A Different Divergent: A Better Tomorrow

~fourty-one~

Chapter 41

I'm sleeping peacefully, vividly dreaming of playing with the kids in the beautiful flower-filled field next to the pond at the Amity farm when the sound of Tessa's cries pull me from my slumber. I manage to pry myself from Tobias' vice-like embrace without waking him, causing him to groan then untangle my legs not only from his but also from the bedsheet that is hopelessly twisted around us. I look at the clock and am surprised to see that it's not even 2 a.m. It's been a while since she's had me up at this time. I quietly pad into her room after slipping into my robe and change her wet diaper, which calms her down immediately. I sit in her rocking chair and check to see if she's hungry but she's not so I just rock her until she falls back to sleep. After I gently put her back into her crib, I get back in bed and snuggle into Tobias' side. He rolls toward me and instinctively wraps his arms around me. I just fall back to sleep when loud knocking on our front door wakes me and makes Tessa start wailing. What now!

"Why must people bother us in the middle of the night?" I hatefully mutter, dragging my robe back on as Tobias rolls out of bed. He blindly searches for his sleep shorts and pulls them up his naked body ... backwards.

"I don't know," he mumbles, his voice thick with sleep as he fixes his shorts. "Hopefully, you can get Tessa to calm down before she wakes up Tyler."

"Mommy," Tyler yells from his room.

"Too late," I say. We don't get out of our bedroom before the knocking becomes louder and incessant. "Go make whoever that is stop." First, I pick up Tessa then go into Tyler's room. "You're okay, buddy. Someone's at the door. Why don't we get you into Mommy and Daddy's bed? I don't know how long we'll be." I help him out of bed and into ours and kiss his forehead before heading downstairs. I try to quiet Tessa who is still crying but not as loudly as before all the way down the stairs. There standing in the middle of my living room are Tori, Purple-Hair, Snake-Tattoo, Brody, and Ana. I feel the irritation I was already experiencing grow twofold. "What's going on here? It's the middle of the night. We have children who are trying to sleep." I stare at Tori not even trying to hide my annoyance.

"These two left the compound," she says, a little too rudely for my liking. "Simon and Tony found them outside."

"Simon, Tony, you two can go now," I say. "We'll take care of this from here." They look from Tori to Tobias. "Go. Now."

"Yes, Tris," they say at the same time, nodding and then quietly leave the apartment. They must have sensed that I'm not to be messed with right now.

"You can go now, too, Tori," I say. "We'll discuss some boundaries in the morning." She sighs and shakes her head.

"Fine," she says and stalks out.

"As for you two, sit," I say, pointing to the couch. "Where did you go?" Ana and Brody walk around the furniture and sit down on the couch.

"I went back to the dorms after I left the infirmary like the doctor told me to," Brody says. "But it was just so suffocating. I had to get out of there. I didn't really know where I was going, I just needed some air so I climbed toward the glass ceiling and made my way outside. I sat on one of the benches right outside the building thinking about everything, and then she sat down beside me. I told her to go back inside, that I didn't need her but she wouldn't listen."

"I was just trying to help," Ana shyly says.

"You were sitting on the benches outside my office ... the glass office?" I ask. They nod. Tori! "You swear you didn't go anywhere else?"

"No, we didn't," Ana says. "We sat on those black benches."

"Go back to the dorms and try to get some sleep," I say. "I expect you to be in the training room at 8 a.m. sharp. Both of you. We'll talk more about this in the morning."