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@jekyll1886 2 years ago

The second "Party because can!" discussion is set to time out, if it hasn't already. Once again, here's a place to continue ongoing threads or start new ones.

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MillieGriffin • 2 years ago

(If this ends up a four part thing you could call the last part "After party, party" or something like that XD)

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Jekyll1886  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago

((I should! XD))

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Dr. H. Griffin • 2 years ago • edited

Jekyll1886: How was I to know Moriarty had the technology to seal off a pocket dimension?

I don't relish the thought of being stuck here until he wakes and I can follow him out of this place.

I do so wish Catt were here. She'd be able to do something about this, I'd wager.

I do hope my body's alright...

Cheshire picked a route through the crowd, needlessly ducking beneath the horde of faces, unintentionally catching the smell of their coats and bags. Might mask my own smell...

Griffin looked bored at Weir's body, then back to the party, where the gatherers were settling back in after the fire damage. They were too busy to notice anything happen on the borders of the Hall. Even more so...

Griffin stood up, clenched his fists, and began punching Weir's face as if it were a body bag. This is for my money! And this is for my injuries! And this is for your constant interference! You malignant, repetitious, snobby dullard!

(( MillieGriffin ))

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MillieGriffin  Dr. H. Griffin • 2 years ago • edited

Millie followed the scent through the crowd when it started to mix with the other smells and became faint. "Oh no..." She mumbled under her breath, she concentrated hard on the scent and started to use her eyes more to find a the only naked man shaped blob with bearly any details to his face. All she wanted was to talk to him.

oh really, and what would you say when you finally find him, hmm? the voice of her self-criticism made it's presenceknown, for some reason it always sounds like her uncle's voice, "I'm sorry?" Aheheh, do you really think that will make everything all okay? No! 'Sorry' isn't going to cut it no matter how much you mean it. It won't make him listen, or get him back to his family, or keep Moriarty from them and the society, and 'sorry' won't bring Moran back. Face it child, this is your falt and no amout of 'sorry' can fix it.

Millie's hearts started to sink, her hands clinched as she shook head, then shouted at the top of her lungs hoping Cheshire would hear her, if they couldn't speak privately she'll do it pudlicly without caring how she looked to a crowd of strangers. "OKAY, CHESHIRE YOU WIN! BUT DON'T THINK YOU'RE THE ONLY PERSON IN THE WORLD WHO KNOWS WHAT YOU'RE GOING THROUGH! WHAT YOU'VE DO TO YOURSELF, IT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO HURT THE POEPLE CLOSE TO YOU AND DISPITE THE THINGS YOU'VE DONE THAT'S THE ONE THING YOU COULD NEVER BE ABLE TO LIVE WITH YOURSELF! AND THAT'S WHY YOU WON'T GO TO YOUR FAMILY BUT IF YOU THINK RUNNING AWAY WILL FIX YOUR PROBLEM YOU ARE SO WRONG THE PROBLEMS YOU HAVE WILL HUNT YOU DOWN TILL THE END INVISIBLE OR NOT, AND IT WILL STILL AFECT YOUR FAMILY NO MATTER WHERE YOU GO! ...I'M A LITTLE SH*TLING OKAY!? AND I KNOW NO AMOUNT OF 'SORRY' CAN FIX WHAT I DID BUT I DO WANT TO MAKE IT UP TO YOU! SO JUST TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT And," her voice faltered from the physical and emotional strain, "I'll do it..." her entire body was quivering as she struggled to keep herself from breaking down from her outburst, She wouldn't dare shed a tear from this not one.

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Jekyll1886  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago • edited

((Oho, my gosh, "Dr. H. Griffin"/Hawleymod, I love the way you play Hawley! He's so emotional and condescending, a true lowlife scientist. And "Millie Griffin"/Milliemod, you do such a great job--even as the voice in her head--of pulling off [your] Dr. Griffin as that negative, very believable "pig parent"/self-critical aspect! In each case, perfect portrayal! Spot on! XD))

Lewis continued to simply "hang around", in spirit, in the room with Moriarty. There really wasn't much to be done...

Weir was blessedly ignorant of what was transpiring at that very moment in the Society.

His unresisting body, meanwhile, continued to suffer Hawley's punches. It was unresponsive and utterly silent, unless one counted the thwacks produced when Griffin's fists struck skin. It previously had been knocked unconscious, after all, and the current rain of blows did not improve the situation.

