Everyone must have noticed about the abnormal meeting seasons. It's the land of Joker and there are different seasons but the meeting place is the Clover Tower (but Joker will still be showing up later on: as a minor character though!) Hopefully this cleared out a few questions.
The comfortable shade of green and voices of people took away the girl's attention, "Wow. There are so many people." Alice was in the Clover Tower, just ready for the meeting to begin. She met many people, mostly faceless. But Alice was not looking to meet new people; she was only looking for one particular person.
Vivaldi shrugged, "This is just a boring event. We would want to go back to my castle and enjoy the cherry blossoms."
Alice looked around among the sea of people, hoping to meet him, but soon bumped into a totally different person, "Oh I'm sorry!"
The slender man looked down towards the girl and smirked, "Hm, this is an interesting young lady we have here." Alice blinked her eyes in shock.
Before reacting, Peter swiftly went in front of Alice and took out his gun, "Hey, don't touch my dear Alice!"
"You! What did you just do to Blood!" A big blonde man with bunny ears confronted Peter and also took out his gun. Alice nervously looked at both sides. If this was only a normal rabbit fight it wouldn't be so violent.
The foreigner could see that the surrounding people were quickly moving away from the scene, clearly not wanting get involved with the fight. Alice gulped and tugged on Peter's arm, "I don't know what's going on, but Peter put your gun away. Don't wield such dangerous things in a room full of people!"
On the other side, Blood stared coldly at the big man, "Elliot, do you want to cause trouble for me? Lower your gun now."
"But Alice…"
"Blood…" Both of their bunny ears went down as the rabbits backed down.
After coughing a little, Blood smiled charmingly, "Sorry for the disturbance, young lady. My name is Blood Dupre, the boss of the Hatter family, and this is my subordinate, Elliot March."
Alice stared at the slender man and awkwardly introduced herself, "….H-hello, my name is Alice Liddell."
Changing his mood, Elliot smiled and leaned closer to the girl, "Oh yeah! I have been hearing about you, so you're the foreigner, huh?"
"I guess…" Maybe because the first impression wasn't so good, Alice cringed a little and felt uncomfortable looking at the two men.
Blood noticed the constant staring and asked, "Do I have something on my face?"
Alice shook head and timidly asked, "No, No! But…have we met before?"
"Well should I take that as a pick-up line?"
A blush formed, it was getting more awkward by the minute, "What? No! I mean… um, it's alright if you never saw me before."
Peter, who was just hearing the conversation, formed his mouth into a frown, "Alice, let's hurry and go over to our seat."
Getting pulled by Peter, Alice hastily bid farewell to the Hatter family, "Y-yeah, bye Blood and Elliot."
After the foreigner was nowhere to be seen, Blood smirked again and stated, "This became a rather interesting meeting."
"Blood?" Elliot looked at his boss in confusion.
"That girl is interesting. Invite her to the tea party the next time you see her," after making his order, Blood turned around and walked down the hallway.
"Yes," Elliot cheerfully bowed his head a little and walked next to his boss.
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After the first half of the meeting was over, Peter grinned at his beloved, "Alice, let's go to the cafeteria to eat something."
Honestly Alice was tired of Peter constantly nagging at her. If she was her normal self, she would have already punched Peter and ran away, but fatigue really struck her down. The meeting had made her exhausted; the constant mistakes Nightmare had performed during his speech and the sitting for a long time worn her out. She was too tired to be angry over Peter as Alice sighed and got up from her chair, "Sorry Peter; wait a little while for me."
"Are you going somewhere? Then I will go with you!"
Alice just tiredly looked at Peter and sighed once again, "No, Peter you can't. Stay and be a good rabbit. I'll be away only for a short while." Alice, then, gloomily left the room.
Peter worryingly looked at the girl's figure slowly becoming small, "What has gotten to my cute adorable Alice?"
Vivaldi irritatingly glanced at Peter, "Stupid, there has got to be one thing when girls say wait."
"She must have a big dump, I say," Ace smiled cheerfully not showing any sign of weariness.
Peter's face turned pink as he glared at the knight, "Idiot! Can't you say something more elegant?"
"Hm, but is the restroom that way?" Vivaldi squint her eyes to look at which direction Alice took.
Peter suddenly stood up from his chair and rushed to follow the girl, "Please wait for me, my beloved Alice~!"
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The girl wandered around the hallway, "Where did Gray go…?" Even before the meeting, her mind was constantly thinking about Gray. The last time she saw him was when Gray was fighting with Ace. During the meeting, from seeing Gray's figure far away, Alice knew that Gray was alright, but the uneasiness still pestered her. Alice felt insecure not meeting Gray. Is this because I am worried about him as a friend or because of some other stuff?
While contemplating, Alice heard a familiar low baritone voice, "Alice."
Gushes of joy and happiness overflowed as Alice ran and hugged him, "Gray! It really is you! I saw you were at the meeting, but I wanted to see you if you got hurt or not. I was really worried about you."
Suddenly strong force and strong desperate voice ringed through Allice's ear, "Alice, Alice, Alice!"
"Gray…?" The broad shoulder tightly engulfed the girl's small body.
Gray's body was almost shivering as he buried his face into the brunette's long silky hair, "I missed you so much. When you were gone I felt so…empty and sad. I don't ever want you to leave again. Please be with me." Alice could hear the clock ticking wildly. It was unbelievable that the cold merciless assassin was shivering just because a weak girl left him, but at the same time Alice also understood what he was going through. Alice also felt lonely and unsatisfied; she was uneasy not seeing Gray.
Alice looked at the man and tried to reply, "Gray I-."
"Don't touch Alice you criminal," Alice heard a click of the gun as she turned around see Peter glaring menacingly at Gray.
"Peter!"
Gray coolly met Peter's raging eyes as he stood in front of Alice, "…Are you going to break the rules of 'no fighting during the meeting season'?"
The white haired man hissed, "I will risk anything for Alice." He was ready to kill.
Despite the danger Gray didn't make a single move and calmly handled the situation, "Really? Well from what I can see is that you are just endangering Alice even more by getting your gun out." Alice nervously looked at Peter. She hated violence, if she had the chance to escape she would have done so, but what she was afraid the most was seeing Gray hurt again. The image of Gray covered in blood appeared in Alice's mind as Alice stepped in front and raised her arm to protect Gray.
"Stop-!"
"Hold on for a second" everyone turned to look at the approaching figure. Nightmare had a serious face on as his aura was almost frightening. "This fight is against the rule. Peter, put your gun down," Peter just glowered at Nightmare and continued to point the lethal object at Gray. The incubus fiercely looked at the white haired man and coldly commanded again, "If you don't then I will use my authority as the landowner of the Clover Tower to force you to go to a desolate forest." After a while, Peter slowly lowered his gun and grudgingly walked away from the scene.
Alice sighed in relief as she was about to turn to Gray, but was held by Nightmare, "Alice, let's go."
The girl desperately looked at Gray, "But Nightmare I want to talk to Gray."
Nightmare smiled bitterly as he softly said, "Alice, come with me for now. Trust me on this." With one last look at Gray, Alice sadly trudged down the hallway. Gray glowered at the incubus as Nightmare also stared coldly at the man and walked away.
I've updated so many new stories, but I never forgot this story! So many stories I want to write. Too bad I only have two hands… Dx