Pandora Forbidden Hearts

Summary: After being rescued from Abyss Oz finds himself ten years in the future, with the powers just like a chain but is he one? He and the others that know this must hide it but when you're in love it becomes hard to hide all the secrets you have from them.

*Warning Spoilers maybe inside

Chapter 11- The Jackal part 3 The Necklace

"*As with any normal form of love... Right now, I'll make sure you fall for it." A voice sings softly as Oz found himself in a dream, he curled up in the darkness of the abyss, panic filled his body slightly before he heard the soothing voice continue to sing. "Even with a few shallow holes... 'Come capture me'." The voice sings as Oz sat up and looked at the black haired boy sitting in front of him smiling as if he was not afraid of the darkness around him. Feeling dazed Oz reached out and embraced the boy and rested his head on his shoulder feeling comforted by doing this.

"That's a nice song..." Oz says with a small smile as the boy looked back at him happily.

"Gwen, you're awake... I'm still here just like I promised." The boy says smiling as his warm hands touched Oz's cold ones. "You're always so cold but that's fine... Where are you going to take me today?" The boy asks with a childish look in his eyes as Oz smiled.

"Where ever you want to take us." Oz whispers feeling the boy lean back in his embrace.

"Then can we stay here, together... like this?" The boy whispers and Oz nods with a small chuckle.

"It's not like we can actually leave this place anyway... but you will someday." Oz whispers gently as he heard the boy sigh sadly.

"Not without you Gwen... I could never leave you. We'll be together forever, right?" The boy whispers soothing Oz with those words as if it were the only words he would ever need to hear as he felt something jolt him from his slumber.

"Oz, Wake up!" Alice shouts shaking the bed as Oz sat up with a small gasp of breath. "You were having another nightmare? Geez you only gasp like that when someone's trying to strangle you." She says with a slight frown and Oz sighs.

"I was actually having a nice dream for once, you're so mean." Oz mutters stretching as he stood up and looked at Alice. "What's the problem? Did I sleep in?" He asks with a small smile.

"No but something arrived at the door that looks awfully familiar and I think you should take a look at it." She said with a serious tone and it made Oz tense as he walked over and pulled him pants on and took his night shirt off before buttoning up his day shirt and vest as quickly as possible. "Let's go... Does anybody else know about it?" Oz whispered as Alice nodded.

"Sharon and Break are examining it wondering how it got here... It's not something anyone in this world could get their hands on unless they went to the Abyss." Alice says with an annoyed look on her face as they entered the study where Break and Sharon where sitting leaning over the table looking at what ever had arrived.

"Morning." Oz says smiling at them as they looked up at him before smiling back.

"Top of the morning." Break greets happily as Oz noticed he was pulling a very familiar golden cross necklace off the table and flinched unnoticeably before laughing slightly.

"Alice woke me up saying you guys were in a panic over something. Is everything alright? That chain didn't attack someone last night did it? Should we wake Raven?" Oz says curiously watching Break smiles a sickly sweet smile, knowing they were going to lay Oz smiled at them waiting for their excuse.

"No... It was nothing of that big of importance, Oz-sama." Sharon says happily with a masked of politeness and Oz nodded at her even though he knew that they were still in a slight panic.

"Oh, okay... That's good. Alice why don't we let them go back to their work... I know let's play a game!" Oz says happily grabbing Alice's arm and pulled her out of the room. when the door clicked shut Oz frown and looked at Alice with a serious look on his face.

"That's Zillah's necklace... How the hell did they get a hold of it!" Oz growled softly before he walked off toward the door that led to the center garden him and Alice spent most of the day relaxing in, when they weren't searching for memories.

"I don't know... You left last night didn't you? With Zillah and Samael? Maybe it fell off..." Alice replies coolly knowing how serious the fact that they had the necklace was. "How are we going to get rid of it? If they unlock it they'll find out the truth about us." She whispers knowing Oz was thinking the exact same thing but he simply smiled at her.

"It's not of importance so don't worry about it." He says calmly as they step out into the garden. "Let's play with the butterflies a little longer, Alice." Oz says with an amused look in his eyes as she frowns.

"I'm not like Alyss and Zillah... I prefer to play the fighting games with chains." She says with a small scowl as Oz laughs.

"Someday there won't be any chains left to fight, you know." Oz says playfully as he spun around slightly. "What will Alice do then? She will have to play with the butterflies like me." He says holding out his hands to her. "Besides Alice is not the type to play with dolls anyway, so why play with chains?" He continues as Alice pouts at him slightly before walking past him, walking over to the center clearing where a fountain sat.

"When there are no longer any chain's left I won't exist either so it doesn't matter what I will do then or to tell the truth you are far from a butterfly." She says listening to Oz laugh full-heartedly.

"But that's where you are wrong... All butterflies look fragile and they believe they are easily broken but there are butterflies that are very poisonous and deadly." Oz says with a grin on his face and Alice laughs.

"Then you are a butterfly... A mad butterfly." Alice says laughing at him as he paraded around the fountain like he was fluttering around on wings.

"Yes, but mad things are not allowed at this tea party, miss Alice. So don't be mad..." He says with a chuckle as he stopped in front of her with a solemn look on his face, all amusement from before gone. "The Jackal has escaped the Abyss." He says with a serious but sad look in his eyes as he watched Alice stare at him with shocked eyes.

"What..." She says as a maid appeared in the garden silencing them.

"Oz-sama, Alice-sama... I am to inform you that breakfast will be served soon, please come inside and wash up." She states before leaving the way had she come.

