So, I'm glad at least some of you could picture him singing that. :) I changed the rating to T just in case...
All's Fair
"Nikola, please just come with me." Helen pleaded.
"Only if you kiss me," he grinned at her.
He's remarkably similar when he's not only under the influence of the abnormal, Helen thought. Apart from the singing...
"You need a new line," Helen smiled at him.
Then, she leaned forward and kissed him. "Happy?" she asked.
"Very," he swayed slightly on his face.
"Come on," Helen sighed.
"Are you going to strap me to the chair again?" he asked hopefully.
*.*
"Alright. If we inject you with this, the abnormal should flee," Helen informed him.
"Into the glass of water. I invented the idea, remember?" He sighed, being unhappy about not being strapped to the chair.
"Yes, well," Helen rolled her eyes as she pushed the needle in.
After a while, the scanners started beeping. The abnormal was safely in the glass. Helen quickly put in a controlled unit and folded her arms, staring at Nikola as he readjusted.
"Feeling better?" she asked crossly.
"Um... yeah... what happened?"
Helen threw up her hands. "I have work to do!" She quickly exited the lab before he could remember what had happened when she had been infected. Her memory was a little fuzzy as well, but she really hoped it had only been kissing.
*.*
"Henry, I want you and Kate to replace this back in it's habitat. Be very careful and- where is Kate?" she asked suddenly.
"I don't know. I thought she went up with you and Tesla." Henry said awkwardly.
"Find her," Helen said shortly.
Henry sighed and dragged himself away from his beloved computer. "Bye Juliet," he said sadly at the computer screen.
As he walked away, he froze. "I just named that computer Juliet." He put a hand to his forehead. "Okay... time to delete that security camera footage."
As he bent to 'Juliet', he came across a shot of security camera footage he had not expected.
It was Nikola singing some love song. He heard Helen's voice saying Bloody Hell, crackly from the volume. Henry began to laugh harder than he had ever laughed at the ridiculous faces Nikola was making, and his ability to mimic the singer's high female voice.
"Nikola, you're behaving like a child!" From another quarter of the screen came some live footage.
Henry immediately had the feeling that he should not be watching the footage. But nonetheless, he kept watching through the medium of 'Juliet'.
"I'm one hundred and fifty five years old!" he complained.
"Act it!" was Helen's brusque command.
"If I acted it, I'd be acting dead the whole time." He said, smirking.
"I wouldn't mind if you were dead!" Helen said angrily.
There was a minute where Henry was going to start laughing at Tesla's hurt expression. But instead of retaliating with some stupid way of hitting on Helen, he just stopped. Helen was standing on the top of the stairs and Tesla started to lean on the banister.
"I know you wouldn't." He said quietly.
"You think you can twist me into pity for you with that act again?" she said, but her voice had dropped.
"I hate your pity." He said truthfully.
"Good, because you're not getting any." Helen sighed.
"Do you remember what I remember?" he asked, still looking at the floor below them.
She rolled her eyes. "If you're talking about me strapping you to the chair-"
"I'm not." He cut her off quickly. "It was kind of like being a kid again, wasn't it?"
It took her a minute to answer. "Yes. It was."
"That was nice."
She leaned on her elbows next to him on the banister. "It was nice," she admitted.
"Helen, I'm tired of this game. I'd wait another hundred years for you, Helen."
She whirled to him, jerked out of her false sense of security. Her eyes were wide as she started to say something, but once again she cut her off.
"I'd wait five hundred years, but I'm tired of this game. I'm tired of hot and cold, joking about something that I really feel. I meant what I said before, but I need to go Helen. I'm not a kid anymore, I'm tired and I've gotten used to being pushed away. So... if you want me to stay, I'll stay. But please Helen, just tell me." He ended looking straight into her eyes.
Henry swallowed and his finger inched towards the mouse, to close the window. He had just seen something that he hadn't seen before - he had seen Tesla opening up and dropping the act.
But he didn't close it yet. Helen started to lean towards him and slowly kissed him, wrapping her arms around him.
"That isn't an answer when it comes to you," he said breathlessly as they pulled apart.
"And how do I know that wasn't just another act?" she asked, just as breathless.
"It wasn't, but even if it was..." he stopped and looked at her.
"It was an answer, Nikola, but even if it wasn't..." she stopped and grinned at him.
"All's fair..." they said together.
Longer this time! And where is Kate?
~Iceshadow~