The Taxi Ride

Chapter Thirty Two: Epilogue

A/N: Read all your lovely reviews and there were a lot of different thoughts on what should happen to Bella. Thus, I decided to not make the changes occur but will have Bella discuss the possibility of being a vampire with Victoria so that it's kind of hinted at in the future to come.

Things after that surprisingly went back to normal, or as normal as they could ever be for us. Sure, Bella and I had to discover the new boundaries and levels of our relationship, and had to overcome the whole 'she's a human and I'm a vampire thing', in which I educated her more about vampire traits and habits. I had to defeat my urge for human blood and turn vegan; the Cullen's helping with that. Alice was surprisingly supportive and we quickly became friends, while I remained enemies with Edward and couldn't care less that he faulted me for taking away Bella who was' his' mate. Really, the boy was delusional. He needed help.

The other members of the Coven didn't take as quickly to me as Alice had, but I didn't really care. There was time for that, especially given with the way they had settled down and made their home in the little college town for the duration of Bella's education here.

Bella went back to school and so did I. We had both missed a week of classes and had much work to catch up on. It was almost silly being back in school given what supernatural events had just occurred not too long ago, but doing something so mundane helped bring back normalcy to our lives. We did our work, went to campus events, and hung out with Bella's friend group, to which she now introduced me as her girlfriend.

It made my dead heart swell with joy that she was being so open about me. Her friends were very accepting and they didn't even bat an eye at our new relationship, just welcomed us in and treated me as if I had been friends with them as long as they had with Bella. Jake too had supported mine and Bella's relationship, though begrudgingly. We weren't enemies, intent on tearing each other's throats out, but that didn't mean I was in the clear on dating Bella.

"You hurt her," he warned me, "And I'll hunt down your ass."

I had merely chuckled at his attempts. "I'd like to see you try, wolf boy. I'm still stronger than you." But more seriously I added, "don't worry. I'd rather die first than hurt her."

He nodded his head, smile tight but proud of my devotion.

Still I knew Jake was watching me, waiting for me to slip up. No one else did that more than Edward whose breath was constantly against the back of my neck, eyes following me and Bella around whenever we would walk across campus. I knew this wasn't sitting well with him and it was only a matter of time before he pulled some stunt on us. So I was wary and almost always on guard, ready to turn him into dust if he so much as did her harm. For now he was forbidden from talking to her or even being around her for her own safety but he had a crazy gleam in his eyes that I only knew too well.

Lunches at school were now louder given that Alice liked to pop up and 'eat' with us as did Jake. Sometimes Emmett would join in, or Jasper, and I found my irritation at their appearance fading away with each intrusion when I saw how happy it made Bella. She told me about her past with them when we had a moment to ourselves, snuggled up on her window seat. "Back in high school I used to date Edward and with him came the privilege of being able to hang out with his family. They were cool people and I really liked them especially Alice and Emmett. But when he broke up with me they all left because he didn't want to expose me to 'vampires and a dangerous life' anymore." She mocked him by using a deeper tone.

"And then I came along and did that anyways," I commented easily because now that I had Bella safe in my hands it was easier to joke about such things since they were a thing of the past. I pulled her closer to me, resting my chin on her shoulder.

"Yea," she smiled and pulled my hand so it could rest in her lap, fingers laced together. We sat in amicable silence for a while. I looked out the window while she wrote some notes onto her required class readings. I was focusing on the squirrels racing around in the trees and not on the students sitting below them. I no longer drank human blood and had to start forcing myself into thinking that those tiny mammals in the trees were much tastier.

It was hard when I had never had to hold back from taking what I wanted but I would do it, for Bella and for our future.

"Hey Victoria...can I ask you something?" Bella's voice is tentative and it pulls me from my mindless repetitions of human are friends not food. "Yes, what is it?"

She squirms, struggling to find the right words. "I uh, what about our future."

"Our future?"

"Yea." She nods her head. "I've been thinking a lot about it. I won't be around forever and you will."

My chest clenched in pain. I knew exactly what she was talking about. "Bella...the process to becoming a vampire is horrific. I was forced to become one against my will and it took away my humanity from me. I've just only rediscovered it by being with you...but being this monster is not fun. You have these dark desires inside you and it..." I shook my head at this. How could I ever explain this fully to Bella?

"That's okay," Bella squeezed my hand. "It's just a thought. We can talk more about it later on."

