Extremely long authors note:
Hi guys, I hope you enjoy this story, I can't believe that the show has never brought Thomas Edison on, how much would that just destroy Nikola, ha-ha that's all this story is about lol. It's basically an excuse to write Edison and Tesla together Because I think they'd be hilarious!
Oh yeah so things you need to know, is basically Tesla is my favourite inventor/scientist ever, I was actually really disappointed when I first realized that they were going to make him a vampire in the show, it sounded ridiculous, and with all the vampire stuff in the past few years, I expected it to be plain stupid, but turns out I rather enjoy it, he's depicted pretty well, and I'm not completely insulted on the man's behalf.
Anyway, I'm going to bring back a little more kind, good intentions, does things in freaky threes, slightly less self assured, god fearing ,Serbian, virginal, pigeon loving, pearl hating Nikola, and a little less crazy ass world dominating arrogant vampiric Nikola. I knida got that a little more from season four and loved it so I'm gonna build on that.
Also I love the character of John, and really there should be two Helens because she really should be with both of them. Oh..that's an idea actually two Helens, could be done
Oh and it's set after season four, pretty much directly after season finale.
Anyway this is hopefully going to be a feel good, fic but will be leaning a little more towards actual historic events. If it sounds farfetched and out there, then it's probably actually based on reality, lol. Something's may be exadurated for entertainment value,
Things you may need to know before reading this:
Nikola in real life had a pet pigeon that he was in love with.
You should watch the drunk Tesla deleted scene on youtube from season four if you don't get what I'm on about.
In real life, Edison stole most of Testlas work and made a fortune of sealing his penitents as most people did.
Tesla and Edison went on like a twenty year public battle of wits arguing about AC and DC current, and it was just embarrassing.
Edison killed two people in his experiments, a man he used in an electric chair was killed in a slow and painful death, and mr Westinghouse said 'they would've done better with an axe,' and his assistant when he stole Niks x-ray machine and misused it, gave the man radiation poisoning and after removing his arms the man died. He also temporarily blinded himself and was said to be terrified of them by the time he was done.
Edison stole and killed countless dogs and cats and one elephant. And electrocuted them to death with Niks AC power as a demonstration to its instability.
While yes we use Toms DC in batteries it's basically useless without Niks AC unless of course you want a power plant for every ten houses and, well I could go into the details about how with Teslas ionosphere inventions we could have completely shirked the DC power, and never had to had charged our phones again, but it's all just semantics and I'm sure no one is really that interested.
Also Edison lied to Tesla telling him he'd pay him 50000 if he could solve a problem and when Nik did it in two months, Tom told him, he didn't get American humour, and offered him a 7 dollar raise. So basically he's a jerk, where, Nik tore up a contract he had with Westinghouse, doing himself out of millions of dollars worth, to save his friends business, so =nice guy.
Things Thomas Edison gave us.
Two dead people and lots of dead cats and dogs
Helped Light bulbs last a little longer
Helped perfect the modern x-ray
Crappy things, I mean other than just being a bad person, He married an under aged girl (16) and rarely showered.
Things Nikola Tesla gave us:
AC power
The Tesla coil
The beginning of the x-ray machine,
Radar
Radio, wireless communication
Remote control
Transistor (so you can reload the internet)
Wireless electricity
Neon lighting
His penitents were used in the modern electric motor
Discovered resonant frequency
The earthquake machine
Hydro electric plant at Niagara falls
Cryogenic engineering
Recorded alien radio waves (legit)
Also he was the only person to create ball lightning
Was said to have teleported an entire shop with the help of Einstein
And had he not been stopped was going to provide us with free electricity that rained down from our ionosphere, but was not given the funding to build it as there was no way of regulating and charging for it..
He could also speak six languages, had a photo graphic memory and remanned celebrant his whole life, until he died in 43? I think anyway oh and he had an adorably soft spot for rescuing injured pigeons.
Oh he had his bad points too, he had OCD, had to do things in threes and hated pearls. He also lived on crackers and milk. But that's not allot of downfalls compared to his remarkable brain tho.
Apologies in advance to Serbian/Latin or any other language that I throw in there probably won't be accurate because the only languages I know anything about other than English are Hebrew and Egyptian and I don't think I'll get the chance to throw them in, so I'm relying on Google, also changing spelling to how the words sound, so that it's easier to read, so apologies to anyone with Serbian roots who read this for butchering your language.
Also no idea where this is going to go so apologies if you don't end up liking it.
Warnings I really under appreciate Edison so if you like him...don't read coz ill use any excuse to berate him.
First few chapters are a little boring, but I'm useless at setting up the story, please persevere, and id really really like reviews.
