The Long Forgotten Sibling

Chapter 8

There was a knock on the door to the room Elizabeth was currently calling hers. She ignored the knocking and carried on searching through her stuff to find her items that were hers before she came to Sanctuary.

Helen slowly opened the door and slowly stepping into the room. "Elizabeth I can explain..." she stared before she saw her sister's actions and the tears streaming down her face.

"Why?" Elizabeth whispered, "Why did you keep it from me even though you knew, in the back of your mind, what would happen when it came out. Why Helen?"

Helen cautiously stepped across the room towards her sister who simply turned her head the other way. As she tried to wipe the tears from her sister's face Elizabeth grabbed her hand to stop her. Helen didn't try to remove her hand as it would just make the situation worst.

"Elizabeth please," Helen pleaded with tears starting to stream down her face. "I've lost you once already I don't want to lose you again."

"You sound like one of the characters in on of the books we would read," Elizabeth chocked out.

They stayed in that position for a few minutes until Helen's eyes fell upon the pile of belongings that Elizabeth had collected so far. Directly on top of that pile was her -well their - first copy of Pride & Prejudice. Stepping over to the desk she gingerly picked up the book causing one of many pieces of paper to fall out. On that piece of paper was drawings of what both of them had though the characters should look like. After staring at it for a while she slipped the piece of paper back into the book.

"I remember that day well," Elizabeth stated, breaking the silence causing Helen's head to jolt up. At her sister's confused look she continued. "I remember sitting in the library in our house bickering, as father put it, over what the character's should look like until he got fed up and sent us both to bed."

Helen remembered that night well. After arguing with her sister about what Darcy should look like the arguments just got louder. It had gone on until her father had enough of it and sent them both to their rooms. What had made it memorable was that she had snuck into her younger sister's room and then, only then, did they had manage to agree on what Darcy should look like.

Helen smiled alongside Elizabeth before Elizabeth decided to breach the topic which had been plaguing hee mind. "What else have you been keeping from me Helen?"

"I'm not keeping anyt-" Helen started before Elizabeth cut her off with an annoyed tone.

"Helen, I'm not stupid. I know that I have been confined to a limited space in the Sanctuary and I want to know why. What is it down there which is so important that you must keep it sealed away from prying eyes?"

"Elizabeth, it's more complicated than you would think."

"What would be so complicated..." Elizabeth started before drifting off. The lights around them had started to flicker and dim. A high pitched whirring sound started and gradually grew lower in pitch while also getting louder. After a few seconds the sound cut off as quickly as it had started but also taking the lights and any other power with it.

"NIKOLA!" Helen screamed at the top of her lungs.

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Nikola Tesla shrank down behind the table in his lab. The experiment he had been conducting had needed a large amount of power, so naturally he had tapped into the Sanctuary's mains. However due to not knowing the actual quantity of electricity he had sucked the Sanctuary dry of any electricity. In addition he wasn't meant to be in here. Long story short: Helen Magnus was after him.

It wasn't long until the door of his lab crashed open, nearly coming of its hinges, and bullets were flying around his work space. One narrowly missed his head while the other hit his shoulder.

"Okay Helen! I surrender but please do stop shooting before some expensive equipment gets damaged," he pleaded trying to reason with a furious Helen.

"Some expensive equipment!" Helen shrieked. "Nikola, look at my Sanctuary! We have no power apart from the back up generators due to your brilliant idea!"

"See you still have power," Nikola reasoned before instantly regretting it due to the very painful bullet now sitting in his knee cap.

"There is still a possibility of some abnormals escaping due to your reckless behaviour."

Helen pointed her gun towards the other knee cap and was about to fire before her sister stopped her. "Helen, won't he bleed to death if you keep shooting him?"

"He will be perfectly fine," she stated before shooting him in the knee cap with no remorse.

"Okay, okay Helen! I get the point: no more reckless behaviour-"

"And no more experiments. I mean it Nikola," she cut him off before he could even start up again. "You will also pay back, or work to pay back, the money for the damage you have caused and no buts."

Helen made her way to the door before stopping to pull our her crackling radio.

"Doc bad news," Henry's worried voice came from the radio. "During the second it took for the back up generators to come back online one of the nubbins escaped. Now he has been able to prevent the normal generators to start up again but he has also started to break the others out again. The good news is the Sanctuary is in lock down and has been since the one nubbin broke out. The bad news is we have to catch them all."

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I'm sorry for the massive wait. I had some inspiration so this had just been written and has not be read through. Feel free to point out my mistakes.

@Parkkrys thank you for the comment. It made me try to think of what to do next in this story.

~Sci-Fi-Fangirl