"Yes. Thank you," I sigh out in relief because her inquires had dredged up a lot of things in my thoughts I had refused to acknowledge. Like how she was human and that meant she would die and leave me all alone. I didn't want to suffer without her in my life but I also didn't want to curse her into an eternal life she might not want. It would be best to think more on this. Either way I knew I would support whatever choice she made because I loved her and she was my mate.

More time passed as the end of the semester drew near, and dating was something as natural to us as breathing. The way our hands would tangle together whenever they were free. The way our bodies gravitated towards each other, always seeking contact with each other. The way we knew how the other was feeling without having to say anything. Now that we had accepted our mate bonds it was easy to be closer to one another, closer than we had ever thought possible. And with that closeness came the crossing of a new line between us, one we both passed naturally and one which had teased between us for months on end.

We were supposed to be studying. Or at least Bella was. But the attentions meant for her textbook quickly fell on me and I did nothing to dissuade her from pursuing a more interesting topic: making out.

I had been sitting on the couch next to her, perusing a magazine on fashion lazily as Bella sat next to me, almost pressed upon my frame. Our thighs were touching and I could sense her buzzing excitement at sitting this close to me. I didn't have to be a mind reader like Edward to tell what she was thinking or feeling. The want in her eyes, the way she'd bite her bottom lip as she gazed at me in what she thought were covert glances. And the way her breath would hitch sometimes when I leaned in too closely. Like now.

"What you reading there?" I asked quietly, peering in over her shoulder at her book, chin digging into her shoulder. We were in a small secluded part of the library, but that didn't mean I had to be loud. I didn't want someone coming in and bothering us, interrupting our time together.

"Uh, just some biology stuff. I have to take a science requirement course and I picked this one. Seemed easy." Her voice was shaky and she tried to clear her throat from making it sound too raspy. But I could hear her pulse in my ears, a fast rhythm that begged me to do more; to make it even faster.

I let my eyes trail over the words written there. "And since Darwin, *snore," I gave up reading quite quickly and Bella gave a little laugh at my snore, her shoulder rising in amusement and jostling my chin.

"I can see science isn't your forte," Bella turned her head to look me more in the eyes. Our lips were only two inches apart and her breath hitched again as she realized that. Her eyes instantly sought out my lips. I knew what she wanted. It was the same thing I wanted. So I leaned in slowly and kissed her. Her eyes fluttered shut at the soft touch. Our lips moved silently together, unhurried. The kiss was gentle, an introduction for those to follow it.

As she began to get more into it, I applied more pressure, let my tongue trace the seam of her lips. She let out a small gasp as she opened her mouth and let me in. I stroked her tongue with mine. The book from her lap fell with a small thud but she left it there, her left hand coming up to grab onto the front of my shirt, nails almost scratching my collar bone. I tilted my head more so that she could now slide her tongue into my mouth. It wasn't as aggressive as mine had been but I sucked on it greedily, swallowing her resounding groan at my administrations.

Gently I pushed her down onto the couch, wanting to press my body against hers. She spread her legs, hanging one off the edge of the couch and the other over the back of it so I could fit more easily. Our hips melded together, breasts on top of breasts.

I pulled away to give Bella time to catch her breath, feeling her chest heave under me. It rubbed the right way against my ultra sensitive and hard nipples, making my lower body tingle in increasing arousal. Bella's own arousal swam through my head, making me feel light and like I was losing control.

I trailed my lips down her neck, sucking right under her jaw line. She missed my mouth on hers and to keep occupied she brushed my red hair out of the way and began to suck on my neck too. Instantly whatever arousal I felt was tripled, all of my skin increasingly sensitive all over. I stifled a low moan at her touch, hips jolting forwards and roughly into hers. She let out a gasp that turned into a low appreciative noise.

"Your neck is so erogenous," she murmured appreciatively, slow drawing her lips down to my pulse point.

"Oh, you have no idea," I husked, desiring her to suck on my neck some more.

She hummed in thought and then began to suck on another patch of my skin. My hips stuttered forwards again seeking to find some stimulation to get rid of the throb between them. It was like it was in every inch of my body, pounding away, making me ache from my toes to my fangs to touch, to be touched, to get sweet, sweet, release. My hands splayed against her stomach, feeling the muscles there shift as I began to roll my hips into her, unable to bare keeping them still. She began to breath more heavily and moved her hips along with my motions.

