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Xerxes's POV:

Reim pulls me out of the room and closes the door behind him. He has an angry expression spread across his face ,"What was that about!" he whispers harshly towards me.

I shrug, "What are you talking about?"

He glares at me as I grin happily. "Everything! Her freaking out and then you recruiting her!"

"Oh that," I tease.

Reim looks worried for some reason. "I wonder why she freaked when she saw you," he mumbles under his breath. My expression becomes gloomy, thankfully Reim doesn't know my past. It may be due to the fact of the Red-Eyed Ghost known as my old self Kevin Regnard. She also screamed out 'Chain' towards me. She must have been referring to my Chain at the time, Albus. Kevin...I threw many people into the Abyss, but they were all dead…or were they? So it may be possible she was one of the victims of the Red-Eyed Ghost.

I'm deep thought about my hypothesis. Reim taps my shoulder, I jump from my daze. "Break, are you alright?" I nod. I'm just fascinated and worried..."Why were you thinking about recruiting her?" Reim asks me.

I give him a devious smile, "Well she may hold some interesting information."

Reim nods, "That makes sense actually." I smack Reim in the knee with my cane. Reim clutches his knee in pain, "OW!"

"Of course it makes sense you moron!" Emily screams while hoping on my shoulder.

"Reim you idiot," I agree with my doll.

Reim straightens and glares at me through his glasses, "Well then she's your responsibility since you recruited her! Now if you excuse me I have to go write my report on the new prisoner, Grim." Reim decides to walk past me with pride, I smirk.

He's halfway down the hallway when I call out to him, "Reim! How much information did you retrieve from your interrogation with the girl?" He suddenly stops, frozen in fear. He bolts down the hallway, I'm taking that as not much. I sigh to myself, what a pain. I look back at the door, and smile. I'll let her some sleep for now. Besides I'll come back for her, now I have to go and get Gil and the others in Lebleux. They spent the night in Gil's apartment after that encounter with the Baskervilles.

I walk down the hallway, laughing to myself. This is going to be fun!

Lucinda's POV:

My eyes begin to flutter open, I can barely hear a voice calling out to me, but it sounds distant. I wake up. My hazel eyes shoot open to see a red eye above me. It's Break's and he's staring down at me. I sit up embarrassed, but I flinch in pain. I grab onto my chest, making me go back down. I feel him hopping onto the bed beside me. I look over at him as his white hair covers most of his face. He smiles at me and waves innocently.

"Morning!" he says with huge smirk.

I smile in return. "Morning," I reply softly.

He gives me a puzzled face, "I don't believe you've told me your name."

"Lucinda."

He gives me a sarcastic smile, "Well are you feeling any better Lucy?"

I raise an eyebrow, "Lucy?"

He nods and touches my nose in a playful manner. He smiles so brightly, I can't help but to smile back. "That's going to be my nickname for you, Lucy!" I give him a full hearted laugh, he pouts. "What's so funny."

I just shrug, "Nothing." The reason why I'm laughing is that this man makes me laugh. Just by his carefree attitude, it makes me happy that he's being nice to me. After all what's happened, I finally found someone who doesn't care. He glares at me in an unsure manner, but just shrugs.

"It's good that you're feeling better, because I'm moving you to a new destination."

I sit up on my bed with my elbows supporting me, "What."

He smirks and puts his covered hand up to his mouth, "Of course. You've been entrusted into my care, so you're going to be living with me at the Rainsworth manor."

I sigh. "I see, but I'm still injured."

"That's not a problem, I'll carry you everywhere."

I shake my head violently, "Ummm no need! I feel better already."

"That's what I thought," he says coldly through a smirk. He gets up from my bed and makes his way to the wardrobe. He pulls out a long casual purple dress and tosses it on the bed. "Here," he says, "Put this on and we'll be leaving as soon as we can." He steps into the wardrobe and closes the door behind him. I'm not even going to ask. I lightly run my fingers over the soft material of the dress. I carefully move towards the edge of the bed and place my feet on the ground. I stand up to only fall face down into the floor. I push myself up to a sitting position. I reach over and grab my dress from the bed, I crawl over to the changing board. I dress myself as best I can, considering my condition. I grab onto the closest thing that can help me up. I'm up and dressed, I practice walking and I haven't fallen yet. I walk over to my bed, as soon as I sit down something grabs my ankles. I yelp in terror to only hear a soft chuckle. My eyes narrow, "You can come out now."

