NOTE: The story will follow Alice even though it won't be from her point of view.

Chapter 1

"Good morning Julius," said a girl with light brown hair and sea-green eyes. She was wearing a blue Lolita dress.

Julius- A man with long blue hair tied back in a pony tail with blue eyes; wearing a black jacket and several clocks- mumbled something incoherent in response.

She smiled and went into the kitchen to make him some coffee. When it was finished, she brought the mug of coffee over to Julius.

"Thank you Alice," Julius said as she set the coffee down on the table next to him. She watched as he took that first sip of coffee in anticipation. After a minute he said, "Seventy-nine points."

Alice looking crestfallen replied, "Aw, but that's so low!"

Julius shrugged and would have responded if the door had not opened at that moment. A man with short navy blue hair and yellow eyes stood in the door way. He had a long black coat on with sheathed knives on the sleeves and in other places. Despite the knives, Alice smiled at him when he walked in and said, "Good morning Gray."

"Hello Alice. I need you and Julius to come with me. We have a visitor who demands to meet with all of the tower residents," he said.

Julius sighed annoyed that he had to interrupt his work but got up and went to the door anyway. He walked out of his office and Alice followed. Gray led them into another room with a lot of chairs. Nightmare – a man with gray hair, gray eyes in a black jacket- was deep in conversation with a girl in a white dress. She was tall, had blue eyes and white hair and a small crown on her head that royalty would wear.

"Are these all of the residents of Clover Tower?" the girl asked looking at each of them in turn.

"Yes," Nightmare replied. He must have been reading her mind because he then answered an unspoken question with, "Alice is our in-residence foreigner."

She looked surprised for a moment but then recomposed herself How interesting," she said with a kind smile towards me. "It is a pleasure to have you all here in my kingdom," she continued.

Alice, Gray and Julius all wore similar looks of confusion. Nightmare on the other hand looked shocked and ran to the window.

"What is it Nightmare-sama?" Gray asked walking over to the window.

"You aren't in the country of Clovers anymore," she said as Alice and Julius joined Nightmare and Gray by the window. The window was looking out over a forest. There were three castles on the horizon. There was a castle of white to the left, a castle of red to the right and the castle of hearts in between them.

"Where are we?" Alice asked.

"You are all in the country of Diamonds. My name is Rose. I am the queen of the white castle," said the girl.

"Who else is living here?" Alice asked.

"The queen of the red castle and the scientist who is also the Jabberwock live in the country of Diamond with me," Rose said.

"Oh," said Alice thinking that she would not like to cross paths with the Jabberwock guy.

Nightmare smiled and said to Alice, "I can't blame you for not wanting to meet him. The Jabberwock is a creepy guy. Last time I saw him, he was a total sadist and one of the cruelest men in wonderland. Did that change at all Rose?" Nightmare asked.

"Well now he says that he tortures them in the 'name of science.'" she put air quotes around those last three words and turned to Julius saying, "He may stop by soon. He can't get rid of any of the clocks of his deceased workers so he may come to drop them off."

"The afterimages didn't get them from him?" Julius said sounding like he didn't believe it.

"Something along the lines of that, he said something about the afterimages being too scared of him to approach his lair. He doesn't want to leave them out for fear that someone will come and smash them and then he'll be in even more trouble. I only know what he tells me," she said apologetically.

Julius looked annoyed at the prospect of having to deal with a bunch of new clocks. Gray was talking to Nightmare quietly and Alice was looking at Rose. Rose was looking out of the window again.

"It appears as though the Hatters have arrived. I have yet to greet the residents of the castle of hearts so I must get going. It was lovely to see you all and so nice to meet you Alice. If you have anything to say to me, feel free to visit, all of you." Rose said looking at them all again before she headed out of the door.

When Rose left the room Nightmare said, "Well it looks like the white queen was replaced.

"All that really changed about her was her appearance, otherwise I would think she was still Violet given the way that she behaves," Gray commented.

"She seemed very nice," Alice said.

"The white queen and the red queen usually are. They are both very nice people and are easy to get along with even though they are very different. The one here that you want to watch out for is the Jabberwock. He makes the Jokers and the Bloody twins look tame," Nightmare explained.

Alice was frighted at the mere thought of meeting this violent man when Julius interrupted her thought by saying, "Weren't you going to go and borrow books from Blood?"

"Oh yeah I was," Alice said letting her need for more books to read wipe out the thoughts of the creepy Jabberwock.

She looked out of the window again and saw that the amusement park had appeared in the distance too. Everyone was here in Diamond now. She smiled and walked out of the door saying "See you later!"

"Do you think that she'll be alright on her own?" Gray asked.

"I'm sure she'll be fine," Julius said heading back to his office.

O_O Well that was a quick update...(sometimes I scare myself)

Now let me make this clear before you all come to kill me for a "Mary-Sue" In my story. Rose is not a Mary-Sue... I only named her Rose because I named the Red queen Lily (aren't lilies normaly white? yes? no? maybe?) Well I tried to name each girl after a flower that was the same color as the other girl's role/castle/dress... Does that make any sense? (I thought it was funny... :|)

Well I'm offically on Winter Break (YAY!) And I guess... I'll be around (if I'm not playing JOKER NO KUNI NO ALICE (:D :D :D)... Tee hee) and I will probably update soon.

Happy Holidays.