She kept sucking on that same spot before releasing the skin between her teeth with a soft pop. I lifted my head up I could kiss her, could swallow up her pink lips with my ruby red ones, but she wasn't done yet. She attacked my neck once more, this time trailing her teeth and lightly nipping at my suctioned flesh.

"Ahhh," was my intelligent response as my hips violently thrust forwards, causing Bella to moan into my skin. I was worried I could have hurt her. I needed to control my emotions so my strength wouldn't break her. But it was so hard. I was so fucking wet, I was sure my panties must give the ocean a run for its money. I couldn't hold on any longer. And Bella couldn't either. She began to arch into each of my hip thrusts. She was close. I could smell it.

So I pushed up her shirt and violently snatched off of bra, tossing it somewhere. I began to roll her nipples under each hand, feeling them pebble and turn even harder. "Victoria," Bella half moaned half panted. "I think-I think...I mean I can't-"

"Me too," I admitted with a groan. This was going to be so sad. Humping away on a couch like two teens and getting off of it. No, I wouldn't let our first time be in such a location. She deserved the luxury of a bed. So I picked Bella up and using my vampiric speed, delivered the both of us onto her bed. She noticed the shift but didn't mind and only there, could we finally finish what we started with shaking fingers twisting and turning and tuning our bodies together. With hot lips up and down our abdomens.

Her hand curled into my red locks and she turned her face into my neck as she let out a low moan, her body shaking under mine. I soon followed after her, my core squeezing tightly, almost painfully, before I came, hips jerking and twitching as I buried my own exclamation of pleasure into Bella's hair.

I was left breathless even though I didn't breath and I felt a phantom heartbeat in my chest. But it only turned out to be Bella's, her heart rate slowing down as she came to. Her lips were swollen and her hair mussed. Her brown eyes were lethargic on mine. They looked self satisfied but also a bit embarrassed.

"I'm sorry, it...was uh, a long time since, you know," she admitted softly. I chuckled, stroking her fevered cheek. "You have nothing to apologize for. It was a long time for both of us and this moment was extremely overdue." I had always been afraid I could hurt her when we finally consummated our love but now I had full confidence in our mate bond and I knew that my instincts would never allow me to hurt her. Still, I would remain mindful of her every time we indulged.

And as she pressed her lips against mine once more in hurry to be to a second round, I couldn't help but think how much I loved her and how lucky I was that Bella was my mate.

While things still weren't perfect, with the threat of Edward wanting to ruin our relationship, and Jake making sure I took good care of Bella, they came close to being. Bella and I were ridiculously in love and happy and surrounded by people who cared about us. This included Laurent, who I had finally called and spilled the whole story too, explaining why I had ever left in the first place.

He had been understanding, though a bit mad which was reasonable given we were friends and I had kept this from him for a while, and came down to visit me in college. He had found the town cute, and the girls even cuter and decided he would be staying here for a while. I was delighted by that, but warned him he would have to switch to an animal blood diet if he wanted to stay.

"You are so whipped," he had laughed but agreed somewhat to try it out. "Don't want to attract too much attention to me and there's a coven of vegan vampires who I do not want to piss off."

Everyone seemed to be fitting in into their new life, even Edward who begrudgingly found solace in writing 'anonymous' songs about how much he hated mine and Bella's relationship and performing them for the college at various events, where he garnered a rabid group of fan girls that swooned over his looks and soft crooning. The only person who was unlucky in this new arrangement was Bella's unlikable roommate, Lauren.

Alice, Emmett, Jasper, Jake, Laurent, Angela, Mike, Bella and I would crowd her room and Lauren would sit at her desk, hunched over irritably while we laughed and talked about everyday things. "Why is this all happening in my room," she snarked under her breath but since we all had excellent hearing bar Bella, we heard her.

"Shut up Lauren!" came the chorus from us and she jolted in her seat, shocked.

"How did they hear me?" she swore under her breath, hunching more over her work.

"Oh, and it's not only your room," I pointed out additionally, taking Bella's hand in mine and kissing the knuckles. "It's Bella's too."

Bella smiled at me warmly. "All of ours," she insisted, her words encompassing every one of her friends and mine.

A/N: Thanks for sticking along for the ride (cuz the story's called Taxi Ride...lol I'll stop with the puns).

Now that this series is finished, I'm going to move on and write another Bella/Victoria (do they even have a ship name? I'm gonna label them Vicella) called Your Princess is in my Castle. Check it out if it sounds interesting. It will, however, be rated M and deal with more adult material than with this fic.