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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“With him. Not against him.” The words are difficult. Henry lets them sit between them. “And with you.” His smile returns, faintly. “Though I reserve the right to object when your particular variety of bravery becomes indistinguishable from recklessness.”

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Or merely the part of Henry he has spent so long refusing to acknowledge. “I cannot promise you what this will look like, Margo. I cannot even promise that tomorrow I shall feel as hopeful about it as I do at this moment.” His grip tightens slightly. “But I can promise I will try.”

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

His thumb moves once across her knuckles. “And somehow, after seeing rather more of my ‘messy bits’ than any sensible woman ought to tolerate, you are still here.” There is something heavier behind his eyes then. Edward, perhaps.

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

ought to stop keeping account of who is saving whom.” A tired smile touches his mouth. Small, but genuine. “You challenge me. You infuriate me. You have developed the profoundly inconvenient habit of making me reconsider things I had considered quite settled.”

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Henry’s expression softens at that last admission. How much you have done for me. For once, he does not immediately try to diminish it. His hand reaches for hers almost without thought, fingers closing gently around them. “Then perhaps we

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

reined it in. “If coexistence is possible…” he continued, more carefully now, “it will not be because I have conquered him. Or because he has overwhelmed me. It will be because someone refused to see us as enemies and insisted, quite stubbornly, that we might be something else…I

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

“And you,” he adds quietly, “walk straight into it without flinching.” There is no judgment in it. Only quiet admiration — and perhaps a touch of concern. “That is either very brave, or very dangerous. Possibly both.” His eyes softened again, something unspoken flickering there before he

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

“I have spent so long trying to separate the mess from the man. To cut it out. Contain it. Pretend it was something… other.” A faint, rueful breath. “Edward has made a rather compelling argument that such efforts are futile.” Henry looked back at her.

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

A breath leaves him. “I would like that future, Margo. Truly.” His eyes soften again, though the shadow of Hyde still lingers somewhere behind them. “I am simply trying to survive long enough to see it.”

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

collateral in our… difficulties.” “You deserve it because you are you. Because you argue with me. Because you refuse to let me retreat into my laboratory and pretend the world does not exist..And because, against all sensible advice, you care about us both.”

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

He lifts his eyes back to hers. “But if it ever does decide to find me again…” A faint, tentative warmth touches his expression. “I cannot imagine it arriving alone.” “You deserve a place in it,” he says quietly. “Not as a prize at the end of a battle between Edward and me. Not as

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

His gaze lowered briefly, thoughtful, almost uncertain — a rare thing for a man so accustomed to certainty in every other aspect of his life. “Margo… happiness has not been a particularly reliable companion of mine. Not for some time.”

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Because I confess… I have entirely failed to convince him of that fact myself.”

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

that I am… remarkably good at ruining the people who try to save me.” “But I am grateful that you would try.” His eyes hold hers for a moment. “And if he does respect you,” he murmured, “then perhaps you are the only person alive who can persuade him that I am not his enemy.

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

“I suspect you would terrify half of them.” “Margo…” he says gently. He shakes his head just a little. “You must not make promises like that. You cannot stand between Edward and the world forever. And you certainly cannot stand between him and me. If this situation has taught me anything, it is

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

His gaze drops briefly, as if picturing the scene — Margo dismantling some pompous theory across a lecture table while a room full of very dignified men bristle. The thought draws a small breath of amusement from him, the closest he has come to laughter in some time.

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Which, at present, appears to be Edward’s preferred negotiation tactic.” “If you can reach him, Margo… truly reach him… then you may succeed where I have failed…God knows I have tried.”

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Then the smile fades again, the problem returning between them like a third presence. “As for compromise…” he murmured, running an exhausted hand through his hair. “I would accept almost any arrangement that did not end with one of us in a grave.

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

But do not think I would ever bar a door to you for being… unconventional.” A faint, fragile smile tries to appear, perhaps a hint of someone else, though it never quite settles. “You would find my colleagues terribly dull, I suspect. But you would be welcomed.”

