Life After Tris

Silence

Tobias leaned in, wrapped his arms around Christina's neck, and pulled her into a hug. She immediately sunk into his shoulder. Hot tears fell on his face, and Christina's tears fell onto his back. Tobias did not move and neither did Christina. Time seamed to freeze as the heat in Tobias grew. Tobias and Christina sat glued together, taking in ragged breaths of air, and letting their tears fall freely. When Tobias' eyes became dry and his breaths became normal again he reluctantly broke apart from Christina. With out saying anything he walked into the kitchen and heated up the pot of coffee that he had made that morning. He poured a cup for himself and one for Christina. He walked back to the kitchen and handed her the cup. They sat and drank their coffee in silence as they both seemed to be at a loss for words. There was nothing left to say as so many things have been said between them when their backs caught each other's tears. Tobias drained his cup of coffee and went to refill his cup. He looked at the clock at it was already eleven o'clock. He sat back down next to Christina and decided to break the silence. "I could never be mad at you for losing a fight. Let alone losing a fight against six people. I'm not your trainer anymore." Christina looked pleased that he was not mad, but she did not have anything to say to answer him. "I'm going to get a shower your welcome to anything in the kitchen, as usual." Tobias said as he got up and made his was to the bathroom. He turned on the water and took of his pajamas hopping that he would not be interrupted this time. "Finally" he thought as he felt that hot water run through his unkept hair and down his tattooed back. He let the hot water run on him for what felt like a second, but in reality it was probably fifteen minutes. He decided that he did not want Christina sitting in his house all alone for that long so he got out and got dressed. He grabbed a few things that would clean up Christina's wounds, and make them heal faster, out of his medicine cabinet. He walked back into his living room and saw Christina sitting in the same spot that he left her in. He kneeled down in front of her and took her hand. He looked at the wounds, and started to clean them off. He looked up at her and was reminded of when he cleaned up Tris' wounds after Al and Peter tried to throw her over the chasm. He froze as the thought of Tris crossed his mind. Christina looked down at him with concern, but before she had the chance to speak Tobias got up and walked into his room. He needed to do something to get the memories out of his mind. He made laps around the house, pulled himself together, and sat down on a love seat across from Christina. She opens her mouth to ask what was going on but Tobias shook his head to tell Christina not to ask. She understood and remained quiet. Tobias put his head into his hands, and finally looked up when his stomach growled. "Christina?" He asked. "Ya?" She replied. "Want to go to lunch? I'm hungry" he asked her. "Sure" she said with a shrug.