A/N: Ok so my friend told me, what episode to use it is obvious because of the chapter name but still. I am using the five. Tell me if you like this format, I found a copy of the script and used that to help me.
Somewhere there is a church bell ringing
Helen is standing in front of a projection screen showing medical data from an abnormal patient. The patient is me I am standing at the back of the room. It was not a real mission but this is my first mission. I have been living at the Sanctuary for several weeks. I have just been able to do missions and Helen though it would be good for me to go with her.
I stare at her listing to her talk.
-Helens P.O.V-
"This case study shows an enlarged hypothalamus, nearly twice the size of a normal human. Such increased scale is often the first indicator of abnormal abilities, which is why detailed brain mapping is often our best recourse when diagnosing new patients." She is walking toward the screen, back again up, and down the stage like.
"And now, in this situation, the patient was able to lower her body temperature to well below life-sustaining levels for days at a time." I see her pause something was wrong
A man walked into the room I did not know it but it was Nikola Tesla enters at the back of the room, she continues after her pause.
"Such examples of this simple genetic mutation are part of a larger-scale trend we are seeing worldwide." I could tell she was put off. "More appearances of extraordinary genetic abilities are cropping up at an ever-increasing rate.
I look back, see the person hand a note to an assistant, and whisper something. I watched the assistant carry the note to the front of the room. I watch the person interested something was different about him familiar I know his face. I had been reading the last few weeks about other Abnormals.
I watch the assistant hand Helen the note and tell her something she tells him thank you and Looks at me and nods. I am ready to move if needed.
Helen opens the note and reads it,
"You will be killed in less than three minutes. Meet me now. Tesla. PS. you look hot." Helen looks up with alarm. I know that it is then time to act. I turn but he has gone.
Helen tells the audience "mi scusi. An urgent matter has come up. Can we take a short recess? Fera uno breve" She pauses then makes her way to the end of the room at the door. She meets me at the door and we leave the room.
Once in the hallway I notice the person he waits as Helen walks up to him. I am right behind her.
He smirks at her "Helen Magnus. Kiss me and I'll save your life." I just stare at him did he very just say that. I wonder. He looks at me and looks me over. "Who are you?" he asks, I just stare at him refusing to answer I say one thing "I am with her" I point to Helen.
She looks at him, tilts her head, and asks him
"and if I don't? "
He scoffs "it has been over sixty years, just plant one on me already." I just stare at the person. I stay silent because I know that it is the best thing I could do now
He turns his face to the side. As Helen moves in to kiss his cheek, he turns back and catches the kiss on his lips. Helen shoves back with irritation. I glare at him ready to do what ever Helen asked me to do.
"Nikola Tesla. You always did know how to get attention." She scolds him, wait I pause thinking for a second. "Nikola Tesla, as in The Nikola Tesla, the dude that invented the radio?" I question. The both turn and look at me as if they just remembered I was there with them.
"Yes and you Helen Magnus are still boring as ever when it comes to giving a lecture." He grabs her arm to lead her away "not with out me mister" I say and follow "But to business: Cabal agents are all over the building. If we don't leave now, things are going to get… rather bullet-ridden." He tells us I shudder bullet-ridden that does not sound fun even though I can heal I have limitations and that sounded like it could be mine either way I did not want to stick around to find out. In addition, the cabal total asses no telling what they would do or try to do to me.
Tesla takes Helen's elbow and begins walking away from the conference room. I follow them I am not willing to let her out of my sight something told me to do so would be a very bad thing to do. Helen stops and turns facing him. "And tell me why should I believe you" she asked him well actually she demands it form him.
I turn and look behind us; Cabal agents with rifles enter the conference room. Helen and I see them and resume walking quickly with Tesla. "Dang skinny man was telling the truth"
Helen asks him "I assume you have a plan other than kissing me?" As we round the corner and out of sight. I smirk Go boss you tell him I thought in my head.
Tesla responds to her "Genius, remember" Wow this one thinks very high of him self it may be true but he should not flaunt it around like that.
Helen just says "Ah" I can tell she is thinking like me. What a bloody show-off.
He leads us down and in to what I know to be catacombs. Great because he is not already very creepy as all get out.
We all three come down the stairs and stop at a door. Tesla brandishes a key before unlocking it and pushing it open and gesturing for Helen to precede him. I walk quickly behind her so not to lose her or be separated.
.
"Beauty before brains." He says looking at Helen
- Page break-
The catacombs stretch off into darkness until the lights come on as Tesla throws an old-fashioned sliding bolt across the door. Like that will keep out The Cabal I think to my self. "Charming" she tells him.
We begin walking rapidly down the corridor.
He begins to explain, "I know. Part of a 200-year-old system of catacombs underneath the city." He seemed too happy to be down here and if it was that old how were there lights down here. Especially lights that looked so newish. "I'm assuming there are other exits further on" she states the very I was wondering about.
"Should be. My contact said there would be. "He answers I groan lovely we could be trapped down here.
"Contact" she states I just sigh it was beginning to look like we were going to find out how much I could heal from wonderful. "Umhmm. Concierge at my hotel." He just grins. "Don't you love Rome?" he asks. I shake my head he was certifiable.
Helen glances back the way they came at the banging sound of Cabal agents trying to force the door. The lock falls off as agents come in with guns raised; I knew it would not hold them.
