I KNOW I SAID I WAS PUTTING THIS STORY ON A HOLD, BUT MY WELL OF WRITING HAS RUN OUT FOR MY OTHER STORIES. SO I'M GOING TO GET THIS STORY TO SPEED UNTIL THE WELL SPRING IS LIFE-GIVING AGAIN! READ AND REVIEW AND ALL THAT.
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Ch.9: Under Layer One
"WHERE THE HECK DID MIA GO?!" Alice ran about the park, panicky as a bird in a room full of cats. She darted about, trying to spot the little girl among the crowds of faceless. Boris grabbed her arm, "Alice! Chill out. She couldn't have gotten too far, so just keep your eye out, alright?"
Alice nodded, tearing up, "Boris, we can NOT let anything bad happen to her! She's been through so much…." Boris sighed, "Look, Mia isn't stupid. She couldn't have gotten in any REAL trouble, right?"
…..
Mia looked up at the shadows of the strange men. One was a really tall man with bunny ears and the other was wearing a hat. Two little boys a few years older than her were stood to either side of the twosome. All four were looking intently at her.
The hat man smiled, "Little lady, are you lost?" Mia blinked and pointed to the hat man, "You…you're Blood Duper?" Said mafia boss smiled, "Yes I am miss. No need to be frightened though." Mia looked at the three other older boys, then back at Blood. "…Alice was right; your hat is sissy."
If moments were invaluable, the thunderstruck looks on the boys' faces were DEFINATLY priceless. Elliot pointed at Mia, "You little brat! Where do you get off on calling Blood-!" "It's all right Elliot." Elliot looked over at Blood. He seemed calm enough, but there was a tightness to his face that meant he really might shoot this kid.
"If Miss Alice was the one who told her, of course she'd repeat it. Small children are like parrots; regurgitating what they were told because they're too stupid to come up with something themselves." Mia smiled and tilted her head, "Oh, I didn't know we were playing a game! If I'm a parrot…." She pointed to Elliot, "That makes him a bunny," she pointed to the twins, "and they're fishies," she landed on Blood, "and you're a doggy!"
Elliot opened his mouth to argue the fact that he wasn't a rabbit (Author-*caugh*totallyarabbit*ahem*) when Blood smiled as gentlemanly as possible at the little silver haired girl. "And why are you making me a dog?" Mia smiled as sweetly as honey, "Because you and doggies both like to dig where they shouldn't!"
"Why you little-!"
But even as Blood was pulling his gun to blast this little brat off the face of the earth, Alice came running up death glomping Mia, "Mia, I was so worried! I'm so sorry I lost you, I promise to be more careful!" Mia smiled brightly, "Alice! I was so scared you wouldn't find me!" Alice picked the girl up as Boris came up, and unlike Alice, he noticed the peeved off Hatter crew.
The cat boy poked Alice on the shoulder and pointed at the men and boys. Alice seemed startled, then relaxed, "Blood…guys…did you find Mia?" Blood's eye twitched noticeably, "Umm…I suppose…." Mia leaned back in the maiden's arms, "Alice, they're the Hatter's you told me about, right?" Elliot scratched the back of his head, "Alice, what the h*** have you been telling this kid about Blood?!" Alice straightened, paling and getting nervous, "Oh…um…hehehe…." Blood tapped his foot, glowering. Alice rubbed the back of her head, "Umm…gee, don't kids say the darndest things?"
Eager to leap away from that, Alice scolded Elliot, "And please don't swear in front of Mia! She's only nine!" Mia held up her fingers, raising her pinkie half way, "Nine and a half!" "That's still much too young to hear such language!" Blood smiled, "Sure, we'll be sure not to swear in front of your little heck-raiser. But YOU be sure to correct her clearly misguided view of me, deal?"
Alice nodded, smiling sweetly. "Of course I will."
She set Mia down on the ground and put her hands on the girls shoulders, "Mia, I hereby take back everything I said about Blood. He isn't a prying, lying, manipulative, insensitive jerk. He's apparently a highly sensitive, sniveling weasel of a man for the words of a little girl to have wounded his manly pride~." Blood twitched, "Very funny Alice. I'm laughing my hat off."
Alice picked the girl back up, "You really shouldn't pay attention to what others say. Regardless of who they are." Alice jostled the little girl closer, "Not even this little cutie pie~!" Mia giggled and wrapped her arms around Alice's head.
Alice turned to Boris, who had been cowering by the wall incase this turned into a shootout. "Come on Boris, I want Mia to meet Vivaldi! We better hurry before it gets dark."
The mafia men stared after the retreating trio, unsure of what just happened. Mia turned her head to look at them. As Blood watched them, he felt an icy chill skitter up his spine like a spider. He could have sworn Mia's eyes were glowing bright red as she stared at them. As they all watched, Mia smirked and stuck out her tongue. (Which we all know is the childhood equivalent of flipping the bird.) And then they disappeared around a corner.
Dum groaned, "What a little brat!" Dee nodded, "Who does she think she is, insulting the Boss like that?! Does she want to get shot?!" Elliot wrapped his arms around himself, "Manipulative little b***. Did you see the way she flipped personalities as soon as Alice showed up? Like a totally different person!"
Blood closed his eyes and started walking. Elliot stared after him, "…W-wait, where are you going Blood?" "Elliot, cancel my meeting with Mary. I need to see the Jokers. Now." Dee tilted his head, "The clown and the warden? What do you want with them?" Dum nodded vigorously, "Yeah, you hate them!"
Blood nodded, "Yes, but I'm going to congratulate them." Elliot looked confused, "For what?" "For no longer being the role holders I hate the most."
A LITTLE BIT OF MIA'S NATURE REAVEALED! XD THOUGH TO BE HONEST, I WOULDN'T HAVE TREATED BLOOD ANY BETTER. SEE YOU ALL NEXT TIME!
