A Chat With Lady Jekyll

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**Dr Helen Jekyll:**\*barely gives the strange woman a glance, preoccupied with trying to get Catt comfortable enough to be moved\* Thank you... But was it really necessary to hurt Mz. Hyde like that? She's normally not all that bad... \*sighs\*

**Mz. Hyde:**\*The woman, as the first sign of some emotion, raises her eyebrow.\* You mean to tell me you actually like her?

**Dr Helen Jekyll:**Well, yes, I do... And I've never liked seeing people hurt, no matter who they are. \*she looks up at her, suddenly asking\* Would you mind giving me your jacket? Catt is getting much too cold...

**Mz. Hyde:**No. I am not giving you, a pathetic excuse for a doctor and a human being, my jacket.

**Dr Helen Jekyll:**\*she frowns\* A simple no would have sufficed... \*Helen said in a chilled tone before turning her gaze back to Catt\*

**Mz. Hyde:**Tell me. Why are you two friends with someone as annoying, disgusting, and completely, utterly useless as her?

**Dr Helen Jekyll:**Well, I don't think I'm only speaking for myself when I say I think she's none of those things. Mz. Hyde is a valued member of the Society, just like everyone else. She's fun to talk to, usually very entertaining, and I think everyone would miss her if she were to disappear.

**Mz. Hyde:**Is that so?

**Dr Helen Jekyll:**Yes... So please do my friend and I a huge favor and bring her back?

**Mz. Hyde:**As you wish. \*The woman reaches into her coat pocket and pulls something out.\* Here. \*She throws it to you and you catch it. It's a Mz. Hyde doll.\*

**Dr Helen Jekyll:**\*looks at the doll for a few seconds then back at the girl\* What am I supposed to do with this?

**Mz. Hyde:**Set it down on a chair or bed, big enough for a real person, and she'll be there by tomorrow. Just... cover her up because those doll clothes don't grow with her.

**Dr Helen Jekyll:**Oh... \*looks back down at the doll\* What did you do to her in order for something like this to work?

**Mz. Hyde:**Nothing. She's always done this when things like this happens. I will be going now.\*She turns to leave.\*

**Dr Helen Jekyll:**Wait! \*stands up, holding the doll delicately\* Who are you? You look like Mz. Hyde...

**Mz. Hyde:**\*She stops for a moment, and looks back at you with dead, icy blue eyes.\* I am Lady Jekyll.

**Dr Helen Jekyll:**\*frowns\* But if you're Mz. Hyde's Jekyll, then why aren't you two the same person?

**Mz. Hyde:**This is a role­playing forum. Anything can happen.

**Dr Helen Jekyll:**Ah... So we're going to be breaking the fourth wall now... Alright... Well, you're not very kind to yourself...

**Mz. Hyde:**I am the personification of my creator's depression. Of course I'm not very kind to myself.

**Dr Helen Jekyll:**That makes sense, I suppose...

**Mz. Hyde:** Mz. Hyde is, therefore, the personification of my creator's happiness. She is usually like this IRL, except when things go...wrong.

**Dr Helen Jekyll:**When things go wrong? \*frowns\*

**Mz. Hyde:**She trusts people too easily.

**Dr Helen Jekyll:** I don't think that's a bad trait to have... I mean, as long as she doesn't do anything too dangerous, that is a good way to make friends.

**Mz. Hyde:**Trust is for fools. People will use you to their advantage.

**Dr Helen Jekyll:**Not everyone. Some people don't have the skill for it. Others would never dream of doing something like that.

**Mz. Hyde:**But it HAS happened. And it WILL happen again. That's why the two of us are like this in the first place.

**Dr Helen Jekyll:**Maybe it won't. Maybe she'll find someone she can trust!

**Mz. Hyde:**I highly doubt that. \*She starts to walk away.\*

**Dr Helen Jekyll:**\*sighs, tugging on her hair...\*

**Mz. Hyde:**\*Lady Jekyll continues to walk away.\*

**Dr Helen Jekyll:**\*turns back towards Catt does the things she had been doing in the other chain with Catt\*

**Mz. Hyde:**\*Lady Jekyll walks off into the horizon, and out of sight.\*

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