((Dr. H. Griffin ))

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MillieGriffin  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago

(Oh my god thank you! Even as a figure of her imagination he's an a**hole XD)

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Dr. H. Griffin  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago

"AND THIS IS FOR THIS STUPID SOCIETY!" Griffin thought aloud, as he delivered a final blow, looking as if it had dislocated Weir's nose. Griffin stood back, smiling widely. Satisfied, Griffin turned back; only to see tens of faces staring at him.

"Aheheh... I was... Aheh..."

(( MillieGriffin ))

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MillieGriffin  Dr. H. Griffin • 2 years ago

Millie scanned the crowd one more time, tons of faces were starting at her with confused looks some whispering to another about this 'odd child'.

See? You've just waisted your breath and made yourself look like a fool, and for what? A stranger, he's not listening you might as well have stayed at the society.

Feeling disheartened and embarrassed she started to turn to get out of the crowd when she saw the heat signature of Cheshire. She looked right at him with true remorse before waving at him and limped away with a heavy sigh, the people in the crowd giving her a wide birth as she limped her way out.

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Jekyll1886  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago

Between all the trauma it had endured and the body's airway being cut off by the odd angle of the neck and head, Lewis's brain began to die of swelling and oxygen deprivation, respectively.

Weir himself, meanwhile, though only a spirit, had a sudden feeling of uneasiness, the grim prescience that something dire and baleful was at hand.

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Dr. H. Griffin  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago

One of the Lodgers, whom Griffin recognised as the young chemist he met after Dawlish's murder; went over to Weir and checked his pulse.

"He's nearly dead, Griffin." she sharply told him, before unbuttoning Weir's collar and undoing his formal wear to provide a clearer airway.

"So? I haven't killed him, have I? Besides, he's inflicted a fair deal more on me." Griffin responded.

The chemist lept up from Weir, strolled over to Griffin, and slapped him hard over the face. He nearly fell over.

"Griffin, you might think of yourself as a superior person, towering over those you consider inferior; but in here, with the rest of the Society, you're anything but."

Before Griffin could protest, she clamped his cheeks together in one hand roughly and yanked him hard.

"Now, help me revive him; and we'll all pretend like nothing happened."

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MillieGriffin  Dr. H. Griffin • 2 years ago • edited

Millie's limped her way back to the society in the distance behind her she could hear the 'pad, pad, pad,' of bear feet following from a far.

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Jekyll1886  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago • edited

Weir's airway was now clear, which was indeed helpful. However, significant damage had already been done. A broken nose was the least of his concerns; the swelling on the brain was reaching an absolutely critical level. His pulse was weak and thready from the pressure of fluid on his brain stem, which was responsible for regulating such basic functions as kept him alive. Once that pressure became equal with the blood pressure in the rest of his body, he would die. He had a minute, maybe two, at most.

Still in the room with Moriarty, Lewis himself experienced the fruits of the process on his own astral form. A warmth enveloped first his extremities, then his limbs, and, next, the lower half of his torso as his distant body began the process of dying in earnest. He'd have to fight not to slip away entirely.

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MillieGriffin  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago • edited

(Oh god I really hope Lewis dosn't die!) D:

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Dr. H. Griffin  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago

The chemist, satisfied with Griffin's response, went back to Weir and checked his pulse.

"Oh, Christ!" she shrieked, turning to Griffin. "Help me put him onto the floor!"

Griffin ran over, took Weir's legs and helped the chemist lift Weir to the floor. The chemist raised Weir's head.

"Raise his legs, Griffin."

He did so. The chemist turned to the watching crowd.

"One of you get Tweedy and Doddle!"

((MillieGriffin))

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MillieGriffin  Dr. H. Griffin • 2 years ago

Millie was about to turn to face her stocker when she got that horrible dread she had about the fire at the society, she could waist any more time if another life is on the line. She sprinted on all fours back up to and into the society to find another crowd in the main hall gathered around where Weir was supposed to be. She heard someone inside the crowd shout, "Raise his legs, Griffin.", and, "One of you get Tweedy and Doddle!" two of the lodgers left to get them. Millie squeezed through the crowd to find Lewis with a beaten in face and dieing, another lodger trying to get him stable, and Griffin raising his legs. "Oh god..." she muttered as she got closer she could hear Lewis's pulse fading, itwasn't long until he'd be dead. There was one thing she had on her that coul possibly save him as she pulled out a small syringe with tiny red letters written on it saying, 'extreme emergencies only!' It was her antivirus, her best possible solution. "This might help..." She piped up trying not to panic, "it can reverse internal damage..." even inch of her was shivering as she tried to stay under control.

