Chapter 1
On December 31, 2012, in the city of Chicago, a train was finally heading off to a stop. As many passengers were getting off, one of them was a woman.
She was 5'4 ft, looked around 24 years old, had long blonde hair, grey-blue eyes, and was wearing a navy blue coat, jeans, black boots, and was carrying her purse.
The woman got off and exited the train station. She was walking to her building and after a short elevator ride, she was finally at her apartment.
Her home, her secret.
" Penny, I'm home", she said.
After a few short moments, a little cocker spaniel had came and greet her owner.
" Hi Penny, I miss you too. Just let get some light in here", she said and walk over to the windows.
She opened the curtains to brighten up the room. The light poured in the living room and revealed the strange objects there.
Her old typewriter.
Her paintings from her hippie days.
Her black and white photo of her daughter's birth.
She came to sit down on the couch with her dog, Penny.
" Think about it Penny, in just a couple of months, we will be on our way to Milwaukee. Fun fact, your great grandmother, Lucy, was born from there. My mom too but not at the same time of-course. Soon, you will feel just like a new puppy", she laughed.
In a couple of months, she and Penny would move and leave Chicago. She would start her new life as Beth Pierson and Tris Wright would disappear forever.
However, the woman's birth name is Beatrice Prior and this wasn't her first life.
Flashback (100 years ago)
Beatrice Edith Prior was born on March 23, 1908 in Chicago, Illinois. Daughter of Andrew and Natalie Prior and sister to Caleb Prior.
Ever since she was young, she was unlike all the other girls as she loved to read books, played outside and dreamed of adventure like she read in her stories and from the paper.
When she was a kid, girls her age would tease her cause she didn't like to play with dolls and was not always perfect when it came to manners and being a proper young lady. She cried that she wasn't like all the other girls but as time grow on, she had learn to accept the way she was and didn't care what everyone thought of her.
A lesson she carries on to this day.
As puberty hit and when she was sixteen, she became a beautiful woman that her former bullies would grow jealous of and men soon adore of her. However, Beatrice would all turn them away their proposals. She should have been married by the age of eighteen but instead, she wants to read books and still lived near her parents.
Her mother and father had tried to set her up with their friends' sons, her father's young co-workers, and even her brother's friends. They told her many times that she should find love, get married and have their grandkids. That would always leave her and her mother arguing. It's not like didn't want to find love, it's just she wants to be independent and didn't like the other boys. They were either rude or judge her or were just boring.
On November 19, 1928, her brother Caleb and his wife, Susan Black, had died in a car crash on their way to visit Chicago and their family. Before the crash, they had sent her a letter that they were having a baby. Caleb was her best friend and he was gone. Just like that. The worst part that he was filling their parnets's wishes and she thought she was being selfish. As she was now the only child left, she decided it was time to at least fulfill their wishes before they were gone too.
On February 25, 1929, she meet Albert (Al) Mason, a young business man around her age and was a son from a very wealthy family. After six months, they got married. Everyone was happy again. Everyone but Beatrice. There was nothing wrong with Al. He was nice, a gentleman even, but it wasn't love.
After a year, on July 13, 1930, she gave birth to Raven Natalie Mason. Raven had became her light of her life.
Her precious daughter.
Her little Raven.
On December 21, 1932, she and Al had driving to visit her parents's cabin for the holidays. Where their family and two year old daughter Raven was waiting up for them. It was dark and hard to see through the coming snow. The road was bumpy and they were only three miles from the nearest town. Suddenly, they were heading towards a curve and it was too late to hit the breaks and they crashed.
With the car spinning and turning, Al had crash into the car door and was out of the moving vehicle, leaving Beatrice stuck on her seat. the car had kept spinning until it landed in freezing cold water of a small pond. As it hit the water, Beatrice had hit her head and landed in the pond.
