By Mad Meg Askevron Alice in England Chapter Two Disclaimer: Fanfiction, hello?

Summery: By some twist of fate, Alice wasn't born to the Seno family in Japan, but to the Alvina family of England. She meets her best friend, Chris, who knows something she doesn't. ::Time:: Place Later time

Chapter Two: Memories, False and True

Chris came running into Frey's room, he saw Alice lying on Frey's bed and blanched. He gently tapped her cheek; slowly she opened her eyes and winced at the light.
"Why did you keep this from me?" Alice asked with as much anger as she could put into her tired voice.
"I'm terribly sorry, but please don't be in strop with me. I mean bollocks! Do you see any way out of it?" Alice sighed when Chris finished.
"No I suppose not." She surrendered and soon fell asleep. Chris tucked the blankets around her and motioned the men to follow him.
They all settled into comfortable chairs and Stewart brought tea.
"When Alice was only a small child, by pure accident she received her Lotis bracelet. A man had been running with a woman's purse and she grabbed the strap while the man was looking for a way to turn and hooked it on a metal pipe. He ran off with the strap leaving the bag, inside was rabbit that dropped a bracelet in her hand when it was carried off. It took her only three years to learn all of the known symbols, but one of the guide's prophets had a vision and demanded that her memory be blanked and put false ones in. When the time came a trigger would be pulled and she'd have her real memories back. She ranks even Frey and me, I was told to convince her to come with me, but she asked so my job was made easier. She is here to teach Kyo. Two more Guides are coming, but they are having their own trouble at their" Chris looked at Kyo's measly two beads. "She too is a Neo- Master." Frey's eyes grew wide at Chris' revelation. "Now Frey I'll put you in a different room for tonight, but you both will live here in our house." Chris stood and led Frey to his new room and Kyo sat brooding in the sitting room until late in the night, only then did he seek his bed, his mind whirling with thoughts.

