Why? //Divergent// Eric X OC

Chapter 42 - Beyond the horizon

Ro's POV;

I walk down the hallway at dauntless with a blindfold around my eyes. He leads me by the hand and I begin to get agitated. "Are we almost there yet?" I ask and Eric only chuckles. "We're here" he says and he pulls off the blindfold. I see him in front of me. He gets down on one knee and looks me in the eye. "Rosanna pedrad, I love you more than I love the deep orange colour that puts a rim on the sun during a sunset. I love you more than I love life itself. I even love you more than dauntless cake. Will you make me the happiest man in the world and marry me?" A smile spread across my face. "Yes Eric! Yes! Yes! Yes! Of course" he kisses me on the nose and then I feel him swaying me from side to side.

After a few moments I realise he's not swaying me from side to side he's waking me from my sleep. And then I turn around and see it's not even him. It's Uriah.
Just a few moments ago I was the happiest girl in the world, about to marry the man I love, now I'm burying him.

"We have to get ready for you know...." he says and I only give one nod of the head. I go into the bathroom once again and ignore everyone, I lock the door behind me.
I begin to get into my dress, knee length, just simple and black. I tie my hair back and pull the extra strand behind my ear. I take a deep breath and walk out into the bathroom, no emotion on my face. Uriah stands beside me and passes me a packet of tissues, he doesn't say anything, he knows he would get no reply. Just a simple gesture of tissues to help me get through this day a little easier. We walk out into the hallway me,Uriah, four and tris.
We walk down the hallway silently and Peter joins in the stride to the field.

We walk through apple orchards and wheat farms until we come to a field that's purpose could not be mistaken.
Rows of seats filled with people from all over, just to see a mans funeral ceremony. The seats are decorated down to the yellow ribbon around the back. Since we don't have the body, there is a little table in the place that the coffin should be. It has a picture of him on it, it's a photo I took like 2 weeks ago. We were in the cave when he was trying to apologise for shouting earlier that day.

I sit down in the front row and Uriah sits beside me, followed bye four then Tris then Peter. Once all the seats are full Marcus takes the stage.
"Hello everyone, today we are all gathered here to celebrate the life of Eric coulter - Mathews" not many people knew his full name. "I'm going to keep this short and sweet so can I have the first reader up please.
Four stands up and walks up to the stage.

"Now I know majority of you know me for hating Eric's guts. Yeah we have our fair share of arguments and we didn't get off on the right foot if I'm being honest. But once he got together with my friend Rosanna pedrad, she brought out the best in him. He was a better man with her. Is you called me and asks me to speak at his funeral a few months ago, I would have said no way. But today a few months later.. here I am." Four say and looks at me. I smile at him and he steps of the stage. As he does so he leaves Eric's favourite book on the table and sits down again.

"Next reader please" Uriah stands up and makes his way to the stage.
"Eric coulter, how do I start... he was what appeared to be one of the coldest men in the dauntless compound, ruthless, terrifying. Turns out he was really actually funny and caring, he ended up being like a father to me.. when he found my divergence he helped me contain it and hide it. As well as that he helped me cope with it and made sure I didn't go insane. And for that I will never be able to repay him."

Uriah walks off the stage leaving Eric's leader vest on the table.
"Last speaker please" Marcus calls and o take a Deep breath as I stand up and walk toward the mike.

I take it from Marcus who stand back.

"Hello everyone, in Rosanna Pedrad. I think it's safe to say half of you people here don't even know Eric, and I think it's also save to say some of you are here because you couldn't wait long enough for the day. But let me tell you this. "Yeah when you first meet him, he doesn't exactly welcome you with open arms.  But you don't know the man I do. The man who reads books every night before he sleeps, the man who lives to watch the sun set in the evening and would gladly wait to see it rise in the morning. The man who basically had no family hen growing up to keep him out of trouble. Well the truth is, Eric I'm never gonna love on from this. I went back to dauntless yesterday. I found a note in Eric's old apartment, for your information Eric was under the influence of Jeanine Matthews serum.
I know his murder is sitting somewhere in this audience, not giving a shit about what I'm about to say next but I'm going to say it anyway. You took away Eric's chance to marry me," I say holding up his ring. "You also took away his chance of being a father..." I say putting my hand in my stomach. "But you will never ever take away the amazing memories I made with him. Thank you all for coming, safe journey, god bless" I say walking off the stage. The place starts to clear out except for a really shocked Uriah four and tris.

"What?" I say walking off the stage. "When you said that last bit.... did you actually mean-" tris starts and I stop her. "Yeah I did, Im pregnant. There nothing any of you can do to make me change my mind about keeping it. It's all I have left of him." I say clearing off the table of Eric's belongings into my bag. "Okay okay, we will all pitch in and help you get through this Ro, I promise" Uriah says and I smile st him with a sad smile.
We all begin to walk away and four looks to me as we walk. "How far along are you?" He asks. "It's still early days, like 1 month" I say and he nods. We walk towards our rooms in amity though an orchard.  It's dark by now. As we walk there Is a big snap of a twig. We all jump and get ready to protect ourselves. The running noise continues and what I see infront of me can't be real.

"Marlene? Lynn?" I say looking them dead in the eyes. "Hey guys what did we miss?" Mar says and I shake my head. "We'll explain along the way." I say and they nod. Uriah engulfs Marlene in a hug and a tear slides down his face. "I thought I'd never see you again..." he says and Marlene just laughs. "I'm not that easy to get rid of Uriah.

We have lost allot, all of us. Whether it be people, a part of us or both. I can't say that the wounds will ever heal, but my friends and I have to keep going, no matter how hard it is. I'll have a child to look after, I have to keep strong, we all do.

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