Requested on the Pandora Hearts kink meme:

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"Break actually did become a Chain in the Abyss, and he's contracted to Liam.

Go wherever you want with that! ^_\\"

Alright! This is appropriate because I have been thinking lately about the possibility that Break might actually be a chain after all.

This is naturally a bit of an AU.

BTW I have used the fan convention "Alyss" as the name of the Will of Abyss.

Dunking the Dormouse

"It's time for tea!" cooed Alyss, her white dress curved around her like a calla lily. Her stuffed animals and dolls all gathered around, while the clock's hands spun and danced a tune of discordant mayhem.

"What kind of nightmare is this?" murmured Kevin, his eye socket painfully dripping monstrous drops of warm, red blood all over his shirt, and the floor…the floor was spinning and turning and he felt dizzy and sick.

"Where is he?" called Alyss. "He's late!"

Kevin felt her warm hands on his cheeks.

"You'll have to take his place," she said, looking him right in his one remaining eye, and caressing his face with her fingers.

"W-what do you mean?" Kevin stuttered.

"I must have guests at my tea party," Alyss said, pouting. "I can't bear to be alone!" She took his hand and half-coaxed, half-dragged him to a table, which was set for tea and cookies. Kevin reluctantly sat at the table with dolls and stuffed animals, his eye socket aching.

"Ah, now, it won't be much longer before you are a chain!" shrieked the doll on his left.

"A chain! A chain!" chorused the animals and dolls. "A brand new chain!"

Kevin trembled violently as blood dripped from his face into the teacup that had been placed in front him.

Without warning, Alyss appeared at his right side and suddenly thrust something into his empty eye socket, then poured hot tea into it.

"Aaah!" he gasped. "It burns!"

"Hahaha!" laughed Alyss. "Mad Hatter and March Hare must drown the Dormouse in a teapot!"

The last thing he remembered seeing in Abyss was the clock, its hands spinning madly forward, forward, forward…relentlessly toward the future….thirty years into the future, to be exact.

"Well," said Liam, wringing his hands a bit. "I was hoping for a less wimpy-looking chain, but you'll do, I suppose."

Kevin looked up with his remaining eye at the bespectacled nerd in front of him. Wimpy-looking? He's one to talk, he thought.

"So, do you mind if I call you Xerxes?" asked Liam. "It's the name of a king! That name will make you sound…really powerful."

"Hrrummph," mumbled Xerxes. "So I'm a chain, ah?"

"Not just any chain," said Liam, grinning. "You're special! Like B-Rabbit. You can take on a human form and also kill other chains. Your chain form is called 'Mad Hatter.'"

"Well, that's appropriate, I suppose," said Xerxes, thoughtfully. I certainly have gone mad. I could have sworn this Liam fellow was present at the tea party as a March Hare.

And so Xerxes and Liam sat down to tea, and a lovely friendship began.

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While you are waiting for chapter two to be posted, I encourage you to read "A Mad Tea Party" chapter from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It will inspire the next chapter!