After reading so many of peekodemeeko12's stories, (which I definitely recommend for everyone to go read, they're so great!~), I couldn't help but try my hand at it.

I don't own any of the characters other than my OC.

Enjoy!~

Nightmare stared at the girl sitting on the ground in front of him in her dream. She stared at him blankly with enchanting unnatural eyes. Well, unnatural to any other foreigner he's met. The outsides of the iris were bright blue with the center being a deep brown. She had her long dark brown hair that contrasted with her fare pale skin, in a high ponytail.

"Explain that again, Serina," he heard her the first two times, but he couldn't quiet seem to understand the problem she complained about.

She huffed and shook her head with a slight grin, "I know what you're thinking by the look on your face." Nightmare blinked as she slowly stood up and dusted off her black cargo pants and straightened her light blue and black tank top. "I get the idea that Wonderland has different territories with several people in charge of each. I also can understand how everyday things can turn into weapons, I play a lot of video games and in some of them anything is possible. And once I drink this weird liquid from a vial, all of the people in Wonderland will be in love with me and the only way for me to make it home is to meet everyone to fill it back up. But you know how you guys have clocks instead of hearts?"

He nodded happily. Finally! Here was a girl who understood everything about Wonderland with a level head and didn't freak out. In fact, when he showed up in her dream she acted like she already knew what was going to happen.

She walked up to Nightmare and studied him, "Since this is your dream world, nothing's altered from what it should be. Right?" He nodded a little slower this time, wondering where she was going with this. "Everyone's clock 'ticks' in a steady even pace right." He nodded as she walked up and blinked as she placed her hand on his chest to feel the ticking steady while her other hand was over her heart and smiled sadly, not thinking about anything.

"What does this have to do with the problem you think you have?" he asked nervously.

Serina gently took his hand and placed it over his clock, "You feel the steady tick right?" She then caught his other hand and placed it over her heart. He blushed and was about to pull his hand away until his face paled when she forced him to finally notice. Her heart was beating erratically and at a fast pace like she had been running for a while, "This is how my heart is normally, even if I'm doing nothing more than sitting all day." She noticed the panicked look as she smiled, "I take medicine to make it act normally, but this is what it was before I was put on medicine and what happens when I don't take that medicine."

Nightmare stared at his hand where he could feel her heart flutter frantically and at an odd rhythm, "I see."

"It's like I'm on an adrenalin rush constantly and get so tired," she tried to explain, "So what would happen if I do decide to come there and my medicine finally runs out. I would have to deal with everyone that could pull out weapons at any time and have to be running for my life. Before it would be over with, I might have a heart attack." He tilted his head confused. Nightmare remembered Alice saying something about that once but never elaborated. Serina sighed calmly as she let go of his hands, "It's like when a clock gets wound up too tight and is forced to tick far faster than it should until something snaps and it just stops."

The incubus paled and stared at the calm girl until he grabbed her shoulders, "How can you be so calm about that happening?! There's no replacing a foreigner like there is for the people in Wonderland!"

She nodded and grinned as she patted his head, "Yup, but I've already come to terms with what might happen. Besides," she smirked and eased out of his tight grip, "from what you've told me about some of the people in Wonderland like Boris, Pierce, Peter, and Elliot, I'm sure they'll be able to hear when it does happen and will be either worried or curious and not hurt me, I hope."

Nightmare gapped at her as she stared up at his floating form. "Plus," she started getting his attention again, "I've only been on the medicine for a few years. My body was use to the fast pace my heart had. It'll just take me a bit to get use to it again, just gotta make sure I drink a lot of water," she added as an afterthought.

He sighed as he realized her mind was made up, "Alright, but do you have any of that medicine to bring with you?"

She nodded, "Yeah, but there's a chance I might lose the bottle, someone take it, or I'm stuck somewhere away from it. I'll just take a double dose before coming. It won't hurt me and it'll last for at last a full one of my days." He nodded as the dream started to fade, she shot up, "Can you come get me?!" She shuddered, "I don't want Peter any where near me."

Nightmare snorted and thought for a minute, then smiled, "Be in your backyard as quickly as possible. And bring what you need." He sent her a look that told her exactly what he was talking about and grinned brightly up at him, making him smirk back as the dream faded away completely and Serina shot up out of bed to get her things ready in her empty house.

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