Your Princess is in Another Castle
Chapter 15: My Love
Victoria's screams pierce through the air as she reaches completion. Her hand tugs without restraint on Bella's brown locks. Had Bella been mortal, her head would have been ripped off. But she was not, therefore Victoria was free to touch her with the full force of how the orgasm had lifted her high up into elation.
Bella's lips and tongue slowed down, lapping cat like now at the nectar spilling from Victoria's nether regions. The vampryess could not recall the last time she had felt such pleasure and it was all because of her darling Bella.
Gradually the newborn's head popped up, tongue licking up the juices from red lips and sharpened teeth. She still had a slightly feral look in her eyes and she slithered over Victoria's form like a snake, about to clamp its fangs down on some juicy morsel. Victoria readily greeted her, sliding arms around shoulders and down to a plump behind.
"That was most amazing," she whispered, her voice hoarse from all the screaming she had done. She had cum about five times and still she knew, with the electric buzz under her skin, she could many more times. She had waited so long to have Bella. To claim her as hers. Gently, a finger tucked back a brown strand as Bella nuzzled into Victoria's neck, content. Her chest vibrated with purrs and Victoria's chest mimicked her as well. Lazily her fingers combed Bella's hair, rubbing behind her ears and making Bella purr harder.
Sadly, their time for this, for softly basking in the afterglow and of each other's love, would be cut short by duty and obligations.
"Victoria, a word?" James' voice carried over from down the hall. He knew better than to approach them especially after Bella had thrown herself at him, and especially because they had just finished a mating session and vampyres got unreasonably volatile and territorial during this time.
"I shall be there in but a moment," Victoria assured, pulling free of Bella's chilly embrace and dressing up quickly. Bella pouted at her, but whatever mood had possessed her before was gone now and she was back to being her rational self.
"I shant be long," Victoria told her mate, not wanting her to worry, or come looking for her. "In the meantime, perhaps go to the library and do some readings while you wait."
Bella nodded her head and with a lingering kiss to Victoria's lips, she left.
Victoria hurried down the hall, where James stood, a brow arched and his arms behind his back. "Well..." he started and she snorted in amusement.
"Oh do not act like you have not made your fair share of screaming when engaging in carnal behavior."
"Yes, but I am a bit more discreet in location. Did you forget, we have impressionable and young vampryes here, working for us?" he huffed. "I had to send more than one scurrying away."
If Victoria could flush she would. She had not thought of that. Neither had she noticed anything only because she had been so wrapped up in how amazing being with Bella truly had been.
If the sun had crashed into the earth she would not have noticed either. Nothing could have torn her from Bella in that moment.
"But enough of that," James waves a gloved hand through the air, sparing her from further mortification. "We must discuss a most important matter." He lead the way to a private study and closed the heavy door.
"It is about Bella, is it not?" Victoria asked, coming to the window and staring outside it, arms folded over her chest.
"In a round about manner, yes," he admitted a touch wistfully. "It has more to do with Edward. He has no idea she has been turned."
"And we shall keep it that way," she said sharply. There was no need to put Bella in the way of harm because of who she had once been engaged with.
"Of course we shall. But I fear he grows weary. His people are still here, stationed not far. And I wonder what he shall do next if he has not left yet."
Victoria's jaw tightened at this. Something sour stayed in her mouth. Him staying here prolonged could not bond well for them at all. "I hope he is merely enjoying the scenery," she commented dryly.
James looked out the window too. "I hope so as well."
"Can we get sick?"
"No."
"What happens when we get hurt?"
"We heal."
"Of all injuries?"
"Most if not all. It depends on the nature of the weapon hurting us."
"So what can hurt us? I have read much and yet, all the folk lores about vampyres are different. What is truth and what is fiction?" Bella asked as she and Victoria stayed in the library. Bella's head was on Victoria's lap and the red haired woman was stroking her fingers through brown locks, something she found soothed both of them given the content inner state of their minds.
"I can tell you about the type of vamprye you are and how it affects you. For there are many species. Not all are lucky to be like us once turned."
"Do tell me," Bella urged ever curious about her new form.
"Our species is one of the more benevolent and human kinds. We do not have to feast on human blood if we do not wish to. We can walk in sunlight though it does drain us and is not generally recommended. We are fast, strong, and our senses are augmented to great degrees. We are apex hunters. But fire can hurt us. So can a stake to the heart or being beheaded. You merely need to watch for those things so they will not hurt you."
"What about crosses? Or garlic? Or entering holy ground?"
"Crosses do us no harm, if we are god fearing still. Neither is holy ground forbidden to us. Garlic, however, we avoid, simply because to eat human food would make us ill." Victoria wrinkled her nose up at thinking of consuming any human food. It had lost all it's appeal to her centuries ago.
