Note for later in the chapter: I'm presently in love with Tarja Turunen, the signer of Nightwish (well I'm in love with lotsa people, but this actually applies to the fic :P) so I kinda imagine Helena signing like her ;; the song is Ever Dream by Nightwish. You should all listen to Nightwish. NIGHTWISH OO

Unexpected 6

"Lady Helena seems different this morning." Julianna announced as she bounced in. "She looked so serene, like all her worries have vanished overnight." She twirled. "Oh my God, this woman is so dreamy." She almost had hearts in her eyes.

"Hello to you too, Julianna." Christie sarcastically answered, washing the dishes.

"Christie! I wanna marry her!" She glomped the taller woman.

"Yes, you already told me like 70 times already." Christie sighed. 'Mysterious women… Julianna don't stand a chance.' She grinned a little then saw what looked like a letter in the redhead's hand. "What's that?"

"A letter for Lady Helena, it's not written who it's from." She handed it to Christie for her to examine it.

'I know that hand writing.' She frowned, not being able to remember where she had seen it before. 'That reminds me… it's past 10am, I should have received news from Donavan.' She left the kitchen, heading to check her e-mails, forgetting to hand the envelope back to the girl.

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Later that day, Christie walked down the main hall, still very uncomfortable with the huge mansion. 'This place is huge, how am I expected to find someone before the end of the day?' As there were no new orders, she was to remain positioned here and keep her eye on Helena. For a few moments, she had been afraid that what Ayane had talked about: the assassination being scheduled this week, would be true. She wasn't ready to go back to Donavan after learning he was playing in her back. That and she had to admit, even if she hated it, she was warming up to Helena.

She looked at the letter in her hand, starting to think she should've left it to the redhead. She never did like to wander around like this. 'Where could she…' She trailed off as she heard music. She walked toward where the melody seemed to come from. The doors were wide open. At the centre of the gigantic well-lit (with the usual huge windows) room, rested a piano… which Helena was currently playing amazingly well.

'I swear, this woman has no flaws.' Christie thought to herself, as she silently entered the room and stood listening to the air. 'I didn't know she liked gothic metal.' She mused as she recognized the song to be one of the Finnish group Nightwish. (AN: yes, I do love Nightwish THAT much.) (come on, Tarja has an magnificent opera voice and the music gets under your skin, how can you not love this?)

Then Helena raised her head and saw Christie. "I didn't see you come in." She smiled and, as Julianna had noted, she did look more peaceful than before. Like she had come to terms with something that had bothered her for a while.

"It was beautiful." The albino commented and Helena's smile grew wider. "Why didn't you sing the lyrics? I hear your voice is one of the best out there."

"Oh please." Helena blushed a little. "It's embarrassing."

"Won't you sing me for me?" Christie approached her.

"Do you really want me to?" The blonde looked up at her, the ever-present smile still playing on her lips.

Christie couldn't believe how that woman was getting to her easily. "Of course I do." She leaned against the piano, waiting keenly for the song she would pick.

"Okay then…." She stretched her arms and fingers and got ready to play. "This one is for you." Helena's smile was now enigmatic. 'Here goes nothing…' She thought.

She took a deep breath and started a slow air that Christie recognized before the blond even opened her mouth. 'Ever Dream?' She was stunned by the choice Helena made.

Helena closed her eyes and sang the first lyrics.
" Ever felt away with me

Just once that all I need
Entwined in finding you one day

Ever felt away without me
My love, it lies so deep
Ever dream of me?"

The albino's mind raced once again. 'She's being very forward…' She gulped. Quickly however, Christie got lost in the song, entranced by the woman's voice. Something emanated from her as she chanted; Christie now understood why everyone wanted to see the blonde's recitals. There was something magnetic about her and it just became overwhelming when she sang. Helena seemed very concentrated, signing without a single flaw in her voice. It was only at one point that her eyes flew open and she looked at Christie with a disturbingly deep stare.

"Give in, give in for my touch, for my taste, for my lust." She sang with mixed emotion, holding the other woman's bemused gaze before closing her eyes once again and proceeded in finishing the song.

They both stayed silent, Helena still looking deeply concentrated and Christie left speechless by the performance and of course, the meaning of it.

