Burning With the Fire (Eric Divergent Fanfic)

Not Enough

***Uriah's POV***

I feel Eric and Arielle's eyes on me during the entire time I'm in the dining hall, which pisses me off to no end. Yes, I deserve it, but I'm even more pissy because Marlene is hardcore flirting with me. She moved into Tris' seat as soon as she left with Four, and she has been all over me ever since. Lynn left a few minutes ago, because she thought I was flirting with Marlene too, and she was going to hurl. Zeke is smirking at me, because he knows I like Elizabeth. Yet, he doesn't know that Elizabeth doesn't want anything to do with me after earlier today.

"Hey Uri, take a walk with me." Marlene whispers in my ear, and finally, I've had enough. I shoot up from my seat, overlooking the table. Marlene looks slightly hurt, but I know she'll get over it.

"Marlene, you're my best friend, but that's all you are going to be. I gotta go." I announce to the people still left at my table, and a few eyes from around us look as well, including Arielle and Eric, which makes me leave the dining hall as quickly as possible.

I speed walk out of the dining hall, and when I know the scrutinizing eyes can no longer see me, I run. My thundering strides echo loudly in the hallways of Dauntless, but I can't hear anything. Elizabeth is the only thought on my mind. The only emotion in my heart. The only sound in my ears.

The broken look in her hazel eyes haunts my vision, and the sobs that escaped her rosy lips as I choked her brother out of fury overruns my hearing. Tears sting my eyes as my legs sting from exertion. Before I realize it, I've made it to the roof of Dauntless Headquarters. It's not the tallest building in the city, but it's tall enough to make itself known as a building of importance. I sit on the ledge with the greatest drop below, and it happens to be facing the fence, and a setting sun.

Shit, today has felt like a week all on it's own. I wish it would just hurry the hell up and-

"Uriah?"

It's her.

Elizabeth.

She's here. Behind me. Talking to me.

I turn to face her, and she looks weary, but sleepy. She must have been battling her body to let her sleep, evidently losing.

"Liz-"

"Don't. You don't get to call me that, not after what happened today." Elizabeth blurts out, and I wince.

"Why are you here Elizabeth?" I ask softly, with a slight sharpness to my tone. Instead of answering right away, she approaches me, and sits on the ledge beside me, with a noticeable gap between us.

"Why?" She croaks, and my body sinks. Of course this is why she's here. She doesn't want you back, dumbass, you fucked it up.

"You wouldn't understand." I tell her, and her face whips around to glare at me. If looks could kill, holy shit...

"Don't pull that with me. Tell me what I'm asking right now, or I will leave here right now and not speak a word to you again." Elizabeth threatens without a single falter in her facial expression, a trait she doesn't share with her brother. Eric is a cocky asshole who enjoys daring people to challenge him, whereas Elizabeth wants her message to be heard one time, and one time only.

God, why is she doing this to me?

"I'm waiting, Uriah." She reminds me, and I nod stiffly.

"Eric was never the greatest leader. He was cold, malicious, and cruel. He didn't show anyone mercy, and because my family befriended Four, he took an extra hating to us, me. It was never fair, but Eric was never a fair person to begin with. I guess I started hating him then.

"I've protected Arielle since we ran away the night before the war on Abnegation. I watched Eric destroy her, even if the two of them were sure they were in love. The war, the baby, their clashing personalities. She was falling apart, piece by piece, while we were in Amity. I tried to help her, so did Four and Tris. But we all knew what she wanted. Who she wanted. But we couldn't turn her over, it was too dangerous for Jen, who was a couple weeks away.

"When Eric and the Dauntless Traitors finally found us in Amity, I didn't leave Arielle's side, I couldn't. I swore I would protect her, and that is what I was going to do, even if it costed me my life. Eric grabbed Arielle, whose water just broke. One of Eric's men had a gun on my head, and Eric wanted him to shoot me, because I helped take Arielle away from him. He almost let the guy shoot me too, right in front of Arielle's crying eyes. But her cries must have got through to him, because I was thrown into a vehicle and taken back to Erudite headquarters with them. Eric didn't want me anywhere near Arielle, and that angered me, but I was a kid that couldn't do a damn thing.

"I spent a day in a holding location in Erudite headquarters, with people who had committed crimes against Erudite. I guess Eric decided to let me live knowing he could throw me there and not have to worry about me getting near Arielle again. But, much to his dismay, Arielle made him bring me up to her, to 'guard' her while Eric was gone.

"While I watching her on the first night, I was watching Jen while Arielle went to lay down. Well, she found the pills your brother was taking, and it made her so grief-stricken that she fainted. I heard the fall, and panic set in when I saw a small pool of blood around her head. Do you have any I deal what its like, Elizabeth? Finding the one person you're supposed to protect, on the ground, unconscious, in her own blood. It really shakes you Elizabeth, especially when you are blamed for it. Eric blamed me. And it seriously fucked with my head. I thought I was a fuck up and couldn't do anything right. I tried and tried, but I kept fucking up.

"So, I guess where I'm going with this is that I'm trying to tell you why I did what I did. Eric hasn't done anything for me except keep me alive on that day in Amity. Even then I know he regrets it every time he looks at me. You may see me as a fuck up as well, but I did what I did because he needed to pay for all the people he has hurt in my life. No one else may see it like that, but I don't care because I know, deep down, I did what I had to do."

And with that thought in Elizabeth's head, I leave her on the roof ledge alone. If she believes me, which she likely won't, I hope she'll give me a second chance.

But when were second chances ever granted in the world we live in?

Here's a longer chapter for you lovelies! :)

So, if I'm following the book correctly, we are about half way through the Insurgent book, and I'm at 3.5K! This is incredible! Thank you all of you lovelies, I am so happy that so many of you are taking the time to read the sequel to my first book, this means the world to me!

I love all of you, and I'll try to get another chapter up within the week! Good night/morning/day lovelies!