Okay, it's time once again to respond to comments. These are all the comments I have received in the past 24 hours.

To Clez: I'm glad you're looking forward to more. Yes, killing off Mina was mean, wasn't it? Sadly, it had to be done. Heh.

To bleedingmoon89: Thanks! Jekyll's my favorite character in the LXG.

To starlight16: What a way to go, huh? She loves him and then she dies. I put that in there to make it more dramatic. Sadly, Jekyll can't possibly know if she truly loved him or not. Mina was too delirious with fever. And don't worry, our beloved Henry is going to be okay. Trust me.

To Panzergal: Finally, I hear from you! I wrote this story just for you, and I was waiting to know whether you approved of it or not. (And don't worry about the homework, there are time when I can't review anybody either.) But yes, Jekyll IS very cute, but you'll just have to see if him and Mina ever get together (which, now that Mina's dead, can probably only be achieved if he dies too.)

To Jean-Grey/Phoenix: Am I going to make a sequel? Probably not. But the story's not over yet! I'm just getting started!

To Mina: Did I have to kill Mina? Yes, I'm afraid so. Too bad. But don't worry, the story's not over yet. Let's just wait and see what happens, shall we?

Here's the next chapter. Enjoy.

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Nemo, Sawyer, Skinner, McCane, and Batsie all burst into Mina's room to find Mina lying on the bed and Jekyll kneeling beside her, bawling.

"What's wrong, Jekyll?" asked Nemo, a sad look upon his face. He had a shrewd idea of what was wrong, but he hoped he wasn't right.

But Jekyll just kept bawling. Sawyer strode forward and examined Mina.

"Good God, she's dead!" Sawyer shrieked in alarm.

Skinner actually fainted. Nemo stared at Sawyer with wide eyes. McCane shook his head in disbelief. Batsie just looked quizzically at the body, not very sure herself.

Sawyer caught McCane shaking his head in doubt, and anger roared up inside him. "I wasn't KIDDING, Andre! Mina's dead!"

"Mina's a vampire. It takes an awful lot for her to die," Nemo said slowly.

"Sawyer, are you sure she's dead?" Sawyer said nothing, but went over to Skinner and tried to revive him.

Seeing Sawyer do a good deed, Nemo was also compelled to help out. He went over to Jekyll and began calming him down. "Come, Henry. You're absolutely hysterical. We'll get you to your room." He looked back at McCane. "McCane?"

"Yes, Captain?"

"Go to the laboratory and once and prepare a sedative for Jekyll."

"Right away, Captain." McCane turned and hurried off towards the Nautilus' laboratory.

Sawyer had picked up Skinner and was carrying him off to his room. Nemo had Jekyll in a comforting embrace. Batsie was watching the scene before her, her eyes like glass. Finally, she snapped out of her trance. "Captain?" she asked him quietly.

Nemo turned to face her. "Yes, Batsie?"

"Please excuse me. I must go my room to get something." Without waiting for him to respond, she had hurried off as well.

Nemo helped Jekyll to his room, where McCane was waiting. Unfortunately, McCane didn't have the sedative Nemo had told him to get. Instead, he held a bottle of what looked like eyedrops.

"I have some leftover tranquilizing drops from the kidnapping incident a while back. They'll knock him out for forty-eight hours."

"Good enough."

McCane slipped a few drops into a glass of water, and Jekyll sipped it, tears continuing to run down his cheeks like an incredibly leaky faucet. Within a few minutes, Jekyll was out cold.

After settling Jekyll in bed, McCane and Nemo returned to Mina's room to examine her body. Inside the room, they found Batsie kneeling beside Mina's bed, her eyes closed and mouth whispering inaudible words under her breath.

She was praying with prayer beads.

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In was conference time again in McCane's stateroom. This time, McCane and Batsie were pacing back and forth in front of the dresser, hands folded behind their backs and eyes narrowed in deep thought.

"Andre, I have it!" Batsie exclaimed suddenly.

"You have what?"

"I have it, Andre! Remember when I was in here earlier complaining that this was going to be a hard job?"

"Yes."

"Well, he helped me! He heard me worrying, and he killed Mina for me! To help me out!"

"Batsie, Mina died of influenza. Nobody killed her."

"Nobody EXCEPT the one person who always had the chance!" Batsie said, eyes wide. "Oh, Andre, it's great! Now that she's dead, this makes my job so much easier!" Batsie hugged her ex-husband and kissed him on the cheek.

McCane just sighed. "WHY is every woman on this ship always KISSING me?!?!?"

Batsie was already rushing out the door and to her room. "What, that disappoints you for some reason?"

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Several hours later, Nemo slipped back into Jekyll's room with the antidote to the tranquilizing potion McCane had given to Jekyll hours before. Giving Jekyll that powerful 24-hour tranquilizing potion had seemed like a great idea at the time, but Nemo had reconsidered only because giving somebody that powerful of a tranquilizer when their nerves were already shot would have absolutely disastrous results. As he injected the powerful antidote into Jekyll's veins, Jekyll's eyes fluttered wildly.

"Nemo?" asked Jekyll. "Where am I?"

"In your room, Henry. You were absolutely hysterical, so we knocked you out for a while."

Immediately upon hearing this, Jekyll broke down again. "Oh, Captain!" he cried. "Mina, she's dead! She died in my very arms!"

Nemo kept calm, trying to convey to Jekyll that keeping calm in a situation like this was the best thing to do. "How did she die, Henry?"

"Well, her stomach was acting up again, and I knew, even without taking her temperature, that her fever had risen even higher. It was getting hard for her to breathe because her windpipe was so blocked with fluid, and she was so very weak and so dehydrated from vomiting that she just died."

"So, it could have been anything. She could have died from a high temperature, or a blocked windpipe, OR dehydration."

"Pretty much. I just know she died from influenza. I didn't know it could be that fatal to her."

Nemo put a comforting arm around Jekyll's shoulder. "Henry, anything can be fatal. Anything. You just have to use your imagination." There was silence for a few minutes; Jekyll just sobbed and sobbed.

"I can't believe that I couldn't save her," Jekyll wept. "I've had patients die in my care before, but never of simple influenza. Usually my patients die in surgery. And no loss has been more painful than losing Mina. I just CAN'T believe I LOST her, Nemo!" Jekyll screamed hysterically. "I'm a rotten physician. I should just quit."

"Jekyll, don't say that. I've lost several hundred crew members, but I don't consider myself a rotten ship captain."

"But Nemo, you don't understand. They didn't die BECAUSE of you. Mina died BECAUSE of me. I didn't know much about the illness she had, that vampire influenza. If I would have known more about it, I could have saved her. But I didn't, and she died."

"Jekyll, people die of influenza constantly. Mina was just another victim. I know for a fact that her husband died in illness, as well."

"But it isn't FAIR, Nemo. It isn't fair. It happened so fast. Just yesterday, she was feeling a little dizzy, so we told her to lie down. Today, she's dead. It just isn't fair."

"Life isn't fair, Jekyll. You know that."

"I know that, but I don't accept it," Jekyll sniffled. "First, a simple chemistry accident causes Hyde to appear. Then, I get kicked out of London, just because of Hyde. And now, I've killed a colleague. Let's face it, Nemo," he said, looking up at him. "My life is completely rotten."

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I think you can all guess what's going to happen next. But just in case you have no idea, don't worry. I'll try to update soon.

~ Alisonia