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"What do you want to snack today Aleks?" Morgan said opening the fridge, she took two containers and turned around to Aleks, kneeling next to him. "Fruits or cereals?" She motioned at both the containers.

She saw Aleks' big blue eyes move between them, his little backpack hanging by his shoulders.

"Fruit" he said pointing at the right. Morgan smiled and put the cereals away.

"This one's got banana, apple and strawberries, do you like those?"

"Yes Mommy" he replied while Morgan opened up his backpack and stored the fruits inside them.

Morgan checked that he was well dressed, that his shoes were tied and his backpack closed.

"Looks like we're good to go buddy" she placed a little kiss on his forehead and stood up, taking Aleks by the hand and walking out of the house.

Aleks had grown so fast in Morgan's eyes, she couldn't believe he was already in day care. They took him off to the city to attend some activities with the other kids of the other factions, and knowing that Aleks was getting bigger and bigger he was developing his sense of community and his social skills fast. But the adults in dauntless weren't a good example of socialization. Specially with Aleks being a little boy.

Morgan walked with him towards the bus where they usually  picked up the kids in dauntless.

Morgan held Aleks by the hand while they waited, but soon enough she felt Aleks tug her down. She kneeled next to him and held him by the waist to her chest.

"What's wrong baby?" She asked, giving him a little kiss on the cheek.

"What happened to that girl?" He said, looking straight ahead, Morgan moved her eye to where he was looking, and recognized the question.

"That's what happens to mommys when they have a baby in their belly" she looked at Aleks, who was silently staring down at the woman. Then he turned to her.

"Like you?"

Morgan's mouth slowly opened, but the screeching of the bus made her stand up without saying a word. She bent over again to kiss Aleks on the crown of his head, then watched him run towards the bus as the other kids hurried to get in.

As soon as Morgan saw the dauntless guards get in the bus and made sure everyone was seated and ready to go, she walked back to her place.

She searched around Eric's office for a calendar, and when she had it she counted.

The last 10 months hadn't been nice to her at all. After she confronted Eric about needing time to have another baby, he didn't mentioned the subject again, and didn't push for Morgan to stop taking the shots.

The first 6 months had passed, and after Aleks' 3rd birthday she quit the shots, bit didn't tell Eric about it, hoping she could make the announcement be a surprise.

What happened was that the first month she tried, her period came, then the second month was delayed only two days, making her eager to take a pregnancy test. She took it at home when she was alone, finding the single red line too disturbing. By the third month, when she took the test again, she could help but to crumble down on the bathroom floor after throwing the negative result across the room.

She was in the bathroom for an hour trying to compose herself, and by the time she came out it didn't pass Eric's inspection the fact that she had been crying.

Those months she had accounted for, the next one was the one she wasn't aware of.

After Aleks became too big and too slippery for the crib, Morgan and Eric set up a little bed in his room, and it wasn't longer before Aleks began jumping on the bed, despite Morgan's and Eric's constant scoldings about not jumping on the goddamned bed.

One particular night, Morgan and Eric were sitting in the couch, mindlessly talking about nothing before she had to get up and cook something, then they heard the sickening thump on the floor, then Aleks' pained shriek across the house. They jumped on their feet and ran to the bedroom, finding Aleks holding his head where he had hit himself. What they didn't expect to find was blood on his hand when he pulled back.

He caught the side of the nightstand with his head, barely missing the corner. That earned him 5 stitches and a still to this day reprimend from Eric.

Thay whole month between checks to Erudite's doctors and such was the month Morgan hadn't accounted for, and now she was staring at a month gap between her last period and the next one ready to happen.

She tried to make memory on what day she could've had sex with Eric that could count for her to get pregnant while she walked down the infirmary.

She had her arms crossed at her chest, and as soon as she was tended by the dauntless nurse, she just requested a routine check out, not wanting to ask for a pregnancy test right out of the bat, knowing that if she did the news were going to spread even faster than she could tell Eric about the result.

She waited that full day in the infirmary, sitting in the waiting room, then she was handed a thick envelope. She took it back to her place and took a deep breath while closing the door behind her, what she didn't expect was for Eric to be at the house.

"What are you doing here?" She asked, trying to not make him pay attention at the too obvious envelope.

"Came looking for you" he said walking to her, looking at the envelope on her hand "haven't seen you all day, where were you?" He held her by the waist and pulled her in. Morgan threw the envelope on the couch and held Eric by the shoulders.

"Went to drop off Aleks at the bus stop, then I was called by Stella, she had the result of Aleks' last check up and I went to pick it up" she said hoping Eric would buy what was in that envelope

"Mm" he hummed and leaned in to kiss her shortly. Then began walking with her towards the front door. "Elise came to see me at the office. She asked if we could take care of Leah tonight"

Well, that wasn't good. If the results was negative it would mean that she would more than likely spend another hour in the bathroom crying, that was something she couldn't handle. The fact that when she had Aleks she wasn't looking for him and now that she was actively searching to get pregnant but nothing happened, that killed her.

Still, she was thankful she'd made the decision of not letting Eric know she was off the shots, having Eric's constant expectations pressuring her and having to look at the disappointment and hurt in his face was something she wanted to spare herself from.

"Morgan" he said, looking down at her, stopping in the middle of the hallway nearing his office. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah" she dismissed "I'm fine"

"You're distraught" he cupped her cheek and brought her closer "you sure? Let me know if i can do anything to help"

"I will Eric" she assured, then tiptoed to meet his lips. "I'll make sure to pick up Leah from the bus with Aleks, and more then likely will end up back at the house to take care of them after that"

"I'll have everything wrapped up early and come meet you guys" he kissed her again and turned around, walking back into his office.

Morgan took care of her rounds, the results of the test still swirling in her head.

In the meantime she was looking for that baby, Eric had taken Leah under his wing. He took care of her as if she was his own, he played with her and Aleks if she was ever at the house, and made sure to keep in touch with Elise to be informed if Leah ever needed a check up or anything he could help with.

Morgan not only knew Eric was trying to fill the other baby space, but the other baby girl space. Leah was a sweet little baby and Eric had heart eyes everytime he saw her, knowing that a girl was all Eric wanted next.

When she finally had to pick up Aleks, she quickly ushered him into the house and had him settled with Leah to do a jigsaw puzzle, they loved to do those.

Morgan took the results back to her room and sighed. It was now or never, she couldn't afford another interrogatory if Eric saw her eyes red again.

She didn't close the door of her bedroom all the way down, making sure she could still hear the kids on the other room.

She sat on the bed and opened the envelope, scanning fast the results of the different test, the blood work was the one she was interested.

She scanned with her eyes the different medical terms until she found the one hCG, positive.

Positive.

She let out a shaky breath as she passed the pages to the urine test. hCG, positive.

Another shaky breath as she let the papers fall on the bed and stood up.

She chuckled and placed both hands on her head, she couldn't believe it. She was pregnant.

Morgan heard the front door smash closed and Aleks' happy shriek as he ran to his dad, hugging him by the legs. Eric ruffled his hair and gave Leah a quick look, who just gave him a little wave and turned back to the puzzle.

"Where's mommy?" Eric asked, Aleks double back to the table while he said

"In her bedroom"

Eric walked towards the bedroom, finding Morgan with tears in her eyes. He walked quickly to her with a worried frown.

"Morgan what's wrong?" He said holding her by the shoulders. Morgan couldn't help but let out a happy laugh and picked up the papers, handing them to Eric.

Eric scanned them fast, trying to find the answer.

"What's all this?" He threw the papers on the bed again and held her by the shoulders "Morgan talk to me, what's-"

"I'm pregnant" she said happy, jumping on Eric's arms and placing her hands on his neck "Eric I'm pregnant" she downed her lips to his once.

When she pulled back, she saw Eric's starstruck face, looking up at her.

"What?" He whispered, pulling her down and holding her by the waist.

"I got tested today and everything is positive, you're going to be a dad again baby" Morgan rounded his shoulders with her arms, Eric moved his eyes over hers, and Morgan saw his gaze move down to her stomach.

She took Eric's hands from her waist and placed it on top of her stomach.

Eric looked at her again, tears starting to form on his eyes.

"Really?" He whispered, Morgan chuckled and kissed him one more time while nodding.

"Yes baby, yes, yes, you're going to be a dad again" she whispered against his lips.

Eric hadn't closed his eyes when Morgan kissed him, instead he looked at her own, still having a little frown on his face.

"Eric" she said looking longingly at him "Eric everything came out positive, we can go to the doctor if you don't-"

Morgan was interrupted when Eric dropped to her knees and moved her shirt up to kiss her stomach.

Morgan was pushed down on the bed and she laughed holding Eric's head close to her stomach as he left little kisses on her. He stopped to look up at her again and Morgan could see tears streak down her eyes, and she assumed she had as many as his. She slowly cleaned his cheek and smiled at him, moving forward to kiss his forehead.

Eric sighed and leaned back on her stomach, hugging her and knealing in front of her in between her legs. Morgan ran her hands on his neck and his back while Eric continued hugging her by the waist.

"Are you happy baby?" She asked, Eric instantly nodded, hugging her tight. "I'm sorry I made you wait for so long. I promise I dropped the shots when I said I would"

"That time" he said leaning back and clearing his throat "that time I found you in the bathroom, you were crying because of this?"

"Yeah" she admitted "I made a test and it came out negative, and it wasn't the first"

"Why didn't you tell me?" He asked, his hand moved to her still flat stomach and slowly caressed it.

"I wanted to surprise you"

"And you did" he said, giving her a chuckle.

"We can set up an appointment tomorrow to have all the checks needed, I don't know how far along I am but I'm guessing 6 weeks so.... I know it's too soon-"

Eric interrupted her when he leaned in to kiss her lips quickly, making her wipe away any doubt in her mind.

