Collide

A/N: This is a quick update :). SO i've decided to make my chapters a little longer and really enjoying it so far. I feel the pacing of this story though is a bit slow in terms of romance, Marcy hasn't made a move on anyone yet. If you feel the same or difference leave it in a comment and I might try and speed the romance up with the lot at Clover as i dont plan the move for another 2 more chapters. Okay enjoy the lastest chapter guys, hope you enjoy cause this has to be my favourite one so far! :D

Summary: When she left Wonderland a mere child, a promise was made to return her to Wonderland one day. Now a woman she will once again unexpectedly Collide with Wonderful Wonder World. Rewrite of Collide and Sequel to Unexpected Girl. OC X Many

Disclaimer: I do not own the Joker/Clover/ Heart/ Diamond series they belong to Quinrose.

Claim: I own the OCs Marceline, Griffin, Lory, Eaglet and the Bird mafia and this story.

Chapter Eight: The Griffin enters.

Nightmare ran through the Clover halls excited, having finished a large section of work and had convinced Gray to go out and eat. He ran through the halls to tell Marcy to the good news, after her ordeal at the prison she needed a pick me up. Her thoughts were a mess again, confused by the change in Joker, seeing and remembering Ace at the prison. He would talk to her about it soon.

But now. Nightmare reached the outsider's room and opened it without knocking, something he regrets very quickly. Opening the door, he walks in on Marcy standing by her bed slowly lowering her towel. Nightmare freezes staring at her bare skin with fresh water droplets rolling down her curves, his eyes begin to swirl and he pukes up blood. A thick red blush covers Marceline's face, she screams wrapping the towel back around herself and grabs a pillow from the bed and throws it at Nightmare's face. "Get out!" she screams as the pillow hits him in the face pushing him out the room making him close the door.

"Pardon the intrusion" Nightmare moaned while lying on the white and gold tiled floor.

"What is the matter with you?!" Marcy screams opening her door now fully dressed, wearing a BoHo style shoulderless black dress with brown and red floral pattern and dirty brown boots, her vile still tied with a long chain around her neck and hair styled in a side French plait. She stared angrily at the dream demon on the ground. "Don't you ever knock? Seriously..." she sighed and kneels beside him taking her pillow, "are you okay?" she asks him, despite being mad she still worried about his sickly state.

Nightmare gave his face a wash and stood up with his hands on his hips, standing proud. He begins to laugh pushing air out of his nostrils, "of course, I simply came to deliver the good news!" he announced. Marcy tilted her head gesturing 'what good news?', Nightmare answers her mental question. "We are going out for dinner!" he cheered.

Marceline's face lights up and she stands beaming a smile, "going out for dinner, where are we going?" she asks excitedly.

"A restaurant in town, come on let's go!" Nightmare cheers grabbing Marcy by the wrist and tugs her through the halls making her release the pillow. They begin running down the staircases till they reach the exit of the tower, where Gray stood waiting for them. Gray had changed clothes unlike Nightmare, he wore a black suit with a black shirt with the first three buttons undone showing off his collar bones, and his hair slicked back. Looking out his new look Marcy goes beet red and puts her head down staring at her feet, like a high school girl seeing her 'senpai' in the corridor.

"Y-You look nice, let's," She said to Gray walking over to him.

Gray looked Marcy over and blushed at her cute appearance in her boho dress and childlike embarrassment. "You also look nice" he replied looking away.

"Come let's go!" Nightmare yelled running out the tower leading the way.

After ordering our meal the faceless waiter leaves and we begin to talk, mainly Nightmare looking at the dessert menu planning what he was having and asking what we wanted. "Really Master Nightmare we just ordered our mains and you're already thinking about dessert" Gray sighed. I giggle at Nightmare's childishness, enjoying it as it remined me of my younger siblings he was just like Lucas, hated doctors and loved dessert. I frown remembering my siblings and look down at my lap and fiddle with my fingers.

I hope they are okay. Lucas will need help with his English homework I hope mum is helping him, and Alexis is starting school soon she's going to need someone with her so she doesn't get scared, a lot of pressure for mum.

A massive guilt started building on my chest for leaving them and coming to wonderland, though it was against my will I still left them.

Nightmare who sat beside me reached a hand over and grabbed both of mine. I look up at him seeing his soft smile. "You have no need to feel guilty Marcy I am sure they are fine" he said softly, I nod gently but keep my frown.

"But they need their big sister" I whisper gripping the skirt of my dress.

"And you can be there for them once the game is finished" Nightmare replied taking his hand from mine, moving it to the vile around my neck and held it up. I saw there was a little bit more medicine in it, only a few drops more but the liquid had defiantly increased. "The more you interact with the role holders of wonderland the quicker the vile will grow, meaning the quicker you can get home" he explained and dropped the vile letting it bounce against my chest.

