I'm so sorry! I had this chapter written days ago, but I never
getting around to putting it up! Maybe it's because I'm not in school, so
I'm lazier than usual! *Hit myself in the head with a pillow repeatedly,
cursing myself for being so lazy*
To galagalesh: You know, that actually sounds like a good idea! The bad part is, I'm still kind of confused. So, if you really are serious about this, get back to me with a plot for the story or something. I'll be glad to help out.
To Silent Bob 546: You know, I wasn't even thinking of "Holes" when I wrote that! Good work pointing in out! Oh, and yes, I agree completely. They WERE meant for each other!
To Graymoon74: Bad Hyde, very bad Hyde! *Hit Hyde in the head with a pillow repeatedly, cursing at him for being so evil* By the way, I'm glad that you agree that Batsie gives the story a sweet edge. She and Simon can take care of anything!
To Starlight16: Hey, don't glomp Jekyll too much! Save some of him for me, so I can have fun too! Poor Jet. Nobody loves him! *sniffle*
Anyway, here's the next chapter. Enjoy!
*
Jekyll trusted Batsie's judgment. He knew that if she told him that Mina would be safe for the evening, Mina would definitely be safe.
Jekyll hadn't gotten any sleep last night (when Hyde didn't sleep, Jekyll didn't sleep, either,) but was he going to go to bed? No way! His experiments were much more important than sleep. So, he retreated to his laboratory for yet another all-nighter.
He had worked in his laboratory this afternoon while waiting for Batsie to arrive, but he had just been cleaning up the place after Dorian's attack (Donna had promised she would, but she seemed to have forgotten.) And now, the place was clean. Henry got down to work.
He put the mirror back in place, so Hyde could talk to him, and finally found the notebook where he had written down the formula for the bombed separation potion. He wanted to examine the ingredients and find out a way to get rid of the water/potassium combo, but still make the potion have the same effect. The effect of separating Hyde's body from his own.
However, due to the acid spill last night, there was no more written formula. The acid had eaten through most of the pages of the journal.
"NO!!!" Jekyll shrieked, grabbing his reddish-brown hair in his hands. "This can't be happening to me, Edward!!!!!"
"DAMN DORIAN!!!"
"Oh, what has Dorian got to do with anything?!?" Jekyll asked his alter ego. "You should be angry because your chances of being separated from me are now slim to none!!"
"Well, Dorian attacked this ship. Assuming he attacked the normal way by launching a torpedo, the explosion of the torpedo caused the ship to rock, which caused the acid to spill onto the notebook," Edward Hyde explained impatiently.
Jekyll was amazed at him. Hyde was never good at thinking out procedures.
"Now, now, gentlemen. Blame is a sin in the eyes of the Lord."
Jekyll whipped around. Simon Linoge was standing no more than two feet from him.
"AAAGHHHHHHH!!" Jekyll screamed. "My God, don't you knock?"
Simon looked overwhelmed. "Please, Doctor! Don't call me God. I'm not that great. 'Simon' will do." Hyde chuckled at the joke, but Jekyll still looked angry and flustered.
"Seriously, Jekyll. I'm sorry I floated in without knocking. But I couldn't help overhearing that you were in some kind of distress," Linoge continued.
Jekyll held out his notebook to Linoge, too angry and upset to say anything.
Linoge took one look at it and nodded. "Ah." He held up his great wolf's head cane. "Well, may I?"
Jekyll nodded, but he had no idea what Linoge wanted to do. Linoge, on the other hand, took the notebook from Jekyll and shut it. He touched the cover with the tip of his wolf's head cane, closed his eyes, and mumbled a few things in Latin. Then he opened his eyes again, and held out the notebook to Jekyll.
Jekyll took it from him, but didn't open it. He was staring, transfixed, at Linoge's cane. Had this been the same weapon that had been used by Simon Linoge to torture and murder millions of people while Satan had employed him?
"Well, open it," said Linoge dryly.
Jekyll opened his notebook. The pages were no longer eaten through! The book was now readable again!
Jekyll flipped through it in a stunned silence. "Wow!! Thank you so much, Simon!! How can I ever repay you?"
"Get to work on that potion before Mina goes insane waiting for you make crazy, violent love to her," Linoge replied in a dry tone.
Jekyll looked at him, in shock.