We are far enough away not to be seen but can still hear them. The person who I assume is the Head agent give this order. "Get me thermal imaging of these tunnels, ASAP. Make sure every possible exit is covered. They either surrender or they die." He did not sound happy at all. Grate thermals I cannot even blend in to the walls to hide.
-Page break Else were in the warehouse district -
Ashley rides up to shady-looking building that appears to be an abandoned warehouse in a less-than-pristine neighbourhood. A figure is huddled at the top of a short flight of stairs, drinking from a bottle in a paper bag. The figure barely looks up as Ashley gets off her bike and heads toward the stairs.
"Squid! Got you some treats. Have To say, I was surprised to get your message. I thought you said you didn't have any info for me" She pauses at the figure's non-response "Squid" She states
The figure turns and shoots Ashley with a dart of some kind. Ashley grunts and falls, apparently drugged. The figure stands up and removes sunglasses and hood to reveal John Druitt.
"You have got to be kidding me." She says as she is shot.
Ashley passes out. Druitt kneels next to her to place his hand on the back of her neck before teleporting them both away.
-Page break in the catacombs-
Helen, I and Tesla run around a corner and stop, pressed up against the wall. Cabal agents can be seen searching the catacombs in the background.
The head cabal agent orders "Through here." Did I mention how I really hate these people?
Helen begins to reach for her gun while Tesla faces her. I am ready to fight if need be."
"Well, they're really pissed at you. What did you do?" He asks. I snort what did not we do I wonder.
She answers "I stole three witches from a crypt in Scotland" I smirk oh you naughty thing you. I think in my head. Haha it is not as if I was not there they just evacuated me, as I was not ready to fight or be on a mission at that time. Those chicks were cool I missed them and wished they did not give them self's up.
He shakes his head "Stealing. You. I'm appalled" I just smirk.
Helen checks her gun; at that moment, I wish I had a gun somewhat anyway.
"Shut up and help me," She ordered. I am flexing my arms and fists.
"My god, you look so sexy with a gun." He tells her, Oh God could he be any sappier" I wonder. I mean dude come on here we were trapped underground in the tunnels of death as I had taken to call them and here he is hitting on her.
Cabal agents approach the corner and Helen pistol-whips one in the face. Score one for the boss lady. I smirk, the second agent grabs her wrist and just as I am about to jump in Tesla shoves him up a wall by the throat. Ok so he could have the person and points to him for getting the bad person.
He transforms and in his vampire voice "Leave her alone." He growls whoa he is somewhat scary like that, I think.
Helen sees that Tesla has transformed his eyes have gone black and his teeth are pointed as he raises a now-clawed hand to threaten the agent and growls. She turns to point her gun at Tesla instead of the agent. "Nikola, that's enough' she threatens.
Tesla visibly relaxes, his eyes change back, and he throws the agent to the ground. Helen briefly tracks the agent's fall before again aiming her gun at Tesla. Tesla chuckles and grins as he walks toward the wall nearer to Helen and me.
"Well, that was exciting, huh?" He quips I roll my eyes he was like a child but with ADD and claws and teeth.
"A little too much so. You haven't stopped taking your medication, have you," she says to him.
"No, no, no. I just, I just got a little excited." He briefly glances down at gun that Helen is still pointing at him. "Come on, Helen, I don't feed on humans. I made that vow long ago and I intend to keep it." I shudder blood gross I hate blood. Plus I am rather freaked out by this guy. I have not had much time to process what was going on. Finally, I could. "Oh" I breathe in and out. "Not here" I whisper I look at Helen.
"Chelsea are you ok, I have not thought how this would be affecting you," She said. I node "I-I-I yes just a bit freaked" I say.
Tesla looks at me and then at Helen questioningly. "I have issues" is all I tell him. I was working on my breathing. "Carry on" I say to them and they do.
Helen still looking frightened and suspicious lowers her gun. Tesla turns to lead the way down another corridor. Tesla stops under an empty light socket and sticks his finger in it. There is sparking before all the lights in the corridor turn on.
What a show-off I think to my self-shaking my head. I am in my own thoughts and do not here the rest of what they say.
Tesla appears in a blur of movement from the side tunnel we were inside-tunnel sending a cabal agent flying backwards into the second agent. Helen goes out from the tunnel and moves to check the downed men while Tesla pulls a handkerchief from his pocket and wipes his hand. I know that he would have no problem killing me if I got in his way. Well he had no problem trying to kill me. But I do not know my limits and I in no hurry to find them out.
"Come on. There will be more where they came from," She says. She looks at me and shakes her head. I know that they are dead. I feel sad but only for a second. I rember that they are cabal and want to kill us.
Tesla grins and moved off down the corridor. "This is fun, isn't it? Just like old times, back in London? When was that, forty-two? Forty-three? "He states, Helen looks a bit uncomfortable. I know then that something happened. I wondered what it was.
"I prefer not to think about it." She tells him not that he listens he continues.
"Come on, Helen. Every major spy agency in the world was looking for me. I needed your help. And besides, what's a faked death among friends" He asked I was right and it was sounding like something interesting.
"Whose hare-brained notion was it to supply every allied government with plans for your death ray weapon" She snapped, Death ray he is a genius and that is what he came up with. How original I thought. Well giving him some credit that was ages ago, it could have been original then who knows? Well they do but I do not.
The press against the wall and I camouflage on the other side of them. "Well, I thought they'd all share and that peace would break out. I did. I had my Nobel speech all memorized." I shake my head seriously, what goes on in his head.
