Greetings, readers! Just a few shout-outs before we get started with
the next chapter:
To Graymoon74 (for the first review): Okay, I know your imagination is kind of odd (I remember that I asked to borrow it one time,) but that is, by far, the WEIRDEST idea you have ever some up with!!! Jekyll falling for Hyde as a girl!?!?! That's wrong!!! Very funny, but WRONG!!!!!! ^ _ ^ (By the way, I agree that Hyde is a bum. And I agree that Mina embracing her womanly instincts is a good thing. I plan to have her bake cookies in a later chapter!!)
To Mina: You know, I have no idea where he meets these people!! I wish I knew that myself!!
To Graymoon74 (for the second review): I'm willing to see what I'm going to do with them too. = ) However, Valentine's Day is coming up. I think I might use your Hyde-as-a-girl idea after all!!
To Silent Bob 546: All right, another Mina/Jekyll supporter!! Glad to have you on board, and I hope you enjoy the rest of the story!!
Okay, enough with the shout-outs (I've run out of reviews to respond to, anyway.) Let's get on with the story!
*
It had been, without a doubt, the most unusual and uncomfortable dinner Mina had ever sat through on the Nautilus.
Mina had felt so awkward she had barely eaten anything. She knew that it would be difficult to tell McCane that she was now courting Henry. After all, McCane had been her first love. She had kissed him so many times that she lost count.
She had broken McCane's heart, but now he had come back and broken hers! What did that albino woman have that Mina didn't?!?!?
"Come now, old girl, you're being silly and selfish," Mina scolded herself silently. "You never really loved Andre McCane, you just thought you did. That man is way out of your league; you never even had a chance with him! You love Henry, and Henry alone."
Satisfied with this comment, Mina smiled and continued working on her scarf while rocking back and forth in her rocking chair. Maybe she would bake a batch of cookies later. Baking cookies was good.
Mina checked the grandfather clock in her room and noticed that it was almost ten o' clock. Time sure flew by when you were knitting!
Mina thought about going to bed, but then thought again. With all these emotions running through her, these emotions of uneasiness, doubt, pain, and true love, there would be no way in the world that she would be able to sleep. As she continued to knit away, Mina wondered where her love Henry was at this hour.
Silly question. He was in his laboratory. Lately, he'd been in his laboratory every night. Knowing her love was working away obsessively at dangerous experiments made Mina shiver and knit even faster. She sure hoped he'd get out of this okay.
* * *
"Edward, I think this is it," Henry Jekyll said slowly, holding up a test tube of some odd-looking green liquid.
"Don't be silly, Henry," Edward Hyde laughed. Jekyll was facing a mirror, so he could communicate with his alter-ego while he worked. "You only started your research a few days ago. You couldn't possibly be done this quickly."
"I know, but I truly believe this is it. This is the potion that will separate me from you!" Jekyll exclaimed, growing more and more excited by the second.
"But what if it doesn't work?" Hyde asked impatiently. "In fact, what if it makes the situation harder to undo? What if it makes one of us disappear completely?" For the first time in his life, Edward Hyde was starting to get extremely worried.
"I wouldn't care very much if it was you that disappeared," Jekyll mumbled.
"HEY!!!!" Hyde roared, almost breaking through the mirror with his anger.
Jekyll laughed. "I'm just kidding, Edward."
"You'd very well better be, you WORM!!!"
"Now, now, Edward. Calm down, it was just a little joke between egos."
"I'll do the joking from now on, if you don't mind," said Hyde coldly.
"Hyde, if this potion works, you can do whatever you want from now on," Jekyll mused, staring at the bright green test tube.
"Yeah," Hyde added, looking ahead at all of the possibilities. "I could go into vaudeville and be up on the stage. I could be the world's most experienced prostitute. I could even go to medical school and become a more successful doctor than you."
Jekyll laughed. "I very highly doubt that, but it's a possibility."
"Well, what are you waiting for, Henry? Drink up, I want to get out of here! Your body's too small to hold me anymore!!!"
Jekyll set the test tube down and picked up a pen. "Okay, let me just make a record first." He opened his scientific journal and began to write. "'Day six, 11:03 pm,'" he said aloud as he wrote. "'Have finished a preliminary formula that I will now test out on myself. Hopefully, this will separate the body of myself, Henry Jekyll, from that of Edward Hyde.'" He put his pen down and picked up the green test tube again.
"Of course," he muttered. "I know it may mean death to drink it. Some of the chemicals may react violently inside of me and kill me, or something else may happen, something I did not intend at all." Jekyll then shivered. "And Mina. Poor little Mina, who might be all alone after this. I can't bear to see that happen!"
"Oh, will you quit worrying and drink it?!?!?" Hyde shrieked inside of the mirror. "Drink it before I reach out, grab it, and shove it down your bloody throat!!!!!"
