Your Princess is in Another Castle

Chapter 14: For Eternity

For a long time, nothing happened. The world hung in the balance. No sounds were produced. There was no air to breathe. Everything was still and calm. Bella's eyes were still open, big and brown and with tears in their edges. Eyes that sought out Victoria's across the room.

And then Victoria could see the life leaving from them, as quickly as one extinguishes a candle. They went from warm and wet, to cold and glassy. Her neck lolled as James released its hold on it and her body flopped forward, head always looking at Victoria. Victoria watched as it slowly hit the ground, thumping and bouncing once with the impact. Strands of brown hair settled down on a body no longer breathing, no longer living.

And then the pain hit Victoria. Like she had gotten kicked in the chest by a horse. She dropped to her knees, shaking, bleeding on the inside. She didn't scream. Didn't cry. She was just...numb. Like a part of her had been killed. She wasn't even mad. She could not feel anything any longer.

She knelt there, feeling weak and useless and wanting to die so desperately, eyes never leaving Bella's form. Her cheeks were still pink, her lips parted, like she could get up any moment to speak, but she did not.

James gently picked up Bella's prone form and brought it to Victoria who only watched him like she was a passenger in her own body. "She cannot continue to live as a human," he said but Victoria could not hear him. All she saw was his mouth moving. He came closer to her, showing off the white skin of Bella's neck. Her veins were still warm, full of slowly cooling blood.

"But she can live as one of us. As a vampyre." He brushed the hair back, and then directed Victoria's face to Bella's neck, his intentions clear.

A sense of hope sparked inside Victoria. There was still a chance to save Bella. A small sliver of a chance, but one nevertheless. She bared her fangs and buried her teeth in deep, closing her eyes as the rush of scrumptious blood hit her tongue.

Bella was in pain. So much pain.

It was as if fire was coursing through her veins. Eating her alive. She screamed and writhed but her body would not move. Her throat was parched. She wanted something to cool it.

But she could not form the words to request it. She did not know even where she was. Everything was dark and loud. Voices shouted around her. Hands grabbed her.

Was she in hell? It certainly felt like hell. One she deserved for all that had happened. This was what became of women who violated their sacred vows of marriage.

She did not know how long this torment would last but it seemed to be endless. And then one day it stopped. She lay their panting and moaning and finally, opened her eyes.

Victoria's face was the first one she saw. The red head was smiling gently down upon her. Bella could see her as if her eyesight had magically improved. In fact, it was like she was seeing the world in new eyes. With new senses. She sat up, aching a bit but feeling stronger than before. What had happened? Last she recalled...James had slain her.

Her question rested on her lips but she did not ask it. For Victoria spoke.

"You are a vampyre," Victoria said, melancholy in her eyes at the fact but lips joyous that Bella was back. "I turned you so I would not lose you. I hope you do not hate me for it."

Bella shook her head, placing a hand to her chest where her heart should be beating. Indeed, there was only silence there. She looked her hands over, found them to be paler. More...perfect. She tore up to her feet, seeking out the nearest mirror so she could see.

Did she really come back from the dead? Was she truly a vampire?

A gasp left her lips when she stood in front of the mirror and found nothing staring back at her. She truly was a vampire. Because she could not even see her own reflection. She swallowed down a lump in her throat, chest heaving in near panic. Victoria was by her side instantly, looking worried. She reached out a hand to touch Bella but retreated it, uncertain if Bella would want her touch. The princess did not know how to feel about this right now. It was all so overwhelming. She could feel the urge to cry helplessly arise in her but no tears came to her eyes.

She could not even express her sorrows now. She turned to Victoria, looking for guidance.

"Why?" she asked.

"Like I said, James had killed you. And almost killed me when he snapped our mate bond. But he laid your body in front of me and said it did not have to be the end. I know it was selfish but I couldn't bare living in a world where you no longer existed. I took the opportunity presented to me," Victoria said. "I know maybe you did not want to become this being but...I did not know what else to do."

"I am a monster now," Bella said softly, but Victoria could hear her with her hearing.

"If you want..." Victoria gulped, tentative to say these words. "If you want to end this cursed existence, let me know and I will end it with you."

Bella looked in horror at Victoria. At what she was saying. "Do not say such things!"

"I only wanted to make sure...that you had an out if you did not want to stay this way..." Victoria offered, sheepishly, with a morbid seriousness. "I do not intend to stay on this planet if you do not either."

