A/N: This is set after Sleepers so if you haven't seen that, you might want too. The idea for this story came to me thanks to discussions with my fellow Troopers and Teslenites on GW, so props and thanks to them :) This will have Teslen (Helen/Nikola) moments throughout it and major ones later on, just warning. This is only my second chapter fic so bear with me. Reviews are more than welcome =]

Things had begun to settle at the Old City Sanctuary after all the excitement with the trust fund vampires had been sorted out. It had taken awhile, but eventually Nikola had gotten a handle on his new magnetic abilities. Helen had helped him as best she could, coming up with little training exercises for him and helped him get things unstuck from him. This had been quite the task which had frustrated Nikola greatly, as well as Helen, who could not figure out why it was difficult. Then after, about a week or so, Nikola began noticing that whenever Helen came into a room he was occupying, his powers went a little haywire. This knowledge in mind he began to compensate and it wasn't long before he had full control over his powers.

Nikola had had a few discussions with Helen and it had been decided that he would remain at the Sanctuary. Neither Helen nor Nikola had admitted to it aloud, but they were thrilled with this decision. During the weeks prior to the decision was made, the old bond of friendship had been re-forged and was stronger than ever. Nikola, whose feelings towards Helen had always been painfully clear to him, felt those feelings growing much stronger. Helen, on the other hand, had always felt strongly about Nikola in a way she wasn't sure of, but now with his mortality glaring in her face she was having a harder time sorting out what to do with those feelings. The decision to stay afforded them both the opportunity to not only enjoy their friendship, but sort a few things out.

So it was that one day Kate come bursting in and found Helen and Nikola sitting close together on her couch, sipping some wine and discussing who was the better poet, Boreas or Whitman.

"Oh, sorry. I thought Magneto was in his lab."

Nikola gave Kate a glaring look but said nothing. Although he disapproved of this new name she had given him almost as much as Henry, he did not totally detest Kate. Her sarcastic sense of humor was growing on him. Helen gave Kate a smile and said,

"That's quite alright Kate. I had just won the argument anyways. "

"You mean I had just won." Nikola spoke up.

"What is it you need Kate?" Helen asked, slightly rolling her eyes and dismissing Nikola's statement.

"I got a call from an old associate of mine. He said had information about remnants of the Cabal…"

"Cabal remnants?" Nikola raised an eyebrow, "I thought dear Jack took care of them."

Kate shrugged,

"Apparently baldy missed a few. Anyways I wanted to let you know that Henry and I are taking a van to follow up on it."

"Alright," Helen nodded. "Be careful and let me know what you get the moment you get back."

Kate nodded and turned on her heels to grab Henry and set off. Nikola put his wine glass down, leaned back, and looked at Helen.

"I really do not like the sound of this Helen. The Cabal were dangerous and a huge annoyance in our lives for way to long. And remnants are bound to be more desperate and therefore more dangerous."

"I know Nikola," Helen sighed, "But let's not jump to conclusions and wait and see what Kate turns up. Now, what were you saying about thinking you'd won the discussion?"

Henry gave Kate an unsettled look.

"Seriously, could this guy have picked a sketchier spot to meet us?"

It was late in the evening and the sun was just beginning to touch the horizon as Henry pulled the van to a stop at one end of a back alley the side doors of the van facing down the alley and the engine pointing back towards the main road, ready for a quick getaway. Kate looked down the alley, it was definitely shady but all she said to Henry was,

"Ehh, it's not a big deal. I've been to waay sketchier meeting places."

"What's this associates name anyway?"

"Never got his real name, always just called himself Poseidon."

"Are you kidding me?"

"Nope. It has to do with the hair. You'll see."

Then a figure appeared around the corner at the far end of the alley. Kate recognized the hunched figure and blue beard instantly. She hopped out and before walking down towards the guy said to Henry,

"See what I meant?"

"Yeah," Henry replied to her back, "The hair explains it perfectly."

Kate hadn't made it even halfway down the alley when the guy had reached her.

"Poseidon, I thought you had disappeared for good." Kate said to him.

"I might if you don't keep it down!" he shushed her, "I got some real good information, but it's going to cost you."

"What's your price?" Kate asked, uncertainty rattling in her gut.

"I want asylum at the Sanctuary."

