I am now officially doing one-shot pairings with Alexis. Because I'm bored, it amused me, and I found it slightly adorable. I also found an author who did the same( though it was more actual stories than one-shots) and thought it would be fun. I might do a three-chapter thing for a certain couple or not. I have no idea. But writing this amused me more than it really should.

And has anyone thought about the age differences between Alice and everyone? She's like seventeen, and she gets together with a guy who's twelve years older than her. I mean, it's something I just thought about. My mom's in her forties and she married some guy in his seventies, while my dad's the same age as my mom and married a girl in her twenties. I thought it'd be interesting to write about.

So, here's AlexisXNightmare.

There may also be some spoilers for "We're All Mad Here", as I'm still writing that story. This just popped in my head the other day and it was too funny to pass-up. So I wrote it.

Since the whole "Dreamer-better-not-be-a-Succubus" incident with Nightmare and Gray, I wasn't able to look at Nightmare the same way again. I was practically avoiding him now just to keep him from reading my mind.

Gray just had to go and suggest that when he's practically a decade older than me! I'm fifteen for Pete's sake! My poor mind couldn't even handle looking at Nightmare without having any weird thoughts about him.

Oddly, because of this, it was easier to deal with Pierce and his touchy-feely-ness, but whenever he tried to hug me I flipped and ran away. I felt so mean for making him cry every time, but it...It was just so weird! I was more uncomfortable than usual, and every time Pierced kissed or hugged me I thought about Nightmare and wanted it to be him. And then when Gray has me babysit Nightmare and make sure that he actually does his work...Ugh! It's so annoying. I literally have to keep my mind blank, and me being ADHD, does not make that easy. I'm fairly certain a thought or two slipped passed with how much blood Nightmare's been coughing up.

I felt so ridiculous-no. I felt disgusted with myself. It's been months since I came to Wonderland and since that incident. Nightmare was an adult and my friend. But then Gray had to go and insinuate-Argh!

...BANG

Bang

Bang

Bang

Bang

"How much longer do you plan on banging your head off the wall?" Nightmare questioned, looking at me with a raised eyebrow. Worry spread across his face at the sight of the blood forming on my forehead, "Are you alright?"

"Yep," I replied with a dry tone. "Just fantastic." Don't think, don't think, don't think.

Bang

Bang

BANG

Bang

Ba- A hand reached out and stopped my head from connecting with the wall. I scowled and made to glare at the person, but froze when I realized it was Nightmare. I held my breath as I tried to keep my thoughts blank, feeling my heart beat a little faster. NO! NO THINKING! It took a moment, but I finally managed to stop thinking.

"You're doing it again! Why do you keep blocking your thoughts?" Before he could react I yanked my head away from him and slammed it against the wall-causing myself a really huge headache.

"YOW! Okay, okay, that one really hurt! Ow!" I stumbled back a bit, crying out as I rubbed my bleeding forehead. Nightmare gaped at the dent in the wall, before looking at me incredulously.

"How hard were you hitting your head!?"

"Hard enough." I muttered, scowling. I hope he's happy-his fault, anyway.

"How's it my fault!?" I froze, realizing that he was reading my thoughts. No! Damn it, don't think! "What's wrong with me reading your mind!?"

"Nothing!" My voice squeaked a little as I made to leave the room, but I was quickly stopped by Nightmare grabbing my arm. N-No! Nothing! Nothing! I'm not-I'm not thinking about anything!

"Why do you keep stuttering in your mind, then?" I whirled my head around to glare at him, tensing a little when I realized how close he was. "Well?"

"B-because! N-Now let go!" D-Damn it all! Gray, I blame you! If you-If you didn't say that stupid-ARGH! NO THINKING! Nightmare looked surprised as I tried to yank my arm away. He was surprisingly stronger than I thought, especially since he was so sickly.

"Gray? What did Gray say that's been making you avoid me?" That you-NO! I squeezed my eyes shut and tried to ignore him, listening to the sounds outside the door and focusing on them to stop myself from thinking about it. "Alexis-" Nope. Not doing it. Not listening. "Why do you keep running away whenever I try to talk to you-" I REFUSE. "You're not giving me much choice-" Choice? About what-I got my answer as exhaustion suddenly hit me, causing my legs to give out as I fell. I would have hit the ground if Nightmare didn't catch me. "I didn't want to do this, but if you won't tell me here, I'll make you tell me in my domain."

That's...cheating... I thought tiredly as he carried me over and set me down on the couch. Damn it...all... I refuse to sleep. I'm not...

I'm not going...to...

"DAMN IT ALL NIGHTMARE! YOU CHEATER! YOU MADE ME PASS OUT! THAT'S CHEATING!"

