What could have happend

Chapter 11 - The big bro/scary boyfriend talk

Tobias pov

I wake up to the soft sound of my watch, I look at the time, 6.30 am. Tris is going into surgery at 7.25 this morning. I get off the hard couch I slept on considering the hospital bed is too small for Tris and I to sleep on. The first night in the hospital I discovered that the bed was too small for us both, I rolled out of the bed, and let's say it's a miracle that I do not have my own hospital bed now because it hurt.

I see Tris stirring in the hospital bed, slowly waking up. I walk over to the bed and sit on the edge of the mattress. I softly kiss her forehead and her eyes flutter open.

"Good morning," I say while she scoots over. I go and sit next to her, "how did you sleep?"

"I slept fine, not as good as at home but I also didn't lay awake all night." She says and yawns. When she yawns her face scrunches up in the most adorable way. She's beautiful.

We cuddle together and all too soon we hear a knock on the door and yell for the person to come inside. It's Cara.

"Hey Tris, ready for your surgery?" she asks cheerily as if she was asking if she wanted some candy.

"Yeah I was looking forward to it," Tris says with sarcasm dripping from her voice.

"Okay, maybe I was a little cheery but it is not that bad right?" Cara says now seriously, "I mean you're getting better from it."

"Yeah I guess you're right but it's... I... I'm afraid" Tris eventually manages to croak out, "afraid that this will never end, that the hospital will be where I spent the rest of my life."

"You will only spend that much time here if you become a doctor or a nurse, so hold your head up high, because you've got absolutely nothing to worry about," Cara says "Is it okay if I take you to surgery in about 5 minutes?"

"Yeah, I guess that's okay" Tris mumbles.

Cara walks out of the room and I look at Tris,

"That is not all you're afraid of," I state, because I know it's true. She shakes her head no while saying softly "No that's only a little part of what I'm afraid of. When you're sleeping you're vulnerable but you wake up if something happens. What if they are just going to knock me out to kidnap me or something" She says shaking. "I'm always afraid of something creeping up on me, the only time I'm not feeling like that is when I can see every corner of the room." Her voice is a little bit wobbly from fear and she has goosebumps all over even thinking about what could happen in the worst case.

"Since when did you feel like this?" I ask softly in an attempt to calm her down.

"Since abnegation, once a factionless man crept up on me from behind and held a knife against my throat, a dauntless had to.... He.... They had to kill him because otherwise, he would have killed me. Initiation was a lot better and still getting better until Edward's eye, I laid awake for hours every night listening to the footsteps and people passing the dorms, I couldn't sleep out of fear that they would creep up on me like the factionless man. I had everyone's footsteps memorized after Al, Peter, and Drew tried to... Kill me." A few tears were rolling down her cheeks, I engulfed her in a bear hug and whispered soft encouraging nothings in her ear when Cara came in again.

"I'm sorry Tris but we have to take you now." Cara's voice said, "It's going to be okay Tris." She walks over to the bed and slowly weels it out of the room.

"You're going to be fine and I'll be right there when you wake up." I say "I love you, Tris."

"I love you too Tobias." I hear her soft voice say.

Then I jump off of the bed in the middle of the hallway and see Tris being wheeled through a set of doors. I look at the doors for a while. I jump when I feel a tap on my shoulder. I turn around to see Caleb standing there. What is he doing here?

"Can we talk?" He says with a hint of fear in his voice.

"Sure," I say in a friendlier voice than my instructor voice, I don't want to scare him. He is Tris's brother. The last time we talked he wasn't happy with Tris and me, this is going to be interesting...

Caleb Pov

I see Four standing in the middle of the hallway, staring at the door that leads to the operation rooms. I walk up to him and I am almost soiling my pants when I tap him on the shoulder. When he turns around he looks at me confused.

"Can we talk?" I ask, my voice unsteady. Come on Caleb man up, it's just a dauntless prodigy and your sister's boyfriend you're talking to. He probably notices my nervousness because he answers "Sure" In a gentle voice. We walk together to Tris' room and he closes the door.

"What do you wanna talk about?" He says in a calm voice.

"I.. uhm," I clear my throat and muster up the courage to say, "You probably know that Beatrice and I were from abnegation. Your face looks very familiar like I've seen it before, but that would be almost impossible unless you were abnegation." I see him stiffen, then the next moment he's trying to mask every emotion.

"You were from abnegation." I mutter

"Yes I were, it's in the past. Now could you not tell anybody?"

"Does my sister know?"

"Yes, she does."

"I won't tell. But who's kid we're you?" I say while studying his face, those blue eyes.... I remember them from someone, who I saw quite often in abnegation. He and his wife always came over for dinner. He had those blue eyes! What was their name?

"You're the Eaton kid right?" I ask carefully

"Only aptitude for Eriudite right?" He asks scepticly

"Yeah. Why?" I ask

"It kinda shows. You knowing just by staring at me who my parents are. But I think you're more than just smart."

I smile knowing that he probably also could fit in with the erudite. I could fit in with the candor I think. Sometimes I just speak my thoughts before I've even procesed I'm thinking them.

"How did you and Beatrice meet?" I ask carefully hoping this is a topic we can talk about.

"I was her instrucor." He says with a smirk, "before you say something, her rank wasn't favoritism, I cant do anything about the final ranks. And second age does not matter in dauntless. Third, I saw you looking at Cara, Tris's nurse in a way too flirty way to deny you don't like her." Gee was I that obvious?

"She's just nice, alright?" I say with a beet red head.

"Yeah, and pretty right? Not nearly as pretty as Tris but pretty." He says teasing me a bit.

"Shut up," I say while punching his arm.

"You're picking up habits fast, only that you have a little bit of a weak punch." He says playfully.

Before I know it I am learning how to throw a good punch. Four is holding his pillow in front of him while giving me tips on my technique and encourenging me to punch even harder. After a while I'm getting pretty tired and we both plop down on the couch.

"Did you see the news yesterday?" He asks randomly.

"Yeah why?"

"Well they are making it easier to travel between factions and visit family. And I am beginning to really like you. I knew you had it in you somewhere because you can't be so much different than your sister. I mean you have the same parents." He tells me and I am biginning to think he's suspecting that me and Beatrice are divergent.

"If you're thinking I'm divergent you're wrong" I say hastily

"Yeah, because that isn't what they all say," he says while I'm getting nervous as shit over here, "Realax I can't be just one thing, I want to be brave, smart, selfless, honest and kind, that is the meaning of my tatoo." He says pointing to the ink coming out of his collar, creeping up his neck.

I tought dauntless were just adrenaline junkies who didn't value meaning of things. Guess I thought wrong. He is the only smart dauntless I know so far but he's good for Beatrice. I can see that now. Sharp enough to sharpen her, that's what everyone needs, right? But nontheless is he a great guy, I'm already looking forward to christmas.