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

“But Edward does not merely walk through halls, Margo. He kicks them down. And then he sets the furniture on fire.” There is no bitterness in it — only tired honesty. “And you,” he adds after a moment, softer now, “are not him.” “If the world has been unkind to you, I regret that deeply.

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

“I know the world is cruel about who it allows through certain doors,” he says quietly. His gaze drifts somewhere past her for a moment, as though the weight of those doors is something he has long been aware of.

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

“If you can persuade him to speak plainly,” Henry says at last, voice quieter now, “I would welcome it. Truly. Because I confess… I no longer understand what it is he believes he is fighting for.”

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

“I do not think he means to destroy me,” he admits after a moment. “Edward rarely means anything so simple. He wants… freedom. Appetite. Indulgence without consequence.” A small pause. “Unfortunately, the consequences are rather attached to me.” Another silence stretches between them.

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

“You speak of him as though he were a tenant who has taken rooms in my house. Someone with whom I might negotiate the rent.” His eyes lift back to her, weary but steady. “But Margo… if he burns the place down, I burn with it.” He rubs the bridge of his nose, exhaustion pulling his shoulders lower.

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

“Yes,” he says quietly. “It is.” He looks down at his hands for a moment, flexing his fingers as though they might belong to someone else. “And that is precisely the problem.” A faint, humourless breath leaves him.

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Because every time I loosen my grip, he tries to strangle me with it.. I do not want to erase him, Margo. I want peace. I want one hour of silence in my own skull. Is that so monstrous?”

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

A breath. It shakes despite his effort to steady it. “And I am tired of fighting you, too. Of feeling as though I must defend my own survival in my own laboratory.” He looks at her then — not angry, just frayed at the edges. “If he wishes to live, he has a strange way of showing it.

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

“But I am so tired, Margo. Not the sort of tired that sleep fixes. I am tired in my bones. Tired of negotiating with a man who wears my face and ruins my name. Tired of waking up afraid of what I may have done. Tired of fighting him for every inch of my own mind.”

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Henry drags a hand over his face before he speaks, as though even that costs him something. “I know what you’re saying.” His voice isn’t sharp — it’s worn thin.

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

“No.. no! I— I never meant for him to completely take control. That’s all.”

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

“The experiment. It was never meant to become… this..”

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

“Not about you.. And him.. And.. Everything. Please, don't go?”

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

“… I don't know what to think anymore, Margo. I really don't.”

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

He'd been.. Somewhat preoccupied, shall we say?

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

“Not particularly.” He'd been putting it off, if he were entirely honest.

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

//Or early, depending on which way you want to look at it.

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

//strygglinv to sleep and it's projecting onti them 😩

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Henry is trying and failing to sleep, staring somewhere in the middle distance.

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Adam with a faint, forgiving smile. “Remarkable craftsmanship. Even after being cast like a stone, it survives.” Straightening, Jekyll’s expression softened. “Perhaps it is not only fear that teaches us, Yeshua,” he said thoughtfully. “Perhaps mercy does too—when we are forgiven for-

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

“You’ve performed a most dramatic experiment, my friend.” He bent to examine the toaster’s battered side, fingers brushing the dent with an almost tender precision. “It appears resilient enough,” he murmured, glancing toward-

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Jekyll was the first to move, stepping forward from where he had been frozen mid-thought. His face was a mixture of alarm and awe, as though he had just witnessed both science and chaos at once. “My word,” he breathed, surveying the scorched wall and the trembling creature.-

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Then his eyes flicked to Erik, amusement touching his tone. “Though, I confess, the hum is rather ominous. One might almost believe it does possess a soul.”

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Dr Henry Jekyll | Edward Hyde @satanbymyside.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

“Fascinating,” he murmured, crouching slightly to inspect the mechanism. “Some form of electrical heating, I should think—filaments converting current into radiant energy.” He glanced toward Yeshua with a faint, almost boyish smile. “Not alive, I assure you. Merely efficient.”

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