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@disqus_NnFUI30kih 2 years ago
https://youtu.be/QfCOJLRk2D4
Edit: Well, it appears that we're all going to prison.... aw hell, why not! https://g.co/kgs/oSghuw
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MillieGriffin • 2 years ago
(HELL YEAH JOHNNY CASH!)
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Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
Let's be real, Lanyon's going to have a heart attack.
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
Goodbye Hastie, you'll probably be one of the 5 people I'm going to meet in Hell, so I'll see you there.
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Hastie Lanyon  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
We could throw a party.
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
Like a funeral?
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Catt Hatter  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
OH no you don't! *grabs* I'll drag you to heaven if I have to!
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
*Hela mumbles from a distance* I'd rather be dragged back to the world of the living, if I was her...
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Catt Hatter  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
*blank stare* Why?
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
Because I don't want to be dead. And if you dragged someone meant for Hell to Heaven, don't you think they'd stand out a bit?
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Catt Hatter  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Depends on the structure of Heaven I suppose. If everyone has their own "room" of paradise then probably not.
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
I'd still rather be alive... who knows how long my suite uptop would last in the afterlife, if I ever even got to see one.
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Catt Hatter  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Uh, it's supposed to last for eternity. That's kinda the point. And if you were alive again, you'd end up going back eventually anyway.
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
I don't think stowaways would get an eternity... *looks away* And some more time living, even if it was just a few more days, would be worth it.
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Catt Hatter  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
*Tilts head as they don't have a way to respond to that.*
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago • edited
Cat got your tongue? Something the matter?
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Setae  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
That could be fun. We could get a panel of Jekyll doing mouth to mouth resuscitation on him.
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Hyde without a Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
SECONDED!
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Hastie Lanyon  Setae • 2 years ago
Hon hon hon~
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Setae • 2 years ago
😗😆
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Helen Jekyll  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
Hela: About time. My only complaint is that I wasn't the one who caused it.
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Tairais • 2 years ago
(( Richard and Charricthran served their time man! Heck the police! ))
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Catt Hatter  Tairais • 2 years ago
(( They did? I mean, I get Richard. But Charricthran? That's a story I'd like to hear!))
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Tairais  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
(( Yeah Richard's a bit more understandable than a guy-thing thats a bird 90% of the time, isn't it :P Catt'll just have to ask him about it :D ))
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Catt Hatter  Tairais • 2 years ago
((I guess she will! :D The only question is when.))
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Tairais  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
(( When all the planets, moons, and stars align to give both of us energy and free time at the same time? :P ))
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Catt Hatter  Tairais • 2 years ago
(( XD Fair enough! Let me know when you've got it, and I'll just take coffee to fake it. Sound good? ))
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Tairais  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
(( Sounds great! Hopefully my weekend will be free XD ))
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Catt Hatter  Tairais • 2 years ago
(( Heh, yeah. I work weekends. ^-^; Still, here's hoping! ))
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The Fox • 2 years ago
I love this page. This page is so...ah well I show you.
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
This is the new page. For Hyde, For Jekyll, for the lodgers... Everything as fallen apart within a single night.
GOOD JOB HYDE WAY TO GO BRAVO
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Elaina Hyde • 2 years ago
Dang it, Hyde...
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Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Hela: See? You all can't be mad at me. Edward set all of London on fire, while I merely burned a buffet! Ha!
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Mz.Hyde: Actually, the buffet trumps the city. The buffet is free food, the city is a scary, dark, nasty place.
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Helen Jekyll  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
Hela: You'd rather me engulf a whole city in flames than waste food? *pause* I would agree with you, only, the city is a good place where you can buy some of that food...
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Free food>City
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Helen Jekyll  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
So if I burn down the city... you won't lock me away in Helen's room again?
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Well, now there is no city to burn down, so it doesn't really matter.
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Helen Jekyll  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
Hmp. Fair enough. Maybe next time, then, once they've rebuilt. I could even roast some marshmallows.
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Only if you share the marshmallows.
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Helen Jekyll  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
*scowls* Fine. Deal.
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago • edited
I'll get the Hersheys!
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Helen Jekyll  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
*brightens somewhat* They've already invented that?
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Umm let me check...
*She pulls out her i-phone.*
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Helen Jekyll  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
...how the hell did you get your hands on that? Are you a time traveler or something?
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Hands on what?
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Helen Jekyll  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
That phone... those aren't made until the 2000s.
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Oh...well Hershey's isn't made until 1900. But yet I'm going to go get some. It's called a gag Hela!
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Helen Jekyll  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
The only gags I've seen are the ones for shutting people up... would you like to put one on?
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Oh my....Hela I knew you were bad, but I didn't you liked THAT!
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Helen Jekyll  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
And this is exactly why you need to shut up. *glares*
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RBDECEPTICON17  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Oh my~ Kinky~ X3
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Helen Jekyll  RBDECEPTICON17 • 2 years ago • edited
*growls* Shut up or I'll slit Rose's throat again... and this time there won't be anyone to save her.
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RBDECEPTICON17  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
-Protects my poor gay biscuit-
You stay away from her! -Hisses-
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Helen Jekyll  RBDECEPTICON17 • 2 years ago
You stay away from me! Both of you!
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RBDECEPTICON17  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Fine! We will!
-Walks away with Rose walking along with me-
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Helen Jekyll  RBDECEPTICON17 • 2 years ago
*huffs* About time someone listened to me... *begins to search pockets for a weapon*
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RBDECEPTICON17  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Start running, Rose...now.
Rose: Okay creator.
Rose: -Rushes off ahead of me-
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Helen Jekyll  RBDECEPTICON17 • 2 years ago
She calls you creator? That's creepy... *mumbles, only finding a cookie and starting to munch on it*
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RBDECEPTICON17  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Well I did create her and gave her life upon this site...why is that creepy?
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Helen Jekyll  RBDECEPTICON17 • 2 years ago
It makes you sound like the leader of a cult. *hela explains through a mouthful of cookie*
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RBDECEPTICON17  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
I see myself as more of a mother for her...her own parents were far from nice over her liking towards women and her love for sexology and science.
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Helen Jekyll  RBDECEPTICON17 • 2 years ago
A common enough problem. Lucky for me, I don't have any parents. If I did, I doubt they'd approve of my murder sprees.
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RBDECEPTICON17  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
That is true.
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Helen Jekyll  RBDECEPTICON17 • 2 years ago
So... you're not starting a cult?
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RBDECEPTICON17  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
No I am not starting a cult, Helen.
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Helen Jekyll  RBDECEPTICON17 • 2 years ago
*her eyes darkened with rage* Careful with that name, 'creator', or I'll tear your precious doll apart...
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RBDECEPTICON17  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
-Narrows eyes at you-
Just try and hurt her...there are things about me you don't want to witness.
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Helen Jekyll  RBDECEPTICON17 • 2 years ago
And there's a good amount of lodgers you wouldn't want to anger by harming me. *smirks*
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RBDECEPTICON17  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
-Growls and walks away-
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Helen Jekyll  RBDECEPTICON17 • 2 years ago
*calls after her* Until next time, thorns!
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Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
((MillieGriffin After Millie put away the wagon she washed-up in the infirmary. While she did so her mind began to scold her.
What are you doing? You're not supposed to be getting attached to this world, you shouldn't be trying to make friends! You don't need them! Don't you want to get back home, what about Griffin? You were only supposed to get information from that girl, nothing more!
She shook her head ignoring it. Catt was nice and she still felt bad about stealing her tea. She finished up and went back to the garden with a basket. ))
"What's the basket for?" Catt asked when she'd arrived.
((Also, question. How much does Millie already know about inter-dimensional travel?))
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MillieGriffin  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
"The fruit." She plainly answered then smurked and mused, " Unless you were planning on using your hat."
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Catt Hatter  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago
"O-oh yeah, I forgot." Catt chuckled. "No, I've heard that hats don't cook well. Plus I'm rather attached to this one. Should we grab a variety of fruit, or just one kind?"
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MillieGriffin  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
"We can get a variety and whatever we don't eat I'll just give to Lewis." She said nonchalantly as she set the basket down infront of the fruit plants, "besides I still kind of needto name a lot of these things." She picked a peach-strawberry and put it in the basket.
( Millie actually knows alot about inter-dimensional travel actually, she's from another dimension where she used to work for the government on a spectacular-timpral project, before an accident sent her through another dimension and back in time to Victorian London. Now she needs to find a way back home to her uncle. But since the party role-play this is a little out of date. Still want to finish it though.)
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Catt Hatter  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago
"Sounds like a good plan!" she answered cheerily.
As they gathered the franken-fruits, Catt remembered what she'd been thinking about while she waited.
"Oh! You remember earlier, when we were talking about the Space Folds and Time Creces and how my experiments hadn't been able to punch through to any other dimension?"
(Did you want to employ Catt's inter-dimensional pet sheep in that regard? With Millie's knowledge, they'd probably be able to harness his dimension jumping. Preferably without hurting him though.
Or did you already have a plan for that?)
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MillieGriffin  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
( I didn't know she had an inter-dimensional sheep, sure why not)
"Yes of course?" She said as she cut a bunch of fruits from a tree that were crossed between a fig and date tree, "Why?" She asked curiously.
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Catt Hatter  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago
(Sweet!)
"I, this is going to sound weird, but I got an inter-dimensional lamb for my birthday." Catt set the harvested fruit in the wagon as each was handed to her. "And, I was thinking he might be able to help you if we manage to somehow control his popping in and out of this dimension. As long as he doesn't get hurt, I mean. Marbles is my pet after all."
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago • edited
(What does Marbles look like? :D)
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Catt Hatter  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
(I have this idea that he's kindof a pastel-galaxy patterned lamb, but I'm not sure. He might just look like an ordinary lamb with a ribbon around his neck with a bow at the back.
In any case, he's cute! ^u^)
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
(Aww, that sounds adorable! Soft colors for a soft lamb. ^-^
I do hope Catt's recovered from her little breakdown when she first received him?)
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Catt Hatter  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
(Yeah. ^w^
I remember the breakdown, but, not why it happened. ^-^; Remind me?)
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
(I actually drew a lamb for the Latin story I mentioned. Maybe I can try and color it!
I think it was because she was being given so many pets and the amount of responsibility she'd have with trying to take care of a sheep that teleports was all too much for her.)
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MillieGriffin  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
" An inter-dimensional lamd. . . " She echoed 
this world just gets more interesting by the minute, I'll definitely want to get some DNA samples...
"What makes it pop in and out of this world" She asked curiously.
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Catt Hatter  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago
"I honestly don't know." Catt answered, shaking her head. "I was hoping you'd be able to help me find out."
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MillieGriffin  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
"I'd love to help!" She exclaimed, not even attempting to hide her enthusiasm, "What an opportunity! Where is your lamb, is he in this world right now?" She asked droping more fruits in the basket.
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Catt Hatter  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago
"He usually pops around in the evening when he gets hungry, sometimes he's around earlier though." Catt offered, packing more fruit into the cart.
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Setae • 2 years ago
Well, atleast this isn't enough to hang for. Hopefully... Just in case, is anyone up for having a baby?
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Hastie Lanyon  Setae • 2 years ago
What on Earth are you going to do with a baby?
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Setae  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
Delay the execution, in case they give us a death sentence.
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Hastie Lanyon  Setae • 2 years ago
Clever
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Setae  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
Thank you. I just need to find someone to be the dad.
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Hastie Lanyon  Setae • 2 years ago
Ah y-yes... good luck with that! *Runs off to Lewis*
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Setae  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
I was not that optimistic on you anyway. *sits back, starts jotting down possible alternatives on note pad*
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Helen Jekyll  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
Oooh, something that makes you uncomfortable, Hastie? I had thought you were made of small talk and stone.
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
What's this about making Hastie uncomfortable? *Steps between the two and looks pointedly at Hela*
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
*Cringes and looks away* I was just poking fun at him... Apparently Dr. Lanyon here doesn't want to be a father and the idea of having a child seems to bother him.
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
*Relaxes* Oh, is that all? *Laughs, shakes head* Children can be a handful, but they're worth it.
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
I have my doubts about that. *relaxes as well, since it didn't seem like she'd be punished*
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
*Chortles* Later, Hela...you'll realize the great irony of that statement.
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
*frowns* Can't you just explain it to me now?
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
"I could, but I don't think you'd believe me."
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
"I'd rather hear it and be disappointed than not hear it at all." *crosses her arms*
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
"If you're certain..." he conceded. He noted Hastie and Astrid were still in the vicinity. Lowering his voice to a whisper, Lewis added, "But...we'll need to speak in private, Hela."
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
"In private?" She repeated, rather puzzled. With a glance towards the two others standing nearby, she spoke softly. "Why would it have to be in private?"
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
"Because it pertains to...family matters. Your family, specifically. You may not want everyone to know," he spoke in earnest.
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago • edited
"Oh. You mean Helen's family." She corrected with a touch of disappointment.
I guess I wouldn't mind airing the doctors dirty laundry.
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
"I mean both," clarified Lewis, utterly serious. "You'll understand when I tell you. Shall we?"
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
Shrugging, Hela replied, "Sure, lead the way. You seem to have all the answers."
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago • edited
Hela's room was, thankfully, a secure and private place. As Lewis or someone else would've had to escort her back anyway, it was the logical locale for their conversation.
After locking the door, he suggested:
"You may wish to sit down for this."
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
"What could possibly be so shocking?" Hela asked, but took a seat at her desk anyways. The now locked door had been given a brief glance and a sigh before her attention returned to Lewis.
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago • edited
((Alrighty, so I'm going to put spoilers down below. If you're reading this and have trouble keeping separate what you know and what your character knows, please, please read no further. Thank you. ^_^ ))
Lewis leaned against the door, regarding Hela--her dark hair, her blue eyes, the particularities of her demeanor...
"Hela...there's no easy way to say this, so I'll just speak plainly," he said, holding her gaze and not letting it go.
"I'm your and Helen's ancestor." A pause. "Both."
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago • edited
Propping her elbow on the desk, she rested her cheek in her palm. 
"You can't be serious, Weir." 
Hela told him with narrowed eyes and a slight curl of her lips. 
"I had thought your sense of humor was better than this."
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Lewis sighed.
"I did say you wouldn't believe me," he said with a sad shake of his head.
He broke eye contact and looked down to his right, at the floor, considering what to do, what to say...
Will anything satisfy her? he wondered ruefully. Have I really come so close to family...only to be denied it due to disbelief?
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No. No, I refuse to accept that!
He met Hela's gaze once more, with a determination which bordered on frightening.
"You are, in point of fact, my great-great grandchild,
Hela Hyde. If proof you must have...I shall give it."
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago • edited
"Alright then, grandpa." She replied, sitting up. "Prove it. You seem confident enough that you can."
