"Blood is just so creepy and crazy!"Alice yelled as she paced back and forth. "He's worse than Peter. I means what kind of guy even does that? Shoot his ex's boyfriend and then force himself on her and try to kidnap her?! And he kidnapped me before too and drugged Julius and me! And then the way he was spying on us through the window! Argh! I hate him! And when we were together he was always so possessive and sexual. I never felt comfortable with him! Well I'm not going to let him continue to sabotage me and Julius! He's going to pay!"
Julius and Ace watched Alice patiently as she walked back and forth. Ace was amused and Julius was just trying to keep up with how fast she was taking. He had recovered from his wounds and now all three of them were back in the tower.
"Alice,"Julius began uncertainly.
"Hush, Julius! We need to think of a way to stop blood! If there's no police around to stop him then we need to take matters in our own hands!"Alice continued.
"We could always just put a bullet in his head,"ace suggested cheerfully.
"That's a crazy idea,"Alice said dismissively. She stopped and thought for a moment. Then her face lit up as she snapped her fingers with delight.
"I've got it! Let's just put a bunch of guards around the tower and get a better security system! And we won't leave the tower at all. If we need something we can just send a servant!"
Ace looked at Julius and shrugged. Julius sighed and nodded. Alice beamed.

It had been three days and so far the new security system and guards were working. There had been no sign of Blood at all.
Julius didn't like all the people around, but since it made Alice feel happier and safer he bore through it.
Alice was now contentedly sleeping besides Julius. She woke in the middle of the night and let out a happy yawn. Everything was Blood free just as she liked it.
She turned in the bed so that she could sleep on her side and was just about to close her eyes again when she noticed a movement in the darkness. Her eyes widened and she sat up quickly, grabbing the bedside lantern and turning it on.
Blood was there, lying down besides her, wearing no shirt. Just staring at her.
Alice opened her mouth to scream, but blood rolled on top of her immediately, covering her mouth with his hand as she stared at him with wide eyes.
"Sh, sh,"Blood whispered soothingly. "Don't panic. I'm not here to do anything. I just wanted to watch you sleep, that's all."
Wtf!? This wasn't twilight. Alice was seriously freaked out right now.
"Don't look so scared,"smirked blood. "I've been here for the past three nights and nothing went wrong. You can trust me."
Wtf?! The last three nights? Really?! Alice was even more freaked out.
"You're so beautiful when you sleep, Alice. You look so innocent and I can almost believe you're mine again. But then I look over and see the clockmaker besides you,"seethed Blood. Then he grinned, "but what does it matter? I know you will return to me in the end. And if not I will take you back by force."
Alice glared at him and struggled to shake herself free. Blood smirked at her pitiful attempts.
He leaned down and Alice felt his hot breath on her skin. It made her shiver.
"I loved you Alice. Why did you leave me for him?"breathed Blood softly.
He didn't move his hand so he could answer and brushed his lips against her forehead. "You were the splash of milk in my tea. Life was pointless before you, Alice. You change me and I don't care if it's for the worse. You make the world interesting. Somehow you make it seem brighter and worth living."
He smiled and brushed another kiss on her, this time across her eyes.
Alice flinched and he sighed.
"I'm not ever going to let you go, Alice," Blood continued. " No one steals you from me. No one. And I'm not going to let you run away. I will lock you in a cage if that's what it takes. Where ever you run I will find you. I will never stop chasing you."
Alice shuddered. Blood stared at her expressionlessly.
"I was content with merely watching you sleep for the time being. But now there's no more point. I'm taking you back home, Alice."
"No, you're not!"growled Julius and both blood and Alice turned to look at Julius with surprise. He was awake now and staring at blood with rage.
Blood let out a chuckle and smirked, "Oh, is the clockmaker finally-"
His words were cut off as
Julius punched him across the face. The force of it pushed blood backward and he fell off of Alice and the bed.
