Chapter 2. yay.

The door suddenly opened as her fingers lightly touched the knob. A man in a suit had opened it. His dark raven hair was short with long bangs. His face slender along with his fit body. Alice wondered what kind of muscles the man would have. She shook the thought. He had a small lizard tattoo on his neck. His yellow eyes looked at the poor girl as she stood speechless. A cigarette stuck out of the side of his mouth.

"Alice~!" cried a man farther into the room.

"N-Nightmare?!" she called out as she saw the incubus. His face was pale. His silver hair almost glittered in the sun that found its way into his office. He wore a suit for once and his eye patch still covered one of his eyes. "Nightmare!" she called out, pushing aside the man who answered the door and running to the familiar face. "I-I was so scared!" she said, hugging his leg. "I-is this a dream?"

"I'm afraid not, sweetie. This is the real deal." He smiled at her hoping to calm her nerves. She looked up at him and slightly smiled back, at least until she breathed in and found that after running all the way here and being surrounded in cigarette smoke she was unable to breath. She wheezed and began to cough uncontrollably. "Oh crud! I'm sorry Alice; I didn't know cigarette smoke affected you this way! Gray! Put it out! Or better yet get out!" He had jumped up to open the window, hoping to get rid of the scent that was stopping her breaths. The man who answered the door rolled his eyes and reluctantly put out his cigarette.

"What is so special about this girl?" he asked.

"Don't say that. Alice IS special. She is a foreigner… Alice don't even think that you aren't special. You are special." She continued to wheeze on the floor as Nightmare continued to talk. "Here, sit in my chair. Make yourself comfortable. I'm sorry for my subordinate. He can be so rude sometimes." His subordinate blinked as the girl struggled to do even the simple task of getting into the chair.

'How pathetic…' he thought in his mind. Nightmare shot him a glare that made him almost jump out of his skin.

"This man…" Nightmare pointed to him. "This is Gray Ringmarc. Gray, this is Alice Liddell~" Gray grumbled in response.

"N-nice t-to meet you G-Gray R-Ri-Ringmarc." She wheezed. She grabbed her throat and attempted to breath. Nightmare continued to apologize until he started coughing up blood.

"Lord Nightmare!" Gray called out as he reached for his handkerchief. He began to wipe away the blood from this incubus's mouth. After both stopped coughing and were able to breathe correctly, Alice hugged Nightmare.

'I was so scared.' She thought. He smiled as he patted her head.

"Don't squeeze master Nightmare too tight." Gray ordered, trying to pry the girl off of Nightmare. This in turn made Alice squeeze harder so she wouldn't be torn apart from the only thing she recognized. She began to cry.

"Gray! Stop it! You're scaring her!" Gray did as he was told and pulled away. The girl loosened her grip on Nightmare's torso and hid her face in the crook of his neck.

"I thought she was already scared." He mumbled.

"Well you're scaring her worse. If you can't be nice then get out." Gray sighed and went to sit down in the chair that was as far away from the girl. "that includes your thoughts about her too." Nightmare growled. Gray looked away and decided to use the trick he had taught himself to block the mind reader from his thoughts.

"I-I wanna go home!" she cried.

"Alice, sweetie. I'm afraid you can't."

"W-w-what?!" fresh tears began to pour out of her eyes.

"Calm down, please. I will explain everything to you if you just please stop crying…"

"I… I wanna see Julius." She sniffled, rubbing her eyes.

"I'm sad to say that you can't…." He whispered. "It's impossible…. Wait. Don't cry! Let me explain!" he yelled as she hugged him tighter. "Can you let go of me…? I won't go anywhere; I just want to see your face." It took a bit of coaxing but the 20 year old girl had finally let go of Nightmare and had stopped crying, sitting in the chair before the desk.

"Now…." Nightmare began. "You were previously living in the country of Hearts, right?" she nodded. "Well, the land has moved."

"Moved?"

"Yeah. Um…. This is the land of Clovers now… So I am proud to be the first to welcome you to my home, the Country of Clovers." He smiled at her.

"Clovers… Moved? How is that possible? I was sleeping until I opened the door to that strange place…." She murmured.

"It's the land that moves, not the people. Here… There is no clock tower. This is the Clover tower and it took the clock tower's place in the move."

"T-then where is Julius?"

"He stayed in the country of Hearts along with the Amusement Park and Gowland." She frowned.

'Two of my favorite people….' She thought, looking down at her lap.

"Aww. Why aren't I one of you favorite people?" Nightmare asked, childishly.

"No offence but I only saw you in my dreams. I thought you weren't actually real. Maybe some comforting idea that was there for me in my dreams….."

"Well I'm real, as you can plainly see…" he muttered. "Wait. You thought I was there to comfort you?"

"In my world they would always say that a dream is a wish the heart makes. I guess I wished for someone to be there for me." Nightmare smiled at her remark.

"And I always will be here for you." He said proudly.

"I'm afraid she has to go now." Gray interrupted. "You have paperwork to do."

"Nooooo. I wasn't to spend time with Alice." Nightmare pouted. "I won't do any work if Alice isn't here with me."

"But you can't do work with her here." Gray growled.

"We can't just send her out into the world. Everything has changed. She would get lost."

"We can order one of the servants to take her around." Gray snapped. The arguing went on for quite some time. Alice just sat there watching the two argue. Although she didn't follow the arguing, their faces proved more entertainment than what they were actually saying.

"And that's that!" Nightmare said as he picked Alice up only to put her on his lap when he took his chair back. He looked around her for his pen so he could do his paperwork. Alice just sat there confused and Gray was in shock when Nightmare actually started doing his work. Nightmare wrapped one arm around Alice's waste while he used the other to write.

"What just happened?" Alice asked. Gray's eyes began to widen as he looked at her in wonder.

"You really are something special!" He said.

Ha ha. Gray started out as a butt hole. I wonder if he is going to play nice from now on?