He lets go of my ankles and I hear him make his way out from under the bed. He jumps up and crawls his way to sit beside me. A huge smile spreads across his face. "Ready to go?" he asks cheerfully.

I nod in reply. He claps his sleeved hands together, "Wonderful! Let's get going!"

We travel down the long hallways of Pandora. People who pass give me looks, not the good kind. I walk a little faster to catch up with Break, I finally manage to stay by his side. He leads me outside and a carriage is waiting for us.

We get in the carriage and the driver starts to takes us to the Rainsworth manor. I'm quite nervous to be honest, I've never been to a mansion before. I look over at Break who is sitting across from me in the carriage staring out the window. We sit in silence.

"I don't know a lot about you, so tell me some things about yourself," he says.

"What do you want to know?"

He turns his attention away from the window and glares at me with a smug looking smirk. "We'll let's start from where you're from?" He reaches in his pocket and pulls out a round purple candy, he pops it into his mouth.

"Sablier," I say confidently. His eyes widen and he starts to choke on the piece of candy. "BREAK!" I try to help him but he just holds up his hand to say he's alright.

He stops choking and smiles, "Sorry that I scared you. It's just it... it was a little surprising."

I tilt my head to the side, "How so?"

"Well," he starts to say, "It may be hard to believe but Sablier has been destroyed 100 years ago by an event called the Tragedy of Sablier." I crack a smile and start to laugh. He sweatdrops, "It's the truth!"

I wipe my tears of joy away and smile at him, "I know."

"Wait you do?"

I nod, "I lived in the Hole all my life. You see my father became an illegal contractor when I was little killing my mother and older brother. So when they found out I survived they sent me to the House of Fianna and I've lived there ever since."

Break seems taken aback but just smiles, "So you fell into the Hole into the Abyss. I'm I not correct?"

My expression dims, "Actually no. I was dragged into the Abyss by a Chain."

He pops another candy in his mouth, "I see."

I hold out my hand and he stares at me quizzically. I have a determined look in my eyes. "I want one."

"What?"

"I want a piece of candy, I'm starving." Break smiles and throws me a piece. I catch it and unwrap the neon foil and pop the blue candy in my mouth. I smile, "I love candy. I've missed it so much." Break covers is mouth with his sleeve and softly chuckles. I glare at him, "What's so funny?"

He smiles, "Nothing."

For the rest of the ride, we get to know each other quite well. But we both leave but any deep personal info. I find out that Break is a servant to the Rainswoth Household and that Lady Sharon is quite nice. I look forward to meeting her. I also find out a little more about Pandora. A lot of members are contractors, Break is one also. We finally arrive at the manor when the sun starts to shine.

Break gets out of the carriage and helps me out. I look around and see a magnificent mansion with the most beautiful garden. I love flowers. I can smell their sweet fragrance from here. Break lets go of my hand and walks toward the mansion, we enter and my breath is taken away. The interior is lined with velvet and flowers bloom at every corner, and portraits cover the wallpapered walls. My heels click on the marble floor, and I see maids move as swift as the wind.

"Break so wher-" I notice I'm alone. My eyes narrow, great I lost him!

I walk through the halls of the Rainsworth manor looking for the white haired man. I spot a door open just a crack so a tad bit of light pours out, and I hear voices coming from the room. "Did something happen at Pandora?" That's Break's voice! I rush towards the door and crouch down to peek through the crack. I see three people within the room: a young teenage girl with long milky brown hair, Break, and Reim. Why is Reim here? The lady and Reim sit at the table drinking tea, and Break sits on top of the table eating cake with his legs crossed glaring at Reim as they have a conversation. The girl just sits quietly slipping her tea.

"It has to do with the illegal-contractor we captured the other day," says Reim. But Reim holds out his poker face. I wonder if they are talking about me...wait but I'm not an illegal-contractor.

"Ah," Break continues, " 'Grim', Yes? My Lady and I were planning to come by and look in on him tomorrow! He's an important clue to tracking down the 'HeadHunter', after all! I must say, I am very much looking forward to-"

"He got away," Reim blurts out cutting Xerxes off. Break, who was licking the plate, tenses up and glares back at Reim.

