Chapter 16: The Bunny Man Apologizes
I'm uploading out of schedule XD
A notice:
I'll be out for a month right next month. There's a kind of college project in my place that sends its students to small villages to help and contribute, so I won't be able to upload next month. But hey! To make up to you guys, I will upload two chapters. This one, and a short chapter. XD
There. Italic-ed do that it would not be forgotten. Should I bold it too? ... Naa~
Okay so here's the first, and I'll see you in the next chapter!
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Gray sat on the middle double couch with Alice. He rubbed Remy's head, using all of his efforts to be so gentle and avoid the cold cloth covering her re-swollen wound, while Alice covered Remy's sprained foot with warm cloth. Nightmare sat on the single couch next to them with Blood sitting across from him on the other double couch, holding a cup of tea.
Boris and Pierce were unconscious once again and they were dragged back to the resting room by Gowland's workers. Adding to the unconscious animal party was Elliot, who was also in the same room. Except that he was lying on the floor. And the twins were outside of the infirmary by Alice's request.
The inside of the infirmary was now pretty clean. No dead bodies, no papers or bullets scattered on the floor, no blood spills. However, the holes on the couch, ceiling, walls, and the front door still remained.
Patrick let his eyes wandered around his infirmary.
Everything else was already tidied up and the waiting area of the infirmary looked different now, especially with the absent of the coffee table because it was split in half in the last...
The doctor ape sighed from his wooden chair. Gowland, who was standing beside him, patted him on the back.
"Do not worry, doctor. I will donate half the finance for the reparation." Blood said calmly.
Patrick glared at the mafia boss, "Full. I want everything fixed, new couches, door, bookshelf, and a similar coffee table!"
Blood's eye twitched, "Done." He sipped his tea and sighed sourly before putting the cup down. 'Disgusting.' He thought.
"Now leave my park." Said Gowland.
Blood looked at Gowland with a bored look. "I can't just leave my injured subordinate. What kind of boss I am if I do, Mary."
"He's not injured. Just unconscious." Patrick rubbed his temple, feeling a headache forming.
"Still."
Gowland glared at the hatter, "All of this happened because of you." He emphasized on the 'you'.
Blood didn't reply. Alice sighed.
Then Remy whimpered in her sleep, and Gray shushed her softly while swaying her gently like a baby. It gained everyone's attention for just a few seconds before she stopped and went back to sleep.
Nightmare was silent the entire time. He was angry, at everyone including himself. If only he could cancel that meeting until she was under a tight protection, she would never leave the tower and all of this would have never happened. He cursed himself inwardly and sighed outwardly.
"I am not letting you go until Gemy wakes up." The ape said at the caterpillar.
"Her name. Is Remy." He paused, then corrected himself, "Remilia. And for your information, I can't, and won't, leave. Until I know she's alright. Again." Nightmare glanced at the doctor with slight anger behind his onyx lenses. He was still angry at himself and at the fact unbeknownst to them but himself, that Remy was so deep in her sleep that he couldn't reach her again. He didn't need anyone talking like that to him right now.
The doctor glared back slightly before looking downward.
Gray glanced at his master, then the doctor, then back to Remy. He chose to keep silent through this whole ordeal.
Alice sighed again. 'These guys are unbelievable.'
Patrick sighed again and stood up. "I need a bath."
"Really? At a time like this?" Alice watched him disappeared to the back of the room with disbelief.
"He bathes when he's stressed." Gowland explained after he's gone.
Alice glanced at Gowland, her brows furrowed together, before shaking her head. "What now?" she asked them.
"Nothing." Nightmare leaned back on the couch. "We wait." He turned his head to look at Remy's sleeping form. Tired look in his face.
Remy opened her eyes and was immediately met with a pair of golden eyes.
"Hello Remy." The man whispered softly. He smiled warmly and caressed her cheek in a loving manner.
