Welcome to the Show- -"No matter our actions... we cannot become like her." (Peter, Clover no kuni no Alice Cheshire Cat Waltz)

A/N: This fanfic has many references to Joker no kuni no Alice like how outsiders change domains or the seasons in each domain so readers might want to read about it before reading this. Title based on Welcome to the Show by Britt Nicole.

"Do you Ellen Kurokawa take Boris Airay to be your husband?"

"I do."

Boris bit his lip. The wedding had gone well so far. The important part was half over. Boris was cold but he had a reason for choosing the Clock Tower as the location of their wedding. He didn't want anything to happen during the wedding especially to Ellen. They had planned everything out. They decided to have the wedding in April when it was harder to enter different domains. The Clock Tower was a good choice because it was a neutral zone. Plus Julius was there so he could marry them.

Boris turned to look over at Wonderland. Snowflakes were falling slowly to make everything feel like a snow globe. There wasn't anyone in sight.

He turned to look the wedding party. Elliot was farthest back next to Kanade. He only requested to be farthest away from Julius. Then Kanade was next to him. Then Ako was next to her who was the maid of honor. After that was Hibiki. Ace was next to her. In the audience sat Vivaldi, Blaze, Gowland, Gray, Nightmare and Alice.

"Do you Boris Airay take Ellen...?"

He turned to look at Ellen. She was dressed in a long white strapless wedding dress with sparkly snowflakes with a hair length veil. She wore a pair of white boots (like Rhythm's) and white wrist length gloves. There was a golden chain around her neck that normally had her legendary clock on it but she didn't want to lose it so she gave it to Boris. He felt it around his neck as he smiled at Ellen.

"Kurokawa to be..."

Boris felt the shot before he saw it. He fell to his knees and grabbed his clock. A direct shot that cracked the glass of his clock.

Everything happened in slow motion. Ellen slowly moved in front of him and put her hand over his. She smiled to give him comfort and for a second he felt like nothing even happened.

In the audience everyone sat completely still without expression making sure that it wasn't a joke.

Elliot pulled Kanade close to him and took out his gun.

Ako and Hibiki stood looking brave ready to fight whoever was coming. Hibiki turned to look at Ace thinking he was next to her. Instead he had run over to Julius and was trying to defend him.

Boris stood up slowly just as there was another shot. It hit Ellen's hand. She took a step back in shock but she stepped on a patch of ice and began at slide.

Nearby there had been a small glacier opening that had recently opened up.

Boris reached out his right hand to stop Ellen from falling.

Ellen continued to slide backwards.

Boris stood up and slowly held his clock as he moved closer to Ellen. Then he stepped on some ice and lost his footing and fell to the ground reaching out his hands to catch himself. There were drops of blood on her white glove. She took off her right glove and tossed into the white snow. She continued to slide backwards until she slid off the glacier. She held onto to the edge and tried to pull herself up but she continued to almost fall into the glacier. Boris had finally made his way over to Ellen. She was just hanging on to the edge of the cliff. Boris lay down on his stomach looking over the edge of the cliff. He reached out his hand.

Since the time of the first shot no one had made a sound.

Ellen looked up into Boris's eyes and reached out her left hand. He put out his hand and grabbed Ellen's hand. She had just brushed Boris's hand when CRACK! The ice that Ellen had been holding cracked as Ellen whispered "Boris" and fell into the glacier.

Boris whispered "Ellen" after she was gone and lay completely still. The most haunting thing about the wedding was Ellen's white bloody glove in the white snow. He stood up and picked up Ellen's small glove slowly trying to realize what happened.

He'd failed. He had tried to protect Ellen but he had failed. 'I could have had the wedding at Hatter Mansion. Or Heart Castle. Vivaldi would have let me. But instead I choose to have the wedding out in the open.' Boris's eyes which had been gentle when he had just been looking at Ellen began to harden and anger began to boil within him. "Not again." He whispered.

"What is it Boris?" Ako asked taking a few steps toward him.

"Not again. Not again!" He said spinning around to look at everyone still holding Ellen's glove in his hand. "NOT AGAIN!" Ako moved back as Boris looked around with a strange craving for revenge in his eyes. "I'm going to get revenge on whoever did this to Ellen!"

