AN:So I am aware canonically that their father is THE Jekyll and Hyde, but I preferred the idea of it being a condition passed on through their mothers side, and their father is how they relate to Heath.
That is all that I believe need to address at the moment, oh again please give me any advice, opinions, thoughts or criticisms you may have.
Jackson and Holt opened the door and walked in, dreading the impending confrontation with Helena Hyde. Jackson sighed as he set down his bags with the knowledge no matter which side of his mother was out, Sydney would come out at the sign of perceived danger to her family. Surely this would count in her mind, right? Holt followed Jackson into the kitchen greeted by the sight of their mothers Jekyll side, Janet.
"Hey honey, how was school today?" Janet asked from her place at the stove, having started on dinner early today, apparently.
"School was," Holt began, sitting down at the table with Jackson as he searched for the best way to describe it.
"Crazy. School was crazy, Mama" Jackson finished, causing Janet to turn around in confusion, before she could even ask why Holt had turned back to Jackson, she took in the sight of the duo at her table and dropped the plate she was holding in shock. Jackson rushed to help clean up the mess, however in the moment it took for the plate to reach the floor, Janets place had been taken by the more threatening Helena.
"What in the hell is this?" Helena asked quite tersely, Jackson opened his mouth to respond but was promptly cut off by his mother. "Are you ok? Who did this?
"Mom!" Holt raised his voice enough to catch her attention and stop her tirade. "Let Jackson explain please." Helena nodded and redirected her attention to Jackson,still looking like she might explode any moment.
"Thank you Holt." Jackson nodded in his direction. "So I was standing in front of my locker, getting ready for my next lesson when I felt like I was about to change. My stomach felt tight,my vision darkened and then I hit the ground." Jackson sighed and looked to his brother.
"Next thing I knew, I was standing beside our locker and Jackson was on the ground. We were surrounded by kids and Deuce, Heath and Frankie showed up to check the commotion. With no better ideas in mind, and quite frankly being pretty frantic, Jackson was scooped up and we headed down to the nurses office." Holt paused for a moment, looking at his mother to make sure she had kept up so far. "Once there we were both evaluated, and Frankie told us what happened or partially before I kicked her out. Heath spoke to her and he came back with more information. Apparently she convinced the Howleen Wolf, the finder of a genies lamp and girlfriend of said genie, to wish us into separate bodies." Holt stopped and looked to Jackson to continue. Helena was seething but managed to stay quiet...barely.
"I woke up at the end of the day, the school nurse and I figured out that I had some fire elemental powers, if I hadn't, I might not have survived. It seems my powers were sealed into Holt at birth because of our unique condition. Or that's what we came to the conclusion of, I met up with Holt and he told me about the information passed on by Gigi, the genie and our friends." Jackson continued where his brother left off. "Apparently, Frankie convinced her to do so without our express permission by playing up my shyness." Jackson was clearly visibly upset and Helena had enough.
"That's it, I will be making sure Frankie can't hurt you ever again. And the nerve of that Howleen!" She gave Jackson, who was about to interrupt her a Mom Glare and he abruptly closed his mouth. "I don't care if she was manipulated, she shouldn't have done shit without speaking to one of you first!" Helena settled down a bit, the boys taking this as a good sign decided to ask her some questions of their own.
"Uh, Mom? I just-I was wondering, has anything like this ever happened before in our family history?" Jackson ventured. Helena was silent for a moment, considering.
"I do believe," She began, sitting down at the table with her sons. "that there was a story, your about 8 times grandfathers were through some incident or another also separated. I don't know the details, so don't ask" She added as she caught Holt opening his mouth. " According to our family records, Henry and Daniel were always together after that. You could rarely find them without the other, I suppose after so long as one person, it would feel as though part of you was missing. I heard a rumor or too that they became involved but that seemed tp have been unsubstantiated family drama." Helena stopped, waiting to see if they had any other questions.
"Wow... I've never heard that story before." Jackson breathed out. "But I suppose we don't talk a lot of family history either..."
"Guess it's a good thing Mom knew though, but Mom, could we still stay in our same classes? I don't know about Jackson but I'm used to my lessons." Holt explained drumming his fingers lightly on the table. Jackson nodded in agreement.
"I can't see that being an issues, now bedroom arrangements...I suppose one of you needs the guest room?" Helena asked, standing up to return to dinner before it burned.
"No, I think I'd rather stay in my room and Jackson is nodding in agreement here, can we just move the guest bed in there? We can split the room for the 2 of us." Holt answered for the both of them.
"Needed to clean up anyways." Jackson chuckled. Helena had faded back into Janet by this point, turning around to serve them dinner.
"Well...If you're sure, I don't see why not. Oh I think your father just pulled in." Janet smiled as she set the boys to setting the table, the front door opened and closed, and the sounds of someone else coming in could be heard.
"Hey guys, I'm home How wa-" Grantaire was cut off by the sight of his children...