(A/Ns: MC IS BACK FOR ONE FINAL RUN! YES! This is the last part. I started about a year ago I think, and its amazing that its got so far. So anyway, in this, we're all finally 16 (some 17), and we leave the school! I know the Pandora Hearts characters are only at the beginning, but trust me they'll meet up with the MC squad next chapter. The next chapter will be on the 2nd may, because that's the writer's birthday haha. Just so you know, this takes place after the anime finishes, and in the manga (SPOILERS) after Elliot makes the contract, Leo learns of Glen, and Break is partially blind. More explanations to come, and the usual MC stuff. Finally, for those who don't know, MC Boarding School is a recurring series on my account, so check it out if you want to know more; I recommend at least reading the A/Ns on Part IV.
Please review! I know this fanfiction is me and my friends and primarily them, but I love reviews and knowing what everyone thinks so far. Can you guess the pairings yet?
Disclaimer: I do not own Pandora Hearts or my friends (to an extent...))
Chapter 1
"So, let me get this straight," Gilbert started, "We don't know where we are, Eques is injured so we can't contact Sharon, we've almost run out of food and cigarettes, it's late at night, we don't know where we're going, Break is unable to walk without collapsing, and Elliot and Leo have been separated from the Nightray residence, who also don't know where they've disappeared too."
"Well, yeh… but," Oz countered, his smile beaming like usual, "Look at the bright side! We get to see a new country!"
"That would be great if we actually knew what this new country actually was," Gilbert deadpanned.
"Don't be so down, Gil," Vincent sighed, clinging to his brother's arm, "Just be happy that you're with me!"
"Can't you contact Echo or something?"
"No. She's a nuisance, so I don't bring her if I don't need her," Vincent replied, his tone harbouring an unusually hostile edge; one generally not used when he addressed his beloved older brother, "Besides… she, Echo, is off on other business."
"That's not a nice way to talk about the person who does everything for you~" Break chuckled idly, hanging loosely from Gilbert's shoulders.
"I'm sure Sharon talks about you like that behind your back…" Gilbert muttered under his breath.
"How's Leo doing?" Oz asked after a short pause in an attempt to lessen the tension.
Elliot frowned, glaring at the other. Leo was currently slumped over his shoulders, having fainted from unknown causes only a few minutes after they successfully escaped the Abyss. "Nice of you to ask, thank you," he said bitterly, "He's still passed out."
"Oh. I forgot about that one…" the raven murmured, letting out an exhausted breath as he turned to Break, stopping in his tracks, "You're really getting heavy now. Do you think you can walk from here?"
"Probably not~" Break teased, his grip on Gilbert's shoulders tightening.
"Can you just keep your hands off my precious Gil?" Vincent demanded, eying Break up and down disgustedly.
Break's face dropped immediately, his red eye narrowing distrustfully at the other. Often, it took a lot to anger him; however having the obnoxious and narcissistic blonde in his presence quickly turned him into a truly irascible person. "I'm sorry to be touching Gil like this, but I don't recall actually agreeing to take orders from a sewer rat."
Vincent gritted his teeth and clenched his fists, only calming down after receiving a reassuring and vaguely sympathetic glance from Gil.
"I'm hungry," Alice announced abruptly, pouting sulkily and repeatedly tapping Oz on the arm.
"It's ok," Oz smiled down at her, "I'm sure we'll find somewhere to stay soon."
….
"Hey! V! Get back here!"
Sami sighed, face palming and shaking her head tragically as V ran off towards the sweets shop.
"Hold this for me," she requested hastily, shoving her rucksack into KT's arms and pushing her suitcase straight at Jess, who simply glanced up from her phone for a moment absentmindedly before turning her gaze back to her fanfic.
"It's my birthday!" V shouted eagerly, diving at the shelves and grabbing the pack of rare sweets, "YESSS!"
"Come on, V," Sami grabbed her wrist, whisking her back to baggage drop area and throwing her back into the queue with the rest as they neared the front, frowning at KT once she noticed her bag on the floor.
"I was eating my doughnut," KT defended, scrunching the empty bag up and digging it into her pocket.
"Of course you were…"
"Next."
"Go, V," Sami ordered, pushing the other forward. V glanced over her shoulder for a moment, before placing the passport casually onto the desk.
"It's my birthday today," V announced, completely irrelevantly.
"How old will you be?"
"I don't know."
"Surely you can work it out?" the airport security officer asked, flipping through her passport and scanning her boarding pass, "If you were born on the 23rd April 2001, how old does that make you in 2017?"
"I don't know," V shrugged.
"Um… alright," he responded, dragging out his words, "Please load your bag onto the conveyer belt."
V did as she was told, dropping it roughly onto the belt and staring idly at the ceiling.
As the officer continued scanning her passport, a few raised voices from the check in point a few people away stole his attention, and he sat up to get a better look at the noise.
