What could have happend

Chapter 15 -Return

Tris Pov

I wake up in that stupid hospital bed with a mattress that feels like a slab of concrete, it would be the same for the pillow but I got Tobias to get me my pillow from home so at least my head is a little comfy. Cara comes walking in with crutches, oh heck no, I am not going to. That is gonna hurt like an elephant just crushed my leg.

"Good morning Tris!" Cara says way too cheery for my liking. I hate people who expect you to talk to them in the early morning. I mean, I just want to sleep and get a cup of coffee first thing in the morning.

I groan and hide and let the blankets swallow me whole. At least I hope they do, because I am not going to use those things and fall straight on my face again! Nah uh, they can't make me.

Cara peels the blankets away revealing my still a little bit sleepy, but mostly stubborn and cranky face. I then hear Tobias walking in. He has been sleeping in Caleb's guest room, so he doesn't have to sleep here on that little couch anymore.

"Uh ow, Cara I suggest that you carefully take a few steps back before she bursts," He stands in the doorway leaning against the doorframe, and winks at me. Cara looks a bit scared when she realizes what he means and slowly covers my face again with the blanket, when I hear her footsteps run out of the room and down the hallway I burst out laughing, the blankets still covering my face.

Tobias Pov

"What is there to be laughing about?" I hear a way too familiar voice ask. No, he isn't, he can't be. I slowly turn around and yet there he stands. He is dead, well actually he isn't because he is here standing here, talking to me. But he is supposed to be dead. "I thought you were dead...?" I ask, my voice low and uncertain. Then realization sinks in, if he should be dead he faked his death. I mourned him, I never got to the point where I accepted that he was gone tho but I've realized it often enough to deep inside know he was gone forever. But he isn't. And although I am glad to see him, I am mad, I am fuming. It is a miracle steam isn't coming out of my ears. 

"Maybe you should take a walk?" I hear him say, trying to crack a joke probably. Well, this is no joke to me, why would he do that? I am so mad at him and I am relieved and all emotions I once cropped up come out all at once, before I am even realising it. Tears stream out of my eyes and they never seem to stop. He was like a father to me, a father I never had. He knew that and he left. He left me, like all people who care about me in my life do. At least I thought, but now he's back. He came back. Maybe not for me but he came back nonetheless. My anger slowly fades and I pull him in for a bro/man hug. I thought everyone in my life who cared about me left me, but it seemed to be the opposite, because he left, but he came back. My mind wanders off to Tris like it always does. I think Tris will never leave me, but I'm not sure. I pray to God every day that she won't because she's my whole world, she is my only reason to live. I want to propose so badly but I know she would think we are too young... I think I have an idea. I will need his and Zeke's help to pull this all together, but then it will be perfect.

Amar Pov

I have caught a cold so I can't go to the fringe or even out of the bureau. The doctors here won't let me, so I just sit in the control room in the bureau looking at the cameras. I watch the camera footage from the last month sped up at like 30 times faster than normal speed, slowing it down to normal at the cute moments. I see Four or Tobias fall in love with Tris, Beatrice Prior. It's like a movie but in real life. I see the scrawny abnegation boy I once trained and helped get through initiation fall in love with an abnegation girl. The boy needed to grow up way too fast, but you can see the teenager he still is, is in there. When he looks at Tris you can see that he has a huge crush on the girl, that little girl grows in a matter of weeks into a strong, young woman. They are made for each other, that is one thing that's clear. They have a fire burning so strong that it can never be put out, a fire so strong it will last to eternity and back. Some may say that a fire that strong isn't meant to last, but if the fire is that strong, they will find their ways to keep it burning. They always will. The way Tobias looked at Tris when she was shot said everything. And I know what I need to do. I am going back to Chicago, I'm going back into the city, back home.

Nervously I walk into David's office. Wiping my sweaty plams on my jeans, I stand before the door. I knock on it before I could change my mind. I hear David coming to the door, alright, here goes nothing. The door opens and when he sees me standing there he seems surprised.

"Amar, what are you doing here?" David asks. I never really liked him, he always seemed to want to control everyone, I don't like to be controlled.

"David," I suck in a breath, building up the courage to ask him this, "I want to go back to the city, to Chicago. Is there any way? Any way I can go into the city with my memories still intact I would go. Please," I almost beg him. I may not like him but I really want this, I need to do this and I need to show that I can do this. I see him thinking.

"Well, there is one way. They are short on initiation instructors in Dauntless, if you grow a beard and look dirty and stuff, like you've been outside the fence looking for life or a society of some sort, we can get the guards at the fence so far that they would take you back into Dauntless again. Just say you wanted to look for life outside the fence and needed to fake your death but didn't find anything, then everything will be fine. Just keep the bureau a secret." His instructions are loud and clear and simple I would never have expected that it would be this easy to come back. "Be careful, Amar" David says, "oh and if you want, and if the person you choose wants, you can take someone with you." Of course, David would already know who it was. I know George will come with me, he once promised me that he would go to the ends of the earth with me. I am so excited and nervous at the same time, how would Tobias, Zeke, Hana, and Uriah react?

------ Time skip to the hospital ------

I'm walking into the hospital with George limping next to me. I love him but why does he need to be so clumsy at the exact moment that it does not come in handy while at the same time it does? I mean we needed to go to the hospital anyway, but why does he need to twist his ankle so bad that it almost broke? When George is getting checked and stuff I go to the front desk and ask the lady if she knows what room Tris Prior is in. She asks what my relation is to her, shit. I need to think of something and fast.

"I'm her uncle," I say quickly, hoping she didn't see my hesitation. She nods and tells me the room number. I walk over to the ER to tell George where I'm going. Unfortunately, his ankle is being X-rayed, so I can't talk to him now. I decide to write a note for him so he can find me. I try my best not to say anything that could indicate that I'm from outside the city and I quickly find the right words, telling him I'm going to Tris prior, my 'niece', and which room she's in. I say a quick thanks to the woman behind the desk of the ER and I'm on my way.

When I get to her room I see Tobias standing in the doorway, he's grown a few inches since I last saw him. He's laughing so hard he's standing doubled over in laughter, giving me the chance to glance at Tris who is in the hospital bed. He chose a good one, and so did she. I ask casually

"What is there to be laughing about?", It imminently becomes dead silence in the whole hallway seeing that the only sound came from Tris and Tobias laughing so hard. He turns around afraid he recognised my voice wrong. All emotions flood his face at once. Anger, fury, joy, relief, confusion and rage. Uh oh, rage is never a good emotion to see in his eyes. Before I noticed it I say the thing I always would if I saw that look in his eyes, 

"Maybe you should take a walk?". I've bearly finished my sentence and I see his poker face faltering, not being able to keep the emotion at bay. The tears silently made their way down his cheeks while he pulls me in for a man/bro hug thing. I can almost hear the gears moving in his brain.

"What is it?" I whisper to him, trying not to startle him.

"I need a plan to ask Tris..." he trails off at the end of his sentence, but I already know what he means. And if he needs my help I be more than glad to help him, knowing I want to make up for leaving him. But also because I see that what they have is true love. Never could come between them. Ever. And that is a love worth fighting for.

Hey everyone, as promised the link to a recipe for Dauntless cake, I hope you enjoy your cake as much as Tobias and our Uricorn!

Be brave,

-M

The recipe everyone!:

https://www.inliterature.net/by-book/divergent/2015/03/dauntless-chocolate-cake-divergent.html