This is the last bit for now let me know what you think then I might start the sequal when I get home.
Thank you to everyone who has reviewed and anyone who has read this and not bothered to review this one. If you don't review mine then I can't review yours can I ?
We will be getting into serious angst soon so be warnned.
Just a quick thank you to my brother who has been helping me with ideas over what to do with Zu as you lot were decidedly unhelpful with whether to kill her or not.
I have had one person who seems quite keen to see Ned Land stay what do the rest of you think?
Warning this section contains mention of torture and child abuse
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"Well what do we do?" John asked.
"We will have to go back up there, we can not leave our friends in the hands of whoever owns this base." Mina said
"His name is Colonel Sebastian Moran. If he has our friends then they are in trouble." Jekyll said.
"How do you know who is in charge here?" Skinner asked keeping all trace of emotion out of his voice at the mention of Moran.
"He came to see me several times, he tried everything he could think of to get me to tell him how I had made the potion that turnned me into Hyde." Jekyll said lifting the edge of his shirt to show them cuts on his stomach.
"Don't those hurt?" Skinner asked
"He did other things that hurt much worse." Jekyll said
"Why did you not tell him?" John asked
"I have faced someone else turnned into a monster because of my potion before, he was almost impossible to beat, I didn't want to see that again." Jeyll said shuddering at the memory slightly. "It was because of that that he killed my wife." Mina looked sharply at the doctor after he said that, his voice was completely flat, there was no life in it or in his eyes.
"Do not think about it. Let us get to our friends and find out what our 'friends' want." Mina said trying to distract him she was rewarded by a spark of life coming into his eyes.
"We need to come up with some sort of plan." Jekyll said.
"We can think while we walk." Mina said concious of the fact that time was wasting while they stood there talking and that was time that Tom didn't have.
"Lets get going then" Skinner said. Mina led the way out the room while Skinner brought up the rear, he knew of Moran alright, he more than knew of him he remembered him. He was one of the things that Skinner had been trying to run from for ten years without all that much sucess.
*****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************Flashback.
A 11 year old boy dodged out of the way of another fist aimed at him, his unruly black hair streamed out behind him as he tried to make it to the door. He was grabbed by the hair and yanked back. Rodney tried very hard to avoid crying out as that would only earn him more punnishment.
"How could you be stupid enough to be followed back here?" The man who wasn't holding his hair demanded
"I didn't realise that there was anybody behind me." Rodney managed to stammer out.
"We now have a body that we need to get rid of thanks to you." the man holding his hair growled.
" I said I was sorry didn't I" Rodney said bracing himself for the backhand he got across his face. He wasn't disapointed he tenderly pressed a tooth with his tounge, it was definately loose.
"You'll be more than sorry by the time we've finnished with you." one of the men said.
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"Are you alright Skinner?" Jekyll asked having sensed something was wrong with his friend
"Yeah of course mate" Skinner said sounding cheerful.
"Don't lie to me Skinner, I can tell when people lie to me." Jekyll said concerned about his friend.
"There's nothin' wrong with me Jekyll!" Skinner snapped
"Sorry." Jekyll said taking a step away from his friend and with drawing into himself
"Henry..." Skinner said reaching out to his friend
"Don't say anything it was my fault." Henry said and hurried to catch up with Mina. Skinner stared after him, he shouldn't have lashed out at Henry, he just didn't want anyone to find out what was wrong yet as they didn't need to know about his old employers.
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Elsewhere 25 minutes later ...
Tom, Ned and Nemo had been dragged to the surface by Moran and the soldiers and were waiting for the rest of the league to arrive.
"Obviously your friends do not rate you as highly as I thought they did." Moran said gesturing to his soldiers to take Tom away from the others.
"I do not blame them, they realise that the group is more important than the individual." Tom said trying to put a brave face on the fact that he was about to die. He had no idea that his thoughts were very similar to those of Zu Jekyll when she had faced her death several days earlier.
"Noble sentiments." Moran said producing one of Tom's own guns and siming at his head. One thing that Tom remembered was that Moran was suposed to be a crack shot and wouldn't want to bet on the fact that he wasn't anymore. As soon as that thought had gone through his head Tom could feel the cold grip of fear getting a hold of him.
