Chapter 3; a match with a maidSomething shined above her eyes. Jenny tried to catch it, but her hands were to heavy to even move. She blinked a view times en slowly she woke up.
One look through the room said enough. Where was she? This wasn't home? The blanket was to soft and warm to be at home. The bed was huge and there were lots of cushions. There where Mahoney wood furniture around the bed. Dark but so beautiful.
That moment it shot her like lighting. It was around day time and she was still in bed. An unknown bed to be precisely while she should be above and around working in the streets.
Jenny looked around her, something that could indicate where she was. She had no clue of where she was. She stood from the bed and opened the door to the hallway. There must be someone in this house who could tell her more.
''No, no, Vastra! You can't leave the girl on the streets! Way to dangerous!'' the doctor walked up and down the parlour, knocking a plant down to the floor.
The green woman sat in a chair and looked quitte calm. ''She has been here for three days, do you have any idea of when she will wake.'' She sounded worried.
There was a silence.
''No, I don't know.'' He slowed his pace and his face looked old and worn. ''I was in the streets last night.'' The doctor looked at Vastra,
he nodded to her to continue. ''There not happy, the Tongs.. They killed four woman the last days, like some sort of revenge for the escape of the mammal.''
He nodded sadly. ''sad to hear.. and not necessary.'' He began pacing again and he stopped dead in tracks.
Jenny stood in the doorway and looked from the doctor to Vastra who looked like she saw a ghost.
''Where am I?'' Jenny her voice sounded steady and angry. But in the inside she was scared to death. The man looked familiar, same for the green woman.
''You're at my home. We brought you here, three nights ago.'' Vastra was the first to find her voice back. She spoke slow and soft not wanting to frighten the girl.
''Why am I here? And who are you?!'' Jenny looked from Vastra to the Doctor.
''Oh well, I'm the doctor, just the doctor. And this is my friend Vastra.'' He pointed at the green woman.
Jenny still stared at the woman. ''Jenny, my name is Jenny Flint.'' She extended her hand and he shook it friendly. Vastra just gave her a interesting look not shaking her hand.
''You're here because… you were attacked three night ago, by a gang called….'' The doctor paused and Jenny looked puzzled around her and her face became white.
''By the Chinese Tongs.'' Her voice pitched in fear and tears where running down her cheeks.
She was attacked by those horrible men, and her memory came back one by one. The attack, the alley, the man that saved her and the green woman her entrance. She studied the woman.
Vastra was looking with the same interest at the girl.
''Why are you not screaming and scared?'' Vastra lifted her head a little and gave her a strange look.
Jenny felt uneasy off her sparkling blue penetrating eyes, and shifted her legs.
''Well ma'am.. you have saved me, why should I be afraid of you? I should be you thankful. Very thankful, now I'm speaking of it. It's very late and I have to go to work. So thank you for everything, but I'll be going.'' She walked away from them, but the doctor stopped her.
''No you can't go!'' Jenny lifted a eyebrow and gave him a questioning look. ''It's not save to work all day and night out there in the streets. We can't let you go! Right Vastra?'' the doctor looked hopeless at the woman.
Vastra a lost for words only nodded. She didn't want the mammal in her house all the time. But well, the company was welcome, it was very lonely here without anyone.
''You… you could work here?'' Jenny and the doctor looked shocked at vastra. ''What!?'' the both looked at her. ''I mean as a maid, you said it yourself doctor. I could use some help in the household.. and with the aspect of life from a mammal.'' She said soft.
The doctor grinned. ''Well it's your choice miss Flint.'' He turned his heels and walked away. ''I'm sure you will make the right choice.'' And with that said he vanished in the darkness.