He looked down at her stomach again and smiled, leaning over to it and kissing it.

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"Would you consider cheating if I end up fucking you in there as well?" Eric asked, holding Morgan by the hand and walking into the Sim room, the new machine waiting for them.

"Of course I will"

"But it's you" he fought back

"It doesn't matter if it's me or not, why would you want to fuck me in that reality knowing that you can fuck me perfectly fine out here" she complained, turning on the computer "you said you were going to help me and that's it"

"And I am" Eric assured "I'm just curious, what if we end up in that kind of situation? Besides, it's a dream, I'm not physically fucking another version of you"

"Why do you want to fuck Erudite me so badly? Is it because of the glasses? Because I can get some glasses if that's a turn on"

Eric chuckled and leaned in to steal a kiss from her while she got the machine ready and the serum checked.

"I just want to have you all for myself in every reality"

Morgan twisted her lips and motioned at him to get on the step.

"Assuming you can get into my pants in the hour you have in there, be my guest, it's not like I can blame you for what happens in your head, and besides, I'm not competing with a figment of your imagination alright? I'm 5 months pregnant, I don't have time for this bullshit" she said placing the electrodes on his neck and chest like she'd been taught. "And if I see something weird, like if you get hard on and start moaning, I'll pull you out before you can finish" she said with a smirk and pushed the serum to his arm.

Eyes closed.

Eyes open.

Eric puts the glass down in the table and looks around, checking his surroundings, he's in a bar. He checks his watch, it's 9 am, too early for a drink, even in this reality.

He walks out of the bar and notices a shining light coming from below his slseve, he moves it aside and sees a clock emmiting from the skin in his wrist, must be the time tracker they programmed to let him know how much time he had before being pulled out. 58 minutes.

He set in motion and takes the train to Erudite, looking for Morgan again, trying to find out about this deal and how can he help her.

As soon as he reaches Erudite again, he knows that he has to work quickly, given that the actions from the day before have repercussions.

He demands to be taken to some dauntless guards that were being hospitalized, and in the room he hacks into a nearby computer, finding the citizen's records just like the ones he has in dauntless.

Quick search, Emily Whitefield. Morgan's face pops up and he reads the information.

Married to this bastard, parents alive, place if residence two houses down from where her mother lives. Cris is the lead researcher in a pharmaceutical company, the ones that develope the cures and medications for the diseases in the city. The former lead researcher was Morgan's dad.

Eric thought Morgan must be in an arranged marriage of sorts. They join the families through her children to make sure the trespassing of the lead researchers from one family to the other isn't that random, just a common decision to pass the reigns of a company from one man to his son in law, given that a woman isn't fit to run a company in Erudite's mind.

Bastards, all of them. But how was he going to get Morgan out? He couldn't kill the parents and Cris. Well, he could, but not without arising suspicions as to why he'd made that decision. Not with Jeanine up his ass.

And even if he could get Morgan out, she was in Erudite, and he was in Dauntless, they couldn't be together either way.

Eric undestood that the whole thought process sounded very stupid now, but his heart ached for what was happening to Morgan in this reality.

He decided to go to her place, given that apparently she'd taken a day off and Cris was working in the lab, or so the documents said.

He walked to her neighborhood, no one was looking out if he was here, everyone should either be working or in school.

He knocked on her door and had to wait a while for her to come around and open the door.

Slowly, the door opened just a bit, but when her eyes landed on him, she moved to close the door on his face. Eric stopped it and pushed it open, Morgan didn't have enough strength to push him away.

"Please, leave. You've already gotten me into enough trouble" she said looking to the side.

Eric's eyes fixated on her cheek, how it was red, but then, his eyes moved to her eye, and he knew better than to be fooled by make up on a bruise.

Eric felt his heart clench, and he wanted to lean in and hold her, tell her everything was going to be fine.

"I know" he said, keeping his distance "I came here to apologise, I know what pain I must've caused you"

"No you don't, now leave" she said between teeth.

"Yes, I do" he took a step to her. Morgan cowered back and stumbled with the chair from the kitchen. Eric hated this version of Morgan, so vulnerable, helpless, she'd lost her strength to fight. She'd given up, just as much as he. "I know about your family. I know about your deal with Cris"

"You know nothing"

"Yes, I do. I know you were forced to remain in Erudite the marry him, I know that they only did it do that way your dad could pass on the Leadership role on the lab to him. I know that he doesn't treat you right I know everything Morgan"

"My name is Emily" she spouted back, Eric leaned in and grabbed her by the arms, she squeezed her eyes shut and shrieked a little in pain.

Eric just then realized that Morgan was hunched to the side, he loosened his grip on her arms until it was just a feather touch.

"No. You're not you, you're not the one you could be. You could be fearless, and brave, you could take me down if you wanted to. And not just with violence but with one single look"

She frowned, looking up at him.

"What?" She asked in confusion.

"All I'm saying is, is that you could've been so much different if you hadn't chose Erudite. All these years of torment, Cris, your parents, your bitch mom, all of that could've been avoided, if you'd just picked dauntless" he lamented. "but just because you didn't pick it doesn't mean you don't deserve happiness. I'm going to get you out of this situation, no matter what I have to do"

Eric led his hands to her neck, Morgan's eyes looked at him with tears forming in them, she probably had never been told what he just told her, no one had made her feel loved or wanted or needed. She was just a pawn, a pieces to be moved. She was nothing in this reality, a trophy wife.

"You deserve a lot more than what you're getting, and I'll make sure you start feeling like your life has some value, because it does. You are..." Eric stopped, because if he told Morgan how much he loved her, if he told her about the alternate reality, he would lose all the credibility he was getting from her right now. "You're strong, Emily, stronger than you think. I'll help you in whatever way I can"

He couldn't resist, and pulled Morgan in for a short kiss. Her lips tasted just like the real ones, her hands on his when she moved them up felt just like hers.

Morgan startled back when she heard a thud outside her house.

"Cris is back" she whispered, her eyes widening into panic. "You have to leave" she urged.

Eric only nodded and walked a step back, looking for a way out. All houses in Erudite had to be the same, so there should be a back door entrance he could use to get out.

With one last look to Morgan, one look that told her how much he hated himself for leaving her alone with Cris, he turned back to leave.

"Thank you" she said in a low voice. Eric stopped dead in his tracks and turned back to face her.

"Fight him, you can do it" he said determined.

He turned around and left, closing the door just as he hears Cris great Morgan as if nothing had happened, as if he hadn't beaten the shit out of the the few hours after he confronted him en Erudite HQ.

He looked down at his watch. 24 minutes.

He rode back to dauntless, this time to do something about his daughter.

As soon as he entered his apartment, he saw the nanny put the baby in her crib, along with the loud moaning and banging coming from his bedroom.

He doubled back before going in to confront his slut wife, and checked the available rooms in dauntless, taking one spare one near the fire escape, with easy access to it from the window. He figure he would need a fast way out if he ever needed to go and visit Morgan at night.

When he came back, he pushed the door open and handed the key to the nanny, giving her instructions to sit in there with the baby until he came around.

Once alone, he walked to the bedroom, the moaning and grunting increasing in volume and speed as he came near.

He opened the door, not bothering to check with them.

"Hey dude what the fuck?" Said the man that was currently ramming Briana from behind. Eric turned his hand into a fist and in one quick move, he flew it to his cheek and made him stumble back, knocking him out cold into the floor

"Eric what the fuck!" Briana shrieked from the bed, pulling a sheet to her chest "what the fuck Eric we have times set up for-"

He interrupted her, his hand crawling to her neck and pulling her up, squeezing so hard he left her without air in a second.

"Listen carefully you fucking bitch" he whispered, pushing his lips to her ear, her fingernails clawed into his arm and hand, but he didn't losened his grip on her throat. "I'm letting you live only for you to tell Jeanine that I'm done. I'm backing out from this deal" he pulled back to find her face turning purple quickly "and if you come near me or my daughter, especially my daughter, I'll kill you"

He pressed his other hand to her neck, painfully digging his nails on the connection of her head to her spine. He saw her eyes roll back and her hands slowly drip from his hands.

He wanted to kill her right there, but what good would it do? She had to deliver the message to Jeanine.

He stopped, making her body fall limp to the bed again while she coughed heavily, taking deep shallow breaths.

He doubled back and left the room, going upstairs to his new place. Once there he dismissed the nanny and held his baby to his chest, slowly rocking her.

Looking at his watch, 3 minutes remained for him to be pulled out. He looked for a piece of paper and wrote down on it.

"You better take care of this kid, or I'll kill you myself"

He still didn't know how the world continued once he got off the simulation, did he revert back to what he was, or did something changed inside him based on the new decisions he made?

He wasn't sure, but for now, he'd done all he could.

Opening his eyes again, he found himself a lot more calm than the last time he was in the simulation.

He looked to his side to find Morgan standing next to him.

She pushed the button to move him back to a standing position while she unhooked the electrodes.

"And?" She asked. "How was I?"

"Beaten" he said, stepping up and looking to the machine himself "you have a deal" he said taking her by the hand and leading her out "with Cris and your family, apparently you're just there middle man to help Cris get into the leadership of a pharmaceutical company, taking it over from your dad"

"Badly?" She asked, Eric looked down at her with a questioning look "badly beaten?"

"Yeah. But it's okay, I gave you a pep talk, I hope you can hold off until I can come back"

Morgan sighed and pressed herself to his chest.

"And your baby?"

"Pulled her away from her mother, and I hope my other me can take care of her after this. Almost got her killed, but I made her deliver the message to Jeanine that I wasn't going to keep going with the deal"

"Mmm. And when are you coming back?"

"Don't know, when are you letting me come back?"