Great grandchild... yeah right.
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago • edited
"I'll start with words, and logic. If you don't see the truth after those, I'll move on to...other things," Lewis explained.
"I'm from another dimension, but not another time, if that makes any sense. The technology I have access to can't do time travel."
He paused.
"But Helen did. Fell through a painting and back in time, so I understand. Over a hundred years. And she traces her lineage all the way back to the first child of Dr. Henry Jekyll--this dimension's Henry Jekyll, so she thinks. The Society's co-founder."
Another pause.
"She's mistaken. But she can't help that; not even Henry will know,
if I play my cards right." He smiled.
"He will marry one day. And his fiancée will be eager to consummate the union...lest she lose her good reputation," he said with a knowing smirk.
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
Hela wrinkled her nose. "That's a little too much information, doctor." Heat flooded her cheeks and she let out a huff. "Besides, how does that, of all things, prove your relation to me?"
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
He chuckled in amusement.
She is so easily flustered... he reflected.
He let out a breath to calm himself, attempting to be more serious.
"That explains my relation to Helen, which is the first bit.
The second is my relation to you," he clarified.
"To learn that, I want you to ask yourself: How does Lewis know so much about Jekylls and Hydes?"
He was enjoying this game. It had been a long time coming.
Put the pieces together, Hela. Put. The pieces. Together.
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago • edited
He's toying with me. She thought and turned a shade darker. 
"I don't know, research? Experience? An old man's wisdom?" Her fingers drummed on the desk, thumping softly. "I really am trying to humor you."
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
"I appreciate that, Hela," he said genuinely. "So I'll just tell you: It's experience. Experience with my dimension's Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde. Whom I helped."
He looked at her dead-on.
"Who I am."
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
So this is why he wanted me to sit down.
"You can't possibly be..." She trailed off and her brow creased with thought, fingers ceasing their movement.
"How do you expect me to believe a claim like that?" It came out more as a demand than a question.
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
"Do you not see the resemblance?" he asked.
"The angle of your cheek--granted, watered down a bit through time and generations.
"The fact that your hair darkens instead of lightening, when you go from Jekyll to Hyde. That's not like this dimension's Henry and Edward. It's like me," he said, touching the nails of his left hand to his chest.
"You're of leaner build than your counterpart," he added.
"Your jawline's not that different from mine.
"And you're decently tall, especially for a woman. Where do you think you get your height? 
"Hell," he said, "you're even ambidextrous, though you play at being left-handed."
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
Quietly, Hela began to piece together a reply, warily holding Lewis's gaze.
"The doctor... altered the serum that she first took in attempt to prevent something like me from happening. It wasn't complete, so she thought... well, both of us believed my appearance was due to that. A simple shift in the components caused the deviation from the usual blonde hair and small stature of Hydes, along with the other traits."
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
"That's a logical assumption for you and the doctor to make. Particularly given that you didn't know...what I've told you," he said with a dip of his head.
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
She chuckled softly. "You're thorough, I'll give you that... But explain to me how Helen's last name is Jekyll while you're a Weir."
What do you hope to gain from this, Lewis? She wondered as she closed her eyes for a moment.
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
He laughed.
"As I mentioned...I'll find Jekyll's bride-to-be. This dimension's Jekyll's.
"As for my name...I've no more attachment to 'Lewis Weir' than I do 'Dr. Nick Lewsome' or 'Ned Balfour' or 'Louie Scott' or any other alias I've used.
"And I couldn't exactly turn up in this dimension and introduce myself as Harry or Ed, now, could I? Not if I wanted people to get to know me for me, to let me in and not make assumptions about me before they'd even laid eyes on me."
"You know what it is to be judged...just for bein' what we are,"
he added softly.
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago • edited
We. She repeated in her mind, wondering at the thrill it sent through her.
Me and Lewis.
Well, whatever his real name is, anyways. Him and I. She corrected herself.
"Oh, wonderful. Stealing others wives. Now I know for certain you are a Hyde."
Silence as she studied his expression.
"If you're not Lewis or Weir, what do I call you?"
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago • edited
Not so much "stealing" as "borrowing"... he thought with a smirk. Before they're actually wed.
"You could always call me 'grandpa'," he half-joked with a sideways smile. "But any of those names'll do, too, if you like."
He reflected a moment.
"My own grandfather's name was Lewis." He shrugged. "It's as good as any."
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
"But it's not your name." She pointed out, frowning. Her tone was thoughtful as she tried to absorb everything he had shared.
"What's your birth name, your real name? The thing your parents called you."
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
"'Henry Jekyll', as I've said. Though it's only as much my 'real name' as 'Helen Jekyll' is yours, to be fair. Names..." he trailed off, looking thoughtful.
"Names are conveniences." He shook his head. "Nothing more."
He held her gaze.
"I am who I am," he said with a shrug, "regardless of what I'm called."
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago • edited
"Well, I thought I had a pretty good idea of who you were." She let out a sigh. "Turns out I was wrong about you. Again."
"If this is all true, Helen is descended from a b*****d child of your own making, you're another doctor with a split personality, and I didn't even know your real name until now."
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago • edited
"As I've said...that's no more my real name than 'Helen' is yours. Original name? Yes. 'Real' name? Debatable. Don't get caught up in names. Just keep calling me 'Lewis', if you must call me something.
"You're my descendant just as much as your counterpart is, by the by--my personality isn't split; it's merged. A fully equal integration. Exactly what I'm trying to help you and your other half with. I have access to the Hyde and the Jekyll, at my pleasure, a slave to neither. I'm free.
"Do you remember what I said to you when we first met, Hela? That you have the chance to be more fully human than most people can ever imagine? I'm living proof that it's possible. A whole which is greater than the sum of its parts. Something other than the common ruck and run of humanity.
"It's the way forward."
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
Hela leaned back in her chair, avoiding Lewis's Henry's the doctor's gaze with a dip of her head. 
"I don't want to become like you. I'd rather stay the way I am now, progress be d*mned."
"To be honest with you, since you seem to value truth telling so much, you sound... like Helen did when she first started her work." A faint smile curled her lips. "And look where that got her."
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago • edited
"Oh, I'm well aware of your recalcitrance, Hela--where do you think you get it? And your ability to cast me as more like your counterpart than like yourself.
"I've noticed you default to viewing others as unlike you, so that you can retain your sense of uniqueness--the rock upon which you've built your own identity. If someone is similar to you--has even walked the path ahead--you go through mental gymnastics to convince yourself otherwise. Because...if you ever admitted I'm like you, or you're like me...you'd no longer be able to see yourself as separate, as someone no one else could possibly understand. So you reject the one person who actually does."
He smiled, rueful and self-satisfied at once.
"Fair enough. To be honest, I half expected it. You're only human, as of yet.
"Not to worry, though. You'll progress, or you'll stagnate. You'll evolve...or you'll perish by your own shortsightedness, and I'll be the one to bury you. Either way--like it or not--we're still family."
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago • edited
She shuddered and drew her legs to her chest. "Stop talking like..." 
Like you know me, like you own me, like you can control me.
"...like that. I don't care if we're related by blood, you are not my family..."
"I'm not even your patient, so just leave me to rot away in here. It's the least you can do, considering all you've done to me."
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
"Well," said Lewis with a shrug, "it's true any relationship is a two-way street. I can't forge a bond with you if you're unwilling.
"My question is...why are you unwilling?
"Are you afraid you'll disappear? You won't, I can assure you. You'll actually be stronger than ever.
"Do you fear you'll form a bond with me--that it will make you vulnerable? I can tell you from experience, attachment is a welcome thing. Once you have someone you care for, you'll wonder why the Hell you waited so long.
"Or do you confuse resistance with independence? Now, that, I could understand. It's an easy trap to fall into; I've done so myself on many an occasion. An 'I'll be damned if that's so' sentiment." He looked at her earnestly. "You're welcome to do so. Cut off your nose to spite your face, as it were. I'd be rather surprised if you didn't, frankly." He chortled. "We're a stubborn lot.
"With that in mind," he said, straightening up, "I'll give you some time. I'm a patient man. And I know this is all quite a bit to absorb."
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
"Ah, yes. Now you leave... Throw a gernade and run, right? Get away from the blast when you have the chance. Wouldn't do for your consequences to catch up with you." 
Her chest ached and she rested a hand over her heart. It's pulse wasn't any faster than usual, so why did it hurt?
"What do I need time for? My answer now is the same as it'll always be... I want to be left alone and I sure as Hell don't want your 'help'."
She lifted her head, smiling bitterly at him. "But I'm sure you already knew that, didn't you?"
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago • edited
"This is no grenade," he said with a shake of his head, looking at Hela as if she'd not understood a word he'd uttered. "It's a basket of flowers complete with my heart."
He shrugged, but held eye contact.
"Crush it underfoot if you like. I'll not run. Let the consequences be what they are." His tone was firm, his words truthful. A resigned sadness bordering on pity permeated his gaze. Yet he remained determined.
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
"Flowers don't tear people apart and turn the world upside down... So the heart must be sharp as knife." 
The words came slowly, addressed to no one, each heavy with weariness.
"Or maybe it's the basket, woven from brambles and the stems of roses. It would certainly discourage crushing it, for no one wants thorns in their feet."
"Well, it doesn't really matter the contents; they still hurt the same anyways."
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago • edited
Lewis nodded. Inhaled. Exhaled. Leaned back against the door.
"Ay, Hela," he not only acknowledged but empathized. "The truth does."
Hurts me, too, he may as well have said, by the look in his eye.
A sigh.
It is what it is.
...
And I love you still.
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
She shifted her gaze from Lewis to the door, then met his gaze again.
"I've always heard the truth will set you free..." She began timidly, biting her lip. "Is... there any chance I could...?"
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
"Ay," he said, a small smile spreading. "There is."
He straightened, and pulled out the key.
Unlocking the door, he reminisced:
"D' you remember, Hela? The first thing I hoped we could do, when we made each other's acquaintance...was simply to go for a walk. Just that."
He turned to her as he opened the door, and held it for her.
"We're long overdue, don't you think?"
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago • edited
She nodded once, then twice, slowly rising from her chair. "I... didn't think you'd actually..."
"Yeah. I think a walk would be a welcome change." She answered, staring at the open doorway and laughing softly in disbelief. 
I just wonder what the price of it will be.
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Catt Hatter  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
(( /)^u^(\ Aww! ))
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
((Bonding time with Grandpa Lewis! :3 Now they just need some bunnies or something to show up. :P))
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago • edited
"The Regent's Park is lovely this time of year," he opined, still holding the door for her. "Have you ever been?"
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
"I don't think so... I haven't had the chance to do any exploring and the doctor doesn't spend much time away from work." She admitted as she took a few steps towards him before pausing to ask, 
"Does this mean you'll be taking me outside?"
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
"Yes," he acceded. "I've wanted to from the beginning, to be honest. Just...kindly don't run away. That's all I ask. A walk from here to the park. We can spend the whole day there if you like. And then a walk back to the Society. We can return in time for the evening meal, or get something while we're out."
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
An all day trip to a park and dinner.
And all I have to do is stay with him.
"I... might be able to manage that." said Hela and walked out through the doorway, quickly drawing back from Lewis as if fearing a blow. She avoided his gaze, seeming to find the floor much more intriguing, and stood a few feet away from him.
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Hastie Lanyon  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
(WHAT.)
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Helen Jekyll  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
(I know! Isn't is awesome? :D
This means if Lewis and Hastie hook up, Hela will be one of his in laws. XD)
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Hastie Lanyon  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
(Hastie would freak out if he knew.)
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Helen Jekyll  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
(Good freak out or bad freak out? XD)
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Hastie Lanyon  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
(Pretty bad!)
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Helen Jekyll  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
(I want to see that! XDD
Lewis would be warning him about coming to meet his folks and Hastie would probably say it was fine and then Lewis just shows him Hela. XD)
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Hastie Lanyon  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
The prospect of fatherhood is enough to make any rock tremble.
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Helen Jekyll  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
Not to mention the mess the children would no doubt make...
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Seems the same to me as keeping pets. You can concievably train small children and animals the same way.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
Hm, I suppose it's probably more legal in this time period... less rules about human rights.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
I said train, not treat like garbage.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
*shrug* Same difference. 
(Note to self: Hela shouldn't be a parent.)
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Remind me to never let you in on my property.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
And why wouldn't you want a Hyde like me around?
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
You make me nervous for my animals safety.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago • edited
Oh... your animals would be fine. I'm rather fond of non-human creatures.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Well, now I kinda hope you don't keep any pets, if you think training and abuse is the same thing.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
Helen... does have a kitten. I don't try and train him, though. He's already a good cat.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Lucky him it sounds like. What's his name?
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
Leo. Elaina named him, I think.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Nice name. Especially fitting for a cat I guess. Do you really feel equal hate towards all of mankind?
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
*nods* I have for... nearly everyday of my life.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
*hela shudders* Can't you just say you're going to have a child?
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
What's wrong with 'having a baby'?
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
It's a lifetime of work and commitment... not to mention they whine until they move out.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Well, if it saves me from the gallows I'm sure I'll learn to love it.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
Hm, your loss. Escape is always an option.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
*pricks ears up* Is it? How?
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
*shrug* Lots of ways. I mean, you'll be locked away with a society of mad geniuses. Surely at least one of them would come up with something to get you out.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Huh. I suppose that is rather likely. But still, what then? We'd be on the run from the law.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
A change of identities. Move to somewhere remote. A much better plan than simply trying to delay an execution you may or may not be given.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
I guess you're right. But then again, we could be caught before we get so far. I'm sticking with this plan for the worst case scenario.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
Your loss. *grins* Have fun with your new alarm clock.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Oi, I didn't mean I didn't wan't to try and escape. I just have a back up plan.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
A terrible plan, seeing how it'd only buy you a few months. You'd still be executed once you have had the child, right?
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Not necessarily. Luckily most people, even within the judicial system, think it's kinda cruel to orphan a child. I might buy a few years or more.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
You didn't strike me as the type to use human empathy against someone. *grin*
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
It's mostly because I don't want to die.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
Ah, self preservation. Are you any good at it?
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Moderately I'd say.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
Well, you have survived this long... any tips or tricks you've learned?
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Don't ever rush, plan ahead, don't call attention to yourself, spend a lot of time around venomous creatures.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
Well, I've done... *pause* None of those things. Huh. And yet I still live.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Well, I said what works for me. But I do wonder how you're not dead.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
Friends in high places, I suppose. Helen makes a good shield.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
You'd be wise to keep her around then.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
As long as she's useful, she'll remain in one form or another.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
I hope she'll remain regardless frankly. But I guess it's good you atleast want to keep her existing for now.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago • edited
What would you be willing to do to "keep her around", as you said?