I was concentrating on staying camouflaged. So I did not here anything that was said. Until they left.
Helen turns back to Tesla with a suspicious expression. Great I knew it we should not trust this guy.
"How did you know the Cabal were after me and Chelsea" She asked him. I turned and looked at him. I was thanking I went over everything in my head.
Tesla responded with "I watch them and they watch me. We have had a few entanglements over the years, but you know, I have never done anything so stupid as to actually steal from them. " He seemed to be scolding her he looked over at me for a brief second. I just stared at him I did not trust him.
"I've had my contacts keeping an ear to the ground for any Cabal movements since they attacked my sanctuary. I would have known beforehand if they were going to make a move on me here. In fact, they did not show up until after you arrived. They are not after me, are they? They want you. " She told him having figured out, I looked at him he was smiling and I knew then that Helen was right.
Tesla just grinned "You haven't lost your touch, either" he said. I looked at him, " you- you what were you thinking dragging Helen and me into this. I mean if you liked her then why did." I hissed at him.
Helen put her hand on my shoulder " calm down Chelsea we need to keep calm" I nodded.
-Page brake with Ashley-
Ashley startles awake, she found her self handcuffed to a chair in a room full of picture frames and mirrors that appear to be in storage. She struggles briefly against the handcuffs before subsiding. She did not know wear she was at she did not recognize this place. "Okay, you can come out and gloat now, if you want. I am awake. " She said to the person who took her they were not in sight but she knew that he was there.
Ashley looks in the mirror, and sees a door opens and Druitt enter.
Druitt looks at her and begins talking "there'll be no gloating. I find that… extremely ill-mannered" he warned her.
He crosses the room and drapes his coat over a rack.
Ashley stares at him, "Well, what's your next move, then? Are you going to teleport me to the top of the Eiffel Tower and leave me hanging by my underpants" She taunts
Druitt just chuckle she is thinking how much she is like her mother.
"Or are you going to make it fast" She asks him?
He turns to face Ashley "neither"
Ashley was getting frustrated. "Then what the hell do you want from me"?
He looks at her trying not to show how worried he was.
"Honestly? I need your help".
Ashley looks horrified great she though just what she needed. "You have a kind of a violent way of asking for help, FYI" she said.
"I wish you no harm. But it was urgent that we speak" he told her.
"and I'm listening. Let the insanity fly" she muttered.
Druitt states "of course, that's what you'd think of me. That I am unstable, deranged"
"That's pretty much what I call everybody who feeds me to lizard creatures. But I can be a bit harsh sometimes" She says to him she is not amused.
"Ashley, what happened before was deeply regrettable. I apologize for my actions without reservation. I can only ask for your forgiveness. There are things you need to know, about your mother. She is in grave danger. " He warns her you can hear it in his voice that he does regret what he did.
"Dude, she's my mom. She's always in grave danger" she points out this guy was stupid.
"Please, Ashley, there's little time. I need to know where she is" he is desperate he keeps it from his voice but it is obvious he is worried.
Ashley stares at his the guy was begging for her help but he had her trapped. "Me handcuffed to a chair, you babbling about time and danger. No, I don't see why I should help you" She told him.
"I would like nothing more than to free you" he told her.
Druitt begins walking towards Ashley, who loudly scoots her chair away from him.
"But you would undoubtedly try to kill me." He finished, Ashley glared at him.
Ashley smirked at him with a wide-eyed smile "me she said innocently"
"Did your mother not give you some sort of explanation as to who I was" he asked slightly confused.
"She told me you were someone from her days back in London before she set up shop here" she stated.
Druitt looks appalled and stunned he was hurt how could Helen not tell her who he really was? Sure, he was not the best person but he was still her father.
"Oh! Oh, and that she was pretty sure you would never return because she had killed you. Trust me, I will be speaking to her about that. Talk about a blown call." She said angrily.
"We don't have time for this. My sole purpose in bringing you here was for your own benefit as well as hers" he told Ashley.
Druitt begins walking towards Ashley again and Ashley scoots away she is using her hands as she palms a lock pick down to where she can begin working on the cuffs.
"You'll have to trust me" he tells her.
-Page break in the catacombs-
Tesla peering at them around a corner, Helen standing behind him, I am behind her. We begin to walk down a corridor as soon as the agents are out of sight. Away from the cabal agents.
"You've always been reckless. But contacting me directly while the Cabal was following you…" Tesla cuts her off. "Oh, I know. It was not one of my best ideas. But hey, I had no choice. I needed to see you" he explains.
"Then use the proper channels. Contact one of my facilities and have them arrange a secure location" she tells him, I roll my eyes for a genius this man was stupid.
"Would you rather have me endanger one of your sanctuaries or just you" He asks her.
"How about neither? Nikola, you dropped out of sight before the end of World War II, never to be seen or heard from again" She tells him, I just stare at the two of them.
"Well, I did die a lonely, impoverished, pitiful old man. Thanks for the funeral, by the way. I heard it was quite nice" he says jokingly. I roll my times " is this really the time" I mutter under my breath so that they cant hear me.
"I faked your death to save your life, so that your work could continue. I think I'm owed an explanation as to your whereabouts since then." She tells him. Really he was a horrible friend I mean she did all that for him and he did that to her.
"Hey, perfecting the use of electricity and radio waves? Hard acts to follow, okay but I have kept busy" he started.