"If it's literally like five minutes like you said, I can let you go back more often. But, when this gets harder to deal with" she pointed at her stomach "you cut the shit. Besides, it's kind of exciting, like a novel"

"I'm in a time line then" he said, stopping to lean in to kiss her stomach "I'm waiting to meet you more than anyone on the world baby girl"

"And that, we have to start picking names for her"

"I'm sticking with the one I picked when we first looked for Aleks, Laurelei."

"Then I'm sticking with mine, Sia"

Eric smirked and leaned again, kissing her stomach one more time.

The Unknown Chapter Index.

Unexpected Chapter Index

There was a particular night where Christine didn't feel good at all, she'd noticed that her sleeping pills had also numbed her legs a little, she'd tried to massage them and when she stood up from her bed to walk, her legs couldn't hold her up. She sat down in the bed, frowning in confusion.

Then another wave of numbness hit her, it was slowly spreading up her torso, and when she reached her communicator to ask anyone for help, her hand didn't respond. She fell sideways on the bed, and with a look of horror in her eyes, she looked around the room for help, finding a figure staring back at her from the love seat on the corner of her bedroom.

Her breath was picking up she couldn't feel her body, and she was pretty sure she could also feel her organs shut down one after the other.

She saw the figure stand up from the chair, and when it walked near the light, she saw her.

She tried to speak, but at the attempt Morgan simply chuckled.

"You more than anyone should know that sleeping pills in a high dose can cause a progressive system shutdown. They're usually used in suicide for most women, it gives them a nice lullabied eternal sleep. But when you're not actually expecting it it can be quite terrifying"

Morgan took the pill bottle from the nightstand and opened it, Christine noticed she was wearing thick surgical gloves.

"You must be thinking, while you still can, how could this happen, I only took the dose that was in my pill case? Well, someone should've know that you stored your dosage in a pill case and leave it in the bathroom, and some should've also slipped a modified pill inside the case, replacing it with your own" Morgan dropped half the bottle of pills on her hand "which would make it seem like you took a higher dosage. And when they find your pill bottle damn near empty, that's what they'll deem it, suicide"

Morgan left the bottle exactly where she'd found it. Making it seem untouched.

"It wasn't easy, it took me almost a year to stage this, but your death is not the only think I staged" Morgan saw Christine's eyes drop, then heavily open up, she wasn't breathing as labored, but instead in fast short breaths, trying to overcompensate the lack of oxygen she was feeling. Soon enough there wouldn't be enough oxygen reaching her brain.

"There was a little girl in Erudite once, who wanted to switch to Dauntless when her decision came. But her parents and the leaders of Erudite saw that her IQ was actually quite high for her to waste it on dauntless, so they forced her to stay. I spent months reviewing candidates to take over your place, and when I found her, I knew she was perfect. So I did what you did to my husband, and trained her for her to take Erudite, you probably know her, and she's probably your favorite new leader because that's what she was meant to be. And once she takes over your place in Erudite, she'll help serve dauntless' purpose, not the other way around."

Morgan saw her eyes drop again, heavily, and this time she didn't open them again.

Morgan gave the room one last check before exiting the house, climbing on the train back to dauntless before sunrise.

Once Morgan was inside the house, she gave Aleks a quick check before, walking to her own bedroom. Thankfully Eric hadn't moved from the position she left him in, knowing that the day had work him out so much he would be in very deep slumber. She'd made some excuse to him that Aleks wanted to spend the day with him, that she'll take care of

everything in dauntless for the day.

She secured the cameras for the night, made sure the next leader in Erudite knew her part, and of course she had an alibi for that night.

Being with Aleks was an exhausting task, taking care of a two and a half year old was a challenge on itself. Aleks spoke a lot more now, but that meant they'll have to constantly translate his works to something with sense, and Aleks spoke a lot because he was being spoken to a lot.

They had a routine that would soon change, since Eric and Morgan agreed that he should start daycare at 3 years old, to start socializing with other kids. But that didn't meant Aleks was secluded. Morgan took him after their breakfast for a stroll in dauntless, and the son of Eric still was a novelty. Everyone stopped to high five him or to talk to him just a few words, hoping to get something back. Aleks was a little reserved outside in the compound, but in the house he wouldn't shut up about anything. He always narrated what he was doing or played with his toys talking or even screaming.

After lunch he would usually hang out with Eric in his office, and Eric had prepared a little game for him, otherwise Aleks wouldn't let him work.

He had color coordinated the departments of Dauntless, and with every report he got everyday, he would have Aleks match the color to file the reports in the cabinets. Eric could tell that Aleks loved puzzles and color coordination games, and helping daddy was also something he loved to do.

Having spent a whole day walking behind Aleks, dealing with his little temper tantrums and such really work out Eric that day, and when Morgan came home that night she could tell Eric needed some silence.

When Morgan woke up the next day, she could tell that Eric had been really exhausted, he didn't wake up with her and didn't sense that she was out of bed and followed either.

As much as she would like to stay in bed all day with him she had to get her day going, knowing that Christine's death was something that would surely shake up some trees.

She took a fast shower while Aleks was still asleep, then got dressed and headed to the kitchen. She set the coffee maker and looked inside the fridge and looked for the milk, taking out the hot cake batter from another cabinet. Aleks loved hot cakes and he loved to make them with Morgan, throwing in the chocolate chips and such.

She before she got to do anything she heard Aleks calling her from the bedroom, quickly walking to it before the yelling woke Eric up.

When she walked in she saw him standing on the crib, holding himself up. She smiled and walked to him, picking him up and taking a blanket to cover him up.

"How's my baby boy huh?" She cupped his cheek and brought him in for a kiss. Aleks rubbed his eye with his hand and pressed himself to her chest.

She walked with him to the kitchen, carefully placing him on his chair.

"What do you want to eat baby?" Aleks replied to her in a made up baby way of saying hot cakes and juice, which turned out to be akes and ooze. She walked to the fridge and opened it, taking out the juice and pouring it in a cup to him, then mixing the batter with the milk and pouring the mix in the hot cakes machine. She walked back to the fridge and opened it, taking out two fruits "apple or banana?" She showed him, Aleks pointed at the banana, but Morgan still insisted "and what's this called?" She sat down next to him and peeled the banana while she looked

"Nana" he replied, looking at Morgan and feeling a little proud when she smiled.

"Yes, banana. You're a smart baby boy" she cut the banana in half with her hand and handed him one piece, leaving the other on the plate on top of the table.

She busies with getting done with the hotcakes and her tea, when it was all finished she took it all to the table.

She cut a piece of hotcake to Aleks and left it in his plate.

"Daddy?" He asked, looking at Morgan.

"Daddy's sleeping" she replied.

"Up" he made a motion with his little hand, Morgan smiled.

"No, we're not going to wake him up, he's tired" she motioned at the food in front of him.

"Ork fiz" he babbled.

"He does have to work in the office, but later. Now we have our breakfast and leave, sound good?" Aleks went back to finishing his breakfast.

Morgan could tell how this was a strange occurrence for Aleks. Eric was always up by the time Aleks woke up, and while Morgan finished preparing breakfast Eric was already out starting his day. Morgan usually staid back with Aleks until he finished, then dressed him up and headed out.

She had mentioned to Eric that it was important to have breakfast all together, that was Aleks could built his sense of a routine and family activities, and even though Eric loved Aleks with all of his being, waiting half an hour for Aleks to finish with his breakfast was something he would not do, unless he absolutely had to.

Morgan cleaned up and changed aleks to head out, and when she was at the door Aleks just awkwardly stood in the middle of the room.

"Daddy?" He asked.

"Daddy's coming later, let's go" she opened the door, hoping to distract him into leaving Eric to sleep.

But Aleks just looked to the direction of the bedroom, and Morgan rolled her eyes a bit while closing the door.

"Fine, we'll say goodbye to dad and head out alright?"

Aleks made a dash to the bedroom, knowing that Eric had been very strict with him not going into the room without permission. Aleks could sneakily hop off the crib and walk around, and one time he caught them mid frantic sex, so Eric knew that he'll have to teach him about privacy and how forbidden their bedroom was.

Morgan opened the door for him, and Aleks walked to the side of the bed where Eric was laying face down, one of his arms fell down the side of the bed and touched the floor, and he looked out as a light.

Aleks curiously stared at Eric, and even pressed his little hand to his arm whispering daddy.

"Give him a kiss and let's go" Morgan whispered at him, but Aleks instead moved Eric.

Eric took a sharp breath and leaned his head up, looking at Aleks through his lashes.

Aleks just gave an innocent smile and leaned in for Eric to hug him. Eric leaned back on the bed and his arm wrapped around his little body.

"Daddy ork?" Eric let out a little smile and nodded.

"In a mintue champ"

"You saw dad now give him a kiss and let's go" Morgan said grabbing Aleks by the hand. Aleks leaned in waiting for Eric to kiss him, which he did as he hugged him tight.

Once he let him go and Aleks' hand was still holding Morgan's, she pulled him to the exit. Aleks waved at Eric goodbye, even though Eric was still with his eyes closed.

When they were finally out, Morgan made sure to take care of everything that had to be taken care of in the mornings, and given the timing, they had to worry about the finishing touches of initiation.

She couldn't hear anything about Christine until after lunch, when she walked to Eric's office with a food container, given that he hadn't come down to the dinning room for lunch.

Aleks was walking ahead, ready to knock on the door, but unfortunately someone was going out to the office the second he raised his hand to knock, Aleks liked to answer who was behind the door.

Liam came out, giving Aleks his hand for a high five, which obviously was successful, Aleks gave him a little shy smile before entering the office with a dash and cling to Eric's leg.

Morgan came into the office just to see Eric lift up Aleks and plant a kiss on his chubby cheek.