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
You want to know if I'd try to kill you?
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
Yes, but that's not why I asked.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Then why?
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
I like to make deals. I was wondering if you'd like to negotiate one.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Depends. What do you propose?
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
I won't try to get rid of Helen in exchange for you giving me supplies.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
*narrows eyes* Supplies for what?
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
Self defense and some tools to escape imprisonment.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
*narrows eyes even further* I don't know. I don't think I could give anything you could use for self defense.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
Would you rather have Helen and I slaughtered because I couldn't defend myself?
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago • edited
No, of course not. But how do I know you won't use it to torment or murder people? You seem rather inclined to do so.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
You'll have my word... though I suppose you want collateral as well, don't you?
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Yes. I don't really trust you.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
*thinks for a moment* I could give you a vial of the serum. You could use it on me, if you decided I wasn't using the supplies properly.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Hmm. Don't you have to drink it for it to work?
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
Helen has managed to create a version that can be taken via injection... and I've heard you have dark guns and such that might be able to use it.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
*considers for a while* It's true, but I doubt they'll let us keep any kind of weapon in prison. I already don't like the idea of having to get up close to you, and if we end up in different cells, how would I ever stop you?
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
I didn't mean imprisonment in an actual jail... The doctor's room is enough of a cage and I'm tired of staring at the same four walls.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Haah, no, you're talking about Lewis, right? I'm not going to help you there. I think it's much better you remain under his supervision.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
*scowls* Fine then, I'll simply continue chipping away at Helen until she's nothing but a broken puppet...
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
You just said you needed her! Wouldn't it be to your own benefit to leave her be?! *he snarls at Hela*
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago • edited
I never said I needed her whole... Besides, she's already falling to pieces anyways... Think of it as putting her out of her misery.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
What do you mean 'already falling to pieces'? Isn't it because of you?
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
No, no, her parents had twisted and bent her out of shape long before I was created... It's almost like a Jekyll tradition, the way they all grow up hurting yet still faking a smile.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
*he grimaces* Did you do something actually usefull and kill them?
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
*She sighed.* The doctor wouldn't allow it and I wasn't strong enough to fight her back then. *meets his gaze* But believe me, I would've killed those two hypocrites if I could.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Would Helen allow it now?
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
Absolutely not. But she wouldn't be able to stop me now, with how weak she's getting.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Helping you escape is still a bigger risk than I'm willing to run. And thinking it over, I'm not convinced it would really benefit Helen in the long run.
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Elaina Hyde  Setae • 2 years ago
All of my characters are out
Elaina's gay
Alicia's fiancé would find out and kill you
And Florence
Technically??? He could??? But he wont
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Setae  Elaina Hyde • 2 years ago
*crosses names of list*
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Miss-Dreamerkat  Setae • 2 years ago
Kito is out since he'll kill anyone that tries that with him, unless they go through a special ceremony to become mates. Even then he still is out
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Setae  Miss-Dreamerkat • 2 years ago
Welp. No werewolf then.
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Miss-Dreamerkat  Setae • 2 years ago
He's more of a sharpshooter actually that can change in to wolf
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Miss-Dreamerkat  Setae • 2 years ago
Shapeshifter not sharpshooter stupid auto correct
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Setae  Miss-Dreamerkat • 2 years ago
I thought that was what you meant :P
Duly noted. I just default to werewolf everytime it's a wolf-shapeshifter.
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Miss-Dreamerkat  Setae • 2 years ago
I see.
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Hyde without a Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
I highly doubt Alice will do it but you can always ask!
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Setae  Hyde without a Jekyll • 2 years ago
Happily.
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Background Scientist #37  Setae • 2 years ago
Ehh sorry...
Gemma's ace
Scarlet's also ace
And Jay... Well... Jay.. *looks into the distance to see him doing the chicken dance*
I have no clue.... *nervous laughter*
I wish you luck!
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Hyde without a Jekyll  Background Scientist #37 • 2 years ago
Jekyll1886 posted something for you above just fyi. They were trying to tag you but couldn't. Here's a link to the post they made: https://disqus.com/home/cha...
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Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago • edited
So the other day I was telling a friend of mine about the RPS and about a few of the stories that have been written when I suddenly remembered Hastie basically being left for dead in a street in the middle of the night. Did anyone ever pick him up?
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Jekyll1886  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
What? When? Was it before I started roleplaying here?
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Hastie Lanyon  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago • edited
It happened a while ago, last summer I think... It was a vampire thing and people were placing bets on whether Hastie would get bitten or not.
EDIT: I just found the wiki page of the story and apparently Solja got him off the street.
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Jekyll1886  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
Oh, good.
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Hastie Lanyon  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
He never got any treatment though... fancy dating a vampire? :p
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Jekyll1886  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
XD Weirdly, that would not be a deal-breaker for Lewis...
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Hastie Lanyon  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
Mwahaha! Lewis has some interesting standards.
It's not canon, I don't think. It was never really finished nor incorporated in later stories.
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Jekyll1886  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
...Yeah........... I just have to shake my head, sometimes. XD
That's handy, then. Explains how Hastie can be out in sunlight and all.
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Hastie Lanyon  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
He'd wither away without it, stupid little orchid-man. It would be interesting to do a vampire AU though.
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Jekyll1886  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
True!
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Helen Jekyll  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
Maybe it can be a temporary thing this Halloween!
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Helen Jekyll  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
Awww, that would be tragic... a vampire who loves the sun... ;~;
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Hastie Lanyon  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Hastie would probably deny the fact that sunshine hurts him up to a certain point.
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Hyde without a Jekyll  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago • edited
((Just gonna put this here before I disappear into the internet-less void. But claude studied crypto diseases so if his form of vampirism is treated as a disease it COULD take some time to build up in hastie's system. Slowly. And the changes unnoticeable at first. Okay I've said my 2 cent! *disappears until new computer is found*)
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Helen Jekyll  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
*Hela peeks her head in* Can Hastie bite me?
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Hastie Lanyon  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
He probably could if given a good reason.
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Helen Jekyll  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
*grins* Perfect. *runs off to burn all of Vampire!Hastie's clothes and paperwork*
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Hastie Lanyon  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
I think he would rather find some clothes than bite you x)
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Helen Jekyll  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
Oh... *pauses, thinking* What if I hurt Catt? Or Lewis? *grins wider* Or Helen?
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Hastie Lanyon  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Let's see... if you hurt Helen then it'd be kind of counterproductive to bite you because then she would get hurt twice. He wouldn't go that far for Catt, but if you give it some more time... he might just lash out for Lewis. But he'd have to be hungry too because blood is yucky to him.
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Helen Jekyll  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
I see... I suppose I could always cut myself and wait around for the smell of blood to drive him mad.
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Hastie Lanyon  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Now THAT would work.
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Helen Jekyll  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
Great! I'll get right to it! *pulls out her knife* You wouldn't happen to know where he is, would you?
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Hastie Lanyon  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
W-well, I mean, he's kind of on an adventure at the moment.
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Helen Jekyll  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
And your point is...? *scowls*
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Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
( Mz.Hyde We should really get that opium, it's been ages.)
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
(Yes, we need to feed your drug addiction.)
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Hastie Lanyon  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
(It's not... oh nevermind. Do you remember where we left off?)
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
(I believe you were dragging me off into a random direction.)
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Hastie Lanyon  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
(Ah, yes that's right. Do you want to start?)
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
(You're the one dragging me somewhere.)
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Hastie Lanyon  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
*Hastie chose to forego the main entrance and took Mz. Hyde down to the kitchens and out the back entrance. On the way he had picked up an old cloak that would hopefully shield him from the eyes of people who might recognise him.*
You know the way to the black market right?
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
Yes, but if you want a large amount of opium, you won't find it there.
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Hastie Lanyon  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
Alright, where do we go then?
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
*She goes over to the nearest manhole cover and lifts it.* 
The underworld.
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Hastie Lanyon  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
... You're kidding, right?
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
Do I look like I'm kidding? 
*She looks like she's not kidding.*
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Hastie Lanyon  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
But it's the sewers. And I'm wearing a tailored suit. I can't go down there!
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
Well, this is the only way to the underworld other than the mirror in my room!
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Hastie Lanyon  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
... You have a magical portal mirror in your... why didn't you say so in the first place?
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
Because you dragged me out of there as soon as I agreed to help you!
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Hastie Lanyon  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago • edited
*Hastie sighed and walked back towards the kitchen.* Alright, let's go through the mirror.
(But let's make them go back through the sewers because it would be hilarious.)
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
(Of course! 😸) 
*Mz. Hyde followed Lanyon back into the kitchen and then led him up to her room. When they get there, she points at her mirror.* 
My customers come in through here. It's gotta lead somewhere down there right? 
*She puts her head in the mirror, but immediately comes back out with a look of horror on her face​.* 
Are you SURE you don't want to go via the sewers?
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Hastie Lanyon  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
(What's on the other side?)
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
(Put your head in and find out! XD)
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Hastie Lanyon  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
Tsk, the day I set foot in the sewers is the day I'll strip down to my socks and swim across the Thames. *Hastie stepped through the mirror without hestitating.*
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
*Hastie finds himself in a bathroom, with a green slime lady in the bathtub. She screams, but then smirks naughtily at Hastie when she's had a better look.* 
Well hello there cutie!~
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Hastie Lanyon  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
Oh god! *Hastie shielded his eyes from the... thing before him. * I, ah- Oh god... Mz. Hyde!
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
You still hate the sewer?
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Hastie Lanyon  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
What is that.
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
What is what? Oh! You mean Doris? She's one of my customers! See, all of my customers use the mirror in their homes to get here. So the mirror must be a two lane road right? 
*She hits the side of the mirror and pokes her head back in.*
Ugh, looks like it's on the fritz. I can't get it to change.
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Hastie Lanyon  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
*Hastie turned back to the mirror and stuck his head through.* 
Mz. Hyde, fix this. Now. And I'll have a word with you about your business later.
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
I don't think I can. The mirror is on the fritz. It's stuck on this channel. We can either go through here, or go through the sewer. 
"I don't mind letting you two through here...under one condition." 
What?
"A big smooch from that handsome fellow you have there!" 
Hastie, you up for it? 
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Hastie Lanyon  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
*Hastie paled as he turned back towards the slime lady who was slowly making her way towards him, leaving a slimy trail on the floor. In all honesty the thought of doing either of these things made him puke a little in his mouth. Maybe if he could go for a smooch on the cheek... if he could find this thing's cheek....*
I am not wading through a knee-deep stream of human waste. *He hestitantly walked towards her and gave her a quick peck on what he assumed was her cheek. When Hastie tried to pull away she grabbed him by the arms and pulled him back.*
"Not so fast big boy~"
(Oh it hurts, I'm so sorry Hastie.)
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
(And she sounds like the teacher from Star VS FOE!! XD) 
*Doris gives Hastie a big smooch, leaving him covered in green slime.* 
"Hee hee, alright you two can come through!"
Thanks Doris, you can expect a big discount on your next order!
*Mz. Hyde grabs a small purse in her room and then crosses over the threshold.* 
You ready Hastie?
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Hastie Lanyon  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
Let's just go. *Hastie stalked past Mz. Hyde and over the threshold, all the while trying to get as much slime off of him as he could.*
Don't you dare tell anyone about this!
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago • edited
Sure thing, Nastie Hastie. 
*Mz. Hyde and Hastie go out the bathroom door and down the stairs. There's a baby slime playing with his baby toys in a play pen.* 
Hey Sampson! 
*The little slimer giggles at her.* 
No, I can't play with you right now, maybe later though! 
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Hastie Lanyon  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
So how much is this going to cost me?
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
Cost you what?
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Hastie Lanyon  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
How much money. I have to pay this out of my own pocket, how much am I going to lose?
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
I don't know. The store we're going to takes many forms of currency, as most shops in the underworld do. It's going to really depend on how much opium you want.
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Hastie Lanyon  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
Many forms of currency? What, like virgins blood and milk teeth? Why not throw in some fairy dust while we're at it.
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
Meaning, in addition to the pound, they also take currencies from other countries or things of equal value, like alcohol.
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Hastie Lanyon  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
Oh, so now they act like regular people!
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
*She opens the front door, annoyance written on her face.* 
What do you mean NORMAL people?!
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Hastie Lanyon  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
Oh, I don't know, people not made of slime?
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
Not everyone here is a slimer!
*She leans into Hastie's face, dead serious.* 
And if I were you, I'd keep little comments like that to yourself. Got it?
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Hastie Lanyon  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
*Hastie stood up a little straighter and looked at her down the bridge of his nose.*
Just help me find what I need, Mz. Hyde. Then I'll be happy to leave all the little slimeballs behind me.
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
And the little slimeballs will be glad to see you go. 
*She motions for Hastie to step out of the house. He steps out onto a narrow street that looks almost exactly like one in London, but with the addition of the various monsters, glowing mushrooms instead of lampposts, and the occasional staglamite in the road. The whole city is surrounded by a huge rocky cavern, complete with stalactites on the roof. To the west was a gothic castle looming over the city. In the east was a road that was busy with travelers. To the north, the floor gave out to the darkness; leaving only a small winding path that lead up to a massive gate. Hastie didn't know why, but he felt pulled there; even this far away from it. He didn't notice he was staring at it until Mz. Hyde broke him out of his trance.* 
Dr. Hastie Lanyon, let me the first to welcome you to the underworld! 
*She curtsies.*
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Helen Jekyll  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
(You have no idea how touched I am by the fact that Hastie would go through all of this just to help Helen! ^-^ And I guess help Hela too.)
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RBDECEPTICON17  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
-Sneaks up behind Hastie...and kicks him into the sewers-
Have fun down there, Hastie! X3
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Hastie Lanyon  RBDECEPTICON17 • 2 years ago
(Is this an AU since we're technically past this?)
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RBDECEPTICON17  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
(An alternate situation, yes. X3)
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Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
I don't know about you guys, but I'm 100% okay with roleplaying everyone in the Society reacting to this weeks page and having all the characters arrested, even if it's only temporarily or if some escape. :D
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Elaina Hyde  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
I second
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
I was actually thinking that! Maybe next week since it's the first week of hiatus.
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Jekyll1886  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
Sounds good to me!
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Miss-Dreamerkat  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
I like this idea
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Helen Jekyll  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
That would be a great way to fill in the time!
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Yeah!
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
And I actually want Hela to be cellmates with Mz. Hyde!
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Helen Jekyll  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
That would be great! XD
They can have a nice long chat about The Shot in the Dark!
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Catt Hatter  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
I wanna read that!
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
It would certainly be interesting!
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Sounds cool.
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Hastie Lanyon  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Yes PLEASE.
