les sequelles - Eric Coulter 1

68. Eric And Four

Imagine: Being Four's girlfriend, but realizing that you truly have feelings for Eric.

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You and your boyfriend Tobias walk through the Dauntless compound, having a casual conversation, his arm is loosely slung around your waist, and you're laughing at his witty jokes. You and Tobias have been together since you both passed initiation a year and a half ago, he was a transfer from Abnegation, and you were from Erudite, at first, the two of you really didn't like one another, however, things soon changed. You loved Tobias, but you couldn't help but feel as if a small portion of you was still empty and you didn't know why.

You approached the Chasm just as Tobias' phone started to ring, "Y/N, I have to take this, wait right here, I'll be back in a few minutes."

"Okay," You smile. You lean against the railing of the chasm, staring down at its mysterious waters. It was getting pretty late, so there weren't many people around, surprisingly, standing there was quite peaceful. You felt a hand press on the small of your back, you felt a warmth go through your body, you didn't bother looking back, knowing it was your boyfriend.

He rubbed a few circles on your back, and your body instantly relaxed, you found yourself smiling, "You like that beautiful?"

Your eyes widened at the sound of the voice. Eric. You whipped your head around and stepped away from him, "Eric?! What are you doing?"

"I thought you liked it!" He says gently grabbing your arm.

"What made you think that?! I have a boyfriend," You whisper angrily.

"Well you didn't stop me! You looked as if you liked it," He says, you notice that his face slightly falls. You feel somewhat drawn towards him, in all honesty, you did like it, but does that even count since you thought it was your boyfriend; you didn't know it was Eric. You realize that you're staring up into Eric's eyes, and he's staring back, his hand is still on your arm.

"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING ERIC?!" You snap out of your daze and turn to see a furious Tobias. He storms towards you and Eric, you try and get between the two of them, but Tobias instantly pushes you out of the way, and his fist connects directly with Eric's face, your hear a grimacing crack, "What the hell makes you think you can talk to my girlfriend?!"

"Get the fuck off me Four!" Eric says, his face is covered in blood, and his eyes are filled with fury. Eric punches back, but Tobias grabs his hand and pulls Eric's arm behind him, you hear another horrible crack, and Eric groans in pain. Tobias is blinded by rage, and whenever this happens, no one, not even Eric can stop him.

You quickly grip Tobias' upper arm, and scream, "Four! Let go of him! FOUR!"

Tobias pushes you again and this time you lose your balance and fall over. Tobias' fury instantly vanishes when he sees what he just did to you, he gives Eric one last deathly glare before pulling you to your feet and leading you away. On the way back to your apartment, Tobias constantly keeps apologizing for pushing you, you can't help but ignore him, you'd never seen him like this, and you hated seeing that.

Tobias leaves the apartment about an hour after the fight, and you decide to go to the infirmary to see if Eric is there, you don't understand why, but you just feel the need to go check on him.

He sits in the infirmary with his shirt off, and a nurse is just finishing wrapping up his arm. For some strange reason you felt a twinge of jealousy surge through your body as you watched the nurse staring at Eric's body.

The nurse finally walks out, and Eric sees you standing in the doorway, he looks surprised, and then his expression hardens, "What are you doing here?"

"I thought I'd come check on you," You start to regret coming.

"Why, so you can get your big bad boyfriend to break my other arm?" He looks angry as fuck.

"Eric, it's not Four's fault, he thought you were hitting on me."

"You're lucky that I didn't fight back," He mutters.

"Why didn't you?"

"Because he's your boyfriend!" He says pointing at your chest.

"So?!" He sounds like he actually cares about you.

He sighs, "Never mind, just forget it."

You look at his arm, and his nose, "I'm sorry Eric. What did he do to you?"

"Nothing too serious, he dislocated my arm and nose," He says, annoyed.

"I'm so sorry," You looked away from him, you could feel something surfacing in your heart, something that you had been trying to push down for years, and you had no idea what it was.

You and Eric talked in the infirmary for a while, before you decided to take Eric to his apartment.

The two of you chill in his apartment for a while, your conversation started off casual, and eventually it got extremely deep and intense, you didn't even realize that you had tears streaming down your face as you opened up to Eric, for some reason you felt comfortable talking to Eric about things you hadn't even talked to Tobias about. Eric reached up to your face and wiped a few tears away, he suddenly started leaning forward, and he pressed his lips against yours, you instantly melted into him. Once you realize what was happening you quickly pull away, and you see that it's 1:00 am, you quickly excuse yourself and make your way back to your's and Tobias' shared apartment.

That night as you lay in bed next to Tobias you could stop thinking about Eric. You finally came to the realization that the feels that you had been pushing away were your liking for Eric, you'd been in love with Eric for years, but you never allowed yourself to feel it. You fell for Eric back in school, the two of you transferred together, and he even helped train you after hours during your initiation. You could tell that he had feelings for you too. At the chasm today and when he kissed you, you finally felt the empty feeling, that you always felt with Tobias, vanish.

You spent the rest of the night, thinking about your boyfriend Tobias, and the guy you truly love, Eric. You felt absolutely torn, and had no idea what to do.

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