"He's going to cry." Dorian said softly as Mina entered her room a few moments later. She threw the watch onto Dorian's lap. He picked it up, running his fingers over the raised surface, "I would have thought he would have worried this etching away by now."
She was over by her closet, now undressing for the night, "You thought wrong."
Lucifer was no where to be seen and all of a sudden this bothered Mina, "Where is that psycho mutt of yours?"
"Out." He said, his eyes still on the pocket watch.
"Where?" she said with wild eyes as she settled a fat robe around her slender body.
He stood, his lavender suit looking so delicate next to his black hair, "Well Mina, let me see." He said as he threw the watch from one hand to the other, "There is in, which means he would be in here with us. Probably growling at you. And then there is out. Such as, I let him out into the halls of the Nautilus. He'll be fine."
She stared at him, "Define fine."
Dorian lifted the watch to his face. He could see his reflection in the gold. Quietly he popped it open and then a small grin slid onto his lips, "Umm…" he purred softly, his black eyes meeting with Mina's, "Do you know this woman?"
She watched as Dorian turned the watch around so that now Mina could see that Jekyll had stuffed a small drawn picture of her into the cover of it. She looked scrunched up and fat, but it was definitely her eyes that were staring back at her, "And you've never fancied anyone enough to stare at them daily?" she said and then slammed the timepiece shut, "Yet, I forget, you only could give that much attention to yourself."
"You know me too well, Mina." He said with a raised eyebrow, "But, really, how is it you won over this treasure?"
She stiffened, but kept her composure as she busied herself with brushing her hair, "I picked his pocket." She said as she eyed him in the mirror.
"Fascinating." He said with the slightest slippery angle to his voice, "How so?"
She placed her black brush on the table, now sliding a rich gloss over her lips, "Are there different levels of pick pocketing that I don't know about?"
"I was walking down a boulevard one night not too long ago and this beautiful girl stepped into me. She smelled of cheap perfume so I knew right off that she was trash. Anyway, she talked to me of something of such unimportance that I couldn't even recall it now and then she brushed past me. But I felt it. I felt her hand slid into my pocket…" he now leaned over Mina, sliding his mouth next to her ear, "We men are very sensitive in that area so one little brush of the hand tells us everything."
Mina slid her face over so that now she was staring into Dorian's eyes, his lips just moments from her own, "He didn't feel a thing."
Quickly she stood and moved past him, "You seduced him?" He asked now as he leaned into the mirror checking his beautiful skin for wrinkles.
"Just a small kiss." She closed her closet, "More than you'll get tonight."
Dorian paused beside his closet, his hand pulling down a brown suit, "Really Mina, I don't think you want to put all your needs into a man who has difficulty being himself. I mean, who are you going to romance, him or his Hyde?"
She seated herself again at the mirrored vanity; "He is very sweet."
Dorian closed the doors of the closet gently pressing the suit out with his hand, "And how do you know that Hyde won't break out and rape you. I'd hate to have to come rescue you."
"Jealousy doesn't suit you Dorian." She said with her hand now pulling the brush through her hair again.
He moved over to a gold hanger on the wall, placing his suit there to hang. For a moment he stared at the clothing and then he looked to Mina, "I know I am years ahead of him in knowing how to please a woman."
"I'm going to bed." She said, "I'm much too tired to listen to you flatter yourself."
"Skinner's coat." He said as he fell into his bed. Mina was now moving toward a door out to the side of the bed. She opened it and disappeared into a small room, "I can't wait to see how long it will take you to get that."
She pulled down the bed in the other room, "Goodnight Dorian."
Her room went dark. He got out of his bed and paused in the doorway between the rooms. He knew she wasn't asleep just yet, "Skinner's coat." He said again.
He heard her groan into her pillow, "Yes." She hissed in the darkness of the room, "I know the terms."
He grinned, threw up the watch and caught it and ducked back into his room, "Sweet dreams Mina. And don't let the bed bugs bite." He paused with his eyes staring darkly at the watch, "Or should I warn the bed bugs about you?"
Mina groaned again for him to shut up and turn off his light. He did.
And then, just as he closed his eyes, he heard something fall outside his door. Someone had been there listening.
But who?
