(FIC) Sanctuary_The Angel's Guardian 2/3
Title: The Angel's Guardian
Author:
rubystandish
Rating: PG13
Characters/Pairing: Mainly Helen, Henry, and Nikola, with guest starring Will and Biggie. Also a OC of my own making.
Warnings: None
Spoilers: There's no real spoilers to any episode but it takes place somewhere between Season 2: Episode 2 and Season 2: Episode 10.
Word Count: Altogether 10,401
Author’s Notes: Thank you to viviantannerfor proofing my story for me as well as doing some artwork for it. Also I would like to say that my Muse actually had more planned for this story but I didn't have time to write it all, so this is just the beginning of a series that I will be working on.
Disclaimer: I do not own Sanctuary in any way, shape, or form and am not getting paid for this story...unless you count the fun I had writing it.
Summary: Helen Magnus has many friends but who knew she had friends in a convent; a convent that's been home to a beautiful winged Abnormal, Glenda, who is now on the wish list of a black market dealer. Wishing to keep her safe, the nuns send her to live with Helen at the Sanctuary but will the walls of the Sanctuary be able to keep this 'angel' safe.
Part Two
It was a month since Helen bought Glenda to the Sanctuary, the young Abnormal had been unsure about it in the beginning not wanting to leave the convent and the sisters but Sister Marie was able to talk her into going with them. She had made herself at home, learning where everything was, offering to help with the feeding of the other Abnormals. Glenda became fast friends with Will, Biggie, and Kate but most of the time she could be found in the lab helping Henry with a new program or in the wine cellar or library with Nikola, missing her own room of books at the convent.
Today Helen found her with Henry in his lab on his sofa, her wings folded up behind her, Helen smile at the two as she enter the room, Glenda didn’t know much about computers living in the convent but she was willing to learn and Henry and Nikola had been willing to teach her.
“So, because of all of the redlisters out there our system network gets an update once every other month, or sometimes once a month if I have the time.” Henry said typing away at his keyboard.
“Who are the redlisters?” Glenda asked, “I keep hearing Dr. Magnus talking about them?”
“Um…well, redlisters are…um…”
“They’re people that hopefully you’ll never have to meet,” Helen said typing on her handheld computer. “Henry, once you’re done with the update, I was wondering if you could please go over anything that you can find on a Mister David Arrows.”
“Um, yeah, sure, am I looking for something particular?”
Helen glanced at Glenda before shaking her head, “I’m not sure yet; just see what you can find on him.”
“Sure.”
“Glenda, would you mind helping with the feedings today?”
“I would love to,” Glenda all but jumped from the sofa her wings doing a small flap as she landed on the floor and took off out of the room. Helen watched as she left holding the handheld to her chest.
“Oh oh, I’m seen that look before Doc. What are you up to?”
Helen turned to Henry taking the seat that Glenda had just left, “Mister Arrows is the gentleman that insisted that Glenda come and live with him.” Henry nodded as Helen went on, “Two days after Glenda came to live here, Sister Marie received this letter from him giving the convent one more chance to hand over the young lady.”
“He did, did he? Well, let’s just see what Mr. Arrows has to hide shall we.” Henry started typing away at his keyboard, “I’ll let you know as sure as find something Doc.”
“I know you will,” Helen said smiling at him. Standing from the sofa she patted his shoulder walking by, “Thank you.”
Leaving Henry’s room, she started down the hallway to her office glancing at her hand held to check her schedule. Sighing she bought up a copy of the letter, that Sister Marie sent her, her friend had given in and used the cell phone that she kept for emergency to call Helen about the letter and how Mr. Arrows reacted to the information that Glenda was no longer in the convent. Although the young Abnormal wasn’t at the convent anymore, Sister Marie was concern for her wellbeing and insisted to know if she was alright; though to Helen it sounded like Sister Marie didn’t like the idea of Glenda hanging out with Nikola and Henry that much. Reaching her office she was surprised to find Nikola there sitting in one of the wing chairs in front of the fireplace, a glass of wine in hand and the bottle on the table.
“Are you going to leave anything in my cellar when you leave?” She asked moving to her desk and taking her seat, “I also believe that Sister Marie wouldn’t like the idea of Glenda drinking so much.”
