A/N: I do not own Heart no Kuni no Alice, nor do I own this cookie. *Eats it* now it has become one with me, da?

Alex belongs to Tailsdoll123.

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Month XX Year OO

Dear Yue,

It's been only three days and my life has turned for the worst! It's like every three hours I end up breaking something expensive and Blood just adds to my debt! I probably owe him a few hundred pounds! That'll take forever to pay off! And worst is, Blood doesn't seem bothered by me practically destroying everything! It's almost like he's making me mess up on purpose! And it doesn't make it any better that my schedule is out of place because of the time periods here!

-Claire Triton

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~CRASH~

"Oh, my! Miss Claire, you broke Sir Dupre's most expensive tea set!"

~CRASH~

"Miss Claire, you broke Sir Dupre's beloved vase!"

~THUD~

"Miss Claire, watch out! You scratched the marble of his favorite sculpture!"

I sat on my knees, panting like crazy with sweat rolling down my face, as the Bloody Twins, Dee and Dum, sat behind me, snickering. I was dressed in a white blouse, a black blazer, a black pencil skirt with a spade print on it, black tights, and knee high boots. My hair was up in a ponytail with my bangs framing my face.

I lifted my legs in front of me and leaned back, resting on the twins arms that rested between them, sighing. "Why am I messing up all so suddenly? It doesn't make sense at all!" I whined and they laughed, enjoying my pain with childish humor. I twitched, but let it go. They were children, so I understood why they would laugh. If my mother was in my situation, I wouldn't try to hide my laugh.

"It's okay, Claire-nee," Dum said, grinning as he began playing with my ponytail. He paused and turned to his brother. "Right, Dee?"

Dee agreed, leaning forward and hugging my arm. "Right, brother. The longer Onee-san stays, the longer we can play together."

Aww…how sweet—

Wait a second.

I ripped myself out of their grasp and stood up, towering over them. My ponytail whipped in the imaginary wind as I glared down at them. They still had dumb smiles on their faces. "What do you mean by that?"

Dee and Dum continued smiling until fire erupted behind me as my figure darkened and I cackled. "TELL ME, TWEEDLE DEE! TWEEDLE DUM!"

"EEEYAAARRRGH!" They shrieked as they got up and ran off. "ONEE-SAN IS CRAZY! WE LIKE THAT, BUT YOU TOOK IT TOO FAR!"

And they were gone, like the wind.

My figure lightened up and I turned around to see half of the hallway darkened with black soot. As if something had exploded. Huh…wait, isn't that where the kitchen was at?

The Faceless chef came out of the burnt door, his used to be white uniform and chef hat covered in soot, wobbled towards me and collapsed. "The…the pot roast…"

I kneeled down and lifted his head, fake tears bubbling up in the corner of my eyes. "Speak to me, man! You can't die! You need to live, man! You need to live! It's a crazy world out there, man! Without you, we'll never survive!" I began sobbing over the somewhat unconscious Faceless, using a spare handkerchief to wipe his dirty cheeks.

Thundering footsteps were heard and the hallway was now filled with servants and maids, wanting to know what had happened.

"Oh my!"

"Look at that!"

"Poor, Miss Claire…"

"Looks like he attempted to make pot roast again…"

"I think I left the iron on…"

Light footsteps then made its way to me and something wooden, yet metal-ish tapped my shoulder. "Claire, on your feet. You will accompany me to the Amusement Park to discuss territorial negotiations."

I looked up to see Blood and Elliot, one with a slightly amused expression and one with a worried expression. I gave them a distant look before looking back down at the chef.

"Claire."

Ignore.

"I require your assistance as a body guard."

Ignore.

"Sigh…I'll give you permission to eat flan they sell—"

"FLAN!" I cried, jumping up, allowing the chef's head to drop and hit the floor. Hard. He let out a cry of pain as I trotted over to Blood and Elliot-who seemed to be really happy. "Let's go, let's go! It'll be my first time at an Amusement Park anyway!"