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Jekyll1886  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago • edited

((MillieGriffin What are the effects of the antivirus?))

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MillieGriffin  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago • edited

(It's an intelligent virus that works with the immune system to th up most extreme, it isn't satisfied until the host is in a healthy state, it scenes where it's needed and moves to heal any damage as soon as it enters the body, when the host is in heathy condition again it colonizes in the blood stream and keeps the host in it's best possible condition until the virus is removed. If the bodily damage is server enough the virus will keep the brain alive but in comatose while it repaered the damage, that's why Millie's uncle appeared dead then came back to life in the first part of her backstory. however it doesn't do a perfect job because the rapid healing can leave scars where the wonds where, but since this is to stabilize Weir's brain and get it in working order again I doubt there will be any visible changes to him. If Millie's proposal to use the virus and Lewis dosn't wake up from this the most notable side effect would be similar to a cold for a few days (or massive migraines, dizziness, and drowsiness in Weir's case), that's the antivirus finishing up the damage and colonizing in the body. Millie's Genome Deviant virus has this feature too although the symptoms of her virus's colonization is much more extreme and painful. But if you don't want Wier to have the antivirus I can try to think of something else.)

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Jekyll1886  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago • edited

((If it's in character for Millie to offer it, I say, go for it. Character first. I was simply curious how to describe it/its effects when writing up Lewis's post. Would Millie go on and administer it? Would some other character? The critical juncture is right now. I could always have some minor character do it, if you like.))

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MillieGriffin  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago • edited

(Millie would administer it herself, she knows how to do it and she's had enough incompetence from other people, she'd inject it in neck so the antivirus would have a quicker route to the brain, just they let her do it)

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Jekyll1886  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago • edited

((Alrighty! Do you want to edit your post, or should I simply incorporate Millie giving the injection into mine?))

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MillieGriffin  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago

(Go ahead and incorporate it.)

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Jekyll1886  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago

((Thank you, by the way. Millie's a lifesaver!))

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MillieGriffin  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago

(Your welcome, and I have the feeling Millie's already forgiven him for jumping on her.)

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Jekyll1886  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago

((Likewise, regarding him hitting the wall. Once he understands what all happened. He's honestly just really disoriented right now.))

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Catt Hatter  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago

((Yes, thank you Millie!! T^T ))

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Jekyll1886  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago

Deciding not to chance others' incompetence, Millie administered the antivirus herself. She injected it into Lewis's neck so that it would have a quicker route to the brain.

In the moments and minutes which followed, it did its miraculous job. Brain tissue recovered, the swelling went down, bruises healed, the nose straightened, old injuries mended themselves...it was truly remarkable.

In the distant room with Moriarty, Lewis felt the last of the warmth envelop him...

...only to find himself catapulted back into his body, waking with a start. His gasped as his lungs took in air. He looked about wildly, supremely disoriented. He tried to sit up, but failed as a wave of dizziness forced him to lie back down.

Oh, God, what--

As the room came into focus, he first noticed...

"Millie," he said softly, his voice hoarse and weak.

((Dr. H. Griffin ))

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Dr. H. Griffin  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago

Oh, thank God he's alive... Griffin thought rather sarcastically, standing up. Doddle and Tweedy strolled from the crowd. The chemist looked over to them.

"No need now, gentlemen." she told them. When she looked over to the syringe, the chemist frowned; as if she was doubting it.

"What is that remedy?" the chemist asked.

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MillieGriffin  Dr. H. Griffin • 2 years ago

Referring to Weir's recovery,all she could squeak out through the forming lump in her throat was a small "hi..." eyes just starting to water up as profound relief washed over her.

