Break suddenly awoke from his slumber with shock in his face. "Ah, that's right. I came to that idiot duke's place and-"

"Who's an idiot duke?" Barma countered.

"Oh sorry," Break said. "I should say retarded ahoge duke." Once Liam expressed his worries and Duke Barma told Break to continue from where he left off, Break looked around noticing someone was missing. "Where's Elena-san?"

"She's here, asleep," Gil said while kneeling in front of a seat while Alice took the vacant seat next to it. Break couldn't see her face but could only get a glimpse of her hand on the chair's arm.

"What did you tell her?" Break asked angry to Duke Barma.

"Nothing much," he answered. "Just about the Causes. I told her nothing of who Haven Walker is if that is what you're worried about. I'm sure she's having a little nice flashback right as we speak."


"Hey, Big Sister Haven, can I show you around the house?" the little Miss Sinclair, the youngest daughter.

"Sure!" she said happily as always and as was her personality.

This was Haven Walker. The only daughter and heiress to the Walker Family. At age nineteen she had already been appointed a bachelor to marry. Nevertheless she was of very high spirits never to be seen frowning of scowling. She loved everyone. However in the case of his fiancée it was different. She liked him just didn't love him and didn't want to get married at all; at least not with him.

"Where are we going?" Haven asked.

"I want you to meet my friend!" Miss Sinclair said happily.

"Your friend, huh?" she said giggling.

"Ah," the little girl said in epiphany. "There he is, Kevin!"

Haven looked up to find a man walking towards them. He had long white hair tied up and falling over his shoulder. He also had red eyes and was surely older than her.

"Kevin, look, she's my friend, her name's Haven," she called letting go of my hand.

"You must be Mister Walker's daughter," he said bowing.

"There's no need for the courtesy," she said grinning. "My father's not here, I came to visit and in the end visits only mean having fun."

"Kevin, we'll play with us, right Kevin," she asked.

"You know I have my work to mind," he said.

"Oh come one, Kevin~" Haven cooed grabbing him by the arm. "Let's have fun! The three of us!"

What's all this? Is that Break. Ah, it's the little girl from that time. The illusion. Ah! And that must be the Haven girl then.

I was the only one with no name up until now.

Haven? But her voice wasn't as cheerful as it was on that memory.

That was the first day I met Kevin. And as timed passed I came to like him…a lot. I even confessed to him one day. He said… that he felt the same too but that it was useless to feel that way. Both of us were from different statuses and I was to be wedded on my twentieth birthday which was only a couple months away. Instead I…

"Then let's run away!" she whispered crying.

"Haven you know we can't do that," he said holding her face with his palms. "You have your father here and I can't just leave the Sinclair Family alone either."

"B-but," she cried more. "B-but Kevin!"

"Shh," he whispered calming her down. He kept silent, "Alright."

"Huh?" she looked up.

"I'll do it," he said. "I love you enough and more to do it."

"Kevin…" she said smiling joyfully.

"You were going to run away with him," I say getting the picture.

He said to meet him under the oak tree not far from both our houses at midnight. He'd be there and he'd take me away. It was like a dream come true. And yet as I waited for him to arrive…someone abducted me.

"They what?"

I didn't know who it was until they took the blindfold away.

I could hear her crying. And just then I saw the memories, not only saw them but felt them too.

They did a horrible thing to me to teach me a lesson. I knew that. And even so, even when I cried and pleaded for them to stop, they ignored me. They had to teach me lesson I wouldn't forget. And as my time passed by me, I remember whispering his name over and over believing he would come and save me.

But he didn't. He never came.

And…I died.


I brutally awoke and even stood up from the seat. I was panting heavily and had cold sweat.

"Elena-chan?" Oz called from his seat.

I look his way but quickly turned away. I held onto a seat nearby as I took in everything I saw. Everything I felt. I covered my mouth; I wanted to vomit.

