Jabberwocky.

Iemitsu passed the room to his new subordinate's room. It had taken a few harsh convincing from Lal and Oregano to make Chrome Dokuro and Mukuro Rokudo stayed in different rooms when they got them rooms in one of the suite. After they solved the rooming problems by making them stay in a different, and yet connecting rooms, they asked them about Jabberwocky's whereabouts.

"Jabberwocky won't leave Italy. This land is the only place he feels at home. He won't leave by his own will, unless his 'guardian' takes him." Was what the siblings said. But, the reason he paced around Chrome's room was not about finding the Jabberwocky. It's about the Jabberwocky himself.

Mukuro told them that she had spoken with Jabber—his son before. He wanted to know what kind of person his son has grown up to.

He even called Nana to ask if it was the right thing to do. His ever loving brunette wife told him that it was a good idea and eagerly asked him to relay what he know about their little baby Tsu-chan to her. He eventually stopped in front of Chrome's room. When he was about to knock, the purple-haired girl opened the door slowly. "I know you are coming. Please come in and be quiet, my brother is sleeping."

Chrome Dokuro was wearing a very simple set of white, sleeveless dress. She didn't wear an eye patch, but put a bandage over her right eye instead. Her moves are completely graceful, but a bit awkward. It's rather weird to be around a girl like her when all he had were Lal and Oregano, who aren't graceful. And Nana wasn't a woman from their world, so it was different.

They both sat across each other, Chrome took the armchair and he took the loveseat. He took a deep breath and asked. "I heard you have met with my so—Jabberwocky before…" Chrome narrowed her only eye, as if wondering what Iemitsu was about to say before changing it into their target. Nevertheless, she said nothing. "Yes, I've meet that child." She answered calmly.

"Would you tell me how he was?" Iemitsu asked, he never knew he could make that kind of sentence with such a… fatherly voice. "I would. Please make yourself comfortable, I will make you some tea." She left for the counter near her TV and took out an instant teabag and two cups. She put the teabag in one cup, and chocolate powder on the other and poured hot water to both of them.

She returned with a cup of tea and a cup of hot chocolate. Iemitsu thanked her and take his tea. Chrome Dokuro took a sip of her chocolate milk and began her story.

"It all begins from the legend that circulates around all inmates of Estraneo that Ken—my friend told us. The legend about the black-colored and phantom-winged Jabberwock…"

oOo

That day, the professors were done with her faster than usual. As they inserted data directly within her head and exerted all of her memories, she held on to the memories tightly. She held on to the reason why she even came to this place at the first place. She needed to find her brother, Mukuro Rokudo.

That was why she told everyone an anagram of her brother's name as her own name. To ring a bell within her brother's head, to make him realize that she was here, searching for him. Chrome, no, Nagi had been astonished by their parents' horrible act of selling her brother to the mafia. That same night, she went away from their home, thinking that there was no way she would stay with people that let her so close to death before.

When she needed an organ transplant, none of their parents are willing to do it. Saying that they didn't want their bodies messed up because of her. Her brother was the one who stepped up and gave her some of his own body, saying that there was no regret as he did so. "Nagi, is it okay that the one who loved you is not Mom and Dad?" That had been the question he asked when she woke up after the operation. "Then… nobody wants me. It is fine, brother." Mukuro had frowned and sat on her bed, pulling her to a tight hug. "I want you, Nagi. Even if Mom and Dad don't love you, I do."

Those words were etched perfectly within her head. It was okay that she didn't remember her parents' name anymore. It was okay that she didn't remember ever having friends. It was okay that all she remembered from her previous life was her brother. It felt like everything else didn't matter.

She entered the room where she was held with the other inmates. "Ah! Welcome back, Chrome-pyon!" Chrome smiled as she sat on the floor beside the animalistic blond boy and the seemingly emotionless boy, who immediately made room for her. "Any luck in finding your brother today, Chrome?" Chikusa asked. Chrome shook her head solemnly. "Awww that's a shame-pyon." Ken said with a sympathetic tilt of his head.

Chrome smiled and petted the blonde's hair. "It's fine." She told them. Chrome knew it won't be easy to find her brother, who was a genius and had one hell of a plotter's mine. Estraneo might have him used for planning things that are higher. "Anyways, Chrome, Kaki-pii, do you know Alice in Wonderland?" Chrome shook her head. She knew that story, but it seemed to her that Ken wasn't referring to the bedtime story. "I know of it." Chikusa answered, but didn't elaborate. "It was said that one of the inmates here found the Jabberwock. You know, that monster with the black wings." This time, Chrome nodded.

The Jabberwocky was the Estraneo's pride and joy. Every inmate here in their super cramped room was told to behave like Jabberwocky at least twenty times a day. "This inmate—they call her Alice—wondered around the Estraneo lab because her Handler didn't usher her here immediately. She found it, the Jabberwocky!

