Peter White waited impatiently at the door of the immense clock tower. It was around ten in the morning, and Alice still wasn't out. She must be awake by now, so why isn't she coming out? She can't just be sitting around up there... with him. Peter was furious that she was choosing to stay in the tower with Julius Monrey rather than living at the palace with him. If he could, he would shoot the clockmaster in a instant, but that would most definitely upset Alice, and that was his top priority not to do. All he wanted was for her to be happy... that, and for her to love him the way he loved her.

Lately, it seem that his wish of her loving him back was not going to come true. She had been avoiding him more than usual and would always stomp away whenever he tried to even talk to her. When he did manage to start a conversation, she would usually tell him that she didn't want to see him, or even worse, how much she hated him! He would even turn into his adorable rabbit form to please her, but now she didn't even pick him up anymore!

He was so desparately in love with her, yet she seemed to hate his presence. It was tearing him apart inside that no matter how hard he tried, she would always turn her back on him. He was heartbroken, and the fact that she seemed to like every other man here in Wonderland wasn't making him feel any better. She even seemed to like that damn Blood Dupre better than him! He was so angry about that in particular that he would shoot any maid or soldier in sight, and he had killed so many that The Queen had told him that if he slaughtered any more soldiers he would be executed. Of coarse, he would never tell alice of all the murdering he's done. She thought of life as a precious, treasured thing that shouldn't be wasted, even though her world and this world were completely different games. Peter thought that it was ridiculous, but Alice thought otherwise. But, of coarse, that was one of the things he loved about her.

Peter checked his over-sized watch. 16 minutes had passed, and still no sign of Alice. The sun was high in the sky now, but for how long? If it suddenly turned to night Alice would definitely not come out! He would have spent a whole day standing around aimlessly. At that moment the large wooden door creaked as someone stepped out. Peters ears perked. The person stopped as they realized another person was out there, and looked at Peter through a winking light grey mask.

"Oh... Hey Peter!" Ace chirped, taking off his mask. "What are you doing out here so early?"

Peter narrowed his eyes. "What do you think I'm doing here, Ace? My darling Alice is staying at this place!"

"Aaah, stalking her again, right? No offense, but I don't think Alice really wants to see you..."

Deep in Peter's ticking heart he knew this, but he tried covering up any emotions that showed on is face. "Don't you have something to do?" He mumbled.

"Oh, you're right! I was just heading to the Amusement Park! Thanks for reminding me! I'm be off now!" Ace started waltzing off towards the Hatters Place. Peter couldn't care less if he was going to be lost in the completely wrong direction. He could die for all Peter cared. If fact, one less man after Alice's heart would be appreciated.

1:30pm... Peter sighed. This is hopeless... He tried to convince himself that she just didn't have any errands to do out of the tower today, and that she was just resting, but he knew that she had probably seen him outside the door and was avoiding him.

And that's exactly what was happening.

Alice had spotted him walking towards the immense tower fairly early in the morning. He had been extremely persistent in her returning his love lately, which definitely wasn't going to happen. Even his rabbit form wasn't going to trick her. She was hoping that if she kept telling Peter that she would never love him, he would give up, but she knew that wasn't going to happen.

"Alice, I thought you going to visit Vivaldi today," Julius looked up from his work to see Alice gazing out the window.

"so did I," Julius gave her a questioning look. "Peter's been waiting outside for hours now! I don't want to run into him."

Julius shook his head and sighed. "He'll leave eventually..."

Alice pouted. "He better..."