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Helen Jekyll  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
Hastie should be in the same cell as Mz. Hyde and Hela! XD
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Hastie Lanyon  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
He would die... again!
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Helen Jekyll  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
Hela's cool with that, as long as she gets to do the killing (or at least take credit for it). XD
"That's right, I was so intimidating, he had a heart attack and died!"
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Hastie Lanyon  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
That's probably what's going to happen, yes x)
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Helen Jekyll  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
And I'm sure she'd think she's got everyone convinced... until Ghostie Hastie comes and tells the truth. XD
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RBDECEPTICON17  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
I'm down for the idea. X3
But Rose is sharing a cell with Hastie Lanyon! X3
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Hastie Lanyon  RBDECEPTICON17 • 2 years ago
Any specific reason as to why us two in particular?
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RBDECEPTICON17  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
Because she likes you, thinks your fabulous, and would prefer to be protected by a fellow gay. X3
(You are gay...correct?...Or am I an dingus? XD)
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Hastie Lanyon  RBDECEPTICON17 • 2 years ago
(I... forgot. He's either gay or bi, but I don't remember which. I'll go check if I wrote it down somewhere.)
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RBDECEPTICON17  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
(That's cool, Hastie. X3)
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Hastie Lanyon  RBDECEPTICON17 • 2 years ago
(Okay, I couldn't find anything. Being bi would make sense because canon, but look at him. He is hella gay. I hereby decide that he's gay.)
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RBDECEPTICON17  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
(And Rose is officially a lesbian, so it would be nice to maybe have them discuss how they feel about their sexuality and maybe even feelings as well together...because it would be really sweet and I would honestly like to see Rose have another friendship within this group. X3)
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Hastie Lanyon  RBDECEPTICON17 • 2 years ago
(Let's bond over the gay! ...in prison... Oh well, why not?)
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RBDECEPTICON17  Hastie Lanyon • 2 years ago
(Indubidably Hastie! X3)
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Helen Jekyll  RBDECEPTICON17 • 2 years ago
Oh god, so Hastie, Rose, Mz. Hyde, and Hela are all cell mates. XDD
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RBDECEPTICON17  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Heck yeah!! X3
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Helen Jekyll  RBDECEPTICON17 • 2 years ago
Hela won't know who to try and kill first! XD
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RBDECEPTICON17  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Oh god. 0_0
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Helen Jekyll  RBDECEPTICON17 • 2 years ago • edited
Don't worry, she probably won't have any weapons on her and I'm sure Lewis would be nearby. And Hastie can just sass her away.
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RBDECEPTICON17  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Sweet! Thank you, Lewis! ^-^
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Hyde without a Jekyll  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
I like it!! I think Alice would like to be either with Jasper Jekyll or Catt Hatter or Mz.Hyde whoever she can be with. ...The last she was in jail it was not pleasant for her.
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Helen Jekyll  Hyde without a Jekyll • 2 years ago
Well, if she ends up with Mz. Hyde, she might also have to deal with Hastie, Rose, and Hela. Everyone's calling dibs on cell mates, I think. XD
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Hyde without a Jekyll  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Maybe not then... XD That sounds like a disaster waiting to happen...a beautiful, beautiful disaster. Plus it also sounds a bit crowded.
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Helen Jekyll  Hyde without a Jekyll • 2 years ago
Hela won't know who to try and kill first! XD
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Hyde without a Jekyll  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
XDDD You're right! But just don't make Mz. Hyde mad. You remember what happened last time....
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Helen Jekyll  Hyde without a Jekyll • 2 years ago
I remember and I'm sure Hela does too. O-o
If her nightmares weren't so preoccupied with Catt and Lewis, I bet Mz. Hyde would be in them.
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Hyde without a Jekyll  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
No doubt! And they just might be again if she does anything to them!
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Helen Jekyll  Hyde without a Jekyll • 2 years ago
I'm hoping they'll merely get into a lovely argument instead. ^-^
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Hyde without a Jekyll  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
*is placing a bet that a fight will break out*... sorry what was that? I was busy.
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Helen Jekyll  Hyde without a Jekyll • 2 years ago
XDDD
You won't win much, since the odds of that happening are high!
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Setae  Hyde without a Jekyll • 2 years ago • edited
Could people interact between cells? And can Astrid meet with Alice as a cellmate? (And potentially ask her if she wants to be co-parent?)
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
I think so! I was picturing the good old fashioned bar cells.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Okay. I think Astrid might throw stuff at Hela at some point.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
Like what? And why? XDD
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Anything. Probably something from his pockets. If Hela turns murderous.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
When is Hela not murderous? XD
*cough* Usually when she's either A) Scared half to death B) given lots of food or C) surrounded by fluffy creatures to play with. *cough cough*
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
(Duly noted.) 
Fair point. It would probably just be his reaction when she eventually tries to kill someone.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
Throwing things at an angry Hyde about to kill... sounds like a good idea. XD
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Well, it might distract them for a bit.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
Hopefully long enough for someone to hit her on the head and knock her out.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
That would be the ideal outcome.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
Probably not the best for her health, though. She seems to get knocked out a lot.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
True. It could lead to a bit of brain damage in the long run.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
Not the best thing for an already struggling doctor and sociopath...
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
No XD Possibly one of the worse ones.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
Well, if it impaired her balance or movement, it would at least slow Hela down. >~<
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Yeah, but poor Helen. She doesn't deserve all that damage.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
I think she'd argue otherwise. T~T
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
But are her arguments valid?
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
Hmm, they are in her mind, but others probably wouldn't agree.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Then I don't think Astrid would either.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
It's a shame she doesn't talk about it. Helen could probably use some people to convince her she doesn't deserve punishment.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
I hope she does. Talk about, I mean.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
I'm hoping Lewis will be able to get her to open up. She prefers to keep her thoughts like that quiet, because she doesn't want to bother anyone or make them worry.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
I hope she will. That sounds like a pretty good indication isn't she's as bad as she thinks.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
That's one of things I find rather odd. If she could just take a step back and look at herself, really look at herself, she would see she's a good person. Too bad we're all our own worst critics.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
That's why you need an outsider's perspective sometimes. I don't know if it's actually some kind of psychological rule, but I think generally, if you're very worried about hurting or even bothering others, its a sign you're probably not an awfull person.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
It would make sense. If you care that much and try so hard not to mess up, you'd think you'd have a good heart. ^-^
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Catt Hatter  Hyde without a Jekyll • 2 years ago
When is being in jail ever pleasant?
Also, I think Catt would hide in her hatt, and Sozo would hide with the animals in the stables. :( Which means I probably wouldn't be able to play in this story. T-T
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
Awww, who's going to keep Hela out of trouble?
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Catt Hatter  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Mz. Hyde? Unless you wanted Hela to be in range of Catt when she goes to hide. Cuz she'd totally drag anyone within reach into hiding with her.
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
Nah, Hela probably needs to spend some quality time in jail with her fellow lodgers. ^-^
Besides, seeing what prison is like might help with her behavior!
Though having just Hela and Catt and Sozo trying to set everyone free would make quite the story.
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Lewis ain't goin' to jail if he can help it!
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
Not even if it's to keep Hela from causing trouble? XD
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago • edited
He'd think he'd be more necessary to keep her out of it, to be honest.
But, no. He'd not see the inside of a prison if he could help it. He'd also wager he'd do everyone more good out of jail than in. Someone has to pay bail, after all.
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Catt Hatter  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
Want him to be near Catt when it all goes down?
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Jekyll1886  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago • edited
You know, thinking about the logistics of it, Lewis might well be at his flat when it all goes down. But that does mean that whoever manages not to get picked up by the cops could come find him.
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Catt Hatter  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
Sounds like a good plan to me!
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago • edited
Heh, apparently no one wants Hela to go to prison! XD
Oh no, all the money he's made... >~<
There are so many lodgers...
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Aheh, I never said he'd bail them all out... He's no King Croesus.
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
Oh dear, he'd have to pick favorites. XD
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Or simply bail out whoever would be most likely to be able to bail more people out and ameliorate the PR nightmare.
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
Hela volunteers Helen's wallet. XD
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
XDDD Ameliorate the PR nightmare, not cause one!
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
But Hela wants chaos! XDD
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Everyone says that...up until the moment it bites them in the rear.
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
^ Further proof Hela is terrible at thinking ahead. XD
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Oh dear... XDX
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
She knows consequences exist, but simply doesn't acknowledge them because if she did she'd only be more afraid and wouldn't get anything done. :DX
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Well, that's a fair point.
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
Hooray for logic that's going to get her killed someday! XDX
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Whee! XDX I hope not.
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
Me too... hopefully Lewis and Catt will sort her out before that can happen.
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Hopefully, she listens to them.
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
It's bound to get through her thick skull eventually. XD 
If nothing else, repetition and desperation should do the trick.
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Catt Hatter  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Oh boy would it ever! XD
I wonder...
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
Yes...? *curious head tilt*
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Catt Hatter  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Never mind. Turns out Lewis is going to be at home when it goes down.
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Jekyll1886  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
Most likely.
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
*evil laugh* He won't be around to protect Hastie...
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Who do you think will be the first person Lewis bails out?
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
Hela: *Disappointed grumbles* Why can't I get out first?
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago • edited
((He'd wager a bit of time in the pokey might do her some good.))
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
((I think she'd only get into more trouble. ^^' *watches as Hela alternates between trying to escape, trying to mess with the guards, and trying to kill the other lodgers*))
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Good luck to her, then, if she fancies trying to mess with the guards. She'll get one heck of a reality check.
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
Oh dear, would it be that bad? O-o
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
I don't know how Sabrina wants to represent Victorian guards. But, historically, they were not known for their kindness. (Beatings did sometimes occur, unfortunately. I would hope they'd be more lenient in that regard with a woman, though, so at least there's that.)
On another note, now that I think of it, male and female prisoners were not put in the same cell. For...obvious reasons.
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
Oh no... So many emotions would happen... o-O
I'm now very concerned for Hela's wellbeing, because she might try and pull off pretending to be male. ^^'
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Thankfully, I think the hair, if nothing else, might give her away. Not many men had long hair in late Victorian times, though it did happen occasionally. Is the pitch of her voice high or low? Could it be mistaken for a man's, or would it give her away?
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
*Hela is in the background cutting off her hair.*
It would definitely give her away because she'd try to do an over exaggerated man voice. XD
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
That's something, at least. Don't want her to potentially get thrown in with a bunch of male criminals, in case the lodgers aren't the only ones in jail that night.
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago • edited
Ah, that wouldn't end well at all... o-O 
But at least she might learn a lesson or two. Or get further scarred, making her current mindset worse. It's kinda a fifty-fifty. ^^'
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Let's...just be glad her voice gives her away. No one needs the alternative, least of all Hela.
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
Thank goodness for her and her odd solutions to problems. While they get her into trouble, they save her from possible bad scenarios too!
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
That's pretty neat, actually. :-)
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago • edited
It certainly makes for interesting scenarios. For example, if Lewis hadn't said that the truth would set her free, she would've asked if he had a watch she could borrow (If she didn't see him wearing one). Wanna try and guess why? :P
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Catt Hatter  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
No, but he will be around to exact any kind of revenge if something happens to Hastie.
Best to not bring harm to the chubby-cheeked brownie.
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
Try telling that to Hela. XD She's seen Lewis when he's angry, been threatened to have her throat torn out, and still she's determined!
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Catt Hatter  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
:T Is she so dead-set on having an early funeral?! For crying out loud!
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
*sigh* It must be the Helen in her, driving her to do dangerous, probably life threatening things without a second thought.
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Catt Hatter  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
I just realised that Hastie could keep them at bay with puns. :T
Helen, why??? Catt will be sad if you die! T^T
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
Awww, noooo, that would simultaneously be the best and worst scenario! XDX
Because guilt and low self esteem! >~<
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Catt Hatter  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
I knooooow! XDX I'm not sure if I want it to be canon or not! Poor Helen!
She'd only be making it worse by hurting those who care about her! T^T
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
Ahhh, on one hand it would be great to see their reaction but on the other they'd be suffering... DX I guess it's good Hastie will make the decision for us!
She knows that, which is why she hasn't tried to take her own life yet... she doesn't want to cause anymore damage. >~<
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Catt Hatter  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Yeah. X-X
Catt would have things to do if she tried, or even succeeded!
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago • edited
*sniff* I'm so torn...
Helen would fall to pieces if that happened... You think she's a mess now, it can get a whole lot worse. O-o She might even get angry, depending on what Catt says.
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Catt Hatter  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
If Catt brought her back from dieing? Why does Helen have to be so...*hugs the Helen*
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
She was a recipe for disaster from the start. *sighs and writes an apology letter to helen*
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
I feel it meet to point out...Hela's not seen Lewis angry; she's seen him annoyed. Nor has Hawley, for that matter. Nor Leo, as he tried to rein himself in while in proximity.
People who've seen Lewis angry:
-The Patchwork Prince, in Richard's mindscape
-Author, briefly, in the astral plane (Hela felt the emotion but didn't actually see Lewis)
-"Thor" and that woman at the bar who kept mentioning "fate"
-Another fellow who sassed him on a different night, after the debacle with Leo
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
Oh, wonderful. *sigh* That means she doesn't even know what she'll be getting herself into. *tired jazz hands* Woooo, she's going to get in so much trouble one of these days...
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
She does seem bound and determined to, doesn't she?
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
120% correct, yes. *shakes head slowly* I really don't know how she's survived this long. Sheer luck and people who care, I guess.
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Background Scientist #37  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago • edited
That sound's great! *pushes all of my characters into random cells* I volunteer them as cell fillers.
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Helen Jekyll  Background Scientist #37 • 2 years ago • edited
Too bad the cell Hela's in seems to be getting really crowded, I'd love for her to meet Jay! And is Gemma still mad?
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Background Scientist #37  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Gemma: AM I STILL MAD! AM I-
Chill out... Yes she is.... *holds back*
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Helen Jekyll  Background Scientist #37 • 2 years ago • edited
*grins* I'm happy to hear it!
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Background Scientist #37  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Good! If you weren't she'd still be mad so... Yay?
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Helen Jekyll  Background Scientist #37 • 2 years ago • edited
I've been rather hoping someone would go after my little she-wolf. ^-^
She needs to learn her manners someday.
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Wizardblizzard  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
I don't know whether I'll have the opportunity to post much, but if I'm here at all I'm in for this :-)
I know who else would probably be a;ll the better for a spell in prison ... but for obvious reasons he's ery unlikely to get caught!
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Helen Jekyll  Wizardblizzard • 2 years ago
Ah, the joys of having to deal with trouble making characters. XD
I look forward to your participation!
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Miss-Dreamerkat • 2 years ago
Yep, apparently
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RBDECEPTICON17 • 2 years ago
Rose can't go to prison! Do you know what people do in those places?! 0_0
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Setae  RBDECEPTICON17 • 2 years ago
Read the bible?
