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So, after that ramble, here is the final chapter of Sail.

Please enjoy and tell me what you think! This is the last time you'll get to, so, do.

Sail - Part 10

Nikola Tesla was having the most glorious dream. He was in her room, it was night time and he was in her room. He felt himself smile, everything around him had touches of gold glistening within them and his own vision was swirling at the edges with a golden haze. It was then that she burst in, gun drawn and pointed directly at him. He heard her faint murmurings and her incredulous look at finding him within her private chambers. He could only smile at her though, yet he heard himself answer her questions in a language he couldn't understand, all the while faint and haunting tones of music floated around him.

He was then kissing her. Forcing her up and onto her desk and running his hands over her delicious curves. His heart leapt as she kissed him back, her hands divesting him of his many layers of clothes. In an instant she was cradled in his arms, removing even more pieces of his clothing.

She was then lying in a haze of golden light, her body completely naked to him as he leant over her and ravaged her mouth with his. He felt himself lose control. He felt the vampire awaken.

He felt her soft skin under his teeth, he felt himself thrust his fangs and his manhood in to her and he growled at the writhing of her body under his. He felt her climax and revelled in his own.

He felt her straddle him and beg to be bitten again. He felt the wondrously soft skin of her breast under his mouth.

"Nikola!"

Nikola's eyes flew open and he gasped a deep breath, his whole body shaking.

"Nikola!" a voice called again and he felt a cool hand press back against his forehead, preventing him from his efforts to sit up. He blinked rapidly, trying to regain his focus and to stop his limbs from shivering.

It was then that he saw her face, hovering just to the side of him. It was at that time that he also realised his hand was being crushed in her tight grip, her fingers firmly interlaced with his.

"Nikola? Are you alright?" she asked worriedly and he turned his head slowly to gaze at her. She looked terrible. Her hair was a mess, her make-up was smudged in small rivulets down her cheeks and her eyes bore the tell-tale signs of a lack of sleep. He spluttered slightly and tried to give her a smile. The worried look she shot at him then made him surmise that his smile came out as more of a grimace.

"Niko?" she enquired, her fingers squeezing his even more tightly as she sat next to his bed.

He gave a great wracking cough.

"I-I'm alright... I just feel... strange." He decided.

"What were you dreaming about? It... it sounded as if you were in pain." she asked tentatively, biting her bottom lip as his eyes burned into hers.

"You."

Her eyebrows shot up into her hairline. Oh, he'd not been moaning in pain.

"Me?"

He nodded slowly.

"Yes, I was dreaming about you... about, we, we were... doing... things." He decided that lying to her or covering up what he was going through would not help him recover from... whatever the hell was wrong with him.

"Things?"

"We were... in your bedroom, it was night time. You had a gun. Your... desk..." He tried to remember the dream as it began to slip from his memory.

Helen quirked her head then, frowning at him.

"You remember that?"

"Remember? No, it was a dream... Helen. What is wrong with me?" he almost begged her.

She sighed and her free hand twitched over to the tablet which lay next to her. Picking it up gingerly she sighed. Nikola's brow creased in confusion.

"Helen?"

She let out a small whimper as his thumb began to trace a faint circle over the skin of her hand. He pushed himself up then, ignoring her protestations and looked her squarely in the eyes, facing her.

"Tell me what happened." he demanded softly, never letting go of her hand. Helen quickly pressed a few buttons on the tablet and held it out to him. Glancing to the screen Nikola could do nothing more than gape at it.

"Niko, you were in that explosion at SCIU. You were in a coma for days... you were brain-dead."

He only stared, wide eyed at the tablet on which the results of the Sanctuary's tests were displayed.

"One night, you... you were in my bedroom. You... you came to apologise about working for SCIU. You... apologised that night. Do you remember?" she asked hopefully. When he shook his head she gulped and carried on.

"I didn't know at first, Nikola. You have to believe me... I didn't know that-"

"My consciousness was attached to yours. That I was living within you?" he said tersely, his jaw tightening as he looked over the results which showed the bubble which he resided in that originated from Helen's body.

