Characters from Heart no Kuni no Alice by Quinrose

Written by me

AU=Alternate Universe


"Is she still sleeping?" Who is that?

"Yeah, and shut up will you? You're going to wake her up!" There's another voice.

"Then let's wake her up! We want to play with big sister!" Can't I just sleep?

"Didn't I tell you brats to shut up?! She needs sleep!" You're not helping.

"You all need to quite down. The young lady is tired when she finally decided to come and visit us. You can see her again when she open her eyes, for now go back to work." Yeah, just listen to your boss and leave me alone to rest.

How did I know he was the boss? And haven't I heard those voices before?

I just wanted to sleep.

-.x.-

I think I heard of this story before... More like seen it before.

It's three o'clock and I'm at the garden like I'm always do during Sunday afternoon. Today is different though, I'm not with my sister instead I'm with a white rabbit. The rabbit was hopping away while I was chasing it till the white rabbit hop in to a rabbit hole. I want to chase it so I jump in and…

"Wrong dream Alice."

…blank. What was I dreaming about?

-.x.-

I woke up to see I'm in a room that I'm not familiar of. Whose room is this and how did I get here? I get off from the bed and felt a sting at my knee only to see it had been treated but it's still hurts a little. I went to the door and open it to see two kids who look very alike, the only difference is the color of their cloth and eyes. They were sitting in front of my door as if they waited for her.

"Ah! Big sis woke up brother."

"You're right brother! Now she can finally play with us."

The two boys look very happy to see me, too happy that is. As I took a step back, they came closer and reached for my hand. I was planning to go back into the room until I heard someone shouting. "Oi! You brats. Are you ditching work again?"

Both of the boys turn their head to the older man who's walking nearer them while holding a stack of papers. "Nu-uh! We are on our break." The red-eyed boy answered. "Every time is a break to you brats!" The older man protested. "We have been guarding the gates for four hours straight already! We deserve a break." "So we're going to play with big sis all day long!" As they said this they clung to me tighter. I didn't even realize that they have been hugging me this all time.

"Stop clinging on her you idiots! She's probably still tired of all that running!" Running? That's right, I was running away from something and fell of the cliff. Did they save me? My thought was disturbed when the kids whispered loudly to each other.

"The stupid chicken rabbit is jealous brother." "It seems so brother." A vein popped out of the man's forehead and almost dropped the papers he has been holding onto. "If you two won't stop bothering her and do your work, I'll tell Blood and cut off your salary!" The man yelled something about not being a rabbit but my view was blocked and the twins face was now in front of me saying things like that they want to stay with me longer with tears threatening to fall down. I just couldn't say no to them but- "If you two finish your work first I promise to play with you." Of course they would be pouting but they're quite reasonable when they agreed and quite adorable as well. I couldn't help myself to let out a small laugh. Then I almost have forgotten something important.

"Umm, I'm really grateful that you all had save and also taken care of me."

The hallway suddenly becomes quite and no one decide to move until the twin crooked a grin.

"That's right we saved big sis!"

"Does that mean we can-"

Their sentence got broke when the older man hit both of the boys with his free hand turn to a fist while his other hand is carrying the stack of papers all by itself. "Don't start making up stories just to play. Besides you lot still need to do your work even if that was true." I look at the man sighed while the twin pouted. Saying that they were lying and wanted all the credit, does that mean he's the one who saved me? I almost open my mouth again to speak, but the same man beat me to it.

"Actually I also tried to kill you when we saw you at the entrance gate."

He looks at me with soft eyes and apologetic smile. Did I hear it right? No, don't look at me like that when you just said you all tried to kill me while I pass out. And stop bickering when I'm still here all of you!

"Then who exactly brought me here?"

Getting irritated by this I muttered this words loudly so that everyone here can hear me.

"Huh? Oh, sorry about that."

His ears perk up when heard my question. That's when I realize his rabbit ears. It reminds me of my old stuff animals' back at home. Oh how I miss to brush and hold them tightly in my embraced whenever I felt anxious. I have to restrain myself from taking out all my confusion/anger at it.

The older man let out a cough and straightens his posture and dismisses the boys, which they obediently do so, muttering some words along the way.

"The one who you should be thanking to is Blood. He's the one who told us that you're a traveler and someone needed to be taken care of with full attention. I didn't believe you came as a guest!"

He seems very excited to know this, like how the boys did earlier. I guess every where I go, everyone will know that I'm not from here, that I'm a traveler who'll be in the town for a period of time before travels again, and in the mean time, I must greeted like a guest or ignored like an outsider.

"Would you please tell me where this person is? I need to send my thanks to him for saving me."

I bowed my head a little, not parting my eyes from him (his ears she mean). The rabbit-eared man was in thought for a while before he opens his eyes and forms a big smile on his face and words came out of his mouth.

-.x.-

After thanking the man, I tried searching the way out of the mansion. After a few turns around the corner, I'm finally at the garden, nearly. I found a rather long table with chairs around in line. The tablecloth seems new and perfectly clean without a stain, a teapot and two cups placed on top of the table. A cup of tea still untouched, and was left alone for a period of time on how cold it's already is. While the other cup across the table was empty, as if someone was sitting there before enjoying the tea with his or her companion that didn't.

As I continue to walk in the territory in search of someone, I found myself in a beautiful rose garden. It's an entrancing place that I can't even blink my eyes off and needed to memorize. I finally blink my eyes and felt been drag back to what I'm supposedly to do when the wind blown get stronger. Just right then, my eyes widen of disbelief of what I just saw. In the garden of red rose, there stood a man that I never thought of see again.

.

"Ah, I think he's still in the garden, drinking tea alone, as if he's waiting for someone."


It's have been 4 months isn't it? Sorry for the long wait. The book I have been filling with for my stories ideas is gone and I couldn't find it for the past 2-3 months! And now I have to re-think everything including the other story I thought of. I finally know what to write in this chapter! Now I either need to think of what to write for the next chapter or write another story.

This chapter is more like Alice p.o.v. By the way, I edited the past chapter a little. Instead of using clocks, I use papers instead, weird right? I only change clocks to papers, that's all so you don't need to re-read it.