Blood looked at me curiously before nodding. "Then let us be off." Elliot took my hand gently and smiled. "C'mon, Claire, they have some tasty carrot treats over there!" Then his face darkened. "I just hope we don't run into him…"

I blinked, not affected by him holding my hand. "Him?"

Blood chuckled before cutting in, "You'll see soon enough…" Without another word, two maids grabbed a hold of me and dragged me off to the request of Blood wanting me to change out of my work clothes.

"NOO! I DUN WANNA CHANGE INTO SOMETHING GIRLY! ALL I WANT IS MY FLAN!"

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Roller coasters, booths, large rides, and so many snack shacks… Everything sparkled and there was so much yellow. I was currently eating some Bocchan Dango* Blood had graciously bought me after eating two massive helpings of flan. Blood seemed to have no problem with my hunger-he later told me he put the bill on my debt-and Elliot seemed to chuckle.

I narrowed my eyes at him. "What's so funny, March?"

Elliot laughed before glomping me from behind and rested his chin on my head. "You look so cute when you eat." I didn't notice, but my cheeks warmed up. "And wearing those clothes make you even cuter!"

Blood had ordered his maids to dress me up in a black blouse with a green ribbon at the collar, a white beret with a blue spade pendant, a white skirt, long socks, and black shoes. Not my type of clothes, but I'll wear it if it means he'll decrease my debt.

"It's rude to stare, Elliot!"

"But I can't help it for some reason, Claire."

I rolled my eyes before attempting to take another bite of my Dango, but I stopped and saw that the third dumpling was…orange. "What is this?" Elliot dove his head down and took the orange dumpling into his mouth. "Mmm, carrot-flavored…"

I pushed away his chewing face before flicking the skewer into a nearby trash. "Go away, Elliot." I then sidestepped away from him and was now walking beside Blood. "When is this negotiation thingy starting anyway? All we've been doing is sampling tea they sell and eat really sweet stuff!"

Before Blood could reply, a voice broke our conversation. "Whooooa, look at that roller coaster, Mon Sticky Friend!" I found my feet running away from Blood and Elliot, running towards the voice.

It's familiar.

So familiar.

So nostalgic.

So…comforting.

I rushed past the passing Faceless people—many of them wearing bright yellow costumes and blue diamond print pants—and ran right into a girl with shoulder-length dirty blonde hair with turquoise eyes wearing a simple t-shirt, grey cardigans, and trainers.

"Alex!"

'Alex' turned around with a scowl before blinking, and then she grinned. "Oh, hey! So you're here, huh?" She then babbled nonsense to a stick she was carrying, something that went like, "…Claire…butler…Stick…food…squirrel!"

I reached my arms out for Alex, but was held back by some yellow-costumed bastard. As usual, it was a guy. "Stay away from our owner's special guest, you filthy Mafioso!"

~Twitch~

No, did I hear them right? Did they lump me in with Blood and Elliot?

Oh. Hell. No.

A man with wine red hair tied in a single braid and wore a mustard yellow suit walked up to us with a violin in hand, along with Blood and Elliot. Blood seemed irked at the sight of me being grabbed from behind and Elliot immediately pulled out his pistol. "HEY! Let Claire go—"

"FUCK YOU, BASTARDS!" I roared as I ripped myself out of his grasp and spun on my left heel, sending my right knee up and crashing into his blank face. I leaned forward, driving my knee deeper in and he collapsed to the ground. I quickly lowered my leg and planted it into the ground before spinning again and drop kicking another guy. "Stay away!"

Meanwhile, Alex was clapping loudly next to the Park owner, who had his jaw dropped to the floor (quite literally), and Blood and Elliot were watching the whole fight in awe (and slight fear, for Elliot).

I stood in front of a man pile of those stupid Faceless men and panted. There were more than I could have handled, but whatever. I turned to Alex and grinned. "Alex! I missed you!"

"Not I."

"You're stuck in this hellhole as well?"

"Pretty much!"

