yes mother!' I shout playfully. She laughs, hair falling over her eyes as Tobias grins. He is trying to be discreet but I can still see his sides of his mouth twitching up. His mouth. I long to kiss him and to trail a line of kisses all the way down his neck right now; I sigh discreetly, if only we weren't in public.

As soon as I finish up my cake, I chat for a while until most of Dauntless have left the cafeteria to begin the rest of their work. Tobias and I hold hands as we walk away from the cafeteria, away from our friends.

We share long moments of silence as we walk towards the Pit, our arms brushing. Once we get to the point where he has to stop for the control room I grab him and turn him around so he is facing me.

And I kiss him.

Long, hard but sweet.

All the bad things in life slowly slip away.

I hear a distant noise in the doorway off my office and I lean my head out to see if I can see anyone. No one is there. I continue to look through my folder filled with Jane's investigation as I take a glimpse out of the small window in my office that lets in light. It's almost dark outside, I should probably go home.

I get up off my desk and tuck away my chair. I turn my back to the door and place the folder back inside a draw that hides folders then I lock it shut with a key. I hear a noise again and I quickly turn around, startled. Only to be met by the most mesmerizing blue eyes.

'Hey,' I say softly.

'Hey,' Tobias grins, standing in the doorway. 'Want to get out of here? You almost done?'

'Yeh,' I reply. 'I was just putting my things away, where do you want to go? Home?' His smile broadens, making me intrigued.

'No, not home,' he smirks. 'Somewhere outside.'

'Outside?' I question. He holds out his hand and without even thinking about it, I take his palm into mine. We walk outside into the mysterious spine tingling evening.

I am still clasping Tobias' hand while I jump off the train. I realize now where we are. This is the place where we first declared our love for each other. I smile appears on my delicate red lips.

The cliff, which I never notice was there before, is growing with unattended natural bushes. Above, the sun hangs low on the horizon, much like a canvas; an array of colours of scarlet, crimson, yellow, deep magenta and sapphire explodes on the sky. Surrounding me is a mass of sedimentary rocks, forming a much needed barrier towards the edge of the cliff. Below, a long line of deep sapphire-coloured ocean runs below the cliff, in the near distance the waves dance in an imaginative way, like a ballerina. Twisting and turning mesmerizingly, flowing with energy and bouncing off the rocks that they come in contact with. One quick glance immediately captures your attention. It's as if the waves have their own minds. Beyond the deep sapphire coloured ocean is the unknown; there is something about that uncertainty that pulls me towards this spot. I turn my head to the left and notice the big green oak tree which is where Tobias and I sat before. Now, I can't even hide my excitement. Tobias pulls me over to the tree once again and we sit near each other, gazing at the horizon.

'I love this spot, it's beautiful,' I whisper.

'Me too,' he turns his head slightly to face me, 'I agree.' I turn my head so I am facing him and chuckle, he wasn't agreeing to this place being beautiful but me being beautiful. Our backs are pressed up on the tree while the time passes on. Now, darkness has emerged.

My eyes have finally adjusted to the dark when I look up at Tobias, he stares back at me.

'I love you,' he whispers. His words make my heart melt.

'I love you too,' I reply. I bring my lips to his, my fingers brush along his arm as I sit up straighter to kiss him. Our kiss deepens and deepens, filled with lust, love and passion. My hand moves down from his cheek to his shoulder while his hands linger at the hem of my shirt. I move and straddle his hips carefully. He smirks into the kiss and places his hands on my thighs so I don't move. I pull back breathless and start kissing his neck. His breaths are in short pants. As I get to the collar of his shirt I notice it's a button up shirt and I decide I'm going to have a little fun. While smirking, I slowly undo the first button near his throat and place a small kiss on the skin which has just been exposed. In another slow motion I undo the second button and again place a kiss there. I keep doing this all the way until his shirt no longer has any buttons and his chest is exposed to me. I lower myself and give him a kiss on the lips.

The howl of a small animal nearby makes us laugh. The noises in the darkness outside are quite alluring. My heart is still racing. Tobias rips my shirt off and chucks It to the side. His hands roam around my back, getting caught on my bra strap. He breaks from the kiss and looks at me.

'Can I?' he asks nervously. I know exactly what he wants- to take my bra off- but I decide to tease him.

'Can you what?' I ask teasingly.

'Can I… um take your um yeh off?'

'My um yeh?'

'Yeh…' he trails off.

A small laugh escapes my lips as I place his hands near my strap.

We don't make love to each other, but we play around like any two teenagers in love.

Because that's exactly what we are, two teenagers acting like adults deeply in love with each other.

A/N Hello everyone! Sorry I dropped off the face of the earth for a little bit, but school started and this year is a very important year for me. I have lots of studying!

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter please review!

Veronica Roth owns all the characters.