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Chapter 5

Jekyll's POV…

Hyde had been unnormally quiet since our last conversation. My other half wouldn't say a word, he was the quietest he had ever been before, and it had been that way since I had mentioned him loving that woman. He wouldn't even talk about her anymore and nothing I said or thought would provoke him. In that very moment I thought her name, Emily, but silence was all I received. Hyde stayed quietly in his cage, for a moment I thought I might have tamed him, but I didn't let myself overestimate him. In my mind, Hyde was still a monster, and he could strike at any moment. And that woman seemed to be his trigger almost all the time.

"I don't know what you see in her. She is below us, a nobody…a maid for god's sake. I understand it, but don't you worry, my friend, I intend to find out," I whispered dressing slowly my intentions for the day clear. Hyde saw something in her. I didn't know what it was, but I had decided I would find out. I would seek her out and see just what drew him to her.

"Jekyll, leave her alone. She is nothing to you," whispered Hyde finally breaking our comfortable silence the memory of his plaything invading my mind as he himself thought of her; she was that no longer it seemed, but instead much more. And after our last conversation when I asked if he loved her I was beginning to think he did.

"You do love her, don't you, Mr. Hyde?" I said smiling at both him and myself in the mirror before leaving the house in search of his little maid. I didn't have to seek out any information. I already had it, I knew everything Hyde knew, and so I knew exactly where to go to find her. I knew where she lived. I waited outside the building discreetly watching for the woman he had haunted my brain with. It seemed like I waited forever, thousands of women came out of the building, but it was never the one I knew. I was beginning to get impatient and I could feel Hyde's relief as he hoped I would give up and leave. But then there she was walking with a level-headed confidence out of her building and down the street.

My opinion of her didn't change on first sight. She looked just as I thought she would, a low born worthless woman, but still I followed her my eyes still analyzing her. This was Emily Tyler, a simple woman really with her hair piled on top of her head, her body that Hyde had taunted me with covered in an unbecoming green dress. At first sight, she was nothing. Looking at her I still didn't understand. She didn't appear to be anything special.

"Jekyll, don't," said Hyde his voice a desperate whisper from inside my head. Following her, I ignored him.

In my mind, she was as much mine as she was his; I could do with her what I pleased. I followed her not caring if she saw me or not. I needed to understand what Hyde saw in her; I needed to understand why she was so special to him. But I saw nothing. This girl was a nobody. She had no money, no status; she lived only to serve others. She held her head high among her peers, but still bowed her head when among those that she knew she was beneath. The only thing I saw in her was that she knew her place. Emily Tyler was proving me right, she wasn't worth the time I was spending following her; in my mind, she was worth less than a Whitechapel whore. As that thought entered my mind, I felt my body become tense. Hyde didn't say anything, but I could feel he didn't like my thoughts.

"Jekyll, I swear if you touch her," whispered Hyde breaking that silence once more keeping my body rigid with his tension in that moment. I didn't dignify him with an answer, but instead I simply ignored him. He didn't control me and as I watched the girl intently I knew that if I wished I could do with her what I pleased. She was in a market now looking at the wares and that was my opportunity. With no discretion, I walked up behind her so close that I could smell her or touch her without even lifting a finger. When I stood that close to her I felt Hyde's wrath for the first time in a while. I heard a loud growl from within my head, it was so loud it nearly gave me an instant migraine, and clenching my fist I placed it over my heart. It was then I felt just how fast my heart was beating and all because I was so close to her. That racing heartbeat made me lose all discretion I had had and spotting a tangled lock of hair out of place on her head I dared move to replace it touching her as I did. The second I touched her Hyde growled again. Moving the strand of hair back into place, I heard her breath hitch, and taking a step back she walked right into me.

"Jekyll!" exclaimed Hyde in the very moment that Emily turned to face me our eyes meeting letting me see that she was in fear of me an emotion that instantly confused me. I didn't understand how she could feel that way towards me. I was the good one and Hyde was the monster. And yet she looked at him with such trust in her eyes while with fear in her eyes when looking at me. She let him ravish her and do unmentionable things and yet she never once feared him. And yet she seemed to sneer at me his better half. I had half a mind to strike her for it, but I stayed my hand.

"You and I are not the same, Jekyll. I may be a monster to you, but to her I am simply a man. She knows me and knows I would never harm her. She knows no such thing about you," exclaimed Hyde for a second fighting the bars he was caged in within my mind. But he didn't fight for long. He knew the same as I did that this was the last place we wanted to be when we made our change.