"You awake just in time Wrath," I turn to Duke Barma and see him holding onto Alice's wrist. "To be able to research on you would be sublime as a Cause and an personification of one of the sins."

"Fuck off," I say pissed off to the max. After I saw that like hell I'm listening to anybody else. "You and Pandora can go to hell, alright! There's no fucking! Over my dead body!"

"That can be easily rearranged," he smirked. I was ready to reach out for the knife under my skirt when Break stepped in. And just when Barma raised his fan to Oz that moment another fan ran between them, stopping them both in their tracks.

"This momentum isn't too bad~" Uh oh.

"C-Cheryl-sama!" I say bowing to her. "It's been awhile."

"Oh Elena, dearest, I've been wanting to talk to you too," she says sweetly, "Let's have some tea some other time, alright~?"

"Che-Cheryl!" Barma called shocked and alarmed. Shortly then Break pointed out to Cheryl-sama about the illusion of her that Barma had made. This made Cheryl-sama mad even if she was smiling. She suddenly took Barma by the arm and led him away. Last thing I heard was the whacking sound that sounded very similar to Sharon's. I chuckle nervously, I'm so glad I'm on her good side.

After a few seconds Gilbert speaks and I'm able to hear since I'm not far from them yet still separated.

"In the end it seems," he said. "The Duchess saved us from Sir Duke Barma."

"It seems so," Oz agrees. And just like a snap of my fingers they drop in a very gloomy atmosphere.

I was sitting on top of one of the seats like Barma was and I was watching them. It was hilarious.

Don't be sad for me.

"Haven?" I say lowly and remembering the awful things I felt. I chuckle nervously, "How can I not be sad? I mean what happened to you was awful."

But it happened to me. Don't let something like that happen to you. Tell me something, Elena. Do you believe in miracles?

"Miracles?" I asked confused. I snort, "Well, yeah. Not like many happen though."

On that you might be a little wrong.

"Yeah, how so?" I ask a bit louder not believing her.

Well aren't the facts that you're alive and breathing miracles themselves?

My eyes widened and she laughs like that cheerful laugh I heard before in her memories. "I guess you're right."

And I see another miracle that fell your way. Take care of it, OK?

"Huh?" I say looking up just in time to take Break's cane to the forehead. "Ah! What the heck's your problem?"

"It's your fault," he said. "I was going to hit your head. I aimed nowhere near your face."

"Whatever," I muffled.

"Come on, we're leaving already," he said offering his hand.

I smile and only jump off the seat to land perfectly a few feet away. "Perfect landing!" I called smiling and playing around.

He grinned, "You really need to pick your jokes, kid."

"Break," I turned to Oz who called his attention. "Thanks for telling us all that." My expression turns to one of confusion and Oz just smiles a smile that says to me 'tell you later'.

"It's nothing really," he said. "It's not like I told you everything or that you'll know all the truth about it after you heard it."

"But to you it must be something hard to speak out loud," Oz said.

"I said…I'm an illegal contractor-"

"So?" Oz interrupted him. "It was you who said that we exploit each other, wasn't it? What does your past have to do with that?"

"Touché," I cough out.

"You-"

"Exploit each other?" Alice suddenly rose from her laid back attitude. "In other words…friends!" I snorted, she's just adorable some times. When Gilbert and Oz hug Break I start laughing. And when they start making fun of Gilbert I start cracking up even more.

"Yep," I say between laughs. "I love you guys. You're the best."

"Hehe~" Oz says clinging onto my arm now. "I love you too, Elena-chan!" I blush a bit, he's just too cute!

Suddenly I hear Break clear his throat and as we both look up we feel this menacing aura. "Oz-kun, if I were you I'd let go of Elena-san."

"Oh, okay~!" he said smiling yet still clinging to me. "If Break says so~" And the menacing aura just got bigger.

"O-Oz," I say getting his arm off me. "I think you should go with Alice."

