Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 23:00:22 -0700 From: Elizabeth Ann Lewis Subject: ERICA: A Tale Of Two Nicks (1/1) This is an extremely short, extremely silly and extremely fluffy bit of narrative knocked off while I am trying to get more serious stories done. I hope you get at least a small giggle out of it. It attempts to explain why Aristotle (from second season Forward Into the Past) thought that Nick (born about 1193) had been at the Battle of Hastings (October 1066). The fact that a much better and funnier story about Nick and a look-alike dropped to the list recently has absolutely nothing to do with this one (and yes, Chris, I'm working on my Sting story!!!) Thanks for the Fang Gang for laughing. ;) Non-carbohydrate fudge, European vacations, Nick naked, and offers of Mercenary employment to: lizbet@primenet.com ------------------- A Tale Of Two Nicks, or Why Aristotle Thought Nick Was At the Battle of Hastings By Elizabeth Ann Lewis Once upon a time there was a vampire named Nicholas, who was tall and blond and handsome and sexy and... did I mention sexy? He was a medieval knight who fought in all sorts of wars and slept with a lot of women and... did I mention that he was sexy? However, he is not the Nicholas that you are likely thinking of. You see, this Nicholas was much older and much dumber than his later incarnation. (I know, I know, scary thought, huh?) Unfortunately, he got caught without proper sunscreen (I don't think they made UV protectant in 1193, much less with an SPF of 1,000,000,000) and burnt to cinders. Poor Nicky. Thirty-five years later, *another* young man was brought across into the world of darkness, evil and eternal plasma cravings. He was a medieval knight who fought in a lot of wars and was tall and blond and... well, you get the general picture. (And if anyone has pictures, particularly naked ones, you can send them to me at...) *This* one is the one who was originally known as Nicholas de Brabant. >From the very beginning, Nicholas de Brabant had an interesting problem (aside from having a skull about twice the density of lead). Other vampires were constantly assuming that they knew him. This was a *bad* thing. The earlier Nicholas had made very few friends in his centuries of unlife (or is it undeath? I never can remember...), and a lot of enemies (see above about sleeping with a lot of women). He even made the women mad, and making vampire females mad is a pretty dumb idea. So most vampires chose to attack first and worry later about whether or not they had the right Nicholas. This caused *our* Nicholas (did I mention he was sexy?) to stick close to his daddy for protection (since LaCroix was generally better than an SPF of 1,000,000,000--and could carry on a conversation, too). One day... um, night, however, Nicholas de Brabant got lucky. (No, not *that* way!) (Well, actually, yes, but this was later.) (Did I mention he was sexy?) (Hey, put down that hose!) He ran into a vampire by the name of Aristotle, who knew Nicholas the First (and thought our Nicholas was that Nicholas... are you confused yet?) It was a pleasant change of pace to find that not only did Aristotle *not* have violent designs on his life (since LaCroix was off being nefarious somewhere else, and Janette was mad at him at the moment, see above about sleeping with a lot of women, another thing both Nicholases had in common) but was actually *friendly*. Even better, Aristotle believed himself to be in debt to Nicholas for saving him on the field at the Battle of Hastings. (Fortunately for our Nick, Aristotle was unaware that Nicholas the First had endured an ill-advised bout of sunbathing.) By the end of the night, Nicholas now had a very useful friend, good for as many new identities as Nicholas might need--but only as long as he kept up the fiction that he was Nicholas the First. Nick was dense, but he was at least sentient. For the next, oh, six hundred years or so, he kept Aristotle in debt to him--and reaped the rewards. ("Say, Aristotle, I have this friend... Remember, you *owe* me...") Until Aristotle turned on the TV one night and heard LaCroix saying, "He was brought across in 1228..." --=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-- Lizbet ~*~ lizbet@primenet.com ~ Lizbetann@aol.com VS Committe Member ~*~ Brabantois, Mercenary & Fang Ganger ~ "Vampires exist in a state of desire and disgust."--Stranger than Fiction ~*~ Listowner, Middle Ages Life ~*~ Arnyd yw Ewyll hyd yw, "Passion is the will to be" ~~*~~ http://members.aol.com/Lizbetann/mypage.html