Of spies and sugar

By Todd Fan

Disclaimer: "He said he'd cut me up into little pieces and hide me under the floorboards!" "He did?" "No, but I'm sure he's capable of it"

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How do, all, here we are with another chapter of Sugar-Rushed-Sawyer fun!

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Chapter 3 - Hyde and seek

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"I spy with little little eye, something begining with....door".

Hyde turned his head slowly, blinking at Sawyer, who sat on his bed, grinning insanely.

"Oh gee", said Hyde dryly, "could it be 'door'?"

"WOW!", said Saywer in awe, "HOW did you guess?! You're really good at this game, you are".

"Suddenly, I think this was a bad idea", muttered Hyde.

*Too bad*, came the smug voice of Jekyll in his head, *you had the chance to back out*

"If you weren't me, I'd kill you", said Hyde dangerously.

"Who're you talking to", asked Sawyer, cocking his head, before giving a gasp of realisation, "can you hear the voice too?. I heard it in the corridor".

"That was Skinner", said Hyde with a growl, "Skin-ner".

"That's what the crazy vampire lady said too", said Sawyer, "you know what I think it is?"

He glanced around.

"Aliens", he said in an almost-whisper.

Hyde watched him in silence for a long time.

"You are a strange, little man", said Hyde, "and this is coming from someone with a split personality".

"I like you best", said Sawyer with a nod, "Jekyll's a wimp"

*Hey!*

"He's telling the truth, Henry", said Hyde smugly.

*Yes, well, it still hurt*, replied Jekyll, then paused, *what is he doing?*

Hyde blinked over to Sawyer, who was frantically waving his hands over his own head. Hyde gave a frustrated sigh.

"What is it NOW?".

"I can't find my hat!!!", said Sawyer, "my paper sailing hat!!!"

"Make another one", said Hyde with a shrug.

"NO!", said Sawyer, "the boat'll sink without it!!! It's a magic hat!!!"

Hyde arched a brow.

"A magical PAPER hat?".

"Yes!", said Sawyer, making for the door, "we have to find it!!!".

"Get back here!", growled Hyde as he got up, chasing after Sawyer as he dashed off.

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Elsewhere in the Nautilus, Skinner was making his usual 'snooping rounds'. After the incident involving Dorian, he had made it a habit of his to check if anyone was double crossing them. Well, no one actually was, but still, it gave good opportunities to gather blackmail evidence. He silently opened the door to Mina's room, she wasn't in there..not that it would have made a difference. He'd get in here, do a bit of nosing around and then leave, no problem. Skinner paused as he looked at the floor...okay, problem. Mina had apparently decided she'd had enough of 'visits' to her room, and had left a good layer of talcum powder, stretching from the door and away, at a distance just beyond a leap. There was no way Skinner could get across without leaving some sort of mark.

"Well, bloody hell", he said, staring at it.

"Clever, Isn't it?", smirked Mina, strolling past him into her room, "I'm not just a pretty face, you know"

"I'd swear you people don't trust me", said Skinner.

"We don't", said Mina, looking up in the general direction she assumed Skinner to be in, "now go away..before I get hungry".

"You know, you're very anti-social", said Skinner.

"Mr Skinner, if you think for one second I even...."

Mina trailed off as Sawyer crawled past them in the corridor on his hands and knees.

"Mr Hatty!!", he called, "come back, Mr Hatty!!".

"GET BACK HERE!!!", growled Hyde, chasing after his charge.

"Oh no, the fuzz!!", said Sawyer, getting up and running into Mina's room, putting her between himself and Hyde.

"Whatever this is, I really don't want to get involved", said Mina.

"Move out of the way, Mina, I'm gonna break his legs!", said Hyde.

"Don't let him break my legs, Mina, please!!!", squealed Sawyer, "I like my legs! They help me do all the good stuff, like walking, running, jumping and....err..swimming!".

"Is breaking his legs REALLY necessary, Edward?", said Mina, with a disgruntled sigh.

Hyde pouted, crossing his arms.

"I...guess not", he said, "but he's gotta go back to his room and stay there!"

"Not until I find Mr Hatty!!!", pouted Sawyer, then jumped as he felt something touch his pocket, "ahhhhh!!!"

"You mean THIS?", asked Skinner from where he had picked Sawyers pocket, the paper hat floating in mid air.

"YES!", said Sawyer, plucking the hat from the invisible man and putting it back on his head, "thank you, kind spirit".

Mina snorted.

"I really think calling Skinner a 'kind spirit' is a bit of an overstatement, especially since he has just picked your pocket", she said.

"Hey, if he wants me to be a kind spirit, then I am one", said Skinner, "and I just saved Hyde looking around the whole ship for a paper hat"

"A MAGIC paper hat", said Sawyer firmly.

"Okay, that's it", said Hyde, reaching over Mina's head, plucking up Sawyer and slinging him over his shoulder, "back to your cabin you go. Say bye bye, Mr Sawyer."

"Bye bye crazy vampire lady and kind spirit", called out Sawyer.

"Bye Sawyer...you odd freak of nature", said Skinner, shaking an unseen head.

"Did he just call me 'crazy vampire lady'?", asked Mina.

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Quite a while later, Nemo was patroling his corridors, pausing outside Sawyers cabin, hearing a deathly silence.

"Oh no, Mr Hyde must have killed Mr Sawyer", he said in a monotone, "what a tragedy".

He sighed, shaking his head as he opened the door to Sawyers room. It turned out Sawyer wasn't dead. In fact, he was animatedly miming something while Hyde sat on a chair, an identical paper hat on his head to the one Sawyer had on.

"....What are you doing?", asked Nemo, a little unsure of this strange behaviour.

"Sawyer's playing cherades!", said Hyde, "and it's a real tough one"

"Mr Hyde..are you quite okay?", said Nemo, putting a hand to his sword, just in case.

"I'm GREAT!", said Hyde, "guess what? Sawyer found one last bar of chocolate and gave it to me, wasn't that nice of him?"

"...Oh no", said Nemo.

"You can play cherades with us if you like", said Hyde with a grin, "you can even have a paper hat"

"I think I shall pass", said Nemo, backing out of the room before dashing off to find the remaining sane members of the League.

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Bwhahahahaha!!! I appologise, I had a bizare image of Hyde in a paper hat, and it wouldn't go away. Do review. Until next time...