Pure: New Story! That fast huh? I just had a good idea that came to me; hopefully you all will like it!

Alice: Must I dare ask what it's about?

Pure: You don't have to, but it's not as bad as the last one, no killing this time!

Alice: That's a relief…I guess…for now anyway…

Pure: Yup! Hope everyone likes this one as much as you liked Lead Back to Darkness, I'll do the alternate ending for that soon, but for now I'll start this before I forget the idea I had for it!

Gray: Pure doesn't own Joker/Clover/Heart no Kuni no Alice.

Pure: Enjoy! Same as before, italics thoughts, bold sound effects, bold and italic flashbacks!

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"This is ridiculous, how in the world did it end up like this?" Alice Liddell said to herself, a long sigh escaped her lips as she walked through the Clock Tower Square, returning to the tower. Earlier morning events played in her head as she walked.

"Alice!" Ace said to the sleepy girl as she walked down the stairs, "Huh? Ace what are you doing here so early?" The outsider questioned. "I came to deliver some more clocks to Julius!" The knight said happily to her, a grunt came from the room where the man stood in the door way of.

"More like to annoy me, if you're done you can leave now Ace." Julius Monrey deadpanned from his desk, he slightly looked up to see the brunette walk in with the Knave of Hearts close behind. "Do you need anything Julius?" She asked the clockmaker, "A cup of coffee will do for now." He replied as he went back to work.

"Ok I'll be back soon." With that the maiden left the two older men alone, minutes passed before the foreigner returned to them, two coffees in hand; not sure if Ace would want some, but brought it out just in case. "Alice, leave." The mortician quickly said as he almost ram into the poor girl, the contents of the cups roughly spilling as well.

She looked at Julius's flushed face, confused, "Why? What happen?" The young miss asked, not understanding what's going on. "Yeah Julius, why must she leave?" Ace inquired him as he swung his arm around the navy blue-eyed man's shoulders. "I just remembered that I need more parts."

He quickly scribbled down some random parts on to a piece of paper, the clockmaker forced it into her hands as he compulsory the blue-eyed girl out of the tower. Alice just stared dumfounded at the tower's door before rotating around to leave. "Okay…"

The young miss sighed once again, "Sometimes I can't understand men." She continued her lonesome walk to the tower. Nearing the edge of the Clock Tower Square, the brunette noticed a small shop down an alley way. A shop all the way out here? Curiosity got the best of her; Alice walked down the alley way to the isolated shop.

It was an old run down shop; no one seemed to be running it as it sat there abandoned, with what looked like to be many years of neglect. The maiden opened the old, rusted door.

Squeeeeek

Alice cringed at the sound it made, she looked around the shop, piles of dust was on everything that wasn't destroyed or not even there. Cob webs hung from the ceiling and the cracks in the walls, "Wow…I'm surprised it hasn't broken down yet…I wonder what happen to this place." The girl walked in more, she coughed as dust fell on her, "What could possibly be of use he-ahhh!"

She tripped over a pile of books that were on the floor, the girl fell to the ground as she pulled something else down with her. More dust fell on to the now coughing miss, her eyes slightly close as she tried to fan the dust away from her face. "What else could go wrong?"

Bonk

"I just had to ask owww." Alice picked up the object that fell on her head, rubbing her sore spot; she gazed at the now known mirror. She twisted it around in her hand; it was fairly small, an embroidery border, that was torn and faded, was around its edge. "This is kind of cute…with a little fixing and cleaning up; it should look good as new."

A small smile came on her lips as she stood back up, dusting off her dress, she heads out of the shop. No one would mind if I were to take this, that shop was abandon anyway. The foreigner's smile grew wider as she skipped back to the tower, This is turning out to be a good day…hopefully it will last…

For what felt like an hour of skipping, the blue-eyed girl stopped as the tower came into view, something seemed to burn at her side as she did so. "What the?" Alice pulled out the mirror that she placed into her apron pocket; the mirror seemed to burn in her grasp. The longer she stared at its murky surface, the dizzier she felt, What's…going…on…

Eyes growing dark, the young miss staggered forward before she fell to the ground with a loud thump, the world disappeared before her as darkness consumed her.

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"Uhhh…my head…" Alice shook her head to clear the fogginess that clouded her vision, "What just happen?" She looked around, Nothing seemed to be out of place, the brunette sighed. "Maybe I collapsed from that late night I stayed up trying to fix my dress." Yeah that has to be it, the outsider stood up, dusting her dress off once again as she grabbed her stuff, the outsider headed to the tower once again.

The Clock Tower was now in front of her, Alice opened the door as she, as well, closed it behind her, the maiden went to the mortician's office. "Julius, I'm back with your parts." "Alice!" Guessing who it could be, the foreigner braced herself for when Nightmare threw himself at her. Her attacker hugged her; she felt hair hit her hand, Huh? Nightmare doesn't have long hair.

"Alice! Glad your back!" She pulled back, Julius stood in front of the girl, a smile beamed from his face. Alice gagged as she stepped away from the long-haired man, "Julius? !" The miss practically shouted eyes wide with shock. He tilted his head to the side, his expression saddens, "Are you not happy to see me?" The clockmaker asked, tears threaten to fall.

"What? No I am it's just…are you feeling alright?" His eyes brighten up, "I'm fine! I just waited for your return!" Alice rubbed her temples, his act reminding her of a certain, perverted rabbit-eared man. "Julius, maybe you should get some rest, you have gone already three days without sleep. It's probably getting to you now." She suggested as she rotated around to leave the man.

