I would like to start by thanking:

1. All of you who reviewed my story until now, you are a great support.

2. The wonderful girls (and boys) on the GW thread, (a place where I don't go too often, shame on me), for giving me the idea of Nikola being able to levitate.

For any Bram Stoker fans that may read this story: I'm sorry about the ending, but in my crazy world, it really made sense:P.

P.S.: This story will now have five chapters probably, it is a little harder to finish than I originally expected.

Falling, Nikola watched the agents that remained on the roof, unable to follow them. It was the first time he had jumped from such a height, but it was his only choice. If he wouldn't have jumped, they would have surely killed him and probably kill Helen too afterwards. But now, they had a chance. After all, Earth was just a magnet. And magnets can either attract or reject themselves. He concentrated as hard as he could and he managed to levitate just before they would have hit the ground. The agents on the roof shot at their direction, but he managed to fly past the bullets and hide. After the agents gave up searching, he took Helen to his house.

Helen opened her eyes and looked around. She was in a hospital room she had never seen before. Right beside her bed, there was Nikola, who looked worried at her.

"What happened?" she asked.

"It's a long story. You just stay here and relax and I'll bring you your breakfast."

"But the last thing I remember was that we were falling. How did we escape? I mean, how did you escape, because I guess a fall can't kill me?"

"Just because you are a vampire now, Helen, you don't have to let your ego grow too much. You aren't the only one who is not affected by falls. We'll talk about this after you'll have your breakfast."

Without another word, Nikola left, leaving Helen puzzled. How did they escape? And more important, what was going to happen to them? If Dana or John found out that Nikola was still alive, they would have come and killed them. She couldn't let that happen. She couldn't go to the Sanctuary either, because that would have been the first place they'll look for them. However, she had to warn the ones at the Sanctuary to keep the EM field up. Until she found a way to cure John and stop Dana, she and Nikola were condemned to a life of running.

Nikola came with a bottle of red wine. "Take it. Trust me, it helps." He said.

"How about some food?" Helen asked. "I feel a little hungry."

"I'm sorry, Helen, but since I'm the only source of food around here, we'll have to keep you on a diet. I wouldn't appreciate being bitten."

Helen threw him a terrified look. He was right: being a vampire meant that she would have to live on drinking other people's blood. The thought didn't only disgust her, but made her worry for him: what if she won't be able to control herself? The last thing she would have wanted was to hurt him, or worse, kill him.

"What are we going to do? I'll have to eat, eventually." She asked.

"Well, you know the drill. I am going to prepare you a dose of the treatment you used to give me when I was a vampire, but it will take some time. I made the mistake of throwing the doses I had left when I was devamped. Meanwhile, you'll have to fight your vampire part, and trust me, that won't be easy. But you'll make it. I trust you."

"Thank you for helping me."

"You would do the same. As a matter of fact, you did. Back in London. Remember?"

Helen smiled sadly. After Nikola was changed, she had been the only one of The Five that supported him. The others were terrified of his new form and rejected him, but she stayed. She used to stay at nights, beside his bed, and take care of him. The first weeks were the worse. She tried her best to develop a cure, but it took her some time. And somehow, Nikola managed to overcome his hunger and not bite her all that time. She never understood how, but if he could stop hurting her, she would do the same. Her thoughts were interrupted when she realized that she was now dressed in a dressing gown.

"Nikola, where are my clothes?" she asked.

"They are in a safe place. I'm sorry, but I had to search you for any tracking devices those two would have planted on you."

"Did you find anything?"

"Yes." He showed her a small tracking device which was now fried. "Took care of it. They won't be able to find us so easily now."

"Wait a minute. Magnets affect such devices. You could have taken care of it without taking all of my clothes off, couldn't you?"

Nikola smiled devilishly. "Yes, I could have done that. But I thought it would be more… interesting to take care of things in the usual way."

"I thought you'd say that. You are completely incorrigible."

"Well, I saved your life back there. I thought I deserved a little reward."

"Which brings us to my first question. How did we escape? And more important, why did you jump?"

"Because it was the only way we would have both survived. If I didn't do it, they would have killed me and force you to live an eternity being a vampire. And I think you wouldn't have liked that."

