Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde & Miss Harris

Summary: This is a musical based story. I was in a local production of it (I was in the orchestra, not actually acting. Though I'd love it act in it sometime) and loved it! This is basically another version of the musical. Henry, Edward, a little bit of Poole, Emma, Danvers, Lucy and Spider. It's good stuff so please read even though the summary sucked.  Reviews are appreciated…be gentle.

Disclaimer: None of these characters belong to me.

Chapter One: Henry Meets Lucy

Evening was approaching as a Miss Lucy Harris stood against a brick wall, two buildings down from the Red Rat, where all of her time was spent. Other than when her boss had her on the streets, such as this pass week. She leaned against the wall, looking up towards the sky, just thinking. Thinking about her life, and all the people in it, and wondered how she ended up where she was today. But she never knew a life outside of her current one. She'd been in this life for as long as she could remember.

A man was approaching her from afar, but she didn't notice. As he passed, he paused and just looked at her for a bit, wondering why she seemed to look so sad and lonely. Still, she stared at the purple sky, as the sun was setting, never noticing her onlooker. Finally, when he came up to her, she turned and they exchanged looks. "Excuse me." His voice was soft and tender. She liked him already. No one she had ever met, besides the other women she worked with, had ever spoken nicely to her. "I couldn't notice how…distressed you seemed to be. Is everything alright?"

Lucy laughed a bit. "What can you expect? How does a girl like me expect to have everything alright all the time?" She started walking down the sidewalk, towards the Red Rat. He followed by her side.

"I guess I can understand that." He nodded as he spoke.

Three buildings down, Spider, Lucy's boss, stood from afar, in the shadows, watching Lucy's every move. He was just waiting for her to make another wrong move. She'd really screwed things up for him lately, mostly just lacking on her job. He knew she was going to make another mistake, and he was just waiting for the moment that he could butt in.

There was a long pause as the two continued to walk. "I'm sorry," the man finally said. "I'm terribly rude. I'm Henry. Dr. Henry Jekyll." He offered to take her hand, and she gave it. He gave a light kiss, and then let go.

"I'm Lucy Harris. It's nice to meet you."

"You as well." Another pause. "So, would you like to share?" Lucy looked back at him, a little confused.

"Share what?" she asked.

"What could've happened that made you seem so sad earlier."

"Oh. It was just a bad day. They come around more than they used to."

"May I ask what happened?" Lucy looked towards the door of the Red Rat.

"Would you like to come in for a drink? It's on me."

"Sure." They walked in, and went to the bar. Lucy ordered two beers and turned to Dr. Jekyll. "So, what kind of horrible thing could possibly make a beautiful woman such as yourself feel so depressed?" Lucy looked at him, a little timid about wanting to say anything. "Please, don't think of this as strange, I am a doctor after all. I was just thinking that I could help somehow. But if you don't want to share, don't feel bad. I understand."

The bartender brought them their drinks and Lucy took them, giving Henry his. He took a sip of it, and then watched Lucy as she chugged the whole thing down. He smiled a bit at this. "Well, I don't see what harm it can do in telling you." Before she began, she took a quick look around, just in case Spider happened to be around. Then she began her story, telling this complete stranger of just how difficult her life has been, and how she never seemed to notice until lately. It all seemed to be because of Spider. He was being harder on her than ever before. He always seemed to come up with something that she was doing wrong. Even if it was something like not stopping one man on the street that walked by her, who was with a woman of his own.

As Lucy continued with the story of her life, she didn't know that Spider was in fact around, spying on her from the next room over. He was still keeping his eyes on her at all times, to find all the mistakes she would make tonight.

Lucy finished her story, and waited for a response from Dr. Jekyll. "Well, I may be a doctor, but I don't think I can help you with this exact problem. And I'm terrible sorry, but I really should be returning home to my work. However," he reached for his pocket inside his cloak, "here's my card. In case you ever need a friend, feel free to come by at any hour." He handed her his card, which she saw his address written on. She gladly took it, and placed it in her corset. He smiled as he took her hand once again, and gave it a gentle kiss. She smiled as well when he did this. He then tipped his head as to say "good-bye" and walked out the door.

Lucy smiled, as she looked at the drink Dr. Jekyll had. He had only taken that one sip, and left the rest. She figured him to be such a sweet man to come in for the drink she had offered, even though he didn't really want it. 'Did he really want to talk to me that bad? Just sit down and have a conversation? Like a real person?' she wondered. She thought that if that was true, then he was an even better man than she had first thought. He actually saw her as a person, and from the start. He never looked at her as an icon, or just as a body – but a real person. She looked back at the drink, grabbed it, and chugged it down as well.

Lucy felt really good as she held Dr. Jekyll's card and walked upstairs to her room. She felt as light as a feather on the inside. Just the thought of him almost made her have to stop and sit down.