Note: I apologise for the hell lotta words in bold. I have a lot of things to talk about. XD

Also, the guest reviewer who wrote that long ass review, if you are reading this, could you read the little section below the all the A/N caps in this A/N? Thanks!

EVEN IF YOU DON'T READ A/NS, THIS IS IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ, IT'S A LONG A/N BUT YOU'RE GOING TO BE READING A LONG ASS CHAPTER ANYWAY, SO PLEASE READ IT.

I TOOK A LOT OF EFFORT FINDING A GOOD "SONG OF THE CHAPTER" KINDA THING AND I FOUND ONE. THE PART WHERE TOBIAS FINDS TRIS IN THE CROWD, LISTEN TO THE SONG E.M.A. FROM THE ATTACK ON TITAN SOUNDTRACK, FROM 3:41 ONWARDS TILL 5:43.

PLEASE LISTEN TO THE SONG WHILE READING THAT PART, OR AT LEAST READ THE CHAPTER AND THEN LISTEN TO THE SONG AND IMAGINE THE FIGHT HAPPENING.

REVIEW IF YOU DID IT BECAUSE THIS IS LITERALLY ONE OF THE BEST IDEAS I HAVE EVER HAD IN MY ENTIRE LIFE OMFG

Hai guest reviewer. :3 I wish you had an account so that I could discuss with you privately :( Anyway, I just want to say I really appreciate what you reviewed. You did say it might come off as harsh, and I did feel a bit hurt when you pointed out all the flaws in this fanfic. But it was just hurting my pride. I admit that is pretty self-centred, but now I fully realise that my stories aren't perfect, that if I want to be an author in future, I'll need feedback WAY in advance. You made very good points, and I am very thankful for that as it will help me improve on my writing. In fact, the point you made about Tris and her want to go to back to her family being completely non-existent will really help me out in a story idea of mine as it has something similar to that. I definitely want to fix all these problems in this fanfic, but I'm afraid it's pretty much impossible now because it would just add on to the filler. I'll try my best to correct those mistakes in the next couple of chapters and speed things up. No promises that I will be able to do so though, since my writing for this story is rustier than I expected. Well, I obviously can't be perfect right off the bat, it'll have to come through with practice and maybe even trial and error.

With all that being said, I would really appreciate it if you could review your thoughts and suggestions on how I could improve on these plot holes, or maybe even make an account, if that isn't too much trouble. Thank you so much for your Candor! :D

The gorgeous autumn trees, the rough road, and the words "The Elder Scrolls IV: Skyrim".

"It works," Tobias murmured, close to tears.

"It finally works."

Everyone could not have been more shocked to see the usually indifferent Tobias running down the hallways excitedly with a huge grin on his face. His heart thumped rapidly. I can't wait to tell Zeke about this!

The young girl who was out of breath called his name to let him know that she couldn't keep up with his pace. Upon hearing her voice in such a weak tone, he immediately turned back to help her.

"Sorry, I'm just really pumped up," he grinned sheepishly as he rocked back on forth on his heels. Tris shook her head and smiled, contented to see him so happy. She was unable to keep her mouth closed though, and had to open it again to gasp for air.

Seeing that she was no longer able to go on, he swept his right arm to the side of her legs, making her fall to the left. Her arms flailed around, trying to regain her balance with a loud yelp. Failing to do so, she braced herself for the impact. Surprisingly, there was no pain. Instead, what she felt was a comforting warmth wrapped around her back. Strong arms lifted her up in a gentle motion.

Tris sighed, relaxed, and snuggled even deeper in his arms. Unfortunately, the burning stares from the other students forced her to snap back to reality. "T-Tobias!" She cried out, flustered. "You can't carry me here!"

"Yeah I can."

"No you can't!"

"There's no specific restriction for carrying other students."

"I'm a girl!"

"So? Carrying a guy would be even worse. People would start calling me gay."

Tris buried her face into his shoulder and groaned, trying her best not to reveal her blush. She later realised doing that would cause even more controversy, so she decided to look at her surroundings.

Big mistake.

The hushed whispers from the students made her self-conscious and the jealous looks from other girls made her uncomfortable. She vouched for pressing herself to his body and shutting out every other human being.

Wait, why was she being carried again?

Small hands pushed at his chest. Tobias glanced down as Tris tried to get herself back to solid ground. However, his grip was like iron, thus making her attempts futile. If anything, it made her even more embarrassed because she was clawing at his body. Tobias watched in amusement as she persisted in trying to get herself on her feet again on the floor, her cheeks tinted a bright red.

This isn't that bad, she reassured herself. My schoolmates don't know who I am, so it's alright. At least Toby's friends aren't here to see me like this.

"Trying to prove that you're straight by using Tris as a decoy? Never knew you'd stoop so low, Toby."

I jinxed it, Tris sobbed internally. She blocked out every word that was about to come out of Zeke's mouth.

"Shut the hell up, Zeke. At least I have the balls to carry her princess-style. You still don't dare to even hug Shauna in public."

"Oh, so you're indirectly admitting that our feelings to each of our respective girls are the same!"

"What?!" It was Tobias' turn to blush this time. "N-No! That's not true!"

"You really need to start taking lessons from your sister on how to tell a convincing lie. Nobody would buy what you said."

"What did he say?"

Zeke jumped at the sound of Shauna's voice. "H-How much of the c-conversation did you hear?" He stuttered. If she was eavesdropping from the start... He felt like he was about to die from embarrassment.

She shrugged. "Only from the part about Toby needing to learn how to lie, which I completely agree with. Anyway, what was he saying? Tell me!"

He laughed nervously, "Hahaha, it wasn't really anything to take note of!" As much as he would love to embarrass Tobias by revealing his very obvious crush on the girl in his arms, he couldn't. That would mean he would have to confess to Shauna as well. Of course, there was a small chance that he would be able to word it properly without mentioning his own crush, but he wasn't smart enough(or he was too dumb) to think of a way he could say it. He could not risk it.

Tobias, on the hand, felt like he had nothing to lose. "I was defending the fact that Zeke's feelings toward you aren't the same as—"

His words got cut off by a hand covering his mouth. Damn you and your clever way of saying things. Zeke glared at his best friend.

Shauna paid no attention to Tobias' words as she was more focused on a very, very, red Tris. "Hey Tris! How's the view from up there?" She teased.

Tris just wanted to curl up into a ball and die.

Sensing how uncomfortable Tris was, Tobias aimed a glare at Shauna. She shrank under his stern gaze. "I was only joking... Sorry Tris."

"It's okay." It actually wasn't. In fact, it was far from okay. Her face was burning up so much to the point that someone might think she was running a fever.

"You sure?" Shauna's brow creased in worry. "You look like you're pretty sick. Do we need to get you to the school infirmary to rest?"

"Maybe she needs pills for altitude sickness," Zeke snickered. As much as she didn't want to be insensitive, Shauna could not help but laugh at his words. The fact that she was attracted to him did not help.

Tobias sighed and reluctantly put Tris down. She was more than happy to be back on her own two feet, although a small part of her wished that she could continue feeling the sway of being carried. After making sure that she was stable, he turned to his two friends. "Okay, now that I've stopped carrying her, can you two shut up?!"

"We can't help it! You two are just so cute!"

Tris misunderstood what Shauna said. Her innocence made her interpret it as Shauna calling both of them cute individually. What she actually meant was that they looked cute together. Neither of the comments would make her happy.

As an attempt to get back at them, she yelled, "You're one to talk! If we're cute, you two are even cuter!"

A blush covered Zeke and Shauna's cheeks instantly. Tobias smirked and stroked Tris' hair approvingly. "Good comeback, Tris." He put his fist out to the side and waited for her to react. She was very familiar with the fist bump, she did it all the time with Caleb. Her fist connected with his, their knuckles molding together perfectly, like two jigsaw puzzle pieces. A smile spread over her face and her eyes were shining with pride. A giggle escaped her lips.

Even though Zeke and Shauna were still brooding over how they got burned by a kid two years younger and two inches shorter, they could not help thinking the same thoughts; they are absolutely adorable.

Desperate to change the subject after feeling the stares, Tris asked Tobias, "Didn't you want to tell Zeke some very important news?"

He stared at her for a while before suddenly exclaiming, "Oh!"

"What do you wanna tell me? And you were spacing out again, weren't you." Zeke stated.

"Yeah, it hasn't happened in quite a while," Tobias said sheepishly, hoping that they couldn't see through his lie again. No, he wasn't spacing out. It was just... Captivation. Yeah, I was just captivated by Tris' bright blue eyes.

No way in hell was he ever going to say that out loud, even if he were alone.

Since when did he turn from emotionless asshole to sappy teenage boy? Seriously, he was starting to look like your typical male protagonist in your average shoujo romance manga.

He shook his head slightly to get rid of the thoughts. "Anyway, what I want to tell you both is... I fixed Skyrim."

Zeke and Shauna blinked. "Um, what?"

"He got the game to work!" Tris grinned. "He really did! I got to customise my character! I made a cat person!"

"She couldn't stomach the beheading scene, though," he laughed. "I had to get this poor thing a paper bag to retch in."

She shot him a glare from the corner of her eye. "Shut up..."

Shauna got over her shock rather quickly and chuckled. "Well, the game is rated M18 after all. Little Trissy wouldn't be able to go through all that, right Zeke?"

She turned to him, but his mouth was still wide open. She frowned and waved a hand in front of his face. There was still no response. "Uh, Zeke? You're kinda freaking us out here."

His voice came out as a small whisper and Shauna leaned in, straining her ears to hear him. "What?"

"You got Skyrim to work?!" He screeched. She winced and rubbed her ear. Unfortunately, his statement caught the attention of the pupils around them. Most of them were boys, and all of them knew about or played video games. They had all heard of Skyrim and its current situation with all the game-breaking bugs.

Well, current situation until now.

A large crowd of students surrounded the four friends. All of them were pushing each other, trying to get through to Tobias. The loud and excited shouts hurt his ears and he scowled in annoyance.

"Tobias! You fixed Skyrim?!"

"You are such a boss!"

"Hey, help me with my copy of Skyrim for me will ya? I'm free on Saturday," one of the boys said suggestively, wiggling his eyebrows jokingly.

Zeke and Shauna groaned and looked at each other. Situations like this had happened before. It always started with the male demographic, and then the girls would take advantage of the questions headed his way, even if they knew nothing about the topic. Whenever it happened, they found it both hilarious and just annoying.

And here come the females...

"You did something amazing again? Tell me more about it!"

"Ah, you're so popular, as always!"

That was the useless flirting with nothing to do with the topic at hand. Even though their words were absolutely sucking up to Tobias, at least they knew the things they did not know about. Now, where are the stupid ones who pretend to know and fail miserably...

"Tobias, could you help me fix my Skyrim app?"

There they are.

Poor Tris was getting squished in the huge mass of bodies. Tobias is really popular with both genders, isn't he, she thought ruefully. A small and selfish part of her hated that because that part didn't want to share him with anyone else.

Tobias was reaching his limit. Both boys and girls wanted to be close to him, some even closer than socially appropriate. Oh God, I hope Tris is alright... This might be too overwhelming for her. He was about to call her name when he spotted her golden blonde hair in the crowd. A sigh of relief came out of his mouth unwillingly, but that sigh was only halfway out when he saw what was happening.

One of the boys had both his arms wrapped around her, his left hand squeezing her chest and the other smoothing over the space between her legs. His chin was resting on her shoulder and he had a devious, no-good smile on his face as he stared hungrily at her. Tris did nothing but stared blankly into nothing. Tobias had a sense of déjà vu, but it was not a good memory that was dug up.

YOU FUCKING BASTARD!

He stormed his way through the crowd, accidentally elbowing some of his schoolmates. They yelped in pain but it didn't matter. Nothing else mattered except for his duty to beat that boy senseless until he was barely breathing. Even then, he didn't deserve such mercy.

The others who had seen what happened to those who did not make way for Tobias immediately cleared a path for him. An angry Tobias was a scary Tobias. And a scary Tobias was a person even Satan would not want to mess with.

And he was more than angry.

He was fuming.

There were soft murmurs from the crowd. Words like "oh my God", "shit he's pissed" and "I hope he's not mad at me or I'm gonna die" were said by the fearful onlookers. Tobias heard none of the remarks. The sound of his sneakers padding forcefully against the shiny polished white floor echoed around the walls.

His face showed no emotion other than red-hot rage. Everyone standing in his direction immediately stayed out of his way. They had no idea where he was headed. All they knew was that they weren't the ones he was going to murder, since they did nothing wrong.

Those in front of Tris and that boy were completely oblivious to the two behind them. One of the them, a dark skinned girl with long hair that still had a tint of purple from the remnants of her hair dye, heard a tiny whimper from behind and turned around. Her eyes went wide at the sight in front of her and she clamped a hand over her mouth to stifle a gasp. A hand suddenly landing on her shoulder made her jump.

"Out of the way," Tobias said quietly. She gulped and immediately moved to the side, exposing the scene to him clearly, right in front of him.

The urge to kill was just too strong.

The boy with light blonde shaggy hair grinned evilly as he licked the shell of Tris' ear with a long slurp. His eyelids were heavily drawn over the light blue orbs that were twinkling with mischief. The worst part was that Tris was hanging helplessly in his arms like a lifeless ragdoll.

He was doing it on purpose. He knew it would rile Tobias up. He knew that he was one of the very few in Tobias' trusted people list, and that hurt even more.

"Peter Hayes."

At the mention of his name, Peter looked up innocently with a sweet smile. "Hi Tobias! Congrats on getting your game to run! Also—"

"Hands off," he cut off, not wanting to deal with this any longer than he had to. Getting straight to the point was definitely more important than listening to whatever shit Peter wanted to say. "She's mine." His possessive side came out.

"Oh?" Peter raised his eyebrow and smirked. "I don't see a label with your name on it. Hm, maybe if I checked here—"

A hand travelled up Tris' leg and under her skirt to expose her underwear. A collective gasp of shock and horror rung over the large group of spectators. Tobias' mouth hung open. He. Did. Not.

"Did you leave your mark at this area, Tobias?" Peter tapped his finger at the private white cloth. "To be honest, I feel like taking over this production line of yours. Let me mark her too. Maybe we can do a collaboration: Have both our presence be carved into this little asset."

That's. Fucking. It.

Tobias' fist hit his jaw hard, the impact sending him reeling backwards. A crazed laugh made its way out of the blonde boy's mouth.

"That was only one punch, man! You think a single hit is gonna scare me into submission?!"

The crooked smirk on Peter's face was confident, despite the bruise forming underneath his lips.

Oh how he would love to wipe the look off his face, permanently. Even better, wipe every look off his face. Get rid of his facial expressions entirely.

Yeah. I might do that.

It eventually turned into a fight and some students had left to fetch a teacher. The rest stayed to watch. So far, Tobias was winning. He wasn't rash like Peter was, all his moves were calculated perfectly. Peter didn't stand a chance against the boy who was two years his senior.

Fast and clumsy movement in Tobias' periphery caught his attention. He saw Tris get helped up by Zeke and Shauna in the corner. Hope lifted in her heart when she watched him hit the boy who molested her.

Her weak body would've fallen forward if it hadn't been for his two best friends helping her be steady. Upon seeing this, the boiling hot anger bubbled up inside him even more. The bastard had the nerve to touch her. How dare he! The anger threatened to bubble and spill over.

Peter spat out some blood before lunging at Tobias. Unfortunately for him, Tobias was too quick and agile for him. Peter did not stand a chance against him. The brown haired boy avoided the attack skilfully and used this to his advantage. Since Peter was falling forward because of too much force from the attempted attack, his back was exposed to Tobias.

Jackpot.

Tobias elbowed him hard in his spine and Peter's back arched in pain. He ended up falling hard on his front, the impact forcing the air out of his lungs. He lifted himself up on his elbow, trying to breathe in oxygen to compensate for the loss of air. The moment he tried, a heavy force landed on his back and his lungs felt constricted.

His hands reached out and clawed at the ground, trying to escape the ten year old monster named Tobias Eaton. However, Tobias was not one to let his prey run away from him. His hand grabbed Peter's arm and twisted it, hard. Peter let out an ear-piercing scream as Tobias held it there for ten seconds before he flipped him over, the long yellow strands getting tangled in the process. The light blue orbs were filled with white hot fear.

"No... I'm sorry, Tobias... I was just following Eric's orders... Please don't..." He pleaded desperately, his voice shaking. His heart dropped as soon as he saw something deadly flash in Tobias' eyes. Oh no.

"You son of a bitch."

He raised his arm up and put as much power as he could behind it. His fist flew to the stomach of the younger boy, and he coughed. The sound came out all garbled, and red spilt over his lips. "S-stop..."

"Touch her again and I will shove my foot so deep up your ass, you won't be able to shit right for weeks."

One hit followed another. Soon, it turned into a never ending line-up of punches. Each of them were initially aimed at different parts of Peter; his stomach, his arm, his shoulder. Eventually Tobias discovered that the smooth skin of Peter's face felt really nice against his knuckles.

The more he hit him in the face, the more discoloured it became. Different dark shades of red, purple, blue, and yellow swirled around his cheeks and mouth. The glossy crimson red that occasionally cut through the different colours made it all the more artistic. Fascinating, Tobias thought with a cruel smile. Maybe I should use this as an opportunity to improve my art skill and create a masterpiece.

Peter's cries were loud and the sound of skin splitting skin was even louder. Tobias originally wanted to hit the jaw but his hand slipped, hitting the throat instead. Peter gasped sharply and choked. Not on his saliva, but on his blood. The cries suddenly died down, his voice now hollow.

Tobias still had not stopped.

"Oh God no, it's one of his episodes," Shauna murmured quietly to herself, but Tris and Zeke heard it. He threw his hands up in frustration. "Dammit! I thought he had gotten over all that anger shit!"

Tris gulped, watching from the side. She had recovered from her shock and fear, unfortunately the first thing she had to see was Tobias going berserk.

It was extremely painful to watch, even more painful than when she was groped. She tried to go closer to him to snap him out of it, but Zeke and Shauna held her back.

"You don't know what you're getting into! And you don't want to know!"

"Don't even try! It's not gonna work!" Shauna warned. However, nothing was going to stop the stubborn girl from getting what she wanted.

She ran over to Tobias and tried holding him back. "Tobias! You're going too far! This isn't you!" She exclaimed, trying to convince him to stop. It was pointless though, he was not in the right frame of mind to listen to anyone. In a blind rage, he turned around and grabbed her by the collar. He lifted her face close to his as he sneered, "Shut the fuck up." After getting his point across, he shoved her to the ground.

Hard.

She landed on her back, the pain resonating in the rest of her body.

Tobias...

Zeke and Shauna gasped in horror while the rest of the audience remained quiet, terrified of what might happen if they broke the disturbing silence.

His breathing was laboured and very uneven as he stared at the petite figure on the ground with cold and unfeeling eyes. Hers were brimming with tears.

No, Tobias... You're not like this. You can't be like this...

A few seconds passed before the psychopathic look disappeared and got replaced by the innocent look Tris was more familiar with. He had finally come to his senses.

It was not a good moment for him. Bile rose in his throat. He felt sick.

There was a beaten and bloodied boy lying on the ground, knocked unconscious by his own hands, a crowd of shocked schoolmates, and worst of all. Tris was on the floor, staring at him in fear with forever flowing tears running down her cheeks.

The teachers finally arrived and dragged Tobias away in the direction of the office. The nurses from the sick bay gently carried Peter onto a stretcher and took him to the infirmary. Miss Meyrin was crouching by Tris' side, rubbing her back soothingly as the girl sobbed. Tobias stared into space, still trying to comprehend what just happened. No matter how much he tried to understand, there was only one thing that occupied his mind.

What have I done?

The original chapter was just Tobias telling his friends about Skyrim and then just a normal day at school. Butt, I decided to add a bit of drama like a fight scene, but then more drama happened, AND BAM! ANGST TIME~ c:

I'm not sorry for the tears.

AND LET ME RANT OKAY

Remember the A/N in the previous chapter where I ranted about how I couldn't buy that manga volume? Well, I went out to the same bookstore with my two best friends and I was about to buy the volume again but remembered the whole age restriction thing. So I was like "Never mind, let's go."

But they were all like "Let's just try." But I refused because I knew it would be embarrassing, I'm probably the only teenage girl who buys SNK manga volumes from them so they would most likely recgonise me and wouldn't sell it to me. They insisted and I was like "YOU GUYS CAN TRY IT, YOU'RE GONNA FAIL I TELL YOU." I stood a distance away from the counter and when they went to pay for it,

THE LADY AT THE COUNTER LOOKED AT THE AGE RESTRICTION TAG. THEN SCANNED THE BOOK AND ACCEPTED THE MONEY. COLLEEN(I'M GONNA MENTION YOUR NAME BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE RAGING AT YOU RN) LOOKED AT ME WITH MY SHOCKED FACE AND SMIRKED AND I JUST FLIPPED HER OFF, I WAS SO FUCKING PISSED BECAUSE THE THREE OF US ARE THE SAME AGE, HELL I'M THE OLDEST AMONG US ALL FUUUUUUUU

I think it was my fringe that caused the problem. My bangs make me actually look my age or even younger. Colleen's black jacket that looked like a leather one and her combat boots probably made her look older, and Liyana's long wavy (FABULOUS)hair and hoop earrings probably made her look older too.

As you can tell, I'm still in denial that my bangs make me look like a twelve year old girl.

*shoves face into pillow and sCREAMS IN FRUSTRATION*

Nyaning in the Fear Landscape

~~Divergent Kitty (=^ω^=)