For 130 years, Nikola and Helen have done whatever they wanted without any repercussions. Now some things have caught up with the pair Are they ready to live with the consequences?
Hobbits Notes
There is a wonderful deleted scene in SFN2 where *SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER *
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Nikola gets drunk. And he is awesome!
I want to thank my lovely brother Glitch, the Nikola to my Helen for helping me with the song choice. It is called ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN and it is fantastic (for the more or less pop culturally inclined, it is the song playing during the boxing match in Sherlock Holmes) this is dedicated to you Nam, I'm just running out of lovey crap to put in the dedications.
I may use Nikola to my Helen again...
Helen read the paper again and shook her head in disbelief. How did this happen? How could she LET this happen? She should have known better.
"Upon my stick a wobblin'. blah blah.. for the rogue, They said my Connacht brogue, something happened, On the rocky road to Dublin.
One, two, three, four five, Hunt the hare and turn her Down the rocky road And all the ways to Dublin, I forgot the rest"
Helen stood disbelievingly. She only knew one person who favored Rocky road to Dublin when drunk. she ran to the front door and opened it in Tesla, with his coat hanging off. and a chemistry flask with a pink umbrella turned to face her grinning madly.
"Nikola!"
"Helen!" Nikola threw his arms wide and continued his song.
"From there...something away,
My spirits never failin' something something on the something..quay
As the ship was sailin'
Nikola paused for a moment apparently trying to remember the next line.
"On the rocky road to Dublin" he gave up and took another sip.
"You have to admire the Irish. They are really the only ones who can get completely fit-shaced and still sing a fassst pa-paced twist tonguer of a song." Nikola grinned. "Jish dun lettem write abou vampires. That is ...the only thing, they cant write about..hic..vampires."
Helen sighed and pulled him inside. "Nikola what are you doing?"
"Ce-s-s-s-elebrating! And mourning." Nikola took a long drink from his flask and stumbled against her. "Not in that order... Did I ever tell you that you have the mosst gorgeous blue eyes in the- in the Universe?"
"Yes in 1875, before the source blood. The last time you were drunk enough to sing Rocky- Nikola what are you doing here?" Helen shook herself.
"I came to -hic- see- you! I missed you Hel-len." Nikola smirked triumphantly "I was.. I rebuilt my still I had to rebuild my still.. you blew up my last one. And the last conversation we had wasn't a good one. And I wished we had had a better conversation. The kiss was nice... I liked- the kiss. I lied it a lot. It was a little short for my taste.. But I intend to remedy that. Soon. Real soon.
A cabin found for Paddy,
Down among the pigs I played some funny rigs,
Danced some hearty jigs, The water round me bubblin',Something something something and the rocky road to Dublin 1234..fiiiive."
Helen pulled Nikola along. "What kiss? " She bluffed.
Nikola stopped and looked at her reproachfully. "Helen. How cou caould you? How can you deny the single greatest moment of that day?"
"Nikola you do recall that was the same day we stopped an entire colony of abnomals from certain death by-"
Helen stopped and fumed. she just admitted to remembering the kiss. And judging from the look on his face, it was exactly what Nikola had been after. "Oh alright. I kissed you. But only to make you stop asking so many questions."
"Meh"
"Nikola, how did you find this place? "
"I realized I always knew." Nikola slurred "I was umm.. I was what was I doing? Oh I rebuilt my ssst my stilll and I I was mourning your loss you I thought. brief- briefly mind you that you had died." Nikola pouted. I was mourning your death and drinking winequila.
"Nikola, you need to think of better names for things." Helen sighed.
"I tried, but I was drunk. So I named my drink and tried to recall the last REAL conversations we had. And the only one that came to mind was when I confronted you about the truth. New York 1901."
"Not this again Nikola." Helen sighed
"And you Helen you -you- you're a minx! You really are Helen. A naughty sexy minx" He grinned sloppily. Helen tugged on his arm, and he complied following her to the main living quarters.
"Focus Nikola. How did you get here?"
" You aren't letting that go are you?" Nikola tittered. "Very well then I umm I fixed my still. And I drank a boatload of winequila. And I got to thinking. I confronted you about going to hollow earth in the early 20th century. But Praxis was gone. Now the thing is, the buildings were destroyed, but there was no sign of any one there. They all seemed to have gotten out, all saved in the nick of time. I know you Helenn I know you! You don't have any secrets from Me. No surprises."
"I wouldn't be so sure of that." Helen sighed, thinking of the paper in her office.
"Then I realized you wouldn't blow up your sanctuary without having a place for your abnormals. Somewhere hidden. And the only place for hundreds of years is Hollow earth. But of course you be the only one who knew about it, and you would have to survive to run it. And here you are! Alive and well." Nikola grinned. "this calls for a toast!" Nikola smiled and drank down the last of his flask and played with his umbrella. Helen opened a wood door and pushed Nikola gently into a small white bedroom.
"You're in here for the night. I'll come and look in on you later."
"Couldn't I stay in your room with you?" Nikola pouted. "I'll get lonely in here."
"I'll come and look in on you in a little bit." Helen promised. Nikola wrapped his arms around her waist and sighed.
One, two, three, four five,
Hunt the hare and turn her
Down the rocky road
And all the ways to Dublin,
Nikola twirled the umbrella in his hand as though mesmerized and fell back on the bed.
Whack-fol-lol-de-ra.
And he was out.