There seems to be some confusion among the reviewers as to whether or not Mina had a son in Dracula. Let's not start a war over it; I've cleared everything up.

Here are the shout-outs:

To Ares: About Mina and the drinking: that's a great idea! I may use that for a later chapter, if you don't mind.

To Silent Bob 546: Okay, we can share Jekyll. Poor Mina; Jekyll's her fiancé, and she doesn't even get him all to herself!

To Graymoon74: Okay, I'll make you a deal. Hyde will be knocked out (he won't be killed a mere two days before the wedding; Batsie would have to perform ANOTHER resurrection, and Mina would just die from the stress!), but not by Jekyll. I have something else up my sleeve!

To Krisian Rose: Of course, it's going to be disastrous! Like you said, disastrous is funny!

To C: Actually, you and Ares are both right! Quincey Morris is NOT Mina's son, but at the very end of the story, he dies, and Mina and Jonathan then have a son and name him Quincey Harker, after their friend Quincey Morris.

To C (again): I cleared up the business about Mina's son in the last shout-out, but about Skinner's accent: I don't want to make him sound too consistent, because the spelling would be so odd that it would be hard to read! That's why Hyde is "Hyde" and not "'Yde."

To Ares (again): Don't worry, I believe you! Read what I wrote to C.

It's time for Dr. Jekyll's bachelor party!!

Mina Harker opened the medicine cabinet in her bathroom and took out a bottle of tranquilizers. Opening the bottle anxiously, she grabbed a handful of the pills and prepared to swallow them.

"Mina, what are you doing?" asked Batsie, who had suddenly appeared out of nowhere. "Give me those!" Batsie magically opened Mina's hand and forced the pills back into the bottle. "You can have two. That's enough."

Mina's shaking fingers picked out two tranquilizer pills from the bottle, and she poured herself a glass of water. "I'm sorry," she apologized to Batsie, "but I'm so nervous I don't think I can stand it anymore."

"I understand, Mina. Maybe you should go to bed now, and we'll get up early tomorrow morning."

Mina nodded. "That sounds like a plan." She swallowed the two pills and proceeded to take her hair out of its bun. "I just don't know what's come over me. I was never this nervous when I married Jonathan."

Batsie laughed. "Didn't anyone ever tell you that the second wedding's always more stressful than the first? Deep down in your heart, you're worried that your second husband will meet the same fate as your first one."

"That makes sense. I love Henry very much, but he isn't the same man as Jonathan was. Jonathan was so strong, so together. And Henry's very unsure of himself."

"That's why he's marrying you. So he can be sure of himself."

Mina smiled and hugged her. "Batsie, thank you so much for being here for me. I don't know what I would have done without you here."

"And frankly, Mina, I don't know what you would have done, either. Now, go and get some rest. You desperately need it." Batsie hugged Mina once more, and departed.

Mina took her bathrobe from where it was hanging on a hook on the bathroom wall, and headed back to her bedroom. She needed sleep more than anything.

Dressing herself in a white satin nightgown, and tying her bathrobe over it, Mina quietly crawled into her warm bed. "In another two nights," she whispered to herself, "I'll be sleeping beside my new husband."

Mina smiled to herself as she drifted off to sleep. She couldn't wait to sleep beside Henry, her arms wrapped around him. That would be paradise.

"Look, Skinner! No clothes on anybody!" Edward Hyde called to Skinner gleefully as he held up a page of PlayVamp.

"Ooooh! Lemme see! Lemme see!" a very drunk Rodney Skinner tried to go over to Hyde to look at the picture better, but ended up falling on the floor.

"How many drinks 'ave I 'ad tonight?" called Sawyer, who, for some unknown reason, sounded a lot like Skinner when he was drunk.

Jekyll just shook his head back and forth furiously. "I dunno." He slammed his head down on the bar table. "Mina's gonna kill me, but drinking does help the stress," he commented, slurring his words together horribly.

"Toldja, mate," came Skinner, trying to get himself up off the floor. He sounded as if he was in horrible pain.

Sawyer had crawled over to Hyde and was trying to yank the issue of PlayVamp right out of his hands. "I wanna see the naked va-pire."