"How did it? When did it? What are we going to do?" Alice says calmly as Oz looked at her curiously before looking at his reflection in the water of the fountain she sat on.

"I never said we It will only be me; myself; and I fighting against it." He says calmly knowing the girl would be angry at him.

"Why?" She shouts in rage as she jumped to her feet. "You weren't able to before! What makes you think you can do it yourself. Those nightmares you keep having are really happening you will die if I don't jump in every time! He's too powerful." She says in annoyance as Oz sighs with a small frown.

"So you say but I am willing to give up my life if it means that I can destroy that thing and keep it from harming Gilbert and the others... that includes you Alice." Oz says with a sincere look on his face as she scowls before crossing her arms in a pouting way.

"I knew there was a reason you were playing that stupid word game with me. If you fight alone I'll never forgive you." She says scowling as she glared at him with serious eyes. "I seriously won't, Clockwork." She whispers as Oz took her hand smiling childishly.

"What was that Alice?" Oz asked innocently as he pulled her around the fountain toward the entrance of the manor house, Alice simply stared at him with angered eyes letting herself be pulled along by Oz who obviously knew what she said and wasn't happy his self about what she said. The two went back inside and felt a breeze of wind that send a shiver up Alice's spine.

"You're letting them out already?" Alice hisses punching Oz in the arm as he laughs softly.

"Just to have some fun with the others..." Oz says calmly as he entered the dining room noticing Raven sitting there drinking coffee. 'Stayed out too late, right Raven? Maybe Zillah will sing you the song of dreams for you.' Oz thought with a small giggle as he looked to Alice, letting her hand go. "Don't wander off now, Samael is still around here somewhere." Oz whispers as Alice's eye widen before she scowled and stormed over to her seat. Oz walked over to the empty seat beside Raven, sitting beside him with an amused look on his face because Alice was looking behind her using the reflection of her spoon.

"What are you doing you stupid Rabbit?" Raven says staring at her like she was being really moronic and she glare at him with red cheeks.

"That's none of your business, Seaweed Head!" Alice shouted glaring at him as Oz chuckled at her causing her to throw her knife at him, which he ducked to avoid.

"What the hell did you do that for you stupid rabbit! You could have killed him!" Raven shouts glaring at Alice who simply glared back at him.

"It'll take more than a measly butter knife to kill him." Alice hisses back as Sharon and Break enter the room with slightly worried looks in their eyes.

"Oz... I did it! I got it back! Did I do good? Will Gwen be proud of me?" A young girl's voice echoes in Oz's head as he smiled softly at her questions.

'Yes, he'll be very happy that you got your necklace back and now we also know where the Jackal is. Very good job, Zie." Oz says happily as he listened to the girl's giggle before he looked up at Alice. "Alice, calm down you're going to cause a scene." He says calmly watching Alice glare at him.

"You're my manservant! Why should I take orders from you?" She shouts before a shiver ran up her spine as her instincts sensed someone appear behind her. She looked but she there was no one there and she glared at Oz who only smiled innocently back. "Fine!" She shouts sitting down and crossing her arms as the other look at her confusedly before sitting down and eating breakfast with barely any chatter other than Break and Raven's discussion on their next mission. Oz wasn't really interested in it that much he was more interested in the planning of the destruction of the chain known as the Jackal.

'Just how will I be able to tell who's real? It can read my mind so it knows exactly what to say to make me believe.' Oz thought as he sense something appear behind him and he held up his spoon he was stirring his tea with to see the black haired man Samael. 'You have an idea?' He asked knowing the man was a very good strategist and the man smirked in the reflection before placing his hand on Oz's shoulder and whispered into Oz's ear.

'Use your weakness and turn it into a strength.' He whispered as Oz smiled at the words wondering why he hadn't thought of it but glad he had an ally like Samael.

"That is how we will..." Oz whispers dropping his spoon back into the cup as he glanced at Alice who had an eye brow raised. 'Don't worry, Alice. I won't ever fight without you...' He thought gently as he picked up his egg that he didn't feel like eating. "Here Alice, I'm full, won't you eat it for me?" He asks watching her flinch before taking it without a second thought. Oz chuckled watching Alice eat as he noticed Raven was looking at him with an eye brow raised.

"Cheerful this morning now aren't we?" Break says with a slight grin on his face and Oz nodded.

"I had a good night's rest..." Oz says watching relief fill Raven's eyes which made Oz slightly curious as to why. 'Was he worried about me? Hmm... he really is a good person, a good little butterfly.' He thought with a chuckle as he sipped his tea.

"So it's settled?" Break says obviously going back to the men's previous discussion before that had noticed Oz's cheerfulness.

"Yeah, I don't see why I have to go take the damn papers to Lex, why can't he be a normal person and come and get'em himself?" Raven says in an annoyed voice as Oz perked up before smiling.

"You're going to visit Lex? Can I come too?" Oz asks innocently as Raven looks at him curiously before shrugging and Alice jumped out of her seat.

"If Oz is going I am too! I'm not getting left behind!" Alice shouts slamming her hands onto the table as Oz smiled at her.

'I already figured that, Alice but don't worry. I won't leave you alone...' Oz thought looking at Raven with a bright smile. "Are we allowed?" He asked Raven who only nodded and grabbed his cup of coffee. 'Right then, Phase one; Escape from the hatter and queen is on.' Oz thought happily as he continued drinking tea calmly.

*A song sung by the vocaloid program called Cantarella (Rin&Len Kagamine version). It was stuck in my head at the time and it's a bit of a spoiler for the next chapters.X3