"Huh?"

Reim starts shaking, making his teacup in his hand rattles, tea dripping out from the sides. "I'm saying he got away!" Reim relaxes a bit and finishes, "This afternoon, at two o' clock...He fled after killing his six guards. As of now, we still do not know Grim's whereabouts."

Break is silent for a moment, but then a huge smile spreads across his face, sending chills down my spine. "You are so," Break snaps the plate in half, "Useless!" Break and Emily say in unison.

Reim stands abruptly and slams his hands on the table, "What was that!"

They argue with each other as Emily sings, "Stupid, Stupid, Stupid!"

The young lady looks up from her tea and says coldly, "Reim. You may consider that person over there to be like air. So please, will you continue?"

Break flops down on the table as he waves his hands in the air and kicks his legs, as he sings, "Air, Air, Air." I giggle at him, he acts so childish. I can't help but smile.

Reim sits back down, "Yes. Pandora is looking for Grim, but-"

Break cuts him off, "Wouldn't you say he's already in the town of Reveil?"

He laughs and sits up from the table. He lightly tugs on the young girl's hair, "Listen, my lady! I just have this feeling that things are going to get most interesting!"

I lean forward pressing against the door, but unfortunately I fall forward crashing into the room. I fall face down on the floor making a loud boom, as everyone turns their head to see me. My chest hurts from the impact.

"Lucy! What are you doing?" Break asks. Reim stands up and yells at Xerxes that he's in idiot. I sit up and Break hops off the table. He gives me a hand to pull me up from the ground. The young girl gives off a cheerful aura as she swiftly makes her way next to us.

Stars twinkle in her eyes, "Break! You never said you brought a girl home!" Her hands clap together. Break and I exchange glances.

Break slyly smiles and waves his hands around, "My Lady I think you're confused."

"Silence Break," she barks back, "This is a historic moment."

I lean in and whisper to Break, "How is this historic?"

"This is the first time Break has an interest in a woman," the young girl exclaims.

"You're looking well Lucinda," Reim says, ignoring her.

"Oh," the girl says, "You two know each other."

"My lady," Break butts in, "This is the girl Pandora dragged out of the Abyss two days ago."

"I assigned her to Break," Reim interrupts, "I hope she is taken care of here."

She lights up once more, "I'm sorry I didn't know." She extends her hand out to me, "I'm Sharon Rainsworth, it's a pleasure to meet you Miss Lucinda."

I shake her hand in return, "The pleasure is all mine."

Sharon turns to Break, "Will you please escort Lucinda to her room? I still have business to attend with Reim."

Break bows and nods at Reim. He turns to me and gives me a smile, signaling to the door. "This way."

Break leads me down the hallway, holding a candle in his hand. We're silent for a while, it feels awkward just walking behind him in silence.

I swallow my fear, "So who's Grim?"

Break looks at me from the corner of his eye and smiles. "So you listened in."

I look down at my feet, "I'm sorry I didn't mean to eavesdrop."

He laughs, "It's okay I would have done the same."

I stare back at him in amazement. He stops and turns towards me. He light from the candle glowing off our faces, he looks so mysterious in candlelight.

He nods towards the door to his left, "Your room."

I nod, "Thanks." I open the door and see a room quite similar to the ones at Pandora. Break puts down the candle on the nearest table as I walk around the room.

I jump on the bed and lay back on the comforter. I spread my arms out on the bed looking up at the canopy above. I look over at Break who is chewing on a lollipop. "You still haven't answered my question."

He glances back at me and takes the lollipop out for his mouth, "That's classified Pandora business."

My eyes narrow, "Well I'm a member aren't I?"

He smiles. "Not officially," he says in a sing song voice.

I huff in annoyance, "You should still tell me."

"Why should I since you hide things from me and I you." He puts the lollipop back in his mouth. I hop of the bed and storm towards him, ripping the lollipop out of his mouth.

"Tell me."

His eyes narrow, "No, it doesn't involve you."

"Well it might, you never know."

He smirks, "I know it doesn't." He takes his lollipop back and shoves it back in his mouth, "Please don't worry about it."

I pout, "Fine."