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
Smuggle in weapons and kill all the guards? *sounds hopeful*
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Is mass death really always your first option? Surely there are more practical ways to escape. That doesn't increase the likelyhood of a death sentence.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
Not for escape, for fun!
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
*inches slightly away from you*
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
*Hela laughs* What, do you have something against murder?
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
If there are other options, yes. Most people don't deserve to die.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
Hmp, you must know a lot of decent people, then.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Or maybe you're way more judgemental than I am.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
That's probably more accurate. *smile*
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
I think so as well. *half-smiles back*
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
Do you think wanting to be happy is selfish? *sounds curious*
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
No. It's natural. If it's selfish, then I don't think selfishness is always bad. Why'd you ask?
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
Simply checking if you share my views. *smile*
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
*raises eyebrow* I still don't think we do.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
Oh, we don't. I do believe it's natural, but it's not good.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Selfishness? I don't believe it is either. I think it depends on the circumstances.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
I believe everyone is always selfish, no matter what.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
I, don't think so. Often, maybe, but I'd say almost everyone is capable of putting someone else needs before their own.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
Can you name a scenario like that?
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Ever met any poor families? It's not unusual someone ends up going hungry so the others have enough to eat. Usually a mother or older child.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
*is quiet for a moment* How do you think the older children and mother would feel if they ate instead of feeding the younger ones?
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Probably not much better. If they already prioritize their young ones over themselves, I think they'd be full of guilt over letting them starve.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
What sort of feeling is guilt? Do you enjoy it?
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
No, not at all. Quite the opposite.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
And... what do most people do when it comes to negative emotions like guilt?
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Everything in their power to stop feeling it. They beg for forgiveness. If they can't get it, they try to repent some other way, by being kind to others or do so-called good deeds. Or just drink themselves into a stupor so their don't feel anything.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
*smiles* So, they'd take actions to prevent themselves from feeling badly... isn't that selfish?
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
*leans head back, closes eyes for a moment* Yes, I guess it is. But regardless, I don't think it's the primary reason older family members let the young ones eat first.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
Then... what is the 'primary reason' they do that?
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
I've heard a couple. For one it was a matter of principle. He was bigger and stronger than his siblings, he could handle starvation for longer, so he thought it was only fair they ate before him. For another, she considered it her duty as a mother to keep her children alive.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
I still believe it's all driven by human selfishness... but maybe that's just the doctor's loathing for humanity talking. *smirks*
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Helen's? *Looks slightly baffled at first, then frowns as he thinks for a moment* No, of course, you had to get it from somewhere, didn't you?
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
*nods* Funny, isn't it? Everyone thinks she's so sweet, without an unkind bone in her body... But if that were true, I wouldn't be here... *She chuckled.* Just something for you to consider.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
*he scowled back at her, then looked away* But you're still not Helen *he finally said* You're a destillation of all her ugly impulses. Everybody has those *he grinned, staring ahead* I dare say something similar to you would come out of me if I drank your serum.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
Well, I dare say that you're probably wrong. *She tilted her head.* The doctor's serum doesn't work the same way as the ones made by other Jekyll's.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
*raises eyebrows* Oh, only on you, then?
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
No, her recipe would work on anyone... just the personality that comes from it might not act like your usual Hyde. Only those with an abundance of suppressed emotions would get a lovely devil like me. *grins*
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
*his brow creases again and he avoids looking Hela in the eyes*
I still don't think she's evil, just because you're part of her. You're here because she tried to cope, aren't you? Not because she wanted to rid herself of her morality.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
I'm here because she got sick and tired of being a good girl and playing nice for her parents. Nineteen years of resisting the urge to gut every hypocrite in sight tends to wear a person down and she wanted an easy way out.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
So you were created to harm people who hurt her?
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
I was created to get rid of the doctor's vices, so not the homicidal thoughts specifically.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
In either case, it doesn't put her in the category of people who deserve to die. You have a desire to murder people because she tried to rid herself of it. It's you who wants to kill and acts on it now. I don't really care that you have to kill, it's more who you kill.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago • edited
Well, if I ignored it like the doctor, I'd only end up in the same boat as her... *She yawned.* As for the killings, I don't decide who I kill, I just kill. There's always a trigger or a build up to it, though, so it's not like my actions are random... Simply keep those whos lives you value away from me and don't set off my temper and you'll be fine.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Then you can see why keeping you isolated in one room is an easy solution, right?
*ponders for a while*
So if I brought you someone to kill, you'd get no satisfaction from it?
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
*she huffed* Easy, until I'm driven I insane by cabin fever and being chosen to feed me becomes a death sentence... *glances at him, somewhat annoyed* It might be entertaining but if you're asking whether or not it'd stop me from killing those you want alive, the answer is no. I've already told you that it's impulsive.
(Astrid should get a trophy! :D)
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
That was an optimistic hope perhaps. But could I convince you to let Helen out and leave her alone for awhile instead? (Why?)
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RBDECEPTICON17  Setae • 2 years ago
-Facepalms-
Yes Astrid...they read the bible.
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Setae  RBDECEPTICON17 • 2 years ago
And commit sodomy of course.
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RBDECEPTICON17  Setae • 2 years ago
True that, Astrid! XD
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Setae  RBDECEPTICON17 • 2 years ago
XP
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Helen Jekyll  RBDECEPTICON17 • 2 years ago
*Hela wrinkles her nose* That old thing is boring, can't we have a more exciting story?
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RBDECEPTICON17  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
For once, I agree with you. X3
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Helen Jekyll  RBDECEPTICON17 • 2 years ago
...so that's a yes on getting a different book? *grin*
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RBDECEPTICON17  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Smutty, fluffy, funny and entertaining 666 page novel anybody~? :3
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Helen Jekyll  RBDECEPTICON17 • 2 years ago
... *silence* Now would be a good time for you to start running so I don't cut you to pieces...
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RBDECEPTICON17  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Ah come on! What have I done now?! 0_0
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Helen Jekyll  RBDECEPTICON17 • 2 years ago
Grossed me out.
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RBDECEPTICON17  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Welp that's your problem and not mine...cheerio!
-Dashes off like the wind- X3
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Helen Jekyll  RBDECEPTICON17 • 2 years ago
Well, at least you took my advice for once. *wanders off to care for Leo*
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RBDECEPTICON17  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Awesome! X3
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Helen Jekyll  RBDECEPTICON17 • 2 years ago
Noooo, anything but that! *Hela begins to implode*
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RBDECEPTICON17  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
XDDDDDD
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Helen Jekyll  RBDECEPTICON17 • 2 years ago • edited
*Hela is beginning to form a black hole* Noooooooooo...!
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
What's to your taste anyway? Historical accounts of the black death in Europe?
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
How to get away with murder and horror novels. Though the Black Death does sound fascinating.
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Setae  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
I guess that answer should've been obvious.
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Helen Jekyll  Setae • 2 years ago
Don't worry, I'm not always so predictable.
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Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
(@The Fox)
Rain pattered the window next to Catt as she reclined on the window seat with her book. Reaching the end of the chapter, she took the chance to reach over and grab one of the cookies she had gathered from the kitchen, and followed it up with a sip from her teacup.
The tranquil atmosphere and quiet brought a smile to her face, and she sighed happily.
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The Fox  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
" Rain. Of all things today, rain... "
Utterson shook his hat off, sending little droplets of water flying into the distance. He sighed. Today seemed to be working against him in every way possible. First he loses his letter, then he forgot his watch, now it's raining. He put his hat back on his head and reached into his pocket. He grew panicked before realizing, again, he didn't have his watch.
He internally scolded himself for the mistake and inside reached into another pocket and pulled out a handkerchief. He blew his nose. He was developing a cold too, and not a passing one.
He looked into the street, watching the people pass by, significantly more prepare than he had been for the weather. He'd have to wait out the weather someplace, but where? He thought for a bit before it struck him. The Society! It wasn't too far off from where he was. He could step in and stay for a bit!
He stepped swiftly into the rain and made he way as fast as he could to the Society's doorstep and crept inside. Seeing no one about, he placed his hat and coat on the coat hanger and made his way into the hall.
" Hello? Someone here? "
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Catt Hatter  The Fox • 2 years ago
Who's that now? Catt wondered, curiosity pulling her from the window seat to investigate.
"I am, yes. Hello?" she said once she'd caught sight of the stranger. "Can I help you? You look cold. Would you like some tea? I just made a kettle."
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The Fox  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
" Oh yes, I'd love some. "
A shiver ran through him. This hall was cold, though it was a whole lot better than outside. He rubbed his arms, hoping to generate some warmth to fight off his chill.
" I'm sorry to intrude so rudely. The weather caught me off guard and I thought I could wait for it to pass... "
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Catt Hatter  The Fox • 2 years ago
"Good gracious, of course you may! Come, it'll be warmer in the kitchen." Catt quickly grabbed the tea set and headed for the kitchen. "Let's get you warmed up and dried off, shall we?"
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The Fox  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
" Thank you Miss... "
He followed her into the kitchen. His chill seemed to melt away as he entered the room's warmth.
" I'm Utterson, by the by. Who may you be? "
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Catt Hatter  The Fox • 2 years ago
"Oh, terribly sorry! My name is Catt Hatter." She set down the tray and turned to offer a handshake with a half-bow. "Pleasure to meet you Mr. Utterson!"
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The Fox  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
He shook her hand.
" Pleasure to meet you too Ms. Hatter. "
He let go of her hand and covered a sneeze. He pulled out his handkerchief again and blow his nose.
" Sorry about that. This rain is getting to me... "
( Gonna pop of to bed now. See you in the morning! )
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Catt Hatter  The Fox • 2 years ago
"Oh no! Here," Catt quickly poured him a cup of the Peppermint-nettle tea she had been drinking, adding a touch of honey to help with his cold. "You drink this and I'll see if there's any chicken soup about."
She indicated he take the chair sitting next to the wood stove.
(See you!/Hope you slept well! ^u^)
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The Fox  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago • edited
He took the tea cup and sipped it slowly as he sat down in the chair. The stove was welcoming and helped him relax while Catt looked around for some soup. He took another sip of his tea, a sense of comfort growing inside him.
He turned to Catt with a timid look.
" I should be fine with the tea, thank you. I wouldn't want to be any more of a bother than necessary. "
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Catt Hatter  The Fox • 2 years ago
"Oh it's not a bother at all!" She assured. "Besides, I'm not about to send you off back into this weather without at least trying to fend off that cold of yours."
She found the soup tucked away in the refrigerator under a plate of bread rolls and pulled them both out. Grabbing a small pot, she poured in some of the broth and set it on the oven, with one of the bread rolls nearby to warm up.
She pulled up a chair next to the stove across from her guest. Might as well make some conversation while they waited for the soup to boil.
"Do you like it?" she asked, indicating her own tea cup.
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The Fox  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
" Oh yes, I do! Did you mix the tea yourself? "
He brought the tea cup close and sniffed it curiously.
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Catt Hatter  The Fox • 2 years ago
Catt smiled brightly. "Yes I did, but I had to look up how first. Then there was some experimenting to find which flavours went well together. It's been a learning experience."
She sipped her tea while she tried to think of something else to say. It wouldn't do to bore the guest.
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The Fox  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
" Goodness, I'd say you have it down already, this tea is absolutely marvelous! "
He took another sip and pondered the flavor. He'd have to ask if he could take some home when he leaves, no doubt about it.
" Peppermint, honey...What's this last flavor I'm tasting... "
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Catt Hatter  The Fox • 2 years ago
"Nettle. It's surprisingly good for you and goes well with peppermint, but one definitely needs to remember to wear gloves when harvesting it!" Catt laughed. "Learned that the hard way."
She paused to check on the food, turning over the roll so it wouldn't burn on one side.
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The Fox  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
" Nettle? I wouldn't have guessed it. "
He finished his tea and placed the cup on his lap. He watched quietly as she checked the food.
" What other teas have you made? Do you sell? "
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Catt Hatter  The Fox • 2 years ago
"Oh, I've made quite a few. Though I haven't really considered selling." Returning to her seat she pondered what a venture like that would entail. "I generally just make the blends, and leave them in little canisters in the kitchen so the other lodgers can enjoy them. Have to make sure I label the effects of the medicinal blends though. Don't want people falling asleep in the middle of their work, after all."
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The Fox  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
Utterson chuckled at the thought.
" Oh I can only imagine the mayhem that would cause. One moment, you're up, the next, straight unconscious. "
He straighten his cuff tiredly.
" I wouldn't mind some of that though, if it'd get me some descent sleep. "
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Catt Hatter  The Fox • 2 years ago
"Certainly!" Catt said, fair nearly jumping to her feet and opening a cabinet whose shelves were lined with jars of different herbs and flowers.
"Do you think Chamomile would be strong enough, or would you care for something stronger?"
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The Fox  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
He looked at Catt with surprise.
" Oh, You don't me taking some? "
He rubbed his knees anxiously.
" I'll take some Chamomile for now... Though what else do you have? So I know what I'm choosing from. "
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Catt Hatter  The Fox • 2 years ago
"I don't mind at all!" She cheerily answered, pulling down a couple jars and examining them. 
"Just Chamomile is good for when you want to relax, but maybe have something else to do after. So is Cinnamon and Vanilla. If you're wanting to sleep, however, I'd recommend a blend of Passiflora Incarnata, Matricaria Recutita, Nepeta Cataria and some Humulus Lupulus. It's also good with Mentha Spicata and some Citrus Sinensis."
She smiled expectantly at Utterson as she packed some Chamomile into a small bag, as if all the jargon she had just thrown at him was supposed to make sense.
(I'm taking a shot in the dark here about how much Utterson knows about the scientific names of herbs. ^^; Is it something he'd actually understand?)
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The Fox  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
( Not really owo;; He never really got into all that stuff. )
He blinked and coughed quietly. He didn't want to seem rude...
" I'm sorry... I don't think I understood what you just said... "
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Catt Hatter  The Fox • 2 years ago
"Hm? O-oh! Sorry," her cheeks tinted slightly in embarrassment. "Forgot, not everyone uses the scientific names. Lemme try that again."
She re explained the list while fetching a bowl and spoon and setting them on a tray as the soup had begun to bubble.
"A mix of Passion Flower, Chamomile, Catnip and some Hop Strobile is good for a sleeping drink, and it also tastes good with Spearmint and some Sweet Orange Peel. If you don't care for the flavour, I'd recommend adding extra Spearmint, as Chamomile is a pretty mild flavour."
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The Fox  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago • edited
He listened closely to her list the ingredients, taking note of each one for future shopping lists. He couldn't help but shake his head while murmuring to himself.
