Your Princess is in Another Castle
Chapter 16: Our Epilogue
2012 AD
A woman with short brunette hair, and wearing tight jeans and a leather jacket, loitered outside a dingy liquor store, shades on despite the night. She watched as the cars drove past her as she stood on the street, back leaning against the store front as she waited.
It was crazy how much the world had changed and how she wouldn't have gotten to see any of it had she stayed human. So much progress in terms of technology, in science, in medicine and in social norms. It was completely normal to love a woman now and so she could be with Victoria without any shame.
Speaking of the vampire, she was emerging from the store right now, a bag full of alcohol slung around her shoulder, bottles clinking as she moved. Her red hair was bright and long, trailing down to her booty shorts. Right now they were masquerading as college students, getting a modern education. Bella had to admit she liked this era the best and she had learned the most from it. The only down side was it got really hard to keep hiding their vampire nature. There were cameras everywhere and traveling with fake ids could be tricky. But, they had to adapt to the times, didn't they?
"What'd you get?" Bella asked, because in this world she was 20 years old Isabella Marie Swan and apparently she couldn't buy alcohol. Victoria had an older fake.
"The usual fare. Cheap vodka." Finding jobs in the modern era was hard as vampires because of all the background checks needed. Luckily Victoria had been smart enough to invest in some stocks decades ago. They had stored all that money away and were carefully chipping away at it. While they had a lot, it didn't mean they couldn't be careful with it. They had who knows how many centuries left to go in their lives and it would be a shame to waste all of it in the 21st century.
"Good. Hopefully we can find a snack at this party." They were never at a loss for blood on campus. Find some hot people to make out with, suck on their neck a little. Most of the time they didn't even notice. And it wasn't like they didn't ask. They did, asking if they could bite the person and the person agreed to it, probably thinking it wasn't an actual bite but a hickey.
"You're the only snack I want," Victoria smiled, linking her arm with Bella's as they walked down the darkened street.
"Well, good thing you can enjoy me for all eternity," Bella responded with. They had fared many ages, revolts, and golden eras, and yet their love had remained the same. Yes, it had been difficult getting to it, but now they had it, and it was the one constant in their life. They had changed their mannerisms, their looks, and their world views but not the strength of their love. They were as gone on each other as they had been in the dark ages.
"Yes, all of eternity," Victoria said with a soft sigh and they walked down towards their campus and the rest of their future. Who knew, that all those ages ago, when Bella had been brought to the castle unwillingly, that she and Victoria would have fallen in love. Would have formed a soul mate bond.
They were lucky it had ended up this way. And they wouldn't change it for anything.
Walking hand in hand now, they looked forward to seeing what the rest of eternity would bring them together.
A/N: This is the end of this story. Once Bella and Victoria sort of leave the castle, the story is at an end because the castle is a metaphor for a place that caged both of them in different ways (Victoria with accepting her mate is human, and with Bella coming out to her sexuality) and once they confirm their love for each other, the castle can no longer hold them. They have a long future ahead of them and I think it's best to leave off at this point.
I have plans to write another Vicella story at some point in the future, but if not I have one out called the Taxi Ride that's been completed that y'all can check out.