Chapter 31: Four and Six

Tris gets done with the simulation, and before she can do anything, Eric implants a "tracking device" courtesy of Erudite, which Tris really doesn't want to have injected because she knows how Erudite work now and she knows it's not a good idea. But she thinks its also a bad idea to refuse, so she goes along with it. She and Tobias go back to Tobias's room for a while, and they kiss but she gets all nervous and she ends up telling him about her fear landscape obstacle that was him. I think she's scared of being with him because she was raised Abnegation, and also because she's scared of letting anything get out of her own control. It might also have to do with the assault and all of the guy issues there.

He finds her new Abnegation tattoo and then he shows her his tattoos on his back and oh. my. goodness. he's attractive. He has a line of the faction symbols. Dauntless, then Abnegation, and underneath, Candor, then Erudite, and last, Amity.
Why?
"I think we've made a mistake." he says softly. "We've all started putting down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest." He clears his throat. "I continually struggle with kindness." 

Tris and Tobias's conversation flits over the future, and we see possibility for them.
"Someday," he says, "if you still want me, we can..." He pauses, clears his throat. "We can..."
I smile a little and wrap my arms around him before he finishes, pressing the side of my face to his chest. I feel his heartbeat against my cheek, as fast as my own. 
"Are you afraid of me, too, Tobias?"
"Terrified," he replies with a smile.