"I'm sorry, E-"
"Don't say my real name!" ET interjected, slamming his hands down onto the desk, "They don't know! Well, Sami does… but that's confidential!"
The officer exhaled heavily, "Sorry, sir, but this guitar is to be counted as over-sized luggage. Unless you pay the extra fee, you can't take it."
ET frowned, glaring up at the officer. He paused, turning around to Sami, who'd just finished checking her bag in. As well as her, Jess also followed, her hand attached to the back of Sami's jacket and using her as a guidance system which would allow her to walk and read at the same time.
"Sami, pay the fee," ET demanded, folding his arms over stubbornly.
"Do you really need to bring your guitar with you?"
"Yes, I do," ET answered Sami, "Now come on. I need the money."
Cursing under her breath, Sami dug a hand into her pocket reluctantly, handing ET the debit card and whispering the pin in his ear.
"We'll be waiting over here," Sami groaned, dragging Jess along and over to where KT and V were already waiting.
Just as ET returned to the 4 girls, Sami perked up, counting each of them and scanning the room worriedly.
"What…?" ET questioned, paranoid by Sami's meticulous searching of the surrounding area.
"Shit… this isn't good…" Sami muttered, dropping her head and drawing in a deep breath, "We've lost James."
….
"I don't see what I did wrong."
The security guards shook their heads at each other, glancing down at the teen sitting beneath them, across the table. His posture was relatively formal; his expression practically unreadable.
"You seriously don't understand how what you asked was suspicious?"
"No."
Right before they could continue the interrogation, Sami and ET burst into the room, leaving KT, Jess and V outside as they pulled out the boarding passes.
"Sorry about this," Sami panted, handing them the files. Hesitantly, he switched the voice recorder off, reading through them in detail. "I'm Sami, the person leading our group on the 2105 flight to Salzburg."
"SZG," James corrected her, putting emphasis on each individual letter, "For fucks sake, we're in an airport. Use the correct terminology, you dinlo."
"James," ET warned, glaring at the other, "Just shut up now if you even want to get on the plane."
"You can hardly talk…" Sami muttered discreetly, "Alright James. What did you do?"
"All I did was ask if they'd made sure there were no terrorists on the flight," James answered defensively, "I've never travelled with Austrian Airlines before, so I was just checking. Plus, I don't usually fly at night, because it's a stupid time to fly. It's when all the poor people go."
Sami and ET both shook their heads at each other. Unnoticeably, Sami pulled one of the airport security officers aside, leaning up and whispering into his ear, "I think you should dismiss him. He's one of those… special-"
"I heard that!" James interjected, "I'm not a spastic. You, on the other hand, are."
"James, you're really not helping the situation," Sami mentioned, turning back to the officer and negotiating a little more.
"Alright," he sighed, giving in reluctantly and signalling for the other officer to remove James from the handcuff restraints, "We'll just do a few checks first. You'll make you flight no problem."
…..
"Hah… I'm sorry we're late…" Sami panted, ET and James running behind her as they finally reached the flight, "We got kept behind by… him."
James rolled his eyes, handing the seemingly pissed off air stewardess the boarding pass and snatching it back before she could guide him to his seat.
With an exhausted, fed up sigh, Sami finally made it to their seats, placing her bag into the overhead locker as James claimed the window seat, KT, Jess and V all glancing across curiously.
"You're late," KT stated obviously, pulling out another doughnut.
"Yeh no shit," ET commented. He plugged in his headphones, taking the seat in the middle besides James.
"We got kept behind for a full body X-ray," Sami informed irritably, dropping into the seat on the end, "James made an inappropriate remark at the bag drop, so they scanned us to make sure we weren't terrorists."
"Good thing they didn't scan me and V," Jess smirked, shooting a devious sidelong glance to Sami.
"Did you actually…" Sami grinned, lowering her voice, "Nice. I can already tell this is going to go really well."
"Are you sure she's actually going to let us stay?" ET questioned.
"She won't have a choice," Sami countered, "We've already decided that's what's going to happen. And trust me, if I say it's happening, then it's sure as hell going to happen."
…
Lela sighed contently, running a hand through her long, wavy brown hair as she poured herself a cup of tea, switching on her record player and filling the room with the soft echoes of classical music. The moon outside shone brightly, the light elicited from it being enough to illuminate the room. A cold breeze ripped through the night, but Lela didn't deem it cold enough to shut her main bedroom window.
Casually, she strolled down the corridor, gold pillars and antique paintings decorating the walls. The carpet was the colour of blood, but the soft velvety texture removed any lingering eeriness.
"Brauch ich hier ein riesiges Bild von einem Kaninchen…?" Lela considered, chuckling to herself, "Natürlich brauch Ich ein Selbstporträt… Sag mal… NICHT EXISTBAHRER GESPENST DIESES HAUSES! WAS DENKST DU DEN?!"