Referring to the chemist's question, after she wiped her watering eyes on her coat sleeve before they turned into actual tears and loudly cleared the lump out of her throat she said as clearly and calmly as she could, in fragmented sentences, "G-Genome Deviant... antivirus... works with the immune system... used it on Gr- my uncle when he was dieing from an illness... brought him back from . . ." Millie could feel her emotions become unbearable as she kept thinking to herself, don't cry! Don't cry! Not here! Don't you dare cry here!, she got up, calmly and politely said, "exuse me." and speed limped away and out of the crowd both fists clinched by her sides one clasping the now empty syringe the other still gripping Cheshire's abandoned coat that dragged on the ground as she went up stairs and down a random hallway to find a place to calm herself down.

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Jekyll1886  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago • edited

Weir noticed Griffin rise, saw Tweedy and Doddle and the chemist, and several others standing round.

Lewis was still trying to gather his thoughts when the chemist asked her question and Millie answered. He tried to absorb what information he could, but it was difficult, given his present state. He did get the gist that Millie had saved his life.

Before he could thank her, she left.

Later, he promised himself.

The events of the night came back to him as his brain further mended.

He wanted to apologize to Millie for jumping her...but that, too, would have to wait.

It belatedly registered that Griffin looked rather displeased to see him. Annoyed. Vexed, even.

If he's unhappy to see me, why did he come to the party? wondered Lewis.

It was obvious from Hawley's expression that the sometime-invisible man hated Lewis with a passion.

Perhaps it's that he's unhappy to see me alive, Weir surmised.

"What...happened to me?" he asked the nearby chemist.

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Dr. H. Griffin  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago

The chemist attempted to ask for Millie to come back, but found it was better to leave it. When Lewis asked his question, the chemist simply looked at Griffin with a stern look.

"You fell off you're seat." Griffin interjected with a lie. "Hit your nose quite hard; and we couldn't get you to wake up."

"Yes." the chemist replied, almost sarcastically; before helping Weir sit up. "Why you wouldn't was beyond me. You had a pulse, but it was beating incredibly slowly."

Griffin saw Millie disappear up the stairs, a coat in hand. In the crowd, he heard someone whispering.

"Why does that girl have my coat?"

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MillieGriffin  Dr. H. Griffin • 2 years ago

Millie limped down a few corridors until she found one that was bearly lit and limped down to the end of it there was a vase a to small for Millie's size with her rubbery skeleton she was able to squeeze herself inside it and pull the adult sized coat over the top. From the vase came deep shuttering breaths as Millie tried to calm herself down and keep herself from tears. She could hear footsteps come close and she started to breath quietly half hoping they'd go away.

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Jekyll1886  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago

With the chemist's assistance, Lewis managed to sit up enough to lean against the bench.

He was utterly unaware of the silly drawings on his face as he looked from her to Griffin and back.

"What did," he cleared his throat, the damage receding, "what did he do to me?"

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Dr. H. Griffin  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago

"Nothing." the chemist lied. "That we can't fix anyway."

She turned to Griffin, who kept his eyes on the stairway Millie ascended.

"Excuse me, a minute." Griffin told them, and wandered off up the stairs. The chemist tutted and turned to Weir.

"Never mind him. At least he didn't kill you." the chemist reassured.

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MillieGriffin  Dr. H. Griffin • 2 years ago

Millie heard the footsteps came closer and stopped at least a yard away. She could hear their breath and heartbeat suddenly the coat draped over the top started to get pulled away. Millie was getting annoyed as the coat was completely off and a familiar scent came into the vase.

Can't you tell I want to be alone!? She thought.

She looked up to see a familiar face peeking in.

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Jekyll1886  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago

"Not for lack of trying, if I was bad enough off you thought he might," observed Weir. He looked at the sea of faces around. "Did the witnesses dissuade him? Hawley doesn't strike me as the merciful type. Just the type who doesn't want to face the repercussions of his own actions."

Why is she so eager to protect him? he wondered. Is it blackmail? Are they sleeping together? Is she simply that naive?

Lewis laid hold of his walking stick, happily nearby. He used it to pull himself up, then settled onto the bench behind him. It would take time to recover fully.

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Dr. H. Griffin  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago

"I don't think he's that type either." she replied, standing up. She looked over to the crowd. "Come on! Back to the party!"

The crowd dissipated and went back to conversation and consuming. The chemist sat next to Weir, avoiding his gaze.

"You're wondering why I'm protecting him I take it?"

