The Problems of Staying
I'm so sorry! I went on vacation and couldn't bring my laptop. Forgive me! Well I missed my writing. And someone had asked me to right a story about a certain neko, so I am assuming it is Kyo Sohoma. And I still got no idea what to write. But I am not giving up yet. So I am going to try and make this a really long chapter to make up for my week long absence.
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Here are the results: Marry – 4, Maybe – 7. Ease Dropper: Ace – 4, Boris – 2,
Peter – 1, Joker – 3, Faceless – 2 (Hatter faceless – 1, Heart faceless – 1),
Bloody Twins – 1. I have to surprise you with who I choose. Don't worry though your opinions are taken to heart, are appreciated, and will be used.
The Problems of Staying
Alice turned to look at Julius. Her eyes were wide with surprise. "What did you just say?" 'Did I here Julius correctly? I do think he is attractive and he treats me well but is he the right one for me? Plus I only have one year.' "Alice Liddle I proposed to you. Will you make me the lucky man to have you by my side for the rest of my days of life." 'That's right. Whoever I choose to marry I am with for life.' "Julius I honestly can't answer your proposal right now." Alice finally said. Julius frowned a little. "Because. . ." Alice began. Julius looked at her expectantly. And is a little nervous with what she is about to tell him. 'Don't tell me that she is hoping for another guy to ask her. If it is that damn Hatter I don't know what I will do.' Alice began again. "This is so much to take in at once. I was just told I have a year to marry. I am only 16. I want to be sure I got everything straight before I go and walk down the aisle. I want the man I will marry to know I truly do love him. I love each person here and I will admit I feel a certain attraction differently with each guy here." Julius's frown deepened. "For example you." This grabbed Julius's attention, "Tell me your attraction to me."
Alice blushed. 'Well the least I can do is tell him.' She looked Julius straight in the eye. "Do you really want to know?" "Yes" was Julius's response. "Very well I'll tell you."
"My feelings for you confuse me. At first I thought of you as an older brother or a father figure." 'And who would want to marry their father or older brother.' Julius thought. "But then I started to feel attracted to you. But I thought 'This is wrong. Julius would never feel this way to me.' So I pushed those feelings away. So now they are hidden so deep within me that I don't feel them so often. But I still feel them especially when you do certain things." Julius smiled a little at this. 'So she is attracted to me. She just hid her feelings. I just got to bring them out again. It will take time, but Alice is worth it.' "Like that for example." Alice said blushing. "Like what?" Julius questioned. "Your smile. It makes me so flustered and it is nice to see you smile. Since your always so gloomy. It makes me feel special to see it." Alice said while trying to hide her blush by looking away. Julius just smiled bigger. He grabbed Alice's hand and walked into the Clock Tower.
Hatter faceless:
"Oh my, oh my, oh my. Master! Master!" A female faceless ran into Blood Dupre's midnight tea party yelling. Blood sighed. "What is so iomportant that you had to interrupt my tea time? And make it quick. I don't want my tea to get cold." Blood said. "It is about Miss Alice sir." This grabbed everyone's attention. "What about onii-chan?" the twins said. "She is to wed." The faceless female servant said nervously. The bloody twins and Eliot's eyes widened greatly at this. Blood's eyes, too, had widened only not as noticeable. "What?" They all said. "How have you come across this information? Is this a rumor?" Blood said calmly. Even though on the inside he was having a personal turmoil.
'What? Alice is going to marry someone! How! Who? I will kill whoever he is. Alice will marry me.' Blood thought. "Who is she marrying?" blood asked calmly. "From what I know of, sir, no one." "Then how do you know she is marrying?" Eliot asked. "I heard her myself. She said that in order to stay here in wonderland she had had to marry a, and any, role-holder within the year." The faceless female servant said to them all. "You said she said this?" Blood asked. "Yes she did sir." "So she said this to you or someone else?" "She said this to someone else, sir. I just happened to have heard it." "Who did she say this to?" "Julius Monrey. The clock fixer." "Thank you For this information. You may go now." "Yes sir." "What are we going to do Blood?" "Alice will become a Hatter. She will be a mafia yet." Blood said.
'You will be mine. You will be my bride the foreigner.' Blood thought while sipping his tea. 'Yuck its cold'. 'So Alice has to marry someone. Maybe she will marry me.' Eliot thought while eating a carrot muffin. 'Yummy muffin. Carrot food is yummy but regular carrots aren't. I am not a rabbit!'
