Rena grinned.
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"Well I still think you're ahead of everyone...Perhaps with my grandfather as an equal in potential but for different reasons. His intellect is amazing for one...but I really can't talk about my grandfather right now," she added with another amused impish grin and brief shake of her head.
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"I do believe myself to be?above most people, so if you wish to think of us as equals, you can I suppose. Though I have always considered myself your apprentice if you will...yet always eager for anything you will teach me."
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She kissed him again tightening her arms around him.
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Rena smiled again when Henry spoke of the potential?danger of his findings.
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"I don't need safety, Henry. It is boring. I need you, and whatever crazy adventure your brilliance takes us on, I am ready for it and able to keep up with you. If you truly see me as superior in any way, you can believe that. And you are indeed discerning...You will never be able to turn back from that which the potion gives you...how it expands...will expand you...And nor will you want to, My Love. I'm your accomplice, your friend, your playmate in illicit activity," she promised with a chuckle of anticipation.
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"It will be fun," she said, kissing him again.
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"And with a little planning, we can be careful and no one will be the wiser...Although...you with that potion will have a complete make over as you know...as it is designed in part to do, ut me...I shall have to learn some disguises I suppose, and that shall take a bit of thought. I do look distinctive after all," she said with a sigh, the truth of that just occurring to her.
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She would need to learn disguises, at least one if not more. When she and Jekyll took London by storm, it wouldn't do if she looked like the new young wife of Dr. Henry Hyde.
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Her eyes softened and her kiss was tender when he spoke of his concerns for hurting her.
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"Henry...You value me. You would never want to lose me. You would never hurt me anymore than I would hurt you for the same reasons.?I don't worry about that in the least. But no, you will not have full control of yourself once you take that potion. IN fact," she said with a gleeful smile as she gave him another squeeze, relishing his closeness,"You will do exactly what you want to do...whatever that is."
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Her smile widened in anticipation before she became thoughtful once again.
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"And as you do not wish to hurt me on any level...I'm completely safe."
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Snuggling closer she added,"I told you at the tavern, remember, that I knew about the potion," she reminded.
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"And don't worry I didn't spy. I don't think I could, at least not when I'm awake," she said.
"I'll explain all once our minds are clear and restored with a good night's sleep, though, I promise."
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She kissed him again and was quite ready to do more when the knock came at the door, announcing the servants with the food. With a groan of frustration and a final kiss she drew regretfully away and straightened the dressing gown of his that she wore.
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"I'll get it. We did want food after all, and considering the plans I have for your body, we will need it."
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With a final sultry smile over one shoulder at him she quickly moved to the door and opened it. Of course she never tried to be sultry. IT was merely that her thoughts at the time of what she wanted to do to him showed on her face.
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"Thank you," she told them as she stood back so that Mary and Pool could enter.
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"Just place everything down on the table there...We are sorry to have wakened you. I fear my travel has ruined our schedule for the moment, but soon we shall have it set to rights once again. Though I doubt we shall wake early in the morning. The doctor shall ring for you when we're ready, though."
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She gave them an apologetic smile.
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"Just sleep in yourselves as you like, as compensation for our disturbing you. Perhaps we can arrange with Cook for some sort of easy premade snacks that we can access if we are often awake late...Never know what hours our work will have us keeping."
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She smiled slightly, picturing them in Henry's laboratory together working on the potion or whatever else he wanted to do there, and though doing such a thing for her mom would have felt odd, for Henry, with Henry, it felt exciting and interesting.
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"Fruit and bread perhaps, and cake, something that wont spoil too rapidly."
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I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed.
I get along with the voices inside of my head.
Kat