Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Dr Jekyll yawned one morning, clearly fatigued, he looked around his well-furnished room at the lovely red wallpaper, the fine silk cushions and pillows laid around him and the mahogany wood desk in front of him. The light grey Pegasus slammed his head back on his pillow disappointed. “Damn I’m still a snob.” The Pegasus looked around again and saw in front of him the clock which stated it was 11 o clock in the morning; on the mahogany wood desk was a small tray bearing eggs a daffodil sandwich and a glass of orange juice. Jekyll smiled at the kindness of his servant.

“Oh Poole….Half of this I don’t pay you to do.” He clambered out of bed trotting over to his tray smiling, he slowly put his mouth near his target and began devouring the eggs and quickly moved on to the sandwich. Almost as soon as he had, as if alarm bells had been going of the second he began eating a loud knock was heard on his door, a very northern accent was then heard (west country in England).

“Dr Jekyll sir. Good morning Dr Jekyll sir, just to remind you sir that you are scheduled to meet Mr Utterson at Canterlotian music festival this evening." Dr Jekyll swore under his breath.

“Right, fine…Wait Mr Utterson….He never usually goes to these things.”

“That’s what I thought Dr Jekyll sir…But he said it is because of some special appearance…..Miss Octavia will be there sir. However she is performing almost the entire concert.”

At the mention of Octavia Dr Jekyll nearly spat out the orange juice he had begun drinking, he carefully placed the glass down.

“Octavia did you say?”

“Yes Sir…Octavia sir.”

Dr Jekyll smiled and almost purred like a cat at the mere mention of her name.

“That’s great Poole...I will be down shortly.”

“Thank you sir Dr Jekyll sir.”

Dr Jekyll smiled and trotted to the side of the room, there was another door in which his bath room was, he carefully looked around at the space: The sink, the large silver path and the shower…..The doctor decided to go for the shower. The shower was a square with no curtains around it as the doctor always believed he would be alone in his room so he would not need one, water was poured out from the mouth of a lion that was on the wall of the bath room, on the bottom bit of the shower was a tiny wall about the height of a hoof so that water would not go everywhere, in the square was a small drain where the water would go. Dr Jekyll pressed the button on the front of the shower and soon the warm water was all over him and he started cleaning himself thoroughly as he pressed another button that stopped the water briefly and instead poured what was basically shampoo onto the stallion’s coat then the water began again. After his shower the Pegasus quickly grabbed one of the towels with his mouth and flung it over himself. He then carefully rolled on his back making sure it dried his coat and then he got himself back on his hoofs, now dry and opened the doors with his mouth, turning the door knob slowly and trotted down stairs to where Poole was waiting, in his mouth was a comb and under one of his hooves was a pile of neatly folded clothes. Poole then began to slowly comb the hair of the Pegasus. Dr Jekyll smiled at the obedient cream coloured earth pony. After about two minutes of combing the Earth pony put a top hat on Dr Jekyll and carefully secured his tuxedo shirt and coat on smiling.

“Handsome and smart as usual sir…What should I do while you’re gone sir?”

Dr Jekyll smiled and placed his hoof on the other pony.

“You may have a bottle of some of my finest wine, imported directly from the Canterlotian vineyards…you have been ever so kind to me Poole, even when I have demanded so much of you for how little I pay you. You deserve a reward.” Dr Jekyll slowly walked to the door opening it himself and preparing him to be viewed by the rest of society.

“Thank you sir, thank you very much sir.”

Dr Jekyll smiled back at him as he slowly descended into his usual character battle.

As usual the Doctor was constantly interrupted from almost everything he did while out it public. Even as he slowly walked to meet his friend Utterson constantly other ponies, some of them he barely knew tried to start a conversation with him.

“So what do you think about….Oh I say what we should do with….”

Honestly Jekyll wanted to scream that he didn’t give a single crap about these subjects, nor did he see why they were asking him what he thought, could they not think for themselves. Eventually after the 20th pony he politely asked them.

“Please could you….Leave me…I have an important appointment with a colleague of mine.”

The ponies surrounding him left him grudgingly looking very disappointed. However as soon as they left Jekyll felt a familiar hoof on his shoulder.

“Why hello there Jekyll how are you.”

“Ahh Gabriel Utterson! I should have known you would be around here.”

The snow white unicorn chuckled, bowing slightly.

“Well this is the on the way to the concert, however it is a little early is it not?”

Dr Jekyll smiled, his friend had not lost an ounce of his logic above everything attitude.

“Yes, however I wandered if we could get there early so that if the seats are not of our liking we can have them changed, also because I need to have a word with one of the performers….” At the mention of performer Utterson frowned.

“Please say you are not going after that Octavia again, even talking to her about things that could not be related to business would cause a considerable amount of noise in Canterlot, let alone if you were to…..engage in love let us say.”

Jekyll smiled and trotted towards to the large concert hall with his friend smiling.

“I know I know, but….one must have fun at least sometimes mustn’t they?”

Mr Utterson put on an almost permanent frown as they entered.

“It’s a slippery slope...It’s a slippery slope.”

