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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"To his surprise, Jekyll wasn't there yet. He closed the door behind himself again and stood around for a while. Quickly getting bored he started to look around. He never did that before. The shelves on the wall had countless glass bottles of all sizes and colours on them, all labeled in Jekyll's flawless handwriting. Hyde didn't even know half of all the things there and to him they also all looked the same. He wandered over to the big work table in the middle of the room. Various instruments he didn't understand and an endless amount of documents were scattered all over it and when he looked at some of the notes more closely, they resembled witchcraft to him. None of these things made any sense to him, but in the end this had all been part of the process to create him and now even get him an own /Lastly he went over to Jekyll's desk at the end of the room near the fireplace and some ceiling high bookshelves. There were letters, some unopened, in one corner of the desk. Some loose notes next to a stack of books on the other end, and-br /Half hidden under some notes the end of a key stuck out. Hyde frowned and took the key to have a look. It looked simple enough but he wondered what it was for. As Jekyll still didn't arrive, he decided to find the fitting keyhole for it. It was too small to be for a door so he looked for a chest or perhaps... He pulled on the drawers at the sides of the desk and quickly enough he found one that was locked. He knew he probably wasn't supposed to know what's in there and a grin formed on his face. Jekyll would lock it if there was something important in it. Perhaps even something concerning Hyde, something scandalous, or something very personal. He tried to push the key into the lock as he heard the door to the laboratory open. He quickly pocketed the key and tried to appear to just be casually leaning on the desk as Jekyll entered./p
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