By the time Rose had woken up, it was the dead of night. Rose yawned slightly, sitting up on the cot. A dark blue suit jacket that was draped over her as a blanket pooled in her lap. She glanced over to see Tesla bent over one of the microscopes, more than likely examining one of the blood samples. She stood up and neatly folded the jacket, placing it back on the cot before she headed over to the workbench. Her head rested on Nikola's shoulder so she could sneak a peek at the work he was doing.

"Hey Nikola, did you put me to bed?" Rose said, watching the two samples of blood spin in a centrifuge.

"Yes I did. You're quite cute when you sleep Rosie. But do tell me, who is Albert?" He looked at her out of the corner of his eye while adding a dye solution to the blood.

"He was a friend of Will's, and an ex-boyfriend of mine." She frowned slightly and began to move away from Nikola.

He looked away from what he was doing and gently grabbed her wrist. She looked up into his eyes for the first time, his blue-grey eyes boring a hole into her.

"Nikola I don't want to talk about him." She said sternly, pulling her wrist away from him.

He stood up and pulled her into his arms, gently rubbing her back. Rose just stood there and blinked, not used to Nikola show so much affection to anyone. She just chalked it up to his being human again, and having more emotions to deal with. But it pained her a little to think that about him.

"I know Rosie. Will told me what happened with him. It's alright if you don't want to talk about it, but eventually you'll have to talk to someone." He said, waiting a moment before releasing her.

Rose looked down at the floor and nodded her head. Of course she hadn't wanted to talk about Albert; the man was a menace that she had been rid of for four years. The memories were still there, and so were the scars. But, that was for another time. Now she needed to help Nikola in saving Helen's life.

"Thanks Nikola… Where's Helen?" She said softly, looking to the door of the lab.

"She is detained at the moment. There's a cockroach that she has to deal with. I'm certain she'll be by later to see you." He held up a wine glass for her to take.

She nearly scowled at the thought of him drinking and working on such an important project. Rose took the glass and scowled at him before leaving the lab. Her eyes wandered around the halls as she walked down to the wine cellar. Instead of finding a wine cellar she found a library full of books. The wine glass made its way on one of the tables, while Rose ran a hand over a thick leather bound book. She paid little attention to the title, finding it full of information about different kinds of abnormals. One section in particular caught her eye, it was a chapter entirely devoted to those who utilize chlorokinesis.

She scanned the pages, and was reminded of the first time she came to the sanctuary when she was little.


It was raining outside that day too. A young girl stood in the library of the Sanctuary, a grey cloak wrapped around her soaking wet body. She was only 10, her hair was still its natural bright red and bright green eyes looked up at the man in front of her. He was lean, in the same dark navy suit she would see numerous times when she stayed at the Sanctuary. His hand was outstretched in a manner of peace offering.

"I'm Nikola Tesla. What's your name little one?" He said smiling to the young girl.

She swatted at his hand, allowing the hood of her cloak to fall down from her face. Nikola looked hurt for a second, but laughed off her attempt at harming him.

"I don't like you. You drink from poor plants that didn't do anything to you." Her features softened as she looked to the wine glass in his other hand.

Helen approached her from the side, kneeling down slightly and placing a hand on the younger girls shoulder. Rose turned her head to look at Helen, green eyes brimming with tears. She allowed Helen to wrap her up in a hug as she cried about the grapes that had been made just to be killed and allowed to ferment into a wine, for people like Nikola. Nikola shifted around on his feet and set the wine glass out of the girls view. He knelt down on one knee by the time she had calmed down and looked at him.

"I'm sorry that I seemed to have offended you. I really meant no harm; I thought you were only joking with me at first. So can we still be friends?" He said, opening his arms.

The girl hesitantly nodded but stayed in Helen's arms, still not wanting to be around him just yet. Helen smiled a little and stood with Nikola, Rose standing in between them with her body pressed to Helen.

I'm sorry Nikola, I should have told you but I didn't know you would bring wine around a child. This is Rosella Lena Richter. She's a chlorokinetic. That means she has limited control over the plants and they…talk to her." Helen said, placing a hand on top of the girls head.

The little girl nodded sullenly, looking back up at Nikola. Nikola glanced down at Rose then back up to Helen.

"And why is she here?" Nikola said, moving to sit on a couch in the library.

Open on the table in front of the couch was a book about the special type of abnormal that Rose was.

"Apparently when she was at school a boy was picking on her. She began to get upset and the boy found himself on the wrong end of her wrath." She said gently nudging the little girl to sit across from Nikola.

