Summary: Nikola and Helen take an unexpected trip from working on the 3D city to a certain classic Romance.
Disclaimer: If I owned Sanctuary, Nikola would be with the sanctuary family, he'd be a vampire, and he'd be constantly kidnapped and tortured. So obviously, I don't own.
A/N:Hello and welcome to another Nikola/Helen romance! I just recently finished my first Sanctuary story, Trapped to Save a Lover. Now, enjoy chapter one!
Romeo and Juliet
Chapter One
"You're incorrigible." The snow was falling hazardously around the two. It was a cold December day; the whole city was littered with the white powder.
"Where are we?" Nikola asked, wandering a little ways down the street.
"Nikola! Get back here! It's dangerous." Helen warned, calling him back. Nikola came back, his arms crossed indifferently.
"Fine. So where are we? We're obviously no longer in the Sanctuary." Nikola looked around him, perplexed and ever curious.
Helen sighed, and looked down to a fallen book, now completely covered in snow. She picked up the book and flipped through its pages. "Just as I feared-"
"Where, Helen, where?" Nikola pondered eagerly.
Helen shook her head, taking a quick look around her. "I believe we are in Verona-"
Nikola grinned. "Italy?"
Previously, at the Sanctuary- "You're incorrigible, Nikola, simply incorrigible." Helen and Nikola sat in the library, taking a much deserved break from studying the 3D city- not because Nikola temporarily timed it out or anything. "It wasn't my fault, Helen. The city simply just doesn't register our need to understand it- and it must clearly not register that I am its boss, NOT the other way around!" Nikola ranted, almost turning red with rage. Helen laughed softly. She was curled up in the big, burgundy chair, covered with a warm blanket. She had an old book in her hand, the pages a strange tinge of tan. Nikola sniffed in disgust. "What is that stupid thing you have been involved with instead of listening to me?" "Hm?" Helen looked up, as if she had just noticed he was there. "Oh, this? This is a book, Nikola. I thought your brilliance would have seen one before." Helen smirked, noting his obvious irritation.
Nikola groaned. "Yes, I know it's a book. I meant, which book is it. It looks old, and, quite frankly, smelly."
Helen faked offended. "This is my favorite book!" A grin appeared on her face. "It's Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet- a special edition. He himself signed the cover!
Nikola rolled his eyes. "Oh, that book. Why do you read that? I mean, it tells you how it ends on the first page!"
Helen ignored him, still reading. "It's a classic of intense drama and romance. You wouldn't understand." Helen waited for Nikola's sure reaction, smiling into her book.
Nikola stood up, aghast. "Wouldn't understand? I, the brilliant, wouldn't understand a stupid chick flick? I understand just fine, thank you very much! Two enemies fall in love, but their families criticize them. A little thinking would have saved them from their untimely death! If Romeo would've just taken things slow and talked to her parents, they might have lived happily ever after-" The 3D city came back to life. "Lookie here, just in the nick of time, too. C'mon dear, let's get back to work, shall we?" Helen nodded, and soon they were back to studying the city.
The minutes floated on endlessly, but seemingly no progress was being made. A few minutes later, Nikola called for Helen to come see something.
"What is it?" Helen asked, walking to a standing position beside Nikola.
"I'm not sure. It's a small dome building- different than all the other buildings. "Nikola was on his knees studying the small building. "Hey, take a look at this, Helen. There's a strange symbol- like hovering over the other buildings- on the roof!
"Hm, I think I've seen this building before somewhere," Helen went over and grabbed her old book off the chair. Getting down on her knees beside Nikola, Helen began flipping through the pages of Romeo and Juliet.
Finding the page, she showed it to Nikola. It was an old picture of the dome in the 3D city.
"Interesting," Nikola muttered, for the most part to himself. "Where is this?"
"It's-"
"Wait, look!" Nikola cut her off, pointing at the strange symbol on the dome. It had begun to glow.
Helen leaned closer to Nikola to get a better look. Nikola smirked, but Helen did notice. "This truly is perplexing. What does the symbol look like, Nikola? It's too small; I can't see it."
Nikola peered closely at the small building. "Uhm, a rug? Maybe... No, a piece of paper? I don't... Oh! It's a book! It is an open book. A book? Really?" Nikola sounded quite disappointed that it wasn't something more dynamic.
Helen picked up her Father's journal and went to the page with the symbol translations. "Strange. That one doesn't seem to be in here. Are you sure it's a book?"
"Positive."
Helen was perplexed. She put down the journal and picked up Romeo and Juliet. "Well, I'm not sure what it is, but I suggest not to-"
Nikola pushed the button.
"-touch it."
A/N: I hope you enjoyed chapter one! Please review! Ah, Nikola. Always touching things he shouldn't. REVIEW! :D