Chapter 2

Circus of Wonderland

I woke up in a bed with the sheets covering me. "Ah! Joker! She's awake." I heard a voice. I looked over seeing White and Black standing next to the bed.

"M-Mister White? Mister Black?" I asked. "What happened?"

"You fainted, sweetheart." said White with a smile.

"Oh."

I sat up and rubbed my eyes sleepily. "How long have I been asleep, Mister White-"

I was caught off by Black yelling at me.

"Cut the Mister shit already!" I jerked my head in Black's direction.

"B-but..." I trailed off I was never told not to call anyone Mister, I did once and mother slapped me later when we were alone, saying that I was being disrespectful and unladylike.

"Mommy will find out and punish me again..."

"Punish you?" questioned both the Jokers.

I nodded and looked at the ground with a sad frown, tears brimming in my eyes.

"Mommy said that it was disrespectful and unladylike to not refer someone as Mister or Miss. So she punished me when I forgot to..."

I heard Black scoff. "Stupid whore."

"Indeed, Joker." agreed White.

"But she isn't here now! So she cant punish you!" Black said looking away from me and at his brother.

"Yes, so you do not need to call us by such formalities." said White.

White kneeled in front of me and made me look at him. His smile still on his face. Black stood beside him looking down at me with his arms crossed.

"It makes me feel old." I knew White was joking and was just trying to cheer me up, and it worked I laughed and smiled.

"Okay!"

"So what are our names?" asked White.

"Mis-" I quickly caught myself and corrected myself.

"White and Black Joker!"

White smiled and wiped some tears that escaped. "Good girl." White leaned closer to my face and his lips touched my cheek in a soft kiss on the cheek.

"So what now, White, Black?" I asked. "What's the next step to the game?"

White pulled his face away and looked at me. "You-" White was cut off by Black.

"Become our toy!"

"Your toy?" I asked confused.

White chuckled. "Pay no mind to him. You have to interact with other role holders."

"How do I do that? I don't know how to get out of here or where the other people are..." Don't tell me I have to go out alone and look for them!

"Well that's the...fun part of the game! You have to go find them." said White.

"F-find them? Alone?" I asked with slight worry in my voice. I didn't want to go out alone. I usually get lost and some sort of creeper will find me and then there's no chance of knowing what they'll do.

"Yes, you have to do it alone." White said looking quite confused as to why I would ask.

"O-oh okay..." I said quietly.

"Is there something wrong?" asked White.

I said nothing and hanged my head. I was terrified to tell you the truth. Tears brimmed my eyes and threaten to fall. What if I get lost? I sniffed and a tear fell. What if I get killed and never get to see mommy again? More tears fell and I let out a sob.

I felt a hand being place under my chin and made me look up. White was staring at me with his bright red eye. Looking at him it made me break down and cry. I sobbed rather loudly. I didn't want to leave and go out alone! I'm scared enough as it is. I was lost before White found me.

"Why the fuck are you crying?!" asked Black

"I-I don't...wanna go...alone!" I said in between sobs.

"Why?" questioned White, who hugged me nuzzling his head into the crook of my neck.

"Because I'll get lost and then some creeper will find me and kill me!" I said sobbing but it was rushed.

Black came over and sneered. "And who the fuck told you that? Your mom?"

How did he know? I looked at him in shock. "Seriously? She told you that!" Black growled and placed his hand on my head. "Dumbass." I stared at Black. "You don't have to have believe everything your mother says."

Black leaned down and kissed my forehead. Is it me or is this kinda not... how should I say this, umm Black-like? I felt my face heat up and my sobs came to a slow stop.

"But m-"

"Well you're mother is wrong!" Black said. White removed his head from my neck and looked at me.

"He's right. Your in Wonderland, you can do whatever you like, when you want it, with no one to stop you." purred White.

"Whatever I want?" I asked. They nodded.

"Whatever you want."

I smiled. No mommy means... NO MORE RULES! I smiled brightly. "No more rules!" I cheered. Both Jokers stared at me and White smiled as Black scoffed. I jumped in my seat clapping more hands. Mommy's rules were strict, very strict no more picture book, or playing outside, no playing with toys...Toys! I can go play with the toys now!

"White, Black! Can I go play with those toys now?" I asked excitedly. Black sighed in annoyance.

"I can't have a kid running around my prison!" said Black looking at his twin. "You take pipsqueak with you."

"Alright." agreed White.

I looked up at White as he held out his hand. "Come along, dear. How about we go to the Circus?" asked White.

I gasped and exclaimed, "The Circus?!" I remembered my experience there that's where I first went and was scared out of my mind. What about those weird eyeless people? They were scary people.

"B-but! What about those weird people?" I shakily asked.

"Weird people?" asked Black. "She's already been to the Circus?"

"Ah, yes she has. I saw her out in the crowd and then she ran away and I found her outside the circus in our forest." White said recalling what happened. "She probably seen a faceless and got confused and scared."

"Faceless?" I asked. "Those weird people with no eyes?"

"Yes, those are faceless. Their roles in the game is not important as those who are role holders." explained White.

"Yeah, like me and Joker here!" said Black.

"You can tell the difference between role holders and faceless. Role holders have eyes." White said continuing explaining and pointed to his eyes. "So does that make me a role holder, too?" I asked.

Black laughed and pointed at me.