Meanwhile the bloody twins, Dee and Dum, were having a hush hush conversation. In other words a private conversation. "Brother onii-chan has to marry" Dum said. "Yes brother I know. Shocking huh." Then Dum's eyes got a sly look. "Brother you have that look in your eyes again. What did you just think of?" Dee questioned Dum. Dee looked excited and wanted to get in on the new 'game'. "What if we marry onii-chan?" Dum said. Dee's eyes widened. "What a great idea brother. Then onii-chan will get to play with us all the time. And she can never leave our side again. We will be able to have sleep overs everyday too." Dee said happily. "Then it's settled. Tomorrow we shall see onii-chan." They said in sync.
With Ace (yeah here's your surprise I used two ease droppers. I thought it will make it more interesting. I hope you all don't mind. Sorry if you don't like the idea):
"So Alice has to marry. How amusing." Ace said to himself. Smiling evilly. "I know how to make this more amusing. Now where is that room?" 'Found it. Now time for some fun.' "Oh my queen!" Ace hollered. The queen sighed and rolled her eyes. "Lower your voice knight it hurts our ears." "I agree with the queen." Peter said. 'Oh goodie Peter is here too. Now it will be even more fun.' "Well I figured you would want to know Alice's new status. Guess I was wrong. Oh well. Bye-bye." Ace turned around and went to leave. "Wait!" Peter yelled because when it comes to Alice he must know everything. I mean seriously he is Alice's personal stalker what doesn't he know about her.
Ace turned around and said "Yes what is it." "Speak knight. What is wrong with our dear cute Alice?" Queen of Hearts Vivaldi said with much authority. Peter looked expectantly at Ace, nervous, and in suspense. "Alice is getting married!" "What?" Both the queen and Peter said. Yes even the Queen lost her composure for once. "Well when I was wondering in the forest" Ace began but was interrupted by Peter saying, "You mean lost." Ace grumbled "Well I overheard Alice talking to Julius." "Were they alone?" Peter questioned skeptically. Not really knowing if he truly wanted to know. "Yes, in fact, they were. And it was such a romantic place too. The singing birds, grassland, river, and other peaceful stuff. Well she told Julius that in order for her to stay she had to marry a role-holder. Isn't that great! Alice gets to marry any of us role-holders. Maybe she will marry me." Ace said excitedly. Peter looked shocked, then furious (at Ace of course), then shocked again.
'So my dear Alice has to marry. Of course she shall marry me. But how could she go to such a romantic sounding spot with that mortician. So I shall propose to her.' Peter thought. "I shall go see her now." Peter declared. "Peter you have work to finish. Finish it now." Vivaldi said, knowing how Peter annoys her dearest Alice. 'We can't believe our cute Alice must wed one of those horrible beastly guys. Well we won't marry her for we are already married to that weakling of a king. But we shall assist in picking her groom-to-be and also assist in the making of the wedding. Perhaps she will marry Blood he could use a strong and cute wife. Maybe Alice will keep him in-line. Or perhaps she can marry that lost knight or that obsessive prime minister.' Vivaldi mused to herself.
Back to Julius:
As they walked into the Clock Tower, still hand-in-hand, Julius opened the door for Alice. He held the door and let her in first. Never once letting go of her hand. Alice noticed, blushed at his actions, but said nothing. Julius had no clocks on his table and when he noticed it he motioned it to Alice. "We were gone for hours weren't we? So where are all the clocks that need to be fixed." Alice said, "I have no idea. You don't think Ace is up to anything. Do you?" "I am not sure." Julius said to Alice while looking at her. Then Alice smiled slyly. Julius looked impassive but a little bit uncertain too. 'What is she up too? That smile makes me a little uncertain. But it is quite attractive as well. Almost . . . what is the word. . .oh yeah seductive.' "Julius" Alice began. ". . . Yes." Julius said hesitantly.
"You have no clocks to fix tonight right?" Alice questioned. "Correct I have no clocks to fix." Julius responded not sure if he should have lied and said he and some old clocks in a box that still needed to be fixed. "Then you can finally get some proper sleep. Go to bed. . now." Julius was shocked Alice was saying something that was true yet he didn't want to sleep, yet did. Julius has not gotten proper sleep in years yet this is the first time that he has time to himself. And he wanted to spend time with Alice too. He wanted to reinforce her attraction to him romantically and have her loosen up to the idea of marring him. Then he had a wonderful idea.
