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 12- The Jackal part 4; The Church

"So you 'all' wanted to come visit me?" Lex says smiling at Oz as he sat across from him at the table in Lex's manor house.

"Yeah, I know you're really busy but I wanted to see how you have been." Oz says cheerfully with a hidden message in his voice that Lex seemed to have caught onto because his smile only seemed to widen.

"My project is slowly making progress, I am still working to get the face just right though." Lex says with a small smile on his face as he watched Oz grin at him. "Or do you mean your project?" He says glancing at Raven who sat by Alice watching the glutton eat.

"My project?" Oz says with a smile as he sipped some tea watching Lex with a teasing grin. "I have no idea what you're talking about." He says with a small giggle before looking at Alice amusedly. "Is it good, Alice?" He asks causing her to look at him with a small blush on her cheeks and nodded.

"That's wonderful... I'm glad." Lex says happily knowing Alice liked any type of meat but the fact she was being so cute at that moment he couldn't resist.

"Alice is so cute when she eats." Oz says with a small laugh and Alice glares at him before sticking her fork into the meat and continued to eat. They all sat in silence for a few moments before they heard a 'thunk'; Oz and Lex looked over to the other two who were sound asleep. Alice had her head down on the table and Raven was lying back in his seat still holding his tea cup.

"Oz what exactly did you put in the tea and meat?" Lex says with surprised look at he stared at the deathly pale Raven.

"It's a secret... but don't worry after a little Cantarella they'll wake up with full bodily functions in four to five hours." Oz says with a slight grin as he stood to help Raven with his tea cup.

"You're quiet the interesting character, Oz. I didn't think fifteen year old boys even knew how to drug someone." Lex says standing to help him with Alice and Raven.

"I'm a lot older than I look, you know how that is don't you Lex?" Oz says smiling up at the man who simply nodded and pulling Raven up; slinging his arm over his shoulder.

"Well I'll take Raven to a guest room, why don't you take Alice to her room. I've retrieved her toy box from Pandora, they were quite disappointed by the way." Lex says with a small chuckle and Oz smiles at him.

"Too bad for them... Thank you for the help by the way." Oz says softly going over to Alice and pulling her over his shoulders to give her a piggy back ride.

"I owe you and the others for sparing my life... It is the least I can do for my daughter's favorite doll." Lex says softly looking at Oz with a respectful look and Oz laughs.

"You make it sound I'm something amazing, I'm not something like that at all!" Oz says laughing as they part to take their unconscious friends to empty rooms. 'I'm not amazing... Not at all.' Oz thought frowning as he walked into a room that looked like it was part of a doll house. He took Alice and laid her down onto the bed before pulling out the letter he had found in his hands, setting it on the table for Alice or Raven to find. 'Now it's time to go find him.' Oz thought as he sensed Lex appear in the door way.

"So when would you like me to take you to town? Anywhere in particular?" Lex says calmly as he smiled down at the sleeping Alice.

"Now if that's be alright... I'm going to search for that chain, which is somewhere in the area. I don't want Alice or Raven getting hurt...' Oz says calmly as Lex nodded in understanding.

"To town now it is. Shall we?" He says with a slight grin on his face as he lead Oz out to the car and took Oz to the town to search for the chain.

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"Oz!" Raven shouts bursting into the Alice was sleeping in after waking up to find that he was in an unfamiliar room and Oz was missing. He looked at the peacefully sleeping Alice before scowling. "You Stupid Rabbit, wake up!" Raven shouts kicking the bed causing Alice to jump up from her slumber ready to fight whatever chain had attacked her. When she saw it was Raven she scowled and looked back at the bed in confusion.

"Where'd Oz go?" She mutters giving a small stretch before walking over to the table looking for a letter Oz would have written to her so she wouldn't worry. Raven scowled at her lack of worry for the boy as Lex appeared in the doorway with a small smile on his face.