"And then when they found her, the professors said that Jabberwocky had taken a liking to her, and they couldn't let that happen. That was why Professor Winchester— Jabberwocky's Handler—ordered him to kill Alice. And he obeyed, although the process was slow. Jabberwocky had slain Alice. That was named the 'Alice in Wonderland' incident."

Chrome tilted her head, and before she can respond to Ken's story, their Handlers burst in with their sleeping bags and ordered them to sleep. To avoid unnecessary beating, all three of them obeyed and went to bed.

Later that night, Chrome noticed that the door to their room was not locked. She looked to both Ken and Chikusa, who slept soundly. She gulped and opened her sleeping bag. This was a rare chance. She slipped out of the sleeping inmates and went straight to the door. Luckily, they also input data on how to be stealthy. She was made to be an 'eraser', after all. She needed to be stealthy to accompany an assassin.

Chrome wondered around the lab, and eventually found a stair to the underground. Intrigued, she stepped carefully to the dark room. The room seemed to be empty, and the only source of light came from the big, cylinder thing inside the room. Chrome adjusted her eyes to the darkness as she walked to the cylinder thingy—a water tank.

When her eyes finally adjusted, she saw an angel.

A boy, couldn't be older than seven, was sleeping inside the water tank. His wings protected him as he slept in a fetal position, the oxygen tank outside his water tank was big and working, so he was definitely still alive. Chrome gasped. He was so beautiful.

She eventually stretched her hand and touched the water-tank, and it woke the sleeping angel. "Who? Is this Professor Winchester?" He asked, his voice resounding through a speaker beside the oxygen tank. So there was a microphone installed within his oxygen mask. Chrome tensed, but she couldn't walk away from the boy's clear, brown eyes. "N-no…" She stuttered. The angel looked confused, he tilted his head slightly. "Alice?"

"Eh? But… d-didn't you kill…?"

"I kn'w you'll retu'n to life again, Alice!" He was smiling happily. "You alw'ys do! It's the thi'd time, rig't?" Chrome got it. Alice was not the name of the inmate. 'Alice' is any inmate who encountered Jabberwocky. And she was the third Alice. When Chrome got a hold of the information, she smiled. "I'm back, Jabberwocky." And then she sat in front of him, speaking about all the things she knows. All about her brother.

"D'you wan' me to fin' your broth'r?" He asked after he warmed up to her. "Yes…" She whispered. Jabberwocky grinned and closed his eyes; it reminded Chrome of a puppy that tried hard to please its master. "I'll sen' a siggy so he wou'd c'me 'ere." This might just work… she might just find her brother…

But, when the armlet on her right arm began to press her, she smiled to Jabberwocky and told him that she needs to go, and she will return again. One of the Handlers was coming to this place. She ran to the toilet's direction, seeing that it might look perfectly normal to be found in toilet at this hour.

A few days past, and Chrome always managed to find her way back to Jabberwocky. The angel was always smiling when he heard her talking, and it somehow made Chrome happy. And at the seventh day of her visit, Jabberwocky told her that he was sleepy, and she needed to go away from that room.

Chrome frowned, but smiled and followed what he said anyways. When she stepped out of the room, she met a boy of her dreams. "Nagi?" His brother's voice was smooth and yet surprised. They shared a long story about her brother got signals in his dreams, telling him to come to that room. Mukuro immediately asked her what she was doing here. Of course Chrome told all the truth, including to what the professors had done to her. After one story led to another story, one of her brother's eyes turned red. "Please come with me, my dear Nagi. I have a slaughter I need to do." When Mukuro grabbed her wrist and made a trident appear out of nowhere, Chrome revolted.

"Wait!" She pulled her brother to the dark room and looked at the sleeping brunet. "Jabberwocky! Wake up, you're free!" She took the trident from her brother's hand and smashed it to the water tank. Jabberwocky looked surprised, but happy. "RUN!" She shouted as the alarm rang loudly and nodded to Mukuro. The mismatch-eyed boy pulled her by her wrists and told her how to summon the trident like he did. And so, the Rokudo-Dokuro siblings rampaged, killing all the professors they meet in sight and freeing all the inmates.

After the whole commotion was over and every single one of the professors is dead and all the inmates are free, Chrome knew two things:

First, she knew that the Jabberwocky is free, and smiled to herself about it.

Second, she'll need to find Ken and Chikusa. Because, well, during all the commotion… she was pulled along by her brother, who refused to let her go.

She knew that she will find them though, and Jabberwocky too someday. After all, she had her brother back, right?

HOOOOLY SHIT HOW DID THIS CHAPTER TURNED OUT THIS LONG? I CERTAINLY DID NOT PLAN THIS XD Maybe I turn to like Chrome of this fic of mine XD And really… really… how and when did it get this long? I dunno if it's a good thing or a bad thing *sighs* And sheesh I wonder what is up with the site. The last time it won't let me log in and yesterday it won't let me upload documents *sighs*

Anyways, please review~

Your friendly fangirl,

~Chiri-tan