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Listen to Me	By : FearTheAngel Category: A through F > Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Views: 2470 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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You may be familiar with me, but let me introduce myself anyway, just in case. My name is Edward Hyde, but I’m more commonly known, and referred to, as Mr. Hyde.
To be quite frank, I hate the descriptions of me: ‘a small, strange looking man with a disfigured face.’ Thanks a lot! I may not be stunningly handsome, but to be quite honest, I don’t look that bad. It’s that stupid writer’s fault. I’m positive that he’s trying to portray me as the bad guy, well I’m not! Well, at least I don’t think I am. Let me give you the real description. I am five foot three (I know, quite small, but not that small) a slight limp in my right leg, brown hair and eyes, a slightly crooked nose, oh and one of my eyes are slightly larger than the other but no way does that make me look disfigured. I look like anybody else. I look normal.
I have to agree with that because I do have a temper, but who in this world hasn’t? Maybe my temper is worse than others, I don’t really know. What I do know though is that my trampling of that girl was very farfetched. Yes I knocked the girl over and I apologised but me ‘trampling’ that poor girl is just a very tall tale. I may have accidentally stepped on her but I would never call it ‘trampling’.
Now that we have all of that clear let me tell you my story of events. My alter ego, Dr Jekyll is a nice kindly man who says no wrong of anyone (God I wish I could be like him) and he created this potion, should I say, or even a mind altering substance which resulted in the creation of me, Mr. Hyde. The characteristics could be no more different don’t you think? Me, a bitter twisted beast of a man and him a kindly old doctor. Well you need that contrast really. You know the saying there cannot be good in the world without there being evil. I actually think I’m a representation of what Dr. Jekyll really wanted to be like. His desired characteristics superimposed onto me. I bet you didn’t know that, did you. That Dr. Jekyll deep down really wanted to be like me, so cynical, so cruel, hating everybody around him. Well he does. That is how I came into existence. I am the embodiment of Dr. Jekyll’s unrestrained emotions.
Now here is a secret. Do you promise not to tell? I’m not sure I can trust you, but I’m simply dying to tell you, so here goes. I love being Mr Hyde. Yes, I love it. I love the reference to me as ‘the darker side of Dr. Jekyll’. How great is that. The darker side of Jekyll. I completely change people’s ideas of Jekyll’s personality. He is no more the sweet, kind, old man but now a twisted freak with an alter ego! And I did all that, and it wasn’t even hard to do so. I didn’t have to make people believe this, it just happened. I strive for hatred of others.
I think I had better change the subject rather than me talking about world domination. I don’t really mean that. Um, what shall I talk about…? Oh Mr Writer here’s a question for you. Why is it that I am barely mentioned and when I am mentioned something has gone wrong within the story? Do you sit there thinking of evil happenings and so to explain the happenings you just reintroduce me to the story meaning that I get all the blame? Well, do you? Do something about it please because it is so very annoying and I am not like that, really I’m not, and your doing this just gives the reader more ammo to hate me even more. I did not blackmail that man into not telling anybody about the incident with the little girl. I only gave him the money because he was decent enough to believe me contrary to what you say. So Mr. Writer I hope you think next time, before you make false accusations!
Whilst I’m ranting and raving about people may I please address Mr. Utterson? Will you kindly keep your big nose out of other people’s business? Why do you think have the right to butt into other people’s lives? You’re a lawyer (and not a very good one at that) not a bloody detective. Stick to what you’re good at… well what you’re half decent at, and that is being a lawyer. Leave the detective work to the real detectives!
Dear people: I apologise for this sudden outburst but those particular individuals needed telling. I’m sick and tired of being made out as the bad guy… Right, now that all that’s cleared up, what was I going to say… Ah yes, do you remember reading about the Carew murder? It’s simply not true. I wasn’t even there! It was my alter ego Dr. Jekyll on that night, and all I remember is waking up in the morning as myself and being told about the murder. I hate this damn awful description of me. If something ever happens and it is committed by a strange looking person it is instantly thought that I committed it. Why is it all my fault? Someone please answer me, please help me!
Now, I know I said earlier on that Jekyll preferred my characteristics to his own, and you probably didn’t believe me, and you probably still don’t. But let me tell you everything I say is as true as Gods words. Jekyll truly did prefer my characteristics and actually wanted to be me. But contrary to what Mr. Writer says I did not take over Jekyll. I did not force him to change, and he never changed involuntarily. Yes we did sometimes change without the aid of the potion but it was never me taking control. It was always Jekyll wanting to leave his, what he calls ‘his boring life’ behind and enjoy a reckless care free life as Mr. Hyde. So who’s to say that it is my fault? I admit, yes I did like the changes because I got to be myself once more, but I cared too much for Jekyll, to force him to do such a thing as that. See I told you I can be caring! I’m not all evil. I do have a soft side. I just don’t like to show it as much, that’s all.
I really should explain why I didn’t have to force Jekyll to change. So here I go. It was because of you lot and your responses. He was so scared of what you would have thought of him, if his secret became public knowledge. So he became recluse and sombre. I’m surprised that it took so long to have an effect because of the amount of pressure you put on people today to be like everybody else. So he hid away. He removed himself from the world. The only way of escaping his feelings was to become somebody completely different. I didn’t and still don’t mind him doing this, well who would mind? I’m just making sure that you know it wasn’t me forcing him to do so!
Oh I really should tell you about the confrontation in the laboratory with Poole and Utterson because that is one of the most important parts. I really don’t want to admit this but I guess I have to. That was one of the scariest things that has ever happened to me, yet one of the most exhilarating things ever. Have you ever been in a situation where it feels like your heart is in your throat and you are purely functioning on adrenalin? My heart was steadily beating faster and faster as I heard them approach the cabinet door, my mind was racing. Was there no way out of this predicament? I couldn’t even change back into Jekyll. I truly thought my life was at an end. At least I had a life, even though it was short lived, at least I had the chance to a life. In those situations your mind jumps to drastic solutions, and the only solution I saw was death.
Ha, now I have you, now you’re interested, because I couldn’t have died could I? How could I be here now talking to you? Well I… actually I don’t think I’ll tell you, just to live up to my reputation… Ok Ok there’s no need to beg. I’ll tell you. I didn’t die I simply passed out. The trying of all those different potions finally had an effect on me, but instead of it changing me back into Jekyll, it some how messed with my DNA momentarily paralysing me and causing a sort of death. Well, it’s not my fault Utterson and Poole thought that both Jekyll and I were dead; I didn’t know that those potions Jekyll experimented with were going to cause this. Now here comes the best bit. Once Utterson and Poole had left I regained conscious but how long I was unconscious for is unknown. Once I woke up, I instantly knew that something was different about me. It was no longer Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde. It was Mr Hyde and Dr. Jekyll. Jekyll forever co-exists inside of me. Uncanny isn’t it, that Jekyll got his wish and permanently became me isn’t it?
This twisted tale is finally told, and you have probably laughed, but what I have told you is the truth. It is now for you to decide whether you believe me or not. It’s your choice, but just remember everything I said.
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A/N This is my first fic so I hope you liked it and please feel free to review because I want to know what you think, and any improvements would be greatly appreciated :)! Thanks for reading!
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