wahay I have reviews !!!!! As far as I know it was 2 in 1 day which is good for one of my LXG stories. There is one new character in this chapter and I will try to explain anything that does not fit in forthcoming chapters so any questions feel free to ask though I may not answer them till it is needed in this story.

I'm glad people like the inclusion of Duncan MacLeod in my story, I think he makes a good addition to the league try my story 'A modern league' to see him a modern context with the same kind of story.

As usual none of the characters belong to me apart from Aaron Fawkes.

London ...

It had been with a deep sense of loss that Henry Jekyll walked back into his rooms, it had not been long since he had left to aid the Legue of Extraordianary gentlemen in their search for a friend of Captain Nemo's. This had not been without loss in particular to the doctor, his young wife had been murdered. This event was the reason that the doctors closest friend was with him. Rodney Skinner was a thief and made no secret of the fact he was however invisable somthing thst did make him stick out from the other thieves in London at that time.
"Henry mate are you okay?" Skinner asked from much closer to Henry than he had thought he was.
"I am fine." Henry said forcing a smile. "You remember where the guest room is don't you?"
"Certainly mate. I'll put me stuff in there and be back in a jiffy." Skinner said and walked upstairs. Henry had no desire to go upstairs as there was too much up there that would remind him of his wife at least if he stayed in his office and the surgery then there were less traces of her to find he would have to confront his past at some time but not yet and not as long as he could put it off.

Skinner had taken little time to put his stuff in the spare room one thing he had learnt from his very young years was that you should never have anything with you that could not be left behind at the drop of a hat. That was why he owned so little and nothing that he could not live without, apart from a reflection and interaction with normal people, maybe one day he would be able to do something about that. He had heard rumours of a Doctor Aaron Fawkes when he had last been in london who had been playing with Hawley Griffins work. Maybe he would see him soon and see what he could do to help.

Leaving the room Skinner walked into Zu Jekyll's room, she had been very close to him in age and but for the fact that Skinner had thought she was a man when they first met he suspected that the relationship between them would have been more than that of brother and sister as they had seemed to be. The relationship between Henry's wife and Skinner was one of the reasons that the relationship between the two men was so close. There had been an aspect of jealousy between them briefly but that had been resolved very quickly and the three had been very close friends. The room though was more than Skinner could bare to be surounded by and the invisible man broke down and cried.

Henry poured himself a glass of scotch from the side board and downed it before pouring another then sitting in his chair and staring into space thinking hard. He was still sitting there with his second glass an hour later when there was a knock on the door. He shook himself and walked to the door, there were two figures standing outside one was Inspector Lastrade a regular patient of his, the other was not someone that Henry recognised.
"Ahh, Doctor Jekyll. So sorry to intrude on you when you have just returnned but I had a man watching the house to inform me when you returnned. How is the young lady who was living here?"
"My wife was murdered while we were on holiday after our wedding." Henry said shortly "I am sorry. Were the killers caught?"
"Yes." Henry said. There was a slight movement from the other man and Lestrade glanced at him before returnning to what he had been going to say "Just after you left I was contacted by Mr Van Helsing here. he wishes to speak to you about an investigation he is doing from Rome. I hope you do not mind me bringing him here."
"Not at all inspector I will be glad to help him in any way that I can." Henry said. The name sounded familiar but he could not remember where he had heard the name before.
"That is very kind of you Doctor. May I add my comiserations to those of the Inspector I know what it is to lose someone you care about deeply." Van Helsing said in an accented voice.
"Thank you." "I do need you any more Inspector, I will ask the doctor my questions then I will leave him alone with his berevement." Van Helsing said "Is that alright with you doctor?" Lastrade asked "I will be fine. How is your injury now Inspector? I am afraid that I have been neglecting my duties in the last few months as far as my patients are concerned." Henry said loosing himself in his professional manner.
"It is fine Doctor Jekyll. I shall call on you at the earliest moment if that is alright with you." Lastrade said and left leaving Henry with the stranger. There was silence between them for a moment, Henry was well aware of the fact that he was being appraised by the other man from under the deep brimmed hat that he wore.
"What is it that I can help you with Mr Van Helsing?" Henry asked when the silence was starting to grate on his nerves.
"Around 20 years ago I was in Paris searching for a killer by the name of Hyde. You can imagine my surprise when last year I heard that he had been pardoned for his crimes and was now living in London as a practicing doctor. Considering that I killed Hyde and his alter ego you can imagine how this surprised me. I watched you die. It was you who died I am sure of that. However you looked much older, how have you managed to make yourself that much younger? That is all I wish to know, how did you do it ?"
"I do not know what you are talking about sir, yes I was in paris and I have done things in my life that I will never forgive myself for but I certainly never met you and I have never died." Henry said confused "I agree that there are some problems with the case as you look much younger than you did when you were killed. Could it perhaps have been a father or another relative?"
"I doubt that some what as most of my family still live in London or certainly in the surrounding area. Feel free to investigate my house but I can assure you that I have nothing to hide. I have a house guest he is rather excentric and I would appreciate it if he was disturbed as little as possible, you may enter my wifes room but if you feel that you have to remove anything from there could you ask me first, I have very little of my wife remaining to me just my memories and what is in that room, I am sure that you can understand me. You are welcome to use the couch in my office to sleep on if you desire you are also welcome to join us for meals." Henry said. What the man said intrigued the scientist in him, for some reason this man thought he was dead and had been for 20 years. 20 years ago he had just been finnishing his medical trainning and had yet to begin experimenting with the Hyde formula and wouldn't for another 10 years. It was impossible that he could have been terrorising England and France at that time.
"Thank you. I shall take you up on your offer and hope that I can solve this problem as quickly and as satisfactory as posssible.I hopefully shall not inconvienience you in anyway, if you do find that I am too much of a problem then please tell me and I shall try and find a solution to any problem as quickly as possible." Van Helsing said. "I shall go and gather the rest of my things then I shall return."

