Outside the town Luisa made her way into the woods the snow had slowly begun to vanish as she found herself entering the forest of doors she wasn't quite ready to return to the circus just yet and didn't feel like going to any other season." Open me" spoke a shallow voice. Luisa looked around cautiously as more and more of the doors started to talk. She sighed and smirked with conceited "hmph". "Open the door" " We can take you where ever you want to go." spoke multiple voices coming from the doors ." and where is it that I would like to go I wonder" she said rather complacent. The doors continued on wanting to be open Luisa having no intentions on opening any of them but it was tempting " how could anyone resist such a constant temptation of opening a mere door." she said sarcastically.

The doors slowly started to quiet down as an ominous wind blew. With strands of her blue hair covering her eyes she turned around all the doors were gone but one ." This is getting tiresome." she muttered turning away "One door or many it doesn't matter." With her back turned the door cracked open slightly as grainy shallow voice spoke from the door it was all incoherent and way to soft for her to make out. She felt weary of it ,but turned slowly approaching the door knowing it was a bad idea. She placed her hand on the knob of the already slightly opened door and paused the voice was still jumbled and dis-oriented like it had soften even more now that she was closer. Her mind wanted to close the door but her hand started to pull the door open in protest. She had pulled the door a third of the way when she felt that someone was behind her. When she went to look a sword came hurdling at her. She swiftly dodged moving away from the door as the sword pierced the door with enough weight and momentum to shut it. She looked over at the sword and eye widen in anger." Again Ace!" she said in bitter disbelief on his stupid attempt to attack her glaring in the direction the sword came from.

Ace walked out from a large bush smiling as usual and headed over towards Luisa. "What? You dodged in time." he said completely upbeat. Luisa glowered at him as he stopped in front of her looking down at her. " What were you trying to do?". "What did it look like I was trying to close that door." she said pointing behind her. "Which door?" he asked confused. " what do you mean there's only one this one right...here?". She went to turn around to show Ace the door she was surprised to see she saw that not one door but all the doors had returned and the one she was trying to close was gone with Ace's sword jetting out from the base of a tree where the door was. Great I'm going insane she thought to herself." Nevermind." she said tiredly walking past Ace. He stood still back turned to her a wicked smile coming his face he walked over removing his sword leering back at Luisa. A sudden rush of adrenaline filled him as he lunged at her. Luisa could hear his steps rushing towards her. She turned around seeing the tip of the sword coming towards she moved out of the way." Are you out of your mind!." Luisa shouted angrily

Ace stared at her turning for another attack." Nope I just know you're not the real Luisa" he said calmly with a light chuckle. " Not funny Ace." she said completely crossed with him. "Luisa doesn't wear shoes and you are." he said." And that's your only reason to attack me cause I'm wearing shoes!" she snapped. He nodded " though I don't know the exact reason for it myself." He chuckled prepping himself for second attack as he nodded with an innocent smile." If you really are Luisa then fight me only fair right?" he said. " I don't have time for your twisted sense of logic Ace and Joker wanted me to wear them when I went to winter just be reasonable and use your head a little." "Then this is punishment for skipping out on the circus." he said happily not having any intentions letting Luisa go. " Joker said I could" she exclaimed getting tired of his buffoonery. Ace chuckled but charged none-the-less smiles and all. He went for a low swing as Luisa jumped back Ace following close behind. She tucked her hair back behind her ear revealing dual piercing in her right ear. She brushed her thumb lightly against the lower piercing removing the back of the ruby studded earring.

He swung down with a wide excited grin the sound of metal clashing metal. Luisa's earring had turned into a rapier. It was a common design minus a chrome finish with red iron in-twined into the handle and a green vine with thorn finished for the knuckle guard. Ace's eye widen in shock." hey now that's not right." he said with a playful pout. Luisa managed to push him back giving her some distance between them pointing her sword towards him." The hell it isn't you're using a sword." Ace carefully laid the blade of his sword in his hand as he chuckled." No I mean how can a toothpick like that withstand my blade it's not right mines bigger." Luisa lowered her sword a bit arching her brow " Is he seriously trying to joke" she thought herself. " You're out of your mind" Luisa said unnervingly. "Awe you're no fun." Ace pouted sheathing his sword. " You spoiled the moment Luisa." Luisa lowered her sword completely to her side. she remained calm but was over come with mixed emotion all them falling into the category of enraged, aggravated, even a little homicidal all aimed at Ace.

