Helen clutched the note tight as she was hit with a sudden wave of sadness that threatened to spill from her crystal blue eyes down her cheeks.
The not knowing was the worst some days.
She'd not been able to check him over properly and while he could take a lot of injure to his body and survive, without medical care for the amount of blood she smelled she knew the odds were not in his favor.
It meant more than she could probably articulate that Nikola felt like this.
She knew they had bickered, a lot, but she'd always hoped it was more how Nikola and Nigel used to goad one another, at least eventually.
"Thank you," Helen whispered to her still absent vampire as she took a deep breath and set this letter down in the pile.