"No. We still don't know how it happened. I suspect it was related to the source blood we both have flowing in our veins. Your vampire genes must have a built in feature which preserves your mind in that form when your body is badly incapacitated. I must have been the closest source blood altered human around," she paused her nervous ramble before getting to the part she was terrified of, "Nikola, that night... that night we..."

"Did I tell you?" he whispered softly when she tapered off. She sniffed and wiped at her eyes.

"Tell me what?"

"Did I tell you that I loved you?" He didn't look her in the eyes. She gulped and pursed her lips softly.

"Yes. Yes you did. Many times."

Nikola's bottom lip shuddered for a fraction of a second and he closed his eyes, willing himself to remember.

"Did you...did you..." he tried and failed to find the courage to ask her.

"Yes. I did. Many times." She almost sobbed out. Nikola's face fell and his eyes snapped open, meeting her tearful ones.

"Oh, Ljubav..." he whispered, his voice cracking with the emotion of it all. Helen laughed scornfully.

"I finally admitted that I loved you, Niko. I finally found the courage to tell you... and then I bloody found out that you weren't really even there-" she stopped abruptly, gulping back tears.

Nikola stared wide-eyed at the woman he loved for a few seconds before he reached a hand out to her face tentatively. Helen gasped softly as the pads of his fingers brushed against her cheek.

"I wish you remembered." She cried softly, leaning in to his touch. Nikola cupped her cheek in his hand then, wiping away a few tears with his thumb.

"Why do I need to?" he whispered softly, his eyes pleading with hers. She gazed at him through tear obscured eyes.

"W-What?"

Nikola tried to give her the most reassuring smile that he could.

"Why do I need to remember? Helen, Ljubav, I've loved you ever since I first laid eyes on you, how does me not remembering what happened change that?"

She blinked slowly, his words processing slowly.

"I'm still me, I'm still the man I've always been."

She gulped before speaking.

"But... but that night and that morning... and the morning after..."

Nikola raised his eyebrows at her when she failed to make her point. Helen sighed and looked into her lap.

"We... we made love, Nikola. We... I-"

Her breath hitched and she paused mid sentence as he leaned towards her and placed a soft kiss on her lips. She lost herself in the feeling of him for a second, the feel of his lips pressed to hers and the smell of him surrounding her. She whimpered softly as he pulled away. He kept close though, keeping their noses touching gently.

"I had you three times?" he smiled at her, a soft, teasing smile. Helen chuckled lightly.

"The first night I counted seven... the next morning was twice... the morning after that was a quickie..."

Nikola could not help the smirk that spread itself across his face.

"Well, it seems as though my lucky number is now ten..."

Helen chewed on her bottom lip gently and gazed timidly at him as he faded off, realising what her statement had meant.

"You... you knew? That I wasn't really there... when we..."

Helen blushed slightly.

"Only the last time."

Nikola breathed out a ragged breath.

"I should never have allowed us to do that Helen, I should have known-" he began but stopped when she let out a full blown laugh, seizing him by the collar of his simple shirt and tugging him towards her to press her lips firmly against his. As she pulled away from the fierce kiss she gasped out,

"That's exactly what you said when we talked about this then, Niko."

Still reeling from their kiss, Nikola's mouth hung open slightly, his eyes glazed. He could feel his inner vampire roar in approval and he fought to keep himself human.

"Helen," he breathed out huskily, "Did I... Did I lose control?"

She looked at him bashfully from under her lashes as she nodded slowly, fiddling with the edge of her blouse.

"Yes, you did."

"God, I'm so sorry..."

"No! Niko, I wanted it... I wanted you to bite me." She reached for his hand, raising it to her neck. Delicately, she brushed his fingertips over the place where his mark on her neck had been. She shuddered. Even though her flesh had healed, that did nothing to damped the intense pleasure she felt whenever it was stimulated. Especially when it was stimulated by him.

