-Lillian pov-

All evening Jun had been pacing up and down the room. He and Nori were talking about who should go into the N-field. Nori was inexperienced in everything to do with N-fields and Jun didn't want to put Nori in danger. She protested saying she wanted to help but Jun kept saying no. Hinaichigo was sat on my lap (the Nurses had come in and helped me to sit up) and I had been brushing her hair all afternoon. The doctor walked in and Hina froze so he would think she was a normal doll… She would have fooled me!

"I'm glad you're feeling much better. Your arms have healed up extremely quickly and I expect that your legs will follow suit, but I would like to keep you in hospital for about a week to make sure you have no nervous-system has no permanent damage. Sound good?"

"Yeah… thanks doc, I'll let Mum and Dad know."

"I'll let you get some rest" the doctor patted me on the shoulder and left the room. Hinaichigo started moving her joints and rolled her head around a bit and sighed. She kept looking over to Barasuishou as Jun called her who was sat on the windowsill, she seemed nervous and agitated. I started brushing her hair again to calm her down. I untied her big pink bow so I could brush the hair on top of her head. Alice's box was on the bottom of my bed resting on the bed covers. Jun and Nori were getting angrier and started shouting. Nori looked over to me and took Jun outside. The door closed with a clunk and the room was unnaturally silent. The only sound was the noise of me bushing Hinaichigos hair. She still kept glancing over at Barasuishou. I directed my attention to the window and watched the golden sky start turning a deep hue of imperial purple…

"Hey, Lillian… Are you afraid of anything?" I looked down at the small dolls head of golden hair now darkening in the purple sky. "I'm afraid of a lot of things… Being alone, being locked in my case… being in the dark…" I listened to the small dolls voice, I was starting to see her more as a little living girl not just a doll. "I don't want to go into my case to sleep tonight…"

"Why not?" I asked a bit confused, she had done at my house. She visibly shuddered and pulled her knees to her chest.

"I've been having nightmares about the youngest Rozen maiden… She wore Alices white dress… but she didn't have a real body… so she took mine instead…" I was stunned into silence yet again… The fact that one sister could do that to another was just scary… I suddenly realised something. I put Hinaichigo onto my pillow and started to shuffle myself towards Alices box. I opened it just enough so I could see Alice but Hinaichigo couldn't. Just as I had feared, not only had the flowers in her hair had died but her hair was no longer long and brown but it was in two silver sections with a white fringe. One eye had a rose covering it and a black cross necklace with red roses had appeared around her neck, by her side her umbrella was now a pink cane and a sword glinting in the light. I closed the lid quickly. Alice was decaying… as the Rosa mysticas were being ejected her appearance was changing too… If what Hina had told me was anything to go by I guessed the one the one that had attacked her would be the last left as she needed a body… I took a deep breath and put the box on the floor. I moved back and re-tied Hinas bow and rearranged her delicate curls on her head. Hina looked over to Barasuishou again.

"What's the story with Barasuishou?" I asked cautiously. Hina didn't reply for a while

"Before the second Alice game Barasuishou dominated the Alice game… She got to every one of us… But she was an imposter, so she crumbled and ejected the Rosa mysticas. But…" She pause again "She looks exactly like Kirakishou". We were silent for a long time.

Suddenly Barasuishou fell off the windowsill. The supposedly lifeless doll started pushing herself up. Hina stood up in a defensive position arms spread wide facing Barasuishou.

"Don't come near Lillian!" Hina yelled, small groans and clunks could be heard from the doll clad in purple. "Did you hear me Bara?!" Hina shouted. Jun and Nori burst through the door at the sound of Hina yelling.

"What's going on?" Jun said loudly

"She's alive! I don't know how but she is!"

