"For the last time, Cassandra, you aren't coming with us." Helen sighed. "He obviously affects you, we can't afford you being distracted."
"Yeah but you need me. I can calculate an escape route faster than any of you, not to mention that I can also serve as bait if you want me too. No, actually let me do it. Anna said she doesn't want to see you around."
"Actually, she said that she doesn't want to see me talking to him, but Mr. Jones suggested that she can't know we are not affected, so we could still go to the church and pretend we want a confession or something like that." Helen said.
"And then kidnap him in front of all those people? That sounds like an awful plan."
"No, actually. This is just field research. Ideally we might be able to grab him before he gets back home. But I still need someone to break inside his house, maybe they will find something that can tell us who Anna is. I have a feeling there is more to her than just feeding on the sexual energy of some villagers."
"Problem is we need someone to distract Anna so she doesn't get back home anytime soon."
"I can do that." Flynn offered. "She'll probably be suspicious about me given the fact that she has seen us together but I think I can get inside her head."
"Not alone, Librarian. I don't want her getting inside your head, or your pants for that matter." Simone said defensively.
"Eve will come with me. I'm sorry, Simone, but if this is to work, Helen will need someone to help carry Nikola and you are the only one that has the strength to do it."
"Fine." Simone said as she rolled her eyes. "I guess if I have to choose who is getting in your pants… Yeah, Eve is the less displeasing idea."
"Then can I be bait?" Cassandra pleaded. "It can work, Helen. You take me to the church, say that I'm ill and that you've heard that Nikola can cure people… It makes sense."
"Fine. But you need to promise me you'll keep your hands at bay."
"I'll behave, I promise." Cassandra smiled at her. "I don't know what got into me before, but I can assure you I have no interest in him."
"Alright, then, it's settled." Helen smiled at them. "Good luck ladies and gentlemen. We have a priest to kidnap."
"I'm so glad I ran into you." Helen said when she met Nikola. "I know you told me to come on Friday, but it couldn't wait. My friend Cassandra got very ill and I heard people talking. They say that you are the only one who can cure this."
"She has it too?" Nikola asked as he looked Cassandra in her eyes. "I don't know what this curse that haunts our village is, but for some reason God gave me the power to cure it. This is what I've been trying to tell you, Anna. I have a purpose here. I need to cure girls like Cassandra."
"Do you know how you're doing it?" Helen asked but Nikola shook his head. "I wish I did. Anna says I have a gift."
"Must be the eyes." Cassandra sighed dreamily. "You have a very rare mutation, just so you know. Blue eyes are a mutation to begin with, but that color you have… it's almost impossible statistically speaking. Makes you even more gorgeous, if that is possible. Steel blue…" she sighed. "I remember one day the sky had this color. I was around 9 years old and it was raining and I went outside and let the rain touch my face…"
"OK, this is new." Nikola said. "She looks like she's in some sort of trance."
"She is, actually. She's synesthetic from what I can gather, but apart from that, this whole… being smitten with you thing…"
"Yes, all girls seem to have it." Nikola smiled. "I can't imagine why. The funnier part however is that you seem not to give a damn about my looks, though. Sure you have delusions of your own with me being a scientist in the future and all, but you haven't mentioned my looks, not even once."
"Don't tell me it bugs you that a woman seems to be immune to your charms, Father Tesla." Helen mocked him. "You are taken anyway, why would you care?"
"I don't." Nikola said a bit quicker than he should have. "It's just interesting from a… scientific point of view, so to speak. Now let's see what we can do to your little friend here. Normally I would take her to the church, but Anna said that she thinks I talk to you too much and I don't want to upset her."
"And what if I told you that she is behind all of this?" Helen asked carefully. "What if I told you that she uses you to cause the girls have fantasies with you and then feeds on their sexual energy?"
"Like a succubus?" Nikola asked incredulously. "You know I get that you have a crush on me because I am supposed to be your ideal of scientist or something and I get that you would come up with the whole time travelling story, but this is way too farfetched, even for you."
"I wish you haven't said that." Helen sighed as she took a gun out of her dress and shot him. He looked in shock at the dart that had entered his chest and then back at Helen. "You shot me. I can't believe you-" but then he fell to the ground.
"Consider this the beginning of a whole history of me shooting you, love." Helen sighed as she kneeled next to him and placed a kiss on his lips. "I think he's asleep now, Simone, you can come out."
"You know for an evil mastermind she doesn't care that much about security." Ezekiel laughed as he broke inside Anna's house.
"Can you please get on with it? I don't know how much time Flynn can buy us." Jake muttered.
"This is my field, alright? First rule when you break inside a house, when you break in anywhere actually… never pay attention to what is on the surface. Nobody keeps their precious belongings where everyone can see. Also, you need patience. You also need style, which you obviously lack." Ezekiel continued earning himself a glare from Jake.
