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Post by Jonathan Crane on Mar 16, 2009 13:14:03 GMT -5
Crane marveled for a moment that fate should bring him into contact with this man. How much could his own research improve if the fears he could force people to face involved their own true character!
"What exactly went wrong?"
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Post by Edward Hyde on Mar 16, 2009 13:20:34 GMT -5
Jekyll's haggard face looked grim. Grimmer than usual.
"There is more bad than I had expected," he said quietly. "And its release, in pure form, is uncontrollable evil. The results are erratic, the solution not entirely trustworthy. The changes began to happen on their own, the antidote began to lose its efficacy. At this point... I have developed several chemical solutions, which do different things but in an unpredictable manner. And my research was further complicated by the discovery that the condition sensational literature calls 'vampirism' is real; one of my failed attempts was to 'cure' it."
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Post by Jonathan Crane on Mar 17, 2009 19:02:00 GMT -5
"And what happened when you tried to cure it?"
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Post by Edward Hyde on Mar 18, 2009 10:08:31 GMT -5
Jekyll flushed slightly, his hand going to the scabbed-over bite marks on his neck.
"I... I attempted to re-integrate our personalities," he said, forgetting to keep his language ambiguous--Crane would have to know, now, that he'd been experimenting with both himself and Lucy. "Instead, I... we became the opposite sex."
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Post by Jonathan Crane on Mar 19, 2009 13:52:12 GMT -5
Crane took a few seconds to let this sink in, but he quickly composed himself.
"You seem to be your original genders now..."
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Post by Lucy Harris on Mar 19, 2009 15:54:00 GMT -5
Lucy, now dressed in normal clothes, wandering back into the room in time to hear Crane's response.
"Was a boy before I got to the asylum." She commented.
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Post by Edward Hyde on Mar 23, 2009 9:24:17 GMT -5
"Indeed," Jekyll replied, for the less said the better, on that subject. "We are our original selves, in point of fact. But there is no telling, at this point, how long it will last. Dr. Crane, if you have any expertise to bring to bear on this particular problem, I welcome it. If not, I prefer to say no more. I'm certain you understand."
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Post by Jonathan Crane on Mar 26, 2009 13:57:18 GMT -5
"I understand. Do you have a sample of your various drugs?"
*Plans to get totally wasted*
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Post by Edward Hyde on Mar 26, 2009 14:06:40 GMT -5
"Of course," Jekyll said. "As well as notes; everything's labeled, here."
He still felt uneasy, trusting anyone with this information. But as long as he remained watchful--and didn't leave the stuff alone--he could control the situation.
It occurred to him that his belief that he could control "the situation" had gotten him in trouble before, but wasn't he trying to remedy that, now?
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Post by Jonathan Crane on Apr 1, 2009 11:53:15 GMT -5
"I may need to take samples back to the lab. I trust you can allow this?"
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Post by Edward Hyde on Apr 1, 2009 12:22:43 GMT -5
Jekyll froze.
"I'm afraid not," he said, firmly but without rancor. "This potion is far too volatile--should it fall into the wrong hands..." He spread his expressively. "Can you not work here, or could I not accompany you to your lab?"
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Post by Jonathan Crane on Apr 7, 2009 17:11:45 GMT -5
"I suppose I could work here- though I assure you no members of my staff would tamper with anything."
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Post by Edward Hyde on Apr 7, 2009 17:55:39 GMT -5
It was not, necessarily, the staff Jekyll was worried about. Why did he instinctively trust, say, Campbell over this fellow? But it didn't matter--he needed help, and Crane seemed to be the only help in the offing.
"I understand that," he said. "But my work has caused untold pain and suffering already. I should hate to take any unnecessary chances with it."
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Post by Lucy Harris on Apr 11, 2009 11:59:45 GMT -5
"But if ye don't," Lucy said from her spot in a nearby chair. "Then ye won't know if it can be fixed. "
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