Sanctuary Fic -- Reagents

[artaxastra]

Next in my series about the early days of The Five, but you don't have to have read anything first. This is in the same series as The Best Laid Plans, Withering on the Vine, Consolation, Electricity, Dizzy, Dance, Power, A New Prometheus and First Kiss.

Helen and Nikola share a moment in the lab.

Comments

[artaxastra]

I'm glad you like it! I think Nikola is in some ways the most emotionally mature of The Five at Oxford. He's seen more real life and had more adult experiences. Which is all to the good, really.

[artaxastra]

We did. And that's something that strikes me even more since Normandy aired.

[shadecat]

I have an intense urge to wrap Nikola up in a blanket and cuddle him now. And then proceed to receive education on the many ways women find marital relations desirable.

[artaxastra]

*g* I'm sure he would be happy to provide an education -- in the name of scientific understanding, of course! :)

Don't you know he was utterly adorable at 20 or so?

[shadecat]

I'm willing to donate my body to science ;)

Oh man, I could totally see that. The somewhat clumsy attempts to woo a girl...

I'd fall. I'd fall hard.

[artaxastra]

Oh yeah! :)

His clumsy attempts to have An Affair of the Heart with a married woman!

[penknife]

Oh, Nikola! Oh, Helen! *pets them* But it's probably good for her to hear someone weigh in on the side of heterosexual relations being desirable. :-)

[artaxastra]

Yeah, it probably is. Nikola's kind of a reality check here!

[lferion]

Oh, well done indeed.

[artaxastra]

Thank you so much!

[artaxastra]

I'm glad you think they're adorable!

I think Nikola does know the score. He strikes me as more emotionally mature than the others at this point. He's had more actual life experience. Nigel less so, but I think James and Helen and John are all painfully naive.