All right, now where was I? Oh, that's right; I was talking about Skinner and alcohol. Now, if I were Skinner, I would never touch another drop of alcohol, no matter how tempting it is. Read the rest of the story, and you'll see why!

To Ares: You're probably right about Skinner being a best man for Dorian (thank goodness Dorian's "dead!") Oh, and details about the honeymoon will come later in the story. (By the way, C apologized to you for the Quincey thing.)

To Silent Bob 546: At first, I wanted Mina to have a nice, QUIET Bachelorette party, but then I got a BRILLIANT idea!!!!!! Stay tuned to see what's going to happen!!!!!

To Raven Silvers: Mina loves maroon, too (well, at least my Mina does.) And don't worry, no matter how angry Hyde gets, I promise that Skinner will survive the story.

To Graymoon74: Skinner's noisy enough as it is, even without any armor. Imagine what it would be like if he actually wore some!!! And I'll tell you what I told Raven. No matter how angry that Hyde gets, Skinner will survive the story.

To C: Aww, thanks!! You didn't have to apologize!! I forgive you, and I hope that you enjoy the rest of the story.

To Krisian Rose: I think that Skinner's drank so much alcohol over the years, it's starting to permanently mess with his brain. And you're right...Hyde being awake does have "destruction" written over it. Read on, and you'll see what I mean. I won't promise you that Skinner won't get hurt, but I WILL promise you that he'll make it out alive.

Oh, is that a knock on Tom's door that I hear? Who could it possibly be?

There was a sharp knock on Tom Sawyer's stateroom door.

Tom got up to answer it, but he was concerned. Nobody on the Nautilus ever knocked; they usually just came bursting into his room.

"Please don't be Dorian, please don't be Dorian," he mumbled under his breath as he got up to answer the door. Dorian was now six feet under, but hey, you never know.

"EEEEEEEE!!!"

"EEEEEEEE!!!!"

Tom and Donna Andersen squealed happily at each other's presence.

"When did you get in?" Tom asked happily, hugging her around the waist. Donna was a telekinetic albino girl who used to date Andre McCane, but they broke up a while ago, and since then, she had started to date Sawyer instead.

"Just now," she replied. She put a finger to her lips. "But shhhh, don't tell anybody. Batsie and Mina and I are going to have a little girls' night out tonight, and Mina's not supposed to know anything about it."

"I hope it'll be less eventful than ours was," said Tom, inviting her in to his room.

"Why? What happened?" Then Donna noticed that Tom was holding his hand to his head in pain. She gasped. "Oh, no!!! Don't tell me that Hyde hit you over the head with the card table again!!!"

Tom laughed. "No, he didn't. I just have a headache this morning. Actually, it was the other way around. Skinner knocked Hyde out."

Donna just stared at him in disbelief. "WHO knocked Hyde out?"

"I know, I know. Kind of hard to believe, isn't it? But it's true. You see, Jekyll and Hyde got into a fight because Hyde insulted Mina, and Jekyll hit Hyde, and when he was down, Skinner just...well, attacked him."

"Is Skinner still on board, or did he get off the ship and go down into Venice somewhere?" (The Nautilus was currently docked in Venice for Henry and Mina's wedding.)

"No, he's still on here. Hyde isn't awake yet, so..."

"Hold it," said Donna, a bit confused. "It's nearly lunchtime, and he still isn't awake yet? Geez, how hard did Skinner hit him!?!?!"

"I don't know," Tom confessed. "I was too drunk. And Jekyll isn't at liberty to talk about it. He has other things on his mind."

"I'll say."

Suddenly, the door to Tom's room was knocked off its hinges as Edward Hyde came bursting into Tom's room.

"WHERE IS HE?!?!?!?" Hyde demanded, stomping and banging around so hard that Tom winced and held his head even more. "WHERE THE [BEEP] IS THAT INVISIBLE [BEEP] !?!?!?"

"Not in here, I can assure you that much," Donna said to him flatly.

But Hyde didn't believe her. After a thorough search around the room, flinging his arms and legs around so that he could bump into anything invisible, Hyde was satisfied that Skinner wasn't hiding in Sawyer's room, and left, growling.

"We need to get somebody to fix that door," Tom said. "I'll go out and get someone, and if Skinner comes in here, looking to hide, do NOT hide him."

"What, you think I'm stupid? Of COURSE I won't!! I'll just tell Skinner that he can hide himself; he's INVISIBLE, for pete's sake!!"

"I have to go into town and talk to the catering people," Batsie told Henry and Mina. She donned a black beret with a long, dark veil that shielded her eyes. "Henry, I trust you to look after your fiancée while I'm gone."

"But why are you going out like that?" Henry asked her.

"Because I don't have Simon with me."

"What does Simon have to do with--" Henry began, but then stopped when Mina nudged him.

However, Batsie answered his question anyway. "Whenever I walk down the street, people are apt to drop what they're doing and just stare at me. It gets extremely annoying. But when they see me with Simon, who constantly has this menacing look on his face, then they come to their senses and stop staring immediately."

"Ah," nodded Henry.

"Well, anyway, I'm leaving, goodbye, and I don't want to hear about any accidents while I'm gone."

Henry and Mina said goodbye to Batsie, who quickly departed. No sooner had she left than Tom Sawyer came bursting into Mina's room.

"Hey, do either of you two know where Batsie is?" he asked hopefully.

"I'm sorry, Tom," said Jekyll quietly, who was serving a bowl of chicken soup to Mina. "She just left. She went to Venice to talk to the wedding caterers."

Tom sighed. "Are you serious? Because your [BEEP] alter-ego broke my door off its hinges looking for that rat Skinner, and I wanted her to put it back on for me."

"Find Nemo," Mina shrugged. Her fiancé looked at her in surprise. Mina was being so calm!

"That's what I'm probably going to have to do. Thanks."

Rodney Skinner had heard that Hyde was awake. He desperately needed somewhere to hide himself, because even though he was invisible, he was awfully noisy when he was out in the open.

Skinner opened two large doors on the Nautilus to find the grand ballroom. It was beautifully decorated in maroon and white, all ready for Henry and Mina's wedding reception.

Being as quiet as he could, Skinner crawled under one of the dinner tables. Hyde would never look in here for him. The ballroom was supposed to be off-limits until the wedding reception tomorrow afternoon.

Meanwhile, out in the corridor, Edward Hyde was becoming more and more furious. He had looked almost everywhere on the ship for Skinner. Even though Skinner was invisible, he was clumsy. He would usually give away his presence by accidentally knocking over a book, or something. Skinner was relatively easy to find on any other occasion.

And all the while, Hyde was getting more and more furious at him.

Hyde passed the grand ballroom in a rage, but then he turned back in thought. He remembered the captain saying something earlier about the ballroom being all ready for the wedding, so nobody was allowed to go into it now.

Could Skinner be in there, knowing that Hyde wasn't allowed to come in? It was certainly possible.

Hyde carefully pushed the door open and crept inside. If Skinner was in here, he was going to die.

Oh, no! I can barely watch, and I'm the one writing the story!!! Will Hyde find Skinner? What's going to happen to Skinner if Hyde finds him? And what do Donna and Batsie have in store for Mina at her bachelorette party?

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Alisonia