"At Oxford, all those years ago, what we did was more than just pushing boundaries. For me, it was personal" He tells her Oh I realize that he is one of The Five. Helen had told me about them she did not mention any names or anything but, she explained what they did.
"As it was for all of us." she rebukes him.
I roll my eyes shaking my head.
-Helens p.o.v-
I have a Flashback to of my past self I am terrified and crying out in pain. Druitt holds my hand with a worried expression. A hand holds a needle with some dark fluid in it. Tesla is there.
I shake my head to get the memory out of my head.
-end point of view-
Tesla smiles "you all changed, whereas I found out who I really am. And the more I embrace that, the more I realize just how little I've accomplished"
"Your gifts to the world will live on long after you die, whenever you actually die" Helen tells him.
"You think you can call this existence "living?" The Cabal hunt me at every turn. " He says. I look at him he is hiding something else. Just what we need right now I think.
"But why? You have been underground for decades. We both know the Cabal only go after what they perceive to be of value" She asked him concerned. "Or a threat" her eyes narrowed.
Tesla walks away past Helen. She turns to look after him with suspicion and growing alarm. My eyes narrow I know that he is defiantly hiding something.
Tesla, Helen and I are walking down even more corridors
"Why would the Cabal see you as a threat" she demands. My eyes are trained on him trying to figure him out.
"I'm a vampire. Some people are threatened by that" he says as if its obvious.
"Only part, Nikola. Pureblood vampires were wiped out centuries ago. Besides, you alone are not enough to make the Cabal this angry. What's really going on?" I am behind them not really paying attention to what they were saying. I even though I did not trust him and though he was a bit stupid, at least in this situation he was Hot. I was trying not to star at him go-go eyed and succeeded in that but I still stared at him.
"The Ancient Ones, they were intelligent, gifted, powerful, until a bunch of church-folk decided that our race was impure, evil, and not only did they hunt them down, kill them off, but they turned our species into a cultural joke. " He pouts
"Ancient vampires were the Caesars, the pharaohs of civilization. Humans were enslaved, they rose up with good reason. If the world knew the truth.." Tesla cut her off and continued.
"Humans were conquered because we were smarter and stronger. And when vampires ruled the world, it was a golden age. Science, art, architecture all advanced. And after they killed them off, what happened" He asked looking at us seriously.
"The Dark Ages" She said I did not know so I just shrugged.
"And now people think we're allergic to garlic and that we can turn into bats at will. It's beyond insulting" He turns a corner "This way" He directs us.
Helen, Tesla I turn a corner.
"As though a vial of stale water blessed by some priest would have any other effect than a bad taste in my-" Tesla pauses mid-sentence, and Helen turns to look back the way they came as a rumbling noise starts.
"Earthquake" Helen stated. I was nervous I did not like this stomach felt all funny.
He looked bad "Worse" he told us.
Tesla shoved Helen into a side corridor just as the shockwave hits and throws him 15 feet backward into the wall. I go flying as well. As the dust settles, Helen clicks on her flashlight and comes back out of the side corridor. I am hanging on the wall by a jutting piece of wood through my chest Tesla is nest to me but the wood is at about where his heart should be. His head hangs loosely as if he is dead or unconscious. Helen walks over to me and him. I look up at her blood is pulling out my mouth.
"Ouch" I say moaning I find it hard to breath the wood must in my lungs. I push my self forward. Off the piece of wood, I fall to the. Ground Helen is focused on him because she knows this is something I can heal from because I had fallen down the stairs and I had been impaled.
Helen worried "Nikola" says.
Nikola draws a sudden breath and Helen jumps slightly.
Doing a Dracula impersonation he says "I vant to suck your blood" . He looks down at me. " Oh no, I am-" He starts to say sadly whoa he feels bad because of me getting hurt. I stand up I have healed. "I am ok" I say and cough up blood. I wipe my mouth and look at the blood and shrug.
Helen looks relived that he is ok. "Get down from there". She tells him. He
groans as he shoves himself off the stake impaling him, landing on his feet and looking down at the bloodstained hole in his shirt. "How did" He asked me. "I can heal and camouflage my self, like a lizard that is my abnormality" I tell him
"Irony is, I once owned the patent to that weapon. I never should have sold it to Edison, cheapskate that he was." He picks out splinters. I roll my eyes and shake my head.
"Do you think this is funny? Tricking me into helping you with whatever game you are playing with the Cabal? I don't appreciate being put in the line of fire." Helen snaps at him I glare at him " neither do I just because I can heal does not mean it does not hurt" I tell at him.
"Helen… " he starts but she ignores him and starts talking.
"You've always been like this, haven't you? Selfish and arrogant, putting your own desires before everyone else's" She starts to rant, I grin Helen is so awesome when she gets on to people.
"I brought you here for two reasons: Because only you can help me finish what I'm working on and because I love you." He tells her. I roll my eyes its so obvious that he loves her I mean come on I think to my self.
"Yes, so you keep- "she pauses as her shocked brain catches up with her ears "What"?
"I always have" He tells her.
Helen stares at Tesla with growing alarm and ill-concealed revulsion as Tesla reaches out to caress her cheek. Ha, she does not feel the same way about him. Mentally I giggle
"More than that lunatic Druitt ever did" he tells her whoa that the name of the dude that infiltrated the Sanctuary before I got there. Wait no way she was in love with no I thought.
Tesla lets his hand fall after Helen shifts minutely away from him, I just stare in shock.
