A Better Life-Divergent FanFic

Chapter 23: Coming Home

2 nights later from previous chapter
Tris POV

Distant sounds of crying slowly tug my mind out of my deep state of sleep. I groan as I roll over waking up a bit more. The crying becomes clearer. Aiden is crying. He's probably hungry. I slowly open my eyes and pull the covers off of my body. I glance at the ticking clock and it reads 3:15 am, around the same time Aiden woke up for a feeding last night.

I pick up Aiden who is still crying very loudly. I'm surprised Four, who is sleeping on the pull out bed in the hospital, hasn't woken up yet. Or maybe he has and he's pretending to sleep. I chuckle at the thought. I bring Aiden over to to my hospital bed and sit down. A few minutes later as I'm feeding him I notice Four is up.

"Morning sleepy head." I say glancing up at him, "trying to ignore the fact that our son is gonna wake up multiple times every night for the next few months?"

He smirks and yawns. "Want me to take the next shift?" He said softly sitting down next to me.

"Sure," I smile grateful for his offer, "the bottles are over there and if he needs to be changed in about an hour or two, which he most likely will, the diapers are over there." I say pointing to all the supplies on the shelf.

I finish feeding Aiden and set him back in his bassinet. I watch him for a minute as he peacefully falls asleep. I crawl back in my bed and snuggle up next to Four. He wraps his arm around me and I rest my head on his chest. My eyelids get heavier and heavier as I drift back into my previous state of deep sleep.

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2 weeks later

Today we get to take little Aiden home finally. He recovered much quicker than the doctors thought he would and he passed all of his medical examinations so he gets to come home finally! We go pick him up from the hospital nursery and put him in the carrier. He stays sound asleep as we do it.

Once we get back to our small apartment we introduce him to his nursery and everything in it.
"I can't believe he's finally home." I say as I rock Aiden in a rocking chair.

"I know. I can't believe we're parents still." Four replies. I keep rocking Aiden silently for the next few minutes until he is fully asleep.

"Hey," Four starts, "since he's finally asleep and will probably be for the next hour or so you wanna..." he says as he nods his head toward our bedroom with a smirk on his face.

I smile and slowly stand up with Aiden in my arms. I  place him in his crib ans turn the baby monitor on.

Four and I creep out of his room as silently as possible, closing the door once we get in our room. My lips crash with his as we kiss passionately. We haven't done anything together for the past 4 months and I know it's been hard for Four to wait this long. As we kiss he pulls us towards the bed. He spins us around as I fall back on the bed. He pulls his shirt off and then mine. He begins to undo my pants when I suddenly remember something.

"Tobias wait." I say stopping him.

"What is it? Is something wrong?" He asks with a confused look on his face. I groan as I sit up. He lifts himself from on top of me and sits next to me.

"I just remembered..." I start, "I can't do anything with you for the next three weeks. Doctors orders."
He frowns.

"I know it's been hard for you to wait this long." I say

"It's ok," he says. A small grin forms in the corner of his mouth, "I guess we'll just have to do other things he says." Before I can ask what those other things might be his lips crash into mine again as he pulls me yet again into a strong kiss.

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And hour later I lay on top of Four as we cuddle on the couch. Aiden's been sleeping for a little over an hour now, which gave Four and I plenty of time to spend with each other. Right as I am drifting off to sleep I hear cries on the baby monitor. I sit up yawning as I walk up across the room. Before I can walk out Four stops me and says, "I'll take this shift. You go get some rest you deserve it." I smile and kiss him on the forehead as I crawl into our bed.
 
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The next morning
Four POV

Sun streaks through the windows. I squint and adjust my eyes to the morning light. Tris arms are clasped tightly around me. I slowly and quietly remove them and let her sleep a little more.

I look at the clock and realize we slept in. It's 8:30 am. I get up to start making breakfast. As I finish breakfast and am about to wake Tris up I have a weird realization. Aiden didn't wake up last night...not even for his early morning feeding. I quickly go check the monitor.

Maybe he just slept through the night. I tell myself. Don't be ridiculous, the other part of my brain says, newborns never sleep through the night. As I walk or get to the monitor and look at it fear stabs into my stomach. He's not on his crib. I rush into Aiden's room practically throwing the door open. Aiden is not there... my son is missing. I check all around the room, not thinking rationally. I go into our bedroom and look in the bassinet we have in our room. He's not there.

"Tobias?" Tris says groggily. "What's wrong?"

My throat is so dry I can hardly speak. "It's Aiden...he's missing."

Hey guys!! I'm SO SORRY I haven't posted in so long! I was on vacation and didn't have time to write and post something while I wasn't home. Please post some ideas in the comments for upcoming chapters. I have one more idea for something which is why this was left on a cliffhanger, but I'm running out of things to write and I don't want anything to be boring to read. Thanks again for all the support! Be brave my lovelies🔥💙