Bella shook her head, looking away from Victoria. "I...I am simply overwhelmed. I need a moment to think."

"You also need to feed soon so do not dally long."

Bella's lips curled up at the insulting idea of drinking human blood. But to her horror, she found her stomach gurgling in anticipation of it. And then Victoria left Bella to think over everything that had happened.

Like Victoria had stated, Bella could not stay long in the room, moping and brooding. Her hunger hit her hard and all of a sudden she felt herself losing control over her new form. "Damn it," she grit between clenched teeth, teeth now sharp for the kill.

She needed fresh blood but she could smell none in the castle for there were no living souls here. Luckily, Victoria came in time, noticing Bella's eyes black with lust for blood. "Come with me, Bella. It is time to feed."

Bella shook her head, trying to resist the pull her body had on her mind. "I do not want to drink human blood." Her lips twisted up in delight. In disgust.

Victoria sighed. "I know. But you need to drink or else you can lose control. You are too young as a vampire to have control over your facilities. You must drink. You can also starve if you do not."

Bella knew this new path in life she had been given would not be easy. Nor had it brought her close to God. Only farther away. But, she had chosen this dark path. She only had herself to blame. She would go down this path with pride.

"Will you teach me how to control myself?" she asked.

"Yes. I will teach you everything."

"Does...does Edward know what he has caused me to become?" Because Bella largely blamed him for what awaited her now. If he had cared an iota for her, he never would have allowed James to harm her. But he did not care about her. He cared about his job more. About his legacy.

Perhaps she should be glad that her eyes had been opened to the situation. To the new world around her. She took in a deep breath she did not need- it was alarming not to have to breathe anymore and the lack of her chest moving sometimes caused her to panic and choke on the fact- and allowed Victoria to take her to where the blood meal would be.

Bella was ticking with nerves. She had never even dared thinking of consuming blood before but her hunger was too strong for her now to feel remorse over it. She needed it. Could barely wait for it. When Victoria took out the ceramic jar containing it, Bella almost crushed it between her hands, gulping the red beverage down with nary a thought. When she finished, blood coating her mouth, Victoria took the jar from her, brushing back a strand of her hair behind Bella's ear. Affection and pain warred in her eyes.

"I feel so terrible for what I have put you through. I never wanted you to have to live a cursed life like me."

"I do not blame you. I love you too much to want to lose you too," Bella answered and Victoria lowered her lips to Bella's, kissing her deeply, the taste of fresh blood on their tongues as their faces and desires melded together. This time Victoria's cold no longer bothered Bella. For she was the same temperature.

"Lovebirds, reunited?" James commented, causing them to pull apart. Victoria instinctively stood in front of Bella, protecting her. While she was not hissing at James, her anger at him was clear. "I have not forgiven you for what you have done," she stated as Bella bristled behind her back. The newborn vampire was still unstable and her strength unchecked.

James hung his head, hands behind his back; he looked hurt by Victoria's reaction, and at the suggestion that he would hurt Bella again. Bella could feel her vision tunnel on him. He had played a part in this too. He did not have to kill her. He did not have to keep his word. Not when she thought they were friends. Or at least kind to one another. But he had done it, kept his word and killed her. He truly did have no heart.

"I know you may not forgive me for a while. But it had to be done. The news has been delivered to Edward and he is watching her body burn in a funeral pyre right now." The two women did not relax. "I will not hurt Bella. You have my word."

Victoria was about to spit out that James word no longer meant anything but sorrow, when Bella could no longer control the violent rage in her. She never felt such anger inside her before. But she supposed the beast she had become was all too at home with this. Before she could think, her body was moving in super speed. Moving around Victoria and lunging at James.

James eyes opened wide, not expecting a lady to throw herself at him. But Bella was no longer a lady. Or a princess. But a vampyre. She no longer had to follow social conduct.

Bella grappled the front of James coat, not sure what she wanted to do, other than hurt him for what he had done to her. With a snarl she threw him, right out the wall. He smashed through the bricks and plummeted downwards.

Victoria's gasp of "Bella!" followed Bella as she dove out after him. With cat like precision she landed on her feet on the grass down below, James picking himself up, dusting himself off. He looked annoyed, given the tick in his face but he did not aim to hurt her. "I understand you are hurt by my actions, Bella, but you must understand-"

Bella snarled from her half crotch and launched herself at him once more. Before she could get her hands on him again, she collided with the sound of crashing boulders into someone else.

Victoria.

