"Ace, can you hand me another cookie?" I asked, practically drooling over the delicious biscuits that he had very intelligently placed out of my reach on the table. "Uh, please." I glanced awkwardly at the Queen, who had also happened to join us.

Right, I guess you probably want to know exactly why I was enjoying tea and cookies with the family of Heart Castle (well, more so the cookies than the tea was being injeste- enjoyed). You know how Ace showed up and was all epic-I'm-gonna-kidnap-you-hahaha~ before? Yeah, he sort of derped out again right after that and I decided I would hang out with him since he wasn't actively sexually harassing me, and I really didn't feel like going home and making Blood apologize.

So I made cookies at the castle after dragging the knight there. They turned out pretty freaking awesome, too, I might add.

"Miss Toki, we are quite pleased that you have come to visit us today," Vivaldi and the voices in her head announced.

"Um… we… is… are pleased to be here too?" She laughed at this, and then Ace finally gave me my cookie.

"Hahaha~, see Toki? Aren't you glad I came to get you?"

"More like stalked me home and threatened me, but whatever."

"Hahaha~."

Vivaldi glared at him all epically, making me like her just a bit more. "Your idiocy astounds us, Knight. Be silent!"

"Hehe… you got yelled at," I teased snarkily, sticking my tongue out at him before quickly turning back to the queen as to avoid losing my own head. "So… Uh… Queen Vivaldi—"

"Please, simply call us Vivaldi."

"Okay. So, Vivaldi, what are your favorite color…s?"

"Our favorite color?" She had to think for a moment. FOR THE GODS' SAKE PEOPLE IT'S NOT A HARD QUESTION. HOW HARD DO YOU REALLY HAVE TO THINK? I guess they are related to Blood though, and he takes twenty minutes to figure out whether he wants sugar or honey in his freaking tea. And get this, he always picks honey. So why even debate it? Geez, I'm surrounded by idiots! "We like the color purple."

"Purple, awesome. Like eggplants and Barney the Dinosaur."

"Hahaha~, red's better," Ace chimed in, and I really hoped he would get like, detention or something.

"Meh, personally I believe black is the best. I mean, it's all like "I'm barely even a color." Having hue is so mainstream."

I wasn't sure if I offended the queen, or if she just felt like glaring at the bush I was sitting in front of. "Black is detestable."

"You're just saying that because she disagreed with you."

Fortunately for me the albino bunny decided to come and save me from the wrath of liking a different color than the queen. "The King requested to see you immediately, your majesty," he announced, his ear twitching when he saw me. "He says it is quite important."

I almost let out a sigh of relief when she got up. "Please excuse us," she muttered (or at least, as close to muttering as she could get. She was the only other person I knew that used my typical tone of voice) before taking her leave.

"Crap!" I proceeded to shout, as soon as she was gone.

"What's wrong?" Ace blinked at me.

"I forgot to ask if I could borrow a room… I don't want to go back to the Hatter mansion yet," I vented, biting my lip angrily. "I blame your stupid face. And Peter's gone too… Bugger all of you."

"Haha, if you want you can sleep in my room!" Naturally, for the sake of Tokis everywhere, I slapped him for that.

"Perv!" I yelled, followed by a punch.

"What do you mean?" I punched him again. "We sleep together in a tent all the time, don't we?"

"Yeah, that was before you made sexual advances toward me."

"I'm sorry about that, haha~."

I put on my Toki thinking cap for about three minutes before giving up. "You know what, whatever. But if you do anything creepy AT ALL I will impale you with something."

"You're so mean."

"… Screw you."

He stood up and pushed in his chair. "Well then, I'm going to go practice with some of the guards. Bye!" I laughed silently, because I knew that when he said he was going to go practice he meant he was going to go get lost. I got up too, because I was lonely, and nosed around for a bit until I found entertainment in a giant hedge maze.

"Gods, these bushes are awesome!" I announced to Mint-Bunny and Captain Hook as I wandered around uselessly.

"Hahaha~, aren't they?"

"Ace, I thought you left."

"I got lost too!"

"Dude, I'm totally not lost."

"Really? Then how do we get out of here?"

"…"

Okay, so I was lost. Whatever.

AN/ Another slightly longer than usual chapter. Sorry if this isn't up-to-par quality, I was half focused on fighting vampires in AdventureQuest XD Anyway, sorry I got rid of Peter and Vivaldi so quickly; they don't have much use to the story, so I'm just sort of fitting them in as a bit of filler to drive the plot ^^' Pretty soon it'll be time for the story to progress even more! Thanks for reading, please review!