ANOTHER CHANCE (Divergent Story : After Allegiant)

CHAPTER 5 : Old Wounds

Tobias P.O.V.

I am still sitting at the counter thinking about all that Tris has told me. She just went to bed a few moment ago. How am I going to help her? It sounds like she can’t really remember us being together and that is breaking me to pieces. I just got her back, I can not loose her again. I love her too much for that to happen, I doubt that I will survive this time if something should happen to her. I am so happy that Christina stopped me from using the memory serum all those years ago, even if it was a painful road to recovery.

I think about the gang and decide I should call them. I think I’ll start with Christina, she was always very close to Tris and they were very good friends.

I go the my phone and dial her number. She answers on the 4th ring, “Chicago Relocation Office, Christina speaking.”

“Hi Chris, it’s Four. How are you?”, I ask her.

“Hey hey Four, haven’t heard from you in a while,” she answers back. 

I half smile, half frown at this statement before answering her, “Chris, we saw each other on Sunday. It is only Wednesday now.”

“Yeah, yeah, whatever. So how have you been?” she asks me.

“Can you perhaps get the group together and come to my apartment when everyone has a time please,” I ask her.

“Sure, I can do that. Will this evening after work be okay?”, she asks me. I tell her it will be fine and I hang up the phone.

I dial my next number, knowing that this won’t be an easy conversation. He answers on the 2nd ring.

“Dr Caleb Prior speaking,” he answers.

 “Hi Caleb, it's Four, how are you,” I ask him.

“Hey, I have been good. Not to bad, been working a lot and you?”, he asks me.

“I have been better. Hey, can you perhaps come to my apartment this evening after work please. I need to show you something.”

“Sure, can I bring Cara with?”, he asks. I tell him it is fine and hang up. That went better than I thought. Now I just need to get ready for this, because it is going to be hectic evening with the news that I am going to spring on them. I go to the bathroom and take a shower and get dressed in better clothes.

It is about 5pm and I am sitting on the couch trying to figure out how I am going to tell them the news, when I hear a scream from my room. I jump over the back of my coach trying to get to the room. I run in, without even telling her of my presence and see her curled in a ball on the bed, sobbing into her hands.

I grab her in my arms, hearing her whisper and crying, “My baby, my baby.”

To shocked to know what she is talking about, I try to calm her down a bit before asking about what baby she is talking about. She wasn’t pregnant when we were together, we only did it once, just before I lost her forever.

“Tris, you are save now, I promise that no-one will hurt you again. What baby are you talking about?”, I ask her. Just before she answers, there is a knock at the door and I see that it is just before 6pm. The knock must have reminded Tris of something, because she starts to panic and cry, clinging on to me for dear life.

“The door is open, come in,” I yell, because I know it is the gang that is here. I tell them I am in the bedroom and that they should approach with caution. I look to see Christina, Zeke and Caleb look into the doorway. Before I know it, Christina is on the floor, her legs gave out as she saw Tris. Caleb has a look of shock on his face, not knowing if what he is seeing is real or not. Zeke is just standing there trying to figure out what is going on. I can here Amar asking what is going on from my sitting room.

“Guys, go into the sitting room. I will bring her out and try to explain as much as I can.” I tell them.

They all leave, Zeke helping a crying Christina off the floor to the couch. Tris has been crying into my arms this whole time. I look at her, trying to dry her tear stained face. “Tris, I am going to pick you up now, I promise that I will not let you go. Okay?” I say to her.

She gives me the slightest nod and I gently lift her off the bed. I round the corner from the room to the sitting room with her in my arms. I see Caleb, George, Zeke and Amar standing against the walls and door. Shauna and Christina are sitting on the couch crying and holding on to each other. I go to the other couch with Tris and gently sit her down on my lap, her head still buried in my shoulder. I can feel she is trying to get a hold of herself and calm down, but whatever happened before really shook her up.

I look around the room and say, “Okay, I know you guys have a lot of questions, I will try to answer what I can. All I ask is that only one at a time speaks and that they try to be as soft as possible. She has been through a lot and there are a lot of things that are triggers. Got it?”

They all whisper, “Yes.”

“Thanks” I let them know. Then I start.

 “Okay, as you can see, she never died. The Bureau gave her a new Paralysing Serum after she confronted David. She was awake when we went to say goodbye,” I try to not remember the pain I felt on that day. I still has me to pieces, and now knowing that she was awake that time, make me even more sad and angry and feelings I didn’t know I had in me. I want revenge on every single person that took her from me.

 I hear Shauna and Christina gasp from where they are seated. Caleb is the first to ask, “But how. Where was she all this time?”

Before I know what is happening, Tris stiffens in my arms and turns around before jumping off my lap and running at Caleb. It happened so fast, at first I though she was going to hug him, but when I realised what is happening, she has her hands around his throat, screaming at him for being a traitor and trying to kill her. Then I remember that she has lost some of her memories and the one of her forgiving him is one she forgot.

I jump up and help Zeke by taking her off Caleb. I tell them that she has also lost a lot of her memories, so she may not remember some things. Caleb is still lying on the floor, shocked at Tris, tears in his eyes. He is rubbing his throat, you can see she left a handprint there. 

After I took Tris off Caleb, I went back to where we were seated before and asked her what the last thing she remember from each person in the room. She looks around and sees Christina and smiles. “She is my best friend,” she tells me, making Christina cry fresh tears, hopefully from happiness. She look at Shauna and says she remember her from hanging with me a few times while training. She can tell Zeke is my best friend, Caleb is a traitor and tried to kill her in Erudite. Cara, Amar and George she can’t seem to place, although George does seem familiar.

I realise that this has taken a bit out of her, so I decide to take her to bed. I pick her up and lay her down, covering her up with a blanket again, before kissing her head. This time she doesn’t flinch like she did before and a small smile creep onto my face with this thought.

“Goodnight Tris,” I tell her before leaving. I hear her whisper, “Goodnight Tobias.” just before I leave the room.

I go back to the sitting room and look at each one and decide I better get everything out of the way. So I sit down and start explaining everything that she told me. From the Bureau torturing her, where she lost some of her memories due to memory serum, till where she escaped and I found her in the streets. They all sit and listen, the guys having hatred written all over their faces and the girls crying into each others arms.

I look at the time and see it is past 11pm, most of them still have work in the morning. So I tell them it is time to go and ask them to keep this quiet for now. I don’t know if the Bureau is looking for her or what, but I will do anything in my power to keep her save.

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Diane