Epilogue
Late Spring 2019
They finally went back to the cave. Not that any of the newlywed couples really wanted to but since it was for science, all made the trip except for the Kostans and Beth St. John. Penny and her new son-in-law had been talking about it for months and now it was finally coming to pass.
Brigit was staying behind; after all this was her first child and although five months along wasn't enough to stop most women, Beth had seen the signs of possible pre-eclampsia and told her to take it easy. Especially here in the Rockies, high blood pressure while pregnant was something to be very cautious about. So she stayed in the St. John home with Beth and the staff. Brigit sighed.
Not even the dog, Faith, was there for company since she was getting her first Mountain Rescue training. Boy, had that dog grown! No longer was she all ears and big feet but now gangly and growing into her size.
Brigit sighed again. And finally, towards the late afternoon, they were all back. Most headed to their respective homes but Mom came in, totally subdued.
"What's wrong? Is somebody hurt?" Pregnancy hormones made her so much more overly sensitive but still, her mom didn't look right.
"Honey, when I saw how they lived up in that cave all those years, and them being only miles away from civilization, too!"
Beth asks the question this time. "But everyone is alright?" She had been worrying about her son and vampires being outside all day long.
"Mom! We're fine." Mick and the kids pop their heads in through the doorway.
"So what did you learn? Any clues as to how they got there?"
Elliott pipes in. "We found some more pictures on the wall; one with what looks like a flying Viking ship. I have a theory." He looks at Penny who smiles indulgently. Collie snorts. Beth looks from the children to the adults. "Are we talking something supernatural like what Thor said was passed down through the generations?"
Mick grins. "Could be. After all, how big of a stretch of the imagination does it take to believe in Aliens much less them scooping up prehistoric families from one part of Europe, dropping them off thousands of years later among the Norse and then moving them one more time to the center of America?"
Spike, Simone and Josef enter. "A cosmic board game with us being the chess pieces?" With a wink at Elliott, he argues, "Aliens? Why not, it's no harder than believing in Santa Claus or other unexplained phenomena."
Which is true whether you're vampire or human.