"You mean Beck!" Tori nearly had a heart attack, Beck! She didn't even know this woman, Helen, Melissa, whatever, but Beck! Really?
Helen took out a small bottle from her hand; Tori didn't know she had, and gave it to her, the contents inside it were green, and the bottle was rather tiny with a cork to hold the stuff inside.
"What is this?"
"Drink this and all your memories will come back!"
"Okay, but you should know that I trust you" Helen let out a giggle as she spoke.
"I know that dear, you always did"
With one last gulp she drank the green stuff in the bottle as she made a disgusted face, but then came a headache. With it, past memories flew in to her mind.
A small girl of 5 in a huge garden running to hug her mother whom she adores more than ever….
A girl of 10 trying her best to paint a picture on a canvas with a boy with olive tone skin and dark black hair who looks a lot like…..Beck?
The same girl of 16 who sat reading in the library when a guard called her towards the throne room where sat King Brandon, and that's when the news broke her down, she ran crying to her mother, and then that's when it all happened. Her mom had a meeting with other 2 or 3 other woman and they took Victoria and Beckett to Merlin and he opened a portal and they went inside….
"It's all coming back to me!" she replied.
"Told, you darling!"
The woman who had come in earlier opened the door and came inside.
"My sweet Victoria is back"
"Are you my mom?"
"Yes, sweetheart, I bed farewell to you with a heavy heart, and now I can't believe my eyes"
"Katherine, how did you know what we were talking about?"
"I was eavesdropping"
"Oh, you sure are my mom, alright!" The three women giggled.
"Hey mom, how many weeks ago, did I leave?"
"For you and Helen, it was 17 years, but for us it was only 2 days"
"Wow!" said Tori amazed.
"Yes, dear, and Helen told me you and Beckett go to the same school, you know you were best friends with him when you were small?"
"Yes, mom"
"Mom, you used to call me mother, dear, but it's alright"
"No, If you wanna call me mother, than I shall call you that!" she declared.
"My daughter is soooo mature now; I don't know what they did to you in the future, but I like it"
"Ooooh, let me tell you about the future, there are cars instead of carts and computers which run on electricity and TV's and…" the rest of the morning went in Victoria telling them about her present life, it was 11 am, when she stopped, with her mother dazed.
"You're majesty, I'm sorry to disturb you but the king has called for you" said the maid who just came in. "Mother, wait, I want to see Beck, I mean, Beckett right away, please"
"I know you'll want to dear, in fact I invited him to the royal banquet tonight"
"What's that?"
"It's a feast, don't worry, the maids, and Helen will assist and teach you, by the way, Beck will be hear in an hour or two, in the meanwhile you can visit the garden, you loved it there!"
"Oh, sure" said Tori.
She put on a pale blue dress ad tied her hair up in a high ponytail with some of it, coming out"
"Would, you're majesty like something to eat?" asked a maid, whose name was apparently Beck
"Oh, yes I'm starving, umm….pancakes!"
"Most apologies, you're majesties but we are not familiar with the concept" she said
"Oh, that's right, I forgot, umm…. I'll got an get something myself"
The maid guided her to the kitchen and Tori took out an apple.
"This'll be enough" She sat down on one of the rough chairs and ate it, she washed her hands from a barrel nearby and skipped out, Beth, the maid, guided her to the garden, which was GIGANTIC. She excused herself while Tori roamed around looking at the pretty flowers. She sat down near an orange tree and thought. SH thought about her lie, present, past and future. It had been 15 minutes when…..
"Boo!"
"Aaaaahhhhh" She jumped.
"Miss me?" said a voice with a hint of a cocky grin.
Tori turned around to see Beck, with that same smirk. Without warning, she threw her arms around his neck and hugged him.
"I'll take that as a yes" he said as he snaked his arms around her waist. Tori's grasp tightened.
"You know, if you come any closer I'll have the urge to kiss you till were both drunk"
"Now I know why I didn't wanna marry you"
"You can deny the attitude, but don't deny the looks, you know you want me!"
"You wish!"
They both let go.
"Let's have a stroll" he said.
"Sure"
"You know that we were…"
"Best friends when we were small? Yes"
"And that the only way we can get to our own world is….."
"Marrying each other, yes, Aunt Helen told me"
"Oh, well Rose told me, she's my mom's personal assistant, my mom was really happy to see me"
"I know mine too, but you'll really want to marry me?"
"If it's the only way out of here, then yes"
"So you'll marry me as a ticket out of here?" she asked
"Well, I can never fall in love with you, now can i?"
"Me neither, so friends until we're stuck here?"
"Sure" he stuck out his and Tori, delightfully shook it.