I would like to start by thanking you for all your great reviews. They made me as happy as never before. As promised, this is my second chapter. I now know there will probably be four chapters. I hope you'll like it, and I'm sorry for keeping you waiting.

It was a peaceful evening at the Sanctuary. Helen was in her office, reading her emails, when Will entered.

"It seems we don't have pretty much to do tonight, huh?" he said. "I and the guys are going out, care to join us?"

"I'm sorry, Will, but I have other plans." she said, turning her laptop to him. "I have to visit an old friend."

Will looked suspiciously at Helen, noticing the slight blush in her cheeks and then at the screen. There was an email from Nikola Tesla.:

"I have been doing some experiments lately and I am really pleased of how they are going. However, I might need your help with the next phases of my project, could you meet me tonight at 10 o'clock at the Italian restaurant in New City so we could discuss about it?"

"It seems you have a date." said Will, giggling."OK then, have fun!"

Helen threw him a no-nonsense look. "It's not a date, Will. It's just a professional meeting. "

"At 10 o'clock pm. Right. Just be careful. He might be back to his regular selfish experiments."

"He is completely harmless, Will. He can't use his blood anymore to make new vampires. He probably went back to physics, and no harm can come from that."

"If you say so… Do you want me to come too?"

"I would rather have you going out with the others. No offense, but he called me and not you and he might get upset if I bring somebody else."

"OK, no problem." He said, leaving her office. "Professional meeting. At 10 o'clock, in the evening and she wants privacy. She definitely forgot I'm a psychologist. " he mumbled.

"I heard that!" Helen shouted.

Alone in her office, she couldn't help asking herself if Will was right. What was she doing? Accepting a meeting at that hour in the night, alone, with Nikola, in an expensive restaurant… Well, it was probably just nostalgia. She missed her days as one of The Five and after all, in London, they used to work at night too. This wasn't so different. Then why did she feel butterflies in her stomach when she thought about meeting him? What was it with Nikola that felt her feel like a teenage girl?

Her thoughts were interrupted by Kate, who entered her office.

"I heard you have a date with Vlad tonight. So, what will you be wearing?"

"It's not a date, for God's sake!" Helen answered. "He asked my help and I am always willing to help an old friend."

"Especially if he has steely blue eyes that make you melt every time your looks lock to each other…"

"Miss Freelander, you are way out of your line!" Helen said, trying to look angry and to keep herself from blushing.

"Oh, and I forgot to mention he attracts you like a magnet. Oops, strange choice of words."

"Could you please stop insinuating that I am in love with him? We are just friends, nothing more."

"I'm sorry, Magnus, but I don't buy that. Will told me about your reaction in Mexico when you saw him. You don't bite your lip for nothing. Not to mention your little moment in that closet…I honestly don't know what you would have done if we weren't there. And I noticed you were totally looking at his mouth."

"Damn her bounty hunter reflexes." Helen thought. "I was sure nobody noticed that." "Well, you aren't totally right. I don't melt every time I look in his eyes."

"But…?"

"But I have to admit that his voice makes my knees tremble sometimes. If you say something about this to the others, or worse, to Nikola, I swear to God I will fire you."

"My lips are sealed, Magnus. Don't worry. However, you'll have to admit your feelings to him one day. It's inevitable."

"Well, I managed to hide them for over a century. How hard can it be to continue?"

"Well then, good luck on your date." Kate said, leaving her office.

"It's a business meeting!" Helen shouted after her.

After two hours, Helen got into her car and drove to the restaurant, the number of butterflies in her stomach increasing as she got closer to the destination.

She entered the restaurant, but Nikola wasn't there.

"Helen…" she heard a terrifying familiar voice behind her. "I'm sorry to tell you, but your dear Nikola couldn't come."

Helen slowly turned to face her interlocutor, regretting the stupidity of not taking her gun with her.

"Well, I don't remember you dressing up like that when we used to date in London." John Druitt said, pointing to her short skirt. "Too bad Nikola won't be able to appreciate it."

"What have you done to him?" she asked, terrified that Nikola could be dead.

"The most important question is what you will do to him. Nothing would have pleased me more than killing him. Nothing more than making you kill him."

"John, I thought you could control that beast inside you. I don't know what are you planning, but I beg you to live me and Nikola alone. Whatever reasons you think you have for killing him, you are wrong. Listen to me. I can cure you. Just give me a chance."

" Nope. I don't think so."John grabbed her from the hand and teleported.

They arrived in what seemed to be an old prison. He threw Helen in a cell and locked her up.

"I'll let you two have a little chat until Dana finishes the preparations." He said.

"What are you talking about?! Dana Whitcomb?! I thought you killed her!"

"Yes, well, you were right. Killing her was a bad idea. That wouldn't have brought Ashley back. But Dana made me an offer I couldn't refuse. I really think we can work together."

"John, you can't trust her! She killed our daughter!"

"Our daughter? Ashley was only your daughter. You took her from me."

"Yes, well, that's what happens if you start killing. I didn't want her to know the truth."

"Of course you didn't. You were ashamed with me. Well, things will change now. We will spend the eternity together, even if you like it or not."

