"Let's go home" Will softly whispered in her hair after Helen's sobs slowly but surely stopped.

Helen refused to look straightly at Will, she couldn't, she felt so embarrassed even though she knew nothing about this was her fault.

She couldn't help but feel this way, she knew Will was here to help her, but reality had just barely sunk in and she needed some time first.

She crawled out of the warm and save arms of her protégée and immediately felt the cold hit her again.

She got off the floor, she hissed as the pain hit her again.

Will got up too and immediately went to Helen to put his arm around her again, trying to make her feel as safe as he could.

"Will, It's okay, I can walk" Helen reassured him.

She looked at him for the very first time since she confessed the awful truth to him and gave him a little but sincere smile.

When Will looked into her brilliant blue eyes he wasn't sure what he saw in there, but it wasn't the great Helen Magnus, his mentor, anymore.

He saw her like he never once saw her before, a scared and hurt woman.

It scared him and he couldn't help but wonder if he would ever see the Magnus he knew again.

As Will contemplated this thought for a second the door suddenly opened and Nikola walked in.

"I've been looking everywhere for you" he said almost sounding out of breath.

Helen stood with her back to him and as soon as she heard Nikola enter she closed her eyes, and forced herself to get a grip, at least for now.

She already let her guard down with Will, which was very unlike Helen, and she refused to do the same with Nikola.

"Helen are you okay?" Nikola asked her as he stood to face her.

Helen swallowed hard trying to force the tears back,

"I'm fine" she lied.

"Well you certainly don't look fine" Nikola continued looking her up and down also noticing the bruises and the paleness.

"I said I'm fine!" Helen said back again.

"Let's just get out of here shall we?" Helen continued, sounding a bit annoyed with the fact that Nikola probably wouldn't let this slide.

Helen didn't wait for a response from the two men but immediately started to leave the room, glad to be out of there.

When Helen walked into the hallway, Nikola turned his gaze to Will, "What happened?" he asked sincerely concerned.

"I,..I can't" Will stuttered, thinking that it was not his place to tell Nikola anything, as much as it pains him, seeing that Nikola truly cared.

Nikola kept looking at him questioningly but Will suddenly walked past him and also left the room.

Nikola stood there for a second wondering if there was anything he'd missed, but couldn't come up with anything and decided to follow them out of this godforsaken world.

Helen opened her eyes and let out a big sigh when she realized she was back home, the first thing she saw being Henry's worried face.

"What a sight for sore eyes'' Helen softly said to her dear friend.

"Doc, oh god, we were worried sick about you" Henry said sounding relieved to be talking to her again.

"Yeah don't worry about me, I'm also doing fine" Nikola sarcastically answered Henry also coming back to reality.

Helen wanted to get out of there as soon as possible, so that she wouldn't betray herself in front of her dear friends, and she really, really wanted to take a very long and hot shower and look herself over, because the throbbing pain was still very evident and she wanted to be sure that Adam didn't permanently damage anything.

She also felt sick, she still felt his hands on her body and she desperately wanted to throw up.

Will got up from his chair and moved to Magnus to see If she needed help, ignoring Henry and Nikola completely.

Helen didn't want his help, it would draw too much unwanted attention to her so when he came near she quickly took a step back.

"I'm exhausted, I'm going to bed" Helen quickly said.

"Magnus" Will said looking at her worriedly.

"I'm going to get some sleep now" Helen answered him back giving him a deathly stare.

Will knew that look meant she wanted to be left alone so he decided to back off for now.

He turned around and took his distance from her.

Nikola, still not understanding anything of this entire situation got up from his chair and walked towards Helen.

"Well, allow me to walk you to your bedroom" his flirtatious self back on the prowl.

As he said this he put his hand on her lower back, meaning to escort her out of the room.

As soon as Helen felt the hand on her body she freaked, " Get the hell away from me!" she yelled while giving him a hard slap in his face.

All three men gasped in shock and Nikola immediately brought his hand to his burning cheek while looking at Helen in utter surprise.

Helen swallowed and looked at the men one at a time, she then turned around and ran from the room.

Will hesitated to go after her but decided to give her some space for the moment, he also prevented Nikola and Henry from going after Helen, as they were equally worried.

Both men looked questioningly at Will as he stopped them,

"Just let her go right now okay?" he said as gently as he could.

They both knew there was more to the story but decided not to press the matter right now.

Henry returned to his computer, where Will joined him and Nikola remained standing with his hand still on his face looking at the doorway where Helen just ran through moments ago.

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