Family of two

Patrol gone wrong

AN

Warning: This story contents swear words - but only occasionally. This first chapter contents description of violence.

The Story is mostly told from Eric's POV.

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Patrol gone wrong

Though Eric had been leader for some years now, he wasn't one to only get his Intel from reports therefore, among others things, he had made is his habit to regularly join one of the patrols: Currently he was with Barry and Dan and so far this one had been routine but suddenly shots rang out. Without a second thought Eric was quickly running towards the commotion, his men following him. Getting nearer he caught sight of some Factionless attacking a food truck from Amity. The men from Amity had taken cover behind the front wheel, while a man from Abnegation was trying to hide behind one of the back wheels covering a small child with his body and much to his dismay Eric also noticed a young woman from Abnegation apparently shot, lying dead on the ground. Eric always hated it when innocent bystanders got victims. Unknown to the most he fiercely believed in the Dauntless manifesto to protect those who couldn't protect themselves. His often harsh demeanor was covering up the man beneath.

"Fuck!" Eric didn't realize his laud cursing while he frantically tried to locate the shooters. Then he had located them on the rooftop of a building close by. A shout came from the direction of the truck. It wasn't overly loud, rather strained and followed by a cough:

"Eric!"

The young leader felt cold dread crawling up on him. It was a voice he'd recognized anytime, anywhere. Laying out cover fire he raced over to the truck, taking cover wherever he could, his mind assessing everything in order to come up with a plan and, having finally reached the truck, he immediately turned to the man who had called out to him.

"Ethan! What happened?" Eric looked at the distraught face of his eldest childhood friend who was holding protectively onto his son, while Theodore's face was buried into his father's chest.

"We were walking back from Erudite were Theo was for treatment, that's why he is with us. The Truck was passing by and suddenly we were under attack." Ethan speech seems slightly sluggish but seeing no injury Eric didn't dwell on it and looked at the amity men, raising his eyebrow questioningly instead.

"We hadn't had anything like this in this area. Otherwise we would have called Dauntless for backup."

Eric nodded in approval.

"I'm sorry for Abigail, Ethan." Eric gave Ethan's shoulder a short squeeze. "I'll get you out of here."

"I know. "

Theodore pulled his head from his father's chest and looked at him with fearful but trustful eyes. With a lump in his throat Eric turned to his men who had taken cover behind an old dumpster further away.

The Factionless were shooting down on them from a rooftop, so they needed to get them from behind: There was no way they would be able to get out of this staying with the truck. Unfortunately there were only three of them, but he would certainly not leave his friend or the Amity unprotected. He signaled the younger one of his man, Barry, to come over to stay behind. He knew Barry to be capable so he could trust him with this while he and Dan were spreading out in order to get the Factionless down. Again there were taking everything they could for cover. Not wanting to give their position away they refrained from using cover fire once they were out of immediate proximity of the truck.

Shortly after Eric and Dan had managed to get behind the building which's rooftop the rebels were still firing from. Quickly assessing the situation Eric slung his gun over his back whispering: