Secluded

Disclaimer: I do not own Eric or Tris nor do I own Divergent!

Authors Note: War never takes place.

It's been about three months since training has been over. And right now I'm jobless and I have no idea what career I want to choose here at Dauntless. Christina says I should go for the leadership position I've been offered but I really don't want to be in a serious job where I'll be in put in situations where I may risk showing my divergence. I was thinking more like a tattoo artist or even helping out in the kitchen since I am use to that from helping my mother in abnegation. But Max says I have a week to decide and Christina says I'm being an idiot for not using my high rank right to get a good job here.

I'm still in the same bed as when I first got here to Dauntless. And I am the only one sleeping here. Four keeps trying to get me to stay at his place but I like the quietness here. It lets me think. I think he's just trying to get me to his place so he can try and get me back. We did kiss that once and I felt something for him but after spending more time with him he began to annoy me a little bit. He was being clingy and overprotective. I couldn't breathe or venture out and explore my new home. And that's why I am taking this week to explore and think about what i want to do for the rest of my life here.

"Hey you wanna go grab dinner with me and Will?" Christina says while I put away my clean clothes in the chest near the end of my bed.

"Sure, give me one second though. I just did some laundry and had a shower. How's guarding the gate going? Any monsters?" I laugh.

"Ha ha, funny Trissy, but no. But I'll be one if we don't get going. It's Friday and you know what that means" Christina says.

"Chocolate ca-"

"Stiff, Max needs you in his office now." Eric interrupts. He stands to the side to let us go and waits for us to walk past him.

I immediately know what he means.

"Why? I told him I'd choose at the end of the week. He said I had a week." I say quickly.

"I think our leader is getting a little impatient... and it's Friday. You've had five days. What? Have you been sleeping and binging on snacks all week. What have you been doing all week anyway?" He asks.

"I've been trying to decide! And I have two days. I think I can allow myself a week to decide what I want to do for the rest of my life!" I yell. Eric rolls his eyes.

"Yes, because all of us had the luxury to have a week to decide what we want to do" he says sarcastically.

"Let's just go to Max's office Tris, and we'll grab dinner afterwards, okay?" Christina says and pulls me by my arm towards the door, ignoring Eric as we leave.

What am I even going to say? 'Hey max yeah I haven't decided yet because I'm a divergent and I don't want you to know because I don't want to die. But I do want a good job here that will place me in a good home and give me good opportunities for the rest of my life. But I should just stick with a lower classes job to stay away from authority.' I roll my eyes at my thoughts as I walk with Christina to Max's office.

"I'll just stay out here while you talk, k?" Christina stands by the door and stares at me while giving me a look to just knock already.

"Just do it Tris. Everyone else has chosen. Just do what you really want to do and what makes you happy. Take a chance and who knows it may lead to something great." She says smiling. Something about taking a chance makes my stomach flip. She is right though.

I knock softly on the door and I quickly hear him yelling for me to come in.

"Tris, it's good to see you. Sit, please" he sits in his chair behind his desk and places his hands on his keyboard and types away.

"Look, I know you want an answer-"

"I've already decided for you."

"What?! You can't just do that! You gave me a choice-"

"I chose what I know you should be doing. I just sent an email to the leaders that you happily accepted a leadership position. Do not waste my time, Tris. You're lucky I didn't assign you as kitchen cook. You have greater abilities then most of your other initiates in your class. I wasn't about to see them being kicked to the side. You do have a choice in where you'll be in leadership." Max stands and gets a few files and throws them on the desk.

I shake my head in anger while holding back a few choice words that'd get me in trouble. I can't believe he did this.

"These are a few positions that need to be filled and I haven't been able to fill them in years. And lucky you, you get to choose one of them" he says while staring at me.

"So I'm basically getting one of the shitty jobs in leadership." I say angrily.

"You're getting a high rank job and you will thank me for doing this. Pick." Max says while pushing the files towards me.

I sit in the chair seething, arms folded staring down my leader. "Fine, let me look them over." I say reluctantly.

I skim over the job titles and immediately ditch half. I do not want to work anywhere near Erudite. And I ditch another one that reads: Initiate Training. I see one that does catch my eye. Faction Co-op: Abnegation & Amity. Doesn't surprise me that this is in the pile. No one from Dauntless wants to go to either of those factions and have to work with them regularly. This would be an interesting job. I may even get to see my parents and then of course amity isn't awful, I mean they are known for being kind. What bad can come from working with them? I finish reading over the first page and finally say "Out of all, this one seems interesting".

"Great! I'll arrange your training with a leader. It shouldn't take me long to organize everything. You'll have a couple days before it starts and I'll come get you when I've sorted everything out" Max stands and puts his hand out for me to shake.

I fake a flat smile and shake his hand.

"Welcome to leadership Tris. Glad to have you with us. I'll be sure to find a good trainer for you that will match your abilities." Max says.

"Thanks" and with that I walk out and see Christina on the floor waiting.

"Hey! How'd it go in there?" She stands quickly and we both start to walk down and to the cafeteria.

"Well, I'm officially leader."

