The lack of Kei stories on here bums me out, so here's one for those of us who agree. I own nothing.

Chapter 1

Kei could hear the music as he entered the club. He felt his anger rising as he looked for her in the flashing lights and swinging bodies.

"How could they leave her here" thought Kei searching for her as he looked at each girl on stage until he found her among them. Alice Warren, skin sun kissed like smooth marble, her long black hair running down her back to play in the contrasting colors around her.

"Damn those witches. Leaving her here to be ogled like some sideshow" thought Kei as he watched her move for the patrons letting them put money down her top her body on display in a way that made him want to run to cover her.

They had said they were protecting her when they took her from him. Protecting her from him and what they called his evil but look where they'd hidden her. Here, in a place where she was on display for men to use with no idea that she had someone who loved her. They had said they had erased all memory of him and looking at her as she performed on stage, Kei wondered if finding her would do him any good.

"She won't even know who you are even if you do find her" Cordelia had been so smug when she said it the memory alone angering him. Kei could remember staring her down wanting to knock that smile from her face. He had wanted to wrap his hands around her throat, but he knew it would do no good. He still wouldn't know where Alice was. Until now, where she stood mere inches from him. She was close enough to touch and Kei smiled. He had beat them, he had found her, and whether she remembered him or not, he vowed to never let her out of his sight ever again. He would make her remember him if he had to. He just needed to have her back again. In that moment, Alice left the stage, though those witches had the gall to make her think her name was Misty, after that witch she pined after. He watched her go off stage to the back and he hoped for the first time since meeting her that she was putting more clothes on. He found it unnerved him then to have her out of his sight again, so soon. He told himself he would see her again that she'd be right back out, but after so many months without her, he wanted her back now. Kei felt his heart race, but he calmed himself as he found a seat, waiting for her to appear again.

"That girl that just left the stage, could I get a private session with her?" said Kei to a bouncer slipping him a fifty. The guy didn't answer him. He didn't respond in any way at all as he walked away taking Kei's money with him. Kei was about to go after him when she emerged from behind a curtain once more. After that, Kei couldn't take his eyes off her. This time she wore blue booty shorts and an equally blue bikini top, her hair as long as ever, and as she got closer, Kei couldn't help it. He could feel his body responding to her. His Alice, he'd been separated from her all these months, and yet now, he felt like something inside him had come alive again.

"Hi handsome, I heard you were asking for me" Alice spoke to him then, her hand touching his shoulder. When she did, she took it away again so quickly, it was as if she'd been burned. The truth was that she had been. The second Alice touched him, she felt as if something had shocked her the sensation going right up her arm to the center of her chest. It burned him too, to be this close to her, and not be able to take her into his arms.

"Alice?" Kei called her by her true name then as she sat down in his lap his hand coming to its rightful place at the small of her back. She didn't respond, but only leaning closer giving him an opportunity to look down her top. He didn't take it though as that same burning sensation went up his arm as it had hers. It hit him straight in the chest just as it had her. When he focused on her again, she was looking at him, and it was like she was meeting him again for the first time.

When their eyes met, that same torch like feeling went up their chests, and Kei recognized it when a look of recognition came into her eyes.

"Alice, do you know who I am?" whispered Kei letting her stare into his eyes until suddenly her hand came to touch his cheek.

"Kei?" Alice said his name on a breath and Kei felt something inside him give when she said it.

"You remember?" whispered Kei searching her eyes.

"How could I ever forget?" Alice said it with tears in her eyes. Kei suddenly had his arms full of her then as she moved forward to hug him. Her lips found his then and holding her, he kissed her deeply. It was like everything fell into place then as he got the best parts of himself back.

The bouncer touched his shoulder then and they looked up at him.

"No touching" he said.

"He can touch me whenever and however he wants" snapped Alice her eyes going from Kei to the bouncer and back.

"Take me out of here" whispered Alice her eyes and voice pleading with him. Kei rose, taking her hands as he covered her with his coat. He wrapped an arm around her then taking her out of there.