Please read enjoy and don't forget to review
Teaser Chapter
Meko.
Nikola was moping, that would be the only way Helen could describe it, pure and utter self indulgent moping. Among all his talents, this pathetic look that he had mastered was probably among his greatest. Helen had barley stocked the wine cellar in the new Sanctuary before Nikola had made it the sole purpose of his existence to empty it.
'Nikola, really must you?' she begged of him with a distinct tone or boredom, as he popped the third bottle of the night.
'Well Helen you know you can put an end to my suffering any time you wish, just come here' he answered carelessly as he pat the chair beside him 'And kiss me' he added before taking another sip of the delicious red liquid.
Helen spared him a quick glance, things had become so different now, when she looked at him her view was completely different, Had she not had to relive that 113 years in exile she would've said, a few weeks ago, (as it was to Nikola,) her reaction would've been quiet different, she would've scoffed and made a smart remark back, but not now, 113 years in careful reflection would do that, make you see things differently, but it was more than that, something had changed in him also. He too was different, she wondered how much of that was affected by the few visits she made to him, and how much really was just him.
Now when she looked at him, she saw more than his boyish arrogance, that was still there, but there was tenderness there now, and a genuine repour and something that looked somewhat like utter devotion. That had been there from the first, true, but it was always masked by his other agendas, not now.
Helen knew she wouldn't resist him, this new Tesla forever, but this was a game that they had been playing for over 250 years (for her), and old habits die hard, she smiled slightly at that thought. If she admitted it to herself, the truth was they were the very best of friends and yes there had always been an undercurrent of something much much more, but how do you change that without changing them? And how should she know if she really even should, it's not like any past romances had worked out for her, and although she has always remained friends with her partners, something about Nikola showed that if that were the case he'd never really be able to forgive her.
'Or...' he interrupted her thoughts 'You can continue to torment me, if you'd prefer' he said playfully, he tried to make it sound like an off handed comment, but Helen could hear the slight tone of sadness.
'Why Nikola, you love a good teasing don't you?' she smiled at him, with just enough playfulness in her voice to perk him up again.
It worked and he stood to cross the room with his sly smirk, 'Well...' he smiled as he wrapped a curl of her dark hair around her finger, 'If it's teasing you want my dear...'
'Nikola, really here? Now? You must learn to behave' she scolded him.
He smiled, feeling rather triumphant, he knew she may not be allowing him anymore than his usual flirtation, which really he took at liberty regardless of how she responded to it. But at least she's not stopping him dead in his tracts anymore, and it almost looks like she's enjoying it lately, his attentions that is, it's better than her past looks of contempt. It's never really fazed him, as long as he's getting some sort of reaction from her he's happy, but this, dare he say, Encouragement is much much nicer.
'Very well, perhaps later, in your bedroom, or mine, or here if you really prefer' he motioned to the desk he had decided to rest upon. He looked at her, awaiting her response with something akin to excitement, he srolled his eyes in defeat when he realized she had completely ignored him and was engrossed in looking at something on her tablet, he was going to wait until she could spare enough attention for him to repeat his proposition, but after a moment he realized her attention was gone, he stuck his hand on his hip and decided to look over her shoulder 'Helen?'
'I'm sorry Nikola' she looked up and squeezed his arm, his pulse quickened slightly at the genuine apology and her soft touch, the fact that she had such power over him, to affect his heart like this, but never the less he worried about whatever it was that took her attention, however reluctantly from him.
He nodded to the tablet 'What is it? He questioned.
She worriedly handed over the tablet, he took it ominously, and he pressed play, he vaguely heard her talking to Henry over the radio, but he was all consumed in what he was watching. Nikola wasn't a particularly emotional person, well unless it had to do with Helen, but this brought back a flood of pain. He saw this abnormal man, freeze, he went stiff, then shivered a bit and then a bright light shone out of his eyes and then the man just laid down and died. Nikola was shocked, he had seen this before, only once and after many years he doubted his memory, but this was so identical, it could not be a false memory. 'Meko' he whispered, He swallowed hard, fighting the tearing feeling in his heart that would no doubt bring up tears. He watched the video again, just to be sure what he saw, after confirming it, he spoke, ever so cautiously 'Helen...' He turned to her 'Call me crazy but...' he let his voice fade out as he heard Wolfboy describe where he had found the surveillance video and that there were multiple similar ones he was downloading currently.
'Henry, can you run a scan, see if there's any information in our system, and find any sort of abnormal, that or perhaps a weapon that could cause this, some sort of creature, parasitic in nature perhaps...no that doesn't make sense, why would they destroy the host?' she thought aloud as she leaned, her two hands bracing her on her desk.