Linoge laughed. "It was a joke!!"
Hyde laughed, but Jekyll just smirked. "Thanks again, Simon," Jekyll replied.
"Anytime, Jekyll," Simon Linoge replied. He slipped mysteriously out of the laboratory. Jekyll started to flip through the notebook again, trying to find the page where he had written down the formula.
"I like him," Hyde grinned. "He makes great jokes. I'm very sorry I ever thought about getting rid of him. You know, Jekyll, when I get out of you, I'm going to spend a lot of time hanging around Linoge."
"That's nice, Edward," Henry mumbled. Then he located the page. "Ah, found it!"
* * *
A few hours later, Henry Jekyll had finally made a breakthrough.
"I HAVE IT!!" he exclaimed. "Oh, this is absolutely IT!!! The potion's fine, it doesn't need to be changed at all! My mistake was that I swallowed it!! I shouldn't have swallowed it, Edward!! I should have injected it!!"
"What difference would that make?" asked Hyde, confused.
"You see, the human stomach contains very powerful gastric acid," Jekyll explained to his alter ego. "The acid invoked the water and potassium reaction! But if I inject it into my bloodstream, the water and potassium won't react. Blood is a BASE, not an acid. So, instead of invoking the reaction, it will calm any possible reaction!"
"So, I'll be separated from you, and you'll be perfectly safe from any side effects?"
"Precisely, Edward!"
"Henry, you're a GENIUS!!" Hyde exclaimed to his alter ego. Jekyll would have basked in the glory, but he wasn't really listening. He was already mixing the ingredients together that he needed for the potion.
After mixing up a whole new batch of the potion, he got a fresh syringe from a drawer and filled it with the concoction. "Now, if this doesn't work, there's definitely something wrong with the potion, and I'm going to have to make a whole new one," he remarked to Hyde.
"I'll cross my fingers," Hyde said.
Jekyll finished filling his syringe, left the lab, and went into his bedroom. "This time, I'm going to be lying in bed," he said aloud to Hyde. "So, if anything does happen, my body will at least be somewhat relaxed."
"Good idea, Jekyll."
The doctor lay himself down in bed. "Remember to cross those fingers of yours, Edward."
"Gotcha."
Jekyll injected himself with the potion and dropped the syringe onto the floor. For a few seconds, just like before, nothing happened.
"Come on," Jekyll thought silently. "This just HAS to work! Come on!"
Suddenly, overwhelming pain gripped Henry Jekyll's head, lungs, chest, and shoulders. Everything hurt, and Jekyll moaned loudly and curled up into a little ball on his bed in an attempt to stop the pain. His stomach, his back, his throat...everything ached, and Jekyll was forced to do nothing but groan from the pain.
"Henry?" Edward Hyde asked carefully. "Are you okay? Henry?"
All of a sudden, Hyde yelped. He felt as if he was being sucked away. He could feel himself being sucked out of Henry Jekyll's body and into the physical world. First his legs, than his torso, his arms, and finally, his head. They were all being thrust out of Jekyll. The body of Edward Hyde was separating from Henry Jekyll.
On the bed, Henry kept on moaning louder and louder. He felt as if something inside of him was disappearing...as if a weight held inside of him for so long was finally being lifted up, and he was now free. Free from his alter ego.
In a few quick minutes, everything was finally over. Jekyll lay on his bed, panting, but in no more pain. Sweat continued to gush out of him. Standing over him was Edward Hyde, sweat gushing out of him as well.
"Henry," said Hyde softly. "Henry, you've done it!!! YOU'VE DONE IT!!!"
"I have?" asked Jekyll weakly. He sat up in bed and looked down at himself, than looked at his alter ego standing in front of him. "Oh, my gosh, I have!!! I've done it!!! My experiments are finally complete!!!!! I'M A GENIUS!!!"
"YOU'RE A GENIUS!!!"
"I'M A GENIUS!!!"
In all of his excitement, Hyde thrust Jekyll out of bed and began dancing with him. Jekyll would have objected to this, but he was in way too much joy.
Down the hall, Simon Linoge heard their happy screams. He turned toward Dr. Jekyll's room with a dark smile.
"I've done it," he whispered to himself. "I've helped Henry fix his relationship with Mina. I'm a genius."
*
There, that's done and over with! Jekyll and Hyde are finally separated! What will they do next?
