Thank you to all of my faithful reviewers to inspiring me to continue on with the story! Your reviews are so important; they make my day and even give me ideas for the direction of the story!
Here's the next chapter. Happy reading!
By the way: Que Moriarty and Andre McCane are my own creations, any connections to any real people are purely coincidental, these characters are both owned by me, blah, blah blah, I think you all know the rest.
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"Mina, get up!"
Mina awoke from a deep sleep to find Nemo gently rousing her. Usually, she was woken up by a member of the crew, but seeing as how Mina was the only member of the League that Nemo was still talking to, he thought he'd get her up himself this time.
Mina just rolled over in bed and pulled the blankets over her head. "If I stay under here long enough, he might just go away," she thought to herself silently.
"Mina, this is very important," Nemo persisted. He grabbed hold of the blankets and yanked them away from her.
Mina sat up in bed, surprised that Nemo would resort to such measures. What he had to say must be important.
"Mina, you have to meet my newest crew member," Nemo told her. "I just hired him this morning when we were docked in Southampton. He tells me he has experience treating skin ailments, so when I told him about yours, he thought he could be able to help you."
Mina cocked her head to the side. "Seriously?" she asked quietly.
"Seriously, Mina. Get yourself dressed and join me in the dining room. Don't worry, you won't be embarrassed. Everything is going to be fine," Nemo assured her.
Mina slowly got herself out of bed. After quickly washing up, she got dressed and pulled her hair up in a tight bun, hoping to soon be rid of whatever Skinner had done to her.
* * *
As Mina entered the dining room, she saw Nemo having tea with a man she had never met before. The stranger was wearing a crew uniform, like the rest of Nemo's crew members, but he was unlike any other man that Mina had ever met. He was tall, bald, and very thin. The skin was on his face, especially around his eyes, was wrinkled in a way that suggested he had indeed had a serious skin ailment there, and it had been cured. Despite all this, the man gave off a very powerful aura.
"Mina," Nemo smiled at her, "I'd like to introduce you to Andre McCane, my newest crew member. Andre, this is Mina Harker. An associate of mine who often stays on the ship with me."
"Pleased to meet you, Ms. Harker," said McCane. He stood up, bowed to her, and kissed her hand.
Mina squirmed. Not that McCane wasn't greeting her in a gentlemanly way, but she wasn't used to men kissing her hand when it was so ugly.
McCane noticed Mina's uncomfortable fidgeting. He held her ugly, blotched hand in his; his firm, refreshing gasp told Mina that he was indeed experienced in handling the ill and suffering. McCane ran up and down the skin on Mina's arm with the fingers of one hand, still holding Mina's hand in his other.
"I can see what you were talking about, Captain," said McCane in a firm voice. "This does look like a chemical accident. May I have a sample of the chemical compound?"
"Certainly. Mina, would you be so kind as to fetch a sample of Skinner's potion? I believe the rest of it is in his room," Nemo said.
Mina nodded to Nemo, curtsied gracefully to McCane, and left the dining room.
* * *
After sneaking into Skinner's room (luckily, Skinner was still fast asleep,) finding the rest of the hateful "breast enlargement" potion, and giving it to McCane, Mina returned to her room and slipped back into bed, exhausted and feeling ill.
In his room, Tom Sawyer was attempting to make a voodoo doll of Edward Hyde. After thinking about it all last night, he was finally deciding to do it. After all, even though they shared the same body, he wasn't making a voodoo doll of Henry Jekyll, just of Edward Hyde, right? He promised himself he would try it out on Jekyll before actually using it, and if it hurt him, he would destroy it.
However, he still had the doll of Skinner. Lying right there on his desk. He decided he was going to destroy it when Mina forgave Skinner. Which, looking at the current circumstances, would probably be never.
Dr. Jekyll was at it again, still trying to find a cure for Mina. Skinner was asleep. Nemo was enjoying tea and reading the newspaper in the library. McCane was off somewhere, analyzing Skinner's potion. Each of them, except for McCane, of course, continued to hold their grudges.
It was only a few hours before McCane called Nemo to the ship laboratory.
"I'm almost positive this is it, Captain," McCane smiled. "Unfortunately, I have nothing to test it out on, so we're just going to have to try it out and hope for success. Is the girl ready?"
"I'll get her, McCane," Nemo answered. He went to get Mina, who now in Tom's room describing to him what she thought the color of Hyde's hair was (Tom couldn't remember,) and brought her to McCane.
"Now, Mina," said Andre McCane, "Let's hope for the best. This is the first time I've made an antidote for a potion of this magnitude."
Mina nodded. She crossed two of the fingers on her right hand and held out her left arm to McCane.