'Please don't kill me' he thought as the gun was leveled at his head.
"The half an hour you gave the rest of our group is not yet up." Nemo pointed out.
"Your point is? I do not need the American for any reason he has no scientific value, as far as I can tell all the use he is is as a good shot and I am sure that there are more out there than one very young American." Moran said. Tom felt the english mans words sink into his brain as Moran disabused any notion he had that he was of value to the league. Moran levelled the gun at Tom again. Tom closed his eyes, he hadn't wanted to appear afraid but there was nothing he could do about it. He didn't want to die. Tom heard the gun shot and hit the ground wondering why he didn't feel any pain. There was a weight on his chest but that was it. He opened his eyes slowly to see Mina half kneeling on him glaring at Moran. Beyond her were John Roxton with his weapons leveled at Moran and someone who looked suspiciously like Edward Hyde.
"It is not a good idea to threaten us Colonel Moran as we are all willing to lay our lives on the line for each other." Mina hissed. Moran unwisely took a step forward.
"Watch out for him luv as he has a mean left hook." Skinner called out from somewhere. Mina climbed off Tom and approached Moran while an invisable hand hauled Tom to his feet.
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A few minutes earlier ...
"Are you sure that you can get there in time Mina?" John asked
"I am certain that I can." Mina replied mentally working out the distance and speed in her head. Jekyll leaned against the wall knowing what he was going to try was a bad idea but not having any other choice.
"Are you sure about this Henry?" Skinner asked
"I am not going to be any use otherwise am I?" Henry said. He was only half paying attention to what was being said as he searched in his head for the familiar pressance of Edward Hyde. Not finding it he concentrated on the change that needed to be made. He felt himself slowly starting to change as his muscles expanded and he grew taller. The difference this time was that as he changed his shape he did not feel the presence of Edward taking over. In fact when he stood in the all to familiar shape of Edward Hyde he still thought and was Henry Jekyll.
"Edward?" Skinner ventured. Henry looked for his friend and was surprised to be able to see him, he could see badly healed scars on the younger man as well as the worried look on his face.
"I am still Henry." he replied.
"How is that possible?" Skinner asked ignoring John Roxton who was staring at the Dr unwilling to believe his eyes.
"We need to move now." Mina said abruptly and almost flew forward to knock Tom out of the way of Moran's shot. Henry and John stood together in the doorway and looked at the soldiers.
"Mrs Harker I presume. You were almost too late." Moran said
"I wasn't though was I?" she hissed her eyes starting to change to a deep red colour.
"Mina could you restrain from killing him until he answers our questions." Nemo said as Mina grabbed the english man.
"Certainly." she replied
"Where are the plans to the Nautlius?" Nemo demanded.
"I sent them away several days ago." Moran said deciding that answering a few questions might not be such a bad thing especially while the vampire was looking at him in such a hungry fashion.
"Where is Professor Aronax?" Ned asked
"With the plans."
"Where did you send them?" Nemo asked
"Somewhere where you will never find them." Moran said
"Where is my wife?" Henry asked taking a few steps forward. He noticed that the soldiers near by took a few steps back looking at him nervously.
"she is dead." Moran said carelessly. At that point Nemo, Henry and Skinner had to believe him the man was about to be killed and had no reason to lie to them. Henry's face contorted in a snarl and he charged towards Moran. Mina was tempted for a few seconds to leave Moran to the Doctor but realising that Henry would never forgive himself she quickly broke the mans neck. Henry stopped and looked at Mina angrily before the anger darined out of him and he knelt on the floor crying changing shape as he did so.
"You can leave now." Nemo said to the soldiers. "Or we can kill you." The soldiers wisely decided to leave.
Skinner looked down at the body of the man who had traumatised him so as a child and who had haunted his nightmares even now and was relieved that he was dead. He crossed to his friends side where he knelt on the ground and laid a hand on his shoulder offering comfort in the only way he knew how.
Nemo looked down at the man who had killed his only child and felt a familiar emptiness swell up inside him. He wasn't going to cry though not in front of the others. he would wait until he was back on the ship before he showed any emotion.