Tune in to the next chapter to find out! And remember to REVIEW!
~ Alisonia
To galagalesh: You know, that actually sounds like a good idea! The bad part is, I'm still kind of confused. So, if you really are serious about this, get back to me with a plot for the story or something. I'll be glad to help out.
To Silent Bob 546: You know, I wasn't even thinking of "Holes" when I wrote that! Good work pointing in out! Oh, and yes, I agree completely. They WERE meant for each other!
To Graymoon74: Bad Hyde, very bad Hyde! *Hit Hyde in the head with a pillow repeatedly, cursing at him for being so evil* By the way, I'm glad that you agree that Batsie gives the story a sweet edge. She and Simon can take care of anything!
To Starlight16: Hey, don't glomp Jekyll too much! Save some of him for me, so I can have fun too! Poor Jet. Nobody loves him! *sniffle*
Anyway, here's the next chapter. Enjoy!
*
Jekyll trusted Batsie's judgment. He knew that if she told him that Mina would be safe for the evening, Mina would definitely be safe.
Jekyll hadn't gotten any sleep last night (when Hyde didn't sleep, Jekyll didn't sleep, either,) but was he going to go to bed? No way! His experiments were much more important than sleep. So, he retreated to his laboratory for yet another all-nighter.
He had worked in his laboratory this afternoon while waiting for Batsie to arrive, but he had just been cleaning up the place after Dorian's attack (Donna had promised she would, but she seemed to have forgotten.) And now, the place was clean. Henry got down to work.
He put the mirror back in place, so Hyde could talk to him, and finally found the notebook where he had written down the formula for the bombed separation potion. He wanted to examine the ingredients and find out a way to get rid of the water/potassium combo, but still make the potion have the same effect. The effect of separating Hyde's body from his own.
However, due to the acid spill last night, there was no more written formula. The acid had eaten through most of the pages of the journal.
"NO!!!" Jekyll shrieked, grabbing his reddish-brown hair in his hands. "This can't be happening to me, Edward!!!!!"
"DAMN DORIAN!!!"
"Oh, what has Dorian got to do with anything?!?" Jekyll asked his alter ego. "You should be angry because your chances of being separated from me are now slim to none!!"
"Well, Dorian attacked this ship. Assuming he attacked the normal way by launching a torpedo, the explosion of the torpedo caused the ship to rock, which caused the acid to spill onto the notebook," Edward Hyde explained impatiently.
Jekyll was amazed at him. Hyde was never good at thinking out procedures.
"Now, now, gentlemen. Blame is a sin in the eyes of the Lord."
Jekyll whipped around. Simon Linoge was standing no more than two feet from him.
"AAAGHHHHHHH!!" Jekyll screamed. "My God, don't you knock?"
Simon looked overwhelmed. "Please, Doctor! Don't call me God. I'm not that great. 'Simon' will do." Hyde chuckled at the joke, but Jekyll still looked angry and flustered.
"Seriously, Jekyll. I'm sorry I floated in without knocking. But I couldn't help overhearing that you were in some kind of distress," Linoge continued.
Jekyll held out his notebook to Linoge, too angry and upset to say anything.
Linoge took one look at it and nodded. "Ah." He held up his great wolf's head cane. "Well, may I?"
Jekyll nodded, but he had no idea what Linoge wanted to do. Linoge, on the other hand, took the notebook from Jekyll and shut it. He touched the cover with the tip of his wolf's head cane, closed his eyes, and mumbled a few things in Latin. Then he opened his eyes again, and held out the notebook to Jekyll.
Jekyll took it from him, but didn't open it. He was staring, transfixed, at Linoge's cane. Had this been the same weapon that had been used by Simon Linoge to torture and murder millions of people while Satan had employed him?
"Well, open it," said Linoge dryly.
Jekyll opened his notebook. The pages were no longer eaten through! The book was now readable again!
Jekyll flipped through it in a stunned silence. "Wow!! Thank you so much, Simon!! How can I ever repay you?"
"Get to work on that potion before Mina goes insane waiting for you make crazy, violent love to her," Linoge replied in a dry tone.
Jekyll looked at him, in shock.
Linoge laughed. "It was a joke!!"
Hyde laughed, but Jekyll just smirked. "Thanks again, Simon," Jekyll replied.
