Ever since the incident with Blood at the window it was harder for Alice to fall asleep at night. Even with Julius beside her.
"Don't worry, I will always protect you, Alice. You're my love,"Julius had told her one night when she expressed her fear. He had kissed her head and smiled at her gently. Of course it made her smile back and she did feel safter, but still. Blood was crazy. He could do anything and it was only a matter of time when he acted.
Maybe I shouldn't have left him, Alice thought as she lay beside a sleeping Julius in bed. But then she frowned at herself for thinking such a thing. If she hadn't left blood then she wouldn't be living such a happy life with Julius right now. She wouldn't let blood ruin it for her.
That's it, Alice thought with determination. I'm not going to let blood scare me anymore. Tomorrow when I wake up I'm going to go have a word with him. But for now I'm going to sleep. I refuse to let him keep me awake.
With that Alice closed her eyes and managed to fall asleep in the warmth of Julius's arms.
She saw nightmare in her dreams. He was smirking at her.
"Nightmare, can't you stay out of my dreams?"sighed Alice with exasperation.
"But Alice I'm only here because you want me to be here. You need me Alice,"nightmare replied with a cool smile.
"Well that's not true. Please leave, nightmare."
Nightmare continued to smile knowingly. " alright , if that's what you wish. But maybe you will want to wake up."
Alice was confused. "Why?"
"Just wake up and see, sweet Alice,"nightmare said with a smirk.
Alice frowned and then found herself walking up, her eyes blinking open drowsily.
She was still in the warmth of Julius's arms. No sign of anything wrong. Nightmare was just trying to scare me, thought Alice sleepily as she snuggled closer into Julius. In response he wrapped his arms more firmly around her.
Mm, Julius smelled like roses. A pleasant change from his usual scent of dust and grease. "I love you, Julius,"Alice mumbled.
There was a moment of silence before Julius replied back.
"I love you too, young lady."
Alice's eyes flew open with a shock, her body instantly alert. She glanced up quickly at Julius's face and her insides froze.
"Blood?!"she gasped in horror and he smirked at her.
"Who else would it be?"he drawled with a smug smile. He pulled her closer to him, "I quite like this position we're in."
"Get away from me!"Alice yelled and began struggling, trying to free herself as she shoved and squirmed.
All Blood did was laugh. "Such a feisty girl. Outsiders are so strange! Don't tell me you don't like how close we are."
"I don't! I hate you blood! You're such a creep!"screamed Alice and then she bit him hard on the arm.
"Ow!"hissed Blood and he loosened his hold on her temporarily. Alice used this chance to squirm out of his arms. She tumbled backwards off the bed and stood up quickly. Glancing quickly at her surroundings she realized with a sinking feeling that she was no longer at the clock tower but in blood's chambers. She shuddered. How had he managed to get her here while she was asleep?
But she could think about that later. First she had to get out of here. She grabbed a lamp and as Blood came towards her she swung it and hit him hard on the side of his head before he could duck.
"Agh!"he growled. Alice hit him again and then again until he collapsed, unconscious on the ground.
Dropping the lamp Alice quickly ran in the darkness towards the door. Opening it and stepping out she was surprised to see tweedle dee and tweedle dum standing just outside the door. When they saw her they smiled.
"Big sis!"dum cried happily. "Are you and boss already done?"
"Uh.. uh.."Alice began stammering. "We're um paying hide and seek!"
"Really? Can we play?"asked dee excitedly.
Alice beamed at him. "Of course you guys can. But he's going to be done counting soon so we have to hide fast."
"Oh right! Of course! Come on big sis let's hide!"
Both grabbed her hand and began dragging her excitedly through the halls.
"We know just the perfect hiding place,"chirped dum.
"Yeah big sis! It's the best hiding place ever!"cheered dee.
"That's great!"mumbled Alice nervously. "But I know a great hiding place too. Why don't we go hide there?"
"okay big sis!"
Alice led them out to the gardens and towards the gates.
She was thinking that once they reached the gates she could somehow distract Dee and Dum and make a run for it. She was still trying to figure out how.
They reached the gate entrance and Alice stopped. Dee and dum looked at her expectantly.
"Okay, big sis where's the hiding place?"
"Erm, well you see,"Alice began nervously.
But she was cut off when another voice interrupted her.
"Alice there you are! I've come to save you!"
Alice and the twins turned to see ace standing there, smiling at them broadly.
"Ace!"gasped Alice joyfully and she clapped her hands together.
Dee and dum were instantly hostile. "What are you doing here, knight? This is our territory."
"Hm?"ace smiled. "Well I've come to retrieve Alice back. You guys stole her."
"No you guys stole her!"snarled dum. "You can't have big sis. She's ours!"
"Yeah!"sneered dum. "Leave before we kill ya."
"Sure, but I'm taking Alice with me!"Ace replied cheerfully. Then with inhuman speed he dashed forward and leaped over the heads of dee and dum and grabbed Alice.
"Ace!"began Alice, startled just as ace scooped her up in his arms and began running, the twins running after them yelling.
"Alice, it's nice to see you again,"greeted ace with a sunny smile.
"Same here,"replied Alice, gratefully. "Is Julius okay?"
"Haha, he's a total train wreck,"chirped ace. "But once you guys are reunited he should be just fine!"
Alice didn't say anything. She just held onto ace tighter as he ran, leaving dee and dum in the dust.
Blood drowsily awoke, his head aching. Alice was nowhere to be seen. His eyes landed on the broken lamp and he glared. It was time to get serious.
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