Collaboration between YoshiSkittlez and I.

After Rumpelstiltskin stated that the deal was struck, and they had let go of each other's hands from the handshake, Heather asked Rumpelstiltskin with one hand on top of the other on her cane, "So. When do we start the lessons?"

With a wry smile, The Dark One took a step backwards from Heather, clicking his tongue with a slight shake of his head. "Now aren't we the eager one?" He mocked, however the smile on his face indicated that he wouldn't have had it any other way. "We will begin immediately, but first, I want to see what it is you're hiding from me." 

Without a moments hesitation, Rumpelstilskin lifted a hand, his fingers closing in on one another as if grasping something in the air. There was a sudden gust of air and Heather flew back against the receiving wall with enough force that the wind had been knocked out of her, the cane she had been gripping onto flying in the opposite direction by an unseen force. 

Before Heather Jekyll could warn Rumpelstiltskin against the very idea of meeting Evelyn Hyde, she was suddenly thrown against the wall and an invisible grip was choking the life out of her. She clawed at her throat trying to get whatever was causing such an incident, but she dropped her hands down when she felt nothing was at her throat. She knew that if she didn't do something quick, then Hyde was going to come out. Either that, or the both of them were going to die.

Rumpelstilskin, still with his hand raised, took a couple steps closer to her, his crooked smile never faltering. He squeezed his hand harder, feeling the Doctor's windpipe crushing against his magical grip. He only stopped walking when he was mere inches away from her, his cold, dead eyes staring straight into hers watching the life slowly getting sucked away.

"Tick-tock dearie, now would be a terrible time to hold back." He breathed out in a soft whisper, close enough that she could feel his hot breath on her neck, all the while his eyes never leaving hers; watching...waiting for the change that he knew was coming.

Heather choked out in response "You're making a...huge mistake..." She coughed "She WILL kill you."

Rumpelstilskin sneered. "I doubt that."
 
She closed her own eyes as though she was getting ready to die. But when she opened her eyes, they were no longer the calm blue that they once were. They were now a dark brown, almost black. 

She smirked at Rumpelstiltskin and said menacingly and in the same childish manner Rumpelstiltskin uses, "Hello...Imp!"

"There you are." Rumpelstilskin breathed out a light laugh, appeased at his own handiwork of bringing out the monster that lay hidden underneath Dr. Jekyll and began to loosen his grip around her throat. She then kicked Rumpelstiltskin, with all the strength Hyde could muster catching the Imp off-guard and sent him to the ground. She grabbed Rumpelstiltskin's throat with both of her hands, choking the life out of him. Now she could feel his windpipe against her hands.

She taunted the imp as she tightened her grip standing over him.

"You know, you really should've listened to Heather while you still had her." 

Rumpelstilskin looked straight up at the changed woman in front of him, feeling her strong hands closing on his throat tighter and tighter...and yet, he still wore a grin. Enough air was left in his windpipe to let out a slight giggle before his entire being was suddenly covered by a thick blanket of blood red smoke...and then...he was gone...but his giggle resounded throughout the empty room.

When Rumpelstiltskin grinned, Hyde tilted her head and she watched as he was enveloped in smoke and he disappeared. Hyde looked around the empty room as his giggle echoed and she said out loud eerily "You can run...but you can't hide from me," 

She couldn't help but grin at the last memory of the last victim who tried to hide from her before she found them and killed them. She inhaled through her nose, and she walked towards right where Rumpelstiltskin's scent was the strongest. As she walked towards Rumpelstiltskin, she picked up her cane and twirled it, whistling at the thought of killing her prey. 

"Nope! Not over there dearie!" Rumpelstilskin's child-like tone sounded from behind Hyde. The cane in her hand disappeared almost immediately, only to reappear in his awaiting hand while she turned to look at him. He didn't hesitate, however, and brought the blunt end of the cane down on her head, sending her onto her back on the floor. 

Hyde noticed the cane disappeared, and she turned only to be struck in the head. She didn't give any sign that she was in pain after she was hit, and left sprawled on the ground. 

With a giggle and a jump, Rumpelstilskin stood over her, his thin legs on either side of her body with his knees pressing harshly into her ribs. He held the cane tightly, driving the bottom of it into her forehead, slowly feeling the pressure in her skull starting to accumulate.