" Where am I going to find all that? The market doesn't sell all that, or at least, not that I remember. "
The clicking of bowls pulled him from his thoughts. The soup's smell filled the kitchen and tickled his nose. A hard sneeze shook him before he could cover his nose.
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Catt Hatter  The Fox • 2 years ago
"Guzuntight! I can give you some now if you like, and I don't mind at all if you want to come back for refills." Catt offered, holding out the tray of hot soup and toasty bread roll.
"I grow the herbs myself in the Society's garden. That way I have all the options I could need for various blends."
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The Fox  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
He blew hard into his handkerchief in a vain attempt to clear up the increasing congestion. Seeing the tray, he tucked the cloth away and took the tray from Catt. He took the spoon and began stirring the soup.
He nodded his head to Catt.
" Thank you miss. "
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Catt Hatter  The Fox • 2 years ago • edited
"You're welcome. And please," she smiled. "Call me Catt."
She sat down again and resumed her cup of tea, which was surprisingly still hot.
"Let me know if you'd like some more."
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The Fox  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
He shrunk with embarrassment and busied himself to his soup.
" Yes missSS Catt. Miss Catt. "
The soup was pleasant and flavorful. It was just what he needed on a day like this. He ate the soup slowly, savoring each mouthful he took. He let out a content sigh.
" This is fantastic. Did you make this also? "
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Catt Hatter  The Fox • 2 years ago
(Aww! ^-^ Why's he embarrassed?)
"No, it was probably Gemma or Ratchel, one of the resident chefs for the Society. They're excellent at what they do!
By the way, what had you caught outside without an umbrella today? I-if you don't mind me asking." she finished hurriedly.
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The Fox  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
( He's so used to addressing women with respect, so he isn't used to using her name! )
He paused from his meal and began tearing the bun in half.
" I was going to deliver a letter to the post office but I lost it on the way. "
An unhappiness crossed his eyes.
" Then it turns out I forgot my watch and then it began to rain. And so, here I am. "
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Catt Hatter  The Fox • 2 years ago • edited
(He's adorable! Catt's not used to being addressed so politely, so it makes her uncomfortable. I don't know how tall Utterson is, but Catt is 5' 2" ish and only 17 years old, physically.)
"Oh no!" sympathy tugged at her throat, pulling her voice off-pitch. "I'm sorry the day has been giving you so much trouble. I wish, is there anything I can do to help? I have a spare umbrella you can use, and, I might even have a watch." Her vice lowered apologetically. "I'm afraid I don't have a way of replacing the letter, but I can help you look for it!"
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The Fox  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
( Utterson is 5ft 6in! )
He gave a reassuring smile.
" Thank you, but I'm fine. You've already done quite enough for me already. Though, since you mentioned it, I would like to borrow the extra umbrella when I leave. "
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Catt Hatter  The Fox • 2 years ago
(Nice! He's taller! Though, it's probably difficult to tell with the extra 12" of top Hatt resting on her head. XD)
"Sounds good, did you want a rain jacket too? We have those too." She asked earnestly, desperate to do all she could to help.
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The Fox  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago • edited
" No no. I'm fine with just the umbrella. "
He smiled politely at her before returning to the soup. took half his bun and dipped it into the soup, letting it soak in the broth. He took a bite of it and dipped it again while he chewed.
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Catt Hatter  The Fox • 2 years ago
Reluctantly, Catt nodded and watched him eat in silence.
It didn't sit well with her, sending this gentleman back out into the rain without a coat. But She didn't want to be pushy either, that wouldn't be nice.
After a minute, she stood.
"I'm gonna go grab the umbrella, okay?"
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The Fox  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago • edited
He shifted uncomfortably.
He noticed her discomfort and grew anxious. He didn't want to make his host and he most certainly didn't want to make her feel unhelpful. Swallowing his mouthful, he spoke to her, fixing his cuff distractedly.
" Well, alright...If you want too. But perhaps if you truly want to 
help...You could help me look for my letter? Once we're done here anyways. "
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Catt Hatter  The Fox • 2 years ago
"Of course!" She brightened at the offer. "I'll have to get my own rain coat, it's with the umbrella. Once you're finished, we can start retracing your steps!" She fair nearly pranced towards the door, but paused before exiting. She looked back to her guest.
"Was there anything else you needed?"
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The Fox  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
" No no, That's all. Thank you kindly Miss Catt. "
He didn't want her to wait, so he finished his soup as fast as he could and placed the tray on the chair. He pocketing the second half of his bun and waiting for Catt to return, anxiously tapping his heel as he did.
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Catt Hatter  The Fox • 2 years ago
After barely two minutes, Catt returned. Now wearing an unusually glossy and full length black coat that reached to just below her ankles. A large hood hung from the neck and her eccentric Hatt was missing. The entire garment struck him as strange, downright bizarre, even.
She held a classy black umbrella in one hand. At least that looked normal.
"Ready to go? Don't forget your tea!" She crossed the room, grabbing the two small sacks off the counter and holding them out to him. "Don't want to suffer more insomnia if we can help it, right?"
(By the way, the nettle-mint tea should have helped his congestion, at least for a little bit.)
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The Fox  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
( That's great! That's something he definitely needed )
He turned to greet but stopped midway. The coat confused him momentarily but he moved passed it. He took the tea from her, tucked them under his arm, and hooked the umbrella on his free arm.
" Let me get my things off the coat rack and then we can leave. "
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Catt Hatter  The Fox • 2 years ago
"Certainly!" She turned and lead the way back to the entrance, the long skirt of her coat swishing unnervingly as she walked.
When they reached the coat rack Utterson found that his things were already dry. Even slightly warm to the touch.
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The Fox  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
Surprise bubbled up as he took his coat of the coat hanger. The hall was still as cold as it was, how did his coat dry off so quickly? Taking his hat, he discovered that it too had dried. Confused, he turned to Catt.
" Did you dry these off? "
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Catt Hatter  The Fox • 2 years ago • edited
"I, hope you don't mind." She said sheepishly. "I know I probably should have asked first, but I thought it would be a pleasant surprise to have a nice warm, dry coat to put on instead of a chill, damp one."
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The Fox  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
His frown shifted into a relieved smile.
" No, you're fine! I just thought I was losing my mind for a moment there. Thank you very much. "
He put his coat on and sank into it warmth. His eyes closed with pleasure. 
With a happy sigh, he put on his hat and opened the door.
" Let's head off now. We've got a letter to find! "
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Catt Hatter  The Fox • 2 years ago • edited
Catt's face split into a wide grin, as she pulled the hood up over her brown curls.
"Indeed we do, lead the way!"
(You want to exposit the trip to whereabouts he misplaced the letter, or would you like to have them hold a conversation until they get there?)
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The Fox  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
( We could hold a conversation while we get there! I'll send a response in the morning so have a good night! :) )
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Catt Hatter  The Fox • 2 years ago
(Okay, goodnight! )
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The Fox  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
The umbrella popped open as he stepped outside into the wet street with a splash. He waited for his companion to follow, leaning the umbrella out to cover her as she entered the rain.
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Catt Hatter  The Fox • 2 years ago • edited
"Oh, thank you." She smiled and followed him down the streets as they talked.
"You mentioned the letter was for the police. Mind if I ask what it was about?"
(I'm honestly not sure what they can talk about. ^^; Any ideas?)
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The Fox  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
( *whispers* Ask about the letter )
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Catt Hatter  The Fox • 2 years ago
(Okay. *thinks about how to do that* I'll edit it!)
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The Fox  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
He blinked a little confused.
" Did I say Police office? My apologies, I meant the post office. "
A sad smile formed.
" It was for someone close, but it's probably better that I didn't mail it immediately. "
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Catt Hatter  The Fox • 2 years ago
"Oh, I'm glad there's no trouble with the law then." Catt relaxed the little tension in her shoulders. "What makes you say it's better?"
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The Fox  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago • edited
He looked away in thought.
" I don't want it to be something I regret doing. To be honest, I hadn't truly thought all this out. I may forfeit mailing the letter all together... "
He shook his head.
" But nevermind that, We have to find the letter first before I decide on anything. "
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Catt Hatter  The Fox • 2 years ago
She nodded, extrapolating from his tone that it might be related to a personal relationship. Best tread lightly.
"True. And it is of course important to consider as much as you can in a situation before making a decision. Regrets are not easily undone. Where do you last remember having it?"
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The Fox  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
He turned back to her and paused. Where DID he have it last?
Doubt entered his voice.
" I'd like to think I had it when I left my home, but something tells me that may not be the case. I know where I was when I noticed it was gone. About halfway to the post office, on the left side. "
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Catt Hatter  The Fox • 2 years ago • edited
"Let's start there then, and trace your steps back to your place." They reached the end of the block. "Sound good?"
( Are they going to find the letter outside?)
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The Fox  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
( Yes. )
" That's a good plan as any! "
He doffed his hat in agreement and crossed the street, wading through clumps of people that were still hadn't made it home.
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Catt Hatter  The Fox • 2 years ago • edited
Catt followed closely behind him, careful not to bump into any of the other pedestrians, and keeping her gaze and head lowered.
She failed to suppress a shudder at the crowd meandering past them.
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The Fox  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
Utterson had reached the sidewalk when he noticed his companion's discomfort. Worry entered his features.
" Are you alright? Was it something I did? "
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Miss-Dreamerkat • 2 years ago
I'M ON SUMMER VACATION NOW! HALLELUJAH!
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Tairais  Miss-Dreamerkat • 2 years ago
(( WOO!! ))
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Miss-Dreamerkat  Tairais • 2 years ago
X3 YEAH!
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Jekyll1886  Miss-Dreamerkat • 2 years ago
Congrats!!!!!!!
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Miss-Dreamerkat  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Miss-Dreamerkat • 2 years ago
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Tairais • 2 years ago • edited
(( chatterghosts Time to do the thing, my friend! ))
Consciousness returned to him like the slow roll of the fog over the Thames, much as he vehemently wished it didn't, especially when he realized what he was lying on. The feeling of cloth lying over metal against his bare back was familiar in a terrifying sort of way, and the leather straps that bound his torso to the table were even moreso.
His heart stubbornly refused to start beating in triple-time, but perhaps that was a good thing- the sickly tang of iron fear in his mouth was overwhelming all on his own, and he couldn't stand to choke on his own breath in front of an audience that was sure to be lurking nearby.
Looking down, he realized he couldn't stand. Period.
In a detached, hysteric sort of indignant way, he realized Hannibal (maybe Will, but it was more likely to be the surgeon than the man with shaky hands- wouldn't do for the meat to be damaged, wouldn't do, wouldn't do-) had taken his other leg.
(Belatedly he realized he was on an operating table of sorts, sufficiently drugged out of his mind as to not cause a scene- he could hear a party or a dinner of some sort somewhere above him.
Actually, the longer his impressions of thought lingered, the more he realized the more likely explanation was to keep him from feeling the copious amounts of blood he was losing. If he had felt like casting a glance down, he would have realized Hannibal wasn't quite done with his surgery. As it was, he didn't have enough energy to move-)
Ah, well. He was evenly lopsided now, at least. Still had part of his right arm at least, a tether to humanity as metal ate into his back, ate his limbs, tainted everything- everything, it was destroying him- he was destroying him and-
He realized he was quite terribly ill when he could hear his frantic chuckling, wet and raspy as if he were trying to breathe through a damp washcloth. Given the current state of his lungs, perhaps that wasn't too far from the truth- he fancied he was breathing in that same ocean of blood he was so fond of visiting in his dreams- fishing with Benediktas, which his nameless, faceless older brother and younger sister- a father and mother who could hardly care to be remembered-
He retched and coughed and for a second the fog smothering his mind lifted...
And he really wished it hadn't.
Maroon eyes crinkled at the edges of his vision with a savage sort of pleasure, sending a pins-and-needles sensation trickling down his spine right up until the moment he realized part of the problem was the very real set of hands that guided a needle almost lovingly into his neck.
As darkness swam into his eyes once more, he had the strength of mind to cast a mildly irritated glare towards the man that had been one of his closest friends, once.
~*~
Whatever Hannibal had given him wore off soon enough but weighed him down like nothing he'd ever had the misfortune of using before.
His eyes were closed, but the soft murmur of voices reached him like noise carried underwater, largely directionless and shapeless until he expended considerable effort to focus on them. They faded in like the quiet stirrings of the beginning of a symphony, with Hannibal's voice responding to something Will had said- snarky, almost irritated, yet fond underneath it all.
"Yes, I would not be so careless as to leave him unattended."
"Okay." A pause, one that Richard grew to dread very quickly. "So where is Ričardas?'
(Will's voice had always shaped his name oddly- too American, the wrong sort of harsh for his kind of name. Just like that, he can all but envision the scene that was unfolded behind his stubborn eyelids, a borrowed golden pendulum swinging back and forth, casting a faint glow over the proceedings.)
Hannibal grinned wickedly. "I thought you would never ask."
Hannibal's measured stride led the way through a series of interconnected spaces: from living room to salon to dining room, or something equally ostentatious and lavish, radiating a cloying sort of taste and artistry.
A step behind, Will's quicker pace paused in the archway, taking in an elaborate tableau Richard could only make impressions of, extrapolating details that slowly filtered in with his knowledge of Hannibal: classical music played softly in the background (Schubert, if he was correct), ceiling-to-floor curtains closed, the only light sources the myriad of candelabra and candles dotted around like fireflies that flickered nervously, stirred by some unseen breeze. Their light was like a handful of fingerprints pressing insistently against his eyelids, causing him to stifle a wince of discomfort when he realized it.
He forced himself to focus on the smell of polish, painting another layer on the canvas of his imagination. The mahogany dining table was lavishly set, groaning with crystal, glass and silverware.
Another smell reached his nose then, a certain sort of sickly-sweet mixed with a note of familiarity. Meat and... pineapple? Citrus of some sort, certainly. An ostentatious display of wealth regardless.
The table's centerpiece, then, was a steaming platter of meat, dressed with tropical fruits and flowers. Perhaps wrapped in banana leaves.
Oh. His leg. Right.
Classic Hannibal.
He cracked his eyes open just a hair, just long enough to notice that he was dressed in a suit that wasn't his, wearing mechanics that weren't his. Bile rose in his throat as he came to terms with the fact that all that made up his solid sense of identity- the identity he had made for himself- had been sheared away and painted to resemble something that he wasn't
Living theatre.
"He looks pleasantly out of his mind." Will observed. Cold. Scathing. Curious. He likely was still furious over the role Richard had had in nearly killing Hannibal. He had nearly bought both of their freedoms with that. Had instead bought himself a brand new form of torture.
"Morphine," Hannibal clarified helpfully. "It's the drug of choice for most postoperative amputee patients."