"I mislead you and I deeply apologize for that, but I had to see you" He tells her.
Helen is in wide-eyed shock 'You're serious, aren't you" She asks the light bulb went off in her head.
Tesla gives a brief smile that fades as Helen continues to stare at him
Druitt is standing in front of Ashley, who still sits on the chair with her hands behind her back, apparently handcuffed. Druitt sets a bottle of water down.
"We knew each other in London, your mother and I, when we were young. In fact, we were rather close." He tells Ashley.
Ashley shakes her head "See, now I know you're full of crap." She scoffs
"Because she's a hundred and fifty-eight years old?" He asks Ashley confused surly Helen told her about herself.
Druitt picks up water bottle and slowly walks towards Ashley.
"First off, she's a hundred and fifty-seven… And I get that she is special, it's… some sort of accident of her genetic makeup. But the chances of two people having the same defect"
Druitt interrupts her "Are much higher if it's no accident" He offers the bottle to Ashley "You sure? "
Ashley slaps Druitt's hand away with her now unruffled hands, kicking him in the stomach as she comes up out of the chair yelling. Druitt lands on his back as Ashley kicks his feet out from under him. As Druitt rolls over to get to his feet, Ashley gets an arm around his neck in a chokehold. Druitt rolls over to pin her to the floor beneath him, her arm still around his neck from behind.
Irritated he tells her "this is tedious."
Druitt teleports them into the middle of a busy intersection.
He shouts over the noise of traffic and Ashley's exclamations of surprised alarm "Should we talk here? "What are you doing" she asks slightly scared
Druitt teleports them to a rocky ledge above a river of lava.
"Or here?"
"Oh my God" Ashley screams
Druitt teleports them to a point in mid-air, tens of stories above a paved street.
Ashley screams as they plummet towards the street below.
"Stop it! Stop it"
Druitt teleports them back to the floor of the warehouse, landing with a bump with Ashley still behind and beneath him. Ashley is gasping for air. Druitt is irritated. "As I said, there's little time. I need to know where Helen is"
Ashley lies on the floor coughing and gasping for breath.
-PAGE BREAK IN THE CATOCOMBS-
Helen and Tesla stand facing each other in the same spot. There is a runnel of blood dripping down the wall from the stake Tesla had been impaled on. I am standing off to the side.
"Back at Oxford, the others used the Source for power and for greed, but you… You altered yourself out of a pure desire for knowledge." He tells her, oh God he had it bad. I grinned this was like a soap opera.
- P.O.V CHANGE Tesla flash back-
Helen cries out in pain as she is injected with the dark substance seen in the last flashback. Druitt has worried face flashes past and we see Helen's hand holding someone else's.
Flash back ends.
"You're the only scientist, perhaps the only person I've ever really admired."
- end P.O.V-
Helen glances over her shoulder as she hears approaching footsteps, then grabs Tesla's elbow and pulls him down the corridor. I bend down and pick up a piece of wood that was on the floor so I would have a weapon. I then followed them.
-page brake with Ashley-
Ashley is sitting on the same chair, handcuffs hanging from a single wrist. Druitt holds out a small locket, laying open so that Ashley can see the picture of Helen inside. Ashley takes it.
"This picture was taken by Henry Talbot in Southampton, eighteen eighty-uh, something. I forget the exact date." He told her sadly, even though they had a past that had bad things in it, he loved Helen still.
"Where did you get this" She asks amazed.
"As a gift, from your mother while we were both at Oxford, though she was just auditing courses in those days. No women were allowed to enroll." he gives a small laugh "A rule she railed against with a vengeance, believe me"
"You were college buddies with my mom." she asks unbelievingly
"Yes, at first. Things became more serious between us later." He tells Ashley smiling remembering the old memories.
"Okay, dude, you have to stop referring to my mom as your ex or seriously, I will kill you." She tells him grosses out and seriously pissed off. Druitt reaches out to retrieve the locket. Ashley returns it with some reluctance.
"We were part of something, something we called The Five. A small group dedicated to expanding our knowledge of the physical world by the most unconventional means." He tells her.
"How can you be old like her" Ashley asks him very seriously wanting to know what her mum lied to her about.
"Unlike what you've been told, your mother was not born with a genetic abnormality. No, she chose to become something different. We all did. We were so curious to know what humans could become. Evolve into, given the chance. " He explained how Helen changed and became special.
"Who were the others" she asked him.
"Besides your mother and myself was Nigel Griffin, Sir James Watson, and Nikola Tesla" He tells her who all was in the group known as The Five.
"As in… the-" she pauses when he starts specking again.
"Yes, the same. Though I still say he leeched off Edison and cheated Marconi. But, I digress… Have you heard of the species sanguine vampiris" He tells her
"Yeah, vampire. They're extinct" she tells him how stupid was he she wondered.
"Not quite. They were all but exterminated by the Church centuries ago. Those who lived through the purges were made sterile. Your mother was able to procure a very rare sample of ancient, untainted vampire blood, one that was collected before the sterilization of the species was carried out. Blood that supposedly possessed miraculous properties. No one had ever dared inject pure sanguine vampiris until your mother derived a serum from it"
He explains to Ashley.
FLASHBACK - Druitt's
Helen sits in a chair with Druitt kneeling next to her. A man whose face is off screen walks towards her, holding a needle full of serum. Another man is standing behind Helen's chair, visible only from the chest down.