Australia - 3 days since we were last there.

"Would you stop staring at me, there is nothing unnatural about me." Duncan said for about the 50th time since he had joined them. "I would not say that. Most people stay dead when they die and do not come back to life again." Mina replied.
"My people do." he said. They had been trying to find out what he was since he had joined them but he was refusing to say anything. It was safer for humans to know as little as they could about immortals unless they had to. He had no desire to put there lives in danger because they knew who and what he was.
"Why will you not tell us anything about your people though?" John asked "Because it is dangerous for you to know about us. If you find out what we are you will usually end up getting hurt or even killed." Duncan said thinking of the people in his past who had suffered that fate because of him.
"We are harder to kill than you might think." Mina said "I guessed that but still I will not tell you anything until it is absolutely neccessary." Duncan said then retreated into a brooding silence again, a state that seemed common to him. John and Mina exchanged looks over his head, neither were very happy about having the stranger with them as they knew hardly anything about him.

The fact that Ned Land had not driven Captain Nemo to A) drink, B) murder or C) complete insanity was more luck than anything else. Ned was well aware of the fact that the Captain did not like him and was survering his presance on the Nautilus because of the fact that they had yet to find Ned's friend Professor Aronnax. The two men rarely saw each other, the Captain was still mourning the death of his final child just a few weeks earlier and bacuse of this had little interest in anything else. Ned himself felt bad about this as the young woman had been killed trying to help him and his friends out. He spent much of his time in the observation deck with the steal covering on the window open just watching what was happening outside. If on occasion he felt the need for a harpoon in his hand once again that was beacause of the many years that he had done just that as opposed to any real desire to kill the fish and mamals that swam past the window. Ned was startled out of his musings when something very large swam past the window.
"Shit what was that?" The Canadian swore jumping.
"Is there a problem Mr Land?" Captain Nemo asked having just entered the room.
"Something just swam past the window, I didn't see what it was but it was large and fast." The canadian replied having gone to the window for a better look. There was no sign of whatever it was that had surprised him.
"Are you sure that you did in fact see something?" Nemo asked as it was not unusual for people to imagine that they had seen something when in fact there was nothing there.
"I think so." The Canadian replied sounding less sure this time.
"I will get my men to do a sonar sweep of the area just to be safe." Nemo said before turning and striding out the room. Ned followed the Captain a memory of an attack of giant squids when he was last on the submarine causing him to be nervous about the possibility of large creatures outside.
"I need you to sweep the area for the possibilty of any large marine creatures, Mr Land here thought he saw something." Nemo said to one of his crew men. The instalation of the Sonar equipment was a new thing on the ship it had been done while Henry and Zu had been living together in London a few months earlier. He had not used it very much as it did not always work properly but in this case he thought it was worth trying. The screne in front of them lit up for a few seconds showing something very large coming towards the ship before the power died.
"What's happening?" Ned demanded "Hold on, this will get rough." Nemo replied before the Nautilus wrenched to one side at the impact of a large something into it.

I think that is the longest chapter I have done to date and I'm pretty proud of it.

The Van Helsing used in this is Stephen Sommers version and yes I will get to that fight in Paris before the end of the story.

None of the characters in this story belong to me at the moment apart froom what is attacking the ship, that is mine.

Let me know what you think and I'll update as soon as I am able. Thank you.