Henry watched as Dorian and Mina kissed. "Yes, Henry. Look, but don't touch." Hyde was saying. "That's your way."
"Just shut up." Henry snapped at him. "I won't be tricked again."
"Tricked?" He asked sneering a bit. "You've known what I was about each time you drank the formula."
"Liar! I'm a good man, a good man!" He yelled at his double in the reflection.
"Well, who's lying now? You want it! Even more than you want her. You can't shut me out forever!"
"It's not what I want most!"
There was a pause as Edward looked at him knowing that to be true. "Drink the elixir!"
"No!"
"She barely even looks at you!"
"Be quiet!"
"She looked at me!"
I blinked as I watched this exchange, saw the two there just as Henry saw it. Edward looked up and saw me looking surprised himself. And then… "Contain your evil, doctor!" Nemo appeared. "I'll not have the brute free upon my ship. Must I take drastic steps?"
"I am in control." Henry said a bit snippily.
"I very much doubt it."
"Your talk is all well and good, sir, but your own past is far from laudable." He swept away and then paused seeing me there. He blinked. "Oh, Catty…" He saw the look in my eyes. "You saw him."
I nodded. "I did."
He sighed a bit. "Would you accompany, please?"
She smiled a bit, "All right."
In his room Henry paused and Edward appeared in a reflections. "Let me out. She can control me."
Henry blinked. "If I didn't know better, I'd swear I already had."
We went room and I was looking wildly through my trunk. "God, no."
"So it's clear. With da Vinci's blueprints and enough explosives..." Nemo was saying.
"...He could set a bomb that would blow Venice's foundations to rubble." Quartermain finished.
"He's gonna sink the whole city." Sawyer said.
"Yes, and spark off his world war." Quartermain sighed.
"I'm afraid that's not the sum of our problems." Henry said coming into the room with me next to him. "Skinner has taken a vial of my formula."
"I don't know if it's Skinner." I said. "We don't have proof. But Dr. Frankenstein's journal is also missing."
"Are you sure?"
"Who else?" Henry countered. "You seen the way the sneaky blackguard operates."
Henry and I went back to my room. "I still don't know if it was Skinner." I said. "But it might have been."
"You just tend to see the good in people, Catty." Henry said not condescending at all, just stating a fact.
"Henry, are you in love with Mina?" I asked as they sat down on the trunk at the end of her bed.
"What?" He looked at me confused, "In love with Mina?"
"I've seen how you look at her…"
"No, Catty," He said. "I am not in love with Mina…truthfully I just see her as more in my class than…well, just more in my class."
"More in your class than who?" I asked.
He swallowed. "Than you."
"Me?"
He turned away a bit. "I am sorry, I am too forward."
"I love you."
He looked up surprised. "Pardon?"
"I love you, Henry Jeckyll."
He leaned forward and kissed me, sliding his hand down my arm before unbuttoning the buttons on my blouse and slipping his hand under to take one plush breast in his hand gently squeezing through the cloth of my undergarments. He pulled back gently lowering me down onto the bed. I smiled up at him. "Do you want to go forward?"
"Yes." I nodded.
He gently slipped my shirt off of me as I sat up again and then he helped me off with my skirt and shoes. I undid the ties on my underdress and that too was taken care of and then my stockings and the rest of her underclothing. I sat there on the bed naked in front of him. He took in the sight and let his hands wander up and down my bare skin. I looked right at him as he did so reveling in his touch.
I helped him off with his clothes before he gently slid into me as he kissed my neck and then down to my breasts. He thrust into me harder and harder, faster and faster, gripping my hips and breathing heavily. I cried out and then he came inside of me calling out my name.
He fell on top of me spent and breathing heavily.
"It's the carnival." There were a lot of fireworks and noise going on Venice.
"My God, we must locate that bomb."
"We can go no further, captain." Ishmael said.
"All ahead, stop. Deploy the divers beneath the city. The explosives must be found."
"Aye, aye, sir."
The men began to talk as I looked out over the city. And then a loud firework went off. "Bloody carnival." Quartermain grumbled after all of them almost had a heart attack.
"God, I feared the worst." Mina said catching her breath.
"It's all right." Sawyer said. "We still have…"
Then there really was an explosion. The buildings began to fall. "The buildings are falling like dominoes!" Not to mention tons of people screaming.
"We're too late! There must be more than one bomb." Quartermain always taking charge. "Nemo! The bombs are at the city's center. We must take out one key building."
"Get ahead and destroy the next building."
"Interrupt the chain. With a beacon at the coordinates, I could launch a rocket and take out the domino."
"That's ridiculous! We'd never get there in time."
"No room for error, but it could work."
"What are you talking about?" Henry asked. Everyone had basically been talking at once.
"I'm an immortal, sir, not a gazelle. How can we outrun this thing?"
"Really, Dorian, I thought you were a rabbit." I said snippily.
And then Sawyer came out of the cargo hold in the automobile. Well a smaller one without a top. "Care for a spin?" He asked.
We all got in. "Come on, Jekyll, get in!" Quartermain said.
"I'll need coordinates." Nemo told them.
"Can
you track this?" Sawyer wanted to know.
"Of course."
"Then this is the target."
"Launch when you see the flare!"
"Right."
"Jeckyll!" Quartermain called again. "Come on, we'll need Hyde."
"No! Hyde will never use me again."
"Then what good are you?" Dorian asked before slipping an arm around my shoulders. The car sped off. I turned around to see him, but he wasn't looking.
