A Different Divergent: A Better Tomorrow

~nine~

Chapter 9

Holy shit! I'm pretty sure that the control room operators just got a free show. Tobias quickly pulls out of me, and we both straighten our clothes then I pull my panties back on. What the hell were we thinking? Oh, that's the problem, we weren't. That tends to happen when the slightly irrational, all-consuming, intense need we feel for each other takes over. We forget the time and the place, and all we see is each other. We both know the fear landscape room is monitored. Hell, we never even locked the door, so anyone could have just walked in on us. We lost our heads momentarily. Now all we can do is pray no one saw us. I hear his phone buzz in the suddenly awkward silence. He pulls it out of his pocket, looks at the caller ID, closes his eyes, and groans.

"What is it?" he roughly snaps into the receiver. "Shit! Erase it, Zeke." My eyes glance to the camera, and my entire body flushes violently. At the very least, Zeke has seen us making love. Oh, God! I fall into the chair and bury my face in my hands, humiliated. Tobias turns his back on me and lowers his voice but I can still hear his half of the hushed conversation. "I know it was stupid ... No, it wasn't planned ... We got caught up in the moment ... I had a really bad fear landscape, okay? ... Damn it! I don't care. Erase it ... Who saw it? ... Good. Never mention this again ... I swear to God, Ezekiel Raymond Pedrad, if you do I'll kick your ass, and I'm not playing here." His tone worries me, and I look up in time to see him turn toward the camera and gives it his most frightening Four look. "Hey, that's my wife you're talking about ... She doesn't need this embarrassment." He growls into the phone menacingly. "If you must know, I just witnessed my wife and three kids die in a car accident. Tris was monitoring the program so she witnessed it all, too. We were both a little emotional ... Ok, a lot emotional ... What?" He listens for a moment with a huge frown on his face, and I hear Zeke laughing on the other end of the phone. "Gee, thanks," he mutters. "Bastard." He hangs up and slowly turns toward me, his face just as red as mine.

"Who saw us?" I whisper, wanting to crawl in a hole and die. I wrap my arms protectively around myself but it does no good. I feel ... I'm not sure how I feel in this moment.

"Just Zeke," he softly says, sounding just as embarrassed as I feel. "He locked the camera so no one else could access it when he saw what was getting ready to happen. How he happened to be looking at that particular moment I have no idea but part of me is glad he was." He comes to my side and runs the backs of his fingers down my cheek then gently cups my face. "He did see more than I would ever want someone to see. I'm so sorry. We should have waited."

"It's both our faults. We got caught up in the moment," I say, leaning into his loving touch. "We'll just have to live with the consequences."

"My best friend seeing me make love to my wife," he groans. "Not really the consequence I had in mind."

"He watched us?" I whisper, appalled.

"No, he just kept checking the feed to see when we were finished so he could call and chew me out," he sighs.

"I'll never be able to look Zeke in the eye ever again," I mumble covering my face with my hands again. He pulls my fingers away, leans over, and gives me a soft kiss.

"If he ever says anything about it, and I mean ever, tell me. I won't allow him to torture you over this." The thought makes him transform into Four momentarily before his face smoothes out, and he smiles at me then he grimaces like he forgot something. "It's bad enough that I'm never going to hear the end of this. He's already throwing jabs my way."

"What did he say?" I ask and he flushes a deeper red. Suddenly, I'm sorry I asked.

"Which time?" I gasp. "Well let's see, he offered to make us a copy, and he also said I had nice technique," he says with a shake of the head and a roll of his eyes causing me to groan and flush once again. "Come on. Let's get you home, love. You look exhausted. I'll finish up in here later."