On the Season finale for Sanctuary and certain scenes

[electricvamp]

Mundane. Just... stop. Stop it.

You are going to give yourself a headache if you try to work things out. Believe me when I say it's complicated. I lived through it, I know just how complicated it is, though comparing it to the complexity of a certain Dr Who relationship might be going a bit far.

And please stop squealing. It's undignified.

... Really? You're going with T-Dog as a great name for me? I give up. I want a new home. Now.

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[helps_abnormals]

What sort of relationship is your mun squealing about? I should hope that kiss goodbye had nothing to do with it.

[electricvamp]

She is reading all kinds of things into it.

Although she did have a point. It was the first time you'd kissed me, instead of the other way around.

[helps_abnormals]

Nikola, it was a kiss goodbye in the midst of a highly stressful situation.

[Helen has a lot of excuses]

I can hardly be held accountable for my actions.

[electricvamp]

Oh right. Keep telling yourself that, Helen. There have been a lot of highly stressful situations we've been involved with over the last century, and that was more than what you say it was.

[helps_abnormals]

You're really taking this seriously, aren't you?

[She's a bit surprised really, thought he'd brush that off like he did everything else between them

I kissed you, what of it? Shall we get a castle for two now? With pigeons as pets?

[She's not being harsh, it's really more of a tease]

[electricvamp]

Oh hilarious. You blew up your last castle.

Let me see. I find out I've been played by the government - again. Then I worked out your little secret, and how you played me for decades to get whatever you needed for this place. Forgive me for being a little sour about everything.

[Because he keeps trying to keep up that evil genius act, but fails more often than not because his ideas are too good to share with just one person, and then someone abuses it.]

[helps_abnormals]

Oh Nikola, don't even get me started on the abuse I've taken from you on your little power plays. The likes of which don't even compare when stacked against your woes.

And it's your own fault you never patent your ideas. I told you that when that Edison scam came about.

[electricvamp]

[See this Helen, you've made him pout. He knows this, but he is never going to admit it.] Hey, since Rome I haven't tried to kill you. This is an improvement. Plus you take my ideas, and make them work without telling me to power your little empire down here? It's killing me. [All hail the drama queen.]

Well, I thought I'd have a little more time, patent them all at once. And I never ever expected the government to take them, adapt them and use them for killing. I've never done that.

[abnormally_normal]

You know... I think all the crap I went through is because I reminded her I'm mortal. *Mun mumbles something about kind of being a dick to Helen lately but will stay out of it once she's glared at*

[hydeous]

Temper, temper. As much as I hate [toning indicating anything BUT] to toss a spanner into such sagacious machination... I'm afraid that's not how it works. [he would know]

[electricvamp]

Yeah, remind an immortal that everyone around them is mortal. Always such a smart move, William.

[electricvamp]

You know, I don't normally pity mortals, but your mun... Of all the people to take residence in their head, it would be you.

Locked yourself in any Praxian brain spiders lately?

[abnormally_normal]

Better than showing up just for a wine tour. *Aw Will cheer up will ya? It ended okay!*

[electricvamp]

Of course, now I'm unemployed, you do realize that the wine tour will be more like a permanent state of affairs, right?

[abnormally_normal]

*Yes he's face palming* Would it be too hard if I ask you to play nice with Henry then?

*Aw how about just play nice Will? I mean really Nikola's better than some other people out there.*

[electricvamp]

Henry and I have an understanding now. [Truth is that Nikola grudgingly respects the young wolf, for all his comments about him, considers him one worthy of fighting for. And, by extension, Henry was also worthy of pushing to better himself, hence many of Nikola's comments. He wants Henry to learn, to become the geek Nikola knows he could be. Genius is lonely without some kind of rival to push the two of them to greater heights.]

[still_living]

I can only imagine what your mun is plotting. My own has, taken to forming a rather, extensive, world to somehow work me into that entire, incident. [Read his mun is making an AU and someone's grumpy over it.] So be thankful you were there, and you only have particular events they are, excited over.

[electricvamp]

My dear James, how is she going to manage that? It will be fascinating to see And if you need a Tesla, my mun is insisting that you remember me

[still_living]

Something involving Helen, Bhalasaam and Praxis. She's being hazy on the details for the present moment, as she's afraid of scaring me off. And she will when she gets things settled to her standards.

[hydeous]

You? Pity? There's that sense of humor again. True, I've made myself at home. But home IS where the heart is... quite literally, in fact. Make the best of it, I say. Throw down a rug, hang some tatty curtains... a good mind is a terrible thing to waste, why not make it yours?

Now [EVASIVE MANEUVERS] naming another man's invention, [tongue against teeth tsk-tsk] that's tantamount to stealing in some circles. Edison taught you a thing or two after all. Good to know.

[electricvamp]

Well, I've gained it over the years. Dealing with idiots for decades means you have to develop it. And I'll be you use what you can out of it, of course. [He hated Adam, but by god he admired him at times.]

[Oh dear, Adam. You just had to mention Edison, didn't you?] That Menlo Park windbag has nothing to teach me.

[electricvamp]

Yes, I would be curious about that. And my mundane apparently shares headspace with a Declan. Quite an uncomfortable fit, really.

[still_living]

I imagine you would be, from what I've been told you have been up to in recent years. I imagine it would be, what with your ego and Declan's down to earth personality.

[electricvamp]

What?! Oh, what the hell did Helen say? It makes life interesting.

[hydeous]

[had to mention Edison? Yes, yes we did. Since you just HAD to mention that phenomenal-virtual-power-to-itty-bitty-living-space fiasco, hmmmmm?]

[have an arrogant head-tilt-followed-by-half-shrug of conceited agreement] Of course. [and since that last bit ALMOST sounded like a compliment, have a softening of features and a sincere Adam!smile. Part of Adam hates Tesla too, but part also likes him. It's complicated]

Nikola [an unassuming Irish lilt turns the name into a candid chide, before matters twist into something harder, something Hyde] … doth protest too much, methinks.

[electricvamp]

[There is a certain respect Nikola has for Adam, no matter how much he hates him. Because you can't help but admire a man who plans big things.]

What, oh wait, people expect me to stop protesting about Edison? After what he did to me?