Disclaimer: I do not own Sanctuary . . . It would be called Teslen.
When Nada returned home the apartment was empty and she was tired. She walked into her room and sighed, there was something strange about the house, it seemed different. She pulled her shoes off and walked into her father's room. Her picture was missing from her father's beside table, she frowned and opened a draw from his dresser, it was empty. She flung open the doors on his walk in, a single set of clothes hung there.
Nada fell to the floor, holding back tears; she had a rumpled piece of paper in her hand that she had found on Nikola's dresser. She roughly opened it and read:
I am truly sorry.
Nikola.
Nada crumpled it up and threw it across the room. She grabbed her IPhone out of her back pocket and dialled the number Henry had called her on earlier that morning.
"Hello" It was a different male voice that answered.
"I" Nada gulped back tears, "I . . . I need to speak to Henry"
"Sure, may I ask who this is?"
She gulped again, "Nada"
"The Doc's daughter?"
"I need to speak to Henry, Dr Zimmerman" Nada's voice went hard.
"On it"
She heard a couple of beeps and was connected in Henry's phone, "Hello" He said in his cheery voice.
"He left" Nada whispered.
"Tesla?" He asked, recognising her voice.
"He just left, he didn't even say goodbye, I got a note and that was it"
"God, Nada, are you ok?"
"I . . . I've never been alone, not in my whole life, this scares me, Henry"
"Do you want to come here?" Henry asked, "I can arrange a room for you"
Nada pushed her bangs out of her face and huffed out, "I don't know, Henry, I want to but I can't face my mother, not after what happened just now with Nikola"
"Come on, Nada" Henry sighed, "Come, Magnus won't mind. I'll even come and pick you up"
Nada sighed, "Henry . . . I don't know"
"You have my full and utter support" Nada could hear the smile in Henry's tone and it made her smile as well.
"I . . . I'll pack a bag but I'll meet you out the front, I want to run" Nada forced out.
"Awesome!"
"Wait. Henry" Nada said as he went to hang up.
"Yes?"
"Why are you doing this?" She asked.
"Ahh" Henry paused, "Well, I help people for a living and . . . well"
"Yes" Nada pushed, liking the distraction.
"I think you're rather cute"
Nada laughed and rubbed her drying eyes, "Thank you, Henry"
"No problem, see you here"
"Be there soon" Nada hung up and walked out of Nikola's room, slamming the door on him.
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Nada ran bare foot though New City and to the bridge that ran over to Old City, she came back into view as she slowed to a walk, she had a backpack on her shoulders, she was wearing the same dress she had been wearing when she saw Henry. It was a sleeveless black corset dress, the front reached just above the middle of her thighs, the back descended to her ankles. She had black, strappy, 4 inch high heels daggling from her right hand. Her hair was whipping around her face in the wind sweeping up from the river. A gun was hidden under her skirt very discreetly.
She could see the glowing Sanctuary, every light turned on each floor, though granted there was probably a life-form on each floor. Nada smiled slightly, loving the feeling of the concrete under her toes, when she was small Nikola never let her leave Underground. She lived 24 years in the same place in Underground, she got her first look of surface when she was 30 and Nikola was out in the War. Nada loved the sunshine and the feel of dirt and earth beneath her feet, she loved the smells that drifted through the air and the way the wind whipped around.
She looked up as she heard a bunch of teenagers walking up the same way she was doing. She looked back over the water and listened intently on the waves, the teenagers quieted as they walked up to her.
"Heels too much for you, Honey" A 19 year old girl asked.
"Why would I wear them when I can stab someone with them" Nada replied sweetly.
They looked confronted, one bounced back first, "Where you heading to, Babe?" The 17 year old boy asked.
"Well first I was thinking of robbing a bank, shooting the president and grabbing a beer from the pub" Nada muttered sarcastically.
The boy laughed, "I'm Nathan" He held out his hand.
Nada pulled on her heels and said, "And I'm leaving" She turned and walked away to the bottom of the bridge.
"Nice ass" Nathan shouted after her.
"Whatever" Nada replied and turned down into the street in which the Sanctuary's large lights shined down onto the street in front of it. She could see Henry's silhouette against the gates, she took a deep breath and walked forward, Henry heard her footsteps and looked up; he uncrossed his arms and smiled, "How are you?" He pulled her into a small hug.
"Alive" Nada replied, "It's just I've never been alone in my life, ever"
Henry nodded, "I understand, I still think about when I lived on the moor all the time"
Nada smiled slightly, "Thank you for giving me a place of stay"
"No problem, the guys are waiting in the foyer" Henry nodded back to the building, "If you want to see them"
Nada nodded, "Yes, I will"
"Nice accent, I never noticed it before" Henry unlocked the front gates, "Very unique"
"Mix of Serbian, mainly, Russian, European mostly" She shrugged, "I travelled a lot in the past couple of years, Nikola finally let me leave, he can be . . . possessive"
"Yer, I bet if the Doc let him, he'd lock her away for himself" Henry smiled.
"I'm sure that would go well for the rest of the world" Nada smiled, "It'd be headline news, Helen Magnus, Abnormal Sanctuary Keeper, 272 year old woman, missing!"
Henry laughed, "You're a lot nicer than Tesla"
Nada smiled, "Well, even though I spent the last 60 odd years listening to him rant and rave, I don't share the same view of life as he does"
Henry smiled as they reached the front door, "You ready?"
"To meet my mother for the first time?" Nada asked, "Of course, why wouldn't I be?" She smiled sarcastically.
Hope you liked it; tell me if you think I rushed her to the Sanctuary to fast because I have another version of this chapter that I didn't know it I should post. Thanks anyway, I've started the Henry/Nada relationship and Nikola and Helen's is close (FYI, Nikola is a SCIU because this is based in season 4