"Sir…" began Emily the confusion in her eyes telling me she didn't know how to finish that sentence as she moved tentatively around me clearly wanting to get away from me.

"My apologies, miss…I thought we might know one another," I said watching as she nodded. But that was all I received.

"I don't think we do…again my apologies," I said wanting to again slap that look of fear off her face, but instead I only watched as she walked hurriedly away. I followed her still though not for the same reasons anymore.

Now it wasn't merely a curiosity. Now she was like an obsession, one that I had to know more about, everything about, and claim for myself. Emily Tyler may be nothing, but inside her was still something. And now I was compelled, determined even to possess that something no matter what it was. It was something she had let Hyde possess in her, but now it was my turn.

"After all what's mine is yours, Mr. Hyde," I breathed smiling as I watched her my determination clear; I would have her whether willing or by force. And with Hyde locked away there was nothing he could do to stop me.

"She will be mine," I thought feeling as Hyde attempted to break his chains once more without success. If she thought me a monster after that I didn't care in that moment. She already did anyway and watching her I smiled. I would make her realize that I was no monster compared to the one she slept with every night. I would make her mine and take away the only thing Hyde appeared to love. I would make him suffer like he did me with his very existence.

Emily's POV…

That night as I walked to the apartment to meet Edward I was more nervous than usual. After my encounter with that man early that day, I was scared, and my eyes seemed to follow all the shadows around me. He had touched me. He had said it was an honest mistake, but if that was true why did he follow me all that day. How long had he been following me exactly? Part of me thought maybe all that day, but I couldn't be sure. But he had scared me because I didn't know if he was following me still.

"Maybe Edward sent him…to watch me…to make sure I didn't run off again. He wouldn't do that…would he?" I thought my eyes still jumping at shadows as I tried to dismiss the idea. He wouldn't do that, if he wanted to see me he would have come himself. I didn't think he would ever trust me with another person. One thing I knew about Edward was that he would never scare me this way. He would never harm me or let anyone else do so. So, the idea that it could be him was quickly out of my head. My fear didn't leave me still with each step I took. Ever since I had felt that man's touch or walked right into him nothing had felt right. I felt like I knew him, but I didn't. Something just wasn't right with him, but I didn't know what.

The second he touched me I felt like I wanted to be sick. I felt like I was being violated and then when our eyes had met it had gotten worse. Those two feelings only increased and suddenly I felt like I was in danger. Like somehow, I knew that man was going to hurt me. For that very reason, I tried to get as far away from him as I could. But then he only continued to follow me. Something wasn't right about him and the more he followed me the more I knew that. It didn't make sense, why was he following me, a high-class man like that; what could he want with someone like me? The many answers to that only served to scare me more. That was my thought when I finally got to the apartment, I opened the door, and much to my surprise Edward was already there.

"Edward?" I said smiling as I said his name because I usually had to wait on him, but not tonight; I couldn't have been happier to see him in that moment. At the sound of his name, Edward turned to face me his face briefly reflected in the window glass, and the second I closed the door I was moving speedily towards him. After what had happened that day, I needed him. I needed to feel his arms around me and to know I was safe. That he was there and he would keep me safe.

I needed him to make everything all right. I needed him to just hold me, to kiss him, and without saying a word to protect me. What I really needed was for him to chase away my fear and in that moment the closer I got to him it was like he knew that. Walking over to him, I wrapped my arms around him, and when I felt him do the same I sighed.

"Are you having me followed?" I whispered feeling as he stiffened. After a moment, he pulled away to look at me, and immediately I saw the concern on his face. He was clearly alarmed though not as much as I had expected. Edward kissed me in that moment, it was the gentlest kiss we had ever shared, and shaking his head he simply held me in his arms.

"Of course not. Why?" whispered Edward.

"A very strange man was following me today. He even touched me…it was just the back of my head, but still it scared me. He followed me all day…he just gave me this feeling. I felt like he was going to hurt me. It really scared me," I exclaimed my body shaking as I recounted what had happened to him. Edward did what I needed him to do in that moment. He held me so tight and pressing my head into his chest he kissed the top of my head. And in that moment just like I knew he would he made me feel safe. That said it all in that moment I knew I didn't need to be afraid because he would never let anyone hurt me.

"I've never been that scared before…not even when I first met you," I whispered finally looking up at him catching it as he smiled just a little bit barely letting me see it before it disappeared and smiling back I kissed him.

"It's alright now…you're with me now," breathed Edward kissing me back fiercely his arms around me holding me to him.