"Oh, sure thing," he says perkily.

"He's a brat," he says still pissed.

"Oh, but he's a cute little brat~" I say walking in front of him and Gilbert.

And while Gilbert and Break are fighting I hear Alice ask, "Huh? What on earth are you guys talking about?"

"Oh nothing~" Oz says happily. "We'll just stay the same as before."

That's when I hear Break say, "Jeez, youngsters nowadays. An old man like you doesn't want to fool around with you kids anymore."

"Wah, even he said he's old!" Oz says perkily making me laugh.

At the carriage I took the window seat next to Break. Soon enough he started talking, "As I said at the retarded weird-haired duke's place my real name's Kevin Regnard." The name made me stiff up, remembering Haven but I simply decided to ignore it and look out the window like Alice. I listened as he retold everything that he had said at Barma's place. I simply listened to everything without a word said. I didn't have anything to say. As we came out I was the first one to go in, as I went up the steps I noticed outside the window that snow had begun falling. I didn't even wait for them, how polite of me. But right now I have something I want to ask.

I go into my room and change fast. I take the freaking dress off and put a simple white button blouse on and short shorts which were covered by the blouse. I open my drawer and from inside I take the Magic Book out and take a pen.

I sit down and start writing.

Where the Walkers incarnations of the Yue?

It took some time but soon the words appeared.

A branch that came afterwards from part of the mother was.

Then the full incarnation of the Wrath of that time was Haven Walker.

Yes.

I knew it. She didn't die just because of what they did.

Did Pride convince her father of doing those things to her?

It was.

"Fuck!" I cuss closing the book and leaving the pen on the desk. I place my elbows on the desk and rest my face on my palms. All those horrible things that happened to her were because of Wrath. And in a way because of me. Crap.

I hear the door open and turn to see Break come in, "Has no one taught you how to knock?"

"I'm deprived of such manners since you are too," he said smirking.

I sigh not really feeling like fighting tonight, "Why are you here?"

He walked over to my bed and sat on the edge. I noticed he was still wearing the same clothes, so he must've came straight from the lobby. Heaving a sigh he spoke, "I want to ask you something?"

"Can't it wait?" I say going back to the book, opening it and noticing it was blank again. "I'm kind of busy right now."

"Reading a blank book?" he asked.

"Why are you here again?" I called pissed at his smart ass-ness.

"As I said I want to ask you about something?"

"Okay, shoot," I say writing something on the book.

"You saw parts of Haven's memories didn't you?" I stopped in mid writing giving him the only answer he needed. He sighed again, "Then would you answer me this, how did she die?"

I gasp remembering all those terrible things, "Y-you don't want to know."

He snorted, "Believe me, since I found out she died the night we were to meet, I've dreaded to know how it happened. No one would say anything to me, not eve my Master. The Sinclair's went to her funeral. It was said that she died because of some reoccurring illness. I never believed them, not even after all this time."

"And believe me when I tell you that you'd rather stay with that version," I say. "You loved her, I wouldn't bare to be the one who said these things to you."

I heard steps behind me and suddenly heard his voice right in my ear, "I want to know, even if it hurts me."

"No!" I say getting up and sitting on the middle top of my bed leaning on the wall and holding my knees. "But it hurts me too! I saw and felt everything!"

"I'm sorry about all this," he said and it surprised me.

"Why…" I said confused. "Why are you apologizing?"

"All that happened to Haven, happened because I wasn't there to protect her. And now it's coming back to get you too," he said.

"If you really want to know," I say sighing. "I'll tell you."

"If you please," he said.

I took a breath in and started playing with my fingers. "She was there on the place where you two were going to meet. She was there early actually, anxious about it that she got there a good half hour early. But before you even got there…someone abducted her."

"Who?" he asked surprised and shocked.

"I didn't get to see who actually snatched her since they drugged her and blindfolded her until they got to that place," I covered my eyes with my hands as I kept telling him. "In there I heard his voice."