"You are right. But how did you survive the fall?"

"Earth is basically a magnet, Helen. Magnets can either attract or reject themselves. It was just a matter of reversing the polarity." Saying this, he lifted himself off the floor, keeping his feet at five centimeters above it." I recently discovered that I could levitate."

"That's impressive." Helen said.

"Impressive enough to make you kiss me?"

"Don't push it. I can still slice you into pieces, remember?"

"Vampire ego. How unpleasant."

"Yes, well, you wouldn't know what's it like, would you? Anyway, what is this place?"

"It's probably the safest place you could be now. I hope you realize that I can't take you to the Sanctuary. Not yet."

"I do. However, I will have to alert Will."

"I knew you'd say that. There is a phone in the living room if you can walk."

Helen got up on her feet and started walking. She staggered a little, but she managed to get into the living room of what now seemed to be a villa. She phoned Will, which answered quickly.

"Magnus, where the heck are you? We were dead worried."

"I'm sorry. Things have complicated themselves. I can't come home for few more days. You just watch your back and most importantly, keep that EM shield up, OK?

"Druitt problems?"

"You have no idea."

"What about Tesla?"

"He's with me. It's a long story; I'll tell you all when we get back. Until then, let's just say that John found an ally in Dana Whitcomb."

"As in the Cabal Dana Whitcomb?"

"Yes. I'll call you tonight, but we'll have to keep our calls short, because they could be tracking your phone." Saying this, she hung up. "I hope they'll be OK."

" Don't worry. We are the target, not them."

"That really makes me happier. Now, let me help you with your research."

"You should stay in bed."

"I won't let you have all the fun, Nikola. Don't forget that I have been injected with the Source Blood two times. We might be on an unknown territory."

" OK. Then, let me show you to the lab."

As soon as they got into the lab, Helen collapsed.

"Are you OK?" Nikola asked, worried.

She looked at him with blackened eyes. "Did I ever tell you how much I want you?" she asked, pushing him on the floor and staying atop of him. She started kissing him, biting his lower lip.

"Helen, stop it!" he said, gasping for air. "That's not you."

"You want this as much as I do, Nikola. Why should I stop?"

"Because I don't appreciate this kind of behavior from you, Helen. Not when I know that you wouldn't have done this if you hadn't been transformed."

"Shut up and kiss me."

"If only the circumstances were different…" he said, throwing her off him. "I'm sorry, Helen, but if you continue like this, I'll be forced to sedate you." He managed to get to a syringe and injected her with a dose of morphine.

When Helen woke up, she was back in the hospital bed. She tried to get up, but discovered that she was tied up.

"Let me go!" she yelled.

"I'm sorry, Helen, but as much as I enjoy working with you, I think I'll have to do it alone. You aren't a very friendly coworker."

"Let me go, you pathetic mortal!"

"I honestly don't know how you were able to stand me when I was a vampire. It seems vampires really have a problem with their ego, don't they?"

"Come on, Nikola, look at me. You know I love you. Let me go. Please."

He looked at her, but she was still in her vampire form. "I'm sorry, Helen. Your condition is not negotiable." He said and left her alone.

Alone, in his laboratory, Nikola continued working on the cure. He was terrified of what Helen had become. A vampire, a creature thirsted of blood, a…monster. The thought that he once wanted her to be like this made him tremble. He always loved her, but now…now, when she only wanted to feast on his blood, when her beautiful blue eyes were blackened, he simply didn't recognize her. How could she have changed so much? But then again, he knew the fight she was having with herself better than anyone else. He had been in this exact position himself. But he somehow managed to win the battle. And deep down, he knew that he only won because Helen had stayed beside him. The fact that he loved her and her beautiful blue eyes kept the evil in him at bay, until she was able to develop a treatment for his hunger. And now, he was going to do the same for her.

His thoughts were interrupted by a sudden kick in his head.

"You didn't honestly think that those strands were going to resist a pair of vampire claws, did you?"

"Well, I hoped you won't try too hard to untie yourself."

"I want to suck your blood."

"Hey, that was my line, remember? Plus, I don't want to be on your menu. I'm sorry, Helen, I am almost done with the cure, but you'll have to wait one more hour."