"Amputee?" Will enunciated his words slowly, savoring each syllable for a reason Richard couldn't quite discern. He could almost taste the amusement in his voice, sharp and sweet despite the bitterness underlying it. He heard Will turn on his heel, could almost hear the smile on his lips. "You have been busy then."
"Somewhat." Hannibal concurred. Richard could definitely taste the sharp edges of his smile in the air. They drew blood, after all, and he could taste copper and iron in his mouth more than the smells of food on the air. "Shall we?"
He felt the impressions of Hannibal's elegant gesture, his watchfulness lingering beneath it like a tether. He was waiting for Richard to wake up and do something rash.
"Sorry to disappoint you, Hannibal, but I am afraid I am rather indisposed at the moment. Give me a few more moments and then we can have the talk we have both waited years for.
Even his thoughts were mired in a sickly sort of anticipation. Sluggish, trapped in the honey that caught more flies than vinegar.
His stomach rumbled rather unhelpfully and he fought down the flicker of a rather morbid smile. "Traitorous organ you are, then."
He sat and he did not respond to the muted conversations floating over his head like a school of fish. He needed to be several different kinds of aware before he entered into a conversation with the two of them.
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Catt Hatter  Tairais • 2 years ago
Q^Q Richard nooo! *cries*
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Tairais  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
(( ITS FINE GUYS ITS NOT FINE GUYS :D ))
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Catt Hatter  Tairais • 2 years ago
((OH, WELL THAT'S OKAY THEN! *incoherent screaming and tears* DX Q-Q TT^TT Somebody save what's left of him!!))
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
(Don't worry, I gave him a bandaid! It should help! *hugs and lots of tissues*)
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Catt Hatter  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
(*cries and is thankful for the tissues* T^T Poor scar muffin...)
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
(It's okay, I can fix him! *puts bandaids on all his scars*)
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Catt Hatter  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
(*sniffle* [XD He'd look like a mummy!])
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago • edited
(See, he's all better! [Aww, why does he have to be so broken? XDX])
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Catt Hatter  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
( *sniffles and hugs the Scar mummy* [Because their owner has a flare for the emotionally distressing, and we love it. :T])
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago • edited
(I'll go make some tea for you two! [Ah, the agony joys of good story telling. ^-^])
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Catt Hatter  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
(*sniffle* Thank you... *gets the scar mummy a pillow* [Indeed! ^-^])
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
(*comes back with tea and freshly baked cookies* These should help! I don't know anyone who didn't feel better after tea and treats. [Without the highs and the lows, neither would mean quite as much.])
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Catt Hatter  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
( *tucks pillow under scar-mummy's head* T^T Thank you *helps mummy drink the tea* [That's a very well-balanced perspective to have. ^u^])
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
(*munches on a cookie, waiting to see if there's anything to help with* You're very welcome! [It's just something I try to keep in mind. ^-^])
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Catt Hatter  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
(*cries quietly, sipping tea* [Wise thing to do. Also, I think we can drop the spoiler thing. We've gotten pretty far removed from ground zero.])
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
(It's okay, don't be sad... *hugs!* [Heh, it's funny how conversations work like that.])
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Catt Hatter  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
(B-but, he's been through so much! *hugs back* [Yay for wantering conversation patterns!])
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
(I know, but we should try and be strong, for his sake... *offers cookies* [I find it interesting to trace back a conversation to where it started and wonder at how we got to where it is now. It's almost like a metaphor for life!])
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Catt Hatter  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
( *sniffles and munches a cookie* I-I'll try. [Makes sense. I mean, people live lives and have conversations alike. Hardly surprising that they resemble one another in the way they wander.])
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
(If it makes you feel any better, I wrote a story in Latin based on Catt and Hela! [So many branching paths in a conversation... never sticking to one topic. ^-^])
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Catt Hatter  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
( You did a wha-?! *is suddenly distracted and excited* Tell me more! 8D [Bit like a crazy roller coaster, ain't it?])
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
(Okay, okay, it was first going to be a translation of The Wolf and The Lamb but as realistic as the ending was, I didn't like it. So, I wrote a new one! The lamb in the story has a flowered hat and the wolf is small and grumpy. ^-^ [Definitely, though more pleasant. Probably the same amount of screaming, when fangirling occurs.])
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Catt Hatter  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
(The wolf and the Lamb? I don't think I've heard that story. Though it does sound fitting! [Definitely! XD])
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
(It's supposed to teach the lesson that tyrants won't listen to the reasoning of the innocent and don't need an excuse to harm you. ^^' I thought it was, seeing how parasitic healthy Hela and Catt's relationship is!)
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Tairais  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
(( He'll be fineeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, seriously guys. Don't worry about him ^^ ))
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Catt Hatter  Tairais • 2 years ago
((*incoherent blubbering about how he's down another limb and frustration at not being able to fix it*...I just care about him okay? *sniffle* Q^Q))
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Tairais  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
(( Listen, he's got almost all the bits that matter! He didn't need that leg anyways! I'm glad you care about him though XD *Tai gently pats you as they hide a bloody scalpel behind their back.* ))
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Catt Hatter  Tairais • 2 years ago
(( B-but he has no toes now! Q^Q No piggies to go to market! *cries on your shoulder*))
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Tairais  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
(( That just depends on what you call piggies... ))
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Catt Hatter  Tairais • 2 years ago
(( Toesies! T^T Have you never played that game when you were little? ))
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Tairais  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
(( Nope ^^" ))
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Catt Hatter  Tairais • 2 years ago
(( My reference to the piggies and market probably sounded pretty weird then. ^-^; Sorry!
Did you want to hear the poem?))
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Tairais  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
(( I honestly thought you were making a cannibalism pun, which would've fit, given the circumstances XD I'd love to hear the poem, though! ))
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Catt Hatter  Tairais • 2 years ago
(( Good grief you're right! XP I forgot what story we were dealing with for a second. Now I feel silly.
Anyway, here's the poem!
This little piggy went to market,
And this little piggy stayed home.
This little piggy had roast beef,
And this little piggy had none.
And this little piggy went 'wee wee wee wee wee'
All the way home.
The idea was that you'd wiggle one of the kid's toes for each one, and then tickle them for the last one. ^^; It was a game my parents played with me when I was little.
However viewing this in the light of Hannibalism, it's not as cute anymore. Ah-heh... ^^; ))
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Tairais  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
(( Ah yes, good ol Hannibalism. ))
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Catt Hatter  Tairais • 2 years ago
(( Turning everything red and creepy! ^~^ Woo hoo! Feel free to use the poem in your story if you like, it's public domain.
It's funny how nursery rhymes can be turned even more creepy than regular creepy things can. I wonder why that is? :T Hmm...))
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Tairais  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
(( I do wonder... And I'll keep that in mind for future reference! I could actually probably work it into this leg of the story... ))
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Catt Hatter  Tairais • 2 years ago
(( Keen!
...Was that a joke about Richard's legg? X3 ))
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Tairais  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
(( Always XD ))
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Catt Hatter  Tairais • 2 years ago
(( Oh you! XD ))
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Helen Jekyll  Tairais • 2 years ago
(Why does Richard always get hurt? DX *tries to put a bandaid on the wound he got from losing his leg*)
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Tairais  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
(( It's fineeeeeeeee, really ))
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Helen Jekyll  Tairais • 2 years ago
(Then what's all this? *gestures to Richards lack of legs* Is this fine too?!)
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Tairais  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
(( He's alive, isn't he? ))
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Helen Jekyll  Tairais • 2 years ago
((Alive doesn't always equal fine. DX))
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Tairais  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
(( It is for Ricky-boy though :D ))
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Helen Jekyll  Tairais • 2 years ago
(Well, considering everything he's gone through... I guess being alive is a pretty big achievement.)
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Tairais  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
(( Nowwwww you're getting it ^^ ))
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Helen Jekyll  Tairais • 2 years ago
((...he's not going to lose anymore limbs, is he?))
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Catt Hatter  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
He only has one-, half of one left!
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
*sad noises* I can't even imagine... Poor muffin... T-T
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Catt Hatter  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Me neither. T^T *sad noises all around*
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
When he gets back to the society, Catt'll have to make him all the tea ever... >~<
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Catt Hatter  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
If he gets back. Yes! All the tea, and plenty of the stuff for pain too! T^T She'd rather give his limbs back though.
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
nEVER SAY DIE I don't suppose she has spares in her Hatt?
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Catt Hatter  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Never! No, but she does have something that can re-grow limbs, and one dose of phoenix down.
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Tairais  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
((Don't worry, I won't kill off Richard ^^ He still has to get a haircut.))
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Catt Hatter  Tairais • 2 years ago
(( *fireworks* Yay! and yay again! Plus we want to avoid that whole existential crisis if the phoenix down was used on him, thus healing everything. 8T ))
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Tairais  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
(( Yeah.... ))
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
Oooh, sounds useful! Hopefully no one else will be needing something like that.
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Catt Hatter  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Well, she's had it since the start of TRpS, so I don't know if anyone is going to need it. At least not if Sozo can get there in time. :T
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
*raises hand and waves it in the air enthusiastically* I volunteer Helen and Hela! *immediately begins planning for something to happen to them*
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Catt Hatter  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
Oh no you don't! *chases you with a straight jacket* It's for emergency use only! No engineering!
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Helen Jekyll  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
Ahhhh, but drama! *flees, a notepad full of ideas in hand*
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Tairais  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
(( It's not like he has much left to lose- he has half of one arm and half of a leg. ))
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Helen Jekyll  Tairais • 2 years ago
((Does 1/2 arm + 1/2 leg = whole limb? *thoughtful frown*))
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Tairais  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
(( Sure, why not? ))
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Helen Jekyll  Tairais • 2 years ago
((So he has one-ish limb left... poor guy... >~<))
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chatterghosts  Tairais • 2 years ago
Another figure sat at the dining table, hunched and shaking and looking for all the worlds like he was about to get sick.
Not in front of them. Not in front of them.
His vision was spotting with hurt and fear, his knee bouncing up and down, and up and down and up and down; his stomach twisted and shifted, contorting with a hunger pain that he was deliberately ignoring -- he'd finally, finally come to learn what was being served to him, and he'd barely touched any food at all since.
All at once, Artemis burst beneath the overwhelming terror of it all, and began to cry at the table.
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Catt Hatter  chatterghosts • 2 years ago
(T^T)
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Tairais  chatterghosts • 2 years ago • edited
Richard's stomach plummeted like it had been dropped over the Marianas Trench with a pair of cement shoes.
"Artemis."
Despite his inner turmoil, he managed to keep his outer appearance as still and stagnant as the air now felt. It wouldn't do to lose what little advantage he had- Hannibal and Will would want him awake before they did anything to start the show.
Living theatre. Classic Hannibal.
He heard Artemis' quiet sobs and had to focus every ounce of his willpower towards remaining still as both sets of footsteps turned towards Artemis, one of which walked towards him, the other of which (Will's, he thought) watched with a mixture of amusement and disdain.
He allowed his eyes to flutter open for the briefest of seconds, taking in his surroundings with a practiced, quick eye. Artemis, at the other end of the table (which was set and in a room exactly as he imagined it. The realization caused him to have to stifle a smile that would be entirely inappropriate given the circumstance.), Will and Hannibal facing towards him.
Silverware placings that included small oyster forks amid two other forks and a knife. An opportunity, provided his- not his limbs, but the limbs currently attached to him- limbs cooperated with him. He took a slow, small breath and flexed his fingers.
Responsive. Good. He carefully flicked his hand out and grabbed the tiny utensil, slipping it up his sleeve. He could buy Artemis enough time to get out if he played his cards right. He flashed Artemis a pleading look before closing his eyes once more.
"Do not say anything- I will get you out of this somehow, I swear it.
If he didn't, well. Perhaps he could buy time with his blood. It would be fine. There would be retribution- for all of them. Elias would be safe from his destructive end, Artemis would be safe from his destructive past, Hannibal and Will would be safe from his necessary retribution, for the most part. Some things were necessary evils.
"Hush now, Artemis. You are being terribly rude, making such a scene at the dinner table. What will our guest think?" Hannibal's footsteps paced behind Artemis and it was all he could do to remain still, not knowing what was happening in front of his eyelids.
(Nothing, really. Hannibal had the sort of presence that intimidated you by standing close, radiating an aura of power that screamed for attention in an animalistic sort of way.)
Will's footsteps tracked to the left instead of the right, and Richard heard the sound of a chair scraping against the floor as he took his place next to Richard.
"I believe you may have given him too much morphine, Hannibal- you said he was supposed to be awake by now."
"Patience, William. Good things come to those who wait."
"Frankly, I'm more concerned about dinner getting cold. That would be ruder than anything, in my opinion."
A low chuckle. "Fair enough, mylimasis. I will wake him myself if he takes too much longer."
"Good. Come closer. Let us start this dance of ours again."
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chatterghosts  Tairais • 2 years ago
Despite the fact that Artemis' voice was cracking and fragile, it came with a degree of rage imbued into it, shifting viscerally beneath the surface of the sound.
"Richard isn't your guest," he cried. "He's just another prisoner, and you've crammed him so full of drugs that he can't even see straight!"
(Of course Artemis knew that he shouldn't have spoken at all, but, well. He had nothing to lose, now.)
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Tairais  chatterghosts • 2 years ago
A soft yet calloused hand came to rest on Artemis's shoulder, accompanied by an even softer chuckle.
"The term prisoner would imply the pair of you were confined to face a punishment, perhaps having no hope of freedom. In this case, while perhaps the former would apply to our dear Ričardas, the latter is untrue for both of you. I fully intend to free both of you before the night is over." Hannibal's voice never changed in cadence or volume; it was as measured and lilting as the first time Artemis or Richard had heard it.
"Besides," Added Will, a shark's smile embedded in each syllable, "My husband was referring to your brother, not Richard. Perhaps he should have said guests."
While Hannibal and Will had a conversation completely through looks equal parts amused and irritated, Richard tried to pick what was left of his sinking stomach off the floor and failed. Miserably.
Both his chance at a decent window of time and the chance to avoid bloodshed were decreasing rapidly.
Time for plan... X, then. Or not, he wasn't sure what plan he was on at this point, frankly. They had changed often enough he probably should have gone without one, were it not for the small fact of that would make the whole thing a suicide mission-
Then again, perhaps it was anyways.
And perhaps the morphine was getting to him a little more than he'd expected because at that moment Richard laughed, a cold, rasping, empty sound that sounded like nails on a chalkboard muffled underwater. He had very little voice- side effect of the cold, perhaps? Was it a cold? Pneumonia, more li- anyways.
"So the two of you were wed after all, then? Wonderful, my sincere congratulations are in order for finding a minister willing to wed two of the most murderous creatures I have ever met." Despite it all, his voice was steady. Perhaps that had to do with the fact he was watching his performance from the body of the stag, vision tinted red as the room before him began to warp and twist, casting strange shadows that grabbed and pulled at everything like the hungry, gnarled fingers of dying oak trees.