Griffin walked along the corridor, trying to find Millie. Why does she have that coat? She has her own, unless... Oh... oh, of course. Thief.

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MillieGriffin  Dr. H. Griffin • 2 years ago

(Sorry I took so long, I had to help my dad fix the car and

before I go on, I want to know if it's okay if I put Millie's uncle in the role-play, I just don't want to make you feel like I'm copying you by putting my own Griffin in this world. The footsteps thing was kind of meant to hint at Cheshire, but no one specified if he was actually following or not, so Millie's uncle is the only other thing I could think of but I don't want to add him withoutyour permission. again sorry.)

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Dr. H. Griffin  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago

((Well, don't know why Cheshire would be back at the Society. If you want to include your own Griffin, be my guest.))

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MillieGriffin  Dr. H. Griffin • 2 years ago • edited

"Go away." Millie groaned, "Can't you see I want to be left alone?"

"Somehow I figured you'd be in the smallest possible space crying like the little girl you are." Said a voice that sounded exactly like Griffin's

"What!?" She exclaimed outraged, "I am not crying! Do you see any tears? No, my eyes are quite dry so I'm not crying!" The sound of her protest echoed from inside the vace.

"Right." Said the voice very sarcastically then became monotoned, "I think I've known you will enough, not to be fooled by that little facade, child."

Realization struck Millie and the vace wobbled a little as she hurriedly squeezed her head, arms and hands, and torso out of the vace's tiny bottleneck hole. The man had a face exactly like Hawley, but he was an albino with slightly longer hair. He had a slightly stronger build the Hawley, and was dressed in all white ecsept for his bear feet, a little white chain hung out of his pocket. He was s standing a few yards away with his arms crossed, look down at her with an unamused ecspretion.

Millie's eyes widened in surprise, "Oh my god,"she mouthed out before hopping completely out of the vace shouting with jovial ecsuberince, "GRIFFIN!" She hobbled up to him as quickly as she could without knocking him over and wrapped her arms around his waist holding him closes in a hug for about two seconds before his hand clinched the nape of her neck, twisted the rubbery flesh, yanked her awalpy from him, and started vilently shaking her side ot side.

"You mad little brat!" He yelled in her ear, "Don't you ever enter another dimension again! Do you know how hard it was to get here, do you!?"

"Aww," Millie grinned at him, "you do care..." with angered grunt he twisted the back of her neck even more and yanked her head even farther back, "ow, ow, ow, ow" Millie squeaked craining her head back grabbing her uncle's arm.

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Jekyll1886  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago • edited

"To be honest...yes," Lewis confessed to the chemist, whose name he did not know. "I aided Hawley at first. When he injured me, I gave him a second chance. And a third." He locked eyes with her, his gaze earnest. "I nearly died for it. That's how he repays kindness. I worry the same may happen to you, or any other person who gives him the benefit of the doubt."

She needs to know what she's in for.

He detected a presence which might warrant concern, but said nothing, as he was in no shape to deal with anything more just yet.

((Dr. H. Griffin ))

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Dr. H. Griffin  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago

The chemist simply smiled and turned to him. It wasn't pitying, it wasn't smug, it wasn't even condescending. It was as if there was no hint of negativity to it.

"Don't worry. I've dealt with worse men." she replied. "Anyway, what was with you being completely unconscious?"

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MillieGriffin  Dr. H. Griffin • 2 years ago • edited

While Millie's was receiving the abuse the her ears and her neck she saw the other Griffin at the end of the hall.

oh boy... She thought to herself.

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Jekyll1886  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago

"That may be," acknowledged Lewis, "but it still doesn't explain why you'd want to protect Griffin. I must admit I'm at a bit of a loss on that score."

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Dr. H. Griffin  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago • edited

The chemist again smiled, as if expecting that question. She turned to the crowd.

"My philosophy," the chemist started, her tone soft. "Is that everyone on this planet deserves to be. Griffin may have done bad things to you; he may have even killed in his goals; but harm to him won't solve anything. Resolve it, or imprison it. I don't want to protect him, sir. I want to save him. There's a difference."

She looked over to him, her eyes slightly flashing a strange lilac, smiling kindly.

"You could say I'm a pacifist."

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MillieGriffin  Dr. H. Griffin • 2 years ago

(Could you tell me what your Griffin is doing now?)

