Chapter 10-

It had been an hour since Blood had the fit about his nose, and now all sat eating dinner in silence. It was odd, usually a few people would be fighting, but tonight was different. Blood was busy with his nose, Elliot was fussing over Blood as well as the twins. Lorina, like Elliot and the twins, was gushing over the hatter.

Nightmare was trying to keep himself from coughing, Julius was wishing he was back in Wonderland fixing clocks, and Gray was smiling goofily, lost in thought. Ace stared in amazement at the lizard and Vivaldi had found a hand mirror in which she had been staring into all day.

Gowland was sulking over not being invited to the amusement park, Boris was wondering if he could get a job at a piercing shop, and Peirce was still shaking from the earlier, um, incident. Black was silently cursing everyone in the room for just being there while White was playing with the kitty, Dinah, thinking about abducting her and making her the star of his circus.

Edith was lost in thought, imagining something she would love to happen. Peter was annoyed for he knew that he shouldn't, couldn't, hold his Alice now. Especially since she was so afraid of the man sitting at the head of the table.

Her father, Evan Liddel, was definitely a man not to be reckoned with. His brown hair was turning gray in a few places and his pale blue eyes were lifeless. Not only were his eyes menacing, but the hardened muscles on his arms and chest were too. Sure, they weren't that big, but it was still a bit strange for a guy his age to have them. The most terrifying was the aura of, well, evil.

This was the biggest reason why everyone was silent.

"Well," Mr. Liddel started. "if you are going to stay in my house you might as well introduce yourselves. I am Evan Liddel."

"Blood Dupre, and this is Elliot March, Tweedle Dee, and Tweedle Dum," the hatter mumbled, waving to each subordinate in turn.

Vivaldi cleared her throat. "We are Vivaldi. Next to us you'll find Ace and across you'll find Peter White." At this she looked away from the mirror for a second.

"Julius Monry," the clockmaker grunted.

"Nightmare Gottschalk and that's Gray Ringmarc," the incubus coughed, luckily there was no blood.

Gowland managed a week smile as he mumbled, "I'm Gowland. This is Boris and Pierce."

"I'm White Joker." He was finally able to pull away from the purring kitty.

Black opened his mouth ready to say, 'Black Joker, don't f****** forget it b******,' but stopped himself, saying, "Black Joker."

"What possessed you to come here of all places?" Mr. Liddel asked.

"Alice of course," Peter spoke up.

Mr. Liddel glanced at him.

"Yep! We're her friends!" Ace chimed, unknowingly saving the white rabbit's butt.

"Hmm," the head of the house thought. "Three rules. Don't break anything, work and pay rent, the last is do not, I repeat, do not disturb me in my workshop. I bid you all good night." With that, Mr. Liddel got up and walked away.

Silence for another second and then a sigh of relief spread through the room. "That man, wow, he's even scarier than me, and that's saying something," Blood mumbled.

The twins nodded. "If I didn't know better, I'd think our pay would be stopped completely if he was boss," they murmured together.

"F**** up with him? He's got a f****** stick up his a**," Black growled, not admitting that he was horrified of the man.

Alice got up, going to go to her bedroom. "That's part of the reason I hate it here," she whispered to herself.

No one heard this since small conversations about Mr. Liddel had started.

Ok, so, this chapter isn't that good, but it'll have to do. I'm sorry for not updating sooner but I went on vacation, or should I say I was abducted by a white rabbit in a plaid red waistcoat? Whichever sounds better I guess. Sorry for the long wait, and for the sucky chapter.