Chapter 2
A/N: yay chapter two. Read and Review. I want at least a review before I start chapter 3 please!
Alice strolled around Rome without a care in the world. Traveling with Nikola had been some of the best times of her life. However, she was beginning to wonder what he was up to. Tesla had the two of them moving all over Europe as if they were tracking something. Rome was their third stop since Prague and Alice felt that the constant moving was getting a little old.
Normally they would stay in an up-scale hotel for around week or so. The concierges all thought they were married and housekeeping always gave the pair the oddest glances. Normally he would take her around the cities they were in, showing her all of the sites with the most annoying smirks spread across his face. Of course she had shown him some of the magical pieces of the world, but those paled in comparison to some of the gems he'd shown her in Vienna and Munich.
Today, she was alone, Nikola had left sometime that morning. She had asked the concierge where Nikola had gone and had been met with odd looks. Apparently he was tromping around some of Rome's catacombs. So Alice was on her own today. But something had been bugging her, a sort of a nagging feeling. So she raised her hand a little and cast a simple point-me spell wandlessly. The spell pointed straight down.
Alice sighed and concentrated for a moment on Nikola's face and out dated navy suit. She heard the distinct pop that came with magical transportation and opened her eyes to see Nikola's face only a few centimeters before her.
"Nikola?" a distinctly feminine voice questioned from behind her.
Alice balanced herself and smirked at Nikola. "Did I disrupt something Nikola?" she asked coping his normal sarcastic style.
"Yes, actually, you did. How did you get down here," he responded as if nothing was wrong.
"I am a witch you know, magic has a spell for everything..." she answered before being forcibly turned around to face the other person.
"Helen be nice, Alice doesn't like being manhandled, except by me." Nikola said to the women. Alice rolled her eyes and looked at the women standing in front of her. They could have been siblings. The resemblance was uncanny, except of course for their eyes.
"Alice O'Connell, Nikola Tesla minder," Alice said with a hint of sarcasm in her voice. Helen half smiled at the look on Nikola's face that Alice couldn't see.
"Helen Magnus, Sanctuary Minder," Helen responded. Alice smiled at her.
"Now would you kindly tell me how you got down here?" Helen asked returning to all seriousness, after all the Cabal was still on their trail.
"A spell that compresses all the molecules in the human body and then decompresses them in a desired location."Alice explained.
She had learned from trying to explain magic to Nikola that scientific terms worked best. Magnus looked a little shocked.
"How is this accomplished?" she asked. Alice turned around to see if Nikola minded her explaining magic to this women, he shook his head.
"Now now Helen, you wouldn't want to ruin a surprise now would you?" he said flashing another of his trademark grins. Helen rolled her eyes.
"How many projects are you really working on Nikola?" she asked.
"Just one," he answered. Suddenly a rumbling was felt throughout the catacomb.
"Earthquake?" Magnus asked.
"No worse," Nikola exclaimed shoving her out of the opening. Alice quickly cast a wandless protego to protect herself from whatever was coming.
"Oh Nikola," Magnus said walking toward the immortal in the initial aftershock of the blast.
Alice turned around and wanted to cry. There was Nikola Tesla impaled on a wooden stake, a wound that would have killed a vampire in the wizarding world. Then again, the two of them had already had that conversation, in which Nikola had explained that pure blood vampires were wiped out around the time the wizarding world was being downsized.
"Nikki!" she shouted.
"Calm down, immortal remember," Tesla said pulling himself off the stake and dusting his clothes as the wound began to heal. Alice walked up to Tesla and slapped his. Her eyes were fire red by that point and red color was leaking into the roots of her hair.
"Don't you ever pull something like that again, or so help me Merlin!" she yelled at him.
Helen Magnus stood back and observed this seemingly average girl yell at the immortal Nikola Tesla. She understood now what Alice meant by Tesla Minder, she kept him in line/ lessened his reckless behavior. The question then became who was this girl who showed no fear or admiration in front of someone most people would be overwhelmed at meeting.
Soon after the blast, the trio was off moving quickly down the passages in hopes of finding an escape from the catacombs. Of course Alice could have apparated them all to safety, but she was by no means comfortable with the idea of a double side along apparation and making a port key without authorization was worth a year in Azkaban. So they ran. At one point the group turned a corner and were ambushed at a squad of three men. The first hit Magnus with the butt of his gun stunning her temporarily. The second went after Alice, and in seconds was reduced to a pile of ash. The third went after Nikola, who subsequently killed the man.
Alice had seen this happen before and turned to leave the general area.
"Alice, you're missing the best part." Nikola said. She ignored him and continued walking away as Nikola debuted his vampire minion project with Magnus.
Soon afterwards Alice heard a pop not unlike her own apparation pop and moved toward Nikola to see that Magnus was no longer there. Nikola's minions were also dead, which made Alice feel a whole lot better.
"So your little show and tell didn't go over so well with the teacher did it Nikola?" She taunted feeling the need to downsize his ego.
Next thing Alice knew she was begin pushed up against a wall with a black eyed Nikola staring back at her.
"Don't you dare insult a superior race human," Nikola said exposing his elongated teeth to her for the second time since their meeting.
Alice rolled her eyes again, "Remember Nikola, I'm not entirely human either," she said and he slowly returned to his regular state.
"Don't do it again," he snarled turning away from her and walking toward the supposed exit.
"Well I'm sorry, something just felt off!" she yelled running down the corridor to catch up with the cheetah speed walk Nikola was implementing.
U.S. Sanctuary
Helen Magnus was sitting behind her desk as Will Zimmerman and Henry walked into her office. She closed the report she was working on and looked up.
"Henry, I need you to find out everything you can about one Alice O'Connell," she said curtly. Henry nodded, but stayed feeling that there was more to the statement.
"And Will, I need you to get in contact with your friends at the FBI, see if they have anything on her," The two nodded, but only Henry turned to leave.
"Magnus, I don't need to go to the FBI," Will stated laying down what looked to be a copy of a newspaper down on her desk. Magnus stared at a picture laying just below the centerfold that featured a girl with long dark hair trying to leave the picture frame, but was being thrust back into the center of the shot. The headline read
Alice O'Connell: Wanted
with a byline that read Elemental Responsible for Deaths of At Least Five People...
Helen took a deep breath in before muttering "Nikola, what have you gotten yourself into?"
