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thedepthsoffandomminds · 1 year ago

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The guest PT 3

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You didn't notice how Fagin still walked up the stairs, or how his light fingers made easy work on the necklace clasp. Not until Gaines called out to inspect everyone there did you realise it had still happened. The older man walked over brushing into and you felt his hand touch you briefly before he turned to Jack. You were finding it hard to breathe, your vision blurring slightly.

"no." You say hardly above a whisper. Your hand came out and reached for Jack as you become limp. He quickly grasps you.

"Are you alright?" He asks looking at you.

"It must be the either fumes, It has effected my asthma some as well." Belle says quickly coming up beside you.

"I can't, this can't happen now." You say leaning more into him. Your eyes flick up to Gaines as we stalks toward you and Jack.

"I've got you, alright, let's get you to your room." Jack says into your ear.

"I'm sure you won't mind if I search you?" Gaines stands In front of you. You shake your head.

"Miss y/l/n is unwell Captain, can you not see that?!" Belle speaks loud enough for the other guests to hear her. Gaines takes a step back, lifting his hands as if surrendering.

"This way." Belle rushed forward and led Jack upstairs, his arms wrapped around. Halfway up your heavy feet trip on the step and you almost fall. Jack scoops you up into his arms and holds you close to him. Almost instinctively you curl into his shoulder, allowing the warmth of him to ease the spinning in your mind. Jack rushes you into your room and lays you down on the bed.

"Take her dress off." He demands Belle, his eyes looking around the room.

"Excuse me?"

"I need to listen to her breathing." He explains further. She nods at him and comes to you, pulling your new dress off your shoulders and helping to remove the corset. She darts quickly to her room, grabbing the stethoscope.

Jack sat beside you, helping to sit you up and slid his leg behind you. He quietly lifts your cotton under top up enough for him to slide the brass onto your skin. The cold catches you for a moment.

"Now, just breathe steady. Just breathe with me. In. And out." His voice was low and you could feel his breath fanning over the back of your neck, "Good. Again. In. Out. Okay. Gonna come around the front." Jack moves the stethoscope round to your chest, his fingers brushed against the scar on your chest. He paused for only a moment, "Once again. In. Good, and out. In. Out." His head was beside yours, you could feel his hair brushing against your ear. With his words and guidance your breathing slowed and evened out. Belle watched on from the end of the bed. True she was happy to see an actual doctor working, but she could not shift the annoyance she felt.

"You're a common thief." She blurted out. You snapped your eyes to her, as if remembering where you were. Her hand stretched out and she dropped the ruby necklace onto the bed.

"Shall I call Captain Gaines now or later?" She pressed her lips together.

"No. No, no. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait." Jack followed her to the bedroom door standing before her. You call to her.

"Belle stop, it wasn't Jack." She looked at you then back at Jack.

"You've got two options. I yell "guards" and you get hanged."

"Not ideal."

"Or you make me the first female surgeon and I keep your secret. That or the noose."

"He'll do it." You snap' now quick back here, make it look like you are still examining me." You say and the two scrambled to position themselves accordingly. The door opens and two guards step in along with Governor Fox.

"What is going on here?" He asks, Belle swiftly rounds the bed to her father's side.

"Miss y/l/n l, felt ill father. Doctor Dawkins is just examining her." She pressed a hand to his chest and patted lightly.

"Yes, well, you seem okay now. The ether fumes I suspect. A good night's sleep and you should be right as rain in the morning." He gave you a quick smile, placing the stethoscope on the right stand and standing up from the bed.

"I would like to see her in the next few days, check her breathing again just to make sure and her arm of course." He says to the governor.

"Yes of course. Thank you very much. Now I am sorry lad, but everyone else has been checked." Fox said as Gaines stepped up beside him. Jack nodded and held his arms out beside him as the Captain patted him down, checking his pockets.

"All clear, thank you Dawkins."

"Doctor?" You say calling him back to your side. He takes your offered hand in his, "I am very grateful to you, Doctor." You say slipping the necklace into his hand unseen by the others in the room.

"My pleasure miss y/l/n."

*_*_*_*_*

The following day you dressed in a pair of riding

Jodhpurs and yellow riding jacket. You had enjoyed the green dress yesterday but this outfit was far easier to move around in. Belle had suggested it as the two of you were heading to the hospital. A maid was sent in to help you dress and do your hair, you knew it was just the way they did things but you were glad of the help. Your arm being wrapped in the splints made it hard to do up buttons.

Once ready you met her at the carriage. She was excited and extremely animated.

"You already know so much more than I, but I cannot wait to learn everything about the hospital." She says happily.

"You should be careful, I doubt they will teach you everything in one go." You laugh, "You know you won't be in charge there." She laughs brightly.

"Oh please I'll be running it by the end of the week." Her giggle was infectious and you followed her bounce as you climbed out of the carriage. Belle almost danced into the hospital, her eyes wide, taking in every inch of it. The head nurse Hetty sees the two of you and comes out of the nurses room.

"Can I help you? Oh Miss y/l/n, is everything okay? Are you feeling better? The Doctor told me about your turn last night." She asked, concerned for you.

