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;"When Edward Hyde woke up the following day he didn't feel like getting up at all. His broken hand started to hurt more again and he also didn't want to run into Jekyll again. He thought about the previous night and started wondering where the key to the laboratory could be, quickly realising that he had never seen it /While he had been down there, he couldn't recall a key lying around somewhere nearby or any furniture it could be hidden in. Where else could it be then?br /The laboratory probably held all of Jekyll's secrets and his oh so important notes about his experiments and work in general. How he managed to do all that while also working at a hospital was beyond Hyde. Anyway, Jekyll would surely keep the key somewhere secure and Hyde could only think of two possibilities: one, it was somewhere in Jekyll's study or bedroom, two, he kept it on himself at all times. He scratched his head and hoped for the first possibility while he finally got up from the bed./p
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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;"He tried to listen for footsteps but his heart was pounding so hard it difficult to make out any other sound./p
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;"The worst thing that could happen was Jekyll having heard that and finding him. He would be so angry, Hyde was sure he would have two broken hands then. Or worse./p
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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;"He slowly released his breath he had been holding in. His heart was still beating fast but slowly calming down again as /He decided it was too risky to continue now. Jekyll could have heard and be on the way. Hyde would just sneak back to his room as if nothing happened, yes. He took a deep breath to calm down and went to the door, leaving the room and closing the door behind himself as silently as possible with that creaking sound it made at that one point. He smiled to himself as he managed that and went on to strode down the hallway to his room just when he saw Jekyll coming up the stairs. His heart sank down as he noticed the expression on the doctor's face as he approached./p
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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;""Good. Now, can you tell me what you did in my room?"/p
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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;"He left the guest room and looked across the hallway to the old clock. It was nearly noon already so Jekyll shouldn't be in his bedroom anymore. Hyde tiptoed down the hallway to the doctor's room and slowly opened the door, checking the stairs behind him every few seconds when the door /He slipped inside the room just when the clock stroke noon./p
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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;"He could hear the footsteps passing his room and he let out a relieved /He sat down on his bed and started to think. The key wasn't anywhere he looked but he was interrupted before he could search everywhere. He would need a new plan to get to search the remaining possible hiding places and hope for the /The footsteps passed his room again and went down the /He contemplated a second if he should risk it or not but quickly got up and left his room again. He sneaked towards the stairs and looked down. There wasn't anyone to see or hear so he figured he might have at least a few minutes time. He tiptoed towards the master bedroom once more and entered quickly. Immediately he began to search the remaining drawers and then moved on to the bedside table. Why didn't he look here first anyway? That was the most likely hiding place after all. The first drawer opened smoothly and Hyde rummaged around in it, finding some old notes and an a pocket watch that had stopped working. He pushed it back in and opened the second of the three there were. This time he found some small books and seemingly random things. When he closed it again it got stuck for a moment and he had to use some force to get it fully back, accidentally causing some noise as the drawer suddenly got free./p
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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;"He slowly released his breath he had been holding in. His heart was still beating fast but slowly calming down again as /He decided it was too risky to continue now. Jekyll could have heard and be on the way. Hyde would just sneak back to his room as if nothing happened, yes. He took a deep breath to calm down and went to the door, leaving the room and closing the door behind himself as silently as possible with that creaking sound it made at that one point. He smiled to himself as he managed that and went on to strode down the hallway to his room just when he saw Jekyll coming up the stairs. His heart sank down as he noticed the expression on the doctor's face as he approached./p
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