"I'd hold off on the revenge for a little bit." Julius replied

"Why!" Boris said.

"If you don't complete your vows and get married in 48 hours then Ellen will die."

Boris stood there. "It's okay Boris we'll get her back." His anger gone for the moment as he turned to look over at the speaker. Alice smiled. "I'll ask everyone to try to help."

Boris nodded but said "Thanks Alice. But" He looked down at Ellen's glove in his fist. "But what if the shooter is someone from Wonderland?"

The smile gone from her face and she whispered "I guess you're right."

"What are you going to do Boris?" Kanade asked still wrapped in Elliot's arms. Boris turned and looked over the glacier where he had seen Ellen fall.

"You can't go down there it would be crazy." Gray said.

Boris turned to look at him. His voice strong as he said "Ellen's a better person than I will ever be. She's literally taken the bullet for me. If she can do that I can bring her home." With that he turned to look at the glacier and jumped.

Hibiki quickly transform and began to walk slowly over to the glacier. Ace walk behind her and said "Where are you going?"

Without turning around she said "I'm going to help Boris. I was going to stay with my boyfriend but he didn't think about protecting me when there were shots ringing out."

"You don't think I'm fit to be your boyfriend because the rules made me protect my boss?" Hibiki was two feet from the edge of the cliff.

She stopped and said "I know that you have to protect Julius. But you didn't even bother to pull me close to you like Elliot did. You didn't even call to see if I was ok."

"You know that I have to put my job first."

"I know how important you're job is." Hibiki said with sarcasm. Ace pulled out his sword and swung it at her arm. She quickly moved her arm out with her belltier in hand and blocked his attack. "Ace I really care about you but even I have secrets. I've been holding back when I practice fighting with you. Now excuse me I need to go find Boris." She jumped into the glacier. The last thing that could be seen of her was her two pink pigtails and then she was gone.

"What should we do?" Alice asked.

Gray turned to Nightmare and told him to go work. Nightmare sighed and went to work.

Vivaldi stood up and decided "I will alert the guards to be on the lookout for them." Without another word she turned around and walked away.

"I'm going to Major Land to send the out the royal knights to try to find Ellen, Hibiki and Boris." Ako waved goodbye and left.

Julius walked inside to probably start working.

Gowland sighed "I guess I should go back to the amusement park." He left without another word. Blaze, Alice, Gray, Kanade, Elliot and Ace were still there.

"Kanade what do you thing we should do?" Blaze asked. Elliot looked down at Kanade. She was usually so strong but this time she seemed scared as she looked up into Elliot's eyes. Elliot saw her fear and tried to comfort her. He whispered something in her ear and she nodded. She stood up straight and looked at the people there.

"Blaze do you have your laptop?"

"Yeah."

"Alice and you are going to plan a search route then you can ask people if they saw anyone. Ace and Gray you are going to see if you can find any clues to who shot Boris and Ellen."

"I want to find Hibiki" Ace said looking over at Kanade.

"Hibiki just needs some space. If you try and find her she'll just get more upset."

"Fine." Ace said.

"Don't fight with Gray when you two are working together." Ace and Gray left.

"What are you going to do?" Alice asked.

"I guess we'll go down the glacier but we'll be back in a little bit and if you guys see Ace and Gray could you tell them to meet us back here in 4 hours."

Alice smiled "Okay." Alice and Blaze waved goodbye and left.

"You bounced back." Elliot said as Kanade came over to where he was standing.

"When you whispered to me that if I did this we would know what to do if this happened at our wedding. I realized that you will always be there supporting me."

"Maybe after this I will marry you."

"Even if you don't marry me for years after this I will love you."

"Even if we don't get married right away you know that I won't leave you." Kanade hugged him. He smiled and said "I can't leave you. You're the best cook in Wonderland. Where else would I find someone that feeds me this well?"

She looked up at him with a smile. She lightly hit his arm. "You're just lucky that I know the way to your heart is through your stomach."

"That's why I love you." said Elliot with a smile. He leaned over and kissed Kanade lightly on the cheek and picked her up. "Now let's go exploring in the glacier." He walked over to the glacier still holding Kanade close to him and jumped.