She blinked slowly as she registered the man before her. She glanced at the lizard tattoo on his neck before reaching out her right hand to his face and touched his cheek.
"Gway..?" she called softly. Barely a whisper.
Gray smiled warmly and leaned his cheek into her tiny hand, "Yes. It's me."
Remy blinked again. "Not... Dweam...?"
"No. Not a dream." Gray whispered.
She was quiet. Still recovering from her sleep by blinking and breathing slowly.
Gray let her be and continued rubbing her head gently.
"You here to pick me?" she asked after a few minutes. Earning a nod, she continued, "Nightmare?"
He nodded again. "Master is here too. He's outside, talking to Gowland." He had a slight thinking before mentioning Gowland's name, and he referred to use the park owner's name instead of calling him 'park owner' because he thought Remy would be more familiar with it.
"Oh..." she managed a small smile. Then she leaned closer to his chest and closed her eyes. Finally feeling very comfortable now that her trustworthy people were around.
Gray lowered his hand to her back and rubbed on that area.
"How are you feeling?" he asked.
"Mmmm... Dizzy..."
"Why don't you go to sleep again? I'll be here when you wake up."
She opened her eyes and looked at Gray. "No.. Gway..?"
"Hm?"
"I had a strange dream..."
"What is it about?"
"I was in infirmary... And Bowis, Piws, Gowland were there. Bowis has gun, there also bunny man and man with big bow tie, they also had gun. The infirmary was messy... And people passed out on the floor. It was scary..." she scrunched her face a bit.
Gray listened to her in silence. 'She thought it was a dream?'
She continued, "The bunny man was angry, and he swing his hand and hit my head. My wound..." she reached her fingers up to trace to area of her wound covered by the bandage.
Gray wanted to tell her that she wasn't dreaming, but he wasn't sure how.
Then she looked at Gray.
"Gway?"
"What is it?"
"I want to see Gowland and Nightmare."
"Don't you want to go to sleep?"
"Please...?" she furrowed her brows in a pleading look.
"... Alright." Gray stood up with her in his arms and exited the room.
Gray walked to the left in the hallway; where at the end of it was a brown steel-looking door. He opened it and they went in.
The room was like a study, definitely Gowland's workplace. Because a desk was there in the middle of the room with him sitting on its chair. In front of the desk were brown sofas arranged with a table in the middle, and Nightmare sat on one of the sofas. They had moved to Gowland's office for her. They didn't want her to see the remaining mess in that temporary battlefield.
"Remy!" exclaimed Gowland. "I'm sooo glad you're okay!"
She smiled at both of them. "Hello Gowland. Hello Nightmare."
Nightmare smiled warmly, "Hello Remy."
She saw a violin on the coffee table and smiled brightly at Gowland, "Gowland the violin!"
Gowland smiled. "Yes. You found it, thank you."
She smiled wider. "Thank you for letting me stay."
"Aww I just hope you would stay longer." Gowland faked a pout.
She laughed. "I will come and play sometimes."
Gowland smiled and winked. "I'll take that up as a promise."
She giggled and nodded. Gray put her down on the sofa next to Nightmare. Nightmare scooped her up in his arms.
"Are you feeling well enough to go, Remy?" Nightmare asked. Somehow he was acting so calm.
"Not really. I'm dizzy." She leaned her head on him. "Maybe a few more minutes?" she looked up at him.
Nightmare smiled, "Alright." He rubbed her back and she let herself feel comfy once again.
She looked at Nightmare again, "Can I say goodbye to Patwick please? And Bowis too. And Piws."
Nightmare nodded. "Alright then. Gray will take you. We will leave after that."
"Thank you Nightmare." She smiled. Nightmare smiled back.
Nightmare looked away for a second and said, "But it looks like you can say your goodbyes here, Remy."
"Pardon..?"
"We got company." Nightmare turned to the door.
"Company?" Gowland echoed.