She went unconscious and was unable to wake up, get her seatbelt unfasten, and get out of the car and water. Her lungs were cut off oxygen and filled water. Her core temperature was down to 87 degrees. Within ten minute, Beatrice's heart stopped beating and she died.
Suddenly, a bolt of electricity from the vehicle had spark and landed on Beatrice's body. Starting up her heart again. Her eyes went wide open and hold her last gasp of air left. She got her seatbelt undone and climb her way to the broken window out of the car. Finally, she went out of the water and catches her breath for the first time in ten minutes. She got out of pond and was choking out all the water from her body. She landed on the grass and dirt and just lay there breathing. The bolt of electricity had given her not just a second chance to live, but a curse.
She didn't know it then, but she, Beatrice Prior, will walk on this planet to the end of time. She will never age another day.
After a couple of hours, the police came took Beatrice to the hospital. The next morning, she found out that Al had died while she was very lucky to survive. She did mourned and even though she didn't love him, he could have been a great friend in another world.
As years passed, she didn't try to find love and remarried and was so focus on her daughter. After Al's death, she had inherited his money and used it for her and her daughter.
However, as Raven grow up, Beatrice still beautiful as a twenty-four woman. When Raven was around ten years old, the teachers and parents would look at her as she looked like she had Raven at fourteen or was a nanny. When Beatrice was one day shopping, she was hit on and asked out by a man who was ten years younger. She was flattered but she said no as the man apologized, saying she didn't look a day over 23. She thought her unchanging appearance was caused maybe a healthy diet, exercise, new facial products, or just good luck.
As Beatrice had turned 40 and was celebrating her birthday with eighteen year old Raven in the city, they ran into one of her mother's friends, Zoe Meyers.
"Beatrice?", Zoe said as she looked at her and her daughter.
"Mrs. Meyers, Hello.", she said at the old woman.
"Heavens, you haven't changed a bit. You looked so much like your mother."
"Thank you Mrs. Meyer, that's very kind of you.", she responded as she was nervous.
"Raven, you're all grown up.", Zoe saaid.
Raven smiled,"I keep telling my mother that but she doesn't believe me.".
"I'm sorry but we really need to be going. Nice seeing you...", Beatrice said as she tried to walk away.
Zoe interrupted,"But you...you look like sisters".
Beatrice faked a laugh,"Thanks but...".
"How is that possible", she said with a concerned face.
That was when Beatrice had finally start to be worried.
"Uh...a new face cream from...Paris. You should try it. Gotta go", she murmured and pulled her daughter away in panic.
After a block later, Raven finally stop and spoke," Mom! What's wrong? Last time I checked, there is no face cream. Are you alright?".
" I'm fine honey. Let's forget this ever happened okay.", she lied.
Raven had dropped the questions a week later but Beatrice had only start to.
3 months later, action was required when Raven had moved out of the house and Beatrice moved into the suburbs outside of the city. One day while having a minor car engine failure, a police officer had came to inspect and pull her over. He asked for a driver license and was shocked.
"Miss, it says here that you were born on March 23, 1908", he said.
" Yes, so what's the problem officer.", she responded nicely.
"That would make you about forty years old", he said as he didn't believe her.
"Well, yes.", she told him.
"Miss, I'm going to hold on to this. When you come back to the station to get this, please bring your actual birth certificate.", he stated.
"Um... of-course. Is tomorrow okay?", she asked him.
"Sure", he replied and finished his report.
After an hour later, she went back home and started packing everything. Leaving the next day. There was a search for her but they never found her.
She moved back to Chicago and keep herself under the radar. She got a job as a librarian at a medical school. There, she did everything she could to study her condition. She looked everywhere for a gray hair on her scalp, a wrinkle on her body, anything to prove she was ageing. She checked every night, week, month, and no results. She looked up every disease in the book and no luck. Finally, after intense study, she had to accept the fact that there was no possible explanation for her condition.
One rainy night on October 17, 1948 at 7:57 PM, she was closing up the library when she was approached by two men.