“Just because she joins me in the wine cellar doesn’t means she actually joins me in drinking, most of the time we talk about books.” He took a slip finishing the glass and reach for the bottle, “I must say Helen, I think she may have actually read more books than you,” he paused looking at the liquid in the glass, “or me for that matter.”
“What’s the matter Nikola, found someone that knows more than you?” Helen joked turning her computer on.
“Knows more from books perhaps, but she doesn’t know more from the real world. She’s been locked away in that convent her whole life.” He stood moving to Helen’s desk, “Does she even know how to use those wings of her?”
“I honestly don’t know,” Helen said looking through some shipping files, sent to her from the London Sanctuary. “You know she can’t go outside, it would be too hard to hide her wings.”
“So she goes from one prison to another,” Nikola states taking a seat in front of her desk. “How is that helping her?”
“At least we’re not putting her on display for people to gock at so we can make some money.” Nikola was in a the middle of drinking when she said that and he looked a little confused about it, eyeing her over the rim of his glass. She opened a file folder, pulled out the letter and set it on the desk in front of him, “It seems that Glenda’s secret admirer is very persistent.” Nikola set the glass down, sitting up straight in the chair to read the letter, Helen waited for him to finish before saying anything, “I already have Henry looking into Mister Arrows. I’ve never heard of him before now, but sadly there are new players to this game every day,” she said folding her hands on the desk.
“Humans make me sick,” Nikola said throwing the paper onto the desk.
Helen smiled at her old friend, beside The Five, Nikola has never really shown any interest in anyone else, she knew that he cared about the other members of the Sanctuary staff although he never show it. “Now, now Nikola, not all humans are like that, look at Will and Kate.” Nikola only answer to that was going back to drinking, “You can always take her out on the roof, you’ve said it yourself that it’s a beautiful view of the city.”
“I’ll think of about, right now I think I’ll go help Henric with some information gathering.” Nikola said standing to leave the room, grabbing the bottle as he walked by.
Helen laughed as he left, bottle and glass in hand, she know full well that Henry wasn’t going to like Nikola hanging over his shoulders while he trying to work. Putting the letter back in the folder she turned to her computer, there wasn’t much she could do until Henry got back to her so she decided to busy herself with shipping documents instead of having Will do them.
~*~
Helen was just sitting down to lunch with Will when Henry found her, paperwork in hand.
“You have got to see this Doc.”
“What’s that?” Will asked.
“Doc wanted me to look up on to Arrows guy to see what we’re up against,” Henry answered moving around the table to stand by Helen.
Helen took the papers that he handed her, just by looking over the top page she could see that David Arrows was not a man to be mess, unless you happen to work with the Sanctuary, Helen and her staff was known for messing with people who shouldn’t be messed with. “Thank you Henry.”
“Is he going to be trouble?” Will asked setting his fork down.
Henry snorted, “That’s an understatement. This guy is one of those I’m-rich-so-you-have-to-do-what-I-say kind of guys.”
“So he must have loved for Sister Marie said no to getting Glenda.” Will grinned.
“Yes, although she didn’t tell him where she was living now, I’m certain that he would find out somehow and it looks like I was right to think that. He owns several small companies and has a few connections with some of the black-market redlisters.”
“So in others words, he probably already knows about the Sanctuary and has guessed that that’s where the sisters have sent Glenda.” Will commented leaning back in his chair.
“Yep.”
“Well then,” Helen said handing the papers over to Will to look at, “let’s just hope that Mister Arrows has given up on his quest for his very own angel. Do you know where Glenda is now?” Helen asked looking to Henry.
“Um…I think somewhere with Tesla, he said something about showing her a part of the Sanctuary she hasn’t seen yet and then disappeared.”
Helen smiled; she was sure that if she checked she would find that the door to the roof had been opened with Nikola’s access code. She was also sure that Will was right about Arrows knowing that Glenda was now living; she would let him make the first move though. Turning to Henry she waved her hand towards the food on the table, “Would you care to join us?”
“I would love to,” Henry said grabbing a plate, helping himself to some food before taking the seat next to Will.