All eyes turned to the door. Then the door suddenly opened and Boris came up looking disgruntled and tired. His breathing huffs and puffs.
"Bowis?"
The cat's face lit up when he saw her. "Remy!" he strutted over to her and reached out his hands to her.
Gray immediately stood in front of the cat, making a wall.
Boris grunted, "Hey! Lemme hug her!"
"Li'l siiiis~!" sang some voices and another party entered the room. "Li'l sis! You're awake!" the twins shouted happily by the door. Then they strutted over to her. "Hey move you lizard! We wanna hug her too!" said Dum. "Yeah! Let us see li'l sis!" added Dee.
Gray just stood there staring at them as he wasn't sure what to do. He glanced at Nightmare, like asking for something. When Nightmare nodded at him, he finally stood aside.
Boris scooped her up and hugged her while the twins each took her hands.
Remy looked surprised when she saw Boris entered the room out of breath, and even more surprised when she saw the twins. She thought meeting them was only a dream, along with the bunny man incident. She frowned, "Bwother Dee? Bwother Dum?"
"Yes it's us li'l sis! Your big brother Dee and Dum!" the both exclaimed excitedly.
Boris pulled away from the hug but kept her close, "Why didn't you tell me?" he asked, frowning.
Remy frowned, "Tell you what?"
"That you're a foreigner?" Boris continued.
Nightmare jolted. Gray reacted instantly with a napkin as a reflex. Gowland watched everything looking a bit perplexed.
"Yeah li'l sis! Why didn't you tell us too?" Dum asked.
"Are you big sis's li'l sis, li'l sis?" Dee asked, laughing. Dum joined the laughter, getting the pun.
'Just how many more people are going to know about this...' Nightmare thought.
"Umm..." Remy stuttered. "Yes I am..? I thought you know? Who's big sis..?" She is a foreigner to this place, isn't she? Well... She's not from Wonderland, so that makes her a foreigner.
Nightmare silently smiled. At least she could figure that out by herself. Although he had to explain it deeper than that.
Boris pouted, "No I don't. Not until I listened to your heart."
The twins gasped. "You listened to her heart?!" Dum yelled.
"What does it sound like?" asked Dee.
"Oh it was like..." Boris started. But before he could finish, Remy was pulled out from their grasp into Gowland's arms.
"Hey!" the trio exclaimed.
"She just woke up. Let her be will you?" Gowland reprimanded at them.
"Put her down, ol' man!" yelled Dum.
Boris gave him a look, "Oh come on~ I passed out twice and I just wanna see her."
"Why were you passed out Boris?" Dee suddenly asked, feeling more curious to the topic mentioned.
Boris silently cursed, he wasn't supposed to say that. Now that made him look weak. He then opened his mouth to answer, but Remy beat him to say something.
"Wait wait wait!" she exclaimed.
All attention turned to her.
"Why bwother Dee and bwother Dum here? You real? Then bunny man really hit me? He's real too? A-And the infirmary? Patwick? Piws?" she asked, looking confused.
Boris and the twins looked confused too hearing her questions. "Of course it's real. We brought you in didn't we?" asked Dum.
Remy tilted her head and frowned some more.
Gowland watched her through his glasses, examining her face as he found her questions a bit strange. But he understood she was confused at the moment, and since her head was still swelling, he thought it might provoke another pain. So he took the initiative.
"Um Remy... I think you should rest some more. Here, come with Gray." He handed her to Gray, who instantly opened his arms to take her in.
She didn't understand anything currently. At all. But she did as she was told and leaned on Gray for support, who was more than glad to be depended on.
"And you three..." Gowland looked at Boris and the twins and then as he pointed to the door, he said, "Out."
"Ehh?"
Gowland pushed them out. "You're too loud. And I don't want her getting anymore headache so, get out."
"But but—" Dee started. "We wanna see li'l sis!" Dum finished.
"Yeah old man! Be reasonable!" Boris stood his ground.