Shocked Kate stammered,

"I…uh…yeah sure. But from who?"

"The Cabal, or what's left of them. I used to work with them, as you know. I was contacted by a scientist I use to associate with who worked for them too. He told me that he and a few others who survived the attack from Ashley's father had found each other, banded together, and decided to rebuild."

"That's really bad…"

"That's only the half of it! One of the first things they did was get their hands on the Source Blood since one of them was an assistant to the doctor that made the super-abnormal's. They used the Blood and the research to make a new serum. One that once injected apparently instantly brainwashes and turns a person into the super-abnormal."

"How do you know all this?"

"I thought it'd be a good idea at first, to join up with them. I got in pretty deep over the last few months or so. But once I found out about the super-abnormal serum, I decided it was time for me to get out of there."

"Yeah, I think it's best if we get out of here to finish this conversation back at the Sanctuary." Kate said him.

They turned to go to the van and there was a shot from the building above. Poseidon fell to the ground as Kate pivoted, taking out her gun, and fired it at the rooftop. She saw a dark shadow duck away from the edge and heard the van door opening. She grabbed Poseidon, dragged him into the back of the van, slammed the door and Henry pulled the van away. Kate flipped Poseidon onto his back and examined the wounds, pulling out two small darts. Thinking nothing of it Kate flicked them away and opened the medical kit, and began tending to the wounds. She had just dialed Magnus to tell her to prep for a gunshot wound when she noticed the claws beginning to elongate on Poseidon's hand.

"Kate?" Helens voice spoke in her ear, "Are you there? What is it?"

Kate flipped the body over and opened the eyelids,

"Oh my god."

"KATE?!"

"Please hold Kate is currently dumping a SUPER ABNORMAL out of a moving van!"

Henry had turned around at Kate's "oh my god" and seen the claws, red eyes, and swerved down an alley. Kate put her phone down, opened the side door, and shoved the body out. As the door closed again Henry hit the gas and took a left out of the alley.

"HOLY CRAP!"

"No kidding!" Kate replied, picking up the phone, "Sorry Magnus. We had a slight problem but it's taken care of."

"What the bloody hell is going on?!"

"Oh, nothing really. My informant got shot after telling us that the Cabal are back with the Source Blood and then turned into a super-abnormal. Nothing we couldn't handle."

"WHAT?! Get back here immediately!" Helen ordered, horrified.

"We were thinking of picking up some Chinese first but if you say immediately, immediately it is." Kate drawled before hanging up.

A few minutes later and Henry had paused at the main gate to enter the code. Kate had moved up front to sit beside Henry. He had just punched the last number when there was a sound from the back of the van. They both turned and saw Poseidon glaring them down from the back of the van.

"YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME!!" Kate hollered.

Henry hopped out his door and bolted for the Sanctuary as Kate emptied a cartridge into the super-abnormal's head. She then dashed out her door, re-loading as she ran. A little ways in front of her Henry was almost there when Poseidon ran past her to Henry. Before Henry could defend himself he had been slashed and fell to the ground from the force of the blow. Kate opened fire and emptied another cartridge. She was scrambling to re-load as the super-abnormal advanced on her when a blue stream appeared and Poseidon collapsed dead to the pavement. Kate looked up, breathing heavy from adrenaline to see Nikola holding the weapon and Helen right beside him gun drawn with Will jogging up behind them.

"Well, it seems it was a good idea for me to grab my genius weapon." Nikola grimaced.

"It would seem so," Helen said to him, then drew her walkie-talkie, "Is the shield good?"

"Yes." Big Guys gruff voice replied.

Will, in the meantime, had walked up to Kate who had not moved from where she was staring at Poseidon.

"Hey, you ok?" He asked her.

"Yeah, I'm good. I was just thinking that Tesla might have to make more of those weapons."

Helen had put away her gun and knelt beside Henry. She checked his pulse and then said,

"He's just unconscious, probably in shock. But I need to get him to the infirmary to tend to these wounds before he bleeds out."

Nikola passed the weapon off roughly to Will and kneeling down lifted Henry and walked off, Helen at his side repressing a smile as Nikola muttered,

"C'mon wolverine, you get to bleed all over my new suit! Doesn't that make you feel special?"