I'm truly sorry for the delay with this and I hope the Chapter will make up for the wait! I had a couple of problems and issues that made writing impossible and I lacked ideas but I have enough again for the next couple of chapters so that should not be the problem anymore. I hope you're all still with me and as always, if you have any ideas of what could happen or what you want to see, leave me a note with it and I'll do my best to include it. This chapter is for Jess, who I promised the next one even if I didn't manage to make it look like what we had in mind. Sorry.

Niko meowed happily as he woke up and found her smiling down at him. He cuddled into her hand that was still a very nice pillow. She didn't have any plans for the day so she had thought they could just have a fun day. Her complete day off, so to say. She sighed contently and he looked up at her curiously.

"No work today unless something extremely urgent comes up." Helen smiled, moving her hand from under his head to scratch him softly.

He purred before climbing on her lap, waiting. She couldn't tell what for so she simply continued what she had done a minute ago. He seemed content so she guessed it was what he had wanted her to do. Again.

"I'll have to check up on Henry, though. See how it's going."

Helen could feel the smile radiating from him and it made her happy as well.

They stayed like that for a while, she didn't know for how long but it had still been early when they had woken up. A couple of hours, she guessed, later Helen decided to finally get up. He protested but she knew he'd follow her anywhere even if he didn't want to get up. She went to the door and he stretched gracefully before following her. They went to the kitchen and she made herself breakfast. Niko jumped on the counter and walked over to the sink to scratch his head. She shook hers at him.

When she finished her sandwich she got herself a yoghurt and Niko peeked up, coming over to her. He sniffled the yoghurt and put his head a bit inside to lick some out to eat.

"Hey! That's mine." Helen laughed and pulled the yoghurt away, leaving him to stare at her with food in his face.

She couldn't contain her laughter over him before she grabbed a tissue and tried to get it off of him again. She placed her spoon aside and cleaned the kitten up.

He felt something on his side suddenly and almost rolled over at the try to catch it with his paws. Helen watched him amused and curiously.

The spoon was glued to his side. She guessed that he was still somewhat electromagnetic. It surely looked like it anyway. He looked extremely cute and lost and it was really funny to watch him hunt the spoon without being anywhere near successful with it.

Niko went from one side to the other and nearly rolled onto his side but she caught him before he could do so. She didn't want him to hurt himself. She gently helped getting rid of the spoon but before Niko could go very far, the silverware was stuck on him again. Helen chuckled over his face. She could imagine what it would look like if he was his human self. Not at all amused.

He pawed the spoon, could he could actually reach it this time and started to play with it, growing to have fun with every passing second. Helen put her elbow on the table and her head found her hand's support as she kept watching him with a soft smile on her lips once more. She could swear that by now he was smiling, too. He managed to get it off of him again and he jumped back shortly as if it was his prey, laying on the table. Niko stalked it for a while, pawing it from time to time, almost disappointed when it didn't react in any way. He jumped on it once, fighting it fiercly and for a couple of moments, Helen couldn't even tell who was winning. He ran off several feet as if hit or defeated and she couldn't help the chuckle that escaped.

She grabbed the spoon once again and teased him to attack it again. He hadn't done anything like that since he had transformed and she guessed that he needed that now and now would be as good a time as ever. They played like that for a while until Niko seemed to grow tired, or bored, she couldn't tell and didn't really care either.

"You really needed that, huh?" She smiled, scratching his head gently when he got close enough to do so.

Helen picked him up then and walked to the main lab where she knew the team had already settled for the day. Once she was there, she was greeted by their smiles and she smiled back, nodding.

"Good morning, Doc. What's up?"

"Morning. It seems that Niko here is still somehow electromagnetic."

"He is?"

"Looks like it at least. He had a spoon glued to him earlier." Helen mused and Kate started laughing. That must have been fun.

"What are you gonna do now? Any tests?" Will asked curiously.

Niko protested instantly, meowing almost frantically as he heard the word 'tests'. He was not very fond of those. Especially not now that he was a kitten and could barely do anything.

"I'll keep an eye on it for now. Perhaps it was only a one time occurance."

"Who knows, maybe you got yourself a vampire kitten." Kate chuckled and Helen looked down at Niko who had his head lifted up to her, staring.

"I suppose we'll see about that later. I'm in my office, should you need something." She smiled shortly and left again, lost in thoughts.

Kate had a valid point. If he was still, or again, electromagnetic then there was a chance that his vampire self was there as well. How, if or when it would show through she couldn't tell. She had no idea how that would end up working. An electromagnetic and possibly immortal vampire kitten. She ended up with the strangest things…

She'd have to keep an eye out for all of that. If his magnetism only got back now, then perhaps it meant that he was transforming back to his human self on his own slowly. Henry still hadn't figured out a way to redo Nikola's situation. In fact, she was fairly certain that he couldn't even tell yet what had caused it in the first place. Maybe this could work as a solution somehow. She'd think this option through later.

They reached her office and Niko went to his favourite spot on the couch as soon as she let him down, watching her as she walked over to her desk and sat down on it. Helen wanted to do some research on the topic but she had no place whatsoever to even begin with. It's not like she had ever encountered a problem like this. Not to mention that Nikola still was the only vampire on earth, and magnetic at that… and now a kitten. She rubbed her temple briefly. This was perfect. Just perfect. How did she always manage to get stuck with the unsolvable?

"I wish you could just tell me what you think of all of this, Niko…"

That would be extremely helpful indeed. Or if he could just tell her how he was feeling; or when the magnetism had come back- if it had ever left in the first place. She smiled at him when he meowed somewhat sadly.

"I know, sweetie."

He wanted to help, work and research but he was trapped and stuck as a kitten. Not that either one of them fully minded. He was adorable after all and quiet; mostly; and for him it had a lot of positive sides too. He got to cuddle her and sleep in one bed with her without the fear of getting shot. What more could he possibly ask for? Besides doing that as his human self of course.

"We'll figure it out." Helen smiled widely and Niko got up from his spot to get to her.

He wanted cuddled. Now. He meowed again and jumped on the desk, walking up to her and leaning up to lick her face, his paws steadying himself on her collarbone once more. She gently grabbed him after a while and placed him on her lap, scratching softly.

"We always figure it out, don't we?"

He looked up at her, smiling, she could see, and purred.

"Yeah. We just need some patience." She smiled again and continued scratching him until he dozed off, his head on his paws.

Helen turned her chair lightly so she could work on her computer for a while. Even if she couldn't work on researching this or finding out a solution right away, she had some other things she could take care of in the meantime as well. That would take her a while and she just hoped that Niko would nap through so she could finish everything before all her attention was on him again.