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Dr. H. Griffin  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago

((Well, according to you, Griffin is standing right at the end of the corridor. If I had to guess, he would be staring with widened eyes and mouth agape.))

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MillieGriffin  Dr. H. Griffin • 2 years ago • edited

Noticing Millie was no longer paying attention to him, her uncle followed the direction of her gaze to see another version of himself staring at them eyes widened, and agaped mouth in shock and confusion. The albino let go of his niece's neck his eyes scanned Hawley over dubiously. "The hell...?" He muttered to himself.

Millie rubbed the back of her neck where she can feel nailmarks on her skin "Griffin, meet Griffin." She guestered between the albino and the white haired man.

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Jekyll1886  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago • edited

Good luck with that, thought Lewis.

"You speak as if you think I mean to kill him," said Weir. "I can assure you, that's not the case. After all, I'm not dead, and homicide is quite illegal.

"But that doesn't mean a loose cannon like Griffin--a proven liar with no sense of honor, and possible murderer--should just walk away from this scot-free. Do bear in mind that, were it not for Millie, I would have died. Here. This very night. Just now. That's not a fact to be taken lightly."

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Dr. H. Griffin  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago

Griffin had no words to speak. It must be some trick. This man... this impostor if anything; looked almost like Griffin. The same features; but different attributes of clothing and appearance.

"The f-... The fu-... What? Who are..." Griffin replied. Without any warning, he suddenly suffered a splitting headache. His nose started bleeding.

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The chemist stayed smiling.

"I don't think you want to kill him; I think you want to hurt him. To get even, as it were. Besides, you were doing something else apart from being unconscious; weren't you?"

Her eyes reverted back to their original colour of blue.

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MillieGriffin  Dr. H. Griffin • 2 years ago

"Oh god not again!" Millie exclaimed limping towards Hawley worried for his health.

"Ew..." her uncle said dryly "Don't let him get that on you...especially don't get it on me."

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Jekyll1886  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago

"Actually, that's what he wants to do to me; I'd be perfectly happy if he just left me and mine alone, though he doesn't seem capable of such. Kindly don't confuse our motives, Miss or Doctor...say, what are your name and title, anyway?"

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Dr. H. Griffin  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago • edited

Griffin gripped his nose, trying to stop the blood from dripping out. Turning away from the pair, the blood suddenly stopped. Looking down, his hand was covered with it.

Christ's sake...

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"Doctor Ariadne Radcliffe. Vaporous chemist. And you are...?" she asked, rather condescendingly sweet.

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MillieGriffin  Dr. H. Griffin • 2 years ago • edited

Millie held out her handkerchief to him, "Here, are you alright? I don't understand why that would happen again."

Her uncle kept standing there with his arms crossed, repeatedly tapping a bear foot glaring at them.

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Jekyll1886  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago

"Doctor Lewis Weir, transcendental metaphysicist," he returned.

"Have I given offense in some way, Dr. Radcliffe?"

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Jekyll1886  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago

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Dr. H. Griffin  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago

Griffin snatched the handkerchief from her; but instead of wiping his nose, he wiped his hands. He looked at the other Griffin.

"No, I don't know why either." he replied.

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"Not at all, not at all." she reassured. "But perhaps it would be prudent of you not to evade my previous question: you were doing something else apart from being unconscious; weren't you?"

Her eyes flashed that strange tinge of lilac.

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MillieGriffin  Dr. H. Griffin • 2 years ago

Millie looked back at her own Griffin who merly shrugged, "Maybe it was just a fluke." He said rather unconcerned.

"I... highly doubt that Griffin." Millie said scrupulously, she looked back and forth between the two them. "Hmm, maybe it'd be best if he doesn't see you." She suggested to her uncle, who raised an eyebrow, "please?" She asked with emphasis.

The albino rolled his eyes annoyed, "Fine..." he yanked on the small chain from his pocket reviling a marble white pocket watch. He clicked a little button on the top and he instantly disappeared into thin air.

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Jekyll1886  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago

Lewis counted down cards, suit by suit, to shield his thoughts. Just in case. A background chorus of Onomatopoeia, onomatopoeia, onomatopoeia helped as well.

"Perhaps I'd feel more comfortable if I knew what the color change to your irises meant. No offense, but around here, that tends to signify certain things. I'd rather be safe than sorry. Nothing personal."