Jekyll took a deep and shaky breath. "Okay. I am a desperate man, aren't I? So, I guess I'm going to go for it." He held out the test tube in front of him and toasted. "Mina, dear, this one's for you. I love you, Mina." And with those words, Henry Jekyll swallowed the potion.
With a shaky hand, he put down the empty test tube and waiting silently. Nothing was happening yet.
"DAMN IT!!!" Hyde roared in anger. He then began to curse in such a horrifying manner that this author does not dare repeat his words.
"Hold on, Edward," Jekyll said quietly. "It may take a while to work. It took nearly three minutes for you to appear after I drank that first potion so many years ago." Hyde just sighed impatiently, but at least he quit swearing.
Suddenly and without warning, Jekyll doubled over in horror. Such sharp pains were shooting through his stomach that he moaned like a dying man.
"Henry?" asked Hyde worriedly, from the mirror. "Are you all right?"
But the pains grew more and more sharp. Jekyll's face was red, and his eyes burned with tears of pain. He moaned again, in horrifying ache. In desperate pain, Jekyll reached over, grabbed an empty silver bowl off of the lab table, and vomited into it.
"Henry?" asked Hyde, even more panicked. "Henry, are you okay?!?!"
Because he was so worried about his alter-ego, Edward Hyde had not even noticed that his image had completely vanished from the mirror, and that his full form was standing upright in front of it.
Edward Hyde had been separated from Henry Jekyll.
* * *
Meanwhile, in the next room over (McCane's room,) McCane, Skinner, and Donna Andersen were engaged in playing a friendly game of cards.
At least, it had been friendly five minutes ago. Now, the cards had been thrown all over the place in anger, and the three players were accusing each other of cheating.
Donna had telekinetically levitated a heavy armchair over Skinner and was about to drop on it his head when McCane heard Jekyll's great moan of pain from next door.
"HOLD IT!!" McCane shouted just as Skinner was about to swing a crowbar at him. "Did you all hear that?"
"Hear what?" asked Skinner and Donna simultaneously. Just then, they heard his second moan.
"That!" McCane said. "It sounds like Henry's dying!"
"Well, for pete's sake, let's go help him!!" Donna shouted.
The three card players dropped the weapons they were using to attack each other and raced out of McCane's room, heading next door to Jekyll's laboratory.
*
The potion has worked! But will Jekyll ever recover, or the potion end up killing him? Stay tuned for the next chapter!
(By the way, reviews are highly accepted, and may sway my view in what I decide to write for the next chapter!)
~ Alisonia
To Graymoon74 (for the first review): Okay, I know your imagination is kind of odd (I remember that I asked to borrow it one time,) but that is, by far, the WEIRDEST idea you have ever some up with!!! Jekyll falling for Hyde as a girl!?!?! That's wrong!!! Very funny, but WRONG!!!!!! ^ _ ^ (By the way, I agree that Hyde is a bum. And I agree that Mina embracing her womanly instincts is a good thing. I plan to have her bake cookies in a later chapter!!)
To Mina: You know, I have no idea where he meets these people!! I wish I knew that myself!!
To Graymoon74 (for the second review): I'm willing to see what I'm going to do with them too. = ) However, Valentine's Day is coming up. I think I might use your Hyde-as-a-girl idea after all!!
To Silent Bob 546: All right, another Mina/Jekyll supporter!! Glad to have you on board, and I hope you enjoy the rest of the story!!
Okay, enough with the shout-outs (I've run out of reviews to respond to, anyway.) Let's get on with the story!
*
It had been, without a doubt, the most unusual and uncomfortable dinner Mina had ever sat through on the Nautilus.
Mina had felt so awkward she had barely eaten anything. She knew that it would be difficult to tell McCane that she was now courting Henry. After all, McCane had been her first love. She had kissed him so many times that she lost count.
She had broken McCane's heart, but now he had come back and broken hers! What did that albino woman have that Mina didn't?!?!?
"Come now, old girl, you're being silly and selfish," Mina scolded herself silently. "You never really loved Andre McCane, you just thought you did. That man is way out of your league; you never even had a chance with him! You love Henry, and Henry alone."
Satisfied with this comment, Mina smiled and continued working on her scarf while rocking back and forth in her rocking chair. Maybe she would bake a batch of cookies later. Baking cookies was good.
Mina checked the grandfather clock in her room and noticed that it was almost ten o' clock. Time sure flew by when you were knitting!
Mina thought about going to bed, but then thought again. With all these emotions running through her, these emotions of uneasiness, doubt, pain, and true love, there would be no way in the world that she would be able to sleep. As she continued to knit away, Mina wondered where her love Henry was at this hour.
Silly question. He was in his laboratory. Lately, he'd been in his laboratory every night. Knowing her love was working away obsessively at dangerous experiments made Mina shiver and knit even faster. She sure hoped he'd get out of this okay.
