AN - So, at the end, it get a little more M-rated, but not that much.
Heartbeat
"Nikola, are you sure about this?" Lila asked.
Nikola nodded. Stay back. This oculd have harmful side effects."
Lila studed the contraption Nikola had devised. "What is this supposed to do again?"
"It's a database, essentially. But it will store electrical memories." Tesla grinned. "It monotors any kind of electric pulses, and records them. Radio waves, weapons, anything."
Lila let out a deep breath. "What if something happens to you?"
Nikola waved a hand. "I'll be fine." He lowered his hand over a smooth plate and slowly, electric current began to flow.
Every time she saw it, she thought it was amazing. Lila smiled at the light in his eyes. Suddenly, Lila saw the air ripple, and Nikola's eyes went wide before an explosion of electricity threw him back against the wall. Lila rushed to him. Nikola curled up in a ball on the floor, shaking. Lila knelt by his side, cupping his cheek. "Nikola? Nikola, talk to me."
Nikola only shook more, and tried to curl further up.
"No, no, I've already lost one man I love, I won't lose another. Nikola, I love you. Please, please talk to me." Lila pleaded. Lila tried not to cry, as she wrapped her arms around him. After a while, Nikola relaxed and stopped shaking. But the question which came after his recovery frightened her.
"Who am I?"
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Lila and Nikola sat down on the edge of the bed. "Nikola..." She began.
"Is that my name?" Nikola asked, wide eyed and innocent.
Lila sighed. "I'm going to tell you everything. You have to believe me, no matter how strange it sounds."
Nikola nodded.
"Your name is Nikola Tesla. You're on of the greatest inventors of time. You're also a vampire, and, hard to explain, you're also electric. You have a huge ego, and in your spare time you're either reading, building things, theorizing, or trying to revive vampires." Lila said.
Nikola stared at her for quite a while. Lila didn't blame him for it. "Another organization, the Cabal, is after us."
Nikola put his head in his hands. "And... us?"
Lila looked away. "Complicated. We're in a relationship." Lila felt Nikola's gaze on her, but instead of looking at him, she said, "I'm going to go back to the lab. I'll see if there's anything I can do. Um, there are some books you can read here until I get back."
*.*
Lila stomped back into the room. Failure. How was she supposed to figure out his genius device, after all? Nikola sat where she'd left him, reading. The only problem was, he was reading one of her books - a book she wasn't really supposed to have. He was reading his own autobiography. "Now there's something you don't see every day," Lila muttered.
Nikola put the book down. "Hey."
"Hey. How are you doing?" Lila asked.
"Good, considering." He said.
Lila smiled. Without a thought, she began to slide her top off. With a start, she realized maybe she should change in the bathroom, and sleep in what used to be her room. When she looked around, Nikola was facing the wall. Gentlemanly, Lila thought in surprise. Lila slipped on a nightdress. "Um, sorry about that," Lila muttered, walking quickly to her room.
*.*
In the middle of the night, Lila walked into Nikola. "Uh, sorry."
Nikola cleared his throat. "No, um, I'm sorry."
Lila looked around. She couldn't see a thing. She fumbled for a light switch. Once she found it, it didn't help. "Sorry, I was going down to the lab again."
"Right. Um, this is yours, isn't it?" Nikola offered her the autobiography.
"Well, yes." Lila looked in his eyes. "This isn't the first time you've seen me like this, you know." In fact, he had seen her wearing much less than a nightdress.
Nikola cleared his throat. "It kind of is for me, at the moment."
Lila leaned forward after a moment of hesitation, kissing him and running her hands along his bare chest. Nikola's fingers pulled her nightdress off. His hands gliding over her were shaky and tentatuve, as if he thought she might pull away at any moment. Lila flicked the light switch off as they backed into the bedroom. Lila reached for the bed, and suddenly they both fell into it. In the pitch black, Lila felt Nikola slide onto her.
His hands ran up her, sending shivers through her. Nikola's touches weren't shaky anymore, but gentle and soft. Lila couldn't see anything, but she could feel him. Lila kissed his chest, and moaned as he kissed her back. He was panting hard against her, and Lila gasped for air, certain he could feel her heartbeat.