So this is an idea that just hit me, and I decided to try my first ever AU with my all time favorite ship. This is just an introduction chapter to see the type of response it gets. Let me know what you think and if I should continue.
all rights go to Kiera Cass for her amazing characters.
Some are lucky, and fall in love young. This is the best type of love no doubt. Free and bold, daring and risky, but overall joyful and rewarding if done right. Others, fall in love maturely, with set plans and goals in mind. Love is love though, and, really, this can be just as amazing. Then, there are the ones incapable of the emotion known as love. While this seems impossible, I would know it true. I am one of these after all. Or so it seems.
After years of scientific research and development, there was a revelation like no other. A discovery that would shake the world as we knew it. A discovery so bold, it led the government to some bold choices due to decline in population or more and more bad choices based on sour family life.
Between male and female combined, average maturity level of growth stop is 23 overall. This is a peak age, an age where you're as young and old as you need to be. Your mind is developed, your body filled. By this age, you should hope to have a nice amount of goals fulfilled. This is the government's logic, and I must admit that it seems plausible. But I've never been one to believe in changing the lives of thousands over statistics.
A man by the name of Theodor Cox discovered a way of avoidance of the dreaded thing called aging. Theodor was a smart man, with well developed concepts and good sense of mind. So when he developed his concoction that froze your body's growth and development, that kept you as you were no matter the circumstances, he knew it was not something to be tinkered with. He knew a product of this height was not safe with public sale, and only trusted in those with minds similar to his own. People who would understand the danger to this revelation.
His revelation was a start to a new revolution. He, of course, could've never predicted such a thing. War began amongst the United States government. Friends and enemies combining and defending their own beliefs of what to do with this. The country wasn't even sure what was happening, but they knew it was no good.
Eventually, the government that had both destroyed and held up the U.S. crumpled. In its place, rose a new Dictatorship headed by a young- but powerful- man named Gregory Illéa. The country renamed itself Illéa after its new leader, and so it began.
The basis of it all was the serum. Tests were run, and reversals for the effects of it were made. Locked away in each province, the serum and its reversal were kept for storage. The plans were announced, some cried, others rejoiced. No one never knew quite how to take the news though, it's not every day you're told that you will either find love, or live as the same age constantly until you do.
Those older than 23 were left alone to die off, as those younger or at the age began to get ready for injections. This was the world the government wanted, and it seemed to work. The serum knew the difference between real love and foolishness. The reversal was never given to those with false feelings, and everyone tried. Growing old with the one you love is more appealing to most than living alone at the same age for who knows how long.
After many generations, the plan is underway well. Now, some don't even have to really be injected for long. Most take young love more serious, and find their soulmate young. The leaders always find their own reversal person in a process called the selection, where they bring in girls from all provinces to find love with the royal children when they are 23. King Clarkson and his queen, Amberley, set a beautiful example for their country. I figure they can only hope their son will do the same.
Macon Schreave is not someone I think of often. He's a distant soul, someone I do not know and never will. He seems to be a proper Prince, someone more than likely snooty and spoiled. Instead, I have my own humble Prince. Aspen Leger, a man my mother would never approve of, but won't have much a choice but to do so when I reverse his serum tomorrow. He will be 23, and I am 19 now.
Aspen is a friend of my brother's; someone I've always known. I'd never saw him romantically until I was 16 though, but once I did, it never changed. His whispered words and clear green eyes capture my heart every time he appears by my side in my tree house. I know I love him, and he me. I know we are true soul mates. So on his birthday, I know he will receive his treatment only to earn the reversal in minutes because of our love. There's not a doubt in my mind, and I hope that with this mild final approval of our love for each other, he will drop on his knee and ask for my hand in marriage following this. It's all I could ever want and need.