Henry couldn't believe that she was dead. Zu had been his salvation and reason for living now he had nothing to hang on for, nothing. He knew what he was going to do though, he couldn't abandon his friends yet while they still had something to do. He didn't know what he was going to do though without Zu.
Mina and Tom looked at Henry and Nemo knowing how this was going to affect both of them. Mina glanced at Tom to find him staring at her,
"Is there something wrong Agent Sawyer?" she asked
"I just wanted to say thank you for saving my life." Tom said
"Any time." she said with a smile.
Ned saw how the group had drawn together instinctively leaving him and John out. He knew that the dead girl had meant a lot to them and Ned could feel genuine sympathy for her death. He hoped that they were going to help him find Aronax as he wouldn't be able to do it alone.
"If you are worried about your friend I'll be gald to help you." John said
"Thank you." Ned said.
"We need to get back to the ship." John said quietly
"Give them time then we will." Ned said. The two outsiders watched the league grieve for a woman who now gave all of them a common goal. Revenge.
Not that far away one of the soldiers was standing by what was left of the young woman he had been ordered to kill. There was not much left now just a collection of bones. He had seen how the news of her death had affected the group by the base and decided that something had to be done about the remains. He dug a small hole in the ground with the spade he had secreted out of the base for that purpose several days earlier and placed what bones he could find in there before filling the hole in again. It wasn't much of a grave but it was a better than nothing. Throwing the spade away he left the garve site missing the small gold ring half hidden under a plant. There were a few words carved on it.
Zu and Henry forever.
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There you go. That is it. What did you think ?
I might do a final part of the series is I get enough reviews and feedback letting me know what people think.
Would anybody be interested in a background story about Skinner ?
What do you think about the fact that Henry can now change into the shape of Edward Hyde yet still remain himself ?
Please let me know and I might do a third part.
Thank you to the following authors : Clez, A. L. Nowiki, remoteleigh, korusuna, Lilly, MJ, ScifiiRogue, Ariadiliel, Quinta,
Naitriab
juliahannah13@yahoo.co.uk
Thank you to everyone who has reviewed and anyone who has read this and not bothered to review this one. If you don't review mine then I can't review yours can I ?
We will be getting into serious angst soon so be warnned.
Just a quick thank you to my brother who has been helping me with ideas over what to do with Zu as you lot were decidedly unhelpful with whether to kill her or not.
I have had one person who seems quite keen to see Ned Land stay what do the rest of you think?
Warning this section contains mention of torture and child abuse
.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
"Well what do we do?" John asked.
"We will have to go back up there, we can not leave our friends in the hands of whoever owns this base." Mina said
"His name is Colonel Sebastian Moran. If he has our friends then they are in trouble." Jekyll said.
"How do you know who is in charge here?" Skinner asked keeping all trace of emotion out of his voice at the mention of Moran.
"He came to see me several times, he tried everything he could think of to get me to tell him how I had made the potion that turnned me into Hyde." Jekyll said lifting the edge of his shirt to show them cuts on his stomach.
"Don't those hurt?" Skinner asked
"He did other things that hurt much worse." Jekyll said
"Why did you not tell him?" John asked
"I have faced someone else turnned into a monster because of my potion before, he was almost impossible to beat, I didn't want to see that again." Jeyll said shuddering at the memory slightly. "It was because of that that he killed my wife." Mina looked sharply at the doctor after he said that, his voice was completely flat, there was no life in it or in his eyes.
"Do not think about it. Let us get to our friends and find out what our 'friends' want." Mina said trying to distract him she was rewarded by a spark of life coming into his eyes.
"We need to come up with some sort of plan." Jekyll said.
"We can think while we walk." Mina said concious of the fact that time was wasting while they stood there talking and that was time that Tom didn't have.
"Lets get going then" Skinner said. Mina led the way out the room while Skinner brought up the rear, he knew of Moran alright, he more than knew of him he remembered him. He was one of the things that Skinner had been trying to run from for ten years without all that much sucess.