"You wouldn't tell me why you kept avoiding me." He fired back, crossing his arms as he floated about in the air. Gah! The jerk! I'm not-I'm not going to tell him squat! Or-Or think about-Nope! "Tell me before I go through your memories!"

"NO! You can't do that!" It's not my fault that Gray made that stupid comment about him giving into his Incubus desires and DAMN IT! I TOLD HIM! STUPID IDIOTIC GRAY! "STOP READING MY MIND!"

His face was growing redder and redder by the second, to the point where he ended up coughing up blood. Oh, dear god, someone kill me now. This is THE most embarrassing moment of my life. Actually, no. It was humiliating and degrading and at this moment I wish I could punch Gray in the damn face. Nightmare didn't speak for a long time, and I tapped my foot impatiently waiting for myself to wake up. I hated that. You usually wake up quickly when you're dreaming, but when he uses his stupid powers and make you pass out, you don't wake up for a long time. Freaking pissed me off. Stupid Nightmare. Stupid Gray. Stupid Nightmare and his stupid face. Stupid Nightmare and his stupid, stupid stubbornness to get people to tell him what he wants to know!

And most of all-stupid, idiotic, STUPID Nightmare for making me think and feel like this! ARGH! This is wrong in so many ways! He's thirteen years older than me! I mean, I knew there were people who were married to people half their age-like a fifty-year-old marrying a girl in their early thirties or late twenties-but this-this is still too weird! I don't like it! I never would have started feeling and/or thinking like this if it wasn't for that one comment! It was because of that that I actually started "noticing" Nightmare. UGH!

I'm gonna kill someone. Better yet-I'm gonna kill Gray. It was his fault that this all started...But it was Nightmare's fault that made it continue-so, really, I should kill him. Yeah! That would work just fine! I'll kill him and these stupid feelings might go away-Wait...

I cast a blank glance up at Nightmare who was staring at me with surprised eyes, causing me to facepalm and curse vehemently in my head. Jerk. Stupid, idiotic, jerk!

I'm gonna get revenge for this...screw what my brother says, I'm unhappy right now! Suddenly I froze, shoulders tensing as my eyes grew wide when something warm and soft pressed against my mouth. Nightmare pulled away and asked, "Are you still unhappy?"

H-He j-just-He just-Wh-Why did he just-!?

I blinked, stunned, and stared at his red face. "Haaaah?"

He turned his gaze back to me and blinked, his only visible eye widening. "Are you still confused despite what I just did!? And your face is even redder than mine, so don't go making fun of me!"

I opened my mouth to make a comment, but closed it, finding that I couldn't think properly and that anything I would say would sound like gibberish. I furrowed my eyebrows, blinked, swallowed the lump in my throat, and asked, "Wh-Why did-Why did you just-?"

"You're only thirteen years younger than me," Nightmare said with crossed arms, then paused realizing how strange that sounded actually being said. I laughed at the look on his face, causing his face to become only redder. "Shut up! There are couples out there with even bigger age differences!"

My heart just about leapt out of my throat as I took a step back, eyes wide as a dark blush spread across my freckled face, "Who-Who said anything about c-couples!?"

Nightmare tensed, realizing what came out of his mouth. For being in his domain, he's as bad at speaking as I am at the moment. "Y-You did! You brought you the age differences just a few minutes ago!"

"So you were reading my mind!"

"Of course I was reading your mind! You've been avoiding thinking around me for ages; I wanted to know what so important that you were avoiding me because of it!" His face flushed again, "A-And now I know why..."

I groaned and buried my face into my hands, utterly humiliated. Great. There goes my best friend. Now he's scared of me. My heart dropped into my stomach at the thought and I ignored the pain in my chest. Now he's going to hate me...

B-But w-why would he go and-and do that if he-?

To make you feel worse? My mind suggested coldly. I flinched as I remembered Joker's words. He was right. Why would anyone care? They have Alice.

My eyes shot open when I felt hands grip my shoulders tightly, locking onto a single gray eye. "Hey! Don't think that, Alexis. I would never hate you." I almost scowled at his words. One should never say never, for that never will always become forever. "You know that isn't true."

"Do I?" I demanded, glaring at him. "How am I-How am I supposed to know what is or isn't true? It's Wonderland, anything is possible. How am I supposed to believe that you won't hate me? That you don't hate me?" My eyes started to sting, and I realized I was crying. Damn. This was embarrassing. I'm disgusting. I fell for a guy who was freaking twice my age.

"I'm not twice your age," Nightmare corrected with a frown. "You're just half mine."

"Can we please not talk about this?" I asked, turning my head and refusing to look at him. I hated myself already for letting him find out, but to even think these thoughts in the first place... I'm a horrible person. "How long until I wake up?"

"Until Gray finds us both asleep and yells at me, which will end up causing you to wake up and yell at me."

"...True. Damn it."

"Language."