"Can we turn into bats?"
Victoria looked down in amusement at Bella. "Surely, you jest. Have you seen me turn into a bat?"
Bella shrugged. "I have not. But it does not mean you cannot. Simply that you never did in my presence."
"We do not turn into bats. But, some of us do gain powers when we transform."
Bella arched a brow in interest and looked up at Victoria, urging her to continue onwards.
Victoria continued. "Like the power to read the future. Or to fly. Or to be able to control human emotions."
"Do you have one?"
Victoria shook her head, long red locks falling over her shoulders. "No. Not all of us are lucky."
"Does James have one?"
Another head shake.
Bella sat up at this, putting her face to face with Victoria. "Do you think I could have one?"
"Would you like one?"
"I am not certain," Bella answered honestly. "We already have so much power in our bodies. To have more...seems unfair."
Victoria smiled. "You have an interesting way of looking at things. Some would say even more power would be great. And additional powers tend to help out against the monster hunters who come to slay us."
Bella's face dropped at this. "Oh, I forgot about those," she said in a small voice. "Do you think that they will hurt us? Me?"
Victoria let out a long exhale. "Yes. That is their job- to hate those who share our nature. And even if we are good, they will not see that. Only see the monsters that we are."
She saw and felt how depressing the news had sat upon Bella's now immortal soul and she leaned in and kissed her softly on her pink lips. "Do not fret, I will protect you. We will find a way to survive through this perilous time."
"Does Edward know?" Bella asked at last; it seemed she had been ruminating on this idea for quite some time.
"No, he does not."
"I...I do not know if I want him to know or not. That I want to put it in front of his face that his selfish actions have turned me into the very thing he swears to slay," Bella confessed, fiddling a bit with her fingers.
"That is your decision to make. I shall not tell him," Victoria said, tilting Bella's head up she could look into those wonderfully expressive eyes and kiss those lips once more.
"You are trying to distract me," Bella hummed as their lips touched deeply.
"I am. I do not want your mind to be burdened with things you cannot control," Victoria stressed.
"You are doing a good job of it," Bella admitted, changing her position swiftly so that she was straddling Victoria's thighs. Her hands went to wrap around Victoria's shoulders and draw her nearer as their cold bodies intertwined, warmed by their passions.
Bella was awoken from her mimicry of slumber by loud crashing noises and an unearthly scream. She bolted up in bed, Victoria already alert next to her. "What is happening?" Bella asked, adrenaline coursing through her veins.
"I do not know, princess," Victoria breathed out, though she did have an inkling of a clue as to what was happening. Human voices rang through the castle at early in the morn. "Wait here," she urged, rushing out of the room and trying to find James.
She found him in the great hall, everything a mess around them. Humans and vampryes mingled within the great stone walls, screaming and hollering, and blood spraying everywhere, misting the air with copper.
Edward and his men had attacked. And James had called the villagers to come to the aid. James himself had a human in his grip, choking the life out of the man. "James!" Victoria called out, rushing to him. He saw her over his shoulder and with one extra strong squeeze, he had snapped the captive man's neck and dropped him. "How dire is the situation?" she inquired. All around her she took note of all that was happening, senses alert. She hoped Bella would not come down.
"They have ruined a portion of our castle and slain two of our kind so far, but I vow that they shall do no more harm," he declared, teeth bared back. His eyes were dark with fury.
"We should have never trusted the Cullen bastard," she said with a low growl. She was itching to fight him. To beat the sense out of him with her own two hands. She would not have to gander far. She could see him, a maelstrom of activity, slicing and dicing at any vamprye who came close. He had skill and speed, that was certain. Making him one formidable hunter. His men were not as skilled.
She would pick those off and then take him on.
With a snarl, she lept onto the closest human she could find and began to tear them asunder. Their blood pooled in her mouth but she felt no temptation to drink it. He screamed obscene language at her but she merely laughed and finished him off, before tossing his prone form to the ground. Her eyes scoured for more enemies and she went into the fray with no hesitation.
It was only when she was tearing into her third enemy that she felt a harsh spike of shock inside her body that she knew belonged to Bella. She looked up, and sure enough, standing on the staircase and looking down, was Bella, her face a mask of horror.
"Bella, do not venture down here!" Victoria called out, warning her. She did not want her mate getting hurt. Bella could not yet control her powers. Or know the dangers of these monster hunters. She could be severely hurt.
"Victoria, what is-" Bella cut off, eyes going wide in panic on something behind Victoria. Victoria turned around, too slowly, and felt the wood pierce her shoulder. It was Edward. He was upon her, a mad grin upon his face. He was blood speckled but gleaming with manic energy. She let out a choked gasp.