She was about to get up or throw the imp off of her, but he showed that he had more strength than he appeared to have. She glared at him as he pressed her cane into her forehead, and she grabbed the cane, fighting his strength with her own and tried to lift the cane off of her own head, and push back towards Rumpelstiltskin.

"YOU THINK YOU CAN KILL ME?" Rumpelstilskin shouted loudly, his child-like demeanor now far gone. He brought up the cane only to change the angle of which he was holding it and brought the top of it down on her head once more.

Hyde managed to catch the brass top of the cane before it touched her head but it still took some of her strength to keep the top from pressing into her forehead. She sneered back at Rumple in response to his shout, "Well to be honest...you look more like prey than a predator."

"NO ONE! NO ONE CAN KILL ME!" He brought down the cane once more on the opposite side of her head before he pulled himself off of her and let the cane fall to the side by her body. He brushed off his tunic and craned his neck until he was rewarded with a small series of cracks. He took a couple backwards steps from her, though pointed a gnarled finger at the woman, his smile now returning.

"But I like your spirit. Now get up."

Hyde took the hit with only a grunt and a low and angry animalistic growl directed towards Rumpelstiltskin. She stood up as he stepped backwards, pointed his finger at her and told her to get up. She glared at him, as she stood. 

"That wasn't so hard was it?" He remarked with a smirk. "Now let me talk to the other one, I've seen enough." He said waving his hand at her like he was 'shooing' away a pesky house-fly.

Hyde laughed at Rumpelstiltskin's dismissal. She said to him "I'm not done. Sorry, but Jekyll won't be coming out for a while now that I'm out. You wanted the monster, you got the monster."

"Alright fine." Rumpelstilskin said with a light shrug and conjured up a lavish throne out of thin air. He flapped the tail of his tunic open and sat down gracefully, sinking into the chair comfortably. "I'll wait then."

She stalked closer to Rumpelstiltskin and she said to him with a sneer, "Let me make one thing clear in regards to this deal. You try to do anything to Jekyll, I'll make you pay. Be it through death, or any other method that'll make you suffer." 

Rumpelstilskin put a hand over his heart, looking quite taken aback by the threat...if a bit dramatically.

"My dear! Dear...dear..." He snapped his fingers between pauses trying to think, realizing that he never caught the name of the monster before him. "Well whoever you are..." He ended up with, giving up. "My intention is not to hurt your dearly crazed Jekyll, only to help." His tone was sincere, but the crooked smile creeping across his face could have told someone otherwise.

"Besides dearie...I'm more interested...in you..." He added, pointing his finger at her once more.

Hyde a clearly skeptical look on her face, and she inhaled through her nose again before saying "You're actually a terrible liar," She rolled her eyes, and said "You just tried to kill dear Heather in order just to see me, and she didn't do a single thing to you," She didn't mention how he tried to kill Hyde, because she knew that he could say it was self-defense. She ended her statement with a mock pout.

"I knew you'd come out to save her." He jested in reply.

She retorted to his jest, "Only because she and I are one. If one of us dies, so does the other. And I rather quite like living," 

She then crossed her arms and she said "Now. The question is why in the world would you want an apprentice for? And you chose a scientist for the job too."

Rumpelstilskin seemed to mull over his answer before speaking, though when he did the child was out of his tone and instead replaced with that of a mentor.

"I think you're smart enough to gather that my world is different from yours dearie." 

Hyde snidely remarked "That much is obvious. Your point?"

Rumpelstilskin stood up from the throne and walked slowly to her, his eyes trained on a single spot on her forehead where he had managed to break the skin with the head of the cane. He raised his hand slowly, his eyes darting to hers for a moment, ensuring she wouldn't try to strangle him to death again. The tip of his fingers brushed against her thick brown hair, pushing it aside a bit to expose the small bleeding wound. Small, purple strands of magic began to circle around his hand, but nothing happened aside from a soft smile appearing on his face.

"Magic does not affect you...and I intend to find out why." He said softly before returning his hand back to his side.

Hyde raised an eyebrow as Rumpelstiltskin examined her wound. She let him, instead of taking the chance to try and kill him again, even though the chance was very tempting. She noticed that he tried to do something, but he commented that magic didn't work. She smirked and said "Sounds like that'll be somewhat handy."

