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#5

Hurricane

Alice smiled at him as he passed her desk on his way to his office after refilling his teapot.

Jervis returned the smile, feeling it welling up in him, the storm that always made an appearance around Alice. He entered his office and shut the door tightly.

Ari rolled her eyes as she passed by the doorway. "Honestly! The sexual tension and unspoken love between the two of them is going to kill someone someday. They really need to do something about it."

Zeek chuckled as he followed along behind her. "Don't you mean you should do something about it, Kitty? It does fall under your duties doesn't it?"

Ari shot him a look over her shoulder. "Shut it Knave. Hare's bet me a week's worth of tarts that I'll have to get them together. I'd rather not lose that bet."

Zeek grinned. "Why? What'd you bet him?"

Ari paused and looked back at the doorway to where Jervis and Alice were with narrowed eyes. "If they don't get together on their own, I have to test his latest culinary creations. I have no wish to get food poisoning." She continued on to her desk.

*~*~*~*

Jervis sighed as he sipped his tea. He wished there was something else he could do.

The storm had finally disappeared, as had the mad thoughts that always came with it. The urge to kiss Alice, to do anything to get her to notice him as something other than her boss had fled. They had fled and left him drained.

Jervis always felt a hurricane boiling in his blood whenever he saw Alice smile at him, a shockwave of electricity that begged him to do something dangerous and downright mad, and it took him several minutes alone in his office before he'd be able to emerge with clear skies again.

It was little wonder that most of the company thought he was a recluse instead of just devoted to his work.

Hare chuckled from the other side of the small mirror in Jervis' office as he pocketed the little bottle containing a precise mixture of Electric Madness and Timidness he'd gotten from the new White Queen.

"You do know that Cheshire will skin you alive if she ever finds out you've been spiking the King's tea with that since you made that bet with her, don't you?" the White Rabbit asked his utterly deranged cousin.

Hare grinned at him. "Come now White. 'Ow's Ches ever gonna find out? Yer not going to tell 'er now are ye?"

White sighed, his whiskers drooping. "I really should."

"But ye wouldna want that wee fine lass of yers to find out about what ye did, would ye?" Hare returned.

"Oh, she already knows about that Hare. She doesn't care since she loves him anyway." came Zeek's voice from behind them. "And if you don't mind, I'll take that bottle. I can't wait to see what Kitty is going to do to you for this."

Hare paled as he turned to face Zeek. "Ye woulna do that to a poor ol' March 'Are, would ye Kanve? I've got a wife an' a warren of kits to think of."

Zeek took the bottle from his pocket. "Should have thought about them before trying to cheat Cheshire."

Hare covered his face with his paws. "I'm doomed!"