"Yay! Tris you made the right decision! I'm so happy for you!" She says smiling and hugs me on my side while we walk.

"Not like I had much choice. Right now I'm just waiting on whoever is going to train me. I think I'll talk to Four if he's at dinner. I wonder if maybe he'd be able to train me. Would probably be better then most of the other scary leaders" I say.

"Heyyy don't judge a book by its cover. They aren't all bad. My trainer for the fence wasn't bad. He was actually kinda hot." She says.

"Who's hot?" Will walks up and kisses Christina on the cheek.

"You of course!" Christina laughs and hugs him.

I find Four sitting alone and walk towards him and choose the empty seat in front of him. I grab a few different items of food to place on my plate while Four starts to say something.

"Hey I heard you were in Max's office earlier, have you chosen your career yet?" Four smiles and asks. Jeez, news travels fast around here.

"Where'd you hear that from? and Yeah! Actually I chose leadership. I'll be working with Abnegation and Amity so I think it'll be interesting." I say looking at Four. Suddenly I'm feeling more and more okay with the job. I guess there are much worse jobs. At least I wouldn't be stuck here at Dauntless like Four.

"Heard it from a few other leaders when I came in. Something about 'the stiff' accepting Max's offer. But,Faction co-op? Wow. Well, you're in for a treat then." He says and begins to eat again.

"What's that suppose to mean? Is there something I don't know?" I say suddenly worried about my position...again.

"No, I mean, it's not awful, it's just I heard the training is super long and thorough. It usually takes up to a year. And you being a first year here, I'm sure it'll be different then a normal leader training." he says.

"Why would they change it just because I'm a first year?" I say wondering.

"Usually first years spend their first year partying at night and not sleeping at all because of it. Plus there's the fact that you are a newbie here and don't know much about how this faction works. I'm sure they'll want to extend your training or at least work more hours with you." He says.

Great, more hours of training. Just what I wanted, I think sarcastically.

"What, like you mean more physical training or something? I don't think amity or abnegation are going to be doing much fighting. Let alone verbally fighting me" I say laughing.

Four laughs too and says "No, not anything like that. I mean, you won't be doing any physical training, I don't think. Mostly a lot of reading, learning about what the other factions offer, traveling to those factions, meeting with those leaders, you'll also be visiting them quite a bit. I'm not entirely sure what else you'll learn. It's not my area of expertise. I just train initiates." He says while finishing his food.

"Oh I guess that answers my question. I was gonna ask if you would be able to train me but I guess you only volunteer to help train initiates." I say sadly.

"That's what I'm trained to do. Sorry, Tris. If I could I would. I'm sure it'd be a lot of fun just the two of us. I'm sure whoever your trainer will be will be a great one though. Not many people are willing to go to amity or abnegation so I'm sure it'll be somehow who's a softy" he says looking at me.

Suddenly we hear a bunch of clanging of dishes go to the floor and yelling of people who are across the room. We both turn our heads quickly towards the noise to see whats going on. I see Eric standing up yelling at a few people and dishes on the floor. He looks pretty pissed off. He's standing there pinching the bridge of his nose and what looks like trying to calm himself down but not working at all. I see Max entering the room not noticing at first the commotion but stops and takes a breath noticing it's Eric who is in the problem. He doesn't seem happy about the shouting and gives Eric a look of annoyance.

"What's going on here" I hear Max yelling at everyone at the table including Eric.

I can't hear anything else, but Eric pointing at the other dauntless members at the table and yelling at Max. All I heard was "Idiots" And something about "Send them back to where they belong". Eric catches me staring and glares toward me. But I keep staring, I'm already caught so I'll just make him suffer. Max yells something while he keeps staring at me and then he walks away looking pissed.

After dinner I walk back to my bed and before I could enter the room someone grabs me by my arm.

"Hey watch i-" I said annoyed, yanking my arm back. I look up and look into the eyes I was just staring into earlier. Eric.

"Next time you want to get into my business I'll have you dangling over the chasm before you can call for lover boy" he says while still holding on to my arm and shoves me back. He walks away with the same look he had on when he walked out at dinner time.

"What the fuck is his problem" I say under my breath, shaking my head and walking to my bed to get a good nights rest.

I lay down trying to relax and also to think about what it'll be like traveling to amity and that's when I fall asleep dreaming about it.

The skies are so blue and my arms are wrapped around someone while we are on a horse riding in a field. We're both dressed in white and it's so peaceful and I'm happy. So happy. I don't think I've ever been this happy in my life. We ride until we reach a cliff and suddenly I hear the person say 'it's so beautiful here, I wish we could grow old here... and have our baby here and just stay here forever. Just us.' I smile squeezing him closer to me, if that was possible. 'Me too' I say smiling. And I rest my head on his back. While we soak up the sun and the fresh air of the hills.

I'm definitely not the best writer in the world but I've had this story in my head for weeks now and I wanted to share it all with you. I've been reading so Tris/Eric stories and I am in love with that pairing. Forgive my writing and please review. I need the confidence to continue! I want this story to eventually be rated M but we will see how that goes. Thanks!