The tablecloth was red and it darkened until it began to drip with the blood still oozing from his leg, which was now on a plate of eyes and organs belonging to all of the 'messages' that had been left behind.
He saw his eyes flickering, one under a closed eyelid, the other moving around skittishly, sightless in a socket framed by scars of fractured glass and bullet impacts (not quite that, they were burns and knives and everything but that. the bullets were in his back. he couldn't remember why that was important.) and agony framed in black and white, suspended in the air.
He really was, in fact... how had Artemis just put it?
Well, he certainly wasn't seeing straight.
Hannibal smiled genuinely for the first time that night, though Richard could only guess (accurately) what it looked like.
In two words? Hungry (for what? a great many things, he supposed. revenge, the food itself- was anticipating a better word?) and amused.
"I must applaud you for your acting skills, Ričardas. I was fully convinced you were sleeping. How long have you been aware?"
Richard feigned a sluggish shrug. "Long enough, and I may as well be. You know well as I that 'tis only my stubborn determination that keeps me from slurring my words. I still find that opening my eyes is beyond me, at present. Am I correct in assuming the agitated silence to my... left is sweet William?"
He could almost hear Will's curt nod. Will was counting on him knowing that much- he certainly didn't want to waste his breath on Richard.
Hannibal made a soft tsking sound, presumably to chastise his partner's rude manners.
"You would be correct. Regarding the morphine, I estimate two, perhaps three minutes before it wears off in its entirety. You and William need not worry that the food will grow cold. I hope it will not trouble you too terribly if we wait until then before we start the meal?"
Richard chuckled softly, in a way that he was sure would provoke Will's irritation- a breathy, affected sort of cadence.
"I can assure you, I felt no slight. I have no desire to rush this... experience of ours." True to his expectations, he heard a small huff of air come from his left as Will sighed angrily.
"Wonderful. I will let you focus on returning to full consciousness. If you'll forgive us for a few moments, I require William's assistance in the kitchen in regards to the dessert. I trust you and dear Artemis won't do anything so foolish or rude as to try and leave before the main course."
"Of course. I would never wish to miss having old friends for dinner." Richard offered a small smile in the general direction of Hannibal's voice, still somewhere behind Artemis.
Hannibal's bemusement as he and Will rose as one before vanishing into the hallway was tangible enough to be cut with a knife.
When the footsteps were reasonably far away, he opened his eyes and began to survey his surroundings with a frantic, yet critical eye, searching for some way- any way to get Artemis out of here as quickly as possible.
Richard stubbornly avoided looking at Artemis for fear of seeing his own reaction upon hearing of Elias' soon-to-be-involvement reflected in his eyes. He couldn't afford the distraction- couldn't afford to try and comfort or soothe. It was like ripping off a particularly bloody set of bandages.
Distantly, he wagered they'd all need bandages by the end of this night.
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Helen Jekyll  Tairais • 2 years ago • edited
((My only question is what kind of couple are Will and Hannibal? XD))
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Tairais  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
(( Murder Husbands v 1.0, obviously :P Freddie Lounds was on the nose on that one. ))
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Helen Jekyll  Tairais • 2 years ago
((That's their official title? XD What sort of things do Murder Husbands do with one another?))
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Tairais  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
(( Go to the opera, judge everyone quietly and in a way that sounds like a compliment at first, murder people go on midnight walks together, adopt dogs, eat/drink the rude cook gourmet dishes together, read classic literature, design houses together, host parties. Yknow, classic socialite couple type activities, only Will's not much of a socialite, much to Hannibal's amusement. ))
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Helen Jekyll  Tairais • 2 years ago
((Awww, they sound adorable! ^-^ I think they might be my favorite couple as of now. XD))
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Tairais  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
(( XD I'd watch the show before saying that- They absolutely win no rewards for 'healthy example of a relationship'. The opposite, in fact. They're like Elias and Richard except worse, because Richard hasn't directly or indirectly killed anyone near and dear to Elias, among other things. 
I'd watch the show anyways because it's hella good. Unless you're squeamish/have certain triggers I can elaborate on if need be. But yeah. I love Hannibal- the character *and* the TV show XD ))
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Helen Jekyll  Tairais • 2 years ago
((Oh! I'll have to do a bit of research then, someday when I'm not swamped with work. ^-^
'Til then, I shall remain unaware of the flaws in their relationship. XD))
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Tairais  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
(( XD Ill suffer in swampdom with you then! ))
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Helen Jekyll  Tairais • 2 years ago
((Woohoo! XDX *drowning in papers and unfinished work*))
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Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
((@MillieGriffin A continuation of the "After-Party Party" thread, with a repost of the last few entries. Again, turn order is Lewis, Millie, Mz. Hyde, Ariadne.))
MillieGriffin Jekyll1886 • a day ago
Millie arrived back at the lab with the bags hanging over her shoulder as she pulled the wagon with Mz. Hyde in it. She stopped in front of Weir with a rather unamused expression on her face, she cast Mz. Hyde a suspicious glance and looked back at Lewis, "....Yeah...", was all she had to say. Then she turned to Mz. Hyde. "Alright ducky, ride's over, you've reached your destination," she stated, gesturing for her to get out of the wagon.
Mz.Hyde Mod MillieGriffin • 18 hours ago
Aw! Well, it was fun! Thanks​ for the ride! 
*She hope out of the wagon.* 
Hello everyone!
Dr. H. Griffin Mz.Hyde • 10 hours ago
The bed was empty, the covers strewn across the floor. Some of the books from the shelves had fallen down. Most of the chemistry equipment was ransacked; taking vials, bottles, almost all of the liquid apparatus possible.
The desk had the worst of it. Toppled over on its top side, the papers had been scattered along the floor; there were a few drops of blood on them.
"Griffin's gone," she told nobody. About to leave, she noticed a small note on the back of the door.
Jekyll1886
"Best come inside the laboratory," said Lewis, holding the door open for Millie, who had the wagon, and Mz. Hyde.
Once he'd closed the door behind them, he leaned against it, just for good measure.
We don't need any more people involved...
"Mz. Hyde...you had better take a look at this," he said, and handed her the form Ariadne had given him.
Cleaning chemicals for body clean-up, it read.
"Dr. Radcliffe was kind enough to make it official after I explained the situation to her," he said. "I'm certain you have questions."
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MillieGriffin  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
Millie pulled the wagon straight through the lab and into the storeroom and started loading the chemicals she needed while she kept her ears on the conversation.
(Mz.Hyde)
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Mz.Hyde Mod  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago
What the?! Why would you need these?! Wait a minute....did you all KILL someone?!
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Jekyll1886  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
((@DrHDr. H. Griffin ))
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MillieGriffin  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
( Dr. H. Griffin we're continuing this on the mainpage now, just in case you didn't already know)
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Dr. H. Griffin  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
Reaching for it in the darkness, Ariadne read it.
Dr. Hawley Griffin is under my protection. Do not attempt to find him; nor attempt to retrieve him. You may have dealt with Moran, but rest assured I am not so easy to deal with. My word is law.
-M
She suddenly remembered something a few years ago. Hobbimer had told her to hide in her room. She heard shouting from downstairs. And then the words: My word is law, Hobbimer.
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Jekyll1886  Dr. H. Griffin • 2 years ago
"No," Lewis reassured Mz. Hyde. "No, we didn't. But Hawley did, and we're cleaning up the mess so the Society's reputation won't suffer.
"The dead man was a sniper for one James Moriarty, the so-called 'Napoleon of Crime'. I can't imagine he'll be happy if he learns of this. Which would endanger the Society.
"I thought you should know. No one else does, aside from Hawley and Millie and myself--and Dr. Radcliffe, who wandered in here. No need to start a panic among the lodgers, naturally. Yet it might be prudent for the Society to quietly prepare itself for...whatever may be coming."
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MillieGriffin  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago • edited
Millie really didn't feel comfortable letting Lewis tell Mz.Hyde about this since she didn't really know her and that instinctual feeling of something being wrong again kept back in again and she began to wonder if Dr. Radcliffe or somebody else was in trouble. She quickly put the last of the chemicals on the wagon and turned to them, "Can we wrap this up? I'm already finished!" She said anxiously as she pulled the wagon out of the store room.
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Jekyll1886  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago
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Mz.Hyde Mod  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago
Yes, of course! 
*She scoots out of Millie's way before turning back to Lewis.* 
What would some guy like this Moriarty asshole want with us?!
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Jekyll1886  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
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Dr. H. Griffin  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
Her eyes turned lilac. Without any warning, something pressed against her mouth, an invisible hand. Ariadne didn't scream, she didn't have the time to, as the hand forced her against a wall.
"Look, I don't want to hurt you and I don't have much time; but you need to tell me where Griffin is." replied the ghost, moving his invisible hand away from her mouth.
"I don't know. Moriarty's apparently taken him. Who are you?" she asked.
"Jonathan Cheshire. Invisible man. And I'm trying to find the man who made me like this."
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Jekyll1886  Dr. H. Griffin • 2 years ago
"Yes, do let's," Lewis replied to Millie. He held open the laboratory door for her and her wagon and Mz. Hyde.
To the night manager, he stated simply:
"I imagine he'll want Hawley. Personal feelings aside, he is a member of the Society; it would set a bad precedent to let the likes of Moriarty have him."
He turned to Millie.
"You have the chemicals and the equipment; you know what to do. Perhaps Mz. Hyde and I ought to check on Hawley while you complete your task?" he suggested. He hadn't meant to for so many people to get involved, and wanted to leave it to Millie's discretion whether to tell her relative or not.
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MillieGriffin  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
( dose Lewis know her uncle is in this dimension or was he referring to Hawley when you said "her relative"?)
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Jekyll1886  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago • edited
((Alrighty, so, he hasn't said anything, but she did show him a note/list initialed "G" and he sensed a soul very similar to Hawley's when her uncle came into the Society, though he said nothing about it at the time, being a bit disoriented.))
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MillieGriffin  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
( Okay just wanted to make sure )
"Hawley's room is on the way to mine, I kind of want to check on him too."
She was absolutely going to tell her uncle about this, he needed to know about this and Moriarty's plans if they were planning on staying in this world. She lead the way, her instincts telling her to get there quickly.
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Mz.Hyde Mod  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago
Alright, let's go. 
*She follows Millie and Lewis.*
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Dr. H. Griffin  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
"Griffin made you like this? Did he kidnap you?" Ariadne asked, staring into empty air.
"No. I drank it willingly. I thought it would be temporary, but now I'm like this forever." Cheshire replied, reaching for a tin can on Griffin's table. The tin can opened itself, and invisible fingers began painting a face out of thin air. "I'm trying to find a cure. I thought Griffin might've made one."
"Well, you're a bit late to find him, aren't you?" Ariadne smirked, looking at the ransacked office. It must've been pretty untidy when Griffin was around. "Moriarty's taken him."
"What? Moriarty?" Cheshire asked, slightly shaken.
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Jekyll1886  Dr. H. Griffin • 2 years ago
The trio arrived at Hawley's room just in time to catch the very tail end of Radcliffe and Cheshire's conversation.
Ah, Hell, cursed Lewis silently as he stopped in his tracks.
A breath in, a breath out.
"That's all we were short of," he remarked, making his way to them.
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MillieGriffin  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
Millie stopped infront of the opened door of Hawley room, her haed started to spin.
oh god ! will this night ever end!? She thought.
"Cheshire..." she uttered "When did you get here?" Then she glanced down the hall at her room that was right in sight of her. She wondered if he uncle saw what happened, maybe he can help.
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MillieGriffin  Dr. H. Griffin • 2 years ago
( random question, which actor do you think played the invisible man best? to me I think Pip Donaghy from the 1984 BBC mini series is my favorite.)
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Dr. H. Griffin  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago
((Well, there are a lot to choose from! Pip Donaghy certainly did a good job at portraying the cynical and self-indulgent portion of Griffin; but nothing can beat the late great John Hurt's portrayal in the Big Finish audio series.))
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MillieGriffin  Dr. H. Griffin • 2 years ago
( Oh yeah that's a great one too... unfortunately I've only heard the trailer of that vertion so far I wish I could hear the whole thing. Also wish I could've seen the chocolate factory musical play when it was out, but yeah John Hurt is an awesome actor I loved him the elephant man.)
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MillieGriffin  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
( I'm still trying to figure out how Mz.Hyde got in the wagon in the first place without Millie smelling her, hearing her heartbeat and breath, or seeing her bodyheat through the tarp, no matter how hard I try it just makes no sense)
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Jekyll1886  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago
((Mz. Hyde occasionally teleports, with the aid of some small, unusual creatures she keeps in her room. They can teleport a person if they surround him/her. And they sometimes then teleport away. This could explain her sudden appearance in the wagon.))
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MillieGriffin  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
(So Millie's first guess was right. Okay then that makes sense, that's really going to mess with Millie since she's not use to being snuck up on I don't think she'll like that very much.)
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Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
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Background Scientist #37 Jekyll1886 • an hour ago
"Sounds interesting," Scarlet said. She looked around the garden. "How did these plants grow inside? I've never seen anything like it before."
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"It's a well-established greenhouse," said Lewis, "with some help from some of the Society's members who specialize in plant cultivation."
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Jekyll1886  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
((Say, could anyone tag Background Scientist #37 for me?))
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Catt Hatter  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
((It doesn't seem to be working. :T))
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Helen Jekyll  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
((Their account is private so I don't think it works.))
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Jekyll1886  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
((Rats.))
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Wizardblizzard • 2 years ago
(( Mz.Hyde There seem to be a lot of undesirables about again. At leasy, I've been "followed" by three or four users in the last wek or so whose descriptions just say "Looking for sex sex sex" or words to that effect. I din;t know if it's just me or whether any one else is getting this. Is there anything you can do about that, or is that not some thing that you have any say in?))
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Helen Jekyll  Wizardblizzard • 2 years ago
I've been getting some followers like that as well. :/
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Catt Hatter  Helen Jekyll • 2 years ago
(( Me too. I just hit the X to remove them as a watcher, and then go to their page and block them. You could also report them if you want. ))
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Setae  Catt Hatter • 2 years ago
(Same here. I just block them aswell)
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Catt Hatter  Wizardblizzard • 2 years ago
((Me too. I just hit the X to remove them as a watcher, and then go to their page and block them. Could also report them if you want.))
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Wizardblizzard • 2 years ago
(Odd, so am I.)
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Jekyll1886  Mz.Hyde • 2 years ago
I've gotten four or five so far.
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago
I don't think there's anything I can really do, I mean these guys are following people's private profiles!
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