"So I take it we are now saddled with her?" Nikola said, absent mindedly taking his wine glass.

"Quite right. But, I am making arrangements for her to have private tutors here until she is old enough to go to school." Helen said, shooting him a look for having the wine glass.

Nikola paused for a moment to assess the situation. Rose, an abnormal child would be staying here with them. He wasn't quite sure how to take the news; of course this would mean a decrease in his wine consumption. Then, something clicked in his mind.

"Helen, just out of curiosity who is going to be tutoring her?" He said narrowing his eyes slightly.

"I thought we should tutor her. We were some of the brightest minds in our time, who would be better to teach her?" She said smiling, taking her seat next to Rose.

"Ah yes, stroking my ego just so I'll do what you want. Well, luckily for you I'm feeling generous. I'll tutor her myself and I'll even help her to control this little plant problem. It can't be much harder than electricity." He grinned at Helen, allowing his ego to feel a little bit better about the compliment of his genius.


The next few years had passed by in such a blur, it seemed like only yesterday she was leaving sanctuary to attend The Westgate School. It was quite an interesting boarding school, at which she received top marks in the areas of science and mathematics. Of course she would come home to the Sanctuary for holiday and have Nikola's teachings repeated to her multiple times. She smiled and turned a page in the book to see the picture her, Helen, and Nikola had taken together the day she had received her acceptance letter to the University of Cologne. Footsteps came from the entrance of the library and Rose looked up to see Nikola grinning at her.

"Anything I can help you with Nikola?" She said, putting the picture back into the book and closing it.

"Yes actually Rosie. Helen wants to see everyone in her office, in about an hour or so." He looked at the book she held and walked over to it, picking it up to place it back on the shelf.

"Reliving the past are we?" He said, placing the book back in its appropriate spot.

"Can't help it, life was fun back then. Especially your lectures, although I must say didn't like staying up to late to learn about your work." Rose stood up from her seat and straightened out her slacks.

Nikola nodded and held out his arm for her, which she reluctantly accepted. The two began making their way up to Helen's office.

"You must admit, I was a brilliant teacher. I'm sure none of your teachers had nearly as much experience as I did." He grinned at Rose and she could already tell someone had been stroking his ego.

"Yes, but none were near as humble as you were." Her hand went up to her mouth as she laughed.

Nikola shook his head and even went so far as to flick her shoulder.

"You kids these days understand nothing of true scientific work." He released her arm and held the door open to Helen's office.

Rose nearly ran in and immediately gave Helen a hug. Helen laughed and was taken slightly back at the force of the hug.

"Nice to know that you missed me all these years." She smiled and released the girl from her arms.

"I always miss you Aunt Helen. I just wish I would have come back under better circumstances." Rose frowned but then turned to see Nikola still standing in the doorframe with a cocky grin on his face.

"Rose, she's much older than you. Trust me, we'll figure this out." Nikola nodded to Helen, and then disappeared to go and get something.

Rose wrinkled her nose, still not understanding how Nikola could appear so neutral about the whole thing. The others began to come into the room, starting with John Druitt. She went over and began to exchange pleasantries with him before the others filtered in. By the time everyone had settled around it was time to get down to the business of handing over the map to Adam, or not.

"I will not let the map go into the hands of someone like Adam!" Helen said to John, clearly getting a little flustered.

Rose stood at the back of the room while everyone talked, contemplating how she felt about the whole situation. This Adam fellow seemed like a dangerous person, though once upon a time John too had been dangerous. Perhaps all Adam needed was to prove himself as John had, and there was always the bonus that if they did find Hollow Earth, Helen would be better in less time than it would take her and Tesla to find a cure. There was movement beside her and Rose turned her head to see Tesla returning with some papers in his hands. He smiled at Rose then made his way into the middle of the room.

"Well isn't this interesting? Apparently if the head of Sanctuary becomes incapacitated emotionally or physically, control of Sanctuary is turned over to the second in command." Nikola looked up from the papers and glance between Helen and Will.

"Nikola, that's cruel!" Rose said moving closer to the center of the room.

Helen simply pursed her lips, and looked away from Nikola. Now all eyes were on a very nervous Will.

"Well William, what do you want to do?"


Sorry to leave everyone hanging. I will be sure to update as soon as possible. I would like to thank everyone that has read so far and added this story. You guys are amazing! I was so pleased with all of the views this story got, thank you all again. I hope you all enjoyed reading this chapter.