"You have nothing to fear…I will always look after you. That is why I have something special for you," whispered Edward running a hand over my face. He kissed me sweetly then and in that moment, I couldn't stop smiling. I had no reason not to anymore, he was here with me now, and he would keep me safe as I knew he would. Standing on tip toe, I smiled as I kissed him one last time instinctively leaning closer to him even as that kiss ended. Part of me wanted to tell him that he shouldn't have gotten me anything that he didn't need to, but looking at him I didn't bother. Anything I said would be useless because I knew I would never be able to control him. Edward Hyde would always do as he pleased. He couldn't be controlled or tamed. And I would never try. I liked him just the way I had found him.

"What have you done?" I whispered looking up at him then smiling still as he held me to his chest his fingers already removing my cloak only for once he didn't rip it off he simply let it fall from my shoulders to the ground.

"Turn around and I'll show you," whispered Edward gripping my waist. I shook my head at him in that moment he was unlike anyone I had ever met. I was sure I would never meet anyone quite like him and I didn't want to. That would take away from that special dark charm that had attracted me to him in the first place.

I smiled at him then as I followed his orders feeling his arms still around my waist. His very touch made me shiver, not in the way the man had before had, but in his way. The way I hadn't known until he came into my life. But suppressing the urge to lean back into his arms I waited not moving to see just what he had up his sleeve.

"Something beautiful to let the world know you are spoken for," breathed Edward making the hairs at the back of my neck rise in the same moment as he placed something around my neck. It was a beautiful cameo necklace with a white figure carved in the center of a green background held around my neck by a simple green ribbon. When I saw it and he had tied it into place I gasped turning to look at him.

"Deny it all you want, but only a gentleman gives a girl jewelry without her having to ask him," I said getting only that smug grin of his in return as I took his face in my hands kissing him.

"How many times must I tell you…I am no gentleman," whispered Edward kissing me deeper. It was our usual type of kiss, the kind where we were trying to devour each other, and when we finally parted we were both slightly short of breath.

"What's this for?" I whispered touching his face as I let him pick me up.

"I need a reason, do I?" said Edward simply carrying me to the bed sitting out and holding me in his lap.

"You are mine to take care of. I want to give you things, pretty things, and I am not going to let you say no to it. It's what you deserve and I want to give you all the things you deserve," whispered Edward making me think again that despite what he said he was a gentleman, my gentleman. I smiled at him in that moment as I leaned in close to kiss him hard. I was the only one who saw this side of him, I knew that in that moment, and it made me happy. In a way, it made him mine. The man from before was all, but forgotten. So was my fear, I was completely safe now; if I was with him I was safe. Edward Hyde was my gentleman, he was my paramour, and even if no one else knew it that didn't matter because I did. He would keep me safe and taken care of. If that man returned I knew I had nothing to fear because I was protected by him. Some may have thought him a monster, but not me. And even if he was, to me, he was my monster. Ending our kiss, I looked at him my eyes half lidded, and suddenly he was all I wanted.

Rising from his lap, I gave him a hint of a smile as I slowly started to remove my clothes. I smiled more the more I felt his eyes on me. I liked the feel of having him watch me as I removed each piece and when I was done I smiled wide as I stood before him. I was completely bared to him now the cameo he had given me the only thing on my body something I saw in his eyes that he enjoyed. It was in that moment that I realized what a different woman I was.

"What have you done to me?" I whispered knowing he would know what I meant as I moved closer to him both of us knowing I would never have done a thing such as this before he entered my life.

"Maybe, I just made you free," said Edward as I came to stand between his legs shivering as he started to touch me.

His hands trailed over up my legs, over the curve of my ass until reaching my waist he grabbed me.

"Edward," I exclaimed in one movement finding myself on the bed on my back my legs spread around him as he towered over me. In that moment he was fierce, he was the man I knew from that day on the street, but something had changed too. In a way, I had made him more tender, he was somehow loving, and smiling at him I knew that that was for me. Only for me. He looked me up and down in that moment and kissing me softly he rose from the bed. I watched him in that moment just like he watched me. I knew what he was going to do that he was going to take off all his clothes just like I did, but that didn't mean I wasn't surprised when he did it. Somehow, he always knew how to surprise me even when I knew what he was going to do. And smiling like a mad woman I watched him leaning back on my elbows my legs always spread as I waited for him to return to me.

He did it far quicker than I did telling me just how excited he was and only when he was naked did he return to me. His body covered mine and looping my arms around his neck I kissed him. As we kissed I felt his hand caressing my back as his went to grab my hip. He used it to pull me closer and when he did I clung to him. I wanted to be right there with him that was why I clung to him in that moment wanting to be as close to him as I could possibly be. And then I felt him. I felt him hard against me digging into my skin and my breath hitched as our eyes met. We didn't need to say anything, we both knew what we wanted, but touching his face I moved him closer. Drawing his lips to mine I said it. I needed him, wanted him. He did things to me I couldn't explain and in that moment, I didn't want them to be explained.

