If I had met you in grey

Chapter 84

Tobias POV
"Marcus, stop it!" She screams as well as my skin, stinging and burning from the leather belt. "You're hurting him stop!" She screams again. My father swings again and then turns to her. Laying on my side, down on our living room floor, I can see the fear in my mother's eyes. Her face hides it, but her eyes are as clear as day.

"Stop!" She cries out as the belt hits her too. The screams of my mother echo throughout the house, our abnegation house. Her fear courses through every crevice of the room, her blood trickling down her arm. It oozes and oozes dark red, never stopping even when It hits the floor. I not only feel my pain, but hers as well. She's shedding blood and experiencing excruciating pain... all for me.

I wake up with a startle, everyone is still asleep, including tris. I get up, slip on a black sweatshirt, and my combat boots and leave the dorms. I walk the dark eerie halls of dauntless, they're more intimidating at night than during the day. I walk till I get outside, outside dauntless. I look at the sky, the twinkling stars, the pitch blackness that could swallow you whole.

I look over and see some sort of wrapper or scrap paper blowing around in the wind and I grab it. I take out a pen I honestly didn't know I had in my pocket and write. I remember the first time Evelyn came to me, she said that anything I write will come back to her. So I write and walk a ways till I know some factionless are around.

"Hey!" I call out. Someone walks out of the darkness, a man probably around fifty, he's wearing a combinations of candor and abnegation clothing. "What?" He barks. I can see a glow of a fire behind him, the smoke trailing into the air around it. "Can you get this to Evelyn?" I ask. I'm sure he knows what Evelyn I'm talking about. He thinks for a moment,

"How do you know her?" He asks. I sigh. "I'm her son." I say not very proudly. "Tobias?" He asks. I nod. He smiles, and I notice quite a few of his teeth are missing. "Sure." He says and disappears, into a different direction this time.

I head back to dauntless but don't go inside, I wait out side it. Letting time pass, letting the sun get closer to rising. 'Tobias?" It feels like it's been at least three hours and I'm sure it truly has. I walk out to see my mother waiting, she stand with her arms by her side and clutching the note in her left hand. "I'm surprised you couldn't find nicer paper." She says and I roll my eyes.

"Now will you tell me why I'm outside dauntless, at 3:30 in the morning??" She asks. I step a bit closer, just so I can see her a little clearer.

"I'm not apologizing so don't think that I am." I say. She scoffs but I ignore it. "I wanted to say..." The words don't want to come out of my mouth and I don't blame them. "To say thank you." I finally say. Her smile reappears. "For trying to stand up for me when I didn't have the strength to and for sacrificing pain for my sake." I say remembering what reoccurred in my dream.

"Well.. This is unexpected." She says with a soft chuckle. She looks into my eyes, and for once I can read her eyes. I can read tris's almost everytime but my mother, that's hard. They have genuine love and care in them.

"Thank you Tobias, you don't what this means to me." She says. I smile a small smile at her, and she gives one back. "I better head back." I tell her. She nods but keeps her smile. "Hope you'll keep in touch." She says. "I will." I tell her and I mean it.