"I believe he went into town…" Lex says calmly holding his car keys. "He may be searching for that chain alone… shall we go fetch him, Raven?" He says with a small playful look, already knowing the man's answer. Raven stormed past him heading to the entrance of the mansion. "Come along, Alice-san." Lex says calmly watching Alice flinch before glaring at the corner of the room.

"Adriana just appeared…" Alice says in annoyance watching Lex's eyes widen from surprise. "What do you want? Where's Oz at, you Old Sea Witch." She mutters looking around the room as a shadow formed beside the table and then Adriana's form appeared. Alice looked at her slightly surprised because she was able to take a solid form and that she had a stern look on her face.

"Oz is in trouble, right now! That Jackal creature has tricked him and Oz went after it alone! You have to stop him or we all may be trapped in the Abyss forever!" She says in a slight panic as Lex steps forward toward her.

"Adriana…" He says with awe in his eyes, reaching out to touch her but she pulled away from him with confusion clear on her face.

"That Jackal stole memories from them, Lex… Sanmen is still searching for them." Alice says causing Adriana to give her a small scowl. "Oz is trying real hard to help us all, he hasn't done anything yet because of the doll not being ready and the fact Clockwork is trying to break free." She says with a serious voice watching Lex stare at Adriana curiously.

"The Jackal is now trying to take the only one who can get them back! We need to stop it and destroy it." Adriana says staring back at Lex with a nostalgic look on her face. "Jet and I don't have the ability to help… You have to stop it." She whispers disappearing the same way she had appeared.

"Come back here!" Alice shouts slamming her hand onto the table in rage causing the items on it to fall. Lex looked down at the items before he noticed a letter with Oz's name on it.

"What in the…" Lex mutters opening the letter and reading it as Raven appears in the doorway with an angered look on his face.

"Are you coming? You're the one that said you knew where he is!" Raven states with a glare as Alice runs over to him.

"Let's go Seaweed head! We need to go save Oz!" Alice shouts pulling him out of the room leaving Lex standing in the room.

"So this was that creature's lure was... what a cunning thing." Lex mutters folding the paper before he headed out to go with the Alice and Raven to help Oz. Meanwhile Oz had just arrived at the meeting place a gun in his hand with a hopeful look on his face. He then slipped it into the back of his pants, hiding it with his shirt.

"Hello?" Oz calls out looking around at the stain-glass windows that had beautiful designs painted on them causing a cascade of beautiful colors to reflect off the people in the church. It gave Oz a peaceful feeling as he let his fingers run across the pews as he passed them.

"You came… I thought you said you didn't want me to write you back, Bocchan." A familiar voice says in amusement as Oz turned to see the fifteen-year-old black haired boy, going along with his plan he smiled at the boy as if he would cry from joy.

"In truth, I came here to punish you for disobeying, but I just lost interest in doing so…" Oz whispered stepping forward watching the boy smile at him. "Gilbert… I missed you." He says watching the boy tear up slightly as he pulled out a letter from his pocket.

"This is the letter you wrote me, Bocchan… Won't you answer my questions?" He whispers sitting down on a pew watching Oz sit in the one in front of him. "Ah Well, I know you wanted me to stay away, I shouldn't have disobeyed your order, I'm really sorry." He says with a small blush on his cheeks as he continued. "But I wanted to see you one last time so you know that I didn't hate you. I wrote that letter and I couldn't stop myself from finding you. When I found you in town that time I wanted to grab you and run, taking you back to the Vessalius house, where you'd be safe but I ran away… I'm really sorry for running away but Raven started to come toward us and Raven scares me." The boy says in a small panic as Oz nodded waiting for him to continue speaking, wanting to catch him off-guard. "Bocchan if you did something bad, I can help you... We both know you don't have any such sin like the Baskervilles said. I can protect you; don't think I won't, I promised forever. Even if you think you can't be forgiven, I'll forgive you." The boy says tearing up as Oz smiled watching the boy tear-up again. "As for your friend, I want to meet her; she's a lot like me, right? I'd like to make friends with Alice… Just don't… don't leave me… alone again." The boy says letting the tears start to stream down his cheeks and Oz frowns slightly actually starting to feel sorry for the creature in front of him. He let out a soft sight as he pulled out a handkerchief from his pocket before reaching over and whipping the tears from the boy's eyes.