"It would have made things better if you had made a joke." Ace said his knightly composure regained. "Yeah I figured" Luisa replied trying to stay calm. She sighed the rapier in her hand turning back into her earring putting it back in. " Now tell me that you were lost." She said looking at Ace. He smiled scratching his cheek wondering to himself." hmmm oh right I'm your bodyguard so I have to stay with you." "Says the one who dis-appeared earlier" Luisa snapped back instantly. Luisa sighed again turning in the direction of the town thinking it would be safer than wandering the forest...with Ace. "Let's head back into town." She said calmly. He nodded and followed her as they headed into town the whole time he stared at the back of her head with an empty malicious smile. Luisa's senses must've been drowned out by the temptation of the doors ,but he had been watching her since she enter the forest hearing everything she said talking back to the doors like some sort of crazy person ,but from his point of view it could justify when she said there was only one door there wasn't and what he had thrown his sword at was a tree not a door trying to snap her back into reality he didn't even the door she claimed she was trying to close.

" Was that the only one talking to you?" he asked. "Does it matter?" Luisa replied. He shrugged his shoulders quite aloof." Not really it's just weird don't you think? Out of aaall those doors only one had your attention" he said. Luisa felt irked by Ace's callous behavior she was uneasy enough by the dream that she had managed to shake off and now the forest of doors was playing tricks on her." You know it's not good to keep things pent up know one will know how to treat you if you keep in to yourself." Ace said softening his smile. Luisa stopped turning around looking at Ace she was clearly still annoyed from earlier but for some reason Ace saw her as being more on edge and scared." You should try talking to Alice whenever she talks to me I always feel much better than before." " Not gonna happen." she replied instantly. " Oh but you have to" Ace said playfully. "If you don't then you'll go back to prison." he followed up. " If I'm part of April season that means I can't leave and if Alice is entertain to the fullest she'll never want April to end." Luisa said. "Alright, then so that means you'll have to makes sure that no one else entertains her more that includes...The Hatter." he said suggestively.

" Is that suppose to mean anything to me? Blood is nothing more than a spoiled brat with a large ego he'll be simple enough to handle." Luisa said turning away from Ace continuing back into town. Ace followed behind rubbing his chin eyes closed thinking." I suppose that's true all you will really need to do is sle-" Ace stopped in his tracks suddenly he felt something warm fly across his left cheek followed by a slow trickling he glanced down to his cheek seeing a red line. He looked at Luisa who was glaring daggers at him aiming a gun at him the barrel smoking. She turned away the gun vanished into the palm of Luisa's hand she had removed another earring. She put the small stud back in and started walking again not saying another word to Ace." Luisa I was just playing." he said puzzled by her reaction though he was also impressed that she was able to graze him pretty cool actually, it takes much more skill to graze someone intentionally instead of just shooting them dead in Ace's opinion. He quickly caught up to her walking right up on her ." Come on Luisa don't be so mad." She didn't respond and continued to walk making Ace wanting to try harder and get her to talk." Alessia?" he said playfully trying to get her to react...nothing.

"I must have pissed her off pretty badly" he thought to himself Ace pouted trying to figure out what would be a way to get her to react it was bugging him and it made things awkward feeling like he didn't have anyone to talk with. Suddenly he thought of an idea it was the only thing he could think of that would surely get a response out of her." Luiiiiisa" he said happily. Like all those time when he was with Alice and when she was down there was always that one thing that would always get her to react. I wasn't a smart method but it allow openings between Alice and Him so they could talk and she would feel better afterwards . He didn't say anything and reached over quickly he swung Luisa around pulling her into him wrapping his arms around her shoulders. He grinned childishly waiting for her to react even if she stabbed him it would be something. He waited...,

Luisa froze with caught off by Ace's random action the ticking sound of his clock pressed closely to her ear, unexpectedly her persona appeared to change she became calm lucid and rather docile. The sound seemed to do what Alice's heart does for Ace it was soothing to her even though Ace loathed the sound and found it to be nothing special. To Luisa it was simple reminder she wasn't in jail that she wasn't dead despite being out since the start of April season she never once tried to feel her own clocking ticking in fear that she was dreaming and acknowledging the cruel reality would send her back into a dark existence. Her hands suddenly moved on there own. Ace was just about to pull away when a pair of hands slid up his back holding onto him tightly. For once the knight was confused, stumped by the actions of another it wasn't the reaction he was expecting a punch or kick maybe even attempted murder but not this. "Just for a moment" Luisa uttered quietly. Ace was conflicted, caught unable to move away from her. He did seem bothered on what she found so special about the sound of clock ticking but felt something else it was an un easy churning like a sickly feeling he felt...off