Never in my life did I imagine that I would have such a connection with anyone. But in that moment, I also knew that until this moment it had never been exactly like this with us. I felt this connection with him. In a way, it was almost like I needed him to breath. Something was different, I felt different, like my heart would burst, and I didn't know what that feeling was. It didn't matter though, not then, because it was just Edward and I. Nothing else mattered then that moment with him. I was still kissing him as that all went through my mind. I was still right there in his mind and as I wrapped my entire body around him I felt that feeling deep within me. It was like he was holding me together with his very touch and as he laid me back on the bed his lips never leaving mine I silently wondered if he felt the same.

"Please…I need you," I whispered against his lips feeling as he moved us up the bed in response.

When my head fell back on the pillows I let my whole-body arch into him.

"So, beautiful," breathed Edward letting me feel all of him, the heat of him, the smell of him even his passion, and it was all for me.

"Edward…please," I breathed the very words heavy as I gripped his shoulders as I felt his breath on my throat. I heard him growl as he laved over my skin with his tongue leaving his mark.

I watched him then from heavy lidded eyes and I gasped as I felt him cradle me. He cradled me in his arms and looking at me our eyes met. There was something in them in that moment that I could discern. Part of me didn't want to understand it. There was something in his eyes, I didn't know what it was, but it increased my heartbeat. What did that look mean? As that thought ran through my mind he kissed me. With Edward though a kiss was never simply a kiss. It was like he was telling me something. Telling me that I belonged to him. Telling me that he wanted to rip my clothes off and take me right there. His kisses always meant something and this time was no different. It was like he was possessing me.

"Sometimes I wonder what you think when you look at me," I whispered letting my hands grip his back as his lips left mine.

"I think that you are amazing, beautiful, and mine," said Edward in response emphasizing each word as he let his lips descend down my body leaving little kisses where he wanted. Suddenly he took my breasts in his hands and tracing my nipples with his tongue he teased me even as he gave me what I wanted. I smiled wide at him as he did this my head falling back onto the pillows as he teased them. But the teasing didn't last. Soon I felt him, all of him at my entrance, and as our eyes met I didn't need to say it. I didn't need to tell him anything with us it was implied. When our eyes met he released a growl as he moved slowly.

As he entered me I threw my head back my legs parting more and only when he was deep inside me did his lips return to mine. When he had kissed me for long enough, Edward didn't move, he didn't say anything to me; he only took my hands intertwining our fingers as he pinned them above my head. Edward stared down at me still not moving until suddenly he was. Before I could fully react, he was moving frantically inside me. He was moving like his life depended on it and reaching my head up to kiss him I wondered if maybe that was it.

Maybe it wasn't just me, maybe he needed me as much as I needed him.

"Edward," I rasped nearly overcome by his speed combined with my own desire. As his name left my mouth, his hands moved down my back gripping my ass as he hiked my legs higher around his waist. As his eyes bore into mine then I nearly screamed, I was so close. The feel of his fingers gliding over me only brought me closer. And as his eyes became blacker I knew he was close too.

Pulling him closer, I silently told him I wanted to end this with him. He responded by kissing me.

"Don't stop," I pleaded just before I fell over the edge. Suddenly then I gasped as I came my hands gripping his back as he moved inside me still. Edward stilled then too.

He looked down at me as he came, he still had that look in his eyes, and it stayed there even as he was collapsing on top of me. I held him to me than our breathing in tune with each other as my eyes closed. Here with him was the safest place and in that moment, it was the only place I wanted to be. I only wanted to be with him.

Hyde's POV…

I couldn't get my mind off of what Jekyll said especially as I watched her. Emily lay beside me somewhere between awake and asleep my gift for her standing out around her neck. He had asked if I loved her and looking at her now the truth was I didn't know. I knew I felt something for her, but was it love? As that thought went through my mind, I thought of Jekyll. He had his mind set, he thought he could have her, but he couldn't.

He had followed her, I had put her in danger by taunting him the way I did, and now it had led to him seeking her out. Looking at her in that moment I kissed her forehead making her eyes peak open. Emily smiled at me then as she cuddled closer seeming to sigh as she tried to fall asleep once more. Looking down at her, I thought that I might love her. I might love her and to me that meant one thing. Jekyll could not have her. She was mine, not his, never his.