Here's Nightmare's story, sorry it took so long, I was attempting to write another chapter for another story I'm doing, hopefully nobody's gotten angry at no update *looks around wildly for an assassin*. Anyhoo, on with the story!

It was two days before Christmas in Wonderland, and we bring our story to a young outsider. Alice had been trying to squash the gift requests out of the role-holders there, but unfortunately she had been unsuccessful. So now here she was, two days before the best holiday of the year, with no gifts to give anybody.

All of them had told her that they were happy with her just being in their world, but unless she wanted to put a large bow on her head, it just wasn't good enough for Alice. Being a self-less, good person, she was brought up to give, not take and she wanted to give her friends something that they would besides her presence. Right now our outsider was sleeping, in a dream with a certain demon.

Alice's POV

"Peter just said that he didn't need anything but me", I flinched at the memory of the rabbit jumping on me, "Julius said that he thought Christmas was childish and he didn't understand why we were even bothering with it. So now Christmas is basically shot if I don't figure out what they want", I pouted, sitting on a snow covered cloud. Nightmare had outdone himself with this dream, making us float on giant snow covered clouds that were warm to the touch, yet still had the beautiful look of winter to it. Snowflakes were still floating down as my head bounced up to stare at the person floating in front of me.

"Nightmare-".

He cut me off as he caught my thoughts, "No Alice, I refuse to do that, besides it's cold out and I'm not going shopping in the cold", he protested. I frowned, then Christmas really was pretty much dead. I had no other ideas on how to solve this, and I wasn't just going out and getting 14 random items to give. I wanted to get them something special. Nightmare groaned, listening to my thoughts.

"Oh, you're not going to let this go, even after the holiday are you", he asked me, his eye sad. I shook my head, he was giving in. He sighed loudly.

"Fine, we can go tomorrow, but if I get cold I'm going right back to the Tower", I squealed and threw my arms around him, pulling him to the ground with me. He laughed and hugged me back.

"If I'd known you would hug me, I would've agreed sooner", he chuckled. The floating snow drift started falling apart as I started to wake up.

"Don't think when I wake up I'll forget about this", I warned him as I started to fall through the pieces of the cloud. He laughed.

"The thought hadn't even crossed my mind", he told me.

I opened my eyes to a whiteness coming from my window. I got out of bed and walked over to the glass window. The entire land of Wonderland had changed from fall to winter about a week ago and the Jokers had told me that it was soon to be Christmas. I had gotten used to the snow and bundling up for the cold, but the beauty of Wonderland in winter never got old.

I got dressed. The dress I pulled on was festive, deep red on the top, with a green belt and skirt, the collar had a fuzzy white hem that the bottom of the dress also had. I put a green and red bow and walked down the steps, looking like a Christmas elf. The tower had been decorated by the servants, silver and gold garland was wrapped around the railing, with real silver snowflakes hanging from the ceiling everywhere.

Walking into the kitchen, I saw that Nightmare was actually at the table, dressed for the Arctic, waiting for me. Gray was next to him, looking at his employer in disbelief. I had to stop myself from giggling.

"Hehe, are you ready to go?", I asked, Nightmare had a giant red parka, snow pants on, with a thermos filled with Gray's hot chocolate in his hand. He nodded, face covered in a scarf.

"Alright lets get to the village, we'll see ya soon Gray", the assassin nodded and helped me put on my smaller, less puffy parka.

We got through the shopping and came up with these gifts.

Peter- new glass case(old one was getting shabby). The one we had got was made out of a white leather with a silver winged clock on it. On the inside was engraved Time Flys.

Ace-a compass. It was gold and on the back of it I had a miniature map of Wonderland engraved on it. I was hopeful that it would help him in his navigation.

Vivaldi-rare perfume. Precisely called Royale Raspberry, it was the smell that I always thought of when I visited her.

Blood-new tea pot set. As much as it pained me, I actually got him a gift. The entire set was painted with roses, one on each of the small tea-cups, and a beautiful bush on the tea pot itself.

Elliot- new cookbook for carrots. He'd been running around the kitchen experimenting with different recipes to make more carrot food.

Dee and Dum-special stones to sharpen knives. I was shaking at all the sharp objects in the knife shop. I had them engrave Dee and Dum on their stones.

Boris- a metal wind up bird. Made from the thinnest metal sheets ever, the thing was sharp and flew up to 40 mph. Boris would have fun catching it, if he could before the wind up key unwound.

Pierce- French cheese. It stunk, no lie, but Nightmare told me that he wanted it, so I go it despite the rank.

Gray-(Nightmare nearly lost consciousness from laughing) a small kitten was what he wanted the most. We picked up the little thing at the pet shop, she was totally black with stunning green eyes. Wrapping a bow around her neck, I let Nightmare put her in his giant parka to stay warm.

Julius-He was the hardest out of all of them. Nightmare told me he had gotten no thought or even emotion to getting a gift from him. The statement made me sad, didn't he have Christmas when he was a child?

That was until we were passing a the shop where I'd usually gotten clock parts. In the window next to other extravagant clocks, was a small silver one. It was a necklace, and the chain it was on was thin, almost like a spider web thread, the clock itself was thin, and looked like it could break just by touching it. We got it, it was perfect for Julius.

"I have no clue how you're going to keep the kitten a secret for another day, the thing's going to be crawling around the Tower", Nightmare mumbled as we were coming out of the village. I stood on the path struck dumb as a thought crossed my mind. I hadn't gotten anything for Nightmare. He had helped me with all the other presents and I hadn't even thought to get him anything!

Nightmare saw my change of thought and shook his head.

"It's alright, you don't have to get me anything, as long as you're happy that's all that matters to me", he told me a smile on his face. I shook my head.

"No, it's Christmas, I have to give you something", I protested. His eye widened and he chuckled. Sighing he set down the bags he had. I looked at him curiously, what was he doing? He walked slowly over to me and embraced me.

Smiling down at me, he put a gloved hand under my chin and turned my face up.

"Take this as my early Christmas present", Nightmare said softly. He leaned in and pressed a pair of frozen lips to mine. I stood stilll, my body stuck like this, I hadn't expected this. But I felt warm and cozy kissing him, he was always so nice and guiding to me, I didn't want it to stop. I wrapped my arms around his neck and pulled him closer. He wrapped his arms around my waist. and we stayed like that for some time before we realized that darkness had set. He laughed as we untangled ourselves.

"I think that was my favorite gift of all-time", he teased me as I picked up the bags blushing. He picked up his and we started walking back to the warmth of the Tower. As we walked I found myself repositioning the bags in my right hand and reaching out to hold his hand. He looked at me in surprise, then he smiled warmly and held mine as we walked.