It's just his tiredness that's getting to him right now…and I probably need some rest myself. The brunette sighed once again, she headed up the stairs, "Alice! Please wait!" She quickened her pace, but doing so made her bump into someone else. "Owww sorry…" The blue-eyed girl looked up, Nightmare stood in front of her, unfazed by her. "Nightmare! Sorry about that, I wasn't looking where I was going."

"Don't worry about it, now if you can excuse me, I must be getting back to my work." The incubus replied as he moved around her, "Huh? ! Hold it!" Alice grabbed his arm; he turned back around to stare at the girl, a bored expression on his face. "Yes? What is it?" "You're actually doing your work?" The silverette raised an eyebrow, "Yes…I've always done my work…what would make me not do it?"

The outsider rubbed her eyes, making sure she wasn't dreaming, Nightmare…actually doing his work? Either I've gone mad or everyone here has. "Where's Gray?"

Thump

"Eeepp!" Alice shrieked as a body fell in front of her, Gray Ringmarc just appeared before the two, a vein popped out of the incubus's head. "Gray! Get your lazy ass up!" Nightmare shouted as he kicked the lizard in the back, the brunette jumped back when he did so, the ex-assassin stirred around as he lazily opened one of his eyes.

"Hey...Alice…san…welcome…back." He said between each yawn, "You lazy lizard, go to your office and do your work!" The silverette scowled, his eye narrowed, What in the world is going on here? ! "Alice!" Julius came up to the group, he wrapped his arms around the maiden's waist as he snuggled his head into her hair. "This is stupid, I'm leaving, Gray! I better see all your work done when I come and check on you! And you better not be asleep when I do!"

Nightmare kicked his back once more before heading to his office, the lizard continued to sleep, unfazed by his boss's kick. "Wait Nightmare! Come back here!" Alice got out of the blunette's grip, she ran over to the incubus's office as she threw the door open. He sat at his desk; the man slightly looked up, "What is it this time?" The blue-eyed girl didn't know what to say, everything was wrong; totally wrong, their personalities were completely changed.

"You're not honestly serious about doing your work…are you?" "I am, now leave me; once I'm done I can go to that doctor's appointment." Her eyes widen more, A doctor's appointment? ! He hates hospitals! What is going on here? ! "Alice! Stop ignoring me!" Julius whined as he came into the room, he grabbed her wrist; she was then dragged out of the room back down to the long-haired man's office.

"Julius! Why are you acting like this? ! Why is everyone acting like they are? !" The young girl pleaded, getting out of his grip once again, he tilted his head once again as well. "Because that's just who they are! Aren't you used to us acting like this by now?" Alice gawked at the man, "No! Because you never acted like this before!" He felt somewhat hurt by her words.

The mortician walked over to her as he wrapped his arms around her once again, he leaned down to her ear, his hot breath on it. "It's not fair Aliiiice~" The blue-eyed girl blushed as he kissed her neck, she pushed at him, but he wouldn't move. "What's not fair?" She asked as she tried to distract the blunette, he took the bait and stopped his kissing. "That you chose to go out with them and not think about trying someone else."

This caught the girl's attention, she roughly pushed him back as she stared up at him, "I'm sorry…what did you say?" The outsider asked. "I asked why you chose to go out with them." He responded, he gazed back at her, not knowing where she was going with this. "And who exactly am I going out with again?"

"The Jokers who else?" The foreigner gagged once again, "What? ! The Jokers? !" Julius nodded his head. "Yeah…unless…" The clockmaker gasped, "Did you break up with them? !" Alice blushed. "What? ! I was never with them to begin with! I'm not going out with anyone!" "What? But…why? You seemed like you were in love with them when you first asked them out." He held his head, really confused right now.

"Forget about all of this right now! Go back to your work before it starts piling up!" The brunette ran out of the room before she could even here his reply to her. She ran to the entrance to the tower, but before the girl got there she tripped once again, falling down face first. "Owww not again…" The young maiden sees that she landed on a sleeping Gray.

What the? I thought he was just sleeping upstairs? Alice poked at the lizard, than she shook him. "Gray…Gray wake up…" "Huh?" His eyes fluttered open, "Oh…hey Alice-san." She gazed down at the man. "You shouldn't be sleeping on the floor, go to your room if you're going to sleep, better yet, why not go do your work like Nightmare said you should."

"Shouldn't you be running to your boyfriends? That's all you've been doing lately." He lazily shot back at her; the blue-eyed girl blushed as she stood back up. "You jerk!" She kicked him before she bolted out of the tower, wanting to get far away from there as possible.

There is something defiantly wrong here, please let it just be them! Alice thought, she ran to the Hatter's territory, hoping that they could help her out with the Clock Tower residences.

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Pure: First one done! Ok so this one is kind of cliché…or maybe it's just the title of the chapter I don't know, but not to spoil anything she is an alternate world of Wonderland where everyone's personality is the opposite of their original.

Julius: You're kidding me right? I act like a child.

Nightmare: What? ! I'm doing work! And going to the hospital! What the hell is this? !

Gray: I'm not lazy; if someone was to be lazy it would be Nightmare-sama.

Nightmare: Cruel Gray…just cruel…

Pure: Well that's how your personalities came out…hopefully not so bad…maybe.

Alice: I think it's pretty good so far…except the part with me dating the Jokers…how did that happen?

Pure: Thanks for reminding me! So in this alternate world everything here is a bit different than the original so here you date the Jokers and some more twists!

Alice: Joy…please review and tell us what you think if Pure should continue this or not…