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Its days like this, Nicky thinks she's been too lenient with Amelia. Or, at least, wished she had knocked the evil, conniving, and underhanded part of her personality out. She refuses to acknowledge the fact that she was the one who implanted and nurtured those traits. That fact doesn't matter to her. The fact that does matter is that Amelia is now using those traits against Nicky, and Nicky doesn't like it.
That fact, once again, made itself blatantly obvious as Nicky looked up at the screaming metal death trap before her. The shrieks emitting from it as it descended its deep slops are a mix of joy and gut retching fear. The sounds made her gulp. There are few things that scare Nicky. Rollercoasters and anything else that lifts you high in the air, and drops you down at breath taking speeds, just so happen to fall into that category. It didn't help that the "safety first policy" didn't exist in Gowland's amusement park. In truth, she found any safety policies to be nonexistent before she came here.
Nicky had nearly pummeled Gowland when she first saw the "rides" he allowed Amelia on. She may not have been a mechanic, and didn't know the technical factors involved in construction, but she sure as hell knew a rollercoaster needed seatbelts and shouldn't drop at a ninety-fucking-degree angle! It didn't help that most of the times she saw him, she could never take Gowland seriously. The bright yellow jacket and absurdly adorable animal masks just made it impossible. It never accorded to her that he only wore those masks when Amelia was around. If she knew the reason for them, she would find herself with begrudged respect for the older man. Alas, she doesn't. So Gowland is dubbed the "childish-pedobear" by her.
"Come on Nicky! It's almost our turn to get on!"
"Yeah, hurry up!" Nicky broke from her musing at the sound of Amelia and Boris urging her towards the metal torture device—I mean ride. The two were bouncing in place, barely waiting to get on with excited grins. The baker let out a sigh, and clenched her fists in her pockets, trying to calm herself down. Boris is lucky as hell Amelia likes him so much and that he's a generally good guy, or she'd have skinned the reckless cat by now. It didn't help that, whenever Amelia and Boris were together, they wore almost matching outfits. Her eyebrow twitches, remembering the first time she saw Amelia wearing, the almost the same, one-piece dress version of Boris's outfit. The fake pink tipped purple cat ears only added fuel to the fire. As well as the fact that Boris called HER Amy, Amy and that she called him her big brother. Yeah, the cat boy was VERY lucky. It helped that Dee and Dum were jealous that Amelia called Boris her brother and not them, led to a lot of funny fights.
"Alrighty then~! Please take a seat in an available cart and wait for an employee to fasten you in~!" Right before Amelia could run with Boris to the front cart, a hand stopped her. "I apologize young Miss, but you're too short for this ride." The faceless employee gave Amelia an apologetic look. Amelia just looked hurt and confused. The hurt in her eyes pissed Nicky and Boris off to no end.
"Hey! What's the big deal? She's been on plenty of times before," Boris hissed at the faceless. "Just ask the old man! She has clearance!" The faceless woman flinched and cowered away from the angry role holder.
"I'm sorry but the rules clearly state—"
"Listen here, Amy wants to ride the damn thing, so she's riding it." Nicky's glare caused the park employee to freeze. "END of discussion!" The woman nodded fearfully as Nicky grabbed Amelia's hand and led her to the front cart with a grinning Boris following. Amelia stuck her tongue out at the shaking employee. She loved how her crocodile tears almost always got her what she wanted.
As they took their seats, with Amelia in the middle, Nicky finally realized want she's gotten herself into and slapped her forehead. She just got played and blew her only chance to avoid riding the damn coaster. But, looking at Amelia's smiling face as she talked to Boris about how much fun the ride was going to be, made her "tsk" in annoyance at herself. As long as it makes Amelia happy, Nicky will tolerate a few near death experiences. The woman flinched as another park employee secured her into the cart, and watched closely as he did the same to Amelia and Boris. She let out a sigh, thinking what the worst that could happen?
"All right everyone, please keep your hands and feet inside the ride while it's in motion~! You'd hate to lose them along the way, hehe~!" Nicky gripped her safety device for dear life at what the cheery voice said. Her knuckles turned white, from gripping so tightly, as the ride started to slowly move. Peaking to her left, she noticed Boris bouncing excitedly in his seat with a huge grin on his face. What confused her was that Amelia was oddly quiet as the ride slowly climbed the very high, very steep slope. She got slightly worried when she saw the girl shaking, thinking Amelia was getting scared. However, when she saw the demonically excited smirk that took over the girl's face when they reached the ride's highest point, Nicky felt like pissing herself. That look told her this ride was going to be torture for her.