Aleks wiggled to be put down, and since Eric had a box of toys to entertain Aleks while he was with him, he busied himself with that while Morgan left the container on her table, Eric was standing in front of the desk, paper in hand, but when Morgan got closer he trapped her in his arm and leaned on the desk, holding her to his chest.

"You were out as a light, Aleks actually thought you were dead when he saw you weren't waking up at breakfast"

Eric smirked a little, and his eyes moved on Morgan, which made her a little uneasy, but still made her lift her arms up and place them on his neck.

"What's wrong?" She asked, Eric left his waist for a second and showed her a piece of paper

"It's a letter from Erudite, but I bet you already know what it says"

Morgan just shrugged and held herself closer.

"Maybe I don't. What are you insinuating?"

Eric looked down at her, then his eyes moved to her lips, when he saw them twist in a little smirk he leaned down to trap them in a kiss.

Morgan ran her nails on his scalp while Eric slowly moved his hands down, and with one last nib of her lower lip, he gave her asscheek a sheeze and pulled back, moving Morgan from his side and walking around the desk to sit down.

Morgan took a handful of reports that needed to be filled and began walking to the door of the office.

"I'll finish this and catch you two later alright?" She said over her shoulder, opening the door. Eric just hummed in agreement and when Aleks looked up to see Morgan leaving, he quickly stood up and ran to her.

"You're gonna come back and clean all this shit up do you hear me?" Eric said to Aleks, the little one turned to him a gave him a little shy smile, then said

"No"

Eric lifted an eyebrow at him and Morgan smiled amused.

"No?" Eric asked.

Aleks cowered behind Morgan's legs, holding one with his arm, then began to laugh nervously.

"No" he said with a laugh, and Eric made a fast move to get up.

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Unexpected Chapter Index

"How'd you do it?"

Eric was looking out, seeing the city fly by from inside the train. Morgan was sitting in the floor of the wagon, legs dangling down the side.

"How did I do what?" She asked. Eric looked down at her and crossed his arms at his chest.

"How did you kill Christine?"

Morgan gave him a little shrugg.

"I didn't kill anyone. She OD, it's on the report"

Eric moved to sit down next to her, placing a hand behind her, on the floor of the wagon.

"Fine, how did you have her OD"

Morgan gave him a little eye roll and sighed, pulling her feet in and placing her heels on the floor of the wagon, caging her legs with her arms.

"I didn't strap her to a chair and forced pills down her throat if that's what you're thinking. I made a plan and it worked"

"Tell me about it"

Morgan chuckled and shook her head at him.

"Why are you so morbidly interested on how I killed your mother?" She joked.

Eric placed his hand on her waist and pulled her in closer, taking her legs and laying them on top of his. Morgan laid back on the door of the cart and gave him a little smirk.

"Okay fine, since you're so interested to know the extent of my malicious intelect, sure. I looked for a candidate to take over Erudite first, going through years and years of records. Aptitude test records and final faction pick. I found a girl, Myra, who is extremely smart, but she wanted to be dauntless. Her aptitude test came out dauntless too. But apparently she was pressured to stay in Erudite, quoting that her "IQ would be wasted in a faction of caveman like ours". So she staid in Erudite"

That was the first step, slowly working her up until I could propose her to take over Erudite as the new leader, that way she could help and be as much of a dauntless member as she could, given that she can't actually be in dauntless. She did the rest"

"What was all that rest?"

"She slowly built a relationship with all the other leaders, getting closer to Christine was the primary goal. Whatever she did eventually worked out, and Christine was quoted numerous times that Myra was her right hand, her second in comand. That made thing easier, if anything happened to Christine obviously everyone would turn to choose her second in comand as her successor."

She made the pill, somehow elevated the dosage without having to extend the volume of the sleeping pill she took. I think they actually had a thing, that's how Myra managed to slip the pill in her case. Can you believe that? Your own mother out of all people was a lesbian."

Eric snorted and shook his head a little.

"And since Myra couldn't be seen with her the night she was going to be killes, just in case they strapped her to an investigation that would escalate in a truth serum dosage, so I was the one who slipped into her house, took pills from her bottle to make it seem like she'd taken a bunch, then left."

"And it had to be you? You made sure-"

"Yes I made sure, Eric" Morgan interrupted "I've been at this for a year, I've not left a stone unturned. Everything came out accordingly. And yes, it had to be me. I wanted to see her die for everything she did to you" she said between teeth, then took a deep breath and let it out in a sigh.

Eric placed his hand on her thigh, squeezing.

"Thank you Morgan"

She smiled at him and stood up, leaning to him and kissing him on the lips.

"Anything for you"

Eric stood up as well, knowing that they were close to Erudite HQ. They jumped off the train and while Eric grabbed Morgan by the hand, they walked the remaining distance to the main entrance.

There was going to be a little welcoming ceremony for the new Head Leader of Erudite, Myra, and at least one member of each faction had to attend. Morgan and Eric were a team, and given that Morgan already knew her, she wanted to introduce Eric to a hopefully very beneficial relationship with Erudite. One that would definitely not involve Eric being a pupet and follow orders, but one were they could work together out of pleasure.

Eric had to admit that Myra was a lot more charismatic than Christine, rolling over the fact that Erudite were supposed to be stiff and profesional, scientific and factual.

There was a young girl that acted as the host and she introduced the members or the faction to Myra, and when it got to be Morgan and Eric's turn she shook both their hands and inconspicuously told them that she was looking forward to working with them for the sake of the city.

Once out of the formalities, Morgan and Eric trekked back to Dauntless, given that they hadn't left Aleks with another person for more than 1 hour before and they didn't know how he could react.

Inside dauntless, Eric couldn't help to ask himself something, and once they had Aleks and were back in their place, he asked.

"So she did all of that by herself without asking anything in return but help? That sounds sketchy."

Morgan gave him a little frown and left Aleks on the floor of the party while Eric closed the door behind him.

"She did ask for things, she's not stupid"

"Well, what does she want?"

"She wanted to be part of Dauntless for a day"

She walked to the bedroom behind Aleks, seeing that he had dashed off to his own bedroom and presumably was making a mess.

She leaned in the doorframe and looked at him, opening his toy chest.

"Don't make a mess, alright? We're about to head down for lunch"

"Kay mommy" he replied, not looking at her. Morgan smiled and turned around, meeting Eric's chest with her arm.

"What?" She questioned while walking to her own bedroom.

"How are we-"

"Eric" she interrupted and turned around to meet him, she pressed her hands to her shoulders and jumped, wrapping her legs on his chest and pulling him in for a kiss. "You've got nothing to worry about" she whispered on his lips, then kissed him again.

"Nothing?" He asked

"Yes, nothing" she clarified, leaning back to give him a scolding look.

Eric walked forward, leaking Morgan over the bed and laying her, sitting between her legs and pressed himself over her body then laid on top of her.

"So we're settled?" Eric asked, hiding his face on her neck. Morgan placed her hands in his neck and jaw.

"Yeah, we are. We've got nothing to worry about. Not the settlement, the department, the divergents, the factionless, Christine. We've picked them all off" she placed a little kiss on his forehead.

"When are you gonna give me that baby then?"

Morgan rolled her eyes and sighed.

"Stop with the baby thing, alright?"

"You said when Aleks is 18 months, he's 30 months now. That's 12 more months"

"Yeah, I know math too"

"What are you so afraid of?" He said leaning back on his forearms and looking at Morgan.

"I'm not afraid of anything, I just want things to be done right. The next baby is not going to be like Aleks, quiet and sweet"

"You don't know that"

"You're right I don't but-" she sat down on the bed, rubbing her forehead and making Eric lean off of her.

"I'm not-" Eric stood up and turned on his heels "I'm not ready for another kid" she confessed, still rubbing her eyes with one hand "I'm not trying to be a bitch or anything, but I... Can't, right now" she sighed and stood up as well.

She began walking to the exit, but Eric stopped her with one arm around his waist. Morgan avoided his look.

"I'm sorry if I'm being a pest" he murmured on her ear, then placed a kiss on her temple "take your time"

Eric moved away, making Morgan hold him by the hand and stop him from leaving her like that.

"Eric I'm trying to do what's best for all of us, for Aleks as well"

"I know you are" he said lowly, giving her hand a little rub "I promise I'm not mad, I'm just... I want another baby"

Morgan felt his heart squeeze a little when Eric left his hand. Moving on the hallway and walking towards Aleks' bedroom.

"Fix everything a little and we'll have lunch champ okay?" Eric said from the door.

Morgan followed him to the living room, where she again held him by the hand and made him look at her.

"Morgan" he said grabbing her by the waist "forget I ever mentioned anything, you-"

"Just give me 6 months"

"I don't want another kid to be an assignment that you have to submit on a deadline Morgan I want you to want to have one"

"I do want to have one" she wrapped her arms around his neck and pulling him to her, making their chest collide. "What I don't want is for Aleks to feel jealous of the baby, and having to take care of his tantrums while pregnant, and being stressed out or worried does affect the baby too, I just want him to be older for him to understand. I've read about this and believe me, I do want to have one, but I don't want to be irresponsible about this, okay?"

Morgan got a little relieved when Eric wrapped his arms around her waist and held her, looking down for her eyes to match his. Eric's wasn't that much of a expressionist, but his eyes refected his emotions pretty well, and Morgan was luck she was the only one Eric would ever want to look at forever.

He leaned in, giving her a kiss on her lips, then moved his lips to her forehead.

"I understand."

"Thank you" Morgan looked down at his lips, then smiled while tiptoeing to them. "Now give me a kiss"

She saw his lips curve into a smirk, then lean down to trap her own, moving his hands from her waist to her asscheek, then lower, gripping her thighs and making her wrap her legs around his waist.

Before he could take her to the couch for a much deserved make out session, he heard Aleks' feet move quickly on the hall, until he was in the kitchen with them.

Eric lowered her back on the floor, but still gripped her by the waist and kept it pressed to his side.

