My new Sanctuary fanfiction! I had writers block on the end of my other one, so I started the Sanctuary Dictionary.
Start of a Bad Idea
"As you all know, Magnus' is coming up." Will had called a meeting in his office and unfortunately it was not only Henry who had come. John and Tesla were there as well. "Well, I thought we should all... okay, I thought me and Henry-" here he glared at Tesla and Druitt- "would bunch together and give Magnus a present unique to the Sanctuary."
Tesla drawled, "It's Henry and I."
John was watching at Tesla with an amused look on his face. Show off.
"We're giving her a dictionary." Henry said proudly.
"...a dictionary." Tesla raised his eyebrows.
"Yes Tesla, a dictionary!" Will crossed his arms. "Magnus is hugely interested in punctuation, speaks several languages-"
"Not all of them spoken by humans!" Henry added.
"And we thought we could change some of the definitions to make it more Sanctuary friendly." Will finished.
"I'd like to see you humiliate yourself with trying to create a dictionary," Tesla grinned.
John shook his head. "I'm in." There was no way he was going to let Tesla be part of a project and outdo him. Especially when it was a project involved with Helen.
"Tesla, you're with me, John you're with Henry." Will quickly said. A lot of thought had gone into that decision. As much as it would have been easier for neither he or Henry to have to deal with the snarky vampire, having him with John would have been a very bad decision. Henry and Tesla didn't get along well either, and Will was going to have to try and manage him. He wondered briefly about any definitions the vampire might think up, but then put the thought off. He would have to watch him closely.
"I have to be with you?" Tesla whined.
"Yes Tesla. I'm your editor," Will said quickly.
"Why do people always call me by my last name?" he asked.
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Will had gone out of the room for a moment, and Tesla had seized a bottle of wine. He set it down with a clink and by the time the psychologist returned he had a pile of definitions.
Will looked over them.
Goody-two-shoes - see Will.
Genius - See Tesla
Handsome - see Tesla
Insane - see Druitt
At another one Will had finally had enough and he glared at Tesla.
Tesla grinned wider than he had before. "What? Oh, that." There was a moment of silence where Tesla grinned and rubbed his hands together.
Will scowled and read the definition out loud. "What Magnus wants and Tesla knows it."
"Er, that was an abbreviation for saxophone," Nikola said quickly.
"Funny. I always thought your handwriting was neat." Will sat down, putting a red mark through the slip of paper.
*.*
Henry and Druitt were also having an interesting time of it. Henry really thought he should have been writing the definitions and Druitt editing, but no.
John was trying his best not to listen to Nikola's antics and write the best definitions he could. It really was hard, especially with all the insults he could have delivered to Tesla. Maybe Henry wouldn't mind...
Tesla - 1: A unit for measuring magnetic flux 2: A snarky, obnoxious, pompous, full of himself, vampire who happens to be spurned by Helen Magnus.
Henry cut out the second meaning with an apologetic look, but Druitt quickly folded it up into a paper air plane and threw it over to Tesla.
Tesla scowled at him. He mouthed, I'll get you back for that one.
*.*
When Will and Henry came back from preventing Magnus from entering the room, the room was littered with paper air planes.
Will put a head to his forehead. "Oh man... this was a bad idea."
