The Future Queen and King of Dauntless

Chapter 38

Tobias POV

As we enter the carriage I watch Tris as she looks over her shoulder waving to her mother and father then turning back and sitting down. She sighs. I wrap my arm around her shoulder and bring her into my side. I kiss the top of her head and she smiles softly.

"I'll be your family now and forever."

She smiles as she kisses my cheek.

"I'll be yours too."

I lift her chin so that she looks me in the eyes. A smirk on my face, she blushes. I lean closer to her and watch as her eyes start to close and her lips part. My lips connect with hers and I never want them to separate. We become one while still being two. She is mine in all ways, expect for flesh. I will not take that part of her till she is ready, hopefully the night of our wedding. I feel her hands wrap around my neck and her fingers grasp at my hair, pulling what she can bringing me closer to her. My hands resting on her waist now gripping her as if I would ever let her go. We pull back to catch our breaths, I rest my forehead on hers smiling like crazy.

"I love you."

"I love you too."

We stay like that for a while, I lose all time when I am with her. At some point we stop for lunch. I bring out a blanket and set it on the ground we eat sandwiches and feed the horse's water and carrots. Once finished we continue our journey back to Dauntless. Finally we reach Dauntless territory and I see Tris relax more than she has and a smile form on her face. We exit the carriage, enter the castle and head back to our room to unpack and relax before dinner.

Tris POV

The ride back to Dauntless was a lot better than my first time coming here. I never felt safer and nothing bad happened, in fact a lot of good happened on our trip. I feel like Tobias and I are even closer than we were before we left. I guess getting some kind of closure with Marcus helped him out. He seems less stressed, less on edge, but it still doesn't solve what has been happening. I hope Eric, has had some luck with the two men that tried to kidnap Tobias. We, well Tobias has a meeting with him and Max after dinner. I plan on being there as well no matter what the others say. We enjoy dinner with Zeke catching us up on what has been going on in dauntless while we were gone. He makes it seem like we were gone for weeks instead of two days. But I smile and laugh right along with the boys. This is what life is meant to be fun and happy.

Tobias tries to stand up and leave after dinner but I grab a hold of his wrist. He looks at me and tries to remove my hand. I shake my head no. He sighs heavily, but doesn't say anything, just helps me stand from my chair and nods towards the door. He walks me towards the King's den where Eric and Max are waiting for him, now us. They look at me quizzically but Tobias just shrugs and leads me to a chair. He stands behind me placing his hands on my shoulders, squeezing lightly.

Tobias POV

Max sits straight up as if there is a metal rod in place of his spine. He is just as worried as Tris and I are. It's nice to know he cares so much for me even though he isn't my actual father.

"Well Eric, what did the prisoners say?" Max has always been impatient.

Eric clears his throat and looks at me dead in the eyes.

"They wouldn't give a name, but they did tell me the plan at least the plan that they were given. I doubt it was the full extent of what they wanted to happen. You were right Four, in a way. This will get better when you marry Tris, but it seems getting you both to that point will only get more difficult. Whomever is in charge doesn't want you marrying her, I am not sure if that has to do more with you or with her. The two men were told to take you captive, incapacitate you and leave you in the woods tied up to a tree or rock anything till they were able to take Tris and take her to their leader."