'Sure thing doc, so you have no idea what this is?' Henry answered.
'No, I actu...'
'I have' Nikola interrupted.
Helen looked at him with a curious look.
Nikola hung his head to the ground preparing for the onslaught of name calling and accusations of insanity that would no doubt bubble forth as it did eighty or so years ago, when he in his sadden state admitted to some reporter man the truth about his seclusion in NewYork 'My pigeon'
'The laser eyed pigeons, yeah I goggled you? You lost the plot man' Henry answered over the radio.
'No Heinrich, they were not lasers, it was much more than that, I believe it was the same weapon used that caused this man's death' Nikola snapped as he dropped the tablet back onto the desk.
'Dude, so your saying whatever killed a pigeon a century ago has gone unseen for all this time only to resurface now' Henry questioned 'If that's the case I have no idea of where to start'
'Edison' Nikola answered.
'Thomas?' Helen said in bewilderment.
'Wha? As in like Thomas Edison, the light bulb maker Dude?' Henry questioned.
'What would this have to do with Thomas, he's long dead' Helen questioned.
Nikola frowned at her 'Is he?'
She shifted her weight from one leg to the other 'We went to his funeral, October 1931, remember, if I recall you had a particularly happy disposition that day, you said you felt a burden lifted, this was a historic day for humanity, and you celebrated, in my wine cellar if you recall' she reminded him.
'Yes well, I'm just saying people from the past just keep living and popping up all over the place, why not Edison, he was a proverbial pain in my backside for many years, I see no reason why my arch nemesis wouldn't live on, and cause more horrors, it's him I'm sure of it' Nikola confirmed. 'Oh and also Heinrick, he didn't make the light bulb, for your information, he simply collaborated the notes of 23 other people including myself and whipped a patent on it, and called it his own, the only thing that moron gave us was the electric chair, a way to kill people, oh and radiation poisoning of course' He rolled his eyes.
'He gave us radiation poisoning?' Henry asked sounding doubtful.
'No, he didn't' Helen corrected, 'He gave us the X-ray'
'My X-ray, another one of my ideas that he stole and destroyed, which he used to mutilate and kill that poor fellow, and the idiot would have blinded himself were it not for your marvellous surgical skills, you've always been great with your hands' He added as he quiet obviously ogled her up and down.
'While I agree he's not an altogether bright man, and his personality left allot to be desired, Nikola can be a little too harsh sometimes' she explained, Ignoring his comment.
'Well Helen I'm sure mister Dally would disagree with you' Nikola rebutted with annoyance.
'Fair point' she conceded. 'Ok Henry, run your scans and see if you can find any Edison connections, if only to appease Nikola here' she told him.
'Ok doc, noo idea where I'm gonna start' Henry mumbled as he tapped at the keyboard.
'Look through the missing pets registry' Nikola suggested without making any attempt to hide his sourness.
Helen clicked her ear piece of and looked at him 'Nikola how can you be so sure?' she questioned him.
He hung his head for a moment before replying 'I worked with the man Helen, I know what he is capable of, and that man is not a scientist, he enjoys death and destruction, he was working on a wireless delivery method, an internal way of electrifying someone, I'm sure that he tested it on Meko, the day she died' he answered.
'Meko?' Helen asked.
'My Pigeon, the little white one with the splendid pale grey tips, he killed her, he with his murderous experiments, oh and how I hate him for it' Nikola spat angrily.
'Oh Nikola, if anyone you know best how to hold a grudge, it was just a pigeon, Was it the little one I found you in New York that summer?' She questioned.
'Yes, that's the one, and Helen don't ever say she is just a pigeon, I loved her, and I would know that one anywhere, she was very close to my heart, and then Edison that bastard killed her.' He Answered bitterly.
Helen was a little surprised, not with his words, Nikola was prone to being a little dramatic, she was simply shocked by both the fierceness and pain she saw in his eyes. 'Well if you're sure' Helen agreed to explore the possibility. 'I best be off, the file I received shows many reports of these incidents streaming in.'
Nikola was depressed, thinking about his beloved Meko, yet he tried to compose himself once more. 'Ok, well I guess you'll be up late then, don't forget to swing by mine, I have something for you' Nikola smiled as he leaned into a now sitting Magnus and whispered 'And don't get any ideas in your head, it's nothing like that' Nikola smiled.
'Hmm I'm going to be quiet busy Nikola, I likely won't have the time, I'm sorry' She apologized ignoring his comments again.
'Nonsense, you know I'm the only person who can keep more insane hours than you.' He smiled before making way for the door. 'Don't forget Helen, I'll be expecting you!'
She smiled; she'd make time to pop into him later tonight. In her years of solitary she had learnt the value of making time for friends.