*****************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************Flashback.
A 11 year old boy dodged out of the way of another fist aimed at him, his unruly black hair streamed out behind him as he tried to make it to the door. He was grabbed by the hair and yanked back. Rodney tried very hard to avoid crying out as that would only earn him more punnishment.
"How could you be stupid enough to be followed back here?" The man who wasn't holding his hair demanded
"I didn't realise that there was anybody behind me." Rodney managed to stammer out.
"We now have a body that we need to get rid of thanks to you." the man holding his hair growled.
" I said I was sorry didn't I" Rodney said bracing himself for the backhand he got across his face. He wasn't disapointed he tenderly pressed a tooth with his tounge, it was definately loose.
"You'll be more than sorry by the time we've finnished with you." one of the men said.
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"Are you alright Skinner?" Jekyll asked having sensed something was wrong with his friend
"Yeah of course mate" Skinner said sounding cheerful.
"Don't lie to me Skinner, I can tell when people lie to me." Jekyll said concerned about his friend.
"There's nothin' wrong with me Jekyll!" Skinner snapped
"Sorry." Jekyll said taking a step away from his friend and with drawing into himself
"Henry..." Skinner said reaching out to his friend
"Don't say anything it was my fault." Henry said and hurried to catch up with Mina. Skinner stared after him, he shouldn't have lashed out at Henry, he just didn't want anyone to find out what was wrong yet as they didn't need to know about his old employers.
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Elsewhere 25 minutes later ...
Tom, Ned and Nemo had been dragged to the surface by Moran and the soldiers and were waiting for the rest of the league to arrive.
"Obviously your friends do not rate you as highly as I thought they did." Moran said gesturing to his soldiers to take Tom away from the others.
"I do not blame them, they realise that the group is more important than the individual." Tom said trying to put a brave face on the fact that he was about to die. He had no idea that his thoughts were very similar to those of Zu Jekyll when she had faced her death several days earlier.
"Noble sentiments." Moran said producing one of Tom's own guns and siming at his head. One thing that Tom remembered was that Moran was suposed to be a crack shot and wouldn't want to bet on the fact that he wasn't anymore. As soon as that thought had gone through his head Tom could feel the cold grip of fear getting a hold of him.
'Please don't kill me' he thought as the gun was leveled at his head.
"The half an hour you gave the rest of our group is not yet up." Nemo pointed out.
"Your point is? I do not need the American for any reason he has no scientific value, as far as I can tell all the use he is is as a good shot and I am sure that there are more out there than one very young American." Moran said. Tom felt the english mans words sink into his brain as Moran disabused any notion he had that he was of value to the league. Moran levelled the gun at Tom again. Tom closed his eyes, he hadn't wanted to appear afraid but there was nothing he could do about it. He didn't want to die. Tom heard the gun shot and hit the ground wondering why he didn't feel any pain. There was a weight on his chest but that was it. He opened his eyes slowly to see Mina half kneeling on him glaring at Moran. Beyond her were John Roxton with his weapons leveled at Moran and someone who looked suspiciously like Edward Hyde.
"It is not a good idea to threaten us Colonel Moran as we are all willing to lay our lives on the line for each other." Mina hissed. Moran unwisely took a step forward.
"Watch out for him luv as he has a mean left hook." Skinner called out from somewhere. Mina climbed off Tom and approached Moran while an invisable hand hauled Tom to his feet.
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A few minutes earlier ...
"Are you sure that you can get there in time Mina?" John asked
"I am certain that I can." Mina replied mentally working out the distance and speed in her head. Jekyll leaned against the wall knowing what he was going to try was a bad idea but not having any other choice.
"Are you sure about this Henry?" Skinner asked
"I am not going to be any use otherwise am I?" Henry said. He was only half paying attention to what was being said as he searched in his head for the familiar pressance of Edward Hyde. Not finding it he concentrated on the change that needed to be made. He felt himself slowly starting to change as his muscles expanded and he grew taller. The difference this time was that as he changed his shape he did not feel the presence of Edward taking over. In fact when he stood in the all to familiar shape of Edward Hyde he still thought and was Henry Jekyll.
"Edward?" Skinner ventured. Henry looked for his friend and was surprised to be able to see him, he could see badly healed scars on the younger man as well as the worried look on his face.