"You know for the record I still feel that we are evading her privacy." Jake said uncomfortably. "There is nothing suspicious here and I certainly don't feel comfortable going through a woman's drawers."
"I told you, the chances of finding anything in plain sight are very low." Ezekiel said. "I'm sorry if you're such a sissy that you can't handle some- " Jake where the hell are you?" he asked when he noticed he was alone.
"I'm right here!" Jake called from another room. "What year are we, exactly?"
"1883, I guess, why?" Ezekiel asked while he followed Jake.
"Because I found this inside a drawer." He said as he took out a locket and showed it to Ezekiel. Inside it, the locket had a picture of a young woman, probably in her mid 20s. "This is a photo of a portrait, and while the quality is lacking… It is the 19th century after all..." Jake explained.
"You have a problem with the portrait."
"It has been painted in 1585 and it disappeared in the 1990s. My real problem is that in this age, lockets were given to loved ones, you know, to hold the one you love close to your heart."
"And you found this in Anna's drawer." Ezekiel said. "You think she's playing for the other team just because you found that she has a locker with a girl's picture? Maybe it's her mother or something."
"Anna. Her name is Anna." Jake said as he turned white. "We have to warn the others."
"About what?"
"Well, good news is I found evidence to a theory that has been going around for ages. Bad news is, I was right, the girl in the locket is her lover. Was, at least. I hope to God it is in past tense to be honest."
"What don't tell me her lover is more bad news than she is."
"That doesn't even begin to cover it." Jake sighed. "Come, we have to warn the others, especially Flynn."
"Anna, that is your name, right?" Flynn called after her. She turned around with a smirk. "Don't tell me Helen sent you to make peace." Anna said as she rolled her eyes. "I expected more from her, a lot more to be honest."
"No, she doesn't know I'm here, actually. See the thing is, I like you. And I don't think you are evil. Helen says so because she is jealous, but I'm sure someone played with your head and convinced you to do some things that you wouldn't have done otherwise. But deep down you are a kind woman, and I know it."
"This is what they teach you at the Library these days?" Anna puffed with disgust. "The good cop bad cop thing, and you have the nerve to think it would work on me? Here's a little something for your book, Librarian. I know damn well why I am here, and if anybody is using other people, this is me who is doing it. I needed help, granted, at least until I figured out how to make a spell that would allow me to travel back in time, but other than that… I can handle myself thank you very much."
"So you're not as much as a witch as you seem to be."
"I hate that term. They keep using it on me, but I am so much more than that. I mean granted I made my mistakes in the past, but this is why I'm here, to fix those."
"How about you fix them without Tesla? You said it yourself, you could do it without him. Why don't you leave him alone and we leave you do your stuff and everybody is happy?" Eve suggested.
"I still don't understand why Dulac had any problem with you people." Anna said with a smirk. "You look like heroes, but you don't act the part. Especially you, Librarian." She said as she closed the distance between them. "You want people to think you're an honorable man, but I know who you desire. I can feel it. You've been thinking about her since you've seen her again, and I can't blame you. Vampires are… complicated and crazy and sometimes awfully indiscreet, but there is just something about them, isn't it? Something that makes you burn with desire every time you lay your eyes on them. And you, Eve. Poor, poor, poor Eve. All your training and you can't handle a bit of lust. He's not even your type, but this is what attracts you the most about him, isn't it? This childish nature that he sometimes has. But as I said, you don't have a chance, not against a vampire. Your talents are awfully underappreciated at the Library, but I could have my share of fun with you, if you wish."
"I may take that into consideration." Eve smiled at her but Anna was having none of it.
"That would have worked if I didn't know that you're here just to stall time while Helen tries to steal Nikola away from me. Oh, and I guess that the other two are searching my house as we speak. That's the problem with you Librarians. You are too predictable. It makes it so easy for me that it's boring. So I'm going to sit back and do nothing. Give you a head start, if you wish. Let the kids find out who I am, maybe they will end up treating me with the respect I deserve. And if Helen wants to kidnap Nikola, my Nikola, have it her way. I hope she has all the fun in the world with his deranged mind. Also, if he gets sick, call me. You know where to find me."
"Or I could just shoot you." Eve said glaring at her.
"Or you could just shoot me, yes. That worked so well the last time you tried shooting a witch. I am not on the same level as Morgan, true, but do you really want to take a chance, Guardian? Especially given the fact that I have an entire village at my beck and call, and more important, the man you came here to save? I didn't think so." She smirked as Eve lowered her weapon. "I wish you a nice stay in our village, and in our time. Oh, I haven't told you. That house you used to came here… They have such a nice butler. The bad part is that he is awfully easy to convince of some things, like going back in time for 10 years and finding a poor little girl that needs him desperately. I hope he likes it in Kansas, because that is where he'll be staying for a while. See you around, Librarian." She said and left with a smile.