The woman was holding her back. Bella bounced back from her, confused. Why was the woman stopping her?

"Bella, I understand you are upset, but it will do you no favors if you kill James like this. I do not want you to have blood on your hands. It will destroy you once you come to your senses."

Bella hissed at her but she did not move towards her. The bond they shared called her to her senses. To find those senses. To let them calm her.

Killkillkill, faded from her mind, the endless chant she had not known she was buying into. She had wanted to kill James...the realization made her body slump and she fell to her haunches with the weight of it.

She had wanted to kill a man, dear God! What was wrong with her!

She was shaking now. Victoria and James exchanged looks. The man wanted to go help her it seemed, but Victoria felt it was only best if she approached Bella now. Him doing so might cause Bella to spike again. To fall prey to those dark parts of this curse. He nodded and left this in Victoria's capable hands. She crouched down next to Bella, hands soothing on her back.

"I almost...I almost caused James to perish," she stammered out.

Victoria shook her head. "Do not exaggerate. You threw him outside. Barely even a scratch for him."

"But I would have killed him. I felt it inside me. I did not know what it was at first. I merely thought it anger. It was not till you told me not to kill him that I realized it was what I was being pushed to do." She sucked in a breath, eyes looking into the dirt unseeing. "Will I...always be like this? Searching for blood and destruction?" The unspoken I do not want to live such an existence weighed between them, but it was clear that both of them had had this thought.

"The first couple of weeks...are disheartening. Confusing. Irritating. But, once done with, a whole world of marvels opens up. You simply must be patient. With me by your side, you shall not be alone in this."

Bella nodded her head and let out a tense breath, letting her shoulders sag. She still felt terrible for what she did. "Teach me how to control myself. Please."

"I will," Victoria promised, bringing her lips to Bella's hair and kissing her.

Control did not come easily. In the week that would come, Bella would struggle with it immensely, vacillating between so many emotions and outbursts it was dizzying. And Victoria stayed by her side, patient and loving and understanding. James stayed out of the way smartly.

Bella would apologize to him later when she had the chance.

She had to get through this first. She hated how out of control she could feel but she trusted it would eventually be over. Victoria helped nip the outbursts before they could get worse and Bella was getting better at cutting them down when they would erupt out of her. Sometimes she broke things. Sometimes she almost hurt Victoria. But Victoria did not turn away from Bella at these dark moments. She would only draw closer to her, loving her even more deeply.

Bella almost felt like she did not deserve this unfiltered pure love.

Something else had also changed for Bella now that she was a vampyress. It was more subtle and took her time to realize due to all the other pivotal emotions coursing through her. But, it had to go with the mate bond. She could feel it. Thrumming more strongly than before under her skin. A connection she could feel with every fiber of her being if she thought about it.

It was breathtaking and a bit overwhelming at first and she could do nothing but stare at Victoria as she processed it.

"What is wrong?" Victoria asked, noticing the stare. She stopped in her watering of plants in her garden, perplexed by Bella. Despite their bond, there were some emotions that took a while to digest and make sense of, and this was such a moment. But while Victoria was thinking through Bella's emotions, Bella could feel the concern of her mate, her love.

And it made her react. Made her newly transformed cells push forward with sudden overpowering need.

Bella could not control herself. It was like her mind had been overtaken, her body filled with carnal need. It was all so sudden too. As sudden as any of the other mood swings she suffered. She rushed towards Victoria, Victoria who could have moved out of the way but did not.

She just let Bella crash into her, lips first. Bella's hands were greedy things, touching and caressing, and grabbing and pulling at every bit of Victoria she could possess. Her lips were insistent upon her mate's and kissed her fervently, working them both up to a fever pitch.

The watering can lay discarded on the floor as they engaged with each other. Victoria allowed Bella to be in control for a moment, but when she saw the princess was frantic and knew not what to do, she quickly turned them around so that it was Bella against the stone cold wall now. Bella peeled back her lips to show her fangs, hissing at displeasure but Victoria growled at her, their animal sides communicating. Victoria was the dominant vampryess. The one with more power and skill, and Bella needed to heed to her.

Bella let out an unhappy whimper as Victoria pinned her to the wall. Victoria soothed this by licking a stripe down Bella's neck. "Let me take care of things," she cooed as Bella's hips bucked up with unrestrained need. "I shall make you feel like heaven itself has descended upon thee."