"You see her already, now out." Gowland pushed them again. He could have used his guns or kicked them out the way he likes it, but Remy's around and he didn't want her to see that. So he turned to Nightmare, "Help me out here!"
Nightmare sighed at that and stood up, joining the crowd. "Leave. All of you." He pushed Boris and Gowland who were nearest to him.
"What? Not me too!" Gowland objected.
"You're loud too! She's having a headache now and all of you are making it worse!"
"But-but-this is my office!"
"Hey we don't wanna leave!"
"I don't wanna too! Ngg!"
"Urghh!"
"Hnggg!" The five of them began pushing one another.
What the hell is going on in here...
'All of you are...' Gray thought. Gray stared at the little party before sighing at their childish way of settling things. He put her down on the sofa and pushed them all out before closing the door.
Remy watched everything in silence, she didn't mind being left out in this room. She was thankful, because her headache was getting worse when Gowland and Nightmare joined them. She needed a little bit of silence. She sighed gladly and leaned on the sofa. As she waited for her head to get better, her eyes swam over the violin on the small table in front of her.
Alice walked beside Blood who was helping Elliot to walk. Poor march hare had yet to regain his balance after getting up. And so was Pierce, who was currently helped by the doctor, limping on other side. This was the first time Alice met him, and to be honest, she wasn't at all surprised at seeing another animal role holder. Though she didn't know anything about him yet beside his name, she was quite thankful that he didn't seem like any other role holders who had unique personalities or mindsets. He seemed quite normal. For now.
"Myeh. You're pretty heavy Pierce." Complained Patrick.
"But I wanna go see Lemy chu... Please chu.." Pierce whined.
Patrick sighed.
"Am I not heavy, Blood? I-I can walk by myself.." Elliot said.
"No. Don't complain." Blood replied quickly. Elliot quickly shut up. Well, he was heavy. But Blood would not say that to his friend.
Alice smiled. "Elliot, you know what to do, right?" she asked.
Elliot turned to her, "What..?"
She raised her eyebrow, "You have to say you're sorry."
The hare blinked, "...why?"
"Because you hit her, idiot!" Patrick exclaimed from the right side.
Elliot shot the ape a disgruntled look. "It was an accident."
"You still have to. I won't let you return to the mansion without saying an apology to the young lady." Blood said.
Elliot's ears went down, signing he's sulking. "Yes, Blood." He complied.
Alice smiled again and they kept on walking.
When they reached the outside of Gowland's office, they met with the kicked out party, along with Nightmare and Gray.
"What happened here?" Patrick asked. He let Pierce go so that the mouse could lean on the wall by himself as he watched the crowd of holders.
"Why are you guys outside?" asked Alice.
"Big sis!" the twins ran to her and hugged her on both side. "The lizard and that man won't let us see li'l sis!"
Alice looked at Gray and Nightmare who was referred to by the twins and raised her eyebrows.
"She just woke up and they're too loud." Nightmare said, giving an annoyed look.
Alice smiled and patted each twins on the head, "She's still recovering. You mustn't be so loud."
The twins pouted and looked at each other, "I think we're guilty brother." Said Dee. "Yeah. We were a bit too loud." Dum said.
"You can go say sorry later." Alice said.
The twins smiled and nodded.
"Why are you still here, Hatter?" spurted Gowland.
Blood offered a smile, "We no longer have any business with you today, Mary. Step aside." Blood helped Elliot walk to the door. But Gowland stood in their way.
"Where do you think you're going?" Gowland glared.
Blood watched him with his usual bored expression. "To see the young lady."
"You are not welcome here. And she's resting. So go home."
"Pardon me, Mary, but the young lady isn't a property of yours. So she's out of the negotiations, Mary. Unless... She had been marked?" Blood smirked slightly.
Gowland growled. "Quit your nonsense. She's in my office, Hatter. In my park, which is my territory. You want to go to her, you have to go through me."
