*runs past followed by mob* I apologize for lateness and shortness! Please review *Puss In Boots eyes*

A warm hand was rubbing his head. Alex mumbled, and rubbed his head into the hand, in his typical cat-like fashion.
"His fever seems to have broken. Why did you bring him here, rabbit?"
The voice was so familiar. An image of a man with blue hair, scowling slightly at him, as he scrambled up onto his lap flashed before his eyes.
"Julius," he mumbled, cracking his eyes open to peer in the general direction of the man he thought was simply a story.

All his breath in him whooshed out of him as a red waistcoated (1) figure glomped him. Reacting without thinking he grabbed hold of the long, white ears and pulled them- Hard. A pair of large reproachful eyes met his. Alex lolled backwards as another image smashed its way into his brain.

A human with fluffy ears glomphed his Mama, knocking him into the fountain. He pushed himself up and gave serious thought to bursting into tears. He settled for grabbing hold of the fluffy ears and snuggled into them. The owner let out a wail and released his mama, who scooped him up along with a small clinking bag and ran, with him laughing in joy all the way.

When he awoke he was in a world filled with mist. Alex sat up and glanced patiently around him.
"You are surprisingly calm, you know. You're mother believed that all of this was a dream."
"But I remember Nightmare. Are you still sick?" Alex asked, tilting his head back and glanced at the upside down incubus.
000ooo000
*memory*
"Nightmare! You shouldn't be exerting yourself! Or have you forgotten?"
Nightmare glanced at the furious foreigner, who was glaring at him with her hands firmly planted on her hips. His already pale face turned paler. Covering his mouth, he burst into another coughing fit. A small hand pressed a dark blue handkerchief to his lips. Nightmare smiled at the yawning toddler, who had a small purple bear clasped in his arms.
*end memory*

"You can still remember all of that?" Nightmare said, in sheer disbelief.
Alex nodded and began to say more but a strange pulling sensation drew him out of the dream world and back into the Country of Hearts.
000ooo000

(1) Is Waistcoated even a word?