"Do you think I really need to be cured? You know what's it like, to have the power to do anything you want. You were right, Nikola. Humans are weak. Why would I want to be ordinary again?"

"Because I was wrong. Some people are better when they aren't vampires, Helen, and you are one of them. Now, could you please go to your room and wait there?"

"I don't think so."

She kicked him, causing him to fall and then she jumped on him, with her claws pointed at his face. Holding her hands on his chest, she leaned to bite him off his neck…

"Stop it, Helen." He said choking. "You are right. You don't have to kill me. We could rule the world together. You don't have to be alone."

"That sounds tempting." She said, still holding her hands on his neck. She leaned to kiss him, but in the next moment all the surgical instruments flew into her back, rending her unconscious.

"I'm sorry for this, Helen." Nikola said. He took her in his arms and took her in the infirmary, where he tied her up again.

When he got back with the cure, Helen had healed herself and grunted at him.

"Leave me alone!" she shouted. "You want to kill me!"

"I would rather die myself than kill you, Helen. The cure is ready."

He approached her and despite the fact she scratched him, he managed to inject her with the cure and after that she fell asleep.

"What happened?" she asked when she woke up. "You look like hell." She said when she saw Nikola.

"Thank you." he said ironically. "Let's not forget you made me look like that."

"I'm sorry, Nikola. That was completely inappropriate."

"Apologies accepted. Do you want to have dinner with me?"

"I'd love too. I really am sorry. I don't know what happened to me."

"Vampires are…instinctual creatures, Helen. You weren't able to control yourself anymore. It's OK. I know how it feels."

"Yes, but still…I never thought there is something that can make me jump on you like that. I nearly killed you."

"Let's forget about it. I am fine, you'll have a more normal diet from now on, and everything is fine."

They both went into the living room, where they started talking over a glass of wine.

"I'm so sorry for all of this, Nikola. I don't understand why John did all of this."

"Because he is jealous, Helen. And what is worse, he doesn't have any reasons."

"Jealous? On you? Why?"

"Because he has the stupid idea that you are in love with me. This was always his biggest fear."

"What do you mean, always?"

"You mean you didn't read that idiot book called Dracula?

"I did. So? It is just a story. It uses all the myths related to vampires- bat form, blood sucking and so on."

"You mean you never realized that you were Stoker's inspiration for Mina?"

"What do you mean?"

"That alcoholic Irish hack seemed to find John an interesting source, even if he was completely aware of the fact he was Jack the Ripper."

"You don't say…"

"Come on, Helen! A lawyer, named Jonathan, is engaged to an English woman, in the Victorian period, and a vampire, which, by the way, is from a foreign country, falls in love with her too and then she helps her fiancée kill the vampire? You mean this never rang a bell to you? That idiot ape named Druitt thought this would be a good way to convince you not to fall in love with me after you left him."

"That was a really stupid thing to do." She said chuckling. "Not to mention it…"She hesitated a little, but she just had to say it, once and for all. "…didn't work."

"It was really a…" he started saying, but made a pause as his brain caught up with his ears. "What?" he asked, his incredibly blue eyes locked to hers.

"I love you." She whispered, and pressed her lips against his. He hesitated a little, but when he realized she wasn't in her vampiric form, he gave up and fully enjoyed the touch of her soft lips. She let her fingers play with his completely messed up hair, dragging him even closer into the kiss. With her newly discovered superhuman strength, she pushed him against the sofa, making him to breathe heavily. This caused Nikola to make their lips split apart and push her away.

"I'm sorry, Nikola." She sighed."I just got a little too excited, that's all."

"Yes, we'll have to work a little on how you show your feelings to me, but apart from that, I think we are doing well." He said smirking.

Trying her best not to transform into a vampire again, she kissed him again, but they were interrupted by the light that flashed briefly and then shut down.

"What happened?" she asked.

"The EM shield went down." Nikola replied. "They will come."

Helen realized that it was now up to her to protect him. Dana and John were coming to kill them, but she couldn't let them hurt Nikola. She was going to fight with all her heart. She was sure Dana was guilty for all of this, and she still hoped to save John. But if Dana thought it was a funny thing to do to transform her into a vampire, she was going to prove her otherwise.

"Let them come." She said.