This is my final chapter. Thanks everyone for reading/reveiwing :) I hope you will enjoy it!

aaaaaand HAPPY BIRTHDAY again Keaira!

"I've always loved you Helen. I meant it in Rome. I have spent many days imagining what my life would have been like if I'd had the courage to ask you to marry me when we were at Oxford... what our life would have been like…"

The words were coming out by themselves. He was not struggling to stop them anymore.

Nikola sighed heavily.

"After you got engaged, the word marriage lost its meaning for me."

"He's been in love with me for over a century and I never realized it."

No. That wasn't quite true… she had realized it, she just never allowed herself to hope. But that night there was something that made her see everything clearly. She had a strong desire to just kiss him, to feel the touch of his lips on hers. All her rational thought had abandoned her – it was as though her actions were controlled not by her brain but by her heart.

Still gazing Helen, Nikola's desire to show his love to her was growing in intensity. He felt like he had entirely lost control of his actions and for the first time in many years he was feeling free. Free of the rational thought that usually weighed him down. He raised his hand and touched Helen's cheek. His fingers were tracing the lines of her lips and stopped at the corner of her mouth. Leaning forward, Nikola slowly touched Helen's lips with his. The touch made Helen moan. He then pulled himself away only to find his himself drawn towards Helen's soft lips once more. It felt like the temperature in their bodies had suddenly spiked. Their hot lips eager to explore one another. Unable to hold on the pressure, Helen hungrily pulled Nikola closer with one hand on his back, the other hand ruffling through his hair. The kiss was rapidly growing in intensity as a century's worth of tension came to a head. Their tongues met and frozen shivers ran up and down Helen's spine. Helen wanted more. She clutched at Nikola as the two continued to kiss with reckless abandon.

After a few moments Helen pulled herself back, needing to breathe. Nikola's face seemed to be radiating. She answered Nikola's vulnerable look with a wistful smile at the corner of her mouth. Then she leaned forward laying her cheek against his, wrapping her arms around him and rubbing his back soothingly with her fingers.

Nikola could feel her heart beating in time with his own. They were both trembling.

Helen lifted her gaze only to be met by dark black eyes locked on a spot in the ceiling. She flinched but very soon she realized what was happening.

"Nikola, look." She said, motioning towards the bed. Nikola turned to see the same pair of black eyes that Helen had seen earlier.

"A vampire?" Was Nikola's first thought but soon enough he understood too.

Helen walked forward heading to the bed.

"Keaira." She said and the girl suddenly reacted when she heard her name. Her eyes turned brown again and it looked like she was back to normal.

Helen turned to look at Nikola and when she turned back to the girl, her eyes were closed. She put her hand on the girl's neck to check for pulse.

"Her pulse is normal. She is…sleeping." Helen said surprised. "We'll talk to her in the morning. And you should try to get some sleep too."

Without protesting Nikola walked away from the window and headed to the couch.

None of them slept until all night. There were too many things to think about. What happened that night was it just because of Keaira's intervention?

"This explains a lot of things." Nikola thought. "It was just a fight between my mind and my heart and it seems that my heart won, with a little help. There's nothing left to do other than to see where this is heading. I have nothing to lose now."

Helen was lost in thought, as well. "The girl's powers are remarkable. She made me lose control…. But it seemed like…she did the same thing to Nikola. I've never seen him like that. But how?" Helen was perplexed.

That morning, they all behaved as though nothing had happened during the night. Neither of them had the courage to ask anything about the night that passed but neither of them even wanted to. Helen and Nikola were afraid they would ruin everything they'd built so far with a wrong word.

"We should see if there's anybody left searching for Keaira and if not we have to get to the car." Helen said with the serious voice he always had when on mission.

"I'll go." Nikola volunteered and left in the same moment.

Keaira was looking at Helen and she already knew the question waiting to spill from Helen's lips.

"Last night" Helen started "you used your power on me."

"Yes." Keaira replied.

"And on Nikola too." Helen completed.

"Yes." Keaira said again.

"But how?" Helen asked surprised. "From what I know you can only focus your attention on a single purpose at a time."

"It's true" Keaira replied. "But when two people want the same thing…"

"…there's only one purpose to focus on." Helen finished Keaira's sentence.

The girl smiled. Helen smiled too.

"Thank you." Helen said.

"I have only given you a point to start from. What you do from here is up to both of you." Keaira said and Helen understood now why her face was showing so much wisdom.

Nikola entered the room.

"They're gone. Let's go."

Helen looked at him and smiled to herself.

"Yes I guess we should go. There are a lot of things to do." She said in a tone that was giving her words a new meaning.

Keaira was right. It was up to them now…

The End