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Reimu opened her eyes and stared at the ceiling. At first, she didn't know where she was. Then she remembered that she was in her room in her house. She could hear someone else breathing steadily beside her, and when she looked to her right, she found that Marisa was sleeping peacefully in her bed.

Reimu felt something warm in between her legs. She lifted up the covers to find Marisa's legs tangled up with hers. When Reimu looked down at herself, she noticed that she was completely naked. Then she recalled the night before and got excited. Marisa and Reimu both weren't virgins when dawn came.

A clock on Reimu's wall ticked along with every second that went by. Reimu glanced at it and noticed that it was only 6:00 in the morning. She decided that she should wake up Marisa and talk to her about last night.

"Marisa," Reimu whispered, shaking the blond. "Hey, Marisa," Reimu said a little louder. Still, Marisa did not awake from her slumber. Instead, she grunted in her sleep and rolled over.

"Damn it," Reimu said out loud. She shoved Marisa as hard as she could and Marisa rolled over off of her bed. Marisa yelped when she hit the floor and was immediately woke up.

"Ow..." Marisa groaned rubbing her head while Reimu laughed as hard as she could. "Hey! What was that for?" Marisa exclaimed, suddenly realizing what had happened. "And why am I-oh, heh, last night."

"Last night. I need to talk to you about that," Reimu told Marisa. She had stopped laughing and now stood naked in her room.

"M'kay. What about last night do you want to talk about?"

"Well...you see...Marisa...I love you!" Reimu exclaimed, leaping on Marisa and pinning her down onto her bed. Reimu covered Marisa in kisses and soon they were rolling around on the bed, kissing each other.

"Reimu...I love you too," Marisa whispered. "And I don't care if Alice disapproves of us. She can go find somebody else. I belong to you. Do you belong to me?"

"Yes, Marisa. I am yours and yours alone."

"I love you so much."

Alice's house

"AARRRGH! I LOVE MARISA! BUT SHE DOESN'T LOVE ME BACK! WHY SHANGHAI, WHHHHHYYYY!?" Alice shrieked, throwing her furniture around. She sobbed and threw herself on her bed, screaming into her pillow while Shanghai laid a comforting hand on her shoulder.

Alice suddenly stopped crying and sat up in her bed. "It's because of that goddamn miko, isn't it? Damn it..." Alice sniffed up, trying to stop crying so her head wouldn't hurt. "Hey...wait a minute! Patchouli doesn't know about this, does she? And I think she's after Marisa as well. Better go pay her a visit," Alice said to nobody in particular. She slid off her bed and glanced at Shanghai and Hourai, which were patiently waiting for her to need their assistance. "Come on Shanghai and Hourai. We've got a library to visit," Alice told her dolls. Alice helped them get up and Margatroid and her troops left the Margatroid household.

SDM

"Here you are, Lady Patchouli," Sakuya said to the librarian setting down a cup of tea.

"Thank you, Sakuya." Patchouli slowly brought the cup to her lips, taking a small sip before setting it down and opening up her book again. She had taken a small break from her research on how to get Marisa to love her, and she was back at it again.

Sakuya walked away, leaving Patchouli alone in the large library, except for Koakuma, who was busily organizing books on the many bookshelves in the Voile Library.

Patchouli closed the book with a sigh, suddenly realizing that it wasn't much help. I guess I should refer to a fairy tale somehow...hmm, let's see if I have any good romance novels that I haven't read that could help my situation, Patchouli thought to herself.

Suddenly, the library doors opened up and two people slipped in. When Patchouli looked up, she saw Alice with Shanghai and Hourai and Sakuya following close behind them.

"Lady Patchouli, you have a visitor," Sakuya declared, and then left the library, closing the door behind her.

"Ah, Alice. How are you? Why have you come to pay me a visit?" Patchouli asked the puppeteer.

"Well...this is all kind of complicated, so I'm going to start from the beginning. You see-"

Alice was cut off by Patchouli saying, "Sorry to interrupt, but would you like to have a seat? Sounds like a pretty long story to me," Patchouli asked Alice.

Alice nodded, and sat in a chair beside Patchouli. "Well, you see, I was looking for Marisa. Remember yesterday, how I came to the library asking if you knew where Marisa was?"

"Yes, I do recall you coming here yesterday. Continue."

"Well...I found her. But what she was doing wasn't something I suspected her to be doing. She was making out with the Hakurei Shrine Maiden in her shrine! Can you believe that? So I stormed in, and took hold of Marisa. I was so angry that she was in there making out with Reimu. It made me so mad.

"They ganged up on me, those two. Reimu held me down while Marisa talked to me in a horrible way. Reimu tried to kill me! But then Marisa stepped in and kind of saved my life, but it was for her own benefit, so that way I would leave and she and Reimu could stay there in peace.

"Reimu and Marisa are a couple now. That's why I'm here; to warn you that Marisa and Reimu are together now and you shouldn't try to mess with them, cause they're pretty powerful when they work together..." Alice explained, trailing off.

Patchouli just sat there, staring off into space. "Wha-what?"

Alice sighed and shook her head. "They're together now. Marisa's been taken from us and there's nothing we can do about it. I hope that you can accept this and give up. Marisa's far from our reach now," Alice said to Patchouli.

"Wait...are you sure this isn't some kind of trick to lure me away from Marisa just so you can get closer to her?" Patchouli asked Alice with a sly look on her face.

"WHAT? No! This isn't a trick!" Alice exclaimed with a surprised look on her face.

