Chapter Seventeen: Epilogue

Most of Aeon's history books stayed in his own time considering he didn't want to take any chances with anyone from Synthia's time to get a hold of them. There were also too many books. He'd let Alucard store some of them in his place, as much as he could fit from all the way to the beginning of time up until their recent time. That's what empty rooms were for, Alucard had told him.

Alucard did have a lot of space, so Aeon left Alucard to that job. Later, he found that all the history from the beginning of time dealing with humans up until 100 years ago from their time had fit in all that extra space. Aeon was relieved about that, for he thought of the future books being little of a threat to anyone who stumbled upon them. He kept the books in those 100 years that Alucard couldn't fit in boxes and lined those up in Alucard's living room. He didn't mind that at all.

"Well, there's that," Aeon said, looking again in his own clock tower. No one had been up there ever since he was living there. And that's been...forever. He was just taking extra precautions, and he trusted Alucard enough by now to know that no one would go into that extra room of his. Alucard could look in the books all he wanted, but it was just history.

"I'll see you around, Aeon," Alucard said as a goodbye.

"Oh, you will," Aeon said. "See you later." He stepped into the time warp and closed the hole after him. Synthia was standing there.

"Hello you," Synthia said, greeting him with a soft kiss. He kissed back, loving the mood she was in. "James woke up. Might wanna go check that out." Aeon left his blade in Synthia's room, and he quickly went to Smiddy's location to see James with his father.

"Him Father!" James said. "He's a time keeper...and..."

"Al was right," the mayor said. "He hit himself a hard one." Aeon knew James remembered Dracula, but they weren't going to mention that one.

"His name is...Aeon," James said. The mayor looked to the time keeper.

"He knows my name, but I can assure you Sir, I am no time keeper," Aeon said.

"But your blade..." James began and Aeon drew an old blade he had attached to his belt. It was just like any ordinary work anyone could find at a good blacksmith's shop. James sat in silence. Aeon was also wearing his red coat and he'd died his hair black. He still kept the monocle though.

"Come on, Son," the mayor said. "Let's go home. You need some rest. These were all just dreams you've been having."

"They are real, Father," James insisted.

"Son, come now," the mayor said. "We are going to make you forget about all of this. Dreams can be powerful things." The two of them left, and Aeon was content knowing that the mayor took their side of things. Now even if the word did get out, no one would ever believe James.

"There we go," Marry said. "All fixed. Now, you two are going to sit and eat." Smiddy sat right away and he insisted Aeon sit.

"Marry makes the best roast you will ever taste," Smiddy said as a compliment. Marry smiled and brought the food out to the kitchen table. Synthia was called down as well, and they all sat to eat dinner, for once getting the chance to just talk. Not about anything strange like the past few days. The secret was kept safe and there were other topics to be discussed.

"So," Smiddy mentioned. "When's the wedding?" Marry laughed seeing Aeon swallow his water down the wrong tube and Synthia's face. Aeon coughed, quickly getting the water to go the right way and Synthia spoke up.

"It's a bit early for that sort of talk," she said. Aeon nodded, only agreeing. He didn't want to say anything he'd regret later.

A week later, things had been going rather well for everyone. Marry got some steady business with some sort of tournament a town nearby was holding. Her place was the best to stay considering she had plenty of room, and she allowed the new arrivals to store everything in their rooms. The windows were all equipped with locks as well.

Aeon and Synthia were going strong, and Aeon knew that his life would take a turn for the better. He didn't mind that at all. Being a time keeper he'd always thought meant that he would be forever alone with his duties. This wasn't the case at all, and he could actually have a life. He wasn't sure what was going to happen though. He was immortal after all. Perhaps there was something that would happen that would make Synthia able to stay with him. After all, if things kept going the way they did, Aeon would surely do anything to keep her by his side forever.

One night, the two were sharing a bed, and things were getting rather heated. She'd kissed him once and for some reason, he just wanted to tackle her. So he did, naturally, and so began that atmosphere...

Until it was ruined.

"Whoa!" a familiar voice said. "I really didn't need to see that guys!"

"Alucard!" Aeon exclaimed. "Really?" The vampire smiled and laughed. He was just giving Aeon some crap.

"Why are you here?" Synthia asked.

"I've come to tell Aeon somethin'," Alucard said. "We've got a situation. Um, the death of James is still the same..." Aeon climbed out of bed and brought Alucard out into the kitchen.

"His death is the same but the mayor apparently does something rash. He bans anyone from going up to Dracula's castle...at all," Alucard said.

"That's no big deal," Aeon said. "Someone from another area starts the whole other Dracula scenario. Don't worry, he can ban that all he wants." Alucard was relieved to hear that, and he went back through the hole in time back in Synthia's room. Just when Aeon climbed back in, Alucard's voice came again.

"Um Aeon, how do I shut the... time hole?" Alucard asked. Aeon rolled his eyes and got out of bed again. He picked up his sword and closed the hole himself.

"See you around, Alucard. Thanks for checking in with me," Aeon said before completely closing it.

"Bye Aeon. Bye Synthia!" Alucard said.

Synthia laughed slightly as Aeon came back into bed with her.

"Well, that ruined the mood," Synthia said, lying on her side.

"Kind of," Aeon agreed, then sliding his hands up and down her side. "But I bet I can recreated it..." However, Synthia just rolled over and brought him onto his back.

"It's okay," she said, cuddling in close to him and yawning. "I'm a little tired anyway. I do love you though. We'll do that another time." Aeon sighed, letting the situation be as it would. Freaking Alucard, he thought to himself. Ruin my moment...especially that one! Damn that vampire.

He wasn't going to complain though. He'd have plenty of other chances with Synthia. He watched her sleep a while before he too fell asleep...much easier than ever before...maybe because for once in his long life, he was content with everything. He'd fixed his problem and now he had the most beautiful girl sleeping next to him, and that beautiful girl loved him. That was something no amount of time could ever give him...a place to call his home and the love of a girl. A girl named Synthia.