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Unexpected Chapter Index

Eric hated with all of his heart the beds in Erudite, and sleeping in the after so many years gave him bad memories. They were all supposed to be for improving the posture and increase the amount of deep slumber in the night, but for Eric it did the exact opposite.

And when he turned around and slid his hand on the other side of the bed, the fact that it was empty made him more angry. He let out a frustrated sigh and forced himself out of slumber.

“I went to the bathroom, God” Morgan said slipping into bed “you’re so annoying with the whole ‘dont like to wake up alone’ deal”

Eric held her by the waist and pulled her close. The scent of her hair shampoo and her skin did a lot to cover up the pungent smell of chemicals with which they washed the sheets.

Eric accidentally fell asleep again when Morgan began to run her hand along the base of his neck and up to his scalp.

When he woke up there was a piece of paper on the bed, it read that Aleks had been left with Creed and Morgan had left to the fence to wait for the people in the Department. He was mad about it, but he knew there was not much he could do. Morgan had been sitting in Erudite, underground, while Eric took care of the settlement and the threat in the city, and that made her feel useless.

He showered and headed up to get Aleks, who he knew for a fact was in the nursery with the other kids and the Amity caretakers.

He pleased himself when he saw Creed just stand there, in the doorway, looking inside.

He walked to him and stood next to him, looking in to find Aleks stand up with other kids, though he had a bottle he was currently feeding off of.

Eric then looked to Creed and tried to get a look of the side of his neck.

“How’s that coming along?” He asked, Creed just turned his head to him, showing his the almost healed cuts, though there was still a big black and blue on his side.

“As good as it can be. Still hurts when I move my head around”

“When we go back you can take a leave if you need it” Eric said looking at Aleks.

“Awww, he likes to take care of me” Creed said leading his hand to pinch Eric’s cheek, but Eric swatted it mid way with a quick annoyed look, Creed just chuckled. “And where’s Morgan?”

“She’s off, dealing with the Department”

“Huh, didn’t thought you’d let her go by herself to that thing”

“I didn’t, I was sleeping when she made that decision”

“Well, Morgan does have a lot more handlag with them, and she would do or say what you would do or say”

“I have a meeting to take care of” he said getting ready to walk out “can you handle him for an hour?”

“Sure man” Creed patter down Eric’s shoulder when he walked past him, and Eric was off to get ready the voting meeting to have the voting as soon as Morgan was back from the fence.

∆∆∆

Morgan got off the truck with a little jump and set in motion towards the entrance of the fence.

She was being accompanied by 4 dauntless guards and a team of shooters was placed just above her, coving the meeting from the top of the fence wall.

Morgan hadn’t let the truck with the purple from the Department come into the city, she traveled down to the fence where the convoy had been stopped.

Once the heavy door to the outside of the city opened, Morgan walked out with two dauntless guards at her side, and the other two were waiting near the entrace.

Even though Morgan had specified no weapons, she had to be intimidating now.

“What the hell Morgan? Why can’t we get in?” Nita said walkinf from one side of the truck, in which she was previously just looking annoyed.

“What the hell indeed Nita. You can’t get in because this is where we end up” Morgan said stopping in front of her

“What do you mean?. I’m sorry we didn’t reply to your messages okay, we were too far away when the attack happened and you held off okay, we were worried we were going to be attacked too so we held off our own base”

“So you were receiving our messages even before we lifted the jam from the settlement” Morgan confirmed. “But you know, thats not what I’m angry about. You lied to us about the resistance that had it’s base in that settlement over there” she motioned with her head at where the settlement used to be.

“We found” she motioned at one of that dauntless who was with her and was carrying some papers for her, she received the folder and opened it “- some troubling information” she lifted one sheet of paper and showed it to Nita, then threw it on the ground in front of her “names upon names of divergents, and with a list of termination or activeness. We crossed referenced some of the names and the most recent terminated ones were from Amity, who by the way, was brutally slaughtered. Just in case the had the person wrong, they killed everyone” Morgan kept throwing the sheets of paper in front of Nita until she ran out. Then, searched inside her jacket pocket a little flat device, showing it to Nita as well.

“This is part of the shield defense system they had in his compound, similar to yours don’t you think?”

“Fine” Nita said crossing her arms, looking miserable “we did lie to you”

“The settlement wasn’t a threat for us, it was a threat to you and your divergents, you made it our problem, and now people, a whole faction in my city paid the price” Morgan said between teeth. “They had surveillance from us that dated back years and years, where did they get that from?”

“I don’t know!” Nita defended.

“Do you have any idea how much stress I was in while training you people because you lied? How many fights I had with Eric? One of your psychos pointed a gun at my fucking kid and I don’t appreciate that one bit. We’re through here. We’re closing the city and we will only let the divergents out once a year, in choosing Ceremony when they’re detected. And don’t you fucking dare to try me because dauntless overtook the Department in ten minutes. The fact that I trained your troops is a disadvantage to you”

“Morgan you can’t do this, we need a fluid entrance to the city now that is no longer under experimentation and the divergent flux is larger than other cities. I’m sorry about Amity”

“You’re not sorry. Not yet. We’re not going to listen or interact with you anymore, our city was good before all this other threats came up, and they weren’t even threats to us. Now get the fuck out of my sight before my snipers blow your head off”

∆∆∆

Eric was sitting in the meeting room in Erudite. He had a just showed the footage of Nita confessing that they had lied about the info they gave the city about the settlement and their purposes.

For the first time since the attack, he had had a moment to speak with the current Head Leader of Amity, and extend an apology for not being there when the faction had been attacked.

He knew that had been a failure in his Intel, and as soon as he got the chance he would establish checkpoints around the city to ensure everyone was protected, not only from the outside but from eachother.

In exchange, he had been invited to the ceremony in which they conmemorated the dead members. Eric 100% didn’t wanted to attend, but he was going to out if respect.

As soon as he saw Morgan cross the doorway and enter the meeting room, Eric spoke, since she was the only one left arriving.

“Okay, we’re going to do this fast and simple. Who does not agree to the city being closed down?”

Of course, only Christine and the other leaders of her faction lifted their hands.

The only benefits of the outside were to them, the research and knowledge and all that. The resthad learned that it was a danger for them.

“City gets closed down from now on until we consider that the benefits triumph over the risks. I’ll send for a complete city search of anymore members of the resistance, if all goes well, we’ll be back in our respective factions by tomorrow morning.”

He stood up from the seat, setting the end of the meeting, then began to walk out. Morgan, who was at the doorway still, followed by when Eric grabbed her by the hand and pulled.

“You handled the situation with Nita nicely enough”

“Should’ve killer her” Morgan said shaking her head.

“Yeah, you should. That’s a fight for another day. Now, I want to get the fuck out of this faction.” He let out a tired sigh and pulled Morgan close, hugging her by the waist.

“I’ll go and get Aleks while you talk to the teams. He didn’t sleep well last night”

“None of us did” he muttered. He placed a little kiss and split off to the next hallway that lead outside. Morgan continued walking towards the lower levels to get Aleks.

He was, as she assumed, sleepy, rubbing his eyes and sitting up in a playmat with other babies. She walked up to him and bent down to pull him to his chest.

His head fell to her shoulder and one of his little hands caught her shirt, Morgan walked out of the nursery, and took Aleks back to their bedroom.

As soon as she laid him in the bed next to her, he fell asleep, and Morgan had a little time to relax next to him, slowly running her hand along his head.

With every passing day, Morgan had to admit that Aleks looked a lot like her, but he was going to have Eric’s defined jaw, that much she knew.

She managed to take a little nap while Aleks slept.

When she woke up after she assumed less than an hour, Eric was sitting in the bed, on Aleks’ side, looking down at him with heart eyes and a little smile. He placed his hand on Aleks’ arm and slowly stoked it down, then touched his forehead.

He noticed Morgan was awake and looking at him, and while he touched Aleks’ head he said

“Sometimes it hits me so hard to look at him, to look at him in detail, to see how big he’s gotten” he looked up and down at him “I remember so clearly when I first held him up in my arms and… He’s growing too fast for my liking”

He slowly leaned down and kissed Aleks on the temple.

Morgan watched him get up from the bed and let out a sigh as he unzipped his jacket and threw it on the table on the side.

“Eric” she called him quietly, he turned around to look at her “what you said yesterday, about Christine being your mom, that doesn’t change anything. I’ll still kill her”

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Unexpected Chapter Index

There was a particular night where Christine didn't feel good at all, she'd noticed that her sleeping pills had also numbed her legs a little, she'd tried to massage them and when she stood up from her bed to walk, her legs couldn't hold her up. She sat down in the bed, frowning in confusion.

Then another wave of numbness hit her, it was slowly spreading up her torso, and when she reached her communicator to ask anyone for help, her hand didn't respond. She fell sideways on the bed, and with a look of horror in her eyes, she looked around the room for help, finding a figure staring back at her from the love seat on the corner of her bedroom. Her breath was picking up she couldn't feel her body, and she was pretty sure she could also feel her organs shut down one after the other.

She saw the figure stand up from the chair, and when it walked near the light, she saw her.

She tried to speak, but at the attempt Morgan simply chuckled.

"You more than anyone should know that sleeping pills in a high dose can cause a progressive system shutdown. They're usually used in suicide for most women, it gives them a nice lullabied eternal sleep. But when you're not actually expecting it it can be quite terrifying"

Morgan took the pill bottle from the nightstand and opened it, Christine noticed she was wearing thick surgical gloves.

"You must be thinking, while you still can, how could this happen, I only took the dose that was in my pill case? Well, someone should've know that you stored your dosage in a pill case and leave it in the bathroom, and some should've also slipped a modified pill inside the case, replacing it with your own" Morgan dropped half the bottle of pills on her hand "which would make it seem like you took a higher dosage. And when they find your pill bottle damn near empty, that's what they'll deem it, suicide"

Morgan left the bottle exactly where she'd found it. Making it seem untouched.