"Gil… you're such a cry baby. It probably only been a few weeks that I've been gone." Oz says with a small sigh and the boy grabs Oz's hand and looked up at him with pained eyes.

"It's been months!" The boy sobbed pressing his cheek against Oz's hand. "I've been all alone; searching for you, Bocchan! I was scared… I was scared that I'd lose you like I lost Jack." He says letting the tears touch Oz's hand and he grins finding what he wanted.

"Busted!" He whispers staring at the imposter with a glare in his eyes. "Now who is Jack, Gilbert? You've never mentioned him before…" Oz says pulling his hand away from the surprised looking face of the boy.

"And do you know why you've never mentioned him, Gilbert? It's because you don't remember him… You're not supposed to remember him." Oz says with a pleased look in his eyes as he pulled out the gun and held in up in the air.

"I remembered after you hit me with the sword! It all came back!" The boy says in a panic as Oz moved away from the pews

"Really? Did you know you have a brother?" Oz says smiling as he started to shine the gun with his handkerchief.

"Of course, Bocchan, I told you I remembered." The boy says rising from the pew he was sitting in.

"What's his name then? Where's he now? Why were you in my garden if you had a family like him? You don't know!" Oz shouts glaring at the imposter with a sickened smile forming on his lips as the Jackal stared at him as if searching for the answers. "You're not the real Gilbert, Jackal; go back where you came from." Oz says pointing the gun toward the Jackal and it let out a small growl of annoyance.

"You're so cruel, Bocchan… I love you but you tell me to leave you all alone. Why? Why would I leave the one I love alone?" The Jackal asks with a frown as it slowly steps forward toward Oz and he scowls.

"I am serious, Jackal… You're not the real Gilbert, I only brought this as a precaution if it was the real Gilbert and he wanted to kill me, you know." Oz says waving the gun in front of the Jackal with a small sigh as he threw it onto the ground and kicked it way. "But if it's you I have to use the power of the Abyss… or you won't be killed." Oz says with a grimace as the Jackal growled at him with an enraged look.

"You don't want to do that… not to the only one that loves you." The Jackal says coldly as he raised his hand up, holding it out as if he wanted Oz to take it but Oz simply continued to scowl at it causing him to drop his hand. "I love you, you know… I'm the only one that does. You know that! You'll be burned at the stake if that person tells them what you wrote in this letter. I can protect you, like a good servant should and I'd never try to kill you the way that stupid child did... He might try to do it again. He's already done it twice..." It says softly watching Oz stare at it with a tense look.

"It's the master's job to protect the servant and you are most definably not my master as for what had happen in the past, I do not care if I am beaten senseless by him I want to always be by his side." Oz says with a bitter look on his face as the Jackal looks around for something else to distract Oz with until it realized it was still holding the letter in his hand.

"Raven didn't give this letter to Gilbert, nor did he give it to me! I stole it from him, he was planning on using it against you!" It shouts quickly causing Oz to frown and glare at him waiting for the Jackal to continue speaking. "He read it his self and got really angry; he's a bad man! H-He wanted to get information out of you, Bocchan… I know that, I've watched him and he's always watching you… He's going to hurt you, Bocchan! But if he doesn't have this he can't hurt you." It says causing Oz shakes his head but looked at him with curious eyes.

"Raven can stare at me all he wants… He can also lie to me, cheat me; I don't really give a shit right now, I'll deal with it myself. You are my only enemy right now!" Oz states with an angered voice as the doors burst open and Alice runs into the room stopping behind the Jackal with a scowl on her face.