It took me a while but chapter three is up. There's not too much Helen/Nikola interaction because this chapter is based more on the action of the fic but there will be more teslen in following chapter(s) :D

as always thanks for taking time and reading my work and thanks for all the support :)

and many thanks to _SocraticMethod for being so kind and helping me with my bad English :)


They entered the room and stopped in the doorway. The whole room was a mess; it looked like a hurricane had passed through it.

"Bloody hell!" Helen shouted. "Someone got here before we did."

Helen was angry. She had failed. She has always put her whole soul into her job and failing always made her feel that she was not making any difference in the world. But that was not true. How many times had she saved lives? Her work was her life. Or at least it had been ever since…

She shook her head to shake the memories from her painful past. The wound was still there, never entirely healed.

"Helen? Helen?" a voice was calling her name. In a second she found herself in the scattered room again.

"Yes?" she answered quickly.

"We should check to see if there's anybody left around here" Nikola said.

"Yes." She replied. "You check the kitchen, I'll check the bedroom."

She headed to the bedroom still reflecting on her failure. She found the same mess in the bedroom as in the whole apartment and sighed at the sight in front of her.

The girl's eyes blackened. She was struggling to scan the woman's mind, to find out what she wants. When she finally managed to break the barrier that was stopping her she knew she could trust this woman. "Her strongest desire, in the present, is to help. She is blaming herself for failing." The girl thought. Suddenly a man entered the bedroom. Even though she couldn't see him as she was behind the wall, in a secret compartment, she could sense him. She moved her attention from the woman to the man, trying to guess his intentions. But it was even harder to reach his mind than it was to reach the woman's mind. His barrier was much stronger. It took all her concentration and focus to be able to see his desire. "So many mixed feelings, so much self-control" the girl thought again "but I can see that his stronger desire right now is to protect the woman, even if it would cost him his life. I guess I can trust him too. After all I don't have any other options."

Nikola entered the bedroom short time after Helen.

"We have to go. Now! We are not alone." He said to Helen and moved his gaze through the room.

All of a sudden, a hidden door in the wall opened and a girl came out. The redhead in front of their eyes couldn't have been older that nineteen but her face expressed a lot of wisdom. Helen knew then that this was the abnormal she was trying to find.

"Don't be afraid. We're here to help you." Helen said.

"I am not afraid." The girl replied in a low soft voice. "But you should know that there are other people searching for me and when they find me they won't be too forgiving with anyone that helped me."

"They won't find you. You can come with us. There's a place where you can live until we sort things out." Helen said, already thinking of the room the girl would occupy at the Sanctuary.

Nikola, who hadn't said a word until then, pointed:

"Listen, we'd all love to stay and chat but you have to make up your mind because we don't have time to waste."

He had just finished that sentence when they all heard a knock in the door.

"Too late." Helen sighed.

"This way." The redhead girl said and moved forward to the hidden chamber from where she emerged a few moments ago.

Helen and Nikola looked at each other and realized that this was their only hope so they followed the girl. In a few seconds they were all inside and the girl pressed a button on the wall to make the door close.

It was dark but none of them even dared to breathe. The knocks on the front door stopped for a while but then they heard that very door fall down on the ground. Some men voices were heard closer and closer until they realized somebody was in the bedroom, where they had been a few seconds earlier. After ten minutes, the men walked away and after another ten minutes, there were no voices at all.

Helen whispered.

"I think they're gone. At least for now. It's a good thing I parked the car a few blocks away. They must not be aware of our presence."

"We can go out now." The girl said in the same soft voice.

She pressed the button from the wall again, the door opened and they all passed into the bedroom.

"Now what?" Nikola asked feeling a little uncomfortable having this abnormal in the same room with him.

"It will soon be dark. We'll wait until then and try to sneak out outside. Once we've reached the car we can go home." Helen replied.

"I guess my dream came true after all" Nikola said letting a grin to grow on his face. "Me, you, dark, need for warmth."

By the time he ended the sentence, the grin on his face turned into a flirty look.

"Let's not forget why we are here" Helen pointed. "For her."

Both of their gazes locked on the teenage redhead girl standing in front of them and staring at them as if trying to understand something.

"I'm Helen by the way, and this is Nikola." Helen started to introduce herself realizing that they all got caught up in the middle of the action and she didn't even know what the girl's name was.

"What's your name?"