"It wasn't easy, it took me almost a year to stage this, but your death is not the only think I staged" Morgan saw Christine's eyes drop, then heavily open up, she wasn't breathing as labored, but instead in fast short breaths, trying to overcompensate the lack of oxygen she was feeling. Soon enough there wouldn't be enough oxygen reaching her brain.

"There was a little girl in Erudite once, who wanted to switch to Dauntless when her decision came. But her parents and the leaders of Erudite saw that her IQ was actually quite high for her to waste it on dauntless, so they forced her to stay. I spent months reviewing candidates to take over your place, and when I found her, I knew she was perfect. So I did what you did to my husband, and trained her for her to take Erudite, you probably know her, and she's probably your favorite new leader because that's what she was meant to be. And once she takes over your place in Erudite, she'll help serve dauntless' purpose, not the other way around."

Morgan saw her eyes drop again, heavily, and this time she didn't open them again.

Morgan gave the room one last check before exiting the house, climbing on the train back to dauntless before sunrise.

Once Morgan was inside the house, she gave Aleks a quick check before, walking to her own bedroom. Thankfully Eric hadn't moved from the position she left him in, knowing that the day had work him out so much he would be in very deep slumber. She'd made some excuse to him that Aleks wanted to spend the day with him, that she'll take care of everything in dauntless for the day.

She secured the cameras for the night, made sure the next leader in Erudite knew her part, and of course she had an alibi for that night.

Being with Aleks was an exhausting task, taking care of a two and a half year old was a challenge on itself. Aleks spoke a lot more now, but that meant they'll have to constantly translate his works to something with sense, and Aleks spoke a lot because he was being spoken to a lot.

They had a routine that would soon change, since Eric and Morgan agreed that he should start daycare at 3 years old, to start socializing with other kids. But that didn't meant Aleks was secluded. Morgan took him after their breakfast for a stroll in dauntless, and the son of Eric still was a novelty. Everyone stopped to high five him or to talk to him just a few words, hoping to get something back. Aleks was a little reserved outside in the compound, but in the house he wouldn't shut up about anything. He always narrated what he was doing or played with his toys talking or even screaming.

After lunch he would usually hang out with Eric in his office, and Eric had prepared a little game for him, otherwise Aleks wouldn't let him work.

He had color coordinated the departments of Dauntless, and with every report he got everyday, he would have Aleks match the color to file the reports in the cabinets. Eric could tell that Aleks loved puzzles and color coordination games, and helping daddy was also something he loved to do.

Having spent a whole day walking behind Aleks, dealing with his little temper tantrums and such really work out Eric that day, and when Morgan came home that night she could tell Eric needed some silence.

When Morgan woke up the next day, she could tell that Eric had been really exhausted, he didn't wake up with her and didn't sense that she was out of bed and followed either.

As much as she would like to stay in bed all day with him she had to get her day going, knowing that Christine's death was something that would surely shake up some trees.

She took a fast shower while Aleks was still asleep, then got dressed and headed to the kitchen. She set the coffee maker and looked inside the fridge and looked for the milk, taking out the hot cake batter from another cabinet. Aleks loved hot cakes and he loved to make them with Morgan, throwing in the chocolate chips and such.

She before she got to do anything she heard Aleks calling her from the bedroom, quickly walking to it before the yelling woke Eric up.

When she walked in she saw him standing on the crib, holding himself up. She smiled and walked to him, picking him up and taking a blanket to cover him up.

"How's my baby boy huh?" She cupped his cheek and brought him in for a kiss. Aleks rubbed his eye with his hand and pressed himself to her chest.

She walked with him to the kitchen, carefully placing him on his chair.

"What do you want to eat baby?" Aleks replied to her in a made up baby way of saying hot cakes and juice, which turned out to be akes and ooze. She walked to the fridge and opened it, taking out the juice and pouring it in a cup to him, then mixing the batter with the milk and pouring the mix in the hot cakes machine. She walked back to the fridge and opened it, taking out two fruits "apple or banana?" She showed him, Aleks pointed at the banana, but Morgan still insisted "and what's this called?" She sat down next to him and peeled the banana while she looked

"Nana" he replied, looking at Morgan and feeling a little proud when she smiled.

"Yes, banana. You're a smart baby boy" she cut the banana in half with her hand and handed him one piece, leaving the other on the plate on top of the table.

She busies with getting done with the hotcakes and her tea, when it was all finished she took it all to the table.

She cut a piece of hotcake to Aleks and left it in his plate.

"Daddy?" He asked, looking at Morgan.

"Daddy's sleeping" she replied.

"Up" he made a motion with his little hand, Morgan smiled.

"No, we're not going to wake him up, he's tired" she motioned at the food in front of him.

"Ork fiz" he babbled.

"He does have to work in the office, but later. Now we have our breakfast and leave, sound good?" Aleks went back to finishing his breakfast.

Morgan could tell how this was a strange occurrence for Aleks. Eric was always up by the time Aleks woke up, and while Morgan finished preparing breakfast Eric was already out starting his day. Morgan usually staid back with Aleks until he finished, then dressed him up and headed out.

She had mentioned to Eric that it was important to have breakfast all together, that was Aleks could built his sense of a routine and family activities, and even though Eric loved Aleks with all of his being, waiting half an hour for Aleks to finish with his breakfast was something he would not do, unless he absolutely had to.

Morgan cleaned up and changed aleks to head out, and when she was at the door Aleks just awkwardly stood in the middle of the room.

"Daddy?" He asked.

"Daddy's coming later, let's go" she opened the door, hoping to distract him into leaving Eric to sleep.

But Aleks just looked to the direction of the bedroom, and Morgan rolled her eyes a bit while closing the door.

"Fine, we'll say goodbye to dad and head out alright?"

Aleks made a dash to the bedroom, knowing that Eric had been very strict with him not going into the room without permission. Aleks could sneakily hop off the crib and walk around, and one time he caught them mid frantic sex, so Eric knew that he'll have to teach him about privacy and how forbidden their bedroom was.

Morgan opened the door for him, and Aleks walked to the side of the bed where Eric was laying face down, one of his arms fell down the side of the bed and touched the floor, and he looked out as a light.

Aleks curiously stared at Eric, and even pressed his little hand to his arm whispering daddy.

"Give him a kiss and let's go" Morgan whispered at him, but Aleks instead moved Eric.

Eric took a sharp breath and leaned his head up, looking at Aleks through his lashes.

Aleks just gave an innocent smile and leaned in for Eric to hug him. Eric leaned back on the bed and his arm wrapped around his little body.

"Daddy ork?" Eric let out a little smile and nodded.

"In a mintue champ"

"You saw dad now give him a kiss and let's go" Morgan said grabbing Aleks by the hand. Aleks leaned in waiting for Eric to kiss him, which he did as he hugged him tight.

Once he let him go and Aleks' hand was still holding Morgan's, she pulled him to the exit. Aleks waved at Eric goodbye, even though Eric was still with his eyes closed.

When they were finally out, Morgan made sure to take care of everything that had to be taken care of in the mornings, and given the timing, they had to worry about the finishing touches of initiation.

She couldn't hear anything about Christine until after lunch, when she walked to Eric's office with a food container, given that he hadn't come down to the dinning room for lunch.

Aleks was walking ahead, ready to knock on the door, but unfortunately someone was going out to the office the second he raised his hand to knock, Aleks liked to answer who was behind the door.

Liam came out, giving Aleks his hand for a high five, which obviously was successful, Aleks gave him a little shy smile before entering the office with a dash and cling to Eric's leg.

Morgan came into the office just to see Eric lift up Aleks and plant a kiss on his chubby cheek.

Aleks wiggled to be put down, and since Eric had a box of toys to entertain Aleks while he was with him, he busied himself with that while Morgan left the container on her table, Eric was standing in front of the desk, paper in hand, but when Morgan got closer he trapped her in his arm and leaned on the desk, holding her to his chest.

"You were out as a light, Aleks actually thought you were dead when he saw you weren't waking up at breakfast"

Eric smirked a little, and his eyes moved on Morgan, which made her a little uneasy, but still made her lift her arms up and place them on his neck.

"What's wrong?" She asked, Eric left his waist for a second and showed her a piece of paper

"It's a letter from Erudite, but I bet you already know what it says"

Morgan just shrugged and held herself closer.

"Maybe I don't. What are you insinuating?"

Eric looked down at her, then his eyes moved to her lips, when he saw them twist in a little smirk he leaned down to trap them in a kiss.

Morgan ran her nails on his scalp while Eric slowly moved his hands down, and with one last nib of her lower lip, he gave her asscheek a sheeze and pulled back, moving Morgan from his side and walking around the desk to sit down.

Morgan took a handful of reports that needed to be filled and began walking to the door of the office.

"I'll finish this and catch you two later alright?" She said over her shoulder, opening the door. Eric just hummed in agreement and when Aleks looked up to see Morgan leaving, he quickly stood up and ran to her.

"You're gonna come back and clean all this shit up do you hear me?" Eric said to Aleks, the little one turned to him a gave him a little shy smile, then said

"No"

Eric lifted an eyebrow at him and Morgan smiled amused.

"No?" Eric asked.

Aleks cowered behind Morgan's legs, holding one with his arm, then began to laugh nervously.

"No" he said with a laugh, and Eric made a fast move to get up.

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Aleks was more excited than anyone to be back at dauntless, his home.

As soon as they closed in on the compound, Aleks just pointed at the big building and squeaked, looking at Morgan from Eric's arms.

As soon as they stepped into their home, Aleks wiggled to be put down and when he did, he ran towards his bedroom screaming happy.