"I am still Henry." he replied.
"How is that possible?" Skinner asked ignoring John Roxton who was staring at the Dr unwilling to believe his eyes.
"We need to move now." Mina said abruptly and almost flew forward to knock Tom out of the way of Moran's shot. Henry and John stood together in the doorway and looked at the soldiers.
"Mrs Harker I presume. You were almost too late." Moran said
"I wasn't though was I?" she hissed her eyes starting to change to a deep red colour.
"Mina could you restrain from killing him until he answers our questions." Nemo said as Mina grabbed the english man.
"Certainly." she replied
"Where are the plans to the Nautlius?" Nemo demanded.
"I sent them away several days ago." Moran said deciding that answering a few questions might not be such a bad thing especially while the vampire was looking at him in such a hungry fashion.
"Where is Professor Aronax?" Ned asked
"With the plans."
"Where did you send them?" Nemo asked
"Somewhere where you will never find them." Moran said
"Where is my wife?" Henry asked taking a few steps forward. He noticed that the soldiers near by took a few steps back looking at him nervously.
"she is dead." Moran said carelessly. At that point Nemo, Henry and Skinner had to believe him the man was about to be killed and had no reason to lie to them. Henry's face contorted in a snarl and he charged towards Moran. Mina was tempted for a few seconds to leave Moran to the Doctor but realising that Henry would never forgive himself she quickly broke the mans neck. Henry stopped and looked at Mina angrily before the anger darined out of him and he knelt on the floor crying changing shape as he did so.
"You can leave now." Nemo said to the soldiers. "Or we can kill you." The soldiers wisely decided to leave.
Skinner looked down at the body of the man who had traumatised him so as a child and who had haunted his nightmares even now and was relieved that he was dead. He crossed to his friends side where he knelt on the ground and laid a hand on his shoulder offering comfort in the only way he knew how.
Nemo looked down at the man who had killed his only child and felt a familiar emptiness swell up inside him. He wasn't going to cry though not in front of the others. he would wait until he was back on the ship before he showed any emotion.
Henry couldn't believe that she was dead. Zu had been his salvation and reason for living now he had nothing to hang on for, nothing. He knew what he was going to do though, he couldn't abandon his friends yet while they still had something to do. He didn't know what he was going to do though without Zu.
Mina and Tom looked at Henry and Nemo knowing how this was going to affect both of them. Mina glanced at Tom to find him staring at her,
"Is there something wrong Agent Sawyer?" she asked
"I just wanted to say thank you for saving my life." Tom said
"Any time." she said with a smile.
Ned saw how the group had drawn together instinctively leaving him and John out. He knew that the dead girl had meant a lot to them and Ned could feel genuine sympathy for her death. He hoped that they were going to help him find Aronax as he wouldn't be able to do it alone.
"If you are worried about your friend I'll be gald to help you." John said
"Thank you." Ned said.
"We need to get back to the ship." John said quietly
"Give them time then we will." Ned said. The two outsiders watched the league grieve for a woman who now gave all of them a common goal. Revenge.
Not that far away one of the soldiers was standing by what was left of the young woman he had been ordered to kill. There was not much left now just a collection of bones. He had seen how the news of her death had affected the group by the base and decided that something had to be done about the remains. He dug a small hole in the ground with the spade he had secreted out of the base for that purpose several days earlier and placed what bones he could find in there before filling the hole in again. It wasn't much of a grave but it was a better than nothing. Throwing the spade away he left the garve site missing the small gold ring half hidden under a plant. There were a few words carved on it.
Zu and Henry forever.
.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
There you go. That is it. What did you think ?
I might do a final part of the series is I get enough reviews and feedback letting me know what people think.
Would anybody be interested in a background story about Skinner ?
What do you think about the fact that Henry can now change into the shape of Edward Hyde yet still remain himself ?
Please let me know and I might do a third part.
Thank you to the following authors : Clez, A. L. Nowiki, remoteleigh, korusuna, Lilly, MJ, ScifiiRogue, Ariadiliel, Quinta,
Naitriab
juliahannah13@yahoo.co.uk