Edward gritted his teeth in annoyance and yanked the sheets up to cover us more as the smaller man's eyes widened.

"Tetch, don't you dare." Eddie snapped.

"B-but Edward, what are you doing with Alice? She's supposed to be in wonderland!"

I shrunk back a little at the look the blonde was giving me. Like I was something to be worshiped.

Eddie chuckled and leaned back. "I think she was there last night." Oh he just had no boundaries didn't he? I face palmed when I saw the look on the guy's face. "Ah yes," Eddie rolled his eyes "Jervis, Beth. Beth, Jervis."

Jervis eyeballed me like he was seeing everything beautiful for the first time.

"No, Alice has to come with me." he started for the bed and Edward was in front of me in an instant.

"Beth, isn't going anywhere with you." The way the light left Jervis's face made me feel like an ass. It was like I had just taken candy from a baby.

"Aw, Eddie let him say hi." I hissed to him. I was a sucker for the cute kind of kids, other ones that just begged for attention however made me want to literally strangle them into two pieces.

"You don't know what he does to his Alice's." Eddie looked over his shoulder at me, his eyes raging with passion. I stiffened as it clicked where I had seen the guy before, he was the-

"Mad Hatter, at your service, my dear." God, where had he come from? One second he was by the door and the next he was kneeling at my bedside.

"Uh...pleasure?" I said awkwardly. He looked between me and Edward for a few seconds, a very uncomfortable silence permeating the atmosphere.
"Alice...why are you wearing his clothes?"
"She's not-!"

"Edward how could you do this to my Alice?" Jervis's eyes started to water up, confirming to me that he was in fact, completely off his rocker. I actually began to feel nervous when he gripped my arm and jerked me towards the other side of the bed. He was stronger than you thought a little guy would be! "Alice please tell Mr. Nigma that you wish to come to Wonderland with me." My answer was simply the wiggling of my fingers which were starting to tingle from the loss of blood to them. Eddie's eyes took on a rather protective look, but him being...him he went smooth instead of going off.

"I believe," He said calmly, prying off the other man's fingers and pulling me closer to his bare chest "that Alice found enough of Wonderland with me last night." Jervis's eyes bugged out in shock, I could almost feel the smugness rolling off the chest I was pressed against. I couldn't say that I wanted to find "Wonderland" with this other guy, so I just leaned back without a word, trying to ignore a the rush of blood throbbing in my face.

Jervis stuck out his lower lip and ran his eyes over us draped over each other in bed.

"I implore you to leave off at once!" He snapped. Well that only encouraged Edward.

He brought his hand up to my chin and leaned my head back into his shoulder, craning to kiss me slowly, like he was flaunting something. Well I was something to flaunt of course!
"I-I-I" Tetch sputtered. I kind of felt bad for the guy but I was pretty sure he tried to rape me so...I did nothing to stop or encourage the blatant display of affection.

"Riddle me this Tetch, where is Wonderland?" He mumbled against my lips. "Find your own Alice."

And with that, Jervis puffed out his chest and huffed from the room. I guess a little went a long way with him.

I broke away after the door had closed and giggled.

"Why Eddie, I believe you care." I said, sliding out of bed to find one of my own articles of clothing. I heard a small whining sound and looked back to see him giving me the puppy eyes

"Why are you getting out of bed?" He asked, his lower lip jutting.

"To...get...dressed?" I answered hesitantly. God- those puppy eyes should be illegal! Considering who they were coming from they probably were!

"You don't like my shirt on you? I certainly do." Well, so much for the adorableness. Riddler was back.

"Why should I give you a free show?" I sighed.

"Because I deserve it!" He sounded surprised a human would ask that at all.

"What did you- never mind don't answer that." I was going to ask him 'What did you do?' but then figured on the endless numbers of comments he could respond back with.

His usual smirk was back and better than ever. "I don't have to say anything, I'm sure you remember well enough." As soon as we were alone he was tormenting me! I was just thinking of how to word my answer that I was staying, but did I want a bunch of this crap flying in my direction every day? I didn't trust even myself to answer that one.

"You making me think twice about-" I began warningly.

"About taking that shirt off? Then by all means I'll shut up." I grimaced at him, he was only digging himself a deeper grave after all.

"You make me want to bang my head against a brick wall." I stated sarcastically sweet.

"Well it certainly wouldn't be the first time something of yours got banged into a brick wall because of me." I walked right into that one didn't I? But that was it!

"LET ME TALK" I screamed, finally getting fed up. And he was silent. I stood up a bit taller, proud that I got possibly the most annoying man in the world to shut up...then I sunk back down because of the shirt riding up.

"You're making me think twice about staying!" I finished firmly. His eyes got as wide as dinner plates as I thought briefly whether or not I just gave up my best weapon. Next thing I knew he was pinning my arms in a snuggle that would have knocked the breath out of Godzilla and all the rest of Hong Kong.

"You're staying!" He twirled me in a circle as my face began to sweat from how much I was flushing.

"I-I y-your making me think tw-" But I never got the whole phrase out before he was rambling on again.

"We have to celebrate! That little Italian place on nineteenth street would do nicely. You like Italian don't you? Good Ill get dressed! Then off he went into the bathroom (to get some clothes on thank god).

Well that went over well. I looked towards the door and shook my head. A bat could simply walk in here without a care in the world. With that thought in mind I went over, locked in then reset the alarms. I guess I did need those new clothes after all.