~*~
Two days after Helen decided to let Mr. Arrows make the first move, he did, it was however not the way that she had planned on him going about doing it. It was early in the morning when the alarms went off at the front gate, the cameras recorded a man hanging something on the gate and then disappearing down the street. Henry went to check it and it turned to be a letter, both Henry and Will had read over it before it gotten to her hands and neither of them looked very happy about it. She looked over it before actually reading it, a man that high in power and money like Arrows, she thought would have sent someone to talk to her on his behalf, a lawyer perhaps but she never pictured a letter. It was written on the same paper that the one Sister Marie had received had been written on, a plane off white color with some form of family crest at the top. The letter was handwritten but whether or not Arrows wrote it himself or someone else did she wasn’t sure but as she read it she knew why her friends didn’t look happy about it.
Dear Miss Helen Magnus,
Although we have never met, I have heard many tales about you and
that is all that they are to me, tales and nothing more. Stories that have no doubt
been woven together by the hundreds of men that you have placed under the
spell of your feminine charms but that is not why I am sending you this letter.
I am sending you this letter as one lover of beautiful and rare items to
another lover of beautiful and rare items. I am aware that you currently have a
being living at your “Sanctuary”, a being that once lived in a convent no less, I also
know what your “Sanctuary” is for. So therefore you must know why I am writing
this letter to you, so since I am a very busy business man, I won’t beat around the
bush as they say. I would like that being to come and be a guest in my house and
I won’t take no for an answer.
You will have her come to Loading Dock Number Four by the bay tomorrow
night at eight but I’m not without heart, you may join her to see her off, if you like.
Please inform her not to pack anything; for I will be giving her anything and
everything she could have any wanted for.
Sincerely,
Mister David Arrows
“Why the nerves of that…” Helen started but didn’t finish what she was thinking out loud.
“And I thought Tesla was full of himself, this guy takes the cake,” Will said.
She would have laughed at that if she wasn’t so mad, the nerve of that man, telling her what to do and in the form of a letter. She handed it back to Will so she wouldn’t give into the urge to crumble it up into a ball and throw it away or even better, throwing it into the fireplace and watching it slowly burn. Tightening her robe around her waist, and not really caring that they were all still in their pajamas, she turned and headed to her office. She needed to think, preferably alone but she heard Will and Henry following.
“What are you going to do Doc?” Henry asked.
“Well, they’re not meeting with him,” Will answer for her. “Right Magnus?”
“No, we’re not or at least Glenda isn’t.” She turned a corner running into Biggie, “Oh, I’m so sorry.”
“Didn’t hurt,” Biggie said rubbing his chest as if he had an itch.
“Helen?”
She turned back to find Nikola walking towards them, still fully dress from the day before, giving that he didn’t really need to sleep Helen guessed he had been doing research somewhere. He didn’t need to ask her the question though, she knew what he wanted to know, and she simply nodded towards Will who handed the letter to the vampire. Helen restarted her journey to her office with Biggie walking beside her while the other three fell in behind her.
“Who does this man think he is?” Nikola asked as they entered her office, “You got more respect back at Oxford and that was in the 1800s.”
Helen smiled, her old friend was right but the little bit of respect was nothing compare to the insult that he was sending towards Glenda, talking about her as if she was an item that could be handed off like nothing. She was thankful that the letter Arrows sent to Sister Marie was nothing like this one. She took her seat behind her desk, Biggie and Henry moving behind her, and Will and Nikola took the chairs in front of her.
“So what’s the plan Helen?” Nikola asked.
Helen thought about it, “We’re going to meet Mister Arrows.”
“What?” Henry shouted the same time a soft growl came from Biggie.
“Not Glenda of course, she’ll be staying here, in fact she is not to even hear about this letter. Am I understood?”
“Yeah,” answered Will.
“Of course Helen,” Nikola replied.
Henry and Biggie just nodded their heads.
“Good, now tomorrow night Nikola and I shall meet with Mister Arrows.”
“Magnus…”
“No, but Will, I want you here to help keep an eye on things, with Kate gone at the moment I want the Sanctuary well looked after. Who knows what Mister Arrows might try to do, no doubt he’s making a Plan B as well.”
“I’m coming,” Henry said stepping closer to her chair.
She looked between the HAP and her second, then to Nikola, the vampire only shrug, “Don’t look at me Helen, they’re your kids.”
Helen shook her head but knew that she wouldn’t win, even if she tried, “Alright, Henry can come but Will you’re still staying here. We’re going to have a little conversation with Mister Arrows.”