Hyde let out a string of drunken cursing. "It's MINE, you [BEEP]!!!!!"

"GIMME THE NAKED VA-PIRE!!!"

"Quit fighting, 'fore I knock you both out!" yelled Jekyll from the bar. He was attempting to pour himself another whiskey, but his coordination was so bad by now that he was pouring it everywhere except in his glass. Eventually, he just gave up and started drinking right from the bottle.

"If you wanna see a naked vampire so bad, Sawyer, let's just go to Mina's room," Skinner said, grinning from ear to ear.

"We ain' goin' to Mina's room, she'll kill us," slurred Sawyer.

"She'll kill you maybe, not me," came Hyde, who was still trying to yank the PlayVamp away from Sawyer. "I'm too strong for that [BEEP] Mina. I'm goin'."

At the sound of that, Jekyll looked up from the bar and stared straight at Hyde. His eyes were bloodshot and weary, but he used what was left of his coordination to concentrate. "DON'T CALL MINA A [BEEP,] YOU [BEEP]!!!"

"Whoa, Jekyll," slurred Skinner. "You 'ad too much to drink, buddy. No more whiskey for you." Skinner drunkly stumbled over to the bar, pulled the bottle of whiskey right out of Jekyll's hands, and started drinking it himself.

"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME, WORM!?!?!?" demanded Hyde. His face was red with drunkenness as well as anger.

"YOU HEARD ME!!!" Jekyll stumbled off of his bar stool and picked it up with both of his hands. He stumbled toward Hyde, very drunk, but concentrating with every ounce of coordination he had left.

Hyde didn't need anything to fight Jekyll. His bare hands were enough of a weapon for him.

Jekyll and Hyde stumbled toward each other, poised to fight. Skinner and Sawyer were on the sidelines. The fight was on.

"FIGHT!! FIGHT!! FIGHT!!" Sawyer and Skinner called.

"YOU WAN' A FIGHT?" Hyde roared. "I'LL GI' YOU A FIGHT!" And he took a swing at Jekyll.

Mina awoke in her bed the next morning in high spirits. She was ready to conquer the day.

Unfortunately, she would have been even more ready to conquer the day if she hadn't been slightly ill. Her nose was running, her temperature was pretty close to breaking a hundred, and her throat, head, and stomach all hurt.

"Oh, no!" she croaked in bed, her voice sounding somewhat hoarse. "I can't be sick on the day before my wedding!! How can this be happening to me?" she wailed. Mina buried her face in her hands and began to cry hoarse, runny tears.

"Mina! Mina, don't cry!" In another minute, Batsie Linoge was right beside her, hugging her. "Mina, just calm down, dear. I can help, remember?"

Mina grabbed tissues from her nightstand and started to clean herself up. "Can you cure me?" she sobbed.

Batsie sighed. "I sensed you were becoming ill late last night, and I tried to cure you then. But your illness isn't being caused by a virus, it's being caused by stress, and I can't cure stress illnesses; only you can, Mina. When your stress level goes down, so do your symptoms." Mina started to cry again. "But I can help you a little," Batsie said quickly. "I can give you more tranquilizers. I got Andre to send over some good ones early this morning, and they should do you some good."

Mina nodded and reached for her tissues again. "Do you think I can get better by tonight?"

"Only if you calm down. But I'm afraid I have some bad news."

"What now?" By the look on Mina's face, Batsie knew that Mina's temperature had broken one hundred at that very moment and was quickly rising.

"I think you're going to have to find a new best man for your wedding. The men got to drinking last night, and there was a fight, and Edward was knocked out."

Mina breathed a sigh of relief, and her temperature fell a few degrees. She hadn't been so crazy about using Edward Hyde as her best man anyway. But still, she was confused. Hyde? Knocked out? Usually, it was Hyde that did the knocking out! "By who?" she asked, confused.

"Rodney," Batsie replied.

What happened last night at the bachelor party? How did Skinner knock Hyde out, when it was Jekyll that Hyde was fighting with? What will Mina say when she realizes that Jekyll had been drinking? And will Mina recover in time for her wedding?

Don't worry, the next chapter is coming soon! Remember to review this one!

Alisonia