Patchouli nodded. "Alice...are you really going to give up that easily? Reimu's a human, right?" Patchouli asked Alice.

"Well...yeah..."

"Are you going to let some puny human take your Marisa away from you?" Patchouli challenged.

"Hmm...I guess not..."

"Then let's go get revenge, shall we, Alice? We can fight over Marisa all we want when Reimu's dead," Patchouli whispered to Alice with a sly look on her face.

"We're going to kill her?" Alice asked Patchouli, shocked.

"Well, yeah. How else will we dispose of her?"

Alice was silent for a while, so silent that Patchouli wondered if Alice was asleep. Then Alice jerked up.

"I'll do it. I'll help you kill Reimu," Alice answered the librarian.

"Good. Meet me at the gate, midnight. Tonight. From there, we will travel to Reimu's shrine and dispose of the pest. Then we'll have Marisa all to ourselves," Patchouli declared, and set her book down. "For now, we need to do some planning. Please, follow me to my study."

Reimu's Shrine

"Hey, Reimu. Wanna come over to my place tonight and have a little party? Just the two of us," Marisa asked the miko.

Reimu paused for a moment. "Hmm...let me think about that...YES! I'll be there, tonight. Is there a certain time that you would like me to arrive there?"

Marisa thought about it for a moment. I wonder, what is Reimu's bedtime? Or does she have a bedtime... "I guess you can come to my place when the sun starts going down," Marisa answered.

"Great! I'll be there. You best go get ready, Marisa," Reimu said playfully.

"As should you, Reimu."

Aya's place

"Ah, sweet! This is going to be a great scoop! Fortunately, I was able to capture most of their little moment...better put this here...hey, what would be a good title?" Aya said out loud to nobody in particular. She was alone in her house, trying to figure out what she should call the front-page article.

"OH! I know! The ghost and the half-ghost have become 1 and a half ghosts! PERFECT! It will signify that they are a couple now! Gosh, this is going to be the best newspaper yet!" Aya exclaimed, scribbling some stuff down on a piece of paper and slipping it into her desk.

A loud knock sounded on her door. "Yes? Who is it?" Aya asked the person who had knocked.

"Hey! Can I come in? It's Hatate," the newcomer asked Aya.

"Oh. Yeah, come on in. Close the door behind you," Aya told Hatate, who opened the door and closed it behind her as instructed.

"So! Hatate. What brings you here?" Aya asked, looking up from the photos she had managed to snap.

"Aya, you have GOT to put this in your paper. I don't care that we're rivals and stuff. We have GOT to spread this all of Gensokyo!" Hatate exclaimed, taking some photos out of her pocket excitedly.

Aya looked at all the photos. They were all pictures of Reimu and Marisa, kissing, hugging, and touching each other. Aya gasped excitedly. "You aren't saying..."

"Oh yes I am. They're a couple now! The two Youkai Exterminators finally found love! We have to spread this all over Gensokyo!" Hatate said excitedly, smiling widely.

"YES! WE MUST! LET'S DO IT!"

Alice's house

"Okay. You have the knives, correct, Shanghai? Hourai, you have the drugs...I've got a copy of Patchouli's plan...okay! Let's go then!" Alice exclaimed, kicking open her door. She walked merrily out of the forest with an unusual spring in her step. She would finally dispose of Reimu! Then she could have Marisa all to herself...

But then again, Patchouli was still alive as well, so Alice would have to find away around her. I'll worry about Patchouli later. I've got a miko to kill!

Alice advanced toward the SDM, watching out for youkai who might attack her. She knew everyone in Gensokyo, but still, she had to be careful.

SDM

Okay. I've got the knives and the drugs. Good. I have a copy of the plan. Great. And my asthma isn't very bad at the moment. Awesome! Okay, just gotta wait for Alice to come. It's 3 minutes to midnight...she should be here any second... Patchouli thought to herself.

Suddenly, she heard footsteps on the ground and saw Alice running toward Patchouli, panting. "Hey, Patchouli! Am I late? I thought I would be, so I most of the way here," Alice explained, bending over to try and catch her breath.

"Nah, you're 3 minutes early. Doesn't matter though, since we've got all night to do our deed. Come on, let's get started. We have a long journey to the Hakurei Shrine. Why don't we fly there?" Patchouli suggested.

"Good idea. I just hope I don't drop any of the tools. Let's go."

Reimu's Shrine

Patchouli and Alice landed in front of the Hakurei Shrine as quietly as possible. Alice quickly took note that there were no lights on in the shrine.

"Okay. I'm going in first," Patchouli whispered to Alice, who nodded to the librarian.

Patchouli crept slowly up to the shrine, taking tedious steps as though she were in a minefield with Alice following her in the same manner. When Patchouli finally reached the door to the shrine, she slid it open, and then went inside, motioning for Alice to enter the shrine after her.

Alice entered the shrine. "Patchouli, do you know where Reimu's room is?" Alice asked Patchouli.

Patchouli was silent for a moment before answering the doll-maker. "No, I don't. If you do, lead the way," Patchouli whispered.

Alice gladly took the lead, making her way to Reimu's room. She quietly opened the door, trying hard not to disturb Reimu. When Alice looked at Reimu's bed, she noticed that it was all tidied up as though Reimu had never gone to sleep that night. Alice also noticed how Reimu's house seemed eerily silent, as though nobody was there.

"Hey, Patchouli," Alice whispered to the magician.

"What's up? Is Reimu awake?"

"No. Worse. Reimu isn't here."