Blood's smirk faltered a little as he gazed Gowland with pretty hard look.
Alice sensed the upcoming storm and immediately stepped forward, "Gowland, Elliot is just going to apologize for earlier. Then they'll leave. Right, Elliot?"
Elliot was startled a bit, "Uhh.. Yeah.."
"Not forgiven. Now leave." Gowland said.
"It's for the young lady, Mary. Get that thick nuts out of your head for once."
Gowland glared hard at Blood. He stood his ground.
"Oh for all the bananas in Wonderland just let them in!" Patrick yelled.
Gowland growled. "Only him. You're staying outside." He glared yet again towards Blood.
Blood rolled his eyes.
"It's okay Blood, I can walk by myself." Elliot pulled away from the mafia boss.
Gowland finally stood aside, his eyes never leaving Blood as Elliot went inside.
"I'm not going anywhere, Mary." Blood smiled. But Gowland still gave him a hard look.
Alice sweatdropped at their behavior. Then she heard movements beside her and noticed the doctor looking around. "What is it, doctor?" she asked.
Patrick turned to her, "Where'd Pierce go?"
Elliot walked down the office hallway in a slower pace than he usually does. His mind was still clouded, and so were his ears that still felt numb. One hell of a shriek back there. He didn't know the doctor was capable of something like that. He surely would not look down on anyone that looked docile anymore.
As he turned to the next hallway, he could see someone sitting on the floor in front of the door of the main office. His ears picked up something that made him stopped walking. It was a music. A faint tune that played smoothly. And it was coming from the main office. He continued his steps and the tune became clearer as he drew near. He stopped in front of the door, just in front of the person who he saw earlier.
He blinked confusedly at the door before lowering his head to look at the person. "Pierce?" he called.
The smiling mouse opened his eyes and looked up. "Elly chu? You can walk already?" he smiled.
"Yeah. Uhh.. What are you doing here? And what's that sound?" Elliot reached for the handle.
The mouse grabbed his hand and shook his head, "No chu! Don't." he said, half-whispered.
Elliot frowned, "Why?" he countered in half-whisper.
"Lemy's playing. Let's listen." Pierce smiled happily. He pulled Elliot down to sit in front of him.
Elliot sat down. "Lemy? Isn't her name Remy?"
Pierce nodded and leaned back on the door to listen, ignoring his question. Elliot let the music danced around his ears as he felt his body relaxed. He closed his eyes as he focused on the melodies. He never heard of this tune anywhere before. Well he's not an expert, but he knows what good music is like. And to him, this song was pretty well-played and nice. He kind of like it.
The song ended pretty quickly, much to his displeasure. And he opened his eyes.
"Aww~ I like it chu..." Pierce smiled sadly and seemed to agree with him. Then the mouse stood up. "Come on chu! Let's meet her!" he opened the door. Elliot followed as Pierce went in. "Lemy chu~"
Remy looked over her shoulder. "Piws!" she put the violin down and ran to Pierce, forgetting the little pain in her head and feet.
Pierce opened his arms and let her tackled him in a hug on the floor.
"I miss you!" they shouted simultaneously. They paused for a few seconds before laughing altogether. Pierce rose to sit with her on his lap.
"Piws, your hat." She looked at his hat that hung on one of his ears.
Pierce smiled. "Oh yes. Patty told me you keep it safe for me. Thank you chu~" he kissed her cheek.
She blushed. "Hee hee.. Thank you for taking care of me."
"You're welcome chu! Let's have sleepover sometimes chu!"
She grinned, "Yes!"
Remy saw another pair of feet behind Pierce and looked up. When she saw that it was the bunny man who hit her, she gasped and hid into Pierce's shoulder. Elliot saw her head that was bandaged and felt guilty because he knew it was because of him, and he was even guiltier when he saw her reaction towards him.
