Honestly, I forget so much that, with the way Lanyon was in college, he’s probably a lot better at rough and tumble stuff than I give him credit for.

Hyde takes Lanyon to the rooftop and he treats Lanyon really delicately. He keeps Lanyon away from the edge, he doesn’t take Lanyon to the tallest buildings, he keeps an eye on Lanyon to make sure he doesn’t look like he’s about to fall off.

Then, Hyde turns his back for one second. Seconds later, there’s the sound of running footsteps and he turns back just in time to see Lanyon just launching himself off the roof.

Jekyll is internally screaming as Hyde runs to the roof edge, frantically looking for Robert below.

To their surprise, he’s on another roof along, waving up at them.

There’s a moment of silence.

Then,

“Ohhhh. Right.” Jekyll and Hyde say in unison as realisation hits them.

As it turns out, Lanyon’s been doing this sort of thing long before Jekyll and Hyde even started and he’s way better at it than they are.

Hyde is desperate not to be upstaged and the pair end up competing at rooftop hopping. Hyde wins but only because Lanyon lets him.

Jekyll spends the whole time fussing over both of their safety.

(Later, as revenge, Hyde trips Lanyon off the side of the roof only to catch him before he falls. Got to pay him back for that heart attack after all.)

Jekyll and Hyde hurriedly commissioning lodgers to try to make something that Lanyon would love. Jekyll has no idea what to commission but Hyde commissions a robot hand that walks around and flips people off.

Jekyll is not nearly ready enough to be so crass, especially when it comes to a gift for Lanyon. Against all Jasper’s explaining that Lanyon loves him for who he is, not what he can give him, Jekyll is still fussing over it.

In the end, whatever he gets isn’t anything like Jekyll hoped, chosen in too much of a rush. Maybe it’s a simple bouquet of flowers he buys too early in his panic and all the flowers wilt by the time the event comes around.

Lanyon loves the gift that Hyde got him. He finds it hilarious. Lodgers spend the next several weeks having a robot hand sneaking up behind them to flip them off. Nobody’s safe from it. Every time anyone does anything to tick off Lanyon, they have to watch their back because that robot hand is coming for them.

Then it comes around with Jekyll’s turn and he finally chooses to take Jasper’s advice to take Lanyon on a date instead.

He takes Lanyon to some quiet last-minute place like a park since all the bigger, fancier places are fully booked (he spent too long fussing on what sort of place to book and, by the time he had decided, it was too late.)

Feebly, he tries to explain what happened and that he still loves Lanyon and he didn’t mean for this to turn out so badly.

Lanyon just gives him a curious look.

“What do you mean badly? Henry, this is wonderful! I love it!”

Jekyll, now equally confused, tries to protest that he hasn’t managed to give Lanyon some big, amazing date. They’re eating alone in a park because he didn’t even book tables in advance.

But Lanyon loves it. He has to deal with big, fancy gestures all the time, usually ones that never have any thought or love behind them. The park is beautiful, it’s quiet, and he’s there with Henry and Edward.

He doesn’t have fancy flowers but the ground is covered in all the weeds like daisies and dandelions that his father would never allow in the garden and it’s lovely in its own wilder way. Lanyon especially enjoys blowing dandelion seeds across the park. Hyde keeps taking control of Jekyll to pick grass and drop it in Lanyon’s lap.

They sit there alone, eating sandwiches, and feeding ducks for the entire date and Lanyon loves every second of it.

Lanyon doesn’t quite understand but he’s trying his best and Jekyll and Hyde appreciate him for that.

Maybe he sometimes tries to talk to whoever isn’t in charge at that moment but he’s not looking in the right mirror or staring in the wrong place (“I know he can’t see me right now but tell me that my eyes are up here.”) It’s awkward and a little goofy but Jekyll is just so fond of it. Hyde, meanwhile, finds it hilarious.

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Lanyon and Hyde say it simultaneously and Jekyll immediately just goes “Great! Now it’s like there’s three of him!” to Lanyon’s (who couldn’t hear Hyde) bewilderment.

Ohohoho~

Robert and Henry sleeping peacefully in the same bed together. Robert’s completely asleep, content from sleeping with company.

Yet, then he’s awoken by the feeling of something grabbing his back, latching onto his sleepwear so tightly that he’s dragged backwards across the bed a little.

Robert wakes up very bewildered and has barely a moment to process when he hears a terrified whimper from behind him and feels someone kick his back.

He’s still too asleep to know what’s happening but Henry seems to be having some kind of seizure. The situation is all too shocking and sudden for his doctor’s training to kick in just yet so he just hurriedly tries to stop Jekyll flailing around in case he hurts himself. 

Yet, Henry’s convulsions are violent. He can’t keep Henry still and he keeps getting kicked or clawed as Henry writhes in agony. In the end, he can only safely move things out of the way to keep Henry from knocking against them and hold Henry’s head to protect him from whiplash.

It’s as he’s trying to hold Henry’s head that Robert notices the hair between his fingers changing colour. 

For a moment, he stares at it. 

Then, (if this is a situation where he knows about Hyde), he finally realizes what’s truly happening.

Henry is desperately pleading in his half-asleep pains, begging tearfully for it to stop as Robert quickly tries to reassure him that he’s fine. Everything is going to be ok, Robert is there for him, it will all be over soon.

Robert tries to soothe Jekyll by very gently running his fingers through his hair and holding Jekyll’s hand, even as his scalp seems to shift under his touch, painfully reforming, and his grip tightens and writhes like there are snakes beneath the skin.

