Capture 2 – what we do is secret
Nemo's boots echo on the hard wood floor of the navigation deck. The sound causes the crew to wince as their brains were still not back to normality after last night's celebration.
Henry Jekyll and Tom Sawyer stood in front of the captain as he finished giving orders in Arab. He turns to the men, Tom's arms crosses his chest as if he was prepared at any point to pull his six shooters as Henry stood with his shoulders slouching and his fingers fondling with the chain of his pocket watch.
"We will be arriving in England by this evening," Nemo's eyes shifted towards Henry more than Tom, "It has been informed to me that you have the full patron to return back there doctor."
"Congrants Jekyll," Tom steps in front of the nervous doctor as Nemo smiles with a nod of his head before leaving the two to keep attention on his ship and the hung over crew.
"Well I can't say I'm really that excited," Henry's gaze goes down to the floor as his mind was distracted about something outside of their discussion.
On her way to the coning tower, Mina passes the open door way behind Henry that grabs Tom's attention. "Hey, let bygones be bygones," Tom closes the discussion with a pat on the shoulder as he walks away.
"Royal Family in Danger of Extension!" The young paperboy screams into the busy afternoon London streets.
A tall attractive man passes the boy with a strut of self-confidence in a outfit very much out of date. It fits his muscular frame and broad shoulders well but the once green and brown earth tone colors are faded with age. Stopping at the stonewall keeping from dropping into the River Thames, his brown eyes stair across onto the parliament building as the clock tower chimes at noon.
Henry stares down his desk with a almost bare piece of paper and pen in hand with ink dripping down his hand, "Dear Mary" was all he could produce.
The memories of his last months in England came rushing back. The arrival of the young chambermaid, the way she was respectful and developed deep friendships with both him and Hyde.
"I knew you'd be the death of us," Hyde's voice echoes in his mind. Those were the last words she had to hear from him.
The grunts of someone in the room broke Henry's reflections. He looked at his bed as the voice of Rodney Skinner fills the quit room, "Ahh, Jekyll, morning. What are you doing here?"
"Skinner," Henry was annoy with the invisible man's rude behavior, "your in my room."
"Oh," Skinner looks around the cabin to see that he indeed was not where he thought, "I guess so." Skinner stands up from the bed and stretches, "well good morning anyway."
Henry lets out a small sigh as he crumples the paper and tosses it in the wastebasket beside the desk, "morning."
Tom opens the hatch from the dark cylinder to a beautiful sunny but chilly day. He made his movements quit so he would not distract the sight before him. Mina was staring out on to the seas from the same spot when he was staring at her six months ago.
Softly he closes the hatch and struts up behind her to wrap his arms around her waist and places his face in her freely down auburn hair.
Mina closes her eyes and sighs at his warm body up to hers and hislips kissing the back of her head, "You're staying with me in London. I have a town house in Islington."
"Is that a order?" Tom smiles.
Mina turns in his arms and wraps her arms around his shoulders and kisses him. Their toughs gently slide into each other causing him to moan internally. As much as Tom loves this development in their relationship he breaks the kiss, "Do you think we should tell the rest? About us?"
Mina closes her eyes in thought that she didn't even think about the reaction that not only their friends but the government officials might have, I am above what others think of me, was her attitude not long time. But now it wasn't just her to consider, "I don't know. It might not be a bad idea to keep it-"
"- Under cover." Tom finishes using a word that goes in the line of his work; "it's nothing new to me. After all is one of the things I'm good at."
"At least until we get to know who this Champion Bond," Mina's concerned blue eyes looks right in to his green ones.
"I wouldn't worry if things turn against us. I don't mind breaking away from service." He reassures her as the breeze picks back up and starts blowing her open coat around him.
"You'd give up you job for me?" Mina eyebrow arches in question.
"No just the being paid by the government part. I have enough money to retire on now at age 25," Tom gives her a confident smile before moving lips back on hers.