Title: It's Hard to Believe
Prompt: You're Stubborn
Rating: PG
Fandom: Crossover: Batman: Arkham City & Joker/Clover/Heart no Kuni no Alice
Characters: Batman: Arkham City: Edward Nygma (the Riddler) ; J/C/H no Kuni no Alice: Alice Liddell
Pairing: Edward Nygma (the Riddler)/Alice Liddell
Summary: She understood the surprise the others must have felt when she made her decision because, honestly, she had been a bit surprised herself. But now it was starting to become clear why it was hard to believe that she had chosen him. : This is a response to the challenge, located on Lunaescene, called: 1o Little Things… by Katz Go Rawwwrr.
Word Count: 221
Author's Note: Yeah. I changed it from "Hard to Believe" to "It's Hard to Believe".
Warnings: Mild!OOC-ness(?)
Disclaimer: Batman: Arkham City & Joker/Clover/Heart no Kuni no Alice do not belong to me in any shape or form (including characters). Thank you.


"Why not help people instead?"

Really, it made no sense to her whatsoever.

"Question: who's the one that asks the riddles?"

Her eyebrows scrunched together, partly in annoyance. Every time she asked him something he'd answer it with a question of his own or sometimes even with a riddle. If she didn't know better, she would have been under the impression that he didn't want to answer things that were a little too personal.

And… maybe that was the case.

"You do."

"Exactly," Nygma, whose eyes had been locked on the monitor the entire time, nodded.

Was it really that hard to answer her question? She bit her lip. "But—"

He turned halfway to face her and it was clear that he wasn't in the mood for such, as he would put it, "trivial matters", especially when he had a certain rodent that he needed to dispose of. Why did he take an interest to her again? Oh, yes. Now he remembered. That didn't mean he necessarily liked it, though… did he? Nygma glowered. "Have you ever heard the expression "curiosity killed the cat"?"

Before, Alice already had gained a good amount of sense to know that Edward Nygma, the Riddler, was stubborn.

The problem was she just didn't know how much stubbornness the man had in him until now.