A/N Okay so there is a time jump to three days after the party. All of the initiates are now finished with their first stage of initiation. Eric only attended the last day of sparring and that was the only day that Tris accompanied him as well.

Tris' POV

I wake up and I'm in Dauntless near the chasm. I hear the roaring of the water and I see a crowd. I walk over to see what is happening to see that Four is choking Eric and trying to push him over the chasm at the same time. I try to run forward to stop him and try to talk some sense into him but I hit a wall that I didn't see there. All of a sudden I'm being restrained from behind by Peter and Drew, I try my hardest to fight them off but I'm not making much progress with it. I can see Eric trying to swing at Four but he has him pushed off at such an odd angle that if he tries to kick him he will push himself over the rail and to his death. I can hear Four telling Eric you stay away from her do you hear me? Tris is meant to be with me not you…never you she doesn't love you she has been faking all along. Do you know where she was last night Eric not in the dorm but in my bed having sex with me? She could never love you, no one could. I try to scream to Eric that Four is lying that I was never with him and that I was in the dorm last night with Christina and Will and Al. But it was as if Eric couldn't hear a word that I was saying. I could see the light leave from his eyes like Four had killed him with his words alone. The next thing I see if Four giving Eric one final push and him falling to his death in the chasm. I begin to scream and it is as if someone has ripped my heart out. I feel hot tears running down my face and then I feel someone shaking me and screaming at me. But I can't it hurts too much, there's a pain that I've never known in my life in my heart not a physical pain but pain and then there is just darkness and nothing.

Eric's POV

I couldn't bear the thought that I would have to watch Tris go through her fear landscape and be terrified and that there is nothing that I would be able to do to help her so here I am in the training room beating the crap out of a punching bag. When I'm finished with this in another 10 minutes I will do about an hour of weight training and then I will go find my Tris.

"Eric, Eric man come on you have to come with me now…..its Tris something went wrong."

I didn't stop to think if this is some kind of prank being pulled on me by the Pedrad brothers or not I just started running. I start to run in the direction of the fear simulation lab but then Uriah yells at me that they took her to the infirmary.

At this point I really begin to panic and I know that if anything happens to her I will destroy this place and Erudite too.

I walk into the infirmary and run into Lauren who accompanied Tris to the infirmary.

"Lauren, where is she what happened to her?"

"Eric you have to calm down she needs you to be strong for her right now. She panicked during her simulation I don't know for sure what was happening but I saw her run toward something fall backwards and then it appeared that she was fighting against someone or something. Then she crumpled to the floor and she was screaming no and your name over and over and then she just went completely still. Four was trying his hardest to get her to wake up but she was so messed up that nothing was getting through to her. Her heart beat was crazy and her blood pressure spiked. The doctors are in there trying to figure out if she had a heart attack or a stroke. We really don't know for sure what is going on with her but she is not conscious right now."

I couldn't take what I was being told that damn simulation almost killed my Tris, she may never wake up. Why didn't Four stop the simulation, I'm going to kill him but first I have to see Tris. I need to see that she is alive. I walk up to the front desk and ask the nurse where her room is. She leads me to her room and what I see breaks me.

Tris is lying in a bed with wires and tubes everywhere. Her heart, brainwaves, blood pressure, and oxygen levels are all being monitored. She has an IV running from her left hand. I slowly walk over to her bed and pick up her right hand and kiss it. I just held onto her I wasn't sure if she could hear me or not and I also wasn't sure that her hearing my voice would be a good thing. I don't know what she was seeing and I don't know why her reaction was what it was. So I just sit there and hold her hand and wait.

Max's POV

"Four what happened to her? I want answers and I want them now. "

"She was in her simulation and she was reacting normally but then she saw me throw Eric over the Chasm and she completely broke down. She was screaming for him and crying it was awful Max. I tried to shake her and tell her that she needed to calm down but she didn't respond. She was in a fetal position screaming and crying for Eric."

"What happened next?"

"She went completely limp and the monitors on her heart rate when insane. I ripped the wires off of her and called for help. Apparently Lauren must have known that something had gone wrong because she sent Uriah for Eric and she had Will come in and grab Tris and run with her to the infirmary."