FIRST MAN (TESLA):
"It's ready"
SECOND MAN (GRIFFIN):
"You don't have to go first. John or I could have a go to start"
THIRD MAN (WATSON):
"He's right. No need for unnecessary heroics. The side-effects are completely unknown"
HELEN:
Nervous, but trying to hide it "Thank you, gentlemen. But this experiment was of my design. I shall be the one to prove it's worth"
Druitt takes Helen's hand to get her attention.
DRUITT:
"Helen, you're certain"
HELEN:
"We've risked too much to turn back now we need to know"
Druitt smiles slightly as Helen turns back towards the man with the needle.
HELEN:
"You may proceed, Nikola."
Nikola slowly injects Helen with the serum. Helen winces as the needle breaks the skin and gasps in pain just after the entire serum has been injected, clutching at Druitt's and Nikola's hands. Both men look deeply concerned. Helen turns wide, frightened eyes to Druitt.
END OF FLASHBACK
Confused Ashley asks "wait a minute, she's part vampire"
"No. She is human, and so much more. After each of us was injected, we received unique… gifts as a result. " Druitt explains to her.
"Yeah, seen yours in action, thanks." Ashley tells him
"Griffin's molecules became photosensitive, Watson's mind grew to new heights, and Tesla's reaction was the most dramatic. His genetic disposition brought forth vampiris traits, which had lain dormant in his genes. But your mother? Well, her gift was the most simple and elegant." He says remembering.
We here a Cabal Agent we are farther down the corridor from him, Helen. I and Tesla are in a side corridor. Helen stops abruptly as green laser lights from Cabal agents' gun shine across her path. She, I, and Tesla turn back, only to realize that Cabal agents are also coming in from the other direction. We flatten ourselves on either side of the alcove we are in.. I am scared so I camouflage my self I blend in with the wall.
"I, I feel so safe when I'm with you" He tells her what the crap is he stupid if they catch us we are dead.
Helen whispers to him urgently "Quiet" she stares at him
Tesla grins, but remains silent.
"We're going to have to fight our way out of here. No killing" She tells him. She looks at me to see if I was ok with this, I do not like fighting or violence. I had grabbed the board to protect my self but I most likely would not use it. I nod I knew I would have to fight
"Said the woman with the gun to the vampire" He tells her, I snort that was somewhat funny.
"Just follow my lead" she tells him she turns to look at me. "Sorry" I mutter looking down. " Oh I am not mad Chels not at you never at you" she tells me in a quiet voice.
"It won't be necessary" he says in a normal voice. I wince was he stupid they were right by us. I glared at him
"I, for one, don't intend to get captured or killed" she says angrily
"You won't" He says in a singsong voice. What was he planning.
"What do you mean" she asked him. I just stared at him, he had something up his sleeve.
Tesla smiles. Cabal agents start yelling. Helen looks down the corridor as several gunshots are fired I tilt my head to the side. Tesla steps across to Helen. The gunfire and yelling start to drop off.
"The playing field just got levelled" He smirked.
Tesla turns and leaves the alcove. I walked forward as does Helen and I stare at his as he walks wow he had a nice bum. I shake my head so not the place I think to my self.
Helen, Tesla and I go down a corridor to find Head Agent lying dead on the ground. Helen's flashlight reveals lines of blood across his neck. She kneels next to him.
"My god. What did this she asked him concerned. I kneel down next to her " Is he dead or can I" I ask Helen. She shakes her head " he is gone" she told me. I sigh and shake my head even though he is the bad guy I wish I could have healed him.
"It's not so much the "what" as the "why" that counts" he tells us. I look at him angry.
"This is your project, isn't it" Helen stands and approaches Tesla, "This is what you've been working on." She says growl waiting for him to answered even though I already know that it is his doing
"Tonight, you get to witness the rebirth of the greatest abnormal that ever walked the Earth" I stared on horror no he could not mean.
Helen turns as she hears two vampires approaching, taking a step back and pointing her gun at them. One growls. I stand up and raise my board. One growls at me, I snarl soundlessly at it.
"My god, Nikola, what have you done" she asks worried.
Tesla turns to face Helen, still grinning "Welcome to the future"
-Page break with Ashley-
Druitt is kneeling in front of Ashley, removing the last handcuff from Ashley's wrist.
"I realize you need time to process all this. That isn't a luxury that we have." He tells her matter of fact like.
Druitt finishes with the handcuffs and moves back to sit in a chair opposite Ashley.
"I like your story. It's a nice story" she said flatly.
"Tesla's intent on making contact with your mother. Imminently. Now whatever you may think of me, of The Five, he's easily the most dangerous" he warns Ashley.
"Good twist. Not enough" She tells him.
"Ashley, I am not your enemy. Not any more" He tells her seriously.
"Baldy, you invaded our house. You fed me to a giant iguana. If that's not enough to make you my enemy, then what the hell is " She tells him angrily.
Druitt is irritated "Oh, I was wrong to try to reason with you, you're incapable of seeing the truth"
"What truth" she asks him defensively.
"That you have no concept of the meaning of your work. You just shoot, maim, and capture whatever Mommy tells you, without a single regard for the consequences of your actions" He tells her he is getting pissed off.
"That is not true" she hisses at him.
"You're a killer, all right. You live for the thrill of the hunt, the exquisite rush of that moment of violence. You find it utterly intoxicating. I know the feeling very well myself"
He tells her having lost his temper.