"You? A fuckin' role holder! You would get killed on the spot if you were!"

I pouted. "Black, you're so mean!" I whimpered feeling like I was going to cry.

"Get use to it!" sneered Black. White also chuckled and said, "No. You are the foreigner, the player of this game. Since you came from the outside world."

"Oh okay!" I smiled at the Jokers.

"So shall we go to the circus? Maybe you can be in my show." said White who was thinking about the last part.

"Okay! Let's go White!" I exclaimed jumping excitedly. White chuckled some more before smiling and grabbing my hand.

"Then let us be on our way" White pulled me with him as he walked away. I turned and waved to Black.

"Bye-bye Black! See you later!" I said before continuing on with White.

"A-are you sure this i-is safe, White?" I asked from the small platform with the high wire attached to it.

White, who was standing in front of me with his hand outstretched for me to grab, gave me a reassuring smile. "I'm sure it's safe. There is a net below to catch you if you fall, but I wouldn't let that happen."

I swallowed the lump in my throat that was beginning to form and took a small step forward, grabbing White's hand and trying my best to not look at the ground. White's grip tightened as I took another step as he took one backwards until we were in the middle of the high wire. I was to afraid to look down so I kept my eyes on White. There was NO WAY I was going to look down, not even if BLACK showed up in a pink girly frilly dress. Okay, I might look down then fall to my doom laughing.

"Okay. Now put your left foot forward." instructed White. White was teaching me a dance on the high wire for an act in his Circus, and I agreed to it. But I was having fun! I did as he said and stepped forward, crossing over his right.

"Now stretch your arm towards me."

I stretched the hand I wasn't using toward him. He grabbed it tightly and explained the next moves that I was to do. Personally the next one scared me. He dipped me backwards and swung me to his side and my right foot was placed behind me as I was looking at White. He was in the same place and he smiled at my scared face. I felt like I was going to fall! It was like I was going to slip and he'd let me fall. Some tears fell from my face out of fright but White wiped them away. White reassured me with a smile before we continued dancing.

Everything was going great! We were on the last move that was a turn before he dipped me again. We finished and as I was about to stand straight my foot slipped and I fell backwards. I gasped as I seen Joker's figure get smaller as I fell farther from the high wire. Joker just stood there with a smile as I fell. I didn't have the voice to scream, I was just falling. I was shocked that White didn't catch me or anything, he said I wouldn't fall. I cried as I looked to see how close the ground was. I was maybe 2 minutes away from being dead, I closed my eyes and braced for the impact.

I felt myself land into a pair of strong arms, and the person had a rough grip. I peeked my eyes open and stared at the person who caught me and gasped.

"B-Black?!"

My tears came out more as I hugged Black and began to sob. Black tensed but he didn't do anything as I cried on his shirt.

"Good catch, Joker!" I hear White say through my loud crying.

"You fucking idiot! Now she won't quit crying!" Black yelled as he glared at me.

"Why try when you were there?" White asked almost jokingly. "Now now, don't cry."

Although I knew White was assuring that I was safe and everything, it didn't work. Would you stop crying right after you fell of a thin rope from a height of, what was that about 3 stories high or something? How much is that in feet?
"Shut the fuck up!" yelled Black.

I opened my eyes in shock at Black yelling so loud and that only made me cry more. Doesn't he know you're not suppose to be yelling at a child who is crying? Black would so not like having kids, the minute the baby cry's, he either yells or shoots it for being loud. Would that surprise you? Because I'm sure Black isn't great with kids.

"You're making it worse, Joker. Quit yelling at her." I heard White's voice scold Black. "Let's take her back to the prison, that way when she's done she can sleep."

Soon I felt a cold draft come up my dress and caused me to shudder not only from the cold but from crying. Black set me down on the bed and stared at me waiting for me to stop. White kneeled in front of me and hugged me.

"I'm sorry, sweetheart. I know it was scary" he said. I latched onto White and cried, but not as much as before. I was slowly coming to a stop with my crying and was nuzzling into White's neck.

"At least she's finally stopping." I heard Black say. My sobbing turned into whimpers that turned into sniffling. White stroked my hair saying that it was alright and I felt another set of hands touch my cheek. I stared at Black before going back to nuzzling White, you'd think it was out of character for him to be caring and kind. I knew I wanted to go back up on the high wire and try again but I just can't, but White really wanted to do it too so I guess I will go and do it. For White at least he's been so nice to me since I came here.

I felt something soft come in contact with my cheek, something a bit wet too. I shifted my eyes to look at what it was. It was a pair of lips and seen it was the red headed Warden. The same feeling appeared on my forehead. White's lips placed themselves gently upon my head. I felt my cheeks heat up and my eyes got heavy. I yawned and snuggled into White.

"White?" I sleepily asked. He hummed as his response as he layed us down, I guess White's sleepy, too.

"I..."

I yawned again before continuing.

"I still wanna do that high wire thing."

I felt the bed sink in behind me as Black joined the pile on the bed. I felt Black lay his arm across my waist and snuggled against me. I giggled lazily due to Black's breath tickling the back of my neck. White held my hand and brought it to his lips kissing it. "If you wish to, my dear." he said before placing the blankets over us and snuggled against me, too.

"Good Night, Black...Good Night White..." I trailed off and let the feeling of sleep take over me.