TBC.....
Author:
rubystandish
Rating: PG13
Characters/Pairing: Mainly Helen, Henry, and Nikola, with guest starring Will and Biggie. Also a OC of my own making.
Warnings: None
Spoilers: There's no real spoilers to any episode but it takes place somewhere between Season 2: Episode 2 and Season 2: Episode 10.
Word Count: Altogether 10,401
Author’s Notes: Thank you to viviantannerfor proofing my story for me as well as doing some artwork for it. Also I would like to say that my Muse actually had more planned for this story but I didn't have time to write it all, so this is just the beginning of a series that I will be working on.
Disclaimer: I do not own Sanctuary in any way, shape, or form and am not getting paid for this story...unless you count the fun I had writing it.
Summary: Helen Magnus has many friends but who knew she had friends in a convent; a convent that's been home to a beautiful winged Abnormal, Glenda, who is now on the wish list of a black market dealer. Wishing to keep her safe, the nuns send her to live with Helen at the Sanctuary but will the walls of the Sanctuary be able to keep this 'angel' safe.
Part Two
It was a month since Helen bought Glenda to the Sanctuary, the young Abnormal had been unsure about it in the beginning not wanting to leave the convent and the sisters but Sister Marie was able to talk her into going with them. She had made herself at home, learning where everything was, offering to help with the feeding of the other Abnormals. Glenda became fast friends with Will, Biggie, and Kate but most of the time she could be found in the lab helping Henry with a new program or in the wine cellar or library with Nikola, missing her own room of books at the convent.
Today Helen found her with Henry in his lab on his sofa, her wings folded up behind her, Helen smile at the two as she enter the room, Glenda didn’t know much about computers living in the convent but she was willing to learn and Henry and Nikola had been willing to teach her.
“So, because of all of the redlisters out there our system network gets an update once every other month, or sometimes once a month if I have the time.” Henry said typing away at his keyboard.
“Who are the redlisters?” Glenda asked, “I keep hearing Dr. Magnus talking about them?”
“Um…well, redlisters are…um…”
“They’re people that hopefully you’ll never have to meet,” Helen said typing on her handheld computer. “Henry, once you’re done with the update, I was wondering if you could please go over anything that you can find on a Mister David Arrows.”
“Um, yeah, sure, am I looking for something particular?”
Helen glanced at Glenda before shaking her head, “I’m not sure yet; just see what you can find on him.”
“Sure.”
“Glenda, would you mind helping with the feedings today?”
“I would love to,” Glenda all but jumped from the sofa her wings doing a small flap as she landed on the floor and took off out of the room. Helen watched as she left holding the handheld to her chest.
“Oh oh, I’m seen that look before Doc. What are you up to?”
Helen turned to Henry taking the seat that Glenda had just left, “Mister Arrows is the gentleman that insisted that Glenda come and live with him.” Henry nodded as Helen went on, “Two days after Glenda came to live here, Sister Marie received this letter from him giving the convent one more chance to hand over the young lady.”
“He did, did he? Well, let’s just see what Mr. Arrows has to hide shall we.” Henry started typing away at his keyboard, “I’ll let you know as sure as find something Doc.”
“I know you will,” Helen said smiling at him. Standing from the sofa she patted his shoulder walking by, “Thank you.”
Leaving Henry’s room, she started down the hallway to her office glancing at her hand held to check her schedule. Sighing she bought up a copy of the letter, that Sister Marie sent her, her friend had given in and used the cell phone that she kept for emergency to call Helen about the letter and how Mr. Arrows reacted to the information that Glenda was no longer in the convent. Although the young Abnormal wasn’t at the convent anymore, Sister Marie was concern for her wellbeing and insisted to know if she was alright; though to Helen it sounded like Sister Marie didn’t like the idea of Glenda hanging out with Nikola and Henry that much. Reaching her office she was surprised to find Nikola there sitting in one of the wing chairs in front of the fireplace, a glass of wine in hand and the bottle on the table.
“Are you going to leave anything in my cellar when you leave?” She asked moving to her desk and taking her seat, “I also believe that Sister Marie wouldn’t like the idea of Glenda drinking so much.”