Ashley lunges out of the chair and grabs Druitt by the throat "I am nothing like you" She yells.
"Oh, you'd like nothing more than to kill me, resurrect your wounded pride… Get some blood on your hands. The only reason you haven't really tried is because you aren't sure if you can pull it off" he tells her sarcastically.
Ashley is still holding him by the throat, her eyes watering.
"We don't have time. We have to go" he tells her.
Ashley lets go and takes half a step back, hands on hips.
"I'm appealing to your judgment, to your intuition. I want you to think! Not just act. See, I brought you here to help you, Ashley, give you the chance to make a choice. To show you a world your mother has kept hidden from you. Do not turn away from it. Trust me. Help me save your mother." He pleads wanting Ashley just to listen and believe him.
-Page break catacombs-
The two vampires are standing still, growling quietly.
"What the hell are they" Helen asks I want to know the same thing.
Tesla crosses over to stand with them, I stared at him then looked down and blushed. I was thanking. The last few weeks I had come so far. I was no longer the scared person I had been I still had many issues but I issues still.
"Well, in a very basic sense, they're me" I rolled my eyes.
"You found a way to revive the species" she asked him.
"The question" he holds up a knife he cuts his own hand "Could I use my own altered DNA to turn a boring old homo sapien into a higher, more evolved species" He told us.
Tesla knelt next to the body of Head Agent and dribbled some of his own blood into his mouth. One of the vampires hands Tesla a U-shaped metal bar with copper wiring wrapped around the middle. "And the answer is so simple, it will make you cry watch" He told us.
Tesla touched the two ends of the bar in his hand to Head Agent's corpse. Electricity arcs from the points. Head Agent arches and yells. Helen looks alarmed and horrified. So did I what he did was horrible. Tesla just grins. Head Agent is yelling changes tone as Tesla stops shocking him. I am standing next to Helen I hid my face in her shoulders. The Head Agent's eyes are black and his teeth pointed. Tesla smiles in triumph at Helen. Head Agent gets to his feet faster than the eye can follow, growling at Helen and brandishing now-clawed hands.
-page break with Ashley-
Ashley is standing in front of a mirror. She turns away to face Druitt, who is still sitting in the same chair.
"What does Tesla want with my mom" She asks him?
Druitt looks at her and answers "Tesla's intent on creating an army of deadly creatures. Topple the Cabal finally. Helen will undoubtedly refuse his offer to join him in his efforts, and when she does…He will kill her" He is completely serious and not making any of it up it is obvious from how he is talking.
"How do you know all this" she asked him.
"Because. He came to me first." Druitt begins to unbutton the top buttons on his shirt. "My last encounter with your mother did, indeed, leave me close to death. But Tesla found me, revived me. And when I refused him, well… Nothing quite like electroshock therapy to clear the mind." He tells her " It is why I am no longer your enemy.
Druitt pulls his shirt aside to reveal several circular burns on his chest.
"My god" she whispers horrified at the sight.
"And the rage that once fuelled me is gone." He clears his throat of emotion "I'm whole once again, Together, we can save her. But I need to know where she is. I am your only hope".
Ashley remains silent, bites back tears. "Pleading Please. I need to make things right. For you. For her." He tells her.
-Page break catacombs-
Tesla is faces Head Agent "Well, thanks for joining the party. Now, uh, go join the others"
Helen is backing slowly away, eyes wide, Tesla turns to her. I back up away from them.
"See, the coolest thing about me using my own DNA to reanimate the dead is… he laughs…. They do whatever I say." He tells us yeah so he totally does not have a big head.
"They're practically mindless." She tells him, I nod agreeing with her.
"I know. They are fast, vicious, strong, but they are as dumb as tree stumps. Which defeats the whole purpose of the project" He says I could tell that that fact made him sad?
"You want me to help you make them intelligent" she asks him disbelievingly.
"This is the culmination of everything we stood for as The Five: Pushing boundaries, exploring realms of science that other people were afraid to. Just imagine! " He goes off into a monologue. Wow doesn't he know anything doing that is when something happens.
He turns to the toward the three vampires "Sanguine Vampiris. Reborn" Wow do all evil scientists tread the same book on this kind of stuff. I wonder I sigh he no longer seems so hot to me know because of his stupidity.
"They would only enslave us again. " She warns him, I find my self agreeing with her.
"Well, I don't think human beings are doing such a good job of it right now, do you? Hmm? You and I could usher in a new golden age of thought and culture and peace… " he counters
"You're mad, Nikola" she counters.
"No!" in his normal tone voice, "The Philadelphia Experiment was mad. But this… is progress" he tells us.
Tesla is standing in front of his vampires, facing Helen and me.
"We all know the Abnormals are on the rise. And now, we just need somebody to lead them"
"You" she questions. I just stare at him.
"Us, You saw how my Mini-Me's handled those trackers earlier tonight. Now just imagine, an army of them, huh? But massively intelligent! You and I could give the Cabal- -" wow this man is a psychotic genius I think to my self and he scars me.
Helen raises her gun and shoots Him three times. He falls back to be caught by the vampires behind him as Helen and I turn and run. Tesla stands up and looks down at his chest briefly before looking back the way Helen and I had run.
"Ouch" He says calmly in a way that scared the crap out of me. He turns to the vampires.
"Get them" he tells them. I hear this and urge Helen to run faster. I here the vampires to come running after us.
the creature in pursuit.]
