Rating: PG
Warnings: fluff, mentions of pregnancy
Spoilers: Animus, Wingman, Awakening (sort of), Untouchable, SFN
Summary: Nikola has to babysit the chibi-foss now
Characters/Pairings: chibi-foss, Nikola Tesla, Helen Magnus, Nikola/Helen (established)

"Helen, no!" Nikola's voice was firm.

"Oh Nikola, don't be so childish," Helen set her hands on her hips. The move accenting her now swollen belly contained in her dark gray powersuit.

"It's not me being childish I'm worried about," Nikola argued back, his voice wavering.

"Look, it's just for the afternoon and besides, you could use the practice," Helen set one hand on her aching back, the other on her middle.

"Someone awake?" Nikola walked over setting his hand over Helen's on her stomach.

"Yes, very," Helen laughed softly. She let out a slow, deep breath, Nikola's hand calming their little one. "Wish I knew how you did that," she commented.

"Me too," Nikola admitted as he tried to sooth both mother and child.

"It's only the afternoon," Helen's voice was more gentle as she looked up into Nikola's eyes.

"All right, but I do have work to do," Nikola responded, hand still on their growing child.

"I know, she promises not to finish it for you," Helen teased.

Nikola raised an eyebrow the shook his head, "yes, dragi." He kissed her cheek.

"Thank you," Helen returned the kiss.

Alice sat on a work stool holding Calculus, her woolly mammoth, and watched Uncle Tesla work.

Nikola appeared to be either building or repairing something.

Alice sat where she had been told.

Nikola glanced up after awhile, "didn't know you could sit so still."

"Well, daddy says I shouldn't fix any of your stuff so I should stay put," Alice smiled.

Nikola bit back a response about how Heinrich was becoming quite the parent.

The room went back into silence for awhile. Nikola seeming to get lost in his work so forgot she was there until the small person suddenly spoke again.

"Daddy says you're a blood sucking vampire," Alice stated.

Nikola was actually startled by her speaking and missed what he was aiming to unscrew and dropped the screwdriver.

"Heinrich says a lot of things," Nikola grabbed his tool again then tried to resume his work.

"Is it true?" Alice asked.

"Is what true?" Nikola asked without looking up.

Alice rolled her eyes, "that you're a blood sucking vampire?"

"I am a vampire, yes," Nikola could only guess the 'blood sucking' was added as a curse. Wow, children do repeat everything they shouldn't.

"But you don't suck blood?" Alice swung her feet as she sat on the too-tall stool and hugged Calculus.

"No, I do not suck blood," Nikola was digging in his tool box.

"Why?" Alice asked, wondering what he was digging for.

"Because I don't feed from humans and I have medicine," Nikola went to another work bench and dug in that tool box.

"You're sick?" Alice tilted her head as she watched him.

"No," Nikola mumbled something in a language Alice didn't know but guessed it was a bad word.

"But you take medicine," Alice answered.

"It's not that kind of medicine," Nikola started to take each tool out one at a time.

"What kind is it?" Alice looked next to her and saw a few tools, wondering if those were what her Uncle was looking for.

"It makes it so I don't have to drink blood," Nikola was still sorting.

"Is it icky?" Alice swung her feet more.

"Blood or the medicine?" Nikola asked.

"The medicine, you said you don't drink blood," Alice responded.

"Oh," Nikola blinked, "Right." He went back to his tool organizing.

After a few minutes.

"So does it tasty icky?" Alice asked.

"Define icky," Nikola told her as he got another drawer of tools and started to sort and organize everything.

"You know, icky," Alice had a look that said it should be obvious, "like the stuff Aunt Helen gave me when I was all stuffed up in the head."

"Oh," Nikola blinked, "I suppose it does but I'm used to it."

"Can't you make it taste better?" Alice asked.

"I'm used to it," Nikola stated again, getting frustrated he was having to dig through every hand tool he had.

Alice set Calculus by the tools, maybe he could show her Uncle where they were.

The pair stopped talking again as Nikola was now cleaning his lab.

"Do all vampires take medicine?" Alice asked feeling rather bored and squirmy.

"I'm the only one," Nikola was using his magnetic manipulation to help him sort the tools by metal type.

"Really?" Alice tilted her head again, slightly distracted by the tools moving on the bench, but she'd seen that a few times before.

"Yes, really," Nikola answered.

"Not even Aunty Helen?" Alice looked at her woolly mammoth wondering if Uncle Tesla was ignoring the pile by him or still didn't see. She took the plush and had him push the tools away from that part of the table.

"No, Helen is not a vampire," Nikola had her back to the small child.

"Why?" Alice stopped moving Calculus once her Uncle turned around.

"Why what?" Nikola was getting rather annoyed with this magically vanishing tool.

Alice rolled her hazel eyes again, "why isn't Aunty Helen a vampire?"

"Same reason she's not a HAP, she's just not," Nikola had almost all the tools sorted and put in their correct places.

"Oh," Alice tried to move the tools again closer to her Uncle.

"Do all vampires drink wine?" Alice asked pulling Calculus back again.

"I'm still the only one but I would imagine they did," Nikola looked on the floor for the missing item.

"Is that icky?" Alice asked.

"No, it is not icky," Nikola cursed in Serbian.

"Daddy said it was," Alice wondered if her Uncle was playing a game with not finding the tools by her.

"He said that so you wouldn't ask to drink it," Nikola responded.

"So it tastes good?" Alice wondered about that.

Nikola looked over at her, "it does to me, but it really isn't for short stuffs."

"Oh," Alice responded as Nikola had as she contemplated that.

Nikola finally noticed the pile sitting by the stuffed fuzzy thing.

"Do you change when you're a vampire?" Alice asked, smiling that she seemed to have won the game. She thought she won, it was confusing.

Nikola took one of the tools from by Alice and got back to work, "I change some yes."

"Like daddy and mommy?" Alice wanted to see.

"No, not quite so much," Nikola answered.

"Can I see?" Alice grinned.

Nikola looked at her then let out a growl as for a moment he let out his full vampire side, fangs, eyes, claws and all.

Alice gasped then giggled and clapped.

Nikola shifted back then reached for the tool.

"Mommy and Daddy look cooler," Alice stated with a smile.