Normal P.O.V.
Morticia laid her bed. Exhausted from the entire day. First with nearly having a heart attack, then crying her eyes out. She so didn't want to deal with anything right now, sleep was what she wanted and needed.
A jiggling of the handle at the door made sleep evade her. Sighing in defeat she went and opened the door.
"Wow! I didn't know that pretty ladies liked to sleep in my room!" Came the excited response from the brunette. Fuck my life, no, fuck my entire existence! The fucking Knight had to find my fucking room.
"This is my room. Your's is else where." Morticia moved to shut the door, only to have the brunette stop it with a hand.
"Aw, come on. You could at least tell me your name!" He practically sang. When confronted by an idiot it is always best to call for help or confuse them.
"My name isn't important. Now leave so that I can sleep." Again she tried to shut the door, and again, he stopped it.
"I should know a pretty lady's name, I am a knight after all!" He had an idiotic grin on his face, it held a dark undertone that Morticia knew well. Fuck it!
"Peter!" Morticia yelled, making the Knight step back in surprise. Before he had time to react, he was being shot at by a very angry White Rabbit.
"Ace! You shouldn't show your disgraceful face!" More shots rang out as Morticia just leaned against the door jamb with her arms crossed. She watched as Peter made the Knight, Ace, get further away from the door. "Leave her alone, or I'll break your every bone!"
Ace was then pushed out a window, well he actually mis-stepped and slipped on something while blocking and dodging Peter's bullets which caused him to trip backwards and made him fall out the window that, for some reason, had been left partially open. It was quite entertaining to Morticia, although the noise made it her stay awake.
"Thank you, Peter. I'm sorry for interrupting whatever you were doing."
Peter's P.O.V.
"Don't worry about it. You did just as I had instructed, a very good bit." I don't want that twisted Knight anywhere near you! I should put a stronger lock on this door.
"I didn't interrupt your work, or anything, did I?" Thankfully you didn't.
"No, I was just on my way to my room. I was going to work a little then sleep." This was much more entertaining, and I got to see that idiot fall out a window! "It's perfectly fine, that Knight didn't do anything to you, did he?"
"He tried to barge in here when he saw that I was a female. I'm pretty sure he would have tried something if I hadn't called you." Yes. He probably would have. Bastard.
"No need to worry, he won't find this place for a very long time. He has no sense of direction." I glanced at her tired face. "I think you should go to sleep now, you've had a long day and need the rest."
Normal P.O.V
"Thank you Peter. You get some rest too." Morticia stood straight in the doorway. "See you later."
"Have a good rest." Peter said simply as the door closed. Morticia lumbered to the bed and flopped down on it. Sleep at last.
Morticia finally sank into sleep, and found herself in an open expanse of . . . void? What the hell?
"Ah. So you're the new foreigner that Peter chose. You're pretty well-rounded, I can appreciate that." Oh, pray tell, what do you mean by well-rounded? "I mean that you know what you want and you are a person that thinks. It's hard to find people like that."
"So it would seem. Would you by chance be the Caterpillar? I'm quite certain that only the Caterpillar can come into dreams."
"Wait, how . . . oh. Apparently a past foreigner published things about us. Although that thing about Alice is strange." The silver haired Caterpillar said. His one grey eye looking distant for a moment. "My name is Nightmare, I am a dream demon or incubus. And before you even think it, not that kind of incubus. Oh, you already knew."
"I already know a bit about this place, as you can tell. Though, it was quite a shock that this place is real, I was so sure that it was nothing more than a good storyline that someone made up." Morticia sighed. "So Mr. Gottschalk, who has Alice decided to stay with? I'm guessing it's not at Heart Castle, but maybe it's at Hatter Mansion."
"You are very insightful, Morticia. She is there and is with the Mad Hatter. A poor choice in all honesty, he could kill her at any time and he only wants her so long as she is 'entertaining' to him." Nightmare seemed to sulk and sneer at the same time.
"Yeah. I know. I intend to steer clear of the Mad Hatter, and the Knight af Hearts. I have a feeling that it will be pretty futile though. So . . . Peter has yet to give me the Medicine of Heart, you wouldn't happen to have some with you?"
"You really do want to stay here, in this dangerous world where you could die at any moment, be forced to kill for your own survival . . . this is making no impact on you." Nightmare's face went blank then he started hacking up blood. Get down here so that I can help you, ya fool.
