"Lucy, don't forget the rules…"
And then, I suddenly wake up.
'Was that? No. It couldn't have been, it's been a long time since I've last seen him…'
"Ah! Miss Lucy, you're already awake." And I turn to the speaker.
"I guess I am Renée." I reply to her with a smile. Renée, in return, smiles back and walks towards my bed.
I should explain a little about Renée. She is my French caretaker, you could say, ever since I was just a mere baby. And has always been there to take care of me, even after my parents died. She has wavy blonde hair that's kept back with a bold dark crimson ribbon. With opposite soft blue eyes and an aging face.
I remember when I was younger; I would always complain that I would never look as pretty as her. People always said that I looked too serious for an eight year old because of my grey eyes. But Renée was there to tell me that I was different and there was a reason why I looked serious, which was funny, I wasn't a serious kid then. Just happily joking around covered in innocence.
"What are we doing today?" I ask her, beginning to look through my wardrobe.
"Well, your brother was thinking about further practicing with the guns and including the bladed weapons such as swords and knives." Renée answered behind me.
'Really Will?' and I sigh.
"Will is too paranoid sometimes, isn't he Renée?" I ask her while picking out my hunting outfit.
"I wouldn't blame your brother Lucy, after all, there are people that want to kill you. He just wants to make sure your safe from them." She replies and I sigh yet again.
"I can't argue to that… anything else?" I continue as I begin to change my outfits.
"Master William also has a business meeting to attend after practice, so expect him to leave right after." Renée continues and I nod in return.
"Is it about the paintings and…" I ask her.
"Exactly correct." She answers.
"All right then." I mumble as I fix the laces of my boots.
"So does this mean you're going to stay here with me as well or are you going with Will to help discuss?" I bluntly ask once I've laced my boots.
"I will be accompanying Master William Miss Lucy so that means you have the entire house to yourself." She answers.
'Finally!' I think happily, but I keep this on the inside and keep calm.
"All right then." I lastly say as I walk out of my room. Renée follows behind me.
"Oh, and when is the ball that my selfish fiancé is planning?" I remember angrily.
"In two weeks. You don't have to be angry about him, by the way. And have you already gotten your dress Miss?" she asks as we walk down the hallway.
"Not exactly Renée, I was hoping to go to the town to get one custom fit." I tell her, completely ignoring what she said about my fiancé.
"The ones that you have are already too small for you?" she asks curiously. I shake my head.
"No, they're not. I just have a design in mind that I don't have yet." I tell her as were reaching the backyard.
"Then I shall hold a reservation for you at the seamstress Miss Lucy." Renée says, walking in the opposite direction.
"I don't want that, by the way! I don't want to be spoiled so much anyway." I shout at her.
"All right then!" Renée shouts back.
'Good, I really didn't want my arrival announced or scheduled…' I think annoyed, imagining how the scenario would play out.
"You're late Lucy!" I hear my brother shout at me.
"I didn't think I was Will!" I shout in return.
"Well then, think fast!" and then came the hail of bullets towards me.
I run as fast as I can to get my knife and gun and begin shooting back at him. Remembering my training, I begin to block the bullets with the knife and shoot with the gun as I get closer to him.
I spot him on the top of the hill today reloading his rifle. I chose to take this as the perfect time to attack when suddenly he comes running at me down the hill. Using the ever-gaining momentum, he chooses to tackle me down onto the grass and disarming me of my gun but leaves me with my knife.
"I forgot about this." He says, and also takes my knife and throws as far as he can away from me.
"Well, your defenseless now Lucy? What are you going to do?" he asks me mischievously as he tightens his grip on me and pushes me further into the grass.
"How about this?" I reply, just as mischievous as him. I use his weight against him to push him off and then leaving me out of his grip also keeping him down. I look at him seriously, grey meeting grey when he started to chuckle suddenly.
"Have you gone mad Will?" I ask him playfully with a smirk on my face.
"Do you think I have, little sister?" he replies with a ghost of a smile.
'Typical of him, starting to chuckle like that.' I then look away with that thought.
"Well then, it seems like you're getting better at dodging these kinds of things Lucy." Will say.
"But still not strong enough to keep me down." With that, he then chose to get up from the grass and picked me up by my waist.
"Be quiet Will, you look at the little details too often." I tell him, irked about the mention of my strength.
Oh of course I wouldn't be able to keep someone down like him! I'm not as strong as him yet, but I'm strong enough to keep a normal person down.
"Hush you." He says and begins to spin me around like I'm a little girl again.
"Stop that Will! I'm starting to get dizzy!" I yell at him. He chooses to smile and shake his head.
"No can do little Lucy." He says happily and keeps spinning. Strangely, it felt like I was being watched by someone. I couldn't tell who, but I could tell.
Errr, hi! This is author speaking/typing, well, this is my first fanfiction for this category and yeah... If some of you readers are from deviantart, you might recognize my name (thefaiye). I'm going to go in line with the manga mostly, but I will also include parts from the game as well. I hope this story entertains you and I forgot this:
I don't own any of the characters from Joker/Clover/Hearts no Kuni no Alice, they belong to Quinrose of course ^^. I only own Lucy, Will, Renée, and the other characters that are not from and originally from the game/manga.
Don't forget to review either!
