LIGHT AND DARKNESS-A Jekyll and Hyde Story

Doctor Jekyll

In each of us there are two natures.
If this primitive duality of man - good and evil - can be housed in separate identities,
life will be relieved of all that is unbearable.
It is the curse of mankind...that these polar twins should be constantly struggling....

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MEI

In the dream, I found myself inside of a church in London. It was nighttime, and it was dark. From the corner of my eye, I saw a little girl, running away frightened. I wanted to know why. Then I saw a clergyman and he was getting beaten up by something...or someone in the shadows with a swordstick for a cane. The shadow poured liquid on top of the body that was...unconscious or maybe even dead?! I didn't know...nor did I want to know. The shadow then pulled out something else...a lighter perhaps? A ball of flame encircled the unconscious clergyman, and the mass grew bigger. Wide eyed and in terror, I screamed....

It happened again...the panic attack. I found myself falling out of my bed and fainting because of the nightmare. And to put it...it was a fiery sort of nightmare that I witnessed and it was scary.

"Mei...sweet, stay with me...stay with me..." The familiar cockney masculine voice of Sweeney Todd (Also known as Benjamin Barker) soothed to me. I felt him wrap his arms around me as I fought the panic attack that was coming for me. Sweeney is a man with pale skin, mysterious brown eyes, messy dark raven curly hair with a white streak on the side of his head. We both knew each other from another past life and it was when he handed Judge Turpin and Beadle Bamford his revenge.

Sweeney was wearing his Victorian Era clothes while I had on my light blue pajamas...on the torso of my pajama shirt was a crescent moon.

I felt Sweeney soothingly press his pale cheek on my light Asian cheek. I slowly opened my blue eyes as I felt the former demon barber's hand gently stroke my long raven curly hair out of my face as he placed me in my blankets and rubbed my chest and tummy with lavender lotion. It was about 4:00 a.m. I laid my head back down on my pillow as Sweeney wrapped the warm comforter around the both of us so that we could sleep. He ever so softly lulled to me what Uncle Joshua taught him and it was one of the songs that we would sing for comfort.

Be not afraid
I go before you always
Come, follow Me
And I will give you rest...Sweeney softly lulled in my ear as I closed my eyes. I felt Sweeney soothingly stroke my cheek and kiss my forehead as he gently pressed his face on mine.

"Yo, T! Is everything okay?" My cousin, Krishna asked, her head tilting, worried for me. She is my younger cousin with honey brown skin, chestnut wavy hair and brown eyes. With her were her other sisters--and they're quintuplets: Rani, Kamala, Katya and Kimiya. Kim is the eldest of the triplets with pale Asian skin, dark hair and dark brown eyes. Kamala is a girl with South Asian skin and hazel eyes; Katya is a girl of Jewish descent with fair skin; dark brown hair and light blue eyes. And Rani is a girl of Indian and Japanese descent with caramel skin and my uncle Joshua's brown eyes.

"Everything's alright, dears. Mei just 'ad a nightmare." Sweeney reassured softly.

"What was it about?" Kim asked timidly.

"It's too scary...I don't want to talk about it right now." I shivered, remembering how scary the dream was.

"Give her time, loves." Sweeney tenderly said to the quints. "Should you dears be asleep?"

"Oh, yeah. We forgot. Aye-Aye, T!" Krishna remembered.

"Yeah, come on." Kim signaled to her quint sisters.

SWEENEY

As the quintuplets headed straight to their rooms, I snuggled with Mei. I leaned in to press my face on hers soothingly while planting a kiss on her forehead.