He smiles gently and turns towards the door, "You should get some rest." He opens the door and leaves.

After he leaves I just walk around my room in pure boredom. I change into a nightgown and lay on my bed just staring into space. Thinking.

I think about Somina and what he's doing right now. I think about Grim and how Break wouldn't tell me. And why was I thrown into the Abyss! It makes no sense and why did the Chain call me a Baskerville? All of it makes no sense. I hear something rustling behind my door, it sounds like someone talking. I grab my shawl and rush towards the door. I peek my head out, scaring a tall man with raven hair. His amber eyes glare in horror as I stare at him. I do a full body scan of him, he's soaking wet. He holds his chest as if I gave him a heart attack.

"Hello," I say to him. He nods. I look around the hallway and I see a boy around the age of fifteen with blonde hair and a girl with long dark hair. They catch up to the man with raven hair.

"Gil," the blonde boy says, "What are you doing?"

The man's hand shakes as he points to me. The other two finally notice me, they raise an eyebrow in unison, seeing me as only a head between the door and doorframe. The boy seems as if he's in a bad mood.

"Hello," he says quietly to me.

"Hi," I reply. My bangs slide down my ear and land in front of my face. I try to blow them away but it's a fail. I scan their faces and they don't look amused to see me.

"Who are you," the boy asks me.

"I'm a ghost," I shut the door.

That was weird, I wonder who they were. A few minutes later I hear stomping outside my door. I swing it open, seeing Break storm pass me in his Pandora uniform. He looks angry.

"Break?!"

He stops and turns to see me, "Lucy? What are you doing up?"

I shrug, "Couldn't sleep." He nods in understanding. "Where are you going?"

"I have a rat problem to deal with," he says coldly. Everyone seems to be in a bad mood tonight. I step out of my room and close the door behind me. I wrap the shawl tightly around me.

"I'll help you," I say.

"Really?" Break asks in a sarcastic tone.

I nod, "Yeah I deal with the rat problems all the time. I would love to help you." I walk towards him and stand by his side.

He laughs and turns to walk on, "Not that kind of rat."

I raise an eyebrow.

We walk down the hallway in silence as I walk behind him. He turns and opens a door. He enters slamming the door in my face. I huff in annoyance and open the door, and as I do I see Break facing someone.

"Shall I see you to the door? Vincent?" Break looks back and sees me in an angry mood. Suddenly a young man around my age with long golden hair appears behind Break. He looks up and sees me, his eyes widen. I notice his two-toned eyes, one red and the other yellow. He looks so familiar!

"Lessie," he whispers. I feel my body crumble as my head shoots with pain. I double over clutching my head. I breathe heavily, and I shut my eyes tight. A rush of images play before me. I'm standing in a garden, a rose garden, as a small boy with golden hair runs towards me. I pick him up and swing him around. He wraps his arms around my neck, I look back at his face. He has the same eyes as him. "Lessie!" He says with a smile. I hear laughing, my laugh, it's so cheerful.

My eyes shot open and I glare back at the man in amazement. He reaches for me but I stager backwards. My body decides to make my legs feel like noodles and I collapse. Luckily Break catches me before I hit the ground, I hold my head in my hand still having a massive headache.

"Lucinda are, you alright!" Break says.

I nod forcefully. "I'm okay. I think I'm still just not use to being in this world quite yet," I lie.

Break's expression becomes gloomy. The man reaches for me and grabs my shoulder. Break didn't seem like he approved of that happening.

"I got her Hatter," he says with a smile, "You lead the way."

Break gives me to the strange man and he picks me bridal style. I'm still too weak to walk. A girl with white hair follows behind him. Break suddenly appears with a candle, and leads us down the hallway in silence...again. I look up at the strange man as he is too focused on Break, he looks down at me and smiles. I turn my head away from him, I have an uneasy feeling about him.

"I'm Vincent Nightray," he says.

"Lucinda," I say in a whisper.

He leans in closer, "What was that?"

"Lucinda!" I scream in his ear. He backs away as I glare at him.

He gives a creepy smile, "Oh are you the girl Pandora dragged out of the Abyss the other day?"

I give him my poker face, "Put me down."

"What?" He says in a playful manner.