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Dr. H. Griffin  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago

Griffin, straightening up as soon as the other went, turned sharply to Millie.

"If this is some sort of... of trick to me; you are going to have a seriously long night."

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"It's nothing sinister; don't worry. I was testing with certain elements in gases that came into contact with my eyes. Since then, my irises change into that lilac colour; during whatever state I'm in, that I don't know. I'm not a psychiatrist or an optician."

She reached into her pocket, taking out a small spherical rubber object, with a hose-like cap attached to it.

"Are you still in pain?" she asked, as she unstoppered the object.

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MillieGriffin  Dr. H. Griffin • 2 years ago

Millie rolled her eyes and said extremely sarcastically, "Oh yes, this is all just a prank, I dragged my uncle through time and space, and miraculously made your nose bleed for sh*ts and giggles, because that makes sense." Her uncle, invisible but not gone crept up closer to Hawley to get a better examination of his doppelganger. He brought his face close to Hawley's thoroughly studying the features then circled around him scanning his attire from head to foot.

Lord, I haven't worn such clothes since...

He stopped himself from thinking of his real age.

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Jekyll1886  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago

"Oddly...no," answered Lewis, as surprised by the fact as anyone. "It's the strangest thing. I feel...fine. And I really shouldn't. I don't know what was in that treatment Millie gave me, but it certainly seems to have done the trick."

Shakily, he got up off the bench, still a little dizzy. He leaned against his walking stick, waiting for his equilibrium to sort itself out.

Remarkably, it did so within twenty seconds' time.

Miraculous, thought Weir in awe.

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Dr. H. Griffin  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago

"You can dispense with the gimmick, whoever you are." Griffin moodily stated to the other; somehow knowing that he was there. "I can tell if someone is there or not."

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Ariadne was quite surprised as well at the time it took for Weir to recover. Whatever it was that Millie gave him, he looked spic-and-span.

"Whoever that girl was, she knows her remedies." she remarked. "Wonder where she got it from? You know, I met a man in Tibet who was able to heal broken bones in only a week."

She stood up and went to face Weir.

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MillieGriffin  Dr. H. Griffin • 2 years ago

"This is so weird," said the invisible man egnoring the other Griffin's remark, "I knew alternate versions of one's self was possible in theory but I never thought I'd meet another me... unless, Millie did you get into my hallowgrams again?" He asked accusingly to her.

"No, he's not a hallowgram." She replied, "And it's no gimmick eather." She referred to Hawley, "That's really another you, pretty neat, huh?"

"Feels like one those Doctor Who specials with different doctors in the same episode..." he thought out loud.

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Jekyll1886  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago

"That'd be Millie Griffin," explained Lewis. "No relation to Hawley Griffin.

"I'm not surprised about that man in Tibet," he added. "It's a remarkable place. Such a rich spiritual history.

"As to your earlier question...Millie's the one who actually knocked me out, albeit accidentally. I found my soul ejected due to the sudden nature of the impact. I decided to do some astral travel, knowing I'd be pulled back in when my body woke, which really shouldn't have taken so long. But, given what Hawley just did...in retrospect, it's no mystery. If not for Millie...I'd never have woken at all."

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Dr. H. Griffin  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago

Griffin turned to Millie.

"What did you do then? Hm? Did you take a washed up actor and powdered him to look like me? Is that it?"

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Ariadne raised an eyebrow at this. So that girl has the same uncommon surname as Griffin? Right... And astral travel? Soul ejected? Seems I have a lot to catch up on.

"Hm." she responded. "Well, I think I'd better kip for the night. It's getting late. For me at least."

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MillieGriffin  Dr. H. Griffin • 2 years ago

Millie put her fingers on her timple, this was already getting old and she wasn't in high spirits to begin with eather, she signed heavil and said rather annoyed, "No Griffin... he's not an actor, or a hallowgram, or a robot, or a hallucinations, or a clone, or any other of those things, expect the one thing I've bee telling you this whole time. Honestly, for a man who's created a process to invisiblity, living in a world where apparently "Magic"(she used air quotes, and said 'magic' in a super sarcastic tone) exists, and are neighbours with a ghost hunters, and werewolves, and time travelers, your being very nerrow minded about the possibility of alternate versions of yourself!"

