"Oz-" the golden-haired boy rolled over and mumbled. "Shh, Alice I'm trying to sleep. We can go get food later." "Oz...Oz please.." He waved his hand lazily in the direction of his Chain's voice. "Just a few more minutes..." "Oz-" he sighed deeply. Slowly he sat up and rubbed the sleep from his eyes. Although the painful begging that resonated through the air slightly alarmed him, he knew it was probably because Alice was just hungry. "Oz, please wake up!" she cried out, louder this time, the desperation shocking him.
Oz looked around, and noticed he was in a room decorated in dolls and tea cups. He stood, laughter tinkling behind him. "It's going to happen again, ya know. Alllll because of you." the sing-song voice giggled again as he turned to meet their humored gaze. "The Will of the Abyss." he said breathlessly. She gently placed the doll in her hand down in a chair and neatly folded her hands in her lap." "Not...quite..." then, her voice began changing, a deeper, less-enthused voice melding with hers. "Wake up." the deep voice demanded simply. Oz's eyes snapped open and he screamed as he shot up. Panting, he looked around again. This time, a hooded figure stood before him, towering over him menacingly. "Are you...going to kill me?" Oz asked quietly. The figure laughed, his deep voice reverberating around the dark space they occupied. "Kill you? You who has no way to protect himself?" "Alice...Where's Alice?!" he demanded, standing to face the man.
"That's a start." the man stated. "What?" "You're not asking the right questions," this man's voice began changing as well, becoming lighter and more lilting. "Try...'why'..." Oz blinked and was suddenly sitting at a dining table, sweets laid before him. At the head of the table sat Sharon, smiling. "Eat up, Oz. As much as you'd like-" "I wish to know where Alice is..." he said, his head bowed. His hands roughly clenched his shorts in frustration as he gazed back up at Sharon. "I have no clue what's going on! I've seen 3 people familiar to me, yet none of them have given me any answers! I just want to know, where-" "-Alice is?" Sharon finished for him, her smile growing apologetic. "Honestly, Oz. You're asking the wrong questions." "That's what I keep hearing!" he shouted as he slammed his fist on the table. "Keep trying." she encouraged. Oz took a calming breathe and looked back up at Sharon, whose smile had faded. "I've asked where she is..." he mumbled to himself. "So...Where am I?" her smile appeared once more as she began clapping. "Very good, Oz!" Then, she spread her arms wide, her gaze becoming menacing. "You are neither here, nor there." she riddled. Oz thought for a moment. "The Abyss!" he shouted, standing up. She nodded. "But then, why isn't Alice here...with me..?" he asked, sadly.
Sharon's expression grew disgusted. "You should be asking yourself that, Oz." "What?" "It's going to happen again, you know." The voices of the hooded man and the Will of the Abyss joined hers, creating a dark and eerie harmony. "What will?" he asked quietly. Sharon smiled wickedly. "Alice will die." Dark laughter filled the air and everything began to shatter around him, falling away into nothingness. Oz covered his ears and clenched his eyes shut as the sudden noise disoriented him.
"Oz..." a soft voice called through the destruction. Slowly, he opened his eyes and realized he was lying on his back. "Oz!" Disoriented, Oz could only make out the blurry form of a man with black hair shaking him vigorously. "Gil?" he smiled, relieved. "You've been asleep for a while now. Nothing could wake you, not even Break's constant-" "I don't want to know what Break did to me in my sleep." he grumbled. Break giggled from behind his sleeve. "Oh, don't you worry, you're not my type." Oz squinted his eyes, trying to bring everything into focus. Roughly he grabbed a piece of Gil's hair and stared at him cautiously. Tugging at it, he asked "are you the real Gil?" he stared at him incredulously. "The 'real' Gil?" Oz stopped pulling and massaged his temples. "I guess it was all a dream. I saw the Will of the Abyss, and a hooded man, and Sharon, and they all warned me that Alice would die again..." Oz shot up suddenly. "Where's-" a piercing scream filled the air.
The three of them bolted towards the scream and came across a frightened Sharon sitting in the corner of the hallway. Break knelt before her and inspected the blood that splattered her hair, dress, and hands. "Miss Sharon," he took her hand away from her shaking lips and gingerly but firmly held it between his. "what happened?" Tears streamed down her porcelain cheeks and she made a noise in the back of her throat. Staring straight ahead in the direction she had run from she cried, "Alice!" Oz took off and wound up in the foyer, where he stopped and screamed himself.
At the base of the stairs lied Alice in a massive pool of blood, bound in chains that cut her body everywhere. Tears of blood trailed down her pale cheeks and her chest rose and fell dangerously slow. "Alice?" he whispered, his own tears pooling in his eyes. "Oz.." she whispered as her tears spilled onto the floor, joining the giant pool. "I needed you to wake up...why...why didn't you listen to me?" she begged sadly as she squeezed her eyes shut. He knelt beside her, gently cradling her in his arms. "Alice, it's going to be okay. We'll get you help, you'll be fine. And we can be together." "Oz.." she softly touched his cheek, her blood smearing on it. "I-" suddenly, she made a choking noise, and the life seemed to vanish from her body. "No.." he whispered. "NO!"
"I told you." a tinkling voice sounded at the back of his head." "It happened again..."
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