"Oh yes I'm fine, but the doctor did ask for me to come into today." You reply with a sweet smile you had perfected over the years of working in a hospital.

"Where is the operating theatre?" Belle interrupted your conversation.

"Through there but no one is in there and women aren't allowed." She called after the blonde woman as she slipped into the room. You quickly apologised to Hetty and followed Belle. She was knocking on a door.

"Just when you think your day's reached its full potential." Jack sighed when he opened the door and saw her.

" Care for an orange, my dear? I've only learned through trial and error that they display more sweetness with the skin off." You hear Fagin say and you can't help but giggle, putting a hand over your mouth. Jack saw you then, his eyes looking over your outfit.

"I've come here to train." Belle states.

"Horses?" Jack asks lifting one eyebrow.

"This was all we could find in a hurry." She explained .

"I'm afraid today is not a very good day for me. You see, I'm trying to resolve a personal issue, and I have patients." He gestured towards you, stepping past Belle.

"It happens to be a very good day for me. Where do I start?" Belle asked ignoring his words. Jack stopped and turned on her,

"Hetty will introduce you to the other nurses and issue you with a uniform. Now Miss, shall we?" His hand drops to your lower back.

" No. I'm not here to train as a nurse. But you are here to teach me the art of surgery."

"That was never the deal." He groaned.

"That was precisely the deal." You say nonchalantly.

"In return for us not handing you over to my father, the governor, the man with all the power and lust for hanging. You will do what I say." Belle stands too close to Jack. He takes a step.bac, almost hiding behind you.

"Women cannot make surgeons." He says

" Of course we can, look at y/n." Belle argues.

"I'm not a surgeon, just a doctor." You correct her.

"She does have both hands." Hetty laughed from behind you.

" Thank you, Hetty. These are not my rules. They are society's rules. Here at least." He gives you a quick glance.

"Mmm. See, you forget. Here, I am society." Belle reminds him

With a frustrated sigh Jack leads you into a private room where you sit on the bed. "Professor McGregor will never accept you." He almost growled out the words.

"Did you miss the part where I said I was the governor's daughter? See, I'm as close to royalty as it comes here."

You laugh at them, you can't help it. You had watched this scene take place and though your presence had altered it slightly their words were all the same.

"Not in this place, you're not. Here, you start where everyone else starts." He commanded.

"Belle. It's where we all start." You say trying to reassure and calm her. With a huff she agrees. Jack checks you over once more giving your chest a listen, Belle watches once more.

Jack's eyes scanned your face as he listened. You could tell there was a question on the tip of his tongue.

"The...the scar on...on your-"

Your mind raced quickly trying to find a plausible answer.

"It was nothing, an accident when I was a child." You said hoping he would not catch the lie.

"Well you seem okay today. Will you be staying with us today?" He asks.

"I can help the nurses, if they need it but with my arm I don't think I will be much help." You lift the bandaged arm as if to remind him. He nods.

"Alright, of course." He gives you another nod, "right, Milady let's get you started."

You watched as Jack had Belle clean out the bedpans before she decided it was time to clean the ward. It definitely needed it and you were happy to see the straw and dirt cleaned out. You helped as best you could with your arm hindering your movements.

You tell the nurses to open the windows and tell them that the Professor will have to just deal with it, it would be better for the patients and them. They did as you said and even smiled as they didn't.

"I gotta say, it's definitely nicer in here now." Hetty whispers to you.

As you're walking around the hospital you hear Belle and Jack's voices coming from outside and you listen at the door. You recall the conversation from the show and decide to let it happen just as it did when you watched it. You had to be sure things happened as close to the truth as possible.

"I play cards. That's how I make my money. And I'm pretty good at it. Except, last time, y/n she... well I kept a promise, but seems like Fagin got cheated, and now, if we don't come up with a year's worth of income, then I get my hand cut off. So, that's why he stole the gems." His words made something in you stir, "You want to be a surgeon? Then expect nothing in return." He finishes his thoughts.

"You made a promise to y/n?"Belle asks in a time you don't recognise.

Jack sighs. "She knows things, have you noticed?"

"She is very intelligent, yes." She agreed.

"It may bring too much attention her way." Jack said, a crease forming between his eyebrows.

"I still don't understand her, Fanny said she just appeared, the driver didn't have a chance to move. It is quite unreal. The way she talks is remarkable." Belle says and you hear the way her skeptical tone turned to adoration.

"hmmm, so you know nothing about her from before she got run over by your sister?" He asked.

"Nothing."

"What are you doing Miss?" You jump at the sound of the male voice and spin round. Doctor Sneed stood before you.

"Oh nothing. I was just-"

"Listening at the door?" He half smiled and you noticed that in front of you here he was much nicer looking than on TV.

"You must be Miss y/l/n." He says seeing the splint on your arm.

"Oh yes, I am. It's a pleasure to meet you Doctor." You say.

"Are you helping here?" He asks.

"for the day yes, Lady Belle has chosen to clean the wards." You find the excuse easily.