McCane dipped a sponge into his antidote and rubbed it on a particularly blotched-up spot on Mina's arm. Within a few seconds, the purple and black blotches turned red, then white, then dissolved and disappeared completely.
Mina, at a loss for words, leaned over and kissed Andre McCane.
Nemo and McCane both laughed. "Not too bad," smiled McCane. "However, I've had happier reactions than that."
Mina smiled back. "Would you like a happier reaction? I can be an awfully good sport."
"No, thank you," grinned McCane. He continued to scrub Mina's arm until her left arm was completely back to normal. He was just about to start on her right arm when Mina interrupted his work.
"Wait," she said. "After my arms and legs, this is going to start to get complicated. My skin is like this all over."
"Don't worry, Mina, you can finish the rest yourself, if you like," said McCane.
Mina sighed in happiness.
* * *
"Jekyll, I've found a way to control Hyde," Tom smiled.
Jekyll, who wasn't speaking to Tom because of what he did to Skinner, just ignored him and turned his head away. Tom was in Jekyll's room telling him about his new Hyde voodoo doll. Jekyll was writing at his desk, copying down a formula for a possible antidote for Mina. He didn't know anything about Andre McCane. Nemo hadn't told him.
"Come on, Jekyll! I've made a voodoo doll of Hyde, and I want to try it out. When I use it, I want to make sure I don't hurt you, too!"
"No, Tom," said Jekyll, standing up from his desk and facing him. "Look, I have a lot of work to do. Can't you just go and annoy somebody else?"
"Jekyll, this is serious! This can be the cure to your Hyde problems!"
"No, Sawyer! Just leave me alone!"
While they fought on, Andre McCane was almost finished with Mina. He put down the sponge after cleaning Mina's delicate nose with the new antidote. Nemo had long since left. There had been an emergency in the boiler room, and he had hurried off to see what the matter was.
"You can finish the rest of your body on your own," said McCane.
"Thank you, but do you have anything for my eyes? They're still yellow, and they make me look sick and ugly."
"I was just getting to that. I'm positive that there is some stuff in the back room that can clear up your eyes. Just follow me."
"Certainly." Mina followed after McCane, eternally thankful.
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Not as bad of a cliffhanger as the previous chapters, but still pretty bad, don't you think?
Remember to read and review. I hope to have the next chapter up very soon!
~ Alisonia
Here's the next chapter. Happy reading!
By the way: Que Moriarty and Andre McCane are my own creations, any connections to any real people are purely coincidental, these characters are both owned by me, blah, blah blah, I think you all know the rest.
*
"Mina, get up!"
Mina awoke from a deep sleep to find Nemo gently rousing her. Usually, she was woken up by a member of the crew, but seeing as how Mina was the only member of the League that Nemo was still talking to, he thought he'd get her up himself this time.
Mina just rolled over in bed and pulled the blankets over her head. "If I stay under here long enough, he might just go away," she thought to herself silently.
"Mina, this is very important," Nemo persisted. He grabbed hold of the blankets and yanked them away from her.
Mina sat up in bed, surprised that Nemo would resort to such measures. What he had to say must be important.
"Mina, you have to meet my newest crew member," Nemo told her. "I just hired him this morning when we were docked in Southampton. He tells me he has experience treating skin ailments, so when I told him about yours, he thought he could be able to help you."
Mina cocked her head to the side. "Seriously?" she asked quietly.
"Seriously, Mina. Get yourself dressed and join me in the dining room. Don't worry, you won't be embarrassed. Everything is going to be fine," Nemo assured her.
Mina slowly got herself out of bed. After quickly washing up, she got dressed and pulled her hair up in a tight bun, hoping to soon be rid of whatever Skinner had done to her.
* * *
As Mina entered the dining room, she saw Nemo having tea with a man she had never met before. The stranger was wearing a crew uniform, like the rest of Nemo's crew members, but he was unlike any other man that Mina had ever met. He was tall, bald, and very thin. The skin was on his face, especially around his eyes, was wrinkled in a way that suggested he had indeed had a serious skin ailment there, and it had been cured. Despite all this, the man gave off a very powerful aura.
"Mina," Nemo smiled at her, "I'd like to introduce you to Andre McCane, my newest crew member. Andre, this is Mina Harker. An associate of mine who often stays on the ship with me."
"Pleased to meet you, Ms. Harker," said McCane. He stood up, bowed to her, and kissed her hand.
Mina squirmed. Not that McCane wasn't greeting her in a gentlemanly way, but she wasn't used to men kissing her hand when it was so ugly.
