One Fateful Night

by Fyniel

Describes the past events that eventually lead to 'An Evening' and continue the story from thereon.

32. One Fateful Confession

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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Jekyll looked up when Hyde left but didn't find the strength to ask him to stay./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Not even his own creation wanted to be near him anymore. Great. Just perfect./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"He sighed and buried his head in his hands./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Everyone was leaving him and it was all his own fault, wasn't it?/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"First he shut everyone out who he was once close to just to work on his experiments. God, he wouldn't even have visitors for a cup of tea; something that wouldn't have taken time at all./p
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div dir="auto" 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: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #2a2a2a;"
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"He had even pushed Emma away. His fiancée whom he loved dearly. She tried so often to see him and every time he had Poole tell her that he wasn't available. What kind of man did that to the woman he intended to marry? She didn't deserve such a treatment and still she stayed. She could have called off the engagement but she didn't. Because she believed him when he said his work was important. Emma... He didn't deserve her, did he?/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"And now John was gone. His best friend. By his own hands./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"What had he been thinking? Why did his temper get the better of him? Why did he have to tell him everything?/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Why did he kill him?/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;" /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"John had always been loyal. They could have figured something out together somehow. He would have managed to convince him that Hyde was innocent of the crimes he was accused of. And John wouldn't have turned him in, even after he confessed that it had been his own deeds that terrified London./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"It could have all been different./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"John could be sitting here with him now, though more likely on some furniture than the ground, and they would be designing a plan so everything would work out in the end. Then they would have taken walks through nature and talked about everything and nothing like in old times, just enjoying each other's company./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"It hit him like a brick in the face when he realised he would really never see his friend again. Not hear any advice he could then ignore or follow. Not any of his rants about the law system being unfair or unjustified in some aspects. They would never again stop at a theatre only to make plans to go see a play and then never actually following through with it even though he knew John had always enjoyed the arts./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"No. He had to take that from him in a fit of emotion. What kind of man was he to kill his best friend of so many years?/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Maybe he was mad. Insane./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"He shook his head and ran his hands through his hair. A madman wouldn't regret what he had done. So that means he was not mad. Right? Completely sane? As much as he hated to admit it, probably not, but who was completely sane anyway? People who said that were liars. All of them. Such a statement only proved their madness./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"He didn't know how long he sat there. Hours probably judging by the ache of his joints when he got up. He turned around and looked at the house he had spent so many happy summers and Christmases in. It was a second home to him. More special than his house in London that had once been frequented by all sorts of people when he still used to host dinner parties and the likes before he became too absorbed in his work./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"The younger man looked up at him and took a second to answer, contemplating whether he should be honest or not. Lying was probably not a good idea though. "I thought you wouldn't want me around." /p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"The doctor searched his face for any sign of lying. Not finding any he grew strangely concerned. Hyde really believed this. Heavens, what had he done?/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""What I said that night, I- I wasn't thinking. I was emotional and enraged and-... And when I needed someone to blame, you were the most comfortable choice..." His voice decreased in volume towards the end until it was barely a whisper. "I can't describe how sorry I am for what I did..."/p
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div dir="auto" 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: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #2a2a2a;"
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"They spent the rest of the day together, mostly in silence, but together. Jekyll found it was easier to deal with the loss when he wasn't alone and Hyde preferred to be around him as well. Hyde actually felt better now, having the confirmation that it indeed wasn't his fault. He wasn't responsible for Jekyll's mood. He could only improve it./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"And he did so with small gestures like preparing tea for Jekyll or just being near him. The doctor had also allowed him to touch him and so he occasionally hugged him as well when he felt like the darker thoughts were taking over again. He didn't want Jekyll to be sad. And he would be damned if he didn't do everything he could to make him happy instead./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Eventually he even managed to convince the doctor to go out again to enjoy the sun, claiming it would do him good too. To Jekyll's surprise he was right about that./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"They took a walk through the gardens and then ventured to the woods. It was peaceful. Calming. Neither of them had to say anything to know that the other was enjoying it as well and Hyde thought he could feel how the other's mood improved by the second. He figured that after a night's sleep everything would be fine again. Or at least fine enough to not affect their time together as much anymore. He wanted to be the focus of Jekyll's attention again. To be important to him. To enjoy and be enjoyed by him. He felt way better now that the doctor stated that he was not responsible, so now he wanted to give him a good feeling too. Tonight./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"When the night came, after they had eaten dinner, and Jekyll was about to lay down to sleep, Hyde had other plans./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"The doctor glanced up at him. Well, they hadn't done anything like that in a while, but he also wasn't sure if he felt ready to do such things again. In his mind he was still dealing with everything that happened. Then again, some distraction might help to ease his mind and Hyde also seemed to want to do this. He probably missed it. He took pity on him. After all he did and all that happened, Hyde deserved to get what he wanted./p
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div dir="auto" 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: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #2a2a2a;"
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"Hyde frowned. "What are you even saying? I wanted to make you happy. This was about you..." He reached out to carefully caress Jekyll's face. "I won't do anything you aren't comfortable with. We will only do this when we both want it, that's what you said. So, not today." He then moved down from his creator and instead just hugged him. "Good night, Jekyll."/p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;""Good night..." He wiped a tear away. God, he was so thankful that Hyde reacted like this and not otherwise. He wanted to make him happy even if it meant that he would have to endure these things. What had he even been thinking? Last time he gave in to someone like this- He shuddered. He didn't want to think about what happened back then. It had changed his life so much. Too much. He wished it had never happened at all./p
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