Morgan and Eric let out a little laugh as they finally relaxed back at their home, back in dauntless.

Morgan walked to check on Aleks, when she got to the doorway, she rolled her eyes at Eric, who was right behind her, and waved at Aleks.

"All yours dad" she motioned at the bedroom. "I'll take a bath"

Eric nodded and walked a little step further into the bedroom. He looked to Aleks and how he was pulling out all of the toys.

"What the hell are you doing?" Eric asked, looking at Aleks from the doorway. Aleks looked up at him, the let out a little playful smile "you're going to put all that away when you're done right?"

Aleks looked down at the toys and sat on the floor taking one of the toys.

"Aleks" he called back, Aleks looked to him again "you'll clean up yes?" Aleks nodded

"Mommy?" He asked, Eric loved when Aleks called back at him or Morgan. He just loved Aleks, period.

"She's taking a bath"

Aleks quickly stood up and dashed out of the room. Bath with Morgan meant in the bathtub with bubbles, and Aleks loved bubbles.

Eric took to quick steps to him and swopped him off his feet, carrying him the other way.

"Leave your mom alone for a while, let's go out"

Aleks also loved going out, because everyone in dauntless stopped whatever they were doing to say hi to him and talk to him, trying to get him a few babbles.

Eric just let him down and followed him as he walked aimlessly around dauntless, he liked to watch Aleks waddle and look around, how he high fived everyone.

What Aleks didn't like was the Chasm. He always stopped dead in his tracks when he heard the running water ahead and Eric had tried to get him to walk through the rail by himself, The Chasm was a big part of Dauntless and Aleks shouldn't be afraid of anything, he was barely one year old, one year olds had no fear. Aleks didn't like it at all.

Once they closed in Aleks doubled back and ran a few feet back to Eric, who picked him up and crossed the sidewalk with him on his arms. Once on the other side, Aleks wiggled and was put down again.

Eric walked a few feet behind Aleks and watched as how he looked up and threw his hand up to the person who stood next to him.

Once the person bent over, he noticed it was Morgan, fresh out of her bath and back at it, with a paperclip below her arm and an ice cream cone on her hand.

Aleks tried to take it from her, but Morgan motioned that she would give him a spoonful. Eric could see Aleks' face light up at the flavour and leaned his hand back to take the cone. Morgan fought him off until he let out a little shriek of complain and Morgan reluctantly gave him the cone.

Eric smirked while Aleks walked away from Morgan, still eating the ice cream. He walked a few steps while Morgan stood up with a frown

"He stole my ice cream that little shit" she complained. Eric chuckled and held her by the waist, pulling her to his side.

"He stole you from me, so yeah, he's a little shit"

"He didn't stole me" she looked up at him with a little eye roll.

"He makes you wake up in the middle of the night, doesn't let me kiss you or get close to you, he's with you all day, doesn't let me fuck you at night"

"That's your own fault, don't blame him" Morgan poked at his sides.

Eric let out a little smirk and kissed her on the temple.

It took a while to everything to snap back to normal, and Eric was surprised when Morgan began talking a particular night in his office back at home.

Eric still liked to drink his scotch just before bed, and Morgan sometimes accompanied him.

She sat over his lap and leaned her back to his chest, relaxing as Eric wrapped her waist with his arm.

"I think we need to start playing their game if that's what they want"

"They?" He asked nuzzling on her neck.

"Yes, they. Erudite" she said moving her head out of the way. "This is serious talk right now"

Eric leaned back on the chair and rolled his eyes a little, taking the glass to his lips

"I'm listening" he sipped the drink.

"What I'm saying is once we take Christine out, we need to make sure the successor isn't someone who is going to be against us. The next organization needs to understand you won't work for them anymore"

"What you're saying is we should do to them what they did to me"

"If by that you mean I'm going to train my son to change factions and take over Erudite, then no, that's not what I mean. What I mean is to look for someone already inside, and butter them up to take leadership on our own terms"

Eric left the glass on the desk and Morgan moved to face him, wrapping her arms around his neck

"What do you think?"

"I'm thinking I want you to stop talking so I can take you to bed"

Morgan puffed and rolled her eyes a little.

"About the plan"

Eric stood up with her on arms and grabbed her legs, pulling them to hug him by the waist.

"I'm thinking I don't have the time or motivation to do any of that"

"Who said you'll be the one doing it?"

"Or you for that matter" 

"Do you agree or not?"

Eric plopped her down on the couch he had in his office and positioned herself between her legs, lowering down to kiss her.

"I'll think about it"

He leaned down and trapped her lips with his, Morgan slowly ran her tongue on his lips, tasting the alcohol in them.

While Eric hooked his fingers in the rim of Morgan's pants, he heard the faintest sound behind him, and then, the long "daaaad" mewl resonated in the quiet house.

Morgan just chuckled against his lips, but Eric didn't find any of that funny. Instead, he pulled back with an angry huff and stood up.

Eric walked to Aleks' bedroom, finding him sitting up on his crib, rubbing out his eyes.

"The hell do you want?" Eric asked walking to him.

Aleks threw his arms at him, and Eric reluctantly picked him up, knowing that he wasn't doing any good. He was supposed to lay him back on the bed and shushed him to sleep, but he also wanted to make him sleep fast so he could go back to do what he was doing.

He saw Morgan peek on the side of the door as he picked up a blanket to wrap Aleks with.

"We're not done" he warned, then sat down at a one piece couch cradling Aleks to his chest.

"You're an asshole, do you know that?" He said to him, looking at how his head landed on his bicep and looked up as Eric talked to him. "Do you think you have me twisted on your finger? No sir, I know what you're doing. I read how to handle your little brat ass, don't even try any shit with me because I'm not going to be outsmarted by a goddamned 17 month old. Self soothing it's called, and we'll start tomorrow. I have more important things to do, like fucking your mom, that's the top one"

"Can you fucking stop?" Morgan entered the bedroom letting out a little amused chuckle. "Don't tell him that stuff, he doesn't need to know"

She had Aleks' pacifier on her hand, leaning to place it on his mouth.

"He doesn't understand any of it" Eric excused himself.

"It doesn't matter, stop" she playfully warned, deep inside she loved how Eric tried to mantain his stif demeanor. She knew very well Eric was so head over heels for his baby that he wouldn't hesitate to do crazy shit for him.

Eric saw Morgan turn around and leave the room, dimming the light to make Aleks go to sleep faster. Eric tapped Aleks on the back while he looked down. His big blue eyes were staring back at him, and Eric couldn't help to smile at his little boy. Eric slowly craddled him to sleep, and left him back on the bed, making sure that he was going to remain asleep.

Once out of the bedroom, he walked to his own, already defeated that he wasn't going to fuck Morgan that night.

When he opened the door, he found the exact opposite, Morgan was almost naked, except for her thong, she was laying face down and presumably sleeping, but Eric knew if she had settled to sleep in that position, it was because she didn't expect Eric to leave her be.

He undressed completely, then climbed up on top of her, sitting on her legs and positioning his hard member pressing on her asscheek.

Morgan lifted her head up, waking up immediately, Eric gave her a smirk and leaned to her, pressing himself again on her ass, she gave him a sly smile and grinded her hips harder on him. Eric pressed a hand on her lower back, making her stop.

She looked at him over her shoulder and threw him a pout, Eric leaned in and trapped her bottom lip with his, grinding faster on top of her.

He ran his teeth on her jaw and moved down to her shoulders, her back, then finally grabbed her by the legs and pulled her ass up, diving into her core tongue first. Morgan responded with a throaty moan as she clutched the sheets below her. Eric didn't dwell on eating her out that much, he wanted to have her more urgently. He pushed her ass down on the bed where it originally was and in one swift move he slid in, not stopping until he was buried to the hilt on her. Morgan gasped when she felt him fill her fully, but she didn't have much time to adjust, Eric began to trust into her deep, with strong decided thrusts. He held her by the shoulder while he continued, making Morgan drown her moans on the pillow below her. Eric didn't like it at all when Morgan didn't moan everytime he thrusted, but having Aleks wake up on the again was a no go.

Still holding her by the shoulder and now her waist, he continued with his hard and deep thrusts, making Morgan out the sudden come, she clenched Eric's length with her walls and that made Eric stop to enjoy that for a few seconds.

He looked at Morgan, who had her eyes closed and mouth slightly agape. Eric moved his hand from his shoulder down her spine, and when he came down to her ass he gave it a strong slap. Morgan smirked at him.

Eric turned her around, making Morgan trap his waist with her long legs, Eric positioned himself again on her entrance and slid in.

There was always that position in which they had a little love making on between the senseless fucking, and that certainly was missionary. Eric could control the tempo of his thrusts while kissing Morgan, fell her hands on his body, her nails on his back and arms, he could dip down to suck on her breasts, and when he got enough of worshipping her body he could increase his thrusts at will, having front row seats watching Morgan slowly come undone before him, how her breath picked up and she closed her eyes everytime he hit her on the right spot.

But the position in which Eric liked to finish had been cowgirl lately, he just loved how even though Morgan was spent after the second or third orgasm, she always delieved on a good ride, her hips moved in circular motion on top of him while Eric's hands gripped her asscheek, Morgan had placed her hand on his neck while the other one got leverage on his chest while she rode him. Her lips were sealed to that spot beneath his ear, and when she gave him quiet and moans that were meant just for him to ear, he came inside her, giving one grunt while gripping her ass harder.

Eric could listen to Morgan's unsteady breathing, and when he came out of his high, his hands moved from her ass upwards on her back, making her stop shaking from the orgasm that his had triggered.

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“I don’t think you understand the repercussions this you’re proposing will have” Christine said with a big angry frown.

“There will be no repercussions, we will scale back to our original faction system, divergent will be taken out off the city towards the colony in the Department and that is it” Morgan tried to reason.

