Chapter Two: Where Are You?

Ah... Blood felt wonderful. Alice had said yes! She said yes!

And to top it off the letter he had received informed him that he had just inherited a large portion of land in the Country of Clover. The place would be perfect to set up a nice mansion to vacation in with Alice, far away from the prying eyes of the citizens of Hearts.

Could things get any better?

*Clunk!*

Blood's daydream was rudely interrupted by a pile of papers.

"Here you go, boss." Elliot straightened the stray papers at the top of the pile. "I think these are it for today.

Blood sighed as he flipped through the papers. "Thank you, Elliot."

Thanks to this new land, he had all this paperwork to go through!

He drummed his fingers against his desk.

How long had it been since he had last seen Alice?

A couple of days?

A week, maybe?

He sighed and stared at the papers in front of him.

Perhaps it would be all right to take a short break?

He took a quick glance at the phone sitting beside his stacks of papers.

Oh why not?

*Ring, ring.*

"H-hello?"

Blood smiled. "Hello, Alice."

"O-oh! Blood!"

"Are you busy?"

"Ah... no. Not at the moment."

Blood's smile grew as a plan formed in his head. "Why don't we go to the Amusement Park? I'll pick you up in a few minutes."

"A-ah... Okay."

"I'll see you in a little bit, Alice."

"Ah... yes. Good-bye."

*Click!*

Blood nodded in satisfaction.

Time to see Alice.

Alice fidgeted uncomfortably as she sat across from Julius.

The clock-fixer glanced up at the girl. "You... want me to lie to Blood?"

Alice tapped her forefingers together. "Y-yes.."

She gave Julius her best sad eyes.

Julius sighed. "You should just tell him the truth you know."

Alice bit her lip. "I can't... not yet."

The clock-fixer raised an eyebrow. "I can only lie so many times for you."

"This is the last time! I promise!" she begged. "He'll be coming any minute!"

Julius sighed again. "All right..."

Alice brightened. "You are wonderful!"

She hopped over to him and gave him a hug.

"I knew I could count on you," she whispered in his ear.

Julius shook his head as the young girl skipped out of the room.

Did she realize how much trouble she was putting herself in?

Julius sighed once again. "Alice... What are we going to do with you?"

*Knock, knock.*

"Alice?"

Julius winced.

Blood, already?!

The mafia boss frowned slightly when he saw Julius was alone in his office.

"Where's Alice?"

"She's probably in her room," Julius replied as he tried to focus on the broken clock on his desk.

Blood's frown deepened. "But I thought I heard her voice..."

Julius nearly dropped his screwdriver. "Just wonderful, Alice."

"She didn't stop in here," Julius lied. "You've been the first guest in here."

Blood raised an eyebrow. "Well, I'll leave you to your work."

Julius nodded as Blood went back into the hallway. He sighed in relief as the door closed.

Why did he ever let Alice persuade him to lie for her?

Blood frowned slightly as he made his way to Alice's room.

The clock-fixer had been acting strange. Was something wrong?

Ah, who cared about Julius? He was just here for Alice.

"Alice! I'm here!" he called out as he swung open the door.

Silence greeted him.

Blood blinked in surprise. "Alice?"

He glanced around the room.

Empty...

Wait! Why was the window open?

Blood hurried over to the window.

Did she runaway?

Blood shook his head. Why would she do that?

No... someone must have taken her.

Blood clenched his fists.

"Where are you, Alice?"

Author's Note: WAH... finally updated. So sorry it took so long. :P If you've taken a look at my profile or my other HnKnA story you will have seen that I had a bit of a head injury that put me out from writing for a little bit. :P Welp, I hope you guys enjoy this chapter! Hope to have the next posted soon.

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TigerKishanLuvr- I want you to finish What have you done, Alice? PLEASE!

Heh heh... ^^;; I'll finish it, I promise!

SupernovaBrainImplosion- Is Alice going to go back? I look forward to the next chapter. Sorry I can't really comment on the story yet because it's only been one chapter, but I will say you write well. I didn't see any spelling or grammatical errors, so yay!

Going back as in going back to her real world? I can't say yet. X3 Ah well I'm glad you like it so far. And thank you! I'm flattered. I hope you'll enjoy the rest of this story. :)

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Aw that's okay. I'll do my best to get back to that story. I hit a bit of writer's block on it. :P I have the whole plot... just that one little section. Grrrr. But anyways, thanks for the review! I hope you enjoy this chapter. :)

Guest(1)- Nice story! You should finish a heart that ticks for you! But please update this one

Aw thanks. I'll try to work on that one again very soon. I'll be doing my best to update all my HnKnA stories as frequently as possible. :)

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Updated! :D Glad you like it!

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A random person- Y u no update?! I liked the story so far it's just like one chapter so I can't really I don't know like judge it? Idk but I think it's pretty good:)

Ah my apologies... I got busy with school and as I said in my note above, I got a head injury so my head was aching like crazy preventing me from writing. :P But I'm back now yaysies. I hope you'll like this chapter. :)