Title: Finally Understanding

Summary: Leo contemplates about how different he feels, how different he's becoming as Vincent cuts away bits of his hair, strand by strand. And as he contemplates he slowly comes to a revelation and everything finally clicks in for him.

Warning: This fanfic has spoilers up to Retrace 62-63

Rating: T - Nothing explict.

A/N: Gosh, I just like making fanfics with a lot of contemplation, don't I? Yes, this is another fic about Leo contemplating. The story is set as to when Vincent is cutting Leo's hair and Leo goes through a revelation as he contemplates how different he has become and how it happened. This fic can be a little confusing. You can see the ending as however you want to but if you do want to know how I look at it, you may ask. xD My titles for stories aren't that great, are they? I need to be more creative. 8'D Anyways, I hope you enjoy the fanfic!

I do not own Pandora Hearts in any way.

Leo didn't know anymore. He just didn't now anymore.

As his hair was being cut off and falling away, he felt himself become more distant. More distant and yet there. He couldn't quite put down his finger as to what was happening. It felt as if he were half-asleep yet wide awake. As if the sensation was that of drowning but without the pain or water-filled lungs. Such a peculiar feeling. he thought.

Leo looked at his reflection in the mirror. Vincent was close to being finished with his hair. Leo felt so different. He looked so different.

And then something slowly clicked in. The overwhelming feeling of dissappearing and yet reappearing. He was there yet not there. It slowly got there.

A sort of bitter despair went through him, but he smiled a little. Yes. Yes, this is what I wanted, wasn't it?

Leo was slowly finally understanding.

Leo could see but what he was seeing seemed different to him. Everything seemed different to him like his perspectives had completely changed. It felt like he was looking through a different pairs of eyes, being in a completely different body.

It was getting to him. Slowly, but surely.

A slight hysertia bubbled up in him and the urge to giggle almost erupted from his mouth but he pulled it down. Now, now, Leo, no need to frighten Vincent. he thought. Or was it another voice? His thoughts sounded so much like his voice but it was so different. So different.

Vincent took the pair of scissors away from Leo's face. "I think I am finished, master."

Master. It sounded too foreign to Leo, that word. He had never called El-

A horrid dread and hysteria fell through Leo but he pushed it back, trying hard not to giggle or break down into tears.

He had never called Elliot master. Having someone else calling him that was just so...strange.

Leo forced himself to snap out of his reverie and stared at himself in the mirror.

This is the new me. he thought.

No, this is not "me", is it? This is "him".

Leo smiled. Will I become Glen? Or will I just seize to exist?

"Thank-you, Vincent." Leo sat up from his chair and nodded his head to Vincent as a sign of gratitude.

I wonder...when will I loose myself? Or have I already lost myself?

No. I am still conscious. I am still here. Shall I become one? Or shall I just dissapear?

A tear slowly crawled down Leo's cheek as he smiled.

You still have something to do. You still have a role to play. You cannot go.

The voice echoed in him and he knew. He knew.

I am Leo Baskerville.

I am Glen Baskerville.

I am both.

I am one.

And he finally understood.