"Excuse me, Ms. Beatrice Prior?", one of them asked firmly.
"I'm sorry, you have the wrong person", she faked smiled and tried to walk away to her car.
"We're from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Ms. Prior. We would like to ask you a few questions.", the other one said.
"But I did nothing wrong..."
"There were no records on your residence. Nothing to worry about, we are just going to run a few test on you", they said as they pulled her into a car and dragged her.
She tried to fight back and run, but it was no use. They pulled her to the backseat and drove off to the nearest airport. After 20 minutes, they arrived and while the two men left to check on the plane, Beatrice was trying to find anyway out.
She needed to get out before these people take her away and lock her up. She tried the doors but they were locked, break the windows but they were too hard. She tried everything until she realized that since this was an old model, the seat on the back was connected to the trunk.
So she pulled and tugged at the seat and finally, it ripped off and climbed in the trunk. She pickpocketed the lock and open the trunk silently. She got out in the pouring rain and when she took off her heels, she ran.
She ran as fast as she could and none of the men notice she was gone. Even though her feet were hurting from the rocky road and mud, she ran nearly 5 miles until she was back to the street where she was at. She started her car and raced back to her apartment.
After taking a shower and changed, she begin packing her bags and was trying get out of Chicago. This was the moment that she feared for the past couple years. She was so close on being taken away and she couldn't stay any minute longer. When all of her stuff was in the car, she grabbed the key and before leaving, she saw the picture of her and Raven. After a minute, she grabbed the photo and left. She was about to leave Chicago when she needed to make a stop. After 10 minutes, she was at the house and knocked on the front door. After a few seconds, the door had opened.
"Mom? What are you doing here? Is everything alright?", Raven smiled.
It was around ten and looked she was ready to go to bed. Her blonde hair was up to a bun and wearing a robe with a nightgown.
"Honey", she said."We don't have much time. I need to talk to you and it couldn't wait."
"Mom, what's wrong? You're scaring me. What happened? ", Raven said as she let her inside.
"Sit down, we don't have much time so whatever I say cannot leave this room. Understand", she said.
For an entire hour, she told her everything. From her condition to the men that almost took her away. Raven sat there and understood. She was willing to do anything just to protect her and her mother. Beatrice told her that she it wasn't safe here and she needed to go as far away as she could.
"If anyone contacts you, tell them I went on vacation in Europe. I had an amazing time that I didn't back. The next time we see each, I'll have a new identity. You just have to introduce me as your friend."
"Mom, please don't do this. Anything but please, don't leave. You're all I have left.", her daughter spoke as her eyes were filling with tears.
"I hate this as much as you do, but it's only way."
"Please don't leave", she said and hugged her.
Beatrice had hold her as she cried. Soon later, she pulled away and faced her.
"Listen to me, I know that this hard on you but if I don't, they could get you too. Here.", she said as she took her former wedding ring off. Al gave it to her when she proposed. It was beautiful but it never felt right. She took it off and said it into her daughter's finger.
"I will always be your mother, and you will always be my daughter".
After a few minutes, Beatrice had left and was on the road to nowhere as she could.
End of Flashback
To protect her and Raven, Beatrice would have to move and keep going. She would change her name, place, and appearance per decade. Most importantly, she could never tell another living soul about the truth. Not even her friends and family as they all died of old age except Raven.
In a few months, Tris would disappear as Beth would move to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She would kept her vow for the past sixty years.
*********To Be Continue**********
Hey readers, happy holidays and thank you for read chapter 1 of Love is Timeless. I have written only written one story, which is Let Light Guide You Home for the Lunar Chronicles. You should check it out if you love the series. For this story, I want to give a shot for romance and is based on my favorite movies. I don't own the Divergent Series nor Age of Adaline. All go to their rightful owner. I will be posting every two weeks so until then, Ill see you next time with a new chapter.
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