Nikola sucked in a short breath as he watched her respond to his touch. Her perfect lips fell open slightly and her eyes rolled back into her head. She let out a soft moan and clutched onto his hand even more tightly. Gulping hard, Nikola moved his hand of his own accord. Softly, he stroked the side of her neck, making her squirm in her seat.

"Yes!" she breathed against his hand, turning her face to place a light kiss on his palm.

"Helen..." he tried, nervous as to what was happening. She growled softly at him and placed her hand over his, pressing his fingers against the spot where his mark used to be even harder. She gasped and her eyes flew open, locking on to his.

"Nikola..."

He stared into her eyes for a moment. The lust and unbridled need he saw reflected in their cool depths made his insides clench tightly. Breathing rapidly, he reached for her. Gripping her around the waist he hauled her up onto his bed, dragging her so that she lay next to him. She gave a startled squeak as she felt him move her bodily to lie next to him. She smiled at his action and ran a hand across his face and into his soft hair as he swooped down and placed a kiss to her neck.

"Oh, Nikola, yes..."

Gathering all his courage, Nikola opened his mouth next to her skin, sucking the flesh into his mouth and biting down gently.

"Niko!" she gasped, her nails digging into his scalp. She was so far gone. She'd been wet for him since she'd kissed him so fiercely and his skilful manipulations of his mark where pushing her over the edge. She reigned herself in though. She'd had a purpose all along, sitting there with him. She'd been waiting for the opportune moment. A moment where he would be relaxed and distracted enough for her to try. Since he'd collapsed in her arms a few hours ago, she'd had a chance to formulate a plan. This was the perfect moment.

Forcing her climax away, she edged her fingers over to the tablet which lay beside them. Nikola's mouth was still working on her neck, making her gasp and moan as she pressed a few buttons, her eyes barely open enough to see what she was doing.

"Sail"

Nikola stiffened next to her as he heard it. Soft tendrils of music floating around them. He choked out against Helen's now red flesh.

"This is how I show my love"

"Helen!" he gasped out, a searing pain lancing through his skull.

"I made it in my mind because
I blame it on my ADD baby"

Helen sighed and gripped on to him. He moaned out in pain and his brain felt as though it was being set alight.

"This is how an angel dies
Blame it on my own sick pride
Blame it on my ADD baby"

Still breathing heavily, Helen stroked her hand through his hair, not daring to look at his face.

"Sail"

His chest heaved, pushed up against hers.

"Sail"

"H-Helen..." he gasped again.

"Sail"

She said nothing, only continuing to caress his hair and fight the arousal that was affecting her senses.

"Sail"

"Just breathe." she whispered after he jerked against her softly.

"Sail"

His eyes grew wide and black as he buried his face in the crook of her neck once more.

"Maybe I should cry for help
Maybe I should kill myself
Blame it on my ADD baby"

She felt him transform momentarily, his whole body gaining an unbelievable strength that he used to crush himself against her.

"Nikola!" she gasped.

"Maybe I'm a different breed
Maybe I'm not listening
So blame it on my ADD baby"

All of a sudden he went limp in her arms.

"Sail"

Helen drew back from him slowly, worry clouding her features.

"Nikola?"

"Sail"

"Nikola?"

"Sail"

"Niko?" her voice was beginning to take on a hysterical tone as she stared at his expressionless face.

"Sail"

She jumped as he took a huge breath, his eyes large and black and haunting as they glared into her own.

"Sail"

All of a sudden, like a light had been switched on, he devamped. His eyes were abruptly their normal icy blue. Blinking rapidly, he stared into her terrified eyes.

"Sail"

"Helen?" his voice held something different. Something new. Something old. Something that had been missing.

Helen gasped.

"Sail"

"Niko?"

"Sail"

He stared at her for a beat before a small grin began to grow on his features. She kept her face impassive, unwilling to believe.

"Sail"

"Ljubav..." he growled into her ear and she shuddered.

"Sail"

"It was eight times, Ljubav. I made you scream for me eight times that night." he snarled, reaching forwards and sinking his human teeth into her neck.

"Sail"

:) If I get enough reviews, I may be persuaded to write a *sexytimes* Epilouge.

Just saying.