"You wish to return home Marcy?" Gray asked getting my attention. I look up at his sad expression and feel guilty again, this time making him sad.

"I'm sorry, but I have a family at home that I care about that I must return too" I explain.

Gray smiled softly and nodded. "I understood, family is a wonderful thing" he said softly, like he had a family once or wished for one. I decided not to pry.

"At least your reason is different to Alice's" Nightmare starts crossing his arms over his chest and sat up straight.

"What do you mean?" I ask feeling a little irritated, I hated it when I was compared to Alice ever since I was a child here. Another one of the few people I remembered from my experience here. She was very…narcissistic and blamed the role holders pain on themselves, she didn't like responsibility is what I got from her.

"She returned to her world for an old flame, you wish to return for family. Your love is very family based so I'm very interested to see how your game turns out" he said pulling his pipe from his sleeve and brushed a match from his pocket against the table, and began to smoke. Was he allowed to smoke in here?

"Who cares" Nightmare replied blowing some smoke in the air. I groan turning my head away from him, he was hopeless.

"Master Nightmare!" Gray scolded snatching the pipe from his master's lips. "That is enough of this behaviour! You are sick and in a public eating place, you should not be smoking" he sounded like he was scolding a 5-year-old. Though Nightmare did act like one. It made me snicker quietly behind my hand.

"I am not a five-year-old Marcy and give that back!" Nightmare whined first at me then turning to Gray and waving his hand franticly trying to reach the pipe that Gray held up in the air. "Give it back or I'll give you nightmares" he threatened, I raised my brow curious by this threat.

"No, you won't you can't get in my head" Gray replied stuffing the pipe in his jacket inside pocket.

"Wait – Nightmare can actually give people nightmares and he can't get in your head, how?" I asked getting their attention on me.

"I am a dream demon after all, I can enter your dreams, give you good ones and the bad ones" Nightmare gloated looking proud of himself.

"I have trained myself to not let this man into my head" Gray said interlocking his fingers and placing his hands on the table. He trained himself, could he train me? I didn't mind Nightmare reading my thoughts though some I wanted to be my own, not like a facebook status for anyone to read.

Gray and Nightmare quickly went back to arguing leaving me in my thoughts theories how to block the demon out. Maybe a religious pray or a blessing, wait do they have religion here?
I ask myself tilting my head. I knew religion was worldwide back home but did other worlds have religion and if they did what was wonderland's?

Upon pondering I catch sight of a beautiful man walking through the doors of the restaurant. He had long golden hair tailed in a ponytail that flowed over his right shoulder. He was dressed in a black trench coat with orange birds scattered at the bottom, with a plain white shirt with some bird bolo tie and plain black dress trousers under the coat. As he walked in a large group of faceless and faced people followed him. One faced was a girl no older than myself it appeared, dead straight black hair, full fridge and an outfit that reminded me of Mami from Madoka, but with orange and black as the colour palette. Another faced was a man covered in many colours, especially his hair which he wore in dreadlocks. His hair was a wave of orange, red, yellow, green and blue as was his outfit, a tracksuit with yellow flip flops. He kind of reminded me of a lorikeet.

The last faced member was a shy looking boy, with red hair and a few yellow strands through it, he wore a black hat tilted to the side and a green coat. Though the features I noticed the most were the two fluffy ears on his head and long fluffy tail. He looked adorable! I felt my cheeks get warm as I looked at him, he reminded me of a mouse or a squirrel!

He looks towards us and he smiles and begins to wave, "Mister Nightmare, Mister Gray!" he calls out and begin running over to us. But the beautiful man stops him grabbing his shoulder, he was too far away for me to hear what he said to him, but it made the mouse man be quiet and stay still as he advanced to us.

"Mister Ringmarc, Nightmare" He greeted with a half bow, looking at both men as he greeted them. He then looked at me and climbed on the table to kneel on one knee. "A maiden so fair and young, a face she wears on her head she must have role to lead" he sung to me reaching down grabbing my right hand and kisses it. "enchante mademoiselle" he greeted in French.

"tu parle français?" I ask him, though he looks at me like I just asked what the square root of the speed of sound was, confused. Answering my question, no. He coughed to clear his throat and released my hand to stand on the table. "I am-"

"Get off the table it's unsanitary" Gray scolds standing and pushes the golden hair man off our table. He stands fixing his outfit and hair then turns his attention back to me.

"As I was saying. I am Gryphon Harps it is a pleasure to meet you" he introduced with a bow. He stands "what is your role miss?" he asked "as I don't believe I have seen you before, and the move has not happened yet" he noted.

"Move?" I ask looking at Nightmare, he shock he hand gesturing not to worry and said he would tell me later. "As for a role, does fori-" Nightmare slaps his hand over my mouth quick and shakes his head.