"So I see. I admit it does feel nicer to be here with actual sunlight coming through the windows." He chuckles, I have some fresh lemonade in the kitchen if you would like some?"

"Oh, that would be lovely, thank you."

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sweetbuckybarnes · 1 year ago

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Wake Up, Belle

Pairings: Jack “Artful Dodger” Dawkins + Lady Belle Fox

Summary: What if Belle woke up on the table?

Jack and Sneed had just finished sewing up Belle’s chest, Jack only had time to drop the tools in his hands haphazardly onto the nearby table, before he was cupping her face, bloody fingers leaving red fingerprints on her cheeks.

“Wake up, Belle,” Jack begged, his eyes roaming her face as he is thumb came to rest on the feel of her heartbeat on the side of her neck. Her heart was beating! So why wasn’t she waking up? “Please, wake up, Belle!”

Gaines came around the table gun in one hand, and wrapped his hand around Jack’s upper arm. “Alright, time to go.”

“No, leave me. Belle, wake up,” he didn’t want to slap her awake - she was a lady after all - but if it’s what wakes her up, he’d do it.

Just as Gaines dragged him off Belle’s body, she took in a sudden deep breath, and her eyes cracked open as she caught her breath.

“Oh darling,” Lady Jane pushed herself around to Jack’s side of the table and blocked her daughter’s view of the surgeon. “Oh, my darling!”

“Jack,” Belle called, reaching her hand past her mother and to the man she loves. Lady Jane took hold of her daughter’s hand, who was quick to shake her off. “Jack.”

He peered over her mother’s shoulder, tears of relief filling his eyes. “Welcome back, Lady Belle.”

“Jack,” she reached her hand over for him to take, but pulled her hand away from her mother’s grip once again. “No, I want Jack.”

“Dearest-“

“You didn’t believe me when I told you I had an aortic aneurysm, you tried to tell me I was wrong, but I was right,” she stared her mother down, reaching her hand out for a third time for Jack to take - even with his hands covered in her blood - he took it. “Jack was the only one who believed me.”

Lady Jane stumbled over her words trying to find the right ones which would separate her daughter from the twisted surgeon for good. However, it was Captain Gaines who spoke up. “My lady, he is a criminal and a thief, he will be hung from the gallows in the morning.”

Belle looked up at Jack, whose face had paled - he had saved the love of his life’s life and now he was condemned to death. She turned her head to look at her father. “Papa, will you pardon Jack, please?”

“Belle, my sweet,” the Governor started, looking at his wife (with her eyes, she was telling him to say no), Gaines (who was silently wanting him to allow him to hand Jack Dawkins), then to the man himself - the young man who he presumed to be a few years older than Belle, was as white as a sheet, staring down at Belle both scared for his life and a look of adoration. Then he turns his eyes on Belle, his little girl (despite being the age of 25), as she looks up at him from the theatre table where just five minutes ago was battling with herself to stay alive, she looks over at Jack with the same adoring eyes, and then up at her father. “Do you love him?”

Belle looked back over at Jack, staring up at his face, framed by his dark hair and dark eyes swimming with tears. In the throes of pain, before she was given the ether, she remembers Jack telling her that he loves her.

“I do. I love him.”

“Then he shall be pardoned, and on the Prof’s retirement, shall be made Head Surgeon,” the Governor declares, watching as his daughter’s face lit up, turning her head to look up at Jack and raise a hand to cup his face.

Jack’s face flooded with relief, leaning down so he could press his forehead against Belle’s then nudging his nose along hers.

“I knew you could do it,” Belle tells him, obviously referring to her surgery.

“Edmund, dearest,” his wife comes around the table, digging her fingernails into his arm. “I thought Dr. Sneed was going to be Head Surgeon.”

The Governor looked over at the other surgeon in the room, who was looking at Jack with what could be considered pride. “Dr Dawkins just saved our daughter’s life, we are very lucky to have him as our surgeon in Port Victory.”

Jack hadn’t taken his eyes off Belle, “I’ll be back in a moment, I need to go clean up,” he motioned to his hands covered in her blood, whilst remembering about the spare shirt he keeps in his office.

“Jack,” Belle says, wrapping her hands around a little bit tighter.

“Lady Fanny, will you keep your sister company while I clean up?” Jack asks the youngest Fox daughter.

Fanny nods, hurrying as fast as her skirt would allow her. “Of course, Dr. Dawkins,” she took her sister’s hand, as Jack leaned down and pressed a slightly scandalous kiss to her forehead.

“I’ll be back in a moment, my lady.”

Belle watched, as she tipped her head until she lost sight of him, as Jack made his way to the bowls and cleaned himself up.

“Belle, do you truly love him?” Fanny asked, looking down at her sister in awe and curiosity.

“Yes, I don’t think I could ever stop loving him.”

Belle didn’t pay her mother any kind of attention until Lady Jane made an unladylike noise. “Belle, it is improper from someone of your station to be associated with him. Society will turn its back on you.”

Belle glanced over at her mother. “Don’t you know, mother?” She looks at her. “I am society.”

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