“Just because she joins me in the wine cellar doesn’t means she actually joins me in drinking, most of the time we talk about books.” He took a slip finishing the glass and reach for the bottle, “I must say Helen, I think she may have actually read more books than you,” he paused looking at the liquid in the glass, “or me for that matter.”
“What’s the matter Nikola, found someone that knows more than you?” Helen joked turning her computer on.
“Knows more from books perhaps, but she doesn’t know more from the real world. She’s been locked away in that convent her whole life.” He stood moving to Helen’s desk, “Does she even know how to use those wings of her?”
“I honestly don’t know,” Helen said looking through some shipping files, sent to her from the London Sanctuary. “You know she can’t go outside, it would be too hard to hide her wings.”
“So she goes from one prison to another,” Nikola states taking a seat in front of her desk. “How is that helping her?”
“At least we’re not putting her on display for people to gock at so we can make some money.” Nikola was in a the middle of drinking when she said that and he looked a little confused about it, eyeing her over the rim of his glass. She opened a file folder, pulled out the letter and set it on the desk in front of him, “It seems that Glenda’s secret admirer is very persistent.” Nikola set the glass down, sitting up straight in the chair to read the letter, Helen waited for him to finish before saying anything, “I already have Henry looking into Mister Arrows. I’ve never heard of him before now, but sadly there are new players to this game every day,” she said folding her hands on the desk.
“Humans make me sick,” Nikola said throwing the paper onto the desk.
Helen smiled at her old friend, beside The Five, Nikola has never really shown any interest in anyone else, she knew that he cared about the other members of the Sanctuary staff although he never show it. “Now, now Nikola, not all humans are like that, look at Will and Kate.” Nikola only answer to that was going back to drinking, “You can always take her out on the roof, you’ve said it yourself that it’s a beautiful view of the city.”
“I’ll think of about, right now I think I’ll go help Henric with some information gathering.” Nikola said standing to leave the room, grabbing the bottle as he walked by.
Helen laughed as he left, bottle and glass in hand, she know full well that Henry wasn’t going to like Nikola hanging over his shoulders while he trying to work. Putting the letter back in the folder she turned to her computer, there wasn’t much she could do until Henry got back to her so she decided to busy herself with shipping documents instead of having Will do them.
~*~
Helen was just sitting down to lunch with Will when Henry found her, paperwork in hand.
“You have got to see this Doc.”
“What’s that?” Will asked.
“Doc wanted me to look up on to Arrows guy to see what we’re up against,” Henry answered moving around the table to stand by Helen.
Helen took the papers that he handed her, just by looking over the top page she could see that David Arrows was not a man to be mess, unless you happen to work with the Sanctuary, Helen and her staff was known for messing with people who shouldn’t be messed with. “Thank you Henry.”
“Is he going to be trouble?” Will asked setting his fork down.
Henry snorted, “That’s an understatement. This guy is one of those I’m-rich-so-you-have-to-do-what-I-say kind of guys.”
“So he must have loved for Sister Marie said no to getting Glenda.” Will grinned.
“Yes, although she didn’t tell him where she was living now, I’m certain that he would find out somehow and it looks like I was right to think that. He owns several small companies and has a few connections with some of the black-market redlisters.”
“So in others words, he probably already knows about the Sanctuary and has guessed that that’s where the sisters have sent Glenda.” Will commented leaning back in his chair.
“Yep.”
“Well then,” Helen said handing the papers over to Will to look at, “let’s just hope that Mister Arrows has given up on his quest for his very own angel. Do you know where Glenda is now?” Helen asked looking to Henry.
“Um…I think somewhere with Tesla, he said something about showing her a part of the Sanctuary she hasn’t seen yet and then disappeared.”
Helen smiled; she was sure that if she checked she would find that the door to the roof had been opened with Nikola’s access code. She was also sure that Will was right about Arrows knowing that Glenda was now living; she would let him make the first move though. Turning to Henry she waved her hand towards the food on the table, “Would you care to join us?”
“I would love to,” Henry said grabbing a plate, helping himself to some food before taking the seat next to Will.
