My apologies for all the updates to the same thing, FanFiction dot Net is not liking me today. This is a response fic to the wonderful An Alphabet of Love Letters by chartreuseian. Head over to her profile and you'll find a link to it. Didn't realize the filter stripped out most of the web addresses.
Helen walked around the entire day with the note from Nikola in her pocket. By the time she made it to bed that night, sad that she had the bed all to herself, her mind had come up with so many guesses as to what those 26 other letters could possibly contain.
She had to admit, she'd not had such a hard time waiting for the morning since she was a girl on Christmas Eve. Those few hours in the dead of night, when the only sound was the crackling of the fireplace and her occasional giggle then sigh at the time dragging so very slowly.
She hugged the pillow that smelled the most like her Nikola's subtle cologne and just him and tried to get to sleep.