"Anytime, Jekyll," Simon Linoge replied. He slipped mysteriously out of the laboratory. Jekyll started to flip through the notebook again, trying to find the page where he had written down the formula.
"I like him," Hyde grinned. "He makes great jokes. I'm very sorry I ever thought about getting rid of him. You know, Jekyll, when I get out of you, I'm going to spend a lot of time hanging around Linoge."
"That's nice, Edward," Henry mumbled. Then he located the page. "Ah, found it!"
* * *
A few hours later, Henry Jekyll had finally made a breakthrough.
"I HAVE IT!!" he exclaimed. "Oh, this is absolutely IT!!! The potion's fine, it doesn't need to be changed at all! My mistake was that I swallowed it!! I shouldn't have swallowed it, Edward!! I should have injected it!!"
"What difference would that make?" asked Hyde, confused.
"You see, the human stomach contains very powerful gastric acid," Jekyll explained to his alter ego. "The acid invoked the water and potassium reaction! But if I inject it into my bloodstream, the water and potassium won't react. Blood is a BASE, not an acid. So, instead of invoking the reaction, it will calm any possible reaction!"
"So, I'll be separated from you, and you'll be perfectly safe from any side effects?"
"Precisely, Edward!"
"Henry, you're a GENIUS!!" Hyde exclaimed to his alter ego. Jekyll would have basked in the glory, but he wasn't really listening. He was already mixing the ingredients together that he needed for the potion.
After mixing up a whole new batch of the potion, he got a fresh syringe from a drawer and filled it with the concoction. "Now, if this doesn't work, there's definitely something wrong with the potion, and I'm going to have to make a whole new one," he remarked to Hyde.
"I'll cross my fingers," Hyde said.
Jekyll finished filling his syringe, left the lab, and went into his bedroom. "This time, I'm going to be lying in bed," he said aloud to Hyde. "So, if anything does happen, my body will at least be somewhat relaxed."
"Good idea, Jekyll."
The doctor lay himself down in bed. "Remember to cross those fingers of yours, Edward."
"Gotcha."
Jekyll injected himself with the potion and dropped the syringe onto the floor. For a few seconds, just like before, nothing happened.
"Come on," Jekyll thought silently. "This just HAS to work! Come on!"
Suddenly, overwhelming pain gripped Henry Jekyll's head, lungs, chest, and shoulders. Everything hurt, and Jekyll moaned loudly and curled up into a little ball on his bed in an attempt to stop the pain. His stomach, his back, his throat...everything ached, and Jekyll was forced to do nothing but groan from the pain.
"Henry?" Edward Hyde asked carefully. "Are you okay? Henry?"
All of a sudden, Hyde yelped. He felt as if he was being sucked away. He could feel himself being sucked out of Henry Jekyll's body and into the physical world. First his legs, than his torso, his arms, and finally, his head. They were all being thrust out of Jekyll. The body of Edward Hyde was separating from Henry Jekyll.
On the bed, Henry kept on moaning louder and louder. He felt as if something inside of him was disappearing...as if a weight held inside of him for so long was finally being lifted up, and he was now free. Free from his alter ego.
In a few quick minutes, everything was finally over. Jekyll lay on his bed, panting, but in no more pain. Sweat continued to gush out of him. Standing over him was Edward Hyde, sweat gushing out of him as well.
"Henry," said Hyde softly. "Henry, you've done it!!! YOU'VE DONE IT!!!"
"I have?" asked Jekyll weakly. He sat up in bed and looked down at himself, than looked at his alter ego standing in front of him. "Oh, my gosh, I have!!! I've done it!!! My experiments are finally complete!!!!! I'M A GENIUS!!!"
"YOU'RE A GENIUS!!!"
"I'M A GENIUS!!!"
In all of his excitement, Hyde thrust Jekyll out of bed and began dancing with him. Jekyll would have objected to this, but he was in way too much joy.
Down the hall, Simon Linoge heard their happy screams. He turned toward Dr. Jekyll's room with a dark smile.
"I've done it," he whispered to himself. "I've helped Henry fix his relationship with Mina. I'm a genius."
*
There, that's done and over with! Jekyll and Hyde are finally separated! What will they do next?
Tune in to the next chapter to find out! And remember to REVIEW!
~ Alisonia