This is an alternative ending I was debating on using but decided not to. So here you go x3
Alice took this moment to shoot him. She spun, facing him and lifting her gun to point at his chest. She pulled the trigger.
Ace fell back with a gasp, feeling his clock heart start to crack. These were his final moments. What would he do with them? Alice was hovering over him, tears dripping down onto the gaping hole in his chest. "A-Ace, I-I'm sor-ry," she sobbed pitifully.
Ace pressed a finger to her lips to silence her, smiling. "It's okay, Alice, Julius can fix this."
With the mention of the clockmaker, Alice sobbed harder, knowing Ace was going to die. "Alice, Alice, Alice," he whispered soothingly.
"I killed you, Ace! I-I'm the reason! I-I'm why you're d-dying!" She cried, the knife in her back piercing and jostling painfully. Ace smiled weakly.
"I'm s-sorry," Ace mumbled, seeing black edges around his vision. He knew he was being gifted with these remaining minutes and he can't waste them. He leaned up with his last ounce of strength and pressed his blood stained lips against her bloodied lips. He tasted her blood on her lips, and she his, but it didn't seem to bother either of them as they spent his last seconds kissing.
When Ace's body suddenly relaxed and his lips stopped moving to hers, Alice pulled back with fresh tears in her eyes, dripping down on Ace's face. He looked peaceful, although he had blood drenching his clothes and his hair was askew. Alice ran her delicate hand over his cold cheek. "Ace, why are you sorry?" Alice asked, hoping he was just teasing her. But he didn't react to her touch or voice and Alice knew he was truly dead.
The nightmare she'd walked in on today was over.
"Not yet," she said aloud, madness alighting in her eyes as she squirmed off her lover, checking his belt for one of his knives he kept handy. "Another knife in my hand," she noted dryly. She spared no time in finishing herself off. She held the knife, which was more like an immaculately designed dagger with a snake ascending the handle and rubies as the eyes, with both of her hands. She plunged it into her own heart.
She didn't die instantly as she'd hoped, instead she had to sit and see the life fluid drain out of her, onto her hands and staining her dress. By the amount of blood, she would have assumed it wouldn't ever come out. She saw a light.
Looking up, she noticed the roof to this room had a gapping hole. She saw the sky.
When she arrived, she failed to notice the lack of sunshine, it was instead dark with rain clouds. Now, the clouds had cleared and the sun shine down on them both. Alice smiled, truly, and laid down on her side next to Ace.
She closed her eyes, allowing herself to cut the threads of life that connected her to this realm. She wondered if there were any other realms of life, heaven, hell, afterlife. She hoped she'd see Ace.