"What if I don't want to go to bed. What will you do if I say no to sleeping?" Julius questioned. Alice didn't contemplate him saying this. But she really wanted him to sleep. He really needed sleep. "Julius I'll do anything just go get some sleep." "Promise?" Julius said slyly. Alice gulped but nodded yes. 'Julius's health is more important than the consequences I will face.' Julius smiled, grabbed Alice's hand and proceeded going up the stairs. 'What is he up to?' Alice thought. When they reached the corridor that leads to Julius's room they turned. Then Julius opened his bedroom door. And proceeded to walk in still holding Alice's hand, gently but securely. Alice didn't budge when he tried to tug her as gently as he could yet showing her that he wants her to walk in.
"Alice what are you doing?" Julius asked her. "What am I doing? More like what are you doing? Why did you lead me to your room?" "Well it is quite obvious. I want you to spend the night in my room." Julius said bluntly. Alice was completely flabbergasted. {Ok out of story real quick. I can't help myself. I love that word. Flabbergasted. It is my third favorite word. Try saying it three times fast.} "What? Why and how do I have to." "Well I want to spend time with you and you want me to sleep. This way we both get what we want. And you do have to. You said you would do anything and promised." Julius smirked- yes the impassive Julius Monrey actually smirked. Blood Dupre moment there-Alice gulped. She was both upset at Julius for being so sly and attracted to this. . . mysterious. . .side.
"You go get ready for bed and I will be waiting for you. . .here. Alice sighed and went to get ready. 'He tricked me and did it perfectly. But I do like this side of him. It is quite attractive. He is one different mortician from the normal types. But I am still uncertain of this sleeping arrangement for tonight. Is it even just for tonight? I probably wouldn't mind if I have to spend more than one night with Julius. I wonder what he looks like when he sleeps. Does he wear a male nightgown? Perhaps a PJ shirt and pants? Just the pants? Or maybe no PJs at all, just boxers? Does he snore or talk in his sleep?' Alice thought while getting ready. She had absent mindedly finished getting ready earlier than normal and realized it too late. "Looks like it's time to go to bed. But maybe I should go to my room. But I did promise to do whatever it took to get him to go to bed. Well at least it should be interesting." And she proceeded off to Julius's room.
Julius was lying on his bed with his arms behind his head waiting for Alice to walk through his door. When Alice walked through his door she couldn't believe the sight before her. There was Julius laying on his king size bed and the blanket up to his waist. With no shirt. And another thing that shocked her was that he had slight abs. A lean stomach but not to buff but not flabby-at all. It suited him perfectly. She found the sight of him relaxed and in this situation quite alluring. Julius turned to look at her and smiled a true smile. He moved over a little bit to make room for Alice. He opened the covers And put his hand out pointed to Alice and signaled her with his finger to come over. Alice blushed a light, dusty pink. And walked to the bed.
Alice noted in her mind his long legs in the black silk pajama pants with the gold thread that holds it together. It was quite a worthy and wonderful sight. Alice climbed into the bed and noticed that it was quite comfortable. So she went to an edge of the bed, pulled the covers up, and lied down to sleep. As soon as she closed her eyes they were jolted back open. Julius wrapped his arms around her and pulled her to his chest. He leaned his head on the side of hers and sighed happily. He whispered a "goodnight" in her ear. He then kissed her ear and cheek. Alice nearly moaned at this-nearly. She turned to face him but realized this only made her current situation worse- or is it better. Who knows?
She realized how tight his chest was and ended up subconsciously moving her hands up and down his chest feeling his muscles, amazed. Julius, though, noticed this and fought himself to not to do anything drastic or to say anything, yet, and to just enjoy this. A minute later Alice realized what she was doing and quickly brought her hands back and tried to move away. But Julius, as soon as he realized he didn't feel Alice's hands on his chest anymore, opened his eyes and quickly grabbed Alice and pulled her to him once more. "Where do you think you're going?" He questioned her.