McCane noticed Mina's uncomfortable fidgeting. He held her ugly, blotched hand in his; his firm, refreshing gasp told Mina that he was indeed experienced in handling the ill and suffering. McCane ran up and down the skin on Mina's arm with the fingers of one hand, still holding Mina's hand in his other.
"I can see what you were talking about, Captain," said McCane in a firm voice. "This does look like a chemical accident. May I have a sample of the chemical compound?"
"Certainly. Mina, would you be so kind as to fetch a sample of Skinner's potion? I believe the rest of it is in his room," Nemo said.
Mina nodded to Nemo, curtsied gracefully to McCane, and left the dining room.
* * *
After sneaking into Skinner's room (luckily, Skinner was still fast asleep,) finding the rest of the hateful "breast enlargement" potion, and giving it to McCane, Mina returned to her room and slipped back into bed, exhausted and feeling ill.
In his room, Tom Sawyer was attempting to make a voodoo doll of Edward Hyde. After thinking about it all last night, he was finally deciding to do it. After all, even though they shared the same body, he wasn't making a voodoo doll of Henry Jekyll, just of Edward Hyde, right? He promised himself he would try it out on Jekyll before actually using it, and if it hurt him, he would destroy it.
However, he still had the doll of Skinner. Lying right there on his desk. He decided he was going to destroy it when Mina forgave Skinner. Which, looking at the current circumstances, would probably be never.
Dr. Jekyll was at it again, still trying to find a cure for Mina. Skinner was asleep. Nemo was enjoying tea and reading the newspaper in the library. McCane was off somewhere, analyzing Skinner's potion. Each of them, except for McCane, of course, continued to hold their grudges.
It was only a few hours before McCane called Nemo to the ship laboratory.
"I'm almost positive this is it, Captain," McCane smiled. "Unfortunately, I have nothing to test it out on, so we're just going to have to try it out and hope for success. Is the girl ready?"
"I'll get her, McCane," Nemo answered. He went to get Mina, who now in Tom's room describing to him what she thought the color of Hyde's hair was (Tom couldn't remember,) and brought her to McCane.
"Now, Mina," said Andre McCane, "Let's hope for the best. This is the first time I've made an antidote for a potion of this magnitude."
Mina nodded. She crossed two of the fingers on her right hand and held out her left arm to McCane.
McCane dipped a sponge into his antidote and rubbed it on a particularly blotched-up spot on Mina's arm. Within a few seconds, the purple and black blotches turned red, then white, then dissolved and disappeared completely.
Mina, at a loss for words, leaned over and kissed Andre McCane.
Nemo and McCane both laughed. "Not too bad," smiled McCane. "However, I've had happier reactions than that."
Mina smiled back. "Would you like a happier reaction? I can be an awfully good sport."
"No, thank you," grinned McCane. He continued to scrub Mina's arm until her left arm was completely back to normal. He was just about to start on her right arm when Mina interrupted his work.
"Wait," she said. "After my arms and legs, this is going to start to get complicated. My skin is like this all over."
"Don't worry, Mina, you can finish the rest yourself, if you like," said McCane.
Mina sighed in happiness.
* * *
"Jekyll, I've found a way to control Hyde," Tom smiled.
Jekyll, who wasn't speaking to Tom because of what he did to Skinner, just ignored him and turned his head away. Tom was in Jekyll's room telling him about his new Hyde voodoo doll. Jekyll was writing at his desk, copying down a formula for a possible antidote for Mina. He didn't know anything about Andre McCane. Nemo hadn't told him.
"Come on, Jekyll! I've made a voodoo doll of Hyde, and I want to try it out. When I use it, I want to make sure I don't hurt you, too!"
"No, Tom," said Jekyll, standing up from his desk and facing him. "Look, I have a lot of work to do. Can't you just go and annoy somebody else?"
"Jekyll, this is serious! This can be the cure to your Hyde problems!"
"No, Sawyer! Just leave me alone!"
While they fought on, Andre McCane was almost finished with Mina. He put down the sponge after cleaning Mina's delicate nose with the new antidote. Nemo had long since left. There had been an emergency in the boiler room, and he had hurried off to see what the matter was.
"You can finish the rest of your body on your own," said McCane.
"Thank you, but do you have anything for my eyes? They're still yellow, and they make me look sick and ugly."
"I was just getting to that. I'm positive that there is some stuff in the back room that can clear up your eyes. Just follow me."
"Certainly." Mina followed after McCane, eternally thankful.
*
Not as bad of a cliffhanger as the previous chapters, but still pretty bad, don't you think?
Remember to read and review. I hope to have the next chapter up very soon!
~ Alisonia