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Fourtris

Author: LolaBleu
Fandom: Divergent Series - Veronica Roth
Relationships: Four/Tris Prior
Characters: Tris Prior, Four (Divergent), Original Child Character(s)
Additional Tags: alternative universe, Allegiant Alternate Ending, fourtris!babies
Series: Part 3 of Patterns & Fairytales
Chapter 1 ~ Chapter 2 ~ Chapter 3 ~ Chapter 4 ~ Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Tobias hates going to the Bureau. As if the cheap, yellowing plaster they covered the wall in that he unwittingly helped blow up aren't enough of a reminder of one of his worst fuck up's, he can still see the accusation in the eyes of every person he encounters there. Damaged, they call him.
Except David, because he doesn't remember. He knows, but he doesn't remember. Instead the man responsible for killing Caleb warmly asks him how Tris is doing with the pregnancy as he and Tobias and Johanna sit down in a conference room.
Tobias says, "fine," in a tone that tells him to fuck off.
David drops the subject.
Tobias has a hard time looking at the man across from him with anything other than contempt. Not because of Caleb - because if Tobias is honest the best thing Caleb ever did for Tris was die at the right time -, but because he can't help remembering that this man's solution to their problems was resetting everyone's memory to zero. He wonders how many times, to how many people David did that to.
But then Tobias remembers that he put a bullet in Eric's brain; he remembers the mask of malice dropping just long enough to see the fear behind it, the realization that all the things that made Eric, Eric were going to be blink out of existence in a few short seconds.
Tobias can still feel the recoil of the shot resonating in his hand, even if Eric was far from innocent - unlike the people David erased.
Either way, they get through the meeting. Tobias and Johanna don't talk about it on the drive back to the city, despite Amar being the one driving them; Tobias isn't sure how much he can trust his friend in when it comes to the Bureau. And maybe Johanna has a shred of that distrust too, tucked away somewhere behind her kind smile, because when they pull up to Amity to drop her off, she asks Tobias to follow inside so they can 'chat'.
"Take your time," Amar says, waving them off. There's a whole squad of Security Forces there today, ostensibly to guard the grade-school kids on a field trip out to the farm to watch cows give birth, though they're mostly just reclining against the buses and looking bored, now.
"Benjamin was really excited to come out here today," Tobias says as they circle around the Amity dining hall, aiming for the fields beyond.
"That's sweet."
"I told him he wouldn't be once he saw it."
"Two kids and another on the way and you don't think birth is a beautiful thing?" Johanna asks, a little surprised.
"I think it's a painful, messy, dangerous thing."
She looks at him searchingly for a moment before she says, "You know it wasn't real, your mother dying."
"I was nine. It was real to me," Tobias says harshly.