"Okay, have you gone to the infirmary to let them know what has happened or did you just allow Lauren to relay the information?"

"I, I stayed here I'm a mess Max I really like her a lot but I know that I had to continue the simulations here. That's my job. Unfortunately I've only gotten through Peter, Drew, and Molly's simulations they really don't care what happens to Tris. Christina on the other hand hasn't stopped crying yet, she attacked me and told me that this was all my fault. I could have restrained her or defended myself but I didn't want to hurt her. One of the medics that came to get Tris gave her a peace serum that knocked her out cold. Will carried her back to the dorms."

"Well, Four I think that we should let the other initiates go for now and resume their simulations later. You need to tell the doctor everything that happened so that they can treat Tris to the best of their abilities."

"Ok, Max I will just go out and let the initiates know that due to today's events there simulations are on hold until further notice."

"Ok"

I can't believe that this happened. I mean with did have that one kid that had a heart attack a few years back but nothing like this has ever happened since. I really hope that she is ok. She has to be ok for her sake and for Eric's. I've never known him to care about someone the way that he cares for her.

"Ready to go Max?"

"Yeah let's go"

We walk to the infirmary in silence and when we get there I ask the nurse where Tris' doctor is and she takes Four to speak to him. I on the other hand walk toward where she originally had showed us Tris' room is and the sight that I see shocks me.

Eric has Tris' hand in his and his shoulders are shaking with silent sobs. I have never seen Eric cry not even in his fear landscape he usually only shows one emotion anger although lately he has added his own version of happiness to the mix. I don't want to disturb him right now I know that he will be furious that someone saw with his "walls down". I just back out of the room and follow the sound of Four's voice.

"… Well Four, we've run test on her and she didn't have a heart attack or a stroke. Her body seems to have shut her mind down to protect itself. I think that when she realizes that it was just a simulation she will wake up. I was just heading down to her room to speak with Eric. He has been here since he was informed about her being here."

"Ok, do you think that me talking to her would do any good can she hear us?"

"She should be able to hear what is being said."

"Excuse me I have to go now."

I see Four and the doctor come around the corner and I step out and nod to the doctor while putting my hand on Four's chest and stopping him from going toward Tris' room.

"Four I know that you like Tris and that you may have developed feelings for her. But it is not your place to go into that room with her right now. Eric is there with her let them be."

"Max, as her instructor I have a right to go in and see her. Right now as your leader I'm telling you that you don't. You are not to go into her room. Do you understand me?"

Four gives me a glare that would put me 6 feet under 10 times over if looks really did kill. "Fine" He pushes away from me and storms off to another area of the infirmary.

Eric's POV

"Eric, may I talk to you a second?"

"Sure, please tell me is there anything that I can do to help her?"

"Actually Eric I think that there is. We believe that Tris' mind has shut down to protect itself. She didn't have a stroke or a heart attack. I have reason to believe that whatever happened in that simulation put her body in mind into such a state of distress that she shut down to protect herself from whatever she was seeing."

"What can I do to help?"

"Well from what I was told Tris saw you die in her fear simulation. I think that hearing your voice and talking to her just may bring her through this and out of whatever she has done to herself."

"Ok I will do my best."

I walk back over to Tris and take her hand in mine. I lean closer to her ear.

"Hey baby, I need you to listen closely to me. This is Eric I'm not dead and it's not a trick. What you saw happen didn't happen. I'm here it was just your fear simulation. I don' know how you didn't realize that it was a simulation with your divergence but we can figure that out later. I just really, really need you to wake up. I don't know what to do without you. Please wake up I love you."

With that being said I placed my lips on her forehead and kissed her and begin to sob all over again. I'm not use to feeling these kinds of feelings I love her. I've never felt this way about anyone and I know that I never will again.

A/N I know that Tris is Divergent and that generally they are simulation aware. But I had a theory when I was reading the book that if the simulation seemed to real or if it was a situation that was too emotional for them that a Divergent would react like anyone else would in the situation or possibly in the way that Tris did in this chapter.