"Chu? Are you okay chu?" Pierce asked, holding her while standing up. He hoisted her to sit on his hips and he saw as she hid her face from behind him. Pierce turned around to face Elliot and saw her turned her head away from the hare. Pierce tilted his head, "What's wrong Lemy chu?"
She peeked from Pierce's upper arm and looked at the bunny man in fear.
Elliot's ears dropped. "I think she's afraid of me, Pierce."
Pierce looked at her, "Is it true chu?" when he received a nod from her, he smiled assuring. "It's okay Lemy chu. He's not going to hurt you."
But she didn't move at all, she just peeked a little before hiding her face again. Elliot sighed. He didn't think apologizing was this hard. He hardly made a mistake when he worked, and when he did, Blood always forgive him. Even so, he still apologized. But Blood looked him in the eye, while this girl was too afraid to even look at him so he didn't know how to say. And to add, that was Blood, not this girl.
Pierce hoisted her up and poked her cheek, "Lemy chu~ It's okay.. Elly just want to apologize for earlier. Hear him out..?"
Elliot watched as she looked up at Pierce before glancing down for a brief second, and then she looked at him. That's when he could clearly see her face. And he could see that she still got fear squirming in her eyes. But he would not miss this chance. So he spoke.
"I-I'm...sorry for...hitting you... It was an accident. I didn't mean to hurt you. I'm sorry." Elliot inclined his head and casted his eyes downward.
Silence filled the room as he waited for her respond. He could hear his clock ticked rather loudly and his systems felt itchy and unable to stand still. Why did he feel so nervous? He never felt so nervous when he did the same to Blood. He was nervous, but not to this extent.
Then he saw Pierce's feet stepped forward and a hand touched his head. He looked up and saw her tiny hand had reached out to him. He glanced at her face and saw her parting her lips.
"Forgiven." She said softly. And then she gave a small smile.
Elliot felt his nervousness washed away as he saw her smiling. That's enough for him to know his standing was okay. And he felt himself rose and his hand held her hand. He blinked slowly and returned the smile. "Thank you."
Her smiled grew. "What is your name, mister bunny?"
"Bunny?" Elliot echoed.
"Yes. Bunny ears. Bunny man." She pointed to his ears, which twitched slightly every time. She giggled when she saw his ears twitched again and silently wanting to touch it. It's just like Boris's ears, it twitched cutely.
Elliot shook his head, making his ears swayed left and right slightly, "I'm not a bunny. I'm Elliot March, the march hare." He smiled.
She tilted her head. "Hare? Hare and rabbit are bunnies, right?"
"Yes... Uhh. But I'm not a rabbit."
"Mister Elliot, hello! I'm Wemilia. They call me Wemy."
"Remy, right? I heard from Alice."
"Alice?" she tilted her head.
"Oh she's the other foreigner chu! She's so nice. You should meet her chu!" Pierce said.
"Really?" Another foreigner like her? That means she can't go home too? Maybe that means they can go find their way home together?
Elliot nodded. "She actually wants to meet you."
Remy stared at the both of them with wide eyes. Someone from her home! They could help each other! She smiled widely. "I want to meet her too!"
Elliot smiled. "She's outside. Why don't we go meet her now?"
She nodded. And then Pierce surprised her by kissing her cheek. "Piws?" she turned to him.
Pierce giggled. "You're so cute Lemy! I like you!"
She blushed and smiled, "Piws too. I like Piws!" she hugged him.
Pierce laughed and hugged her back.
She opened her eyes and looked at Elliot. "I like Mister Elliot too! You're nice!"
The hare startled, "Eh? B-But I hit you."
"But you say sorry." She smiled.
Elliot paused and looked away briefly. His cheek tainted with a faint pink.
"Lemy chu?"
"Hm?"
"Can you call him something else chu? It's weird when you call him mister."
"Oh? Mister Elliot, what should I call you?"
Elliot turned back to her. He couldn't help but agree with the mouse. Being called mister by her was a bit weird. "Just Elliot is fine."