"Save me, Alex! Blood put me on a debt! And he cheated!"

At the mention of Blood, Alex's smile curved into a big massive grin. She then said creepily, "Did you know…Blood and Elliot…are gay for each other?"

I placed a hand over my mouth and gasped. They were gay? YAOI! "W-What?"

Alex then did the 'praise the lord' pose, and cried, "OH MY LORD! TELL IT TO HER, MON STICKY FRIEND!" She then proceeded to throw said stick at me and I caught it expertly. I looked intently at the stick, furrowing my brows.

While I was listening to the stick's soundless voice, Elliot and Blood were watching us, deadpanned.

…

…uh-huh…

…yes…

…really…?

I then copied Alex's praise the lord pose and cried, "OH MAH GOD! YOU'RE RIGHT! HOW COULD I HAVE NOT NOTICED THIS?!" Alex and I hugged each other, Mon Sticky Friend in the middle and started bawling (Fakely). "THEY'RE TOTALLY GAY FOR EACH OTHER…HOW STRANGE, YET FITTING!" A long time ago, when I was getting to know Alex, I realized that Alex loved hugs…as long as they weren't from people who would be all cutey-patootey and stuff…

That means I can give her hugs long enough before she throws me at a wall, like right now.

Wait, WHAT!

Alex easily lifted me up and I squeaked before she threw me away into the wall. "Take that! Not even martial arts can stop me, Maddie!"

"I'm Claire!"

"Matt."

"CLAIRE!" I shouted before I closed my eyes, waiting for the impact. But it never came. I blinked, realizing someone had caught me. I looked up and confirmed it to be Elliot. He was crouching on the ground, his arms wrapped around me protectively, and he had me sitting on his knees. It hurt, but I was used to pain.

…

…I swear I ain't no masochist. I'm more of a sadist… Anyways, I looked up at Elliot and frowned. Why did he do that? "Elliot, what the heck are you…?"

Elliot rested his chin on my head and frowned at Alex, who was still smiling. Oh no, he didn't! "Alex, what the hell? You trying to hurt Claire or something?"

Alex simply grinned. "I won't ever hurt Maddie—"

"Claire!"

"Whatever!"

I broke out of Elliot's grip and ran towards Alex. "Master! Please excuse my behavior from before! I have a present for you!" I then rummaged through my hip purse that I had hidden under my blouse and pulled something out. A small plastic container of jelly.

…

"GIMME MAH JELLEH!" Alex lunged at me and we fell back.

"MASTER, CALM DOWN!"

"JELLY!"

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And so, Claire Triton, a martial art fanatic, and Alex, an insane girl, had reunited and hopefully, stay together until they figure out a way to get out of Wonderland until….

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"C'mon, Claire! Let's run away before the evil Penny monster come and attack us and turn us lezzy like it did to Elliot and Blood!" Alex barked as she grabbed a hold of my hand and proceeded to walk out of the park. I followed faithfully before a large hand pulled me back. It was definitely Blood.

"Wait, Young Lady."

I was so right.

"I'm raising your debt for attacking Merry's henchman…even though it was amusing, it costed me the upper hand of the negotiations."

…

…

…

Who the heck was Merry and why am I always in trouble. The man with the wine red hair and I both, at the same time, shouted, "HOW DARE YOU BLOOD DUPRE, I'LL KILL YOU!"

Alex, on the other hand, pouted. As much it was fun to see Maddie—

"CLAIRE!"

-get angry, it wasn't worth anything if she didn't do her job as Alex's butler. She wanted more jelly and more fun time! Plus she wanted Claire to fight against Ace and see who wins. Fists versus Sword, who would win?

"OBVIOUSLY ME!"

Yeeeah, it'll probably be Ace.

"I HATE YOU SO MUCH!"

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* Bocchan Dango-Also called sanshoku ("tri-color") dango, this treat can be eaten all-year round as well as on special occasions. One of Claire's favorite sweets, rivaling flan, pudding, and pocky.