~*~
Two days after Helen decided to let Mr. Arrows make the first move, he did, it was however not the way that she had planned on him going about doing it. It was early in the morning when the alarms went off at the front gate, the cameras recorded a man hanging something on the gate and then disappearing down the street. Henry went to check it and it turned to be a letter, both Henry and Will had read over it before it gotten to her hands and neither of them looked very happy about it. She looked over it before actually reading it, a man that high in power and money like Arrows, she thought would have sent someone to talk to her on his behalf, a lawyer perhaps but she never pictured a letter. It was written on the same paper that the one Sister Marie had received had been written on, a plane off white color with some form of family crest at the top. The letter was handwritten but whether or not Arrows wrote it himself or someone else did she wasn’t sure but as she read it she knew why her friends didn’t look happy about it.
Dear Miss Helen Magnus,
Although we have never met, I have heard many tales about you and
that is all that they are to me, tales and nothing more. Stories that have no doubt
been woven together by the hundreds of men that you have placed under the
spell of your feminine charms but that is not why I am sending you this letter.
I am sending you this letter as one lover of beautiful and rare items to
another lover of beautiful and rare items. I am aware that you currently have a
being living at your “Sanctuary”, a being that once lived in a convent no less, I also
know what your “Sanctuary” is for. So therefore you must know why I am writing
this letter to you, so since I am a very busy business man, I won’t beat around the
bush as they say. I would like that being to come and be a guest in my house and
I won’t take no for an answer.
You will have her come to Loading Dock Number Four by the bay tomorrow
night at eight but I’m not without heart, you may join her to see her off, if you like.
Please inform her not to pack anything; for I will be giving her anything and
everything she could have any wanted for.
Sincerely,
Mister David Arrows
“Why the nerves of that…” Helen started but didn’t finish what she was thinking out loud.
“And I thought Tesla was full of himself, this guy takes the cake,” Will said.
She would have laughed at that if she wasn’t so mad, the nerve of that man, telling her what to do and in the form of a letter. She handed it back to Will so she wouldn’t give into the urge to crumble it up into a ball and throw it away or even better, throwing it into the fireplace and watching it slowly burn. Tightening her robe around her waist, and not really caring that they were all still in their pajamas, she turned and headed to her office. She needed to think, preferably alone but she heard Will and Henry following.
“What are you going to do Doc?” Henry asked.
“Well, they’re not meeting with him,” Will answer for her. “Right Magnus?”
“No, we’re not or at least Glenda isn’t.” She turned a corner running into Biggie, “Oh, I’m so sorry.”
“Didn’t hurt,” Biggie said rubbing his chest as if he had an itch.
“Helen?”
She turned back to find Nikola walking towards them, still fully dress from the day before, giving that he didn’t really need to sleep Helen guessed he had been doing research somewhere. He didn’t need to ask her the question though, she knew what he wanted to know, and she simply nodded towards Will who handed the letter to the vampire. Helen restarted her journey to her office with Biggie walking beside her while the other three fell in behind her.
“Who does this man think he is?” Nikola asked as they entered her office, “You got more respect back at Oxford and that was in the 1800s.”
Helen smiled, her old friend was right but the little bit of respect was nothing compare to the insult that he was sending towards Glenda, talking about her as if she was an item that could be handed off like nothing. She was thankful that the letter Arrows sent to Sister Marie was nothing like this one. She took her seat behind her desk, Biggie and Henry moving behind her, and Will and Nikola took the chairs in front of her.
“So what’s the plan Helen?” Nikola asked.
Helen thought about it, “We’re going to meet Mister Arrows.”
“What?” Henry shouted the same time a soft growl came from Biggie.
“Not Glenda of course, she’ll be staying here, in fact she is not to even hear about this letter. Am I understood?”
“Yeah,” answered Will.
“Of course Helen,” Nikola replied.
Henry and Biggie just nodded their heads.
“Good, now tomorrow night Nikola and I shall meet with Mister Arrows.”
“Magnus…”
“No, but Will, I want you here to help keep an eye on things, with Kate gone at the moment I want the Sanctuary well looked after. Who knows what Mister Arrows might try to do, no doubt he’s making a Plan B as well.”
“I’m coming,” Henry said stepping closer to her chair.
She looked between the HAP and her second, then to Nikola, the vampire only shrug, “Don’t look at me Helen, they’re your kids.”
Helen shook her head but knew that she wouldn’t win, even if she tried, “Alright, Henry can come but Will you’re still staying here. We’re going to have a little conversation with Mister Arrows.”
TBC.....