"Okay. Elliot. Let's go outside! I want to see Alice!" she said excitedly.
Pierce laughed. "Okay chu!"
Elliot smiled and went first, with them throttling behind him.
"Lemy chu~" Pierce called.
"Yes?"
"Was that you who played the music?"
"Yes. You listened?"
"Yes chu! Elly too! It was beautiful~"
"Ah... Really..?"
"Yes. You played so smooth. Where did you learn to play violin?" Elliot looked over his shoulder.
She looked at him, blushing. "Um.. My sister... She plays violin every day. I learn from her."
Elliot smiled. "She taught you well then. I enjoyed it."
She blushed again. "T-Thank you..."
"Will you play again sometime chu?"
She smiled. "I-I think..."
Elliot opened the door and they stepped outside.
"Remy!" Gowland instantly took her from Pierce. "Are you alright? Did he hurt you?!"
Remy blinked her eyes confused. "Who..?"
"That monster!" Gowland pointed at Elliot.
"Wha...?" Elliot's mouth gaped.
Remy giggled. "Elliot is not a monster. He's a hare, and he's nice."
That made everyone blink.
Gowland frowned. "He hit you."
She smiled. "But he say sorry. So it's okay."
Nightmare smiled at that.
Then Pierce took her again and came over to Alice. "Lemy chu! This is Alice!"
Both girls looked each other in the eyes for a moment. This was the girl that she saw before. The one who helped Boris and the one who approached her and Pierce in Nightmare's place. She looked pretty nice.
Alice smiled to her. "Hello. I'm Alice. What's your name?"
Remy blushed a little, "Uh.. We-Wemilia..."
Alice smiled again. "Hello Remilia. Can I call you Remy too?"
Remy smiled cutely and blinked a several times, "Y-Yes..."
Alice's smile grew wider. "Nice to meet you." She offered a hand.
Remy looked at her hand then to her eyes, then she took the hand. "N-Nice to..meet you too..Alice..." She smiled back.
"Are you going back with Nightmare and Gray?" Alice asked.
Remy nodded. "Yes."
"Then I'll come to visit you."
"You will?"
Alice nodded.
Remy paused. And then she asked, "C-Can I visit you..?"
Alice laughed lightly. "Only if you're good to go."
Remy smiled and nodded.
"Well. I think it's time for us to go." Nightmare cut the conversation.
Both girls smiled once more at each other.
"See you Remy."
"See you Alice..."
Gray came and picked her up from Pierce. She waved at Alice and Alice waved her back.
"Hey li'l sis! Visit us too, okay?" Dee asked with a grin. "We'll be at the mansion!" Dum also grinned.
"Both of you got work to do." said Elliot.
"Mehh~ We don't need your opinion, chicken rabbit." Dee said. "Yeah." Joined Dum.
"Let me remind you that I can dock your pay anytime." The man with big green bow tie and big hat said.
"Eeehhh?" the twins exclaimed.
Remy giggled.
Boris stepped up in front of her and took her hands. "I'll visit too."
Remy smiled and nodded. "I'll be waiting."
"Femyy~" Patrick came up behind Boris and pushed the cat to the side. "Come visit me too!"
Boris scoffed. "You lazy doctor."
"But everytime I leave my infirmary, problems show up! I don't have to remind you what happened yesterday that made you black out." Patrick narrowed his gaze to Boris.
Boris flinched.
"Don't worry Bowis. Ghosts aren't real." Remy tried to assure him, smiling cutely to add.
Well she didn't know the truth and they agreed to let it be that way. It was embarrassing for both parties anyway. Boris sighed and just smiled at her to respond.
"And I will visit you doctor Patwick. We'll eat sandwich together again!"
"Really? Yeaaaayyy!" Patrick cheered.
Pierce came into view. "I'll visit too chu! And I'll bring a violin so you can play for me chu!"
"Eh? Play what?" Patrick asked.