The hallways were wide and seemingly endless, but Lela eventually did reach the bathroom. A few minutes later, she wandered out again, exploring the house with the steaming tea in her hands before finally making her way back to the bedroom. As she climbed into bed, she briefly looked across at the time, the clock reading 03:06. For Lela, however, staying up until this hour was to be expected.
Placing her tea on the bedside table, she finally lay down under the covers; her eyelids drifting shut over her black pupils.
A few minutes later, she heard a shuffle coming from underneath the bed. Scratching her head quizzically, Lela sat up, leaning over the bed to investigate the source of the noise.
And then she spotted it.
"Hello, Lela!"
"SAMI?! Was zum Teufel machst du unter meinem Bett?!" Lela screamed, tumbling onto the floor and narrowly missing her friend, who instead of helping her just casually stood up. "Es ist drei Uhr MORGENS, VERDAMMIT NOCHMAL! Und wir sind in Österreich!"
"Um… Lela…" Sami interrupted, staring questioningly at the other, "Wrong language…"
Lela contemplated for a moment, blinking a few times before switching her language. "Oh… sorry… WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE?!"
"Calm down, jeez," Sami ushered, flopping onto her bed casually, "We thought we'd pay you a visit in your new home."
"Are you kidding me?!" Lela yelled, at which Sami waved her hand in a motion which implied she needed to seriously lower the volume of her voice, "Oh… sorry… come to the lounge with me then. As long as it's you, my dicktator, haha… get it? Ahaha… anyway, as long as it's you, I guess it's fine…"
Once Lela had turned her back, Sami smirked deviously, following the brunette out into the hallway.
The second the turned the corner, however, Lela froze.
In the middle of the hall was Jess, sitting cross legged on the carpet; absorbed her in phone and oblivious to the world around her.
"JESS?!" Lela shouted, both Sami and Jess looking up and clutching their ears painfully, "Why the hell are you here?"
"Sami's idea," Jess shrugged casually, resuming her reading a few seconds later.
"Are you kidding me…?"
"You've already asked that…" Sami muttered, patting her on the shoulder sarcastically, "Come on, let's just go downstairs."
Lela frowned, reluctantly following Sami and Jess down to the foyer. Once they reached downstairs, Lela couldn't help but face palm, immediately spotting the other 4 members of the group.
"Did you seriously have to bring everyone?" Lela deadpanned, scanning the room.
In the mini bar linked to the kitchen, V was currently stretched out on the counter with a jar of strawberry jam held in her left hand, the right hand scooping it out messily. Behind her, KT was devouring several of the desserts which she'd been saving for herself.
Across from them in the corner of the room, ET had taken out his guitar, and had turned up the volume of the amp up to the max as he played note-for-note the entirety of 'Back in Black'. Finally, by the TV, James fiddling around with the signal wires, and presumably was trying to connect to a TV network where the news wasn't in Austrian German.
"Are you actually serious?" Lela asked, glaring bitterly at Sami.
"Well we're not joking," Jess muttered, eagerly making her way over to the kitchen and pulling out some booze.
"Wait, that alcohol is expensive!" Lela called after her, "You know what… never mind."
"Come on, don't be mopey!" Sami encouraged, dragging her over to the kitchen and pulling out a birthday cake with the letter 'V' painted in rainbow icing on the top from her suitcase, "It's V's birthday!"
"Hey!" ET interjected from the opposite side of the room, slamming his guitar down, "IT'S MY BIRTHDAY TOO!"
"Yeh yeh no one cares," Sami dismissed, lighting the candles, "Come on James! Get over here!"
"No," James refused bluntly, "I want to watch the news!"
"Alright… never mind," Sami gave up, pouring the glasses of champagne, "Happy Birthday V!"
"And me!" ET whined.
"Fine…" Sami rolled her eyes, "Happy Birthday to V and ET… and cheers to freedom!"
(Translations:
Brauch ich hier ein riesiges Bild von einem Kaninchen…? – "Do I need a massive picture of a giant bunny here…?"
Natürlich brauch Ich ein Selbstporträt… Sag mal… NICHT EXISTBAHRER GESPENST DIESES HAUSES! WAS DENKST DU DEN?! – Obviously I need a self-portrait… say now… NON-EXISTENT GHOST OF THIS HOUSE! WHAT DO YOU THINK?" (Asked as if they were her friend)
SAMI?! Was zum Teufel machst du unter meinem Bett?! – "SAMI?! What the devil are you doing under my bed?!" ('Devil' being basically 'What the hell?')
Es ist drei Uhr MORGENS, VERDAMMIT NOCHMAL! Und wir sind in Österreich! – "It's 3 o'clock in the MORNING, FOR FUCKS SAKE! And we're in Austria!" ('For fucks sake' basically means 'dammit' here))