"Fuck yeah." Nicky heard Amelia quietly say, holding up the rock-on hand sign, as the ride stopped for a second at the tip. And just like that, they were plummeting to earth at an impossibly fast rate. For the next two minutes, all that could be heard throughout Wonderland were the thrilled laughter and cries of "FASTER, FASTER" of Amelia and Boris and the horrified screeches of Nicky begging for the ride to stop. And it did, after going through nine separate loops and six steep drops, both going forward and backwards. When the ride came to a close, it took Boris prying Nicky's hands off the ride to get the petrified woman to let go. Visible indentations could be seen on the safety bar that held Nicky securely into the ride.
Amelia just happily skipped ahead of the teen and the terrified young woman he was supporting. She looked back at them and felt a little guilty for taking Nicky onto the rollercoaster; the woman looked half-dead and like she needed a trash can to bow down to while she emptied her stomach. It almost reminded her of when she, Boris, and Gowland managed to drag Julius on the same ride, only she thought Julius' half-dead look and puking was hilarious. But since this was Nicky, it wasn't as funny. After all, Nicky is to Amelia as Julius is to Ace, only slightly different.
Looking around, the little girl saw a refreshment stand and figure Nicky could use something cool to drink. "Hey big brother," the cat boy look at the little girl, "go find us somewhere to sit. I'll get Nicky something for her stomach." Giving the girl a nod, Boris practically carried Nicky to a pick nick table close to a convenient trashcan. Amelia flinched as she saw Nicky become best friends with said trashcan, all while Boris held back her hair with a disgusted facial expression. Yeah, she wasn't taking Nicky on anymore REALLY big rides for a while, the Tilt-A-Whirl was still happening though. Maybe not right now, but definitely after Nicky's stomach liked her again. As the little girl waited in line, she didn't notice two twin boys spotting her in the crowd and sharing matching devilish smirks.
Dee and Dum came to the Amusement Park with Blood and Elliot for negotiations, which turned into a shootout…again. After the "negotiations" the twins swore they heard Amelia's the thrilled yells, and went to investigate, ditching their superiors. They were very pleased with their findings. Boris was assisting a barfing Nicky, leaving them both too distracted to pay attention to THEIR little sister. Yes, their little sister, not Boris' little sister. She was theirs because they claimed her first; not him, them, so she's not his, she's theirs. The logic made perfect sense in their little, devilish, childish minds. Just like how Amelia figured Peter belonged to her because Mr. Gibblies gave him to her. The rabbit man was her toy in a similar sense to her being the twins' little sister. It was a possessive, childish, selfishness that guided those thoughts.
"You grab her on three and then we make a break for the exit." Dum whispered from around the corner of a game stand. Dee nodded in agreement and transformed into his older form, not taking his eyes off Amelia.
"One…two…THREE!" The next thing Amelia knew, she was lifted into the air by a large pair of hands and was being quickly carried out of the Amusement Park. Blinking in confusion, Amelia looked at her captors and smiled.
"Hi Dee! Oh! And you too Dum! What are you guys doing?"
"We're kidnapping you!" It was Dee who answered with a grin.
"Yeah, Boris and Nicky were hogging you again and we wanted to play!" Amelia just giggled at Dum's reasoning.
"You know you could have just asked to play with us." She would have loved having her four best friends together. They always had a blast!
"No, we only want to play with you, little sis! We're tired of sharing with everyone else!" Amelia blinked in confusion at their words before blushing. She still wasn't used to being friends with people close to her age and still got embarrassed when the twins said those kinds of things. She only figured that's how friends close in age talked and thought as little on it as she could…the poor twins.
"Ughhhhhh…" Nicky looked up from her new best friend and back at Boris before looking around the immediate area. A frown marred her green face. "Oi, cat, where the hell's Amy?"
"Oh, she went to get you a drink. She's right over…" When Boris pointed to the refreshment stand Amelia was at, his words died down.
"Cat, where is Amy?" Nicky's face quickly reverted back to its original color at Boris' panicked face.
"She-she was right there!"
"'WAS'! WHERE THE FUCK IS SHE?!" The two quickly shot up from the bench and ran to the stand, ignoring the faceless parents covering their children's ears at Nicky's language. Nicky shoved her way through the line and grabbed the worker by the collar of his shirt. She growled, "Where did Amy go?"
