"Bella? Bella!" Was heard by Tesla and "Isabella! Isabella?" Could be heard from Magnus as the both tried to run after her.
They both stopped, "Helen if you were going somewhere to be alone where would you go?" Nikola asked with worry completely filling his voice.
"My bedroom, the garden, to see Sally or the rooftop." She replied. "But she wouldn't know about Sally."
"Right, I'll check her bedroom and the garden. And you check the rooftops, alright?" He said.
"Right," They both ran off in the opposite directions.
Nikola ran to her bedroom, and went opened the door to look inside, but was stopped by Kate and Henry.
"Dude, what are doing? That's Isabella's room, I don't think you're allowed to go in the-" Henry tried to explained but shut his mouth when Tesla glared at him.
"I'm trying to find her, Helen is too, and so if you have seen her, can you tell me?" He said as he opened the door and looked inside but she wasn't in there. He walked back out and asked again, "Have you seen her?"
"No we haven't seen her. But we will let you know if we do." Kate said noticing that they should leave him.
When Tesla ran around the corner is when Henry spoke again, "I bet Magnus is making him look her."
"That would probably explain his attitude." She agreed as they walked off.
He ran out to the garden but again failed at finding her there so he ran up to the roof to where Helen might be with her and what he saw broke his heart. Magnus was holding Isabella in her lap and was stroking her hair, like what you would do to a child who came into you crying from a bad nightmare they just had. He could hear her crying and he could hear Helen saying "It's okay, it will all be okay" softly while rocking. Helen was used to doing this to Ashley when she was little, but she didn't do it for long, because Ashley learned that there only nightmares and they can't hurt you, from a very early age and that some of the abnormals were scarier than her dreams. Helen's motherly instincts had kicked in as soon as she saw Isabella crying in the foetal position.
Nikola took a step closer and Helen looked up at him and as if knowing what he was thinking she stopped rubbing Isabella's back to wave him over so he could hold her. He sat opposite Helen and close enough that he could gently side her off Helens lap and into his. When she was completely on his lap, she instantly responded by wrapping her arms around his torso and burying her face into his chest, and he, like Helen, was saying softly "It's going to be okay," and he would kiss the top of her head occasionally and he kept rubbing her back.
After a few minutes Helen mouth to Nikola "I'm going to go find some dinner for you two, come eat in my room." And she left when he nodded to her.
He kissed her on top of her head again and he noticed her crying had slowed and became just occasional sobs. So he hugged her tightly, until she looked up at him with her red puffy eyes and her tears stained cheeks, "I'm sorry…" She said and she looked away.
He caressed her cheek and made her turn back to him. "Sorry? You shouldn't be sorry, I don't know why what just happened did, but you shouldn't be sorry." He said softly and kissed her forehead. "Now Helen has dinner for us in her room, are you hungry?" He said getting up and lifting her up too, and they entwined their fingers again as they walked down to the floor below the roof and too the elevator, when they got to the elevator they could here Will coming around the corner and talking to someone so they let go of each other's hands. "William and Kate, oh how nice to see you kids." He said with his usual sarcasm while he smirked.
"Hey! We're not kids! I mean come on Isabella is younger than me." Kate fired back, she wasn't thinking about it; she hates being called a kid, even though she's adult.
"Oh I'm terribly sorry, put your hand up if you over one hundred years old." He and Isabella both stuck their hands in the air. "Well as it seems Isabella is older than you, she just appears younger." He said again still with his smirked plastered on face.
Neither Will nor Kate had actually looked at Isabella till now and they both noticed her red eyes, "Hey what's wrong? Your eyes are red." Kate asked her in concerned voice.
"It's just my allergies; my eyes go red and itchy from the pollen that's in the air." She said with a smile that was completely fake, but Kate didn't have to know that.
Tesla, Isabella and Will got into the elevator, and Kate kept walking. Isabella's room was a couple of floors above Helen's, and she was the first out, so she could go to her room and put her pyjamas on, why would she do that? Well Nikola whispered to her while they were in the elevator that she might be more comfortable and that he suspected that she and Helen had a lot of catching up to do. There are those two reasons, but she had her own reason; she just wanted to sit in her pyjamas and eat ice-cream. Physically she was still a teenager, 'I'm allowed too, I'm stuck being a teenager,' thought to herself.
She found her pyjamas in her bag but she went into the bathroom and looked at her body, her stomach was still pretty badly bruised so were her thighs and her back. She had new cut that had just started to heal but it could easily reopen again and it stretched from just below her left boob to the middle her stomach on the other side, the guards that tortured her had at least gotten someone to bandage it, that was the same person who let her free when the guards thought she was unconscious and had slipped away for dinner. She sighed and put her navy blue and red striped pyjama pants on and her black singlet.
Nikola and Helen both decided it would be better for Isabella to settle in before they even talked to her about who the man in the picture was to her, so they both promised not to bring it up at all for a few days and let Isabella relax.
"Nikola, so why were you kissing my sister outside my office door?" Helen asked with a serious face, but Nikola saw the playful gleam in her eyes and knew he wasn't in her bad books.
"Well I'm sure it's obvious to you, you don't need me to explain it." He said with a slight awkwardness in his voice.
"Yes, but I want you to explain it, but maybe Edison could explain it to me without difficulty." She said with a smirk creeping on her face.
"Hey! You know that son of a bitch stole from me!" Nikola fired back, the Edison thing was still a sore spot for him.
Helen laughed, "Excuses, excuses…" She said between laughs.
She made her way to Helen's room with the big hairy guys help. "Thank you," She said as he walked away. She knocked on Helen's door, and smiled at Nikola when he opened it, he placed his hand on the small of her back. She flinched when he touched that part of her back, because she still had sensitive bruises there. She turned to him to explain but he already knew it was the bruises.
"May I have a look?" He asked with concern, "And may Helen see?"
She nodded in response, hoping they wouldn't ask about the front. "Helen come over please," she walked over and lifted the back of her sisters singlet and they gasped at the size and the amount of bruises they saw. Nikola was speechless, all he could do was look, and he looked up at his Bella's ashamed and saddened face. But before he could say something to her Helen spoke first.
"May I see the front, you have a big bandage and it may need changing?" She lifted up her singlet at the front and exposed more bruises, some were spread down past the top of pants so they were hidden. "There doesn't appear to be any blood on the bandage, was the wound cleaned before the bandage was put on?" Isabella nodded. "So that means less of a chance of infection. Right, well I'll check it tomorrow. It's time for some dinner." She walked over to the coffee table that had bowls of creamy pasta in them.
Isabella couldn't look at Nikola; she was ashamed on her bruises and her bandage. She started walking to the couch and coffee table when a hand caught her wrist and pulled her into a hug, "Why must you think that because you're bruised and wounded that I won't want you?" He gave her a kiss then gently wrapped his arms around her waist, "Because believe me, that's definitely not true, I do want you." He whispered in her ear, he moved his head back and winked at her then led her over to the couch. They talked about how Isabella and Nikola met, and why he was the only one allowed to call her Bella.