"Who's?" he asked as I felt the bed move and a warmth close to me.

"Her father's," I say and hear him take in a breath. "He somehow found out about you two eloping and decided to teach her a lesson. Something she'd never forget…" I wanted to cry as the same scenes went on and on in my head again for the second time so vividly. "What happened in there?" he asked me.

"He said, 'If you want to act like a little ungrateful bitch…then I'll treat you like a little ungrateful bitch. Just like your mother.' And then…" I held my knees as I sobbed as quietly as I could, "He…he raped her."

"He what?" he said angry.

I nodded, "And then after he was done the others took turns on her as well." I grabbed my stomach as it started hurting with that unbearable pain that I felt on those memories. "It was awful! I felt everything! It was as if it were me they were attacking!" I sobbed a bit but I knew I had to finish; I had to tell her story. "A-after they were done, his friends left and he was left with her. He… He stabbed her repeatedly and left her there to die. She said she called out for you wishing in every moment of it that you would come save her. But when it was all over she noticed that you never came. And she… she…" I couldn't finish it now but I knew it was quiet obvious what I wanted to say. "I'm sorry," I cry. "I shouldn't have told you." She felt the heaviness on the bed lighten but only to hear a great hit on the wall making her flinch.

"That son of a bitch!" he yelled punching the wall again.

"I'm sorry," I say looking up and seeing the scariest face that I've ever seen on him. "I'm really sorry. This all happened because of me. If it weren't for Wrath and I, you would've had gotten away with her."

He chuckled nervously, "Don't say that." he slumped onto bed, his head barely landing right were my feet were. I looked down on him and when he looked up at he me gave me a sad smirk, "Don't cry. I don't know what to do when kids cry."

"Shut up," I say wiping the tears from my face. "I just felt really sad about it. It's only normal right?"

I suddenly felt his hand on my cheek as he smiled sadly, "You're not her, you hear me?"

"Huh?" I say and he sits up and embraces me. I blush and start stuttering, "B-Break? What's wrong with you?"

"I'm not going to let those things happen to you," he said burying his face on the hollow of my neck. I could feel him breathing onto me and feel his breath as he spoke, "I'll protect you."

I giggled nervously, "I can protect myself, idiot." I pushed him a bit back but he just wouldn't let go and got us both to fall on the bed. "B-Break!"

"Ah~" he said going back to his normal teasing self. "Elena-san's cute and cuddly~"

"Screw that!" I call mad. "Let go!" I manage to unbury myself from his chest from where he had me but he pulled me back down and now he was hugging me from behind. "Can you stop!"

"Oh please just for tonight~" he said childishly but I heard a bit of sadness it in. It wasn't the usual.

I blush and pout as he hugs me, "Fine. Just tonight though! Don't get use to this!"

"Yay~!" he said cuddling on me.

"H-hey!" I call blushing more.

"Ah~ Elena-chan is so cute~" he taunts.

"Knock it off!"

"And you're just wearing a blouse," he pointed out, "How convenient~"

"I have shorts under you moron," I say through gritted teeth.

"Oh~ don't worry," I felt something run up my thigh, "That can be dealt with easily."

"Oh no you won't," I say slapping his hand off. "You do anything fishy and I swear I'll push you off the bed, got it?"

"Roger~" he joked.

"I'm serious, damn it!" And the night went on like that, it wasn't until one that I actually fell asleep.


"Elena-san?" Break whispered not wanting to risk waking her up. When he got no answer he simply smiled picked the covers over themselves as he brought her closer to him. "I won't let anything like that happen, I promise."

"Umm," he flinched hearing her mumbles but calms down as she turns in her sleep facing the ceiling. "No…" she mumbles, "Stop it! Emily's taking my cake! That's my strawberry cake."

He snorts, "Aren't you sly," and simply places his head on the hollow of her neck and goes to sleep.