"You can't make me love you! I loved you, John, with my entire being, but you…you changed, John. I will try my best to help you, but you have to let me go."

"I can't make you love me, but Dana is able to do that." Saying that, he left, leaving her crying.

Helen slowly turned to face the other occupant of her cell. Lying on the floor, there was Nikola, who was barely breathing.

"My God, Nikola, what did he do to you?"she asked terrified.

"I must have died and got to Heaven. Because angels only live there."

"I am not an angel, Nikola." she said crying. "It's me, Helen."

"You definitely look like one." he said, smiling sadly. "You know, in other circumstances, I would have really enjoyed seeing you dressed like that. Because you are smoking hot. But your beloved Johnny thought it was fun to kidnap me and torture me."

"Don't call him like that. I don't love him. Not anymore."

"Are you serious?" he asked, hope burning inside his blue eyes.

"I am. Now, tell me what happened."

"I was in my hotel room, sleeping, and that bastard came and teleported me in here, where he and our friend Dana Whitcomb made a hobby of daily torturing me."

"How come you weren't able to defend yourself?"

"The bastard caught me by surprise. He threatened to cut my neck with his sword. By the way, did you know that he now has a silver sword? I don't know how much it cost him, but it was definitely worth it, because I wasn't able to disarm him. You know, that's ironic. For 100 years, I mocked the whole "silver bullet/sword thing" and now I really am vulnerable to these kinds of things."

"Did you try to break out from your cell?"

"I didn't. I knew they were planning to bring you here too and I stayed to help you."

"Oh, Nikola…" she said, reaching her hand to caress his cheek. "I'm so sorry."

"You are here with me now. That's all that counts. Now, I have a plan for escaping."

"How touching." John said, entering their cell. "I am sorry, but I'll have to split you lovebirds up." He forcibly grabbed Helen and teleported away, with an infuriated Nikola screaming after him to come back.

Nikola was left alone in his cell, with no idea of what was going to happen with him. But that didn't even matter. Not when the only one he loved was in a life threatening situation. He had to escape, and he had to save her.

He approached his cells bars and discovered they were made from iron.

"Big mistake, Johnny." he thought. Using his magnetic powers, he tried to pull the bars apart, but that was a difficult enough task, because he was weakened and unable to concentrate, thinking of what they were going to do with Helen. However, after two hours, he managed to break free. He soon discovered they had been holding them in some kind of subterranean prison and tried to find a way up.

Nikola managed to find an elevator and desperately searched the whole building for Helen. There were only empty laboratories and deserted rooms. However, on the last floor, he heard Helen screaming in a laboratory. He stormed in, only to see Dana and John watching him victoriously.

"Well, I guess we'll leave you alone. You now really have a lot of things to talk. When you finish, Helen, meet me where we established." said John. He grabbed Dana's hand and teleported to an unknown destination.

"Helen, what happened here?" Nikola asked worried. "What did they do to you?"

She threw him an empty look, here beautiful blue eyes now blackened. In a split of a second, she broke the threads that kept her tied to the hospital bed she was in and attacked Nikola, with her nails turned into dangerous vampiric claws.

"Helen, it's me!" Nikola shouted. "What have they done to you?"

"I have to kill you." she roared, kicking him and throwing him on the floor. Nikola desperately tried to find something that could help him, but Helen was simply too fast.

She approached him, with her claws pointed to him neck, and she prepared to give him the finishing stroke.

"Helen, stop it. This is not you. They changed you. Listen to me. Don't kill me. I love you."

She approached him even more, but there was something in his blue eyes that kept her from killing him. His look was so unguarded, so vulnerable, so afraid of rejection, that something clicked inside her. She just couldn't kill him. Because, as strange as it sounded, she now realized that there was something more important than John's orders. Something more important than her newly discovered killer instinct. Something even more important than her previous life, which she now started to remember. Somehow, Nikola's blue eyes were the only thing that enlightened the darkness she was drowning in. And she couldn't kill him. She couldn't kill him because she loved him. And no Source Blood was going to change that. She let her hands fall and embraced him with all the strength she had left.

He gently took her in his arms and ran to the elevator. However, it seems Dana had thought at that, because the elevator's cable was cut. And the stairs were now swarming with Cabal agents, who had found out that Helen hadn't completed her mission.

In another day, Nikola would have stayed and fought. But now, when he didn't know how much he will be able to control her, when his only priority was to save her life, he had no other option than running. He ran on the roof, holding Helen in his arms, but they were soon surrounded by Cabal agents.

"Stop running, Mr. Tesla. You have no place to go. And these riffles are loaded with silver bullets. We wouldn't want you or Miss Magnus get hurt."

"Children these days…" he muttered. "They find a new trend in weaponry and swarm to get their hands on it. And they have the insolence to presume that I have no place to go."

"Nikola, what are we going to do?" Helen asked, terrified. "I'll have to surrender. They will leave you alone, they only want me."

"I would rather die myself than losing you, Helen." He said, approaching the edge. "I have a better plan. But you'll have to trust me."

"It is useless, Mr. Tesla. You can't escape."

"Maybe I can't. But she can, and that's the only thing that matters." He turned his face from his followers and jumped into mid air, still holding Helen in his arms.