Dr. Helen Magnus (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
notsocommon) wrote2015-06-20 10:11 pm
notsocommon) wrote2015-06-20 10:11 pm
home again, naturally.
Helen had spent the last several months going back and forth between the new facilities and the strange pocket universe she'd found with Nikola which had proven particularly enlightening. There were any number of infinite paths from that crossroads and it was something she had not been able to get a handle on scientifically just as yet.
Then again, science that was yet unexplained was merely magic, was it not? She had thought so as a child, until her father had taught her otherwise. All she had to do was keep exploring, keep pushing through each and every door until she found the key to cracking the mystery behind how it all worked. Of course, the legwork on this was exhausting but at least she had Nikola she could implore for help.
One of the doors she'd found in her wanderings had been one that was her own London back in the late 1800s. She was blonde there, as she'd discovered by gazing into a very dingy looking glass, but other than that, none of the rest of the Five seemed to be there. Her life was established, her home in the same place, just the people weren't the same. It was curious, to say the least, and she wondered what might happen if she pulled Nikola through the same door.
To that end, she'd gone back to the Nexus to find him, poking around until she found the library. A likely choice; Nikola had ever loved to read with a nice glass of wine.
"Nikola! I've a project for you, if you care to come with me. Hmm? I'll make it worth your while, I promise."
Then again, science that was yet unexplained was merely magic, was it not? She had thought so as a child, until her father had taught her otherwise. All she had to do was keep exploring, keep pushing through each and every door until she found the key to cracking the mystery behind how it all worked. Of course, the legwork on this was exhausting but at least she had Nikola she could implore for help.
One of the doors she'd found in her wanderings had been one that was her own London back in the late 1800s. She was blonde there, as she'd discovered by gazing into a very dingy looking glass, but other than that, none of the rest of the Five seemed to be there. Her life was established, her home in the same place, just the people weren't the same. It was curious, to say the least, and she wondered what might happen if she pulled Nikola through the same door.
To that end, she'd gone back to the Nexus to find him, poking around until she found the library. A likely choice; Nikola had ever loved to read with a nice glass of wine.
"Nikola! I've a project for you, if you care to come with me. Hmm? I'll make it worth your while, I promise."
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"Not a lot to lose, really," Helen said. At this point, the Sanctuary was something that could, in theory, run on its own long after she had passed. She had put in contingencies to allow for the fact that she might not make it through and that her longevity would eventually end. If there was ever a time to take a risk, it could be now.
"Everything's in place to run without me there, at this point."
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"To experience something new? It would be worth it. Is it so different, being what you are? What do you miss about being human?" It had never occurred to Helen that Nikola could possibly regret his choice and regret being anything other than a vampire. Could she have been wrong all this time about him?
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If she was ever a vampire, they could rule the world together. How awesome would that be? "Yes, you'd experience something new, but there is no going back from it."
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"Do you even know how to sire a vampire? It occurs to me that I've never posed that particular question of you." It would be a problem, if he did not, and Helen imagined she did not want to endure another round with the Source blood - if that were even an option. They could find it now, of course, in the past but that might change the future.
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"I'm willing to try if you are," Helen said softly. "I think it could be a new chapter for us, both of us, and it guarantees that I'll live forever. There's no guarantee with my longevity that it truly lasts forever."
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"Well, certainly. It's not something to be done lightly, since you're doing the changing. I'm just saying, I'm willing if you are." Helen punctuated the point by slipping her hand in his, tangling their fingers together.
"I'd like to share forever with you, if we can."