"She can play violin chu! And it was so~ Beautiful~"
"Li'l sis can play music?" Dum asked.
"Yes! It was so smooth! Right Elly chu?" Pierce turned to Elliot.
"Eh? Oh. Yeah." Elliot answered.
"Hey play for us too before you leave, li'l sis!" Dee said.
"Remy, did you play my violin?" Gowland came over.
"Err..." Remy replied nervously to Gowland. "Y-Yes... Sorry..."
"So you did? Hmm... Then my skills had come down to you." Gowland muttered.
"You don't have musical skills, Mary."
"What did you say?!" Gowland turned to Blood.
"Blood..." Alice warned with a flat face.
"I said, your skills in instruments and your singing skills are the same. Insect level."
"Why you—" Gowland cracked his knuckles.
"That isn't nice, mister. You should appreciate it." Remy said.
Blood turned to Remy. "Excuse me, young lady. Were you the one who said that I should apreciate his disastrous performance?"
Remy nodded. "He tried his best."
Blood smiled. "You should hear it first before commenting something you don't even know, young lady."
Remy tilted her head. "I don't know. But I think it's nicer to say that they need to train harder. I played very bad on my first time. My sister and brother laughed at me. But I tried and now I can do it. I think Gowland can do better too if he tried. Everyone too." She smiled at them.
Gowland looked at her with shiny eyes. "Remy~"
Blood stared at her. 'Nonsense. No one can change.' He thought. He didn't think this girl was going to be like Alice. He was wrong. They were too nice, and he didn't like it. But that only made her interesting.
"You should say sorry." Remy said to him.
Blood smiled. She told him what to do while she didn't even know him yet. She thought she can make him do whatever she wanted? Interesting. Well he will prove her wrong.
"What if I don't want to?"
"Why?"
"Because it's true."
"But it's not nice."
"He has to bear with it."
"You still have to say sorry."
"Why?"
"Because you're being impolite."
"..."
"It's not nice."
"..."
The others just looked at the two of them replying to each other. They could sense the tension between them, well, from Blood's side that is. Remy looked like she was just talking in a normal situation. She was smiling a bit and looking at Blood with those sweet, salmon pink eyes of hers glazed with wonders, just like usual. While Blood, he seemed like calm, but not that kind of calm. His face showed his usual expression, but his eyes glinted, something they didn't and probably couldn't understand. Well except for Nightmare, who could read his mind. The hatter was a bit infuriated.
Nightmare decided to break the atmosphere. "Let's go home Remy. I've still got work to do." As much as he hated it, it was a better reason for them to leave.
"Oh... Okay. Bye bye everyone." Remy waved to them like nothing was wrong.
"Aha bye bye Remy! Come visit anytime!" Gowland replied instantly as they walked away.
"Bye li'l sis!" the twins waved back.
"See you Remy!" Boris waved.
"I'll visit chu!" Pierce also waved.
Alice waved too with a smile.
Remy smiled at them and waved again.
And the three of them left the Amusement Park.
Patrick scratched his fur. "I got stuff to do. Come by anytime." And he left to the direction of his infirmary.
"I'll come by Pat!" Gowland waved at him, which the doctor waved back.
"Let's go Alice! I haven't seen you in a while so let's play!" Boris took Alice's hand.
"Yeah big sis! Let's go play!" the twins joined.
"You got work you dimwits."
"Booo~"
Alice laughed awkwardly. She glanced at Blood and saw that he was still looking to the direction where the Clover residents had left. Noticing that thinking look on his face but couldn't put her finger on what he was thinking about. Then she said to the twins, "I'll come by later and we could play something."
"Really?" The twins eyes' sparkled. Alice nodded. "Yaayyy!"
"Blood?" Elliot called after a few minutes calling him but receiving no answer from him.
"We're leaving." The mafia boss walked off to a direction without saying anything again.
Elliot blinked at his boss and hurried after him.