Tris Pov
Tobias and Caleb are gone for a while already. Caleb's probably learning how to jump onto a train. I hear a knock on the door and see Ian, standing in the doorway.
"Ian!" I exclaim excitedly. I've not seen anyone besides the doctors and nurses here, Tobias and Caleb. Not that I'm sick of them or something but a little change once in a while sure is welcome. Ian walks in and goes to hug me. I see over his shoulder Fabian and Wolf standing awkwardly in the doorway.
"Come in guys!" I say while stretching my arms out to them, hoping to receive a hug. It's a common Dauntless greeting, it surprised me when I first came to Dauntless. I guess it's like showing you're hanging onto them for support, dauntless is basically one huge family.
We talk for a while and I hear a little shuffling behind Ian, Fabian, and Wolf. I shrug it off, it was probably a nurse passing in the hallway. I see Fabian collapse and Wolf gets a few punches before he goes out, Ian grabs the guy in a choke and another guy punches against Ian's temple so hard he goes out. Wow, that was a pretty powerful punch. I look at the guys a little better and see that it's Caleb and Tobias. Bruhhhhh. "That was awesome" I croak, these medicines make my throat dry as a cork. "The only problem is that these guys aren't a threat...". I see Tobias look at the guys and I see him recognize the faces and make an 'ohh' face. He looks at Wolf who has a split lip and bruises scattered over his face. Tobias lifts his shirt to see if he hit him in the stomach. There is one big bruise over there but nothing too bad I think. Tobias and Caleb take a seat on the couch and make small talk with me while we wait for Ian, Fabian, and Wolf to wake up. After ten minutes of talking Cara comes walking in. Crap.
"Oh my, what happened here?" She asks still standing in the doorway.
"Well," I begin "Four and Caleb here came back from abnegation and they apparently thought that my colleges were a threat. So they knocked them out." I say as if it happens every day.
"We didn't know they were your colleges" Tobias protests.
"Oh, shut up. You watch me every day on the security cameras and they stopped by my office several times. And don't you dare even say that isn't true 'cause I know it is." I say in a scolding tone.
Cara and Caleb look like they are soiling their pants trying to hold back their laughter.
"Well Four, you sure found a feisty one," Cara says with a hint of humor in her voice, "come on let's pour some cold water over them. That should wake them up."
I kind of get why Will transferred to Dauntless, he sees the humor in everything, just like Cara. Only Cara is often able to hide it. They all walk out and come back a few minutes later with cups of water. On a count of three, they pour water over their faces. Fabian and Wolf wake up with a jolt, Ian doesn't even stir. I see Cara go into panic mode. She franticly feels for a pulse and relief floods her face when she finds one. She asks for a stretcher and when they wheel him to an empty hospital room. Fabian is on his feet again, asking what in the world happend. But Wolf clearly has a headache and pain from all the bruises.
After a few minutes, a nurse comes rushing in, "Whoever knocked Ian out, knocked him out good because he's in a coma." A deafening silence fell in the room. Everybody looked at Tobias all at once, except me I saw Tobias getting choked so it must've been Caleb.
"I thought him well," Tobias says more like a question than a statement. Fabian and Wolf look very confused for a moment and their gaze shifts to Caleb who now has his gaze fixed to the ground, an expression of shame covering his face.
Caleb Pov
Oh no, no, no, no, no! What have I done? There's someone in a coma right now because of me. What do I do? My aptitude test said that I had Eriudite as result, but even now when I have been in erudite for a while already, I still think and sort of act like a stiff. What is wrong with me? Could it be an old habits die hard kind of thing? I mean, I read books and stuff about divergents but that would be noticed on the aptitude test right away, unless I exedentaly hid it or the test administrator lied to me... My brain goes a thousand miles an hour searching every possibility. The Dauntless has a fear serum that seems to detect divergence. Maybe I should ask Tris about it sometime... In my head a whole pro and con list appears and I decide to ask Tris about the serum when she's settled again in Dauntless.
"Caleb, are you alright?" I hear my little sis ask, and honestly, I really don't know if I'm alright. I mean physically I am but mentally?
"Yeah, I'm fine," I say my voice a little shaky. Praying she doesn't notice I sit down on the couch and try to make myself comfortable. At least, in this state of mind, I'm not getting anywhere near comfortable but I get as comfortable as I can be at the moment.
She looks at me with a calculating look and seems to drop it. She makes small talk with me about nothing and everything. When they all leave and it's just me and my little sis she says, "Caleb drop the act I know you're far from fine," she pats the spot on the bed next to her inviting me to come and sit next to her. I hesitantly stand up while she scoots over and go sit next to her. She gives me a sort of side hug that reminds me an awful lot of Mom back in the day when I used to cry. If I had a scraped knee or I was bullied at school she would sit next to me on my bed or the couch and just hold me and comfort me like only a mother can. And now, a few years later my little sister is here injured in a hospital bed comforting me in that exact way, while I cry until I run out of tears. My body still racks from the sobs but I couldn't cry anymore. How much I would want to cry my body won't let me. I hug Tris as if my life depended on it, my face still tears stained when Four comes walking in.
Tris Pov
Caleb hugs my small form as if his life depends on it. His shoulders still shaking from the sobs but without the tears. I comfort him like a mother would wich is weird because I don't think I could be a good mom, like ever but here I am, softly stroking his hair while letting him hang on to me for dear life. We sit like that on my hospital bed when Tobias comes walking in. He sees Caleb and a look of jealousy flashes his handsome features.
"Hey," I hear his deep voice rumble.
"Hey"
Caleb is laying against me and seems to be dozing off. I hold him until his breaths go even and he falls asleep. A few lost tears still rolling over his cheek.
"How's he doing?"
"The guilt is eating him alive" I mumble still petting Calebs hair. "Tobias why do you look so guilty? Oh no you're not! This is not your fault and you didn't recognize them, so you did the reasonable thing, protect me gainst that 'danger' so don't you dare feel like it is your foult because it's not!" I whisper yell to Tobias.
"But if I hadn't thought him how to..." he trails off at the end of his sentence
"Then you would be seriously hurt because of that choke Ian hold you in, Tobias, please just see that it's not your fault. It never was and never will be, it is and was out of your hands, so let it go." I begg him, hoping he sees what I see in him. Hoping that everything will still be okay between us. Hoping that he'll never leave me, deep inside I know he won't. But still, I'm hoping. Hoping that everything will turn out just fine.
Hey everyone, just a quick authors note to ask the smarties over here if stroking is only like if you have epilepsy or something or if it can also be like petting someone's hair. I was curious but google said it was also something like petting but you can't be too sure. Also, I want to thank you guys for all the support and stuff. Feel free to comment or something if you see any errors Grammerly missed (yup, I'm checking this book on grammar with Grammarly). I'm gonna keep on writing now so tnx in advance for the feedback and stuff! Oh and I wanted to dedicate this chapter to JC46andme to be the first one to comment on this story, oh and about Dauntless cake, I'm gonna ask my parents to give me one for my birthday in a few months :) and.... I kinda found a recipe for Dauntless cake, I will put the link to it in the next authors note I guess,
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