Rumpelstilskin's grin only widened. "Oh you have no idea." With a small smirk, he turned his back to pace away from the monster but only took a few steps before turning back to look at her. 

Hyde commented "Nah, I'm pretty sure I have a good idea how handy this is," She knew that he could've used magic on her if not for that strange trait she had. 

Rumpelstilskin just shook his head a bit but decided not to press the matter, at least not now.

"You'll let me talk to the other one now..." He said indefinitely; it wasn't a request.

Hyde raised her eyebrows at his serious command, and she said to him "OK. But you'll have an unconscious body on your hands."

She then said "Before I do though. Do you vow not to use your magic to kill, maim, curse, or turn her into anything inanimate or another animal? I'll come back with a bloody vengeance if you don't." She spoke the last statement in a [i]deadly[/i] serious tone. 

Nothing short of a crazed giggle came from the Imp, almost sounding like he were pleased with her threat.

"Of course dearie." He agreed but took the couple steps back towards her. "However, you must promise me something in return..."

Hyde glared at Rumpelstiltskin and she sneered "And what would that be?" She looked warily as she waited for his answer. She clearly didn't trust Rumpelstiltskin and what he had to say for his payment.

"Your compliance." He said simply and tilted his head to the side ever-so-slightly. "You will leave any time I ask and let your other-self through, and you have my word I will not kill, maim, curse, or turn her into anything inanimate or other animal."

Hyde shrugged and said "Fine," She knew he could have asked for worse, so she wasn't going to complain. She said tauntingly "Catch ya later."

Her brown eyes changed back to blue and as the rest of the changes followed, Jekyll fell to the floor unconscious. 

Rumpelstilskin watched as the woman changed and then collapsed onto the floor in front of him. He waited for a few moments, expecting her to get up. When she didn't move, he cautiously walked closer to her and nudged her side with his boot. Still, she didn't even flinch. With somewhat of a frown, Rumpelstilskin waved his hand and a bucket-full of water conjured just above her head, but without the bucket. He released his hand and let the water fall onto the Doctor's face.

Heather gasped sharply as the freezing cold water hit her face, and she sat up. After she did, all of the pain from the wounds Hyde received from Rumpelstiltskin. She groaned with a hiss "Oww...Dammit Hyde!"

She looked up to see Rumpelstiltskin and she glared at him, as she stood up, and ran a hand through her hair. 

"You've got quite the friend there." Rumpelstilskin said watching Dr. Jekyll get up without even so much as offering to help her. His eyes moved from hers to the floor where it was now wet and his small smile fell into a frown. "You should clean that up before you make my dinner. I do hate water-stains on my good floor." He let out a slight giggle before turning to leave.

Heather retorted unhappily "Tried to warn you. But you were quite insistent on seeing her," When he mentioned cleaning, she looked at him and she asked confusedly with a raised eyebrow, "What? Aren't I your apprentice? I don't recall signing up to be a house maid."

Rumpelstilskin stopped mid-step and turned to face her slightly.

"Oh? Tell me...apr-r-rentice! WHAT? Exactly...does an apprentice do?" He asked, his voice again child-like and trivial.

Heather sighed, knowing what the answer is, "They work and study under the teacher's instruction." She knew what he probably was going to say next, and she asked "If you're going to say that chores help me learn magic, then you'd best say why that is other than it keeping you happy."

Rumpelstilskin held up a hand to keep her from talking, even going as far as putting a simple spell to keep her mouth shut for the time being.

"You took the deal dearie." He reminded her with a condescending tone. He waved his hands and procured a small bucket with a rag inside of it. "There! Don't say I never gave you anything." He giggled and again turned to walk away, this time reaching the archway of the hallway before turning to look at her once more.

Heather found that she couldn't open her mouth when Rumpelstiltskin reminded her of the deal. She recalled the deal Hyde made with him, and she gave him a light glare silently telling him that he sort of broke his deal with Hyde. 

"Oh and I like to have my dinner by sundown, so do be quick about it." His face cracked into another grin before the grand double doors of the room slammed closed, locking her in but at the same time releasing the spell keeping her mouth shut.

After he had gone though, she begrudgingly got to work, with Hyde promising to kill Rumpelstilskin. She made quick work of it as she could, and after she was done headed to the kitchen to make his meal.