"NOW!" He stops and gives me a threatening glare. He gives in and gently places me down on the ground. I straighten up and walk ahead of him with my head held high. This guy annoys me. I see Break glaring at me from the corner of his eye.

"Those clothes," Vincent states, "I wonder were you heading towards Pandora?"

"Yes," Break says coldly, "I have something I want to investigate a bit.

"Oh," Vincent sounds interested, "I wonder what it could be?"

Break is silent. "Well I bet it doesn't concern you," I say to Vincent.

"This is my personal speculation, "Break starts to say, "But someone inside Pandora may have helped Grim escape."

We all fall silent, and I take the opportunity to glare at Vincent.

"Oh," Vincent says slyly.

"Maybe they were afraid of information leaking from Grim. Thus, they let him go first, so it wouldn't be obvious that he had help from within the organization. Then they could get rid of him quietly or kill him by faking an accident. Killing him was the right thing to do in order to save the child," my blood runs cold as he turns back to face us with a smile on his face, "Or some other reason like that."

"What a scary thought," Vincent says carefreely. I glare at him like he's lost his mind. "That someone like that may be in our organization." He yawns and he looks over at me. Suddenly I feel his fingers going through my bright red hair, I jump back shocked and disturbed. He stares at me with such fascination, it makes my skin crawl.

Break's laugher brings me back, "Ha ha ha! Not to worry if such fellow really exist I will track them down no matter who they are." Break looks back at us with a threatening glare at Vincent.

Vincent glares back at Break in the same manner, "I look forward to it."

I could tell from there that these two hate each other to the core. I giggle which ruins the mood of their staredown. My giggle turns into a full on laugh, as I walk pass both of them.

I look back at Break with a smile, "Come on."

He smiles and walks beside me leaving Vincent in the shadows behinds us.

We finally make it to the door and Break opens the door for Vincent and the girl. As Vincent steps outside he turns around and grabs my hand. He holds my hand up his face, hovering over his lips. "I hope we shall meet again, my precious Lucinda," he says. He presses his lips onto my pale hand. He releases my hand and I pull away quickly as my cheeks burn bright red. I glare in silence but it says everything, that I don't look forward meeting this creep again.

He turns to the carriage and leaves. Hair brushes against my cheek, my eyes widen to see Break's face so close to mine. I become a deeper shade of red as his red eyes glare into my hazel ones. He smiles, "The rat seems to like you. I guess you were right, you have an experience with them."

My eyes narrow but I smirk, "You think so?"

He nods, "Very much."

I grunt and cross my arms, "Well he beats you at the creepy scale."

Break looks offended, "How can that rat beat me?!"

I shrug, "He just can."

He gives off a creepy childish laugh, "Well then I guess I just have to try harder then."

"You do that then," I turn to go back inside since I don't like the idea of getting wet from the rain. But the world started to spin and I fall back. Thankfully Break catches me again as I land in his arms once more.

"Lucinda!" Break says. His voice sounds distorted and the room starts to spin faster. My eyes start to flutter close.

When I begin to get my senses back, I see that I'm being carried. Bridal style I presume, I look around still in a daze. I see Break carrying me to my room as he lays me down on my bed. He chuckles softly, "What am I going to do with you? You little trouble maker..."

Everything started to fade into darkness once more.

Finally done! Whoop! I'm so glad I'm done *does a little dance*

Break: "Where is my candy?!"

Me: "I don't know where it is?"

Lucinda: "Did you check in Emily's hair. I swear you can fit anything in that dolly's hair since it's so long!"

*Break digs in Emily's hair and finds a piece of candy*

Lucinda: "Told you so!"

*Break pops the candy into his mouth* Break: "Silence you."

Me: *face palm* "What am I going to do with you two?"

Alice: "MEAT!"

Me: "For the mother of the Abyss!" *Starts to go on a rampage*

Lucinda: "Thanks to all who read please Review your thoughts and feelings down below in the empty space below. It's there for a reason! And a special thanks to sunflower13!"

Sunflower13: Hello, all. *adjusts glasses* I am Cheshire's beta reader (grammar only, I know nothing about this manga) and I'd like to apologize for the long wait, since it's partially my fault. But in my defense, this thing was eleven pages long, and I have school and my own stories. And I believe Cheshire told me to tell you that if you didn't review she'd come after you with a skillet. Well, back to the archives!