"I am not a fool! I just get sick easily." Nightmare sunk down to the ground anyway. Morticia went to him and started rubbing his back in soothing circles.
Nightmare's P.O.V.
What a strange foreigner she is. I gradually quit vomiting blood, a small relief. I could hear Morticia softly humming some sort of tune, it was very soothing along with her gently rubbing my back. Almost motherly.
"I understand that you don't like hospitals and all, but you need to go to them every once in a while to make sure you don't die." Morticia told me. "I hate it too."
"I'm not going to them! They're scary and cold, and they have needles!" Hospitals terrified me because of my childhood spent in and out of them.
"Nightmare. If I hear from your subordinate that you have gone to the hospital, or are at least going to check ups, then I will cook you a nice homemade dinner. I know that I'll eventually land in the country of Clover, so when that happens I will follow through with my promise, if you uphold your end, and I will include dessert with the meal." That is sorely tempting since Gray can't cook worth a damn, and I haven't had any sweets in a long time. "And it has to be more than one visit or appointment."
"Fine. I'll do it. But that sweet had better be really good!" It had better be worth all the suffering I was going to go through to get it. Oh, the treat that she had in mind looked like it would be good, if I could keep Gray away while she made it.
Normal P.O.V
"Will you be here every time I go to sleep? Or is it a 'once in a while' type of thing?" I do enjoy talking to you, but if you have other things to do I'm fine with meeting every now and then.
"I can try to come see you often . . . but that might not be possible since I have to see Alice and Gray tries to keep me working."
"Hmm. Okay, I'll wait for you then. It's nice to talk to someone who knows pretty much everything about me, or at least what passes through my head. But, Nightmare, when we meet in person, please don't answer my thoughts in a way that others know what I'm thinking. I would rather they not know."
"Alright. It might be hard to do, but I'll try to." Nightmare said as he sat cross legged. Morticia sat in front of him, about a foot and a half away.
"Now, about the game and the Medicine. I really would like to stay here and I know the only way is to play the game."
"Yes. I have some, but you're completely sure that you want to participate in the game? There'd no going back after you drink it." Nightmare said with a serious face.
"I'm sure. Now just give me the vial." Morticia said as she held out her hand for emphasis. Nightmare sighed before pulling out a purple vial.
"You must swallow all of it." He said with a mild tone of defeat.
"I know." Morticia then uncapped it and downed the contests without a second thought. "Ugh, that tasted like sour tea mixed with beer."
The space they were in started to shatter.
"You're waking up now, I'll see you soon." Nightmare said with a small laugh.
Morticia awoke with the sound of the doorknob jiggling. If it's that stupid Knight I'm going to kick him in his dick before he can blink!
She opened the door to find that it was indeed Ace. Morticia kicked him as hard as she could right in the crotch, which he wasn't expecting, and he doubled over in pain.
"Stay away from my room you demented Knight." But Ace wasn't listening because he had passed out from pain, in fact, if Ace had weighed less, the kick he had gotten would have caused him to fly upwards. "Stupid card. I'll have some maids move you or something."
Morticia closed the door then proceeded to take a short shower, change her clothes, brushed her long hair and tidy her room. She found the vial in the bed, empty, and put it in her pocket.
When she opened the door, Ace was still there. Morticia kicked him out of the way then locked her door and dragged Ace three doors down.
Gray's P.O.V.
"Lord Nightmare, where were you? You have been missing for two time changes." I said. Stupid, work-skipping incubus.
"I met with Alice then the new foreigner. She's quite interesting, almost more than Alice." He had a far away look in his eye.
"That's nice, now get this work done and in three time changes you can have a coffee break." I said while putting a large stack of paperwork on his desk.
"Hey, Gray." He paused for a moment, looking like he was making a hard decision. "Can, can you make an appointment for me, at the small clinic in town?"
"My Lord, what has brought this about? Are you dying?!" Surely that would be the only reason why he would do such a thing of his own volition.
"I promised the new foreigner that I would go a couple of times if she cooked me dinner, now please . . . go make the appointment." He looked sick at the thought but I rushed to do it. I must meet her to express my thanks! After years of failing to make him go to get medical care, a simple bargain was all it took.
I really must meet this woman, which I should be able to do soon since April season was almost here.
When Morticia calls him a card she means that Ace is an ace, but he really is a stupid card . . . at least to me, and not stupid as in he's dumb but the kind of stupid that you call a person that makes bad choices.