"M-m-my r-r-room." She stuttered. 'Oh great I stuttered. Now he will know I am nervous and attracted to him.' Julius smiled. "It is quite ok. I enjoyed it myself." 'Though you made it quite difficult to stay in control. In more than one way if I might say to myself.' "Though I do think I deserve an answer for my you were so obsessed with my stomach and chest muscles." The right edge of his mouth twitched upwards a smidge. "W-w-well" Alice took a deep breathe to calm her over-excited nerves. "I was surprised and shocked to see and feel that you have a well-built and made chest and stomach muscles. But may I ask how you got them? I mean, you never go out and exercise." Julius humphed at this, slightly offended, but realized it was true he never went out to exercise. "I always fix clocks which makes me crunch my stomach muscles in many ways. See there is a plus to being as you say 'cooped-up' fixing clocks all day." Alice giggled at his last sentence because he sounded a little defensive.
They both settled down for the night. Alice was still in his arms still feeling a little awkward but soon fell asleep. Julius said softly in her ear "You will wed me within the year just you watch." (Unintended pun)
With Boris:
So Boris Airay decided to meet up with the Bloody Twins who of which he hasn't seen recently. So when he ran into them secretly talking when they're supposed to be working. He got curious. 'They say curiosity kills the cat. But I am still alive and I have been curious several times. What is one more time.' "Whatcha gossiping about?" The Bloody Twins yelped. Boris laughed at their shock. "Boris why did you do that for!" "All I did was ask what you were gossiping about." "We aren't gossiping we are planning our" Dee put his hand over Dum's mouth to prevent him from finishing. Then Dee whispered in Dum's ear. "We don't want him to know about our plans to marry Alice." But with Boris's cat ears he heard everything. Especially marry. "What do you mean marry?" They both sighed and Dee spoke. "Turns out that in order for Alice to stay she has to marry a role-holder." "Wait you mean she has to marry any role-holder?" "Yup." Dum said and Dee just nodded. 'I am the role-holder closest to her age. And we hang out whenever we can. Maybe if we hang out more and I stay on her good side she will marry me. Mrs. Alice Airay. It has a nice ring to it.' "Got to Go see you two later."
'Well maybe the old man can help me. He said he thinks of Alice as a daughter and that he wants her around more. And all the workers like Alice too. Pierce will love to have his Guardian Angel savior around more too. But what if he wants to marry her? Ok I won't let Pierce know but I will ask marry for his help.' Boris thought to himself. And went off to go to Mary Gowland. When Boris got to the amusement park he immediately went to find our beloved, tone deaf, violin playing, amusement park owning, his own name hating, and hating Blood Dupre, person. And of course he just had to follow the horrible ear bleeding music. "Hey old man!" "I ain't old! And what do you want Boris?" "I need your help. Can we speak in private?" "Sure" So they went to Mary Gowland's planning room where he creates new ride ideas. "Ok so here is the deal. But I have some questions first." "Ask away."
"Would you like Alice to be in the amusement park more often?" "Of course"
"Would you like Alice to live in the amusement park?" "Yes"
"Would you like Alice to basically be your daughter?" "Yes sireee"
"How would you feel if you can have all the above by just helping me?" "How can I help."
"You see I believe we all want Alice to live here. But there is something that she has to do in order to stay." Boris began. "And that would be?" Mary-Go-Round. I mean Mary Gowland questioned. With his elbows on his design drawing desk, hands folded, his nose leaning on his fingers. "She needs to marry a role-holder." Boris said seriously, not even a quarter ounce of his usual childishness in him. Gowland's eyes had widened at the mention of Alice marrying and at Boris's seriousness.
"I want to marry Alice and I need your help." Boris said to Mary Gowland. Mary's mouth dropped open at Boris's bold statement. "I would love to help you." "Great then let's make some plans."
With Pierce:
'I can't believe what I just heard. Who knew that demon cat would come in handy one day.' "So Alice has to marry a role-holder. I am a role-holder. Maybe I can marry her. She is so sweet and kind. Plus the cat behaves, better, around her. I will try to marry Alice." Pierce started to day-dream about his future life married to Alice. Pierce started to feel like he was being watched. He turned around feeling extremely frightened. Then Boris said, "Snack time"
With the Jokers:
White Joker said, "It wasn't polite to ease drop on Pierce when he was talking to himself." Black Joker replied, "So what. We found out something interesting." "Good point Black. So miss Alice must marry a role-holder. Perhaps she can marry us?" "Damn right! She will and we both know it. She can't live on without me."
Ok does this make up for my absence eight pages of story. Please say yes. Pwease. Ok question time. *singsong voice*
Who should confront Alice about marriage next? Any ideas of how?
Also bonus question:
Any ideas of how Gowland will help Boris?
I already have some ideas. But like I said you all help and get your opinions in.