"No! I'm pissed off right now, which means I'm gonna curse! So therefore, I'm not gonna listen to you an-!" I was cut off quickly by Nightmare, who pressed his lips against mine. It was weird. He was warm, but his skin felt so cold. I squeezed my eyes shut as the blush spread across my face, hating the feeling of my heart beating faster as the butterflies floated about in my stomach. It wasn't a bad feeling. I actually quite liked it. I just didn't like how I ended up falling for someone I considered one of my best friends, who also happened to thirteen years older than me. Damn Wonderland.

Wait-how does a person even kiss? I don't know other than the times when Pierce attacked me and accidentally got my mouth! WAH! I DON'T KNOW! C-Calm d-down-calm down! Nightmare pulled away and rested his forehead against mine, laughing at me. "SHUT UP! It's not funny!"

"You're so cute, Alexis." My face flared and I scrambled about my brain for an insult. He just laughed harder.

"Jerk! Stop making funny of me!" I made to punch him, but he quickly floated out of my reach. "Get back here, coward! I'm going to beat you to a pulp!"

"You seem to forget that we're in my domain, now, Alexis. You can't touch me."

"Yet you can freaking molest me!?"

He smirked seductively and I felt like punching him across the face. "I was under the impression that you liked that kiss."

I tried to ignore the sound and feeling of my heart pounding, which just made Nightmare smirk wider, and yelled as I waved my fist in the air, "I'll beat you!"

...Thus I was left to chase around an amused Nightmare until Gray woke me up with all the shouting.

"NIGHTMARE I'M GOING TO KICK YOUR-!" I cut myself off staring wide-eyed at Gray, who was looking at me with wide eyes. He then fixated his glare on Nightmare, who cowering at the sight of Gray's furious golden eyes. "Uh...H-Hi..." All the anger left almost instantly and was placed with humiliated embarrassment. "B-Bye-!" I squeaked and started to run away, but was quickly tackled to the ground by a flying Nightmare.

"Not so fast! I'm not done talking you-!" He quickly turned his head as he cough up blood, making sure he didn't get any on either of us. T-Too close! He's too close! My face flared up like a tomato and I squeezed my eyes shut, trying to get out from beneath him. Unfortunately he had a tight grip and was, again, stronger than he looks. "I wouldn't have to be this close if you'd stop avoiding me-!"

I turned my head and froze at the sight of how close his face. I whirled my head back around and cried out, "I wouldn't have to avoid you if you didn't read my mind!"

Gray walked up and demanded, glaring at us both, "What are you both talking about?"

Nightmare whined, "I've been trying to get her to talk to me, but she keeps avoiding me and running away! I put her to sleep so that she couldn't run away from me in the dreams!" Oh-so interesting at how he left out a few facts. Well, I refuse!

"I-I don't wanna talk!"

"I'm the adult, so therefore you have to listen to me!"

"No! I'm the teenager, so therefore I refuse!"

"Submit!"

"Refuse!"

"Submit to me!"

"NEVER!"

"SUBMIT!"

Leia cut in, carrying in a tray with cups of coffee, "Do you two even realize how you sound? Get a room."

"Gyah-! No! Traitor! You're supposed to be on my side!" If she wasn't a faceless, I would have thought that she had rolled her eyes at me.

"How about no?" She left, but not before poking her back into the room and saying, "Leave 'em alone to talk about it for a bit, Mr. Gray. It's clear they have some issues to clear up. Lord Nightmare won't be able to work until all his personal issues are sorted."

Gray scowled, but sighed realizing that Leia was right. I was utterly horrified, while Nightmare was completely triumphant. "Very well. I shall be back with more documents. Lord Nightmare, Alexis...please clear up any issues you have by the next time change."

"G-Gray!" I cried, extending a hand out towards his retreating form as he closed the door. "NO! Don't leave me!"

Nightmare spoke, sitting up but still pinning me to the floor, "Are you going to talk to me now or am I going to have to put you to sleep again?"

I felt like I was going to cry. "I refuse! All you're gonna do is make fun of me!" I was still hurt from the dream. If he doesn't like me like that, then why did he kiss me? Stupid Incubus-stupid Nightmare... "I don't like you! You're mean!"

"Your thoughts tell me otherwise."

"Stop that! I don't read your mind!"

"That's because you don't have the ability." I squirmed underneath his grip with my eyes shut tightly, feeling my eyes water. "And for your information, I do happen to like you quite a lot, but if you'd actually stop to listen to me you'd know that!"

"Liar!" His grip loosened in surprise, allowing me to crawl out and escape, stumbling as I tried to stand and run towards the door. He grabbed my wrist and flipped me around to face him.