"Wh-wh-who?" The poor man was shaking in fear.
"Little girl, long blonde hair, blue eyes, dressed like this retard," she gestured to Boris, "did you see where she went?"
"Oh! Yes, I remember her! The Bloody Twins took her right when she was about to order!" A dark look took over Nicky's face. She was really getting sick of people kidnapping Amelia, or at least trying to. If it wasn't enemies of the role holders, it was the Jokers. If it wasn't the Jokers, it was Peter. If it wasn't Peter, it was Dee and Dum. Honestly, she wondered how Amelia survived Wonderland before she showed up.
"Dumbass," Boris glared at Nicky's nickname for him when Amelia wasn't around, "we're going to Hatter Mansion. The twins got her." She marched right past the punk teen.
"You know I could teleport us there, right?"
"Last time we did that, we walked in of Blood and Alice getting freaky." They both shuddered at the memory. "I'm not a fan of repeating history."
"It was an accident!"
"Don't care, now move your leather clad ass!" And so, they continued their march to Hatter Mansion, determined to take their Amy from the devilish twins. Though, Boris didn't really mind the alone time with Nicky. He just wished he knew what her issue with him, and the majority of Wonderland's population, was.
When they finally reached the mansion, they walked right through the unguarded gates and straight towards the twins' room. Or they would have marched straight to the twins' room if they didn't hear a commotion coming from the kitchen. They quickly redirected their path. Slamming the door open, they stared at the sight before them with blank expressions.
There was Amelia and Elliot, each sitting on a bound and gagged twin, eating left over carrot cake and surrounded my an assortment of different other desserts. Nicky stomped up to Amelia.
"Hey Nicky, want some-OW!" Nicky swatted the back of Amelia's head, ignoring the heated, muffled protests from the twins. "What was that for?!
"It was for getting yourself kidnapped, AGAIN!"
"But it was just Dee and Dum!"
"That's not the point! You had me and Boris worried sick!" At Nicky's words, Amelia looked down, honestly upset.
"Sorry, Nicky." Nicky really hated how weak she was to Amelia's sad face.
"Yeah, whatever, just try not to let it happen again, got it?" Nicky let out a sigh when Amelia nodded. Glancing at Elliot, she nodded to him in acknowledgment. "Well, at least Elliot's here. I swear he's the only one I can trust to watch your ass." The faint blush on said hare's cheeks and the slight perk of his ears went unnoticed by the other occupants in the room.
"Hey! What about me?!" Boris felt more than a little insulted by her words.
"What about you?" Her face was so blank, and her tone so flat, Boris could only slump forward in defeat. With an uncaring look, Nicky turned away from the sulking cat and walked up to Elliot, patting him on the head. "Thanks for watching her, I really appreciate it."
"It's not a problem at all!" Nicky honestly did not mind Elliot's presence. She could tell he wasn't a treat to Amelia and he liked her baking, two things that earned him a lot of points. It also helped that Amelia viewed him as just a buddy to eat cakes with. They weren't overly close, like Amelia was with Grey, but they weren't on stressed terms, like Amelia was with Alice, either. They were neutral, and Nicky liked that because it meant there was little chance he would accidentally upset Amelia. So, because of that, Nicky decided to give the identity confused rabbit the benefit of the doubt and was pleased that she was rewarded with a good friend.
Amelia watched as Elliot's face brightened when talking to Nicky, the same way Zack's did before he and Nicky broke up, only brighter. The little girl hummed in thought, thinking of all the ways this could entertain her…and possibly Blood. Yeah, she couldn't exclude Blood from this, but she would not let him interfere more than necessary. Ah yes, the wheels in her head started turning as she hid her impish grin by eating a large bite of cake. She wouldn't mind changing Elliot's role from cake buddy to brother-in-law. But, seeing Nicky only looking at Elliot like a buddy, Amelia knew she had her work cut out for her.
Choosing to worry about that later, Amelia looked down at Dee, the twin she was sitting on, and smiled. He looked at her with hope, wanting to be untied. Instead, she grins at him and grabs a slice of grape cake from off the table and takes a large bite, making sure he sees. If it was Dum, she would have grabbed a slice of apple crumb cake and done the same. Amelia just chuckled as Dee whined through his gag. She liked this. She liked having the twin at her mercy and wondered what it would be like if they both were.
Somewhere in Clover Tower, Nightmare felt the distinct urge to flick Amelia's forehead and ban her from going anywhere near the Jokers ever again…He knew that was not a good sign.