Jekyll mind was now on the concert hall, they were in the reception where there were four doors in front of him, one was in the middle labelled the concert where a ticket pony was standing ready, next to it was another door saying the concert with another ticket pony standing guard, while the other two were labelled bar. One of the ticket ponies raised an eye brow at the two gentleponys.

“You two are awfully early, let me guess, are you here to check your seats are of the quality you paid for.”

The two nodded and went a little closer to him, preparing to be shown their seats, suddenly the ticket pony looked closely and Mr Utterson and chuckled.

“Mr Utterson, you haven’t been here for over 4 years! It’s great to see you again.”

Mr Utterson blushed slightly being a stallion of few words he nodded.

“Yes the feeling is mutual.”

The Ticket pony smiled again. “Also thanks for proving my sisters innocence, that theft trial was a real triumph for our family.”

Mr Utterson nodded again. “I am a lawyer; it is my job to serve the client.”

“Yes yes….Oh yes your seats...come with me.” The blue earth pony took the two into the main part of the concert hall, inside was a huge circle of seats surrounding a rather small stage, on it was a lone pony slowly but surely practicing her cello, a gift she had indulged since foal hood, she looked briefly from her work to see the newcomers to the theatre and blushed bright red as she saw the handsome figure of Dr Jekyll, almost dropping her bow. Dr Jekyll smiled back and gave her a little wink as he and his colleague trotted on. They were led to the very front of the stage where in front of their already luxurious comfy arm chairs of seats was a table and a small drinks stand containing everything from wine, spirits to even soft drinks and beer. As Utterson checked the seat area was all they had paid for Dr Jekyll grinned even more at the beautiful Octavia as she focused on her piece, it was getting almost too much for her, her face was going as red as a tomato and her hooves were getting almost to sweaty to hold the bow and hold down the strings. Octavia mouthed with the corner of her mouth.

“Not now Jekyll I’m practising…after the performance!”

Jekyll chuckled and obeyed her deciding to focus of the task at hand; they briefly thanked the ticket pony for his services and gave him a generous ten bits for his troubles. Jekyll gave Octavia one last cheeky wink before leaving with Utterson for the bar where they would stay till the beginning. After they left Octavia sighed with relief and placed her instrument down so she could get the sweat of her hooves.

After a long wait the concert was about to begin, Mr Utterson and Dr Jekyll casually entered and where watched by almost every pony who was already seated, who eagerly wanted to mimic what they were doing so they could become the most fashionable. As they walked down the aisle Jekyll looked up at his finance who was now surrounded by other ponies bearing other instruments, he gave her a little wink and she blushed again, Jekyll and his companion then took their place on their arm chairs, lying down comfortable. Shortly after taking their position the concert started.

The concert was one of the most beautiful things Dr Jekyll had ever witnessed, not just from the beautiful music and the range of it from sad to joyful but also how his love Octavia was the captain of the vessel. It was her that delivered those beautiful solos using her instrument and it was here who mesmerised the audience with her musical skill. However it was the ending that made it for Jekyll, it was a lovely piece of music that was sad yet joyful, and it was almost as if love had been lovingly changed into pure sound. Dr Jekyll almost wanted to stand up and dance to the tune but knew that he had to be proper, he had to be a gentle pony and it made his blood boil. At last the music stopped and Octavia slowly took her bow of the string and smiled, and suddenly the theatre erupted with applause as every pony their stamped hard on the ground, showing their absolute adoration of the music. Dr Jekyll then took a rose that he had been wearing on his tuxedo and carefully extracted it from the suit and threw it onto the stage right in front of the beautiful Octavia, she blushed once again and bowed gracefully leading to more applause, Dr Jekyll smiled while Utterson gave him a cautious look, warning him yet again of the consequences of being seen with a lowly musician.

At the end when everyone had left, including Utterson after much convincing it was only Octavia and Jekyll who were left; they both looked around to check if anyone else was they then Jekyll ran to the stage and hugged his marefriend lovingly.

“It has been far too long Amore……far too long.”

Octavia nuzzled her lover passionately.

“Yes yes it has…You have no idea how hard it is to see you now…I always seem to be in a queue of fifty other ponies.”

Dr Jekyll chuckled and grinned.

“And you are far more important than any of them.” As he nuzzled her again giving her a kiss.

It was after midnight by the time Octavia and Dr Jekyll had reached Octavia’s house.

“Well I’m glad we didn’t have to hulk that cello with us.” Jekyll said with a smile.

“Yes...We get to keep them at the concert hall now….Since I have got a contract there now.” As she carefully slid the key into the door of her small Canterlotian flat.

“So...I can see you a whole lot more.” She grinned and she gave her lover a loving lick on the muzzle.

Dr Jekyll was now grinning like a foal about to get sweets (candy).

“Amore…..did you…get the kit.” Octavia giggled as she flicked her lover’s nose as they went into the living room of her flat.

“For a supposed Gentlepony you are a very naughty boy…..Yes I do have the toys…And yes I would love to use them on you.”

Jekyll was now shaking with anticipation, his wings almost spreading out with excitement.

“Well….shall we begin?”

Octavia smiled as she slowly took off Jekyll’s hat and tuxedo.

“Yes…actually...you need to be punished as soon as possible.” She said with a little giggle.