Victoria ideally would have liked this to be in a bed, but Bella would not be patient enough to suffer the transition despite how quick it would be with their combined speeds. No, she was a newborn and thus slave to her impulses for the time being and Victoria would have to face them, just like all those centuries ago, someone had to face her's.

She kept her lips attached to Bella's neck, leaving red marks for the world to see. She wanted everyone to know Bella was hers. And she did not do this slowly, divulging the princess of the trousers she now wore. Trousers so befitting her figure. She would have liked to savor Bella, for she was always a delicacy, but Bella would combust from want. There would be another time, Victoria was certain of this, because they now had all of eternity together.

Her hand found great wetness waiting for her and Bella hissed with the touch of Victoria's hand, throwing her head back into the wall, cracking it. She barely felt the pain, arousal filling her entirely. She had never felt like this, so out of control. So hungry for Victoria.

It was as if becoming a vamprye freed her from all those stupid obligations of society. She no longer had to feel guilty about loving the woman she was mated to. And she knew, in her still heart, that she would die for this woman. She would kill for her. That was how strong the bond was, and she know knew how heartbroken Victoria had felt by her earlier rejections, when she felt everything this strongly and clearly. As if there was no other alternative but to love and live for each other.

Bella's hands were vice like grips on Victoria's biceps, nails digging in so deep they cracked skin. But Victoria did not mind, her eyes focused on Bella's face as she watched the princess writhe under her and then come, so quickly it was almost a shame. And yet, Bella was not satisfied. She wanted more. When Victoria went to draw her hand away, Bella kept it there with her own. Words could not form on her trembling lips but Victoria understood the message. She kissed Bella hard as this time her fingers slipped into Bella, two strong digits.

Bella keened into Victoria's mouth at this, so happy she could not explain. How could she had dared to resist this for so long? How could she, when her mate was inside her and making every bone sing with everlasting joy and fortune. Nothing Edward could have ever offered her could have come close to this simplicity that Victoria gave her.

Something so simple as this, a touch, or a look, was enough to make Bella's heart swoon with emotion. True, their life would not be simple now, for Bella had to learn to navigate being a vamprye but she was certain with Victoria by her side, things would become easy eventually. Bella might have never wanted to be a vamprye before, but now, when she was one, she was aware of how lacking her human life was.

She digs her nails ever harder into Victoria, spurring her one. The red headed woman's wrist works harder, pushing into Bella with all the force she has. Which is quite a lot. The walls shake. So do the flowers, swaying with the rhythm of their love. Bella moans as she comes again, and again, Victoria's fingers pushing her into several moments of bliss one after the other. Bella's legs shake and despite their newborn strength, would have collapsed, if Victoria had not suddenly hugged her to her cold body.

Bella clung onto her, eyes blurry with pleasure, it shooting sparks through her as she breathes jagged gulps of air. Slowly, Victoria's fingers still and pull out of Bella who is so sensitive the action almost brings her to another mounting climb of ecstasy.

Victoria kisses her temple, letting Bella come to herself. Bella can feel the wild edges of the beast tamed for now. And yet, her own mind is not sated. Not until she gets what she wants.

"I want to taste you," she murmurs, low but enough that Victoria can hear her. Victoria shudders against her, aroused at the thought. "Can I?"

"Yes, of course you can," Victoria breathes in reply and pulls away from Bella who can stand on her own feet now, so they can kiss. It's a soft kiss, a kiss to reassure each other they love each other. And then Bella pushes Victoria to the ground gently.

The red haired woman is spread out, red hair curled, among the flowers who all bow their heads as if to look down at her beauty. Bella lowers herself down, a bit nervous now. She has never touched Victoria before, but she wants to. Wants to so badly.

Whereas Bella's fucking had been rough, animalistic, Victoria's was going to be soft, and loving. An exploration of their future writ in skin and sweat and generous moans.

Bella slowly slid down Victoria's pants, revealing glistening wetness. The red haired vampryess eyes were lidded and her chest was moving shallowly as her lips parted. She looked so beautiful like this, about to be thoroughly ravished. Bella leans down, plants soft kisses down Victoria's abdomen, to her hip bones, to her thighs. Legs spread of their own accord and Bella's nose twitches at the delicious scent wafting out from them. She does not do well in ignoring it, mouth salivating and proving she can not tease Victoria with pretty kisses but that she must taste her upon her tongue now.

"Sayath if I am-"

"You will do well, princess. Just please, touch me," Victoria nearly begs and Bella lowers her mouth to where Victoria is gleaming, so open for her.