* * *
"Edward, I think this is it," Henry Jekyll said slowly, holding up a test tube of some odd-looking green liquid.
"Don't be silly, Henry," Edward Hyde laughed. Jekyll was facing a mirror, so he could communicate with his alter-ego while he worked. "You only started your research a few days ago. You couldn't possibly be done this quickly."
"I know, but I truly believe this is it. This is the potion that will separate me from you!" Jekyll exclaimed, growing more and more excited by the second.
"But what if it doesn't work?" Hyde asked impatiently. "In fact, what if it makes the situation harder to undo? What if it makes one of us disappear completely?" For the first time in his life, Edward Hyde was starting to get extremely worried.
"I wouldn't care very much if it was you that disappeared," Jekyll mumbled.
"HEY!!!!" Hyde roared, almost breaking through the mirror with his anger.
Jekyll laughed. "I'm just kidding, Edward."
"You'd very well better be, you WORM!!!"
"Now, now, Edward. Calm down, it was just a little joke between egos."
"I'll do the joking from now on, if you don't mind," said Hyde coldly.
"Hyde, if this potion works, you can do whatever you want from now on," Jekyll mused, staring at the bright green test tube.
"Yeah," Hyde added, looking ahead at all of the possibilities. "I could go into vaudeville and be up on the stage. I could be the world's most experienced prostitute. I could even go to medical school and become a more successful doctor than you."
Jekyll laughed. "I very highly doubt that, but it's a possibility."
"Well, what are you waiting for, Henry? Drink up, I want to get out of here! Your body's too small to hold me anymore!!!"
Jekyll set the test tube down and picked up a pen. "Okay, let me just make a record first." He opened his scientific journal and began to write. "'Day six, 11:03 pm,'" he said aloud as he wrote. "'Have finished a preliminary formula that I will now test out on myself. Hopefully, this will separate the body of myself, Henry Jekyll, from that of Edward Hyde.'" He put his pen down and picked up the green test tube again.
"Of course," he muttered. "I know it may mean death to drink it. Some of the chemicals may react violently inside of me and kill me, or something else may happen, something I did not intend at all." Jekyll then shivered. "And Mina. Poor little Mina, who might be all alone after this. I can't bear to see that happen!"
"Oh, will you quit worrying and drink it?!?!?" Hyde shrieked inside of the mirror. "Drink it before I reach out, grab it, and shove it down your bloody throat!!!!!"
Jekyll took a deep and shaky breath. "Okay. I am a desperate man, aren't I? So, I guess I'm going to go for it." He held out the test tube in front of him and toasted. "Mina, dear, this one's for you. I love you, Mina." And with those words, Henry Jekyll swallowed the potion.
With a shaky hand, he put down the empty test tube and waiting silently. Nothing was happening yet.
"DAMN IT!!!" Hyde roared in anger. He then began to curse in such a horrifying manner that this author does not dare repeat his words.
"Hold on, Edward," Jekyll said quietly. "It may take a while to work. It took nearly three minutes for you to appear after I drank that first potion so many years ago." Hyde just sighed impatiently, but at least he quit swearing.
Suddenly and without warning, Jekyll doubled over in horror. Such sharp pains were shooting through his stomach that he moaned like a dying man.
"Henry?" asked Hyde worriedly, from the mirror. "Are you all right?"
But the pains grew more and more sharp. Jekyll's face was red, and his eyes burned with tears of pain. He moaned again, in horrifying ache. In desperate pain, Jekyll reached over, grabbed an empty silver bowl off of the lab table, and vomited into it.
"Henry?" asked Hyde, even more panicked. "Henry, are you okay?!?!"
Because he was so worried about his alter-ego, Edward Hyde had not even noticed that his image had completely vanished from the mirror, and that his full form was standing upright in front of it.
Edward Hyde had been separated from Henry Jekyll.
* * *
Meanwhile, in the next room over (McCane's room,) McCane, Skinner, and Donna Andersen were engaged in playing a friendly game of cards.
At least, it had been friendly five minutes ago. Now, the cards had been thrown all over the place in anger, and the three players were accusing each other of cheating.
Donna had telekinetically levitated a heavy armchair over Skinner and was about to drop on it his head when McCane heard Jekyll's great moan of pain from next door.
"HOLD IT!!" McCane shouted just as Skinner was about to swing a crowbar at him. "Did you all hear that?"
"Hear what?" asked Skinner and Donna simultaneously. Just then, they heard his second moan.
"That!" McCane said. "It sounds like Henry's dying!"
"Well, for pete's sake, let's go help him!!" Donna shouted.
The three card players dropped the weapons they were using to attack each other and raced out of McCane's room, heading next door to Jekyll's laboratory.
*
The potion has worked! But will Jekyll ever recover, or the potion end up killing him? Stay tuned for the next chapter!
(By the way, reviews are highly accepted, and may sway my view in what I decide to write for the next chapter!)
~ Alisonia