We are running down a corridor with the two vampires close behind. She turns and shoots them eight times. They stagger but keep coming after us. She turns and we continue running.
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Druitt and Ashley hurry through the corridors "Can we be certain they came down here" He asks Ashley.
Ashley stops and picks up something off the ground, standing she shows it to Druitt. It is a bullet casing to Druitt. "Definitely one of mom's" she says
"She always carries a gun' he questions Ashley that is not the Helen he knows.
They both look down the corridor as they hear sounds of distant shots. Ashley pulls her gun and aims down the corridor. "With good reason" she tells him. Druitt follows as Ashley begins moving toward the gunfire.
-Page break catacombs with Helen Tesla and me-
Helen is standing with her back to a small cross-corridor, facing the two slowly advancing vampires. She shoots them another two times before she runs out of ammunition. The two vampires rush in for the kill as Helen raises her hands to defend herself. I raise my board ready to fight to.
"Not yet" Tesla orders them.
Both vampires stop immediately. Helen gasps for air, looking distinctly unrelieved. Tesla's eyes are black and his teeth are pointed. My shoulders dropped I was breathing hard from adrenaline.
"Not yet. Back off" he ordered again.
Helen lowered her hands and I lowered my board, both of us still breathing heavily.
Shaking head slightly "Helen" he sighed "Nice shooting" he tells her. "You Chelsea nice running your loyal but that is going to be your end.
"I thought you loved me" she told him. I sighed yeah until you shot him.
Tesla glanced off to side as if in contemplation "Did I? Oh. I don't think it's going to work out." He told her I rolled my eyes what a cry bag I thought.
Helen smiled bitterly for a moment as she advanced on Tesla. I snort well might as well piss him off as much as she could. "Well, then. Guess I can tell you that, at Oxford… No one liked you."
Condescendingly Tesla "Aw, Was it because I was a genius" he asks her.
Helen smirks and continued to rip him a new one I was right behind her. "No. Because you were an obnoxious ass" she snapped at him.
Tesla just laughs "Well. Guess who's still standing" he taught
Helen jumps and backs into me and Tesla grunts in pain I hear a sound. It is Druitt, he teleports in. I look down and see Druitt's bloody fist sticking out of Tesla's stomach. Druitt leans around to look at Tesla with a grim smile on his face.
"John" She says. I am blinking in shock.
"Hello, Nikola" Druitt says in a very creepy way. Druitt abruptly pulls his fist out of Tesla, who cries out in pain and falls. The other three now very angry vampire's growl as Helen turns quickly to face them and backs away toward Ashley and Druitt. I back up and into Ashley, I grab her hand. Druitt reaches around Helen and Ashley All of us teleport away.
-Page break out of the catacombs somewhere in Rome-
Helen immediately shoves away and whirls to face him. I let go of Ashley's hand.
Ashley faces Druitt from a step behind Helen. I step back and end up standing next to Ashley.
"John! What are you doing? " She asks him
I stare at him, this was Jack the ripper. I felt a trill of fear but pushed it aside I can heal myself and what ever he does to me.
"Saving your life." He tells her
"Why" She asks him surprised.
"You've had a long night, Helen. I'm simply glad to see you safe and sound." He tells her, I can tell that he loves her.
"The blood I gave you. It should have crippled you, or worse" she told him.
"It did" he tells her seriously.
"Then how-?"he tells her. I stare at him wondering what happened.
Druitt pauses and exchanges glances with Ashley. Helen follows Druitt's gaze. Ashley nods at Druitt, blinking back tears. I stare at them I have backed up and I am not by them but I am close enough to here what they say.
Druitt bows slightly and says "Ashley can explain" He then teleports away. Helen looks at Ashley, who can't quite meet her mother's eyes. I am sitting down and leaning against the wall. Ashley and Helen walk silently to the end of the walkway where they have a bird's-eye view of the city. Helen sighs quietly, on the brink of tears, and looks at Ashley. Ashley looks back. I look at them pretty sure, I have figured out who he was. I mean it was obvious to me any way he looked very similar to Ashley. I close my eyes and think of every thing that happened the last few hours.
I got to say I did pretty good I did not freak out like I thought to my self. I have come so far. I look at Helen and Ashley they would have so many things to discuss, I felt wrong being here in this privet family moment. I mean this was so privet I should not be here.
"He's my father, isn't he" she asked her mother. I looked down I try and block out the conversation.
Helen looks at Ashley "Yes. He is" she tells Ashley.
I am looking at my shirt and the hole and the blood. I pick at the hole. It is very interesting. I look up at them. Ashley nods, takes a deep breath, and blinks back her own tears as she turns to look out over the city. Helen regards her silently for a moment before turning toward the view.
"Never shown you Rome, have I" Helen asks her. I smile at them well they seemed to have reached an understanding.
"There was never time" Ashley says smiling sadly.
" I have a lot to make up for…. She pauses…. Shall we?" Helen holds her hand out to Ashley. Ashley looks down at it for a moment, takes a deep breath and looks back out over the city. Helen keeps her hand out, watching Ashley silently and still fighting tears. Ashley takes another deep breath and swallows hard.
Oh hey look at that I have shards of wood in my legs and arms. I start picking them out. They start walking off, I jump up I have gotten the shards of wood out by the time they start to leave. I don't know my way around or the launge. So I have to stay with them.
Oh my gosh this chapter took me so long. Hope you guys like it. If not i wont do the next chapters like this.