"Look Hina, calm down! You're only running on the energy from your key"

"But Lillian-"

"I'm… not…" Barasuishou was struggling to speak but was now able to get some words out "I'm not here to hurt anyone… I…. I need Lillian… Jun… Laplace's demon… He's tricked us all!" As she said this the room dissolved and we found ourselves in an old house. The walls were covered in oak veneer and the carpets were plush and red. Any furniture in this corridor had been knocked over. Paintings were ripped and mirrors were shattered. Nori looked around in awe, shocked into silence. Jun and Hinaichigo had taken a more protective stance around me. Hina and I were on the floor and Jun was stood behind me. All I could do was look at the purple clad doll in front of me. Then the thought struck me. If I was on the floor were was Alice's box?! I looked to where I had placed the box and my doctor was stood there holding Alice's box, but instead of his normal attire he was wearing a black suit with a black hat with a grey ribbon around it.

"Oh no…" I said, Jun followed my gaze and had the same awful realisation "Hina, I think Barasuishou is on our side"

"Are you cra-" Hina had gone to turn to face me but instead came face to face with

"Laplace's demon" Barsuishou growled

"Indeed, but I do have to ask my dear Barasuishou how you survived that fall?"

"Fall?" I said confused.

"Let me explain, After our little tea party I hadn't quite managed to fully dissolve Barasuishous darkness. Instead she ended up in her sister Suigintous darkness. She and Suigintou got into a fight and nearly killed each other in their sleep. Sounds rather amusing to me if you ask me. After some pleading from Barasuishou Suigintou let up and listened to her. however before Barsuishou could explain herself, Alice Released Suigintou and Shinkus Rosa mysticas. So Barasuishou ended up falling into a void." As Laplace's demon spoke Alice's case was rattling and white vines started to come out the sides of the case… The demon kept talking but I heard none of it… Eventually the case burst open and I grabbed Hinaichigo and kept her facing me. Before me stood a tall white doll, her hair was strawberry blonde and her dress was a light butter colour. Her left eye was a bright yellow and in her right eye was a single rose with thorns growing around it. Her dress was a similar style to that of Barasuishou and her hair was nearly exactly the same. They even had roses on the same eyes, even though Barasuishous was an eye patch. The resemblance was too much for it to have been a coincidence. I held the small pink clad doll close and closed my eyes. Immediately I felt something was wrong. It was like someone had their hand around my heart and was tugging as hard as they could. Then I realised… I WAS feeling a hand round my heart. I heard a chuckling and the room went black.

Next thing I remember I was looking across the room at my own body, not a reflection, it was me. I tried to lift my hands but I heard a voice telling me to calm down, and not to move. Hinaichigo ran in and started yelling something, Kirakishou, Barauishou, a doll in black and a doll in red burst in behind her. I blacked out a lot. I guessed a fight broke out, petals feathers and roses were being used as weapons. They were… fighting a blonde man… two more like him ran in one shorter than the others… I blacked out completely…

-Barasuishou pov-

I had indeed fallen like Laplace had said. I had told Suigintou Enju's plan… he had amassed mediums from other parts of the N-field… He had found a part of father that he had tried to lock away… an alternate Father… one who hadn't lost his wife and children… one who had lived a long happy life with a large family… One who could make humans into dolls…Suigintou didn't like it… Surprisingly Alice was my saving grace. Ejecting Suigintou before she could kill me. Suigintous darkness started to dissolve with the lack of a sleeping maiden. I started to fall into the white void when I was caught by some rose vines. They pulled me up into Kirakishous darkness which was dissolving too. She held me round my waist whispering

"Let's go together" as we soared upwards into… well really I don't remember… I just remember waking up on the windowsill that didn't exist…

Now Lillian had been kidnapped by the other Father… he had taken her into a strange room and had started turning her into a doll. It was… gruesome at best… no blood but they looked exactly alike! This new doll wore a blue, pink and yellow baby-doll style dress covered in sweets and bows with Ivy lace detailing. Next to her was a large lollipop shaped hammer. The second father blocked us out the room. Well we thought it was him… at the back was a doll wearing a grey-blue dress and she had auburn coloured hair. We tried to save Lillian, we did… but we lost them. The second father and the new doll disappeared…

-To be continued in the Tears of time-