Divergent No war... Yet.

Chapter 21

Chapter 21

Four's POV

I wake up. My neck is stiff and my back hurts. It seems like I felt asleep on the couch after chasing Tris and coming back to the apartment. I couldn't talk to her, she locked the door. She has never locked the door before, not even when we have fought.

I take a quick shower, thinking about ways to apologize to Tris. I have been stressed. When I left Tris with Christina I went back to the apartment just to find a note on the living room floor.

It was from Evelyn, my mother.

I thought she was dead until a few months ago. Now she is asking me to meet her but I don't know if I am ready for that. I mean, she left me with a monster! just to party around with the factionless. She asked me to join her but I've got Tris now. I am happy here. I've got her, but it seems like I am losing her and I can't afford that.

I dress in my usual outfit and quickly head towards the dinning hall, hoping to find Tris. I am a about to get there when I hear a scream.

- Let me go!! - The voice yells with desperation and terror. I run towards the sound, hearing cries and whimpers, girly whimpers.

I turn around the corner to find a terrible sight. Tris is pinned to the wall by a big guy whose hand is roamming her whole body while the other grips her wrists. Her beautiful face is covered in spilled tears that can't seem to stop falling. I see red.

- Let her go - I say in a low voice. Low is scarier than loud.

The guy turns towards me with a smirk that soons fades away when he realises that it's me, Four, the dauntless prodigy and leader.

- I- I...I just...- He takes off running, throwing Tris hard to the floor and I am tempted to chase after him but Tris is my priority. She is trembling and crying and when I try to touch her she flinches and crawls back until her back is pressed against the wall.

- It's me Tris - I try to soothe her - I won't hurt you.

She just nods and finally lets me touch her. I caress her hair and then pick her up bridal style and carry her to our secret place by the chasm, not caring about breakfast anymore.

I don't talk until we are laying on the rock by the chasm. The waves sending a few drops in our direction. She curls into a ball at my side and cries, and cries and cries. It breaks my heart.

- What was that? - I ask once she has calmed down. I get no answer so I just go on - You have fought big guys, beat the crap out of them, I have seen it. But you couldn't take this one. Why? why are you crying? - I know I must sound like a jerk but she does not need my pity, she is strong.

Five minutes pass, just the sound of the water crashing into the rocks fills the air. She finally looks up. I see the pain in her eyes.

- I told you I was broken. - Her voice void of emotion. Empty and cold.

- Who broke you? - I ask, afraid of what the answer will be, but also curious about what happened to her.

- His name is Peter - Her voice breaks at the mention of that name, and I don't know what he did but I already hate him.

- What did he do?

More tears fall from her eyes and I feel guilty, as if by asking her to tell me about it I am also asking her to relive the pain.

- I was bad at fighting, you know - She starts, she takes a deep breath and goes on - I did not do very well in the first stage of initiation but, in the second, I was the best - She stared at some point in the air, lost in her memories - My best time at a fear simulation was Three minutes.

I am surprised, that's half the time people usually last in there. Could she be....? naa, I don't think so, She is dauntles through and through but she is also selfless. But, after all, bravery and selflessness aren't that different from each other.

"-They had posted the rankings of the second stage. I was first. My friends were jelous, they didn't want to be with me anymore. They thought I was cheating but, think about it. How could I go from being at the bottom to being first? Anyway, I was alone and afraid- "

- Why were you afraid? - I interrupt her.

- The one who ranked first on the first stage was stabbed in the eye by Peter. I was afraid that would happen to me. - She looks at me with sad eyes and continues with what she was saying - The night before the fear landscapes I was thirsty so I got up in the middle of the night and went to the fountain near the chasm to drink water, it was really dark but I wasn't scared. Out of the blue a pair of hands grabbed me from behind and I was blindfolded. They were three.

She stops and I know it hurts her to relive this but I want to know and maybe she wants to let it all out.

"-They took turns to beat me up - by now I am clenching my fists so hard it hurts - one of then was my friend. Al, my friend-"

She breaks into a fit of desperate sobs and hug her really tight, not wanting her to feel alone. She looks so vunerable now, she is letting me in.

- I understand - I say, but she energically shakes her head.

- They held me by the chasm, choking me. They would have let me fall, but they didn't - She stops - Peter wanted to have some fun.

I don't like where this is going. I hold her even tighter and say soothing words on her ear, caressing her shoulder.

- Al said he didn't to be part of that, so he left. He left me there with them.

- What did they do? - I ask, even though I know the answer but I want to hear it from her. I want it not to be true.

- They raped me. They broke me. He broke me - She spits with hatred. - And the coward of Al couldn't take the guilt. So he jumped.

I couldn't believe it. My Tris, this girl has gone through so much and still is so brave.

- You can run now and break up with me - She casually says, but I see the hurt in her eyes even though her blank face does not reveal anything.

- I won't leave you, silly girl - I say as if it is the most obvious thing in the world, and it is. I kiss the top of her head and she stares at me, confused.

- Why?

I take a deep breath and finally let it out after all of this time.

- Because I love you.

She looks dumbstruck for a moment, then her face breaks into a big smile and she roughly catches my lips on hers, in a passionate but sweet kiss.

- I love you too, Four.

I feel the weight of the world fall off my shoulders but then I register what she said.

- Don't call me that - I shake my head.

- What should I call you then? - She raises an eyebrow.

- Tobias.

Her eyes go wide, like plates and her mouth forms a cute O shape.

- Marcus' son - She breathes but I hear her over the sound of the water. I jump at the mention of my father's name and let go of her.

- How do you know that!? - I yell over the sound of the crashing waves. People know Marcus has a son that transferred to dauntless, but just the abnegation and a few dauntless know my name.

Then I remember that this year there was an abnegation transfer. The first jumper.

- You were abnegation - I state. Now she is surprised. She looks familiar, like a friend of my father, she looks like...- Beatrice Prior.

She lets out a heavy sigh and passes her hand through her tangled hair.

- Damn - She exclaims.And I can't do anything but agree.

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Again, I apologize for the bad grammar and structure. Not my native language...

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