It was dawn before Alice could wake. She guilty slipped out of the room with her shoes in her hand. She hung up dress once she reached; she came out of her bathing room in a fuzzy robe toweling her hair dry. She wore a full black skirt to her ankles and a powder green button up blouse. She pinned up her hair and settled a beautiful comb on top. It was made of mother of pearl, the handle had a swirling pattern, when you looked closer they formed roses.
Chris had been waiting for her in the sitting room. He had settled in his favorite chair with a steaming cup of tea, she had a cup waiting by her chair. He waited until she had settled her fluffy skirts, her lacy petticoats showing under the hem of the skirt. She hadn't always worn clothes like this all the time. When she works she wears jeans and t- shirts, but since she would also be representing Chris she had wanted to make him look good. She still wore her ring and kept her phone with her always. She had emailed him a picture of her in the blue dress from the day before; he said she looked just like the fairy tale Alice in Wonderland.
"I did not tell them your personal history, just that you had been in the temple, taught and mastered all of the Lotis words. Then they had blanked your memory and placed false ones as well." Alice nodded and looked deeply sad.
"I never knew my real parents, they were transferred north just after I was born and dreaded taking a baby with them, my older brother, who ever he is, must be out there some where. My parents died in trying to defend a poor soul who had gone into the darkness. They killed themselves rather then be forced into the darkness. I was left with my mother's sister, and they treated me as if I were their own, I will always know them as my parents, and the ones I love." Alice's voice broke over the last statement and began to cry. Chris kneeled before her and raises a handkerchief and wiped away her tears.
"They would not want you to be sad, sister of my heart. They wanted you to know who your real parents were. They loved you with all of their hearts and souls. So please do not cry." Alice smiled, nodded, and gave him a quick hug before helping him to stand. They walked into the dining room to have breakfast.
"Kyo, I would like you to go on ahead to school and Frey will help Alice enrolled at your school, you need someone to protect you." They all nodded and rose, Frey and Alice would take what Alice liked to call "The Tank" while Kyo would drive his uncle's motorcycle. Alice watched Kyo drive away with the strangest feeling in her heart, worry. Alice slipped into her seat across from Frey, arranging herself neatly. Frey leaned back and smiled at her.
"I'm just glad I'm old enough to be out of school." Frey sighed, Alice looked out the window before turning back to him.
"I'm finishing my last year this quarter, in a few weeks I'll be free of schooling as well." Frey looked genuinely surprised.
"How did you skip three or four years?" Alice smiled sadly at his question,
"My boyfriend, Errol, is a senior and he tutored me so that we could be together." She looked out the widow and took a handkerchief out of her pocket to wipe her eyes. "He's in America, he broke up with me as soon as he found out, so as not to hurt me. We wear matching rings; he moved his ring to the right hand. He has a beautiful girlfriend named Renee, he sent me a picture." She had to wipe her eyes again, the soft cotton comforting against her skin. She felt a large warm hand on her left hand, right over her ring.
"Then let me move it for you." Alice found she couldn't resist as he slipped her ring off and put it on another finger. His hand came to rest under her chin and he brushed his lips against hers before climbing out in front of the school. Enrolling Alice in the school was actually very easy, the councilor drew up a schedule, printed a map and sent her to get a uniform, and she would join the school after lunch.
"Class, I would like to introduce you to our new senior, Miss Alice Alvina. "Alice stepped into the room, bowed once and went to the chair in the back of the room. The Japanese class was behind the English version; whenever the teacher called on her she could answer with ease. She spent a lot of the time examining the others in the room. There was one who made Alice positively vibrate from the Mara around her. She was pretty blonde who kept her eyes on Kyo, she tried to cast "Truth" but the girl just smiled cruelly at her and returned to staring at Kyo. Alice sighed and rolled her eyes, finally class was over, she stood and left the room, Kyo would come alone, they didn't want to raise any suspicion about the new student. Frey was waiting for her around the corner and waved to her. They had decided that Frey would pretend to be her boyfriend to, again, divert any relation to Kyo. Alice held Frey's hand in hers, swinging it back in forth lost in her own world. She had no idea what was going on around her and depended upon Frey to keep his eye on her.
She rested in the crook of his arm, with her head against his chest. He half danced all the way home goofing around, twirling her around to make her laugh. He stopped at a flea market to buy her a silly hairpin that if she attempted to put on she'd have fallen over. They were insight of the house and Alice quickly looked back and forth before running into the street. But mistakes happen, and we all know what will happen next.
Frey saw it too late to stop, a semi who had a few second ago been hidden by trees suddenly appeared right in front of Alice. The force of the truck hit her in the side and slammed her into the ground, she moved as much as she could, but one of the wheels went right over her leg, crushing it. The truck pulled over and a man came running out to Frey's side. Frey carefully took her cell phone and dialed the number for an ambulance. Frey had the trucker go to the house and tell the others; before he came back the ambulance loaded her up inside with Frey, who claimed to be a cousin so that he could be with her. They found Frey passing the waiting room, Chris, Kyo, and Stewart quickly came up to him with the trucker trailing behind them looking severely upset, he spoke first.
"Is the little lady going be okay?" Frey looked worried but then one of the doctors came up to him.
"Well, we have her examine and did what we can for now, she's sitting up in her bed in her room. She has one broken rib, three cracked, her shin has been broken in three places, her right ankle is broken, her left is fractured and one of her toes is broken, that and a concussion tops it off. All of those can be healed and massive bruises, she'll be fine." The doctor smiled and walked away. They all rushed into her room, leaving the trucker slumped in a chair.
Alice sat staring out the window, she looked horrible, her skin was molted with purple bruises, her chest was all strapped up and they could see small rods underneath to help her ribs heal. Her leg was covered buy you could tell the whole thing was in bandages and plaster. She looked up and smiled with bruised lips that still had the slight pattern of asphalt stretching from her chin up to her brow. Frey sat on the side of her bed after pulling the rail down. His fingers trace the line of her bruise but not really touching it. She took his hand rested her unhurt cheek against it. He carefully hugged her and stepped back to let the other's speak to her. He felt her phone jingle in his pocket and he silently stepped out side.
"Hello? Who is this?" Frey heard a man's voice over the phone. "Can I speak to Alice?"
"Hi, this is Frey, a friend of Alice's, she...she's been in an accident." There was silence, and it took the man a while to be able to form a sentence.
"Is she okay?" His voice was chocked.
"Yes she will." A nurse came by telling him that now it was safe for her to sleep, she was resting. The other's left knowing he would rather be here. He quickly took a picture of her sleeping form, her bruised cheek was turned toward him and the blanket had slipped off her leg, and showed her ribs. The man looked at the picture and Frey could tell he was crying. This had to be Errol, the man who use to be Alice's boyfriend. "When she wakes I'll have her call you, okay?"
"Okay." He hung up and set the phone on a table and made himself comfortable on blue couch.

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