A/N Just to clear up a few facts about the last chapter. Tris did come out of the simulation but she was in too emotional pain to acknowledge it and that is when she "shut down". When she felt someone shaking her she was already out of the simulation but she just couldn't get it together… you like Molly in the movie when they were escorting her out of the simulation lab and when Tris came out of her first simulation she was still batting at the simulated crows.

Christina's POV

It has been 12 hours and Tris still hasn't woken up. I don't know what happened I mean we could see her through the window of the simulation room. We saw her reacting to something and the lights came on showing that the simulation was over but she was still on the floor balled up like a baby crying for Eric. She came out of the simulation but she never snapped out of it she just kept crying and screaming even with Four shaking her and then she just collapsed onto her back and was completely still. At first I thought that she was dead but then I saw her chest rising and falling. It was all chaos from there. I was given a very large dose of peace serum that put me into a deep sleep and woke up 8 hours later. Now 4 hours later I'm still waiting on word about Tris. She has to wake up she's my best friend.

"Everyone as you know today there was an incident during the fear simulations in which Tris ended up in the infirmary. I do not have word on her condition yet but I can tell you until she wakes up initiation has been suspended. You will be informed when it will be resumed."

Tris' POV

"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."

I love you too Eric. I am awake what are you talking about and why are you crying? You never cry what on earth is going on? I feel so far away. I just want to comfort Eric and make whatever is hurting him stop.

I open my eyes and feel wetness on my forehead and warm breath. I take a deep breath in and everything smells very sterile except I can smell Eric's aftershave that I love so much. I take a deep breath in and look around. There are monitors beeping and I can tell that I'm in a private section of the infirmary. I open my mouth to say Eric's name but it comes out sounding harsh. My throat is so dry I really need a drink.

"Eric look I'm awake please don't cry anymore."

Before I could say anything else to him Eric was wrapping his arms around me and hugging me like he hasn't seen me in years. He is sobbing all over again.

"Tris, oh my God I thought that I lost you. Don't ever do that to me again. I'm so happy that you are okay. How are you feeling?"

"Now that you are holding me I feel fine, but I could really use a drink my throat is very dry."

"Hold on I will push the nurse's button and someone will be in soon. Better yet I will go out and get someone."

Eric's POV

Thank you God she's awake. I am so happy to see her beautiful eyes that I don't know what to do with myself.

"Nurse, Tris is awake get the doctor and bring her a drink please. She said that she is very thirsty."

I turn around and take off back in the direction of Tris' room. When I get there I see her sitting up and trying to pull all of her monitors off. She's even trying to remove her own IV.

"Hey, hey, hey stop that you are going to hurt yourself. Let the doctor check you over and she will decided if those things can be removed."

I lean closer to her and gently take her face into my hands and kiss her with all of the love and passion that I have for her. In that moment I need her to feel how much I love her and need her in my life. She doesn't hesitate to kiss me back wrapping her hand that doesn't have the IV in it in my hair. She tries to pull me closer to her by the shirt with the hand that does have the IV in it. Our kiss quickly begins to heat up and it's only when I hear her monitors begin to beep like crazy that I remember where we are and that someone could walk in at any moment.

"Well at least I know that the alarms and monitors going off is for a good reason. How are you feeling Tris?"

I look over at Tris and she is blushing deeper than I think that I've ever seen her before.

"I'm feeling a whole lot better now that I know that Eric's okay. What exactly happened to me?"

"Well it appears that your simulation was a little too real for your mind to take at once. You came out of the simulation and then collapsed. At first we couldn't figure out what was wrong with you and after a few test we realized that you mind shut down to protect itself. It's kind of like a computer shutting itself down if it feels that it is being overloaded."

"Oh my I never meant for that to happen. I could tell that it was just a simulation but the pain that I was feeling at what I saw was too much for me. I felt as if I was really watching Eric die. I…I never want to experience that again."

"Well Tris unfortunately you will have to face it again during your final test and hopefully you won't have the same reaction."

"Ok, how long do I have to be here?"

"Actually Tris with one closer look at your vitals you should be able to go home tonight. I don't want you to be alone overnight someone has to be in the room with you but being that you are an initiate that shouldn't be a problem because you are surrounded by others."

"Thank you so much. Do I need to refrain from any activities or training?"

"Actually no I think that you will be fine to resume your daily schedule. If you begin to feel dizzy or weak make sure that you come in for a checkup. Ok?"