Wtf?! Julius had freaking turned into the terminator! Alice was amazed.
"Julius, you were so cool and not wimpy for once!"gasped Alice and she looked up at Julius with starstruck eyes.
Julius flushed and ran a hand self consciously through his hair. "Erm.."he began, embarrassed.
A punch snapped Julius's head backwards. It was Blood glaring at him with fury.
Without any warning Julius launched himself at Blood and knocked him down to the ground, landing on top of him. He pummelled blows into Blood who only grinned at Julius before rolling him over and smashing punches into Julius's face.
Alice was like:
? ﾟﾙﾀ? ﾟﾙﾀ? ﾟﾙﾀ? ﾟﾙﾀ? ﾟﾙﾀthen when she saw how Julius wasn't wearing a shirt either she was like:
? ﾟﾘﾵ? ﾟﾘﾵ? ﾟﾘﾻ? ﾟﾘﾻ? ﾟﾘﾻ? ﾟﾘﾻ? ﾟﾑﾍ? ﾟﾑﾍ? ﾟﾑﾍ? ﾟﾑﾍ? ﾟﾑﾍ? ﾟﾑﾍ?
Ace who was watching the fight as well( he had been watching since the very beggining when Blood snuck in through the ceiling vents into the room and in bed with Alice) reacted like this when he saw Julius and blood fighting shirtless:
? ﾟﾘﾏ? ﾟﾘﾏ? ﾟﾘﾸ? ﾟﾘﾸ? ﾟﾑﾏ? ﾟﾑﾏ? ﾟﾑﾌ? ﾟﾑﾌ? ﾟﾑﾌ? ﾟﾑﾌ?￢ﾀﾍ❤️ ? ﾟﾑﾨ ❤️ ? ﾟﾑﾨ ❤️ ? ﾟﾑﾨ ❤️ ? ﾟﾑﾨ ❤️ ? ﾟﾑﾨ ❤️ ? ﾟﾑﾨ ❤️ ? ﾟﾑﾨ ❤️ ? ﾟﾙﾊ? ﾟﾙﾊ?
But all Julius could think while fighting Blood was:
? ﾟﾘﾫ? ﾟﾘﾫ? ﾟﾘﾖ? ﾟﾘﾖ? ﾟﾘﾩ? but the thought of ? made him keep on going because❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ and ? ﾟﾑﾫ? ﾟﾑﾫ?.
Blood however was on a very different page. He was thinking:
?￢ﾞﾕ? and ?￢ﾞﾕ? ﾟﾍﾌ and ? ﾟﾘﾈ? ﾟﾘﾈ? ﾟﾘﾈ? ﾟﾘﾈ? ﾟﾘﾈ? ﾟﾘﾈ?
Julius landed a punch into Blood's face, distracting him from his very creative mind. He hissed and slammed another punch into Julius's face.
Julius winced but then in a swift jiu jitsu move that stunned everyone swept Blood into a arm lock and snapped his arm.
"Argh!"yelled Blood as his arm broke. At that moment the doors to the room flew open as hundreds of guards stormed in. Blood swore and then stood up and ran to the window.
"I'll be back,"he promised in a sinister voice before jumping out the window into the night and disappearing. There was the sound of a loud thump a moment later and then the sound as if a bunch of bones had just broken. Then a quiet gasp and then silent sobs.
"Hey it's the hatter!"yelled a guard's voice.
"Let's get him!"another one yelled and there was the sound of Blood screaming in pain as the guards whacked him with their weapons and beat him up even though half the bones in his body was shattered from the fall.
"Poor guy,"ace said after a moment and then went down to help out blood who promptly cussed him out and dragged himself home, wincing with every movement.

Aw jeesh. Hopefully the emoji's are alright. I originally posted this story on another site and the emoji's showed up fine, but not on this site it seems. Oh well, hopefully it didnt take too much away from the chapter... but if it did let me know and I'll come back and edit it. Well once again thanks for reading. :)