So, you may or may not know that alwayssmilingsam has managed to floppify and break her finger. This is not good news for fic writing, so in an attempt to cheer her up she has given me a prompt for a new Teslen fic.

I wont give anything away, but blame her for the sad times. Get better soon finger…

Only In His Dreams.

Nikola gently groaned as he felt the soft lift trying to get in through his eyelids. His whole body protested as he tried to gently roll over, as he started to stretch out he felt the welcome pop of his joints and gentle stretch of his muscles. As his body finally started to relax he rolled again, this time towards the woman lying in the bed next to him. Looking at her dark hair fanned out across the pillows he couldn't help but admire her simple beauty and marvel that she was here with him.

He reached out and traced a finger down the creamy skin of her face, across her shoulder and gently down her left arm. He finally rested his hand on hers, and not for the first time that week he traced the patterns of the two rings resting on her left index finger. It still amazed him that the two fairly simple pieces of metal represented so much between them. Nikola wasn't ashamed to admit that even thinking about their wedding day made his eyes water slightly.

He had known all along that he was marrying the most beautiful woman in the world, but seeing her in the perfect ivory dress had taken that beauty to a whole new level. She had picked out a simple cut, the thick straps coming down in a gentle v that showed off her cleavage. The dress wasn't tight, but at the same time it clung to and showed off all of her perfect curves. She had left most of her hair down, only pinning up one piece with an ivory flower. Watching her walk towards him in the Sanctuary church had been like nothing he had experienced before, he would never be able to describe the sheer amount of love he had for her in those moments.

Here she was lying next to him. Helen Tesla, not that she would ever let him call her that, but he so loved using it to wind her up. Slowly Nikola moved his attention away from her hands and back to the body he adored. Her creamy skin gave such a beautiful contrast to the dark bedding, just looking over her perfect curves made his desperate to touch them. Finally his roaming eyes reached her stomach, and this time he couldn't help himself from touching her. Reaching his hands down he used them to cup the gentle swell of her stomach. As far as he had been concerned, his wedding day had been the most amazing day of his life, and nothing else would ever come close…but he had been wrong.

Really he should have realised earlier on what was happening. Helen had been walking around with a huge smile spread across her face, and she had taken the idea of glowing to a whole new level. When she had finally turned the simple white stick over to show him the two pink lines, he was pretty sure that his heart might explode from the sheer amount of love he felt. He had never imagined himself as a father, but the thought of having a baby with Helen was now all that he could think about.

Unable to resist he lifted her night shirt so he could see the gentle swell of her stomach in front of him. He started gently running his hands across the smooth skin as he thought about what their little one might look like. In his mind he had the picture of a beautiful baby girl, with blue eyes and blonde ringlets like her Mum. "I can't wait to meet you." He whispered before placing a gentle kiss on the spot just above Helen's tummy button.

"While I appreciate you bonding with our baby…I'm pretty sure that your wife would like a share of the attention." Helen's voice was foggy with sleep as she spoke.

Nikola looked up at her with a sheepish grin. He kissed her stomach again before scooting up the bed to lie next to her. "Sorry, I didn't mean to wake you." He placed a kiss on her forehead as he ran a hand through her dark curls.

Helen turned her head into his kiss. "I'm not complaining…" She paused. "As long as you plan on making it up to me."

Nikola grinned, but before going any further he scooted back down the bed. Cupping her stomach again he whispered. "Sorry for the noise little one, your Mum tends to be a little on the noisy side when I ravish her."

"Nikola if you don't get back up her then I swear…" Before she could finish his lips were on top of hers in a crushing kiss, she couldn't stop the moan that came as a reaction to the contact.

Pulling back slightly Nikola grinned again. "Told you so." Before she could chastise him he had whipped off her night clothes and was starting the torturously slow exploration of her body.

…

Helen fell back onto the bed next to her vampire, she was still desperately trying to get her breathing back under control. She opened her eyes to be greeted with Nikola looking down at her with the annoying grin spread across his face. "Care to go again?" He leaned down and gently kissed her.

Helen stifled a laugh. "After that Mr Tesla you will be lucky to get another go for a week." She stroked the side of his face before pushing herself up in the bed.

Nikola pouted at her. "That's all very well for you to say, but I need to make the most of you before this little one is born." He rested a hand on her bump.

Helen placed her hand on top of his. "Yes my love, but that doesn't mean that you are allowed to exhaust me at every opportunity." She turned around and gently kissed him again. Looking into the piercing eyes she couldn't help but smile.

"Anything in particular?" Nikola moved closer to her and wrapped his arms around her to rest them on her bump.

"Would you ever have imagined this?" She looked towards him as she squeezed his hand.

Nikola looked at the woman who had completed his life. "Only ever in my dreams." He almost whispered the words, but made sure that they were loud enough for Helen to hear.

She turned towards him, deciding that the time was right. "I've got something to show you."

…

Helen rolled the probe across her stomach trying to find the best picture. She was just past twenty weeks into her pregnancy, and was desperate to find out the gender of the baby. Finally happy with the overall picture she turned towards Nikola and smiled. "Say hello to your little one." With the hand not holding the probe she took hold of his hand and gave it a gentle squeeze.

He couldn't say anything…he didn't know enough words to describe the way he felt, instead he just started at the picture on the screen.

Helen looked at him, worried that he wasn't saying anything, then seeing the tears running down his face she realised that everything was just fine. "We could find out the gender…" She was absolutely desperate to know, but she would take into account what he wanted, this was after all their baby.

Nikola nodded. "I would love that…" He gently squeezed her hand back before letting her use both hands to move the probe into the right position to find out. It took a couple of minutes, but then everything started to come into focus.

Helen looked at the screen for a moment waiting for everything to focus, once it had it seemed quite clear to all that the baby on the screen was.

"A little girl…we're having a daughter…" Nikola lent in and kissed her full on the lips. "I love you so much…" He kissed her again as he felt the tears running down her face mix with his. "Perfect…this is all perfect…" He only just managed to get out the final word as everything faded to black.

…

"Systems back online…they're coming out." Henry was furiously pressing buttons to like in with the probes resting on their heads.

Will nodded. "They've only been unlinked for 5 minutes." He looked round at the team in the room, he could see the face of worried faces. "It'll be fine, this is Magnus we're talking about."

"Five seconds and they should be coming round." Henry was still pushing an alarming number of buttons. "Three, two, one…" He broke off and took in a deep breath.

Helen felt her eyelids fluttering, her head felt as though she had been thrown around a shipping container. Gently opening her eyes she tried to take in the scene around her, the worried faces and all of the wires…she reached down and had to stop herself crying as she felt the flatness of her stomach, risking a glance down she could see nothing on her left index finger. Slowly she turned a head to look at the man sitting next to her.

Nikola was struggling to stop himself from crying, gently he shrugged his shoulders before whispering. "Only in my dreams…"

A/N So they prompt was basically Chimera gone wrong…let me know what you think, and reviews make me super happy! In the style of Emmy1512 I would love love love 10 reviews before the next update? Tasha. xx