CHAPTER 5 Just Another Day
Hobbits Notes: So I would like to say I withheld the last chapter an extra day for suspense and to keep you on the edge of your seats but that would be a lie. We actually lost Internet access for no aparent reason whatsoever. But here for thos still with us is the EXCITING (pffft more lies) Climax to ADITS
Sliante
Hobbit
Damien woke to a small shaking box and Spiky trying to calm whatever was inside. "Ill let you out in a minute but you have to stop shaking first."
He whispered tesnly. Damien crept forward to investigate. "No stop doing that I need you to hold still... I don't know how I'm going to explain this to Helen." Spikey shook his head and poured more red liquid into his glass. Damien hummed softly in anticipation.
Spikey smiled and poured some for the nubbin. "Well I suppose you have a lot to celebrate, since your going home in a few hours. The antidote was a success and you won't eat or vamp the rest of your kind. Helen has seen fit to send you home." Spikey reached two fingers through the bars and stroked Damiens head. He purred softly and drank the red liquid.
"Really Nikola? Wine at this hour?" Mom smiled and approached the pair softly. Spikey smiled and spun to face her. "Its not even nine o'clock yet. The suns barely risen."
"Some people drink coffee others go for a run and I've been up for some hours. Never slept much. Comes from uhh..." Spikey trailed off as Mom stepped closer, pressing herself against him.
"My, Helen you seem ...friendly this morning." He smirked. Mom smiled and reached up to kiss Spikey. Damien purred happily. Humans could be so dense.
Spikey wrapped an arm automatically around Moms waist and pulled her closer. Mom gave a soft mew of surprise and tried to break the kiss. Spikey growled possessively and pulled her back.
"Nikola. I'm sorry it took me so long." She gasped and straightened his jacket. "I love you. I have for a long time. But I didn't realize it until you admitted your feelings when we were in Rome."
"I really meant it Helen. I swear." Spikey smiled and brushed her hair off her cheek. "I wanted to tell you before. But what about John?"
Mom shook her head. "It was never really love between us. I thought it was. For over a century I was certain we loved each other. But it was Ideals we loved." She smiled wistfully, "I loved the idea of being courted by a proper English gentleman. He was that ideal tall dark mysterious gentleman." Mom laughed as Spikeys shoulders dropped in defeat.
"I'm sorry Helen. I'm not any of those things... But I think I could be. If it meant we could be together." He smirked hopefully.
Mom smiled and shook her head, playing with his buttons. "No. You don't need to be any of those. I want you for you. Snarky selfish bastard that you are." Spikey smiled and pulled Mom back to him. "I told you Nikola. I love you. And you were right. Druitt was more in love with who he thought I could be. I'm sorry I never saw it sooner."
Spikey smiled and waved his hand airly. "Better late than never right? Took me 100 years to admit I love you. And well, we're together now... sort of." He looked down and smiled sheepishly. "I suppose we should do this properly." Mom watched in surprise as Spikey dropped to one knee and kissed her knuckles. "Helen Magnus May I have the privilege of courting you?"
Mom smiled and pulled him back to his feet. "I would be honored." She grinned, giving Spikey another kiss. Spikey smiled back and lifted mom off her feet, but then frowned. "Helen? How do we know it isn't the Nubbin effects?"
Mom shook her head. "It isn't. I promise. Your mother told me about your Rubbit. I'm sorry it was destroyed."
"Well actually... He wasn't." Spikey scratched his head self-consciously. "I kind of ran some- experiments. He didn't get burned up with everything else. In fact, he stowed away in Mothers suitcase." Spikey gave a small, crooked smile
"Nikola when you say experiments you mean..."
"Ever heard of Frankenstein?" Spikey asked, pulling open the rattling box. Out hopped a stuffed rabbit. It was shabby and patched up in a lot of places.
"Vater! Auch du libre!" It grinned and wrinkled its nose. "I haff long been in ze attic. Vaiting und vaiting for you. I am pleased to zee you again. But how you've grown Vater!"
"Nikola Is that..."
Spiky gave Mom an arrogant smile and pulled the toy rabbit from the box and watched it stumble about the room. "Helen Magnus, meet Rubbit. Rubbit, this is Helen. The love of my life. I told a friend of mine about him once and she wrote it down as a kids story. Sold well too. The Velveteen Rabbit, I think she called it."
Mom grinned and rested her head on Spikeys shoulder as Rubbit bowed. "I am much pleezed to meet you Maguz."
"And I you, Rubbit." Mom smiled and opened Damiens' Cage. "Come on. Lets get you home" she smiled and linked her arm with Spikey. He smiled in return and picked up the stuffed bunny.
Damien wiggled his ears excitedly. He was going home
"So... A vampire Nubbin a talking toy Rabbit and Helen Magnus in the arms of a Vampire... It sounds like a corny joke."
"No" Mom grinned and kissed Spikey again. "Just another day in the sanctuary."
The End
Hobbits Notes The story Nikola is referring to (If you havent guessed, and I know you did) is called The Velveteen Rabbit Written by Margery Williams and published in 1922. If you never heard this story before, someone owes your childhood an apology.
Slainte
Hobbit