"I'm not lying-"

"Liar! Let me go!" He was acting completely different from usual. He was acting similar to the way he did when he fought Joker. "Let me-wah! P-Put me down!" I screamed, holding onto him for dear life as he suddenly lifted me off the ground. He walked over to the couches and plopped me down on one. "Hey-!" I suddenly felt very, very small as he hovered over me, his arms on either side of me and trapping me. I was frozen. "N-Night-Nightmare?"

"Why won't you just listen to me!?" I flinched when he raised his voice. Nightmare paused, a look of guilt flashing through his face for a moment, before being settled with a hard glare.

"I-I don't..." He raised an eyebrow, patiently waiting for me to finish. I didn't want to say it. I didn't want to be hurt. I didn't want him to know that. But he probably knew what I was going to say even if I didn't think it. I tensed when the weight on the couch shifted and opened my eyes in time to feel arms wrap around me and pull me into a hug. My throat felt dry. "N-Nightmare?"

"I'm not going to hurt you," he promised. "I told you this once before." Damn it. Stop-Stop making me feel like this! Now I feel bad for yelling at you! Hesitantly, feeling him chuckle, I raised my hands up and placed them on his shoulders, before wrapping them around his neck in an attempt to hug him back. Stop making me feel like this towards you... making me love you. "Are you still afraid?" He asked as I slowly pulled after a few moments. "Or do I have to yell at you again?"

"Sh-Shut up..." I mumbled, diverting my gaze from him. Turning my head after a brief moment, I looked at him, staring him in the eye. He blinked, unable to read my mind as I kept it blank. Should I...? Ah, what the hell. He did it twice already. Before he could open his mouth and ask what I was talking about, I reached forward and quickly pressed my lips against his, causing a red flush to quickly spread across his pale face before I pulled away. THAT is what I'm counting as a first kiss. I thought in triumph, grinning at the sight of Nightmare's embarrassed face. He had a hand clamped over his mouth as he looked at me with wide eyes, his face a light pink.

It was cute. His face just turned darker. Ha! I knew he was a shy character! "Wh-What's that supposed to mean!?"

I placed my hands on my hips and grinned at him, standing up. "Exactly what I said. Now shoo."

"It's my room!"

"Oh...right. Well, I'll go get Gray then."

"No!" A hand wrapped around my wrist and pulled me back into the couch and onto Nightmare's lap, causing my face to flare red as my heart picked up a few paces. I could hear and feel his clock ticking away in his chest loudly. My head was on his shoulder as he wrapped his arms around me, holding me in place. "You're staying with me."

"Wh-What, why?" I stammered, alarmed at the sudden close proximity. He pouted childishly and leaned forward, resting his chin on my shoulder.

"I wanna cuddle." He had a light pink on his cheeks as he said that, but my face turned into a dark red at the words he spoke. I had an urge to smack him, but I held it in and turned my head, scowling. I looked at him out of the corner of my eyes before looking away and muttering,

"Fine...but only for a little while." I didn't see his smile, but I tensed when he suddenly moved and kissed me on the cheek.

"You're so cute." He sighed. "I'm glad it was me and not Gray."

"Haaah?" Speaking of Gray...what would he do if he saw me and Nightmare like this? "Uh...What are you gonna tell Gray? He's gonna flip out if he sees this."

"...He won't find out. We'll just be together in dreams if we have too."

"He's gonna flip out on you, you know. Remember how mad he was when he thought you went all "Incubus" on me when I demanded what a Dreamer was?"

Nightmare let out a whine. "You're ruining the moment, Alexis~!"

"What else am I supposed to do when you're holding me hostage?"

"I'm not holding you hostage! Y-You're not fighting back!"

"Do you want me to fight back?"

"Alexis~!"

"Fine, fine..." I sighed, before turning my head away from him and smiling. Jerk. I still plan on getting revenge. "...How is this gonna work out? Isn't the whole half-age thing where you have to wait until I'm like eighteen?"

"That's three years. I can probably wait that long. But until then, I'm gonna keep cuddling with you." I felt my face flare again and scowled, resisting the urge to slap him upside the head. "Why are you thinking such violent thoughts about me!? I thought you loved me!"

"Sh-Shut up! I never said that!"

"You thought it, though!"

"D-Did not! I'll tell Gray you're harassing me!"

"I'm not, though!"

"Exactly! Who is he gonna believe? An awesome teenager girl like me who's utterly adorable," Ha. I wish. "or a childish Incubus who tries to avoid going to the hospital?"

"That's not fair!"

"Who said life was fair?" He pouted at me and I laughed.

If you think the age-thing is weird, think back to Doctor Who. Ten is a nine hundred year-old Time Lord and dates a human girl in her twenties. Don't go flipping out on me. XD Anyway, in the actual story, Alexis is really paired with Pierce. She was originally going to be with Dee and Dum, who I am probably going to do next. I might even do one-shots with Rebecca, who I have paired with Julius in "It's a Mad, Mad World" on my Quotev.