There’s nothing else he can do to calm the situation but hold Jekyll’s hand and reassure him, even as Jekyll squeezes back with nearly enough force to break Robert’s hand.

Then, after what seems like an eternity, it’s over. 

Jekyll’s tense grip on Robert’s hand loosens for a moment, then drops away limply. 

Heart still pounding, Robert looks down at Jekyll and finally sees Hyde.

Hyde’s eyes are closed and he’s breathing steadily, like he’s been asleep the whole time. Like nothing just happened.

However Robert, worried about the situation, quickly wakes him to check his health. 

Hyde is bleary-eyed and, for a brief moment, responds just as politely as Jekyll, too muddled by sleep to even know who he is at that moment. His accent is still Scottish and he’s rather confused.

But then he looks down at his own hand, still gripped in Lanyon’s, too small to be Jekyll’s, and he realizes what happened. 

He looks back up at Robert quickly.

Robert looks terrified, eyes wide, gripping Hyde’s hand tightly as though, if he lets go, it will happen all over again. He’s still mumbling words of comfort to Hyde about the situation, telling him that he’s fine and everything’s alright now, but Hyde can tell he’s more just saying these things to try to comfort himself.

Hyde cuddles up with Robert (Because he’s warm, Hyde would later argue, and he’s getting one another on Jekyll by having an extra night as himself) Robert clutching onto Hyde just as desperately as Jekyll did to him only moments before. 

Slowly, Hyde manages to ease Robert’s hyperventilation and panic but, even once Robert’s finally calmed down, neither of them manage to get any more sleep that night.

They just lie there awake, together, until the morning comes, cuddled in each others arms and waiting in case it happens again.

For a moment, still half-asleep, he forgets that Hyde can take over Jekyll’s body sometimes and just has to stand there for a few seconds trying to figure out why Jekyll is laughing maniacally at the mirror, wondering if he’s actually still dreaming.

“Darling, the neighbours can’t hear Jekyll evilly laughing at this time of night, he has a reputation of not being a mad scientist to uphold.”

YESSSSSSSSSS

The pair of them hanging out together before it happens, just milling about, maybe doing paperwork or something when Jekyll starts getting stomach pains.

At first, he doesn’t tell Lanyon. He doesn’t like making a fuss after all.

However, Lanyon leaves the room for a moment to get something and that’s when the pains start to get really bad.

Henry curls up into a ball, coughing turning into choking and stomach pains turning into bones cracking and snapping.

He doesn’t know what’s happening or why but he’s terrified.

His bones are snapping beneath him but he still tries to crawl towards the door, towards Lanyon, desperate for any sort of comfort before his potential death.

When Robert returns, he finds Jekyll writhing in pain on the floor. Upon laying eyes on Robert, Jekyll sobs in relief, grabbing his trouser leg and begging for help. He’s too scared to be quiet in case a lodger overhears.

Robert is also unprepared for unexpected transformations. He knows what the transformation looks like and this looks like it but Jekyll is freaking out too much so it can’t be. Besides, Jekyll wouldn’t have just taken the serum while Robert was gone.

Despite his own fear though, Jekyll is begging for him and he can’t let his own fear show. He just holds Jekyll and tells him that he’s going to be ok over and over again, even if he doesn’t believe it himself.

Once the transformation is complete, the pair are confused and bewildered on what happened and why.

It takes a few more transformations before they finally conclude that Jekyll will just sometimes transform without the potion now.

ADSAJHFD

THEY ARE

Lanyon keeps waking up in the middle of the night after going to bed with Jekyll only to hear the distant cacklings of Hyde from the bathroom as he practices his evil laugh. For a while, Lanyon just stares at the ceiling, bleary-eyed, wondering how his life got to this point, before going to the bathroom to reassure Hyde.

Ooooo Jekyll switching between himself and Hyde because of the high emotions involved. I love the idea of Hyde hurting Jekyll because he just wants to keep ranting!

Jekyll being furious over the break up, yelling at Lanyon in tears but, as a result of the high emotions, Hyde starts seizing control. Except, since they’re both on the same page, they’re switching rapidly between each other, giving Jekyll a massive headache and giving Lanyon more of a metaphorical headache. Nobody knows who’s yelling what.

When Jekyll storms off, Lanyon doesn’t chase after right away because it feels like they both need a few seconds after that.

Yet, after Henry spends a little too much time seething, Lanyon tracks him down again to find that he’s practically working himself into the ground again. Lanyon tries to get him to stop but, although Henry might have calmed down with time, Hyde certainly hasn’t.

Jekyll is struggling for control as Hyde spews out every horrible thing he can think of at Lanyon. He just wants to keep going but Jekyll just wants to stop. They’re switching between each other rapidly again but, this time, it really hurts because they’re not on the same page anymore.

Lanyon is doing his best to calm Hyde down so he stops hurting Henry but it’s not going so well and the pain is just getting worse and worse and worse until, finally, Jekyll and Hyde collapse, clutching their head from the pain.

Lanyon stays with them and helps them through the pain despite Hyde still holding a grudge.

I like the idea of green-eyed Jekyll coming out whenever Jekyll wants to be flirty or something but is too scared to try. Jekyll and Hyde share wants after all so Hyde just rolls his eyes, cracks his knuckles, seizes the reigns, and brings out the full flirt machine.

Red-eyed Hyde being referred to as Jekyll’s anime villain mode is a phrase that will never get old to me.

It would probably be pretty unnerving for Lanyon to see someone as energetic as Hyde suddenly shift to someone far more soft-spoken and steady.