Wow... over two months... hehe, oops?

The original chapter was deleted while I was at school - so here's a (crappy?) rewrite.

Thank you to cosplaylover for reviewing the last chapter and apologies to everyone for my laziness - I will update my fics!

It wasn't until the final class before lunch that Break saw Oz again; Strategy with Duke Nightray. As it was a basic combination of Geography and Maths, the class was referred to a single period of both on timetables, the unanimous decision being that 'strategy' would either be confusing or unappealing to some students and highly suspicious for education boards.

Pandora Academy claimed to be a specialised college for all ages, however 'ranked' members of the school – like Liam and Break – knew better. The school actually served as a military-esque facility and really only taught five subjects: Strategy, Science, Physical Education and English which were taught by the four Dukes (though a senior student teaching wasn't unusual), the final subject was Languages which was enforced by the education board and was taught by hired labour. Science, Languages and English were 'pick and choose' subjects in the sense you didn't have to do everything; a student could study whichever area took their fancy, such as Break studying Alchemy and Biology and not bothering with Chemistry or Physics, whereas the only science Liam didn't study was Alchemy.

Break smiled at Oz and took his usual seat beside Gilbert on the row behind, which was the very back row.

"What happened to you're hair Break?" Oz chuckled admiring the bright green streaks in Break's usually white hair.

"A slight mishap in Alchemy, Vanessa measured the magnesium wrong and it exploded," Break said with a cheeky smile, twisting a strand of green hair around his index finger. "I'd rather it have been purple though," he said with a thoughtful pout.

"Break!" snapped Duke Nightray from the front, "answer the problem!"

Break rolled his eye and looked at the blackboard before answering, "thirty-five, though in honesty I'd have been more comfortable with forty on the flank, the frontline's too crowde-eyya!" Break cried as the chalk piece Duke Nightray had been using collided painfully with Break's forehead.

"Less sass you ungrateful brat," the duke said, outright glaring at Break who was once again pouting as he looked at the chalk instead of Duke Nightray before his expression turned to boredom and he began rolling the chalk through his fingers as a street performer might a coin.

"But Duke Nightray-sama, Break did get the correct answer," Sharon said softly from her seat next to Oz.

"Even so, I wanted an answer, not an opinion!" growled the duke in return, "now give me the chalk back," he demanded flatly, Break throwing it accurately back.

"Leo, hand these out, everyone, you have until first bell to complete these problems, those who get less than 70% will have detention for the next three weeks, so I suggest you don't mess up." Duke Nightray said handing Leo a stack of papers to hand out.

"Are you ever just going to give him and answer and not comment on formation?" Gilbert whispered to Break.

"Hypothetical or not, if he used those formations he'd kill a lot more people – besides, I like seeing him squirm in irritation~" Break whispered back passing Gilbert one of the sheets Leo gave him.

Gilbert looked at the sheet and let out a stream of curses and Oz slammed his head against the table and whimpered slightly.

Break just laughed at them but was soon nursing a large bump on his head courtesy of Sharon's paper fan.

"Haven't I been abused enough today?" Break asked no one in particular before noticing something, "Ne, Oz-kun, where's Alice-kun?"

"Hm? Oh she's with Ada – Alice isn't very good at Maths and I don't want her to get detention…" Oz drifted off as he watched Duke Nightray turn his back to Oz, said boy diving for his back and pulling out a calculator.

"Break, any idea about question seven?" Sharon (who'd been working through the problems as Break had been talking to Oz) asked.

"Um…" Break took his first glance at the sheet, "twenty-nine I think…" Break frowned and mumbled to himself for a moment, "yeah twenty-nine."

Sharon nodded and wrote the answer down, as did Gilbert, Oz and anyone else who'd happened to have heard Break noted to his amusement.

A silent sigh of relief seemed to fill the room as the lunch bell rang and everyone made an effort to not be the last one out of the classroom.

As Oz, Gilbert, Break and Sharon made their way down the hallway to go find Alice before heading for the canteen Break grabbed Gilbert by the elbow and dragged him off claiming he'd left something in the classroom, which was likely as Break had literally run from the room as soon as the bell had gone.

However, Break didn't go to Duke Nightray's classroom, instead Gilbert was dragged into one of the boys' toilets.

"Break what the-"

"Does Oz know about Alice?" Break asked flatly, cutting the raven-haired boy off as he quickly searched the cubicles to make sure they were alone.

"Wh-what? She's a girl – a dumb one at that, what else does he need to know?"

"That she's a Chain perhaps?" Break said flatly causing Gilbert to look away uncomfortably. Break sighed.

"You knew she was a Chain and you didn't tell him?" Break hissed at the teen.

"I didn't think I'd have to! I sealed her powers and she looks like a normal girl anyway! Besides how did you find out?" Gilbert shot back.

"Duke Barma said that B-Rabbit had manifested and Alice has no proof of birth," Break said simply.

"So you weren't on Library duty…"

"Nope. And guess what – you're going to tell him about Alice~!" Break said in an aloof tone of voice.

"What! No way!" Gilbert cried in protest.

"Don't make me pull rank – Nightray or not you're only a Colonel Gilbert-kun." Break said with a glare which had Gilbert shrinking back.

"Alright fine!" Gil relented, "but you're helping!"

"That's fine I need him to be my subordinate anyway," Break said calmly before going to the door, "just give me a where and when – I trust you still have my number." Not waiting for an answer Break left the restroom and made a bee-line for Oscar Vessalius' office.

Naughty Gilbert!

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