"OK"

"When I've completed you checkup and removed your IV you are free to go."

The doctor checked all of Tris' vitals and had a nurse come in and remover her IV. On the way out we saw her standing talking to one of the nurses.

"Thank you for making sure that my girl is ok, you don't know how much that means to me."

"It was no problem Eric, have a good evening you two."

Tris and I walked out of the infirmary hand in hand until we got closer to the dormitory. We walked the rest of the way back to the dorms side by side. The moment that Tris walked into the dorms Christina ran over and hugged her tight.

"Oh my God Tris don't you ever do that to me again."

"Wow, I've heard that a lot today I guess I really shouldn't ever do that again." Tris said it with a playful sarcastic tone and a smirk on her face.

Will and Al came over and patted Tris on the arm "it's great to see you awake Tris you gave us a huge scare earlier."

"Yeah Tris that was crazy."

"Well guys it's great to be awake again."

"Hey Stiff, what happened in there? Did Eric find out about your little crush on him and decide to throw you into the chasm? You are so going to get ranked out of Dauntless now that you've had your little melt down. My simulation time was only 12 minutes with your little melt down I doubt that there is anything that you can do to redeem yourself."

"Actually Peter, Tris had the best simulation time today. Her time was only 3 minutes."

Hearing Four's voice I turned around to glare at him, my hands itched to reach out to Tris and pull her closer to me.

"Yeah right collapsing on the floor and getting taken to the infirmary shouldn't count as coming out of the simulation."

"Well know it all what you didn't know is that Tris came out of the simulation before she collapsed. And since you want to goad people about their fear simulations why don't you tell everyone exactly why it took you 12 minutes to come out of your simulation that only consisted of soft furry kittens?"

As soon as four said that Peter's fear was kittens the entire dorm minus Peter cracked up laughing. I laughed so hard that the tears begin to run out of my eyes. Tris was leaning against Christina holding her stomach from laughing. Peter stormed out of the dormitory shoving four on his way out.

Tris says, "I really hope that he doesn't run into any kittens while he's out there throwing his tantrum."

Which threw us all into another fit of laughter.

I look over at Tris and make a head gesture that she should follow me outside. When she gets outside the door I lead her to an empty hallway. I take a quick look around and pull her up against me and push her against the wall. I pick her up and she wraps her legs around me. I kiss her deeply and my fingers slide underneath of her shirt I place my hand on the bare skin of her back and she tugs on the back of my hair. I give her one longer kiss and then move away from the wall so that she can stand on her own. She puts one hand on my face and looks me in the eye.

"Eric, I love you and after what I saw today I realize that I don't want to have to live without you."
"Tris, I love you too I know that I can't live without you I felt like I was dying inside today."

She gives me a kiss and lays her head on my chest while she is hugging me.

"Baby, I have to go and take care of some things with Max. Be careful okay. I would rather you stay with me tonight but I know that you can't be missing from the dormitory two nights in a row. Especially since Uriah told me that he overheard Christina telling Will that Peter woke up before everyone else and noticed that you were gone."

"Ok, I will be careful and I will see you tomorrow morning." With a quick kiss we walk back out to the main walkway and part ways.

Tris' POV

I walk back into the dorm and a lot of people are already in bed, but since I'm well rested because I've been out all day I just climb up onto my bed and lay staring at the ceiling. There are so many thoughts going through my mind but the main one is how Eric makes me feel. The kisses, hugs, and touches…the many, many touches. Okay I'm getting very hot and my underpants are now very uncomfortable.

I get up and splash some cold water on my face and then go out into the hall to get a quick drink of water. I return back to my bed and I keep tossing and turning and I hear Christina start to stir. I feel bad that I'm messing up her sleep, but I just can't get comfortable. I finally give up on trying to sleep and slip on my boots and head toward Eric's apartment.

When I get there I put my hand up to knock on the door when the door opens and Eric stops in his tracks.

"Tris, I was just thinking about you. I couldn't sleep so I was just getting ready to walk down to the dorm and ask if you wanted to come here with me?"

I didn't even bother to respond to him I step closer to him and grab the front of his shirt pulling him to me and kiss him deeply.

A/N Okay so I decided that the next chapter will be a short lemon and what I am going to do is post it as a standalone chapter so that anyone who wants to read it can and anyone that doesn't want to can skip it. To be fair I'm going to try my best to post the chapter that comes after the same day.