They knew Christine would not take it lightly that the city was going to be closed down. Her faction was the one who lost the most. Expeditions would no longer be, the research the Department provided, the different courses they were setting up to have people in the Department come and teach in the specialized schools in Erudite.

“Not to mention that not once the Department showed any interest or concerns during and after the attack” the Candor leader said.

Eric knew he had them all in the bag, besides giving the currently status and the decision to close the city down, he hadn’t said much. He didn’t need to give explanations.

“And not to mention” Morgan said angry “that they fucking used us, took advantage of out hospitality in dauntless. We trained them for them to help us in cases like this. Amity was decimated”

“And whose fault is that?” Christine tried to spun around on Morgan.

“The department’s. We reached and agreement, the conflict outside the borders were theirs to resolve, had we had a fair warning of what was coming out troops would’ve mobilized and acted fast, avoid casualties.”

Eric stood up from his seat and looked at the leaders.

“This matter will be resolved with a votation after I come back from the settlement. Let’s meet back tomorrow at this hour, make sure all your leaders are briefed of the situation and be ready to cast a vote”

Eric surrounded the table and walked out.

Morgan was going to stay back to talk to the other leaders, specially Amity, but she walked after Eric to see him before he left.

She caught up to him on the hall, holding him by the hand

“Though you were falling back” he said, pulling her closer and holding her by the waist.

“I was, I just wanted to see you out, make sure to remember you that you have a wife and baby waiting for you so don’t do any stupid shit while you’re out there”

Eric let out a little smile and stopped in front of the main door out of Erudite.

“I’ve been voted out of the first wave by every team” he said, pulling Morgan to match her chest with his.

“So you’re not going out there?”

“I will, just later, once I’m being given the confirmation the threat has been put down. I’ll track down any kind of information I can get to bring back. Maybe I’ll scope out the Department while I’m at it. If I’m in the mood I might kill everyone there, we’ll see”

“I’ll like to speak with them before, so please don’t”

Eric nodded and placed a short kiss on Morgan’s lips.

“I’ll be back before dinner. Take care of everything around here okay?”

Morgan nodded, giving Eric another kiss and letting him walk out.

As soon as Eric got in the truck towards the fence, Morgan walked to the nursery to quickly check if Aleks was alright, he didn’t seem to mind baou anything and was quietly playing with moving blocks on top of a mat.

She headed to the control room in Erudite and indicated the dauntless guards that had taken over to do anything they could to establish communications with the Department. She told them to send a distress signal that if they didn’t reply back in the next 12 hours there would be serious repercussions for them.

After that, she waited for a reply.

Eric on the other hand was looking through the binoculars, checking how the dauntless were taking over the settlement in the distance. He could faintly hear the gunshots cut the air, and it wasn’t longer than 10 minutes until he was called and told the settlement had been cleared.

Another team of dauntless rode there first to confirm, and after he got his pass, he traveled down along with another group of dauntless.

“I want the bodies checked, weapons taken, and the camp completely dismantled by the end of the day, check for another possible hiding spots, I don’t want to have to deal with a resurgent group.” He comanded while holstering his weapon to his front.

He walked inside the biggest tent he found in the middle of the compound.

They had computers, camera surveillance in the city, files upon files of intel, he began to search through them and found some special ones that unnerved him.

The binders were a different color, and while he motioned at one team of dauntless to pack the Intel to take it back to the city, he fisted the different colored files and opened them, an extensive listen of names along with a ‘Terminated’ or 'active’ tag presented itself in front of him. He began to read through the names and recognized only two, Four and Tris’, along with an 'Active’ tag.

He switched files, and when he opened the next one he froze, it was a file on Christine, along with medical records, pictures, old ones at that, and a big red stamp that read 'non-divergent’.

He switched to another one to find a file on himself, also along with more detailed medical records, his routine, even a list of women who he had slept with, the red non divergent stamp was also there. What made him stop looking at his own file was the fact that it had attached pictures of him at bars with everyone of those women, and at the end a picture of his own son sleeping soundly on his crib.

They’d been watching them for a long, long time.

“Sir” he was interrupted. He closed the file and looked at the dauntless who was sitting at one of the computers and skeeming through it. “I found the jammers of our communications and switched it off. Also, there’s a similar software for shields like the ones in the Department.”

Eric looked at the screen, seeing the program indicate the shields were down.

“Copy the program and let’s take it to the city, I want this program to work on disabling the shields in the Department for the eventual take over”

“Yes sir” he replied, then got to work. Eric held onto the files and collected the ones with the same dark red color.

Once the files were secured in the truck and a fourth team of dauntless had joined to work on the camp, he turned around towards the city. On the drive there he continued to check the files, most of the red ones were from the Leaders of the city, but he was more concerned about the one that seemed to have details about the divergents on the city.

He concluded that the incial information they had about the settlement was wrong. The settlement was supposedly against the experiments, wanting to kill the non divergents and take the divergents under their wing. So why did they have a file exclusively with the label 'Terminated’?

He didn’t care he didn’t had all the pieces, something was very clear for him.

He’d been used, the city had been used, his time had been wasted.

“My inicial impression is that this settlement” he threw some of the files on the table in front of the other leaders in a later meeting “is not what we were originally told it was. I believe that the department made us believe this was a threat to us, when in fact it was targeting them, their divergents”

“That doesn’t explain why the attacked and why they killed 60% of the occupants of Amity” Christine said, always taking the side of the department to not loose the privileges she got from them.

“They’ll have their opportunity to explain themselves, as soon as the jammers went down the message went through. They’ll be here tomorrow morning” Morgan said on the other side of the table.

“Too fucking late for that, we’re still voting to close the city and turn back on our old structure” Eric said, extending a look to the other leaders.

The leader of Candor was not happy with life at this moment, all this information was a huge slap on the face for him. Amity, even though she appeared like it was all fine, everytime the attack on their faction was mentioned she couldn’t help herself from get sad, if not angry. Abnegation was totally biased as in what to vote for and of course Christine was pulling in Eric’s opposite direction.

Eric knew he wouldn’t have it easy, but if he’d wanted it easy in the first place, he would’ve chosen Amity.

While walking down the hall towards the nursery to check on Aleks, Eric knew this was probably the best time he could find to finally tell Morgan about him and Christine. The stakes were too high and if she found out by someone else it would be for trouble.

He knew throwing the files with the information on the leaders on the table could flip on him if Morgan found out, but he was sure Christine wouldn’t live to give a speech in another Choosing Ceremony.

When they were back at the bedroom, Aleks on arms, Eric set him down and Aleks quickly busied himself with a few toys they’d brought it.

Morgan just rested on the bed and sighed, placing her hand on her forehead.

“You okay?” He asked, sitting on the bed next to her and placing a hand on her side.

“Yeah it’s just” she shook her head a little and sighed “I’m tired. I’m tired of the troubles and the lies and… Having to always distrust people, is it too much to ask for us to be left alone?”

Eric hated when Morgan sounded defeated. Morgan was his rock, and if she quivered Eric would instantly fall, he needed her strong.

“I’m doing all I can to make that happen for us Morgan” she looked at him and placed her spare hand on top of his, rubbing his knuckles

“I know you are. And I appreciate it”

Eric took her hand and led it up to his lips, kissing her tenderly.

“About the lies and trust” Morgan rolled her eyes and covered her eyes with her hand

“What did you do Eric?” Eric smiled and kissed her hand again.

“What I didn’t do was tell you something. Something important” Morgan sat up on the bed next to him and looked up, Eric held her by the waist and looked down at her. “Christine” he said, Morgan rolled her eyes again.

“What about her?” She said disinterested.

“She’s my mother”

Morgan straightened up and looked at him with a serious frown.

“That uh… Explains a lot actually”

Eric leaned back on his arms and sighed

“Well, now you know. You know why I don’t like talking to her, or seeing her or anything. I’ve been groomed and trimmed and set up to be this” he motioned at himself “for as long as I can remember. Trained, then forced to take over Dauntless to continue to serve them. They even sent another transfer the next year to be my partner, my wife or whatever”

“And what happened to her?”

“Told her to fuck off. She was too stiff, to judgemental… What’s the point of she couldn’t at least fuck right?”

Morgan snorted a laugh and shook her head. Eric was still a man deep down, and sex was a primal thing in dauntless culture.

“They sent more, every year I could just tell who it was, how they tried to control me through a woman” he sat silent for a while until he wearily asked “you weren’t sent by them were you?”

“Of course not” she said with disdain. She saw how Eric let out a big relieved sigh and he relaxed on the bed.

“That’s something I’ve been asking myself ever since I saw you, you know, because you came from Erudite. I always looked at you and thought 'is this it? Have they finally found out how I liked them?’”

“I wasn’t paid much attention here in Erudite” she dismissed “I never had leadership qualities or the likes”

“Doesn’t seem like it”

Morgan smiled at that sweet comment and leaned in to kiss Eric on the lips. He leaned back on the bed and hugged her close, trapping her lips in more demanding kissed, but we’re interrupted when Aleks let out an angry shriek and slapped Eric in the leg to let Morgan go.

They laughed over eachothers lips and continued kissing, just to tease. Aleks again hit Eric on the leg as he complained, then began pushing on his leg as he was about to start crying.

Morgan retreated back and stood up from the bed to hold Aleks on her arms.

“Don’t be jealous you know you’re my favorite boy”

Morgan kissed Aleks on the cheek and held him, sitting again on the bed next to Eric.

“We’ll be back home soon champ, we don’t like it in here anymore than you do” Eric said touching his cheek slowly.

They settled in for that night, and Eric did eventually turn back to check the fence, see how they were patching up the big hole on the side.

If he looked out in the distance, the tents of the settlement were almost all down, which made him a little more relieved.