Finally, she stood up and typically walked to the window. "Christie…" She turned to the horizon, the light creating a halo around her whole body. The British woman waited for her to continue but the blonde seemed to be taken with the sunset to add anything. She hugged herself and sighed. "Do you find me attractive?" Helena then suddenly asked, still looking outside.

Christie's mouth hung open. 'What kind of question is that? What the hell is she trying to pull?… Stupid, it's pretty clear what she's trying to do.' she cried internally. "Why do you ask?"

Helena's pale ocean eyes were now closely observing the other woman. "Why don't you answer?"

Christie cleared her throat. "You are gorgeous, Lady Helena, are you worried about this?"

The blonde turned back to the window, staring at the bright colours outside. "I'm not worried." She rested her hand on the cold glass of the window and kept silent a few seconds. "Sans vouloir être prétentieuse… je sais que je suis belle. Ce que je voulais savoir c'était si toi… tu es attirée par moi. Si tu me désires autant que moi je te désires." She smiled to herself, not really sure if Christie understood what she just said.

The albino's face was blank. 'Did she just say what I think she said?' "I'm sorry but I didn't get that." Christie said just in case she had heard wrong.

"Nothing important." Helena sighed dejectedly as she sat and resumed playing piano. There was at least one thing she was sure… Christie had got the message with the song.

"I will be preparing your bath then." She bowed and exited. Outside the room, Christie stood deep in thoughts. Her french was a little rusty but if she understood well what the blond had said... 'I don't want to boast… but I know I'm pretty. What I wanted to know was if you… you were attracted to me. If you lust for me as much as I do for you.' "She didn't really say that, did she?" She whispered to herself and walked to the bathroom.

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Helena was now relaxing in her huge bath. She smiled to herself 'One last try. If she doesn't answer to this, I'll leave her alone.' She rinsed her hair and cleared her throat. "Christie?" She called to the woman she knew was waiting by the door.

"Yes?" The albino answered fearing only one thing at the moment:

"Come here." She heard the blond call.

'Damn, last thing I need now is to see her naked' She gulped but complied. "Yes?" She entered the huge bathroom.

Helena motioned for her to come closer. "Would you wash my back?" she had turned her back to her.

Christie's heart was hammering in her chest as she took a damp cloth and started gently bathing her. As she washed her shoulders, she couldn't help but notice a detail. 'Her skin looks so soft…' Before she knew it, she was running the tip of her fingers on the pale skin, making Helena shiver slightly.

The blonde turned to look at her from the corner of the eye. Christie was shaken out of her starting reverie by the slight motion. "Sorry." She breathed.

"Don't worry about it." Helena smiled as she returned to her initial position.

She resumed washing her, going lower, touching her whenever she couldn't resist it. The albino entered some kind of trance; the touch of her perfect skin, the intoxicating flowery smell floating in the air, her beautiful bare body at the mercy of her fantasies. She took deep breaths, trying to keep focus, to stay professional but it didn't seemed to work as she had now ditched the cloth and was caressing her with her hands.

Helena bit her lip trying not to moan at what was now more than a massage. She smiled; she knew the answer at what she had asked a little earlier. "Have you ever done it with a woman?" Her voice was almost a whisper.

"No" Christie answered, talking no more loudly than the blonde. She wasn't even surprised Helena would ask this.

"Have you ever wanted to?" She asked even more quietly.

"Yes" She sighed lustfully, bending over the water to kiss her neck softly.

Helena turned her head slightly to talk in her ear. "You did understand what I asked you earlier, didn't you?" She reached to caress Christie's cheek as the silver haired woman kept kissing her neck.

"Yes…" Christie admitted, wanting very badly to close the almost inexistent distance between their lips.

Helena turned to look at her, exposing her body to Christie who caught her breath. "Will you keep me company tonight?" She murmured.

'No, no, no, no, no, no!!' Christie's mind cried. "Yes…" She tried to kiss her but before their lips met the woman stood up. She stepped out of the bath and put on a bathrobe.

"Come with me." She smiled seductively at her and exited the bathroom.

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to be continued…hehehe, rating going to R on the next chapter.

bwahahahaha! And remember…

NIGHTWISH!!! OO