Magic? Ghosts? Werewolves? Has she gone mad while she's been here? There'sno possible way those things exists anywere. the invisible man thought, before he remembered just what drove him to come to this world. "I don't blame him for thinking that, in his place I wouldn't have believed you eather, I'd have thought that this was some elaborate hoax to steal my secrets to invisiblity." He said plainly.

"Well that's not the case at all! As you can see," she gestured to her where her invisible uncle was standing, "or not see, we have our own methods of invisiblity and from what I've learnedabout the symptoms of your process they are both different from each other!" She started proudly.

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Jekyll1886  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago

"Goodnight, then, Dr. Radcliffe. Take care," said Lewis pleasantly.

It has been rather a long night already... he reflected. Perhaps I ought to turn in soon, too.

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Dr. H. Griffin  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago

Griffin rolled his eyes.

"Well, whatever this little... cabal is, I want no part of it! You can both just... I don't know!" Griffin flustered. "I'm going to bed. It was a stupid idea to get involved with this stupid party!"

Griffin span around and made his way to his bedroom, muttering to himself as he went.

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"Goodnight, Dr. Weir." said Ariadne, tossing him the spherical object as she passed on her way to the stairs. "It'll save you another trip to the infirmary."

He's not that bad.

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MillieGriffin  Dr. H. Griffin • 2 years ago

With Griffin gone the other Griffin repaered, "Good, he's finally gone." He grabbed the back of Millie's neck, "Now where were we?" Before he could resume the punishment Millie pried his fingers off and took a few steps away from him.

"That's enough! You've already yelled at me, and you nearly shook my head off isn't that enough?"

"No!" He shouted at her, "You deserve a lot worse for all the trouble you put me through! And all for a stupid watch!"

Millie's face went red,"l-it's not just a watch!" She protested take out the object of thier topic, "it's my limited edition Wallace and Gromit watch! That I got as a Christmas gift from you of all people, and then you use it in the temporal-spectral experiments, it's special!"

Griffin smacked the watch out of her hand and gave it one hard stomp, "Now it's junk..." he said sharply.

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Jekyll1886  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago

Lewis caught the tossed object with his left hand, his right currently occupied with the cane.

"Ehm, thank you," he managed, surprised.

Could it be? An actual idealist? he wondered.

He looked upon the spherical device, having absolutely no clue how to work it.

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Dr. H. Griffin  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago • edited

"Squeeze into mouth when injured." Ariadne remarked as she left out of sight.

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MillieGriffin  Dr. H. Griffin • 2 years ago • edited

Millie looked down at the now crushed watch thinking it might be repaired before Griffin kicked it away. She glared back up a him, " Wow, rude..." she said and crossed her arms, "Well I suppose we'll be going home now?" She asked expectedly.

Griffin was silent for a moment, therewas no way they could go back to what was waiting for him back home, "...No..." he said flatly.

"What? Why not? Do you not have the equations we need to leave?" She asked.

"No, I do have them, I just... what's the rush...? We don't have to go home right this second, now do we?" He said trying to be nonchalantly about it.

Millie looked at him in confusion for a moment then nerrowed her eyes at him suspicious, "What did you do?"

"Nothing." He denied quickly.

"You did something!" She accused, "There's no way you would be in a different dimension away from your precious technology!" She thought for a second. "You didn't kill the Queen, did you?" She asked hesitantly.

"No!" He snapped. "I... I didn't do anything!"

"Griffin, you know I can tell when you're lying!"There was a long moment of one glaring at each other. "You know you can tell me what happened." She assured him.

Her uncle huffed in frustration, "Can't you tell I don't want to talk about it!? When I feel like telling you I will, but for right now, Drop It!"he demanded ending that topic, Millie sigh heavily in response, putting her fingers on her timple again. "Well then," he started up again satisfied, "you live in this building, right? Witch room are we staying in?"

Millie felt her hearts sink as she remembered that Moran's chard corps was probably still in her room, she struggled to get a full sentence out "Well... you see... my room... it's kind of..."

"It's kind of what?" He interjected, Millie took him to her room to show him what happened.

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Jekyll1886  MillieGriffin • 2 years ago

((I just assumed she was hearing Hawley's footsteps.))

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MillieGriffin  Jekyll1886 • 2 years ago

( so did she)

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