He had just barely missed driving the stake into her unbeating heart. She could feel the wood inside her, so close. He pulled it out and she stumbled back, hissing in pain. She clamped a hand over the wound, black seeping out of it. "I am going to destroy you filthy blood suckers. One by one, with my own hands if I have to," he stated, breathlessly, and then lunged at her again. She stepped back, only to back up into a stone wall. He swiped at her again and she grabbed his wrist, holding it hard enough to snap his bone. If he felt any pain he gave no indication of it, instead using his other wrist to pull out the knife he was hiding.
He sank it into Victoria's side and she hissed in pain again. How the hell was he so fast?
And then, before she could even pull him off of her, he was gone. Nothing but a cool breeze to indicate he was there. A breaking sound rose over the din of the battle and as Victoria stared with wide eyes, she saw Bella standing not far from her, breathing hard, eyes black with fury. And in front of her, a hole in the wall that seemed distinctly human shaped.
Victoria peeled away from the wall, going to look through the hole. Edward lay on the ground at an unnatural angle. Victoria turned back to Bella who was returning to her rational self. Victoria swallowed, unsure how to go about telling Bella what the brunette had just done.
With Edward dead, the rest of his men lost morale and ran away. James ordered them to be hunted down because word could not get out of this place to the head of the Cullen's, King Carlisle.
Bella had been shocked by what she had done. It was clear she had not meant to kill Edward but she had lost control to the beast inside her, lost to the beast who told her to save Victoria.
Edward was dead. Victoria was of two opinions about it. For one, she was glad. One less Cullen to worry over. One less Cullen to expand his power over them. But, she was also concerned. Him being killed at their hand would not bond well. It would bring down the wrath of the King Carlisle. And then he would press down on their castle. He would wipe them all off the map, which they did not want. They were trying to build a town, not destroy it!
Naturally, they had to cover up Edward's death. Had to stage it somewhere else. Bella was inconsolable when it occurred, not coming out of her room for days and sitting there so quietly, Victoria was afraid she would kill herself. But she knew Bella was not dead, for the bond thrummed strongly.
"Tell her not to be so harsh on herself," James said when he saw Victoria perched outside Bella's door in silent worry for over three days in a row without blood. Victoria had long given up on trying to ask Bella to come outside the door. The princess would not respond. Victoria knew space and time were elemental in Bella recovering. But Victoria was going to break down the door if Bella did not come out tomorrow, because she needed to feed.
"She did us all a favor." And then he left at that.
Victoria was not so sure if the favor was worth Bella being so devastated. Victoria could feel all her ugly emotions second hand and she tried to send positive emotions to counteract those. She did not want Bella to suffer. She only ever wanted her to be happy.
Right now was a trying time, but they would get through it, step by step.
The decades melted by.
Like foreseen, James and Victoria lost the safe haven for vampyres. The Cullens had found out one way or another and destroyed the whole village, vowing revenge for Edward's death. James had insisted on staying and fighting but it was clear they could not win this, so retreat had been the best option. Bella had felt immensely guilty about all this, citing it as her fault for the town being destroyed as she was the one who killed Edward. But James would hear none of this.
"They would have come for us eventually, princess," he assured her. "It was only a matter of time."
Without a home to call their own, the vampryes went on their own path, mingling in with the more modern world. It was the 16th century after all. People were more interested in witch hunts now than vampryes. So for the most part, the vampryes had a few years of peace to look forward to.
James, however, was not one to give up easily. He was insistent that his idea of a marriage of human and vampryes in one town would work and he set off to continue just that. A few vampryes went with him to Siberia but Victoria was not one of them.
"I want to be with Bella. I want to explore the world. I have heard of many new fascinations and I want to experience them before I settle down into a town."
"I will miss you," James said, "But I understand that the mate bond is the most important bond for us and I would not dare dream of getting in the way of it."
Him and Bella had eventually reconciled and were on even ground. She considered him like an older brother now. And he too was sad to see Bella go.
"Whenever you decide to come back, you will have a place in my village," he told them, waving them off as they strode off, having no need for a horse since they could run faster than them and endure more as well.
"Thank you," Victoria hugged him to her and then turned to leave, her hand in Bella's. James waited until they were out of eyesight. Bella and Victoria walked down the road, heading to a new future.
"Where shall we go to?" Bella inquired because they had not discussed a place, just that they wanted to leave.
"With you, anywhere," Victoria stated brightly and hand in hand, they walked off into the sunset.
A/N: Next chapter is coming out the 15th of this month.