Epilogue

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Two figures sat on a high rooftop and looked out across the Washington skyline, leaning against each other affectionately. It was just past sundown and the sounds of the past day were beginning to fade away in favour of the clamour of the city's nightlife.

"There will be a festival in Philadelphia next month," the tallest figure muttered. "Three days and nights. Could be a good excuse to go for a visit…"

"I wish you would stop asking," a gentler voice sighed in answer. "You know I can never go back there. Aren't we happy here?"

"You should go back there," the first voice said firmly. "There is nowhere we should be unable to go. We are-"

"No."

There was a tense silence, that was only broken when the tallest figure wrapped an arm around the other and pulled her closer. "I'm sorry…" she muttered. "I didn't mean to-."

"I know…" her companion replied. "It's okay, Katja." The distant lights of the city were just bright enough to give a gentle shine to the fangs that she bore when she smiled.

Katja sighed. "You're just as beautiful now as the day I met you," she said. She looked down at their hands, clasped together in a knot of pale and brown skin. "The loveliest kine I'd ever seen…"

There was another short silence as they both looked at the sky again.

"I love you, Beth," Katja muttered.

She smiled. "I love you too."

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A/N:

And…there we are! That was it!

This is by far the longest, darkest, most elaborate thing I've ever written and now it is over I only have two questions for you:

What did you think of it? I'm dying to know.

(I'm sorry for uploading so late. To be honest I forgot. is really more work to maintain than AO3. If you want to read more of my bloodlines work, I suggest you find me there, because I don't think I'll be uploading new stories here.)

In any case thank you for reading all the way to the end and may your life be free of cruelty dressed up as mercy. Goodnight.