"Her role does not concern you Harpe, she is a guest at Clover tower that is all" Gray answered and stood just reaching Grython's chin. This man was tall, and it was slightly intimidating. Despite his height Gray reminded strong, holding a hard glare and pulled his jacket back showing off a row of knifes.

Grython laughed loudly amused by Gray's threat, "you lizard are no match for a Grython my Eaglet will make quick work of you!" He sneered gesturing over to the black-haired female, who held up a Tommy gun. I felt the colour slowly drain from my face at this point. These people had guns and all I had for protect was a guy who could give you a nasty dream and mister happy knives. Grython looks back at me with a smirk, I notice he eyes begin traveling down as if he was undressing me with his eyes. But they stop landing on my vile and his gaze hardens. "You're a foreigner?" he asks lowering his head so his bangs covered his eyes, his voice lowering too.

Nightmare then stands extending an arm as to block me from Grython. "Yes and you are not to harm her" he warned. I turned my head over to Grython's crew noticing the faceless groaning and falling holding their head. He was giving them Nightmares.

"You will not give me orders Bag worm I give the orders" Grython growls coming closer to Nightmare towering him like an adult would to a child. "Our game runs like clockwork then foreigners get involved wanting to join in and throw the balance. I am done with it, Alice may have gotten away but this brat won't" he threatened glaring at me. He slowly began to pull a large magnum from his jacket and flicks it out over Nightmare's shoulder in my face. I could see down the dark barrel of the dark and my heart sunk, the fear of dying taking over my every thought and I began to shake. I didn't know what to do in this situation, do I run, scream, snatch his gun off him. This was new for me.

In the corner of my eye I could see the Eaglet woman aim her gun at Gray ready to shoot. "Gray watch out!" I scream reaching over the table and grabbed his sleeve pulling him down. I hear a group of bangs in the distance then an extremely loud one above me, knocking my balance I slipped and my face hit the table. Though I did not hear it as my ears begun to ring and I cupped them tightly. Lifting my face from the table I noticed my nose was bleeding. I look at Gray and see him mouthing something, looked like my name and something else, I couldn't make it out. Just then I felt someone scoop me up and throw me out the window that was now broken. My balance still off form my ears I stumble and find it hard to get up. Nightmare soon joined me out the window and helped me up, he mouthed something to me but I shook my head and pointed to my eyes. He gritted his teeth together. Mouse boy jumped out the window too and the two have a conversation, Nightmare looked angered and worried. He then helped me stand and put my arm around his neck and we began to move, with the mouse covering our behind.

After a while of running my hearing started to return and in the distance, I could hear gun fire. "Gray where is Gray!" I ask panicked pulling myself from Nightmare's hold.

"He had to stay behind to keep Grython from catching up, he said he would meet us at the tower" Nightmare said taking my hand ready to run again, but I snatch my hand back shaking my head.

"We have to go back there are too many people for him to handle on his own" I argue ready to run back, but Mouse boy blocks my path.

"Please miss you cant go back Grython hates foreigners, he will kill you!" he yelled.

"Marcy have faith in Gray he is an able man. Before he met me he was an assassin, he can handle it" Nightmare said taking both my hands. "But we need to get to Clover tower and wait for him, you are not safe here" he warned.

Tears began running from my eyes, I felt guilty and angry with myself. "Again I am causing trouble for you guys. Was Alice like this, getting in trouble and happy with everyone saving her, cause I'm not. I want to fight for myself without everyone worrying about me" I sobbed gripping Nightmare's hands tightly. As he comforted me I noticed Mouse's knife, with a hard shove I push Nightmare away and snatch the knife and race back to the restaurant.

Marcy pushed Nightmare back and snatched Pierce's knife from his hand, she darts back towards the warzone restaurant. Nightmare catches his footing and extends a hand forcing Marceline in a deep sleep, she floors to the ground dropping the knife.

"Mister Nightmare that wasn't nice" Pierce whimpered.

"I know and she will be mad at me when she wakes up but we have to get her back to the tower, Pierce carry her for me will you?" he asked in a demanding tone, the dormouse nodded and scooped the girl up and placed her over his shoulder and started running.

Nightmare and Pierce sat on a couch in front of the fire, with tea prepared by the dormouse. Nightmare sat with his knees curled up to his chest and blanket around his shoulder blowing his tea to cool it down. Tea was not his favourite he preferred coffee or hot chocolate, prepared by Gray. Giving the tea one more blow he stares over at the outsider shifting on his bed, she looked furious at him, it didn't help with blood down her face from her bleeding nose made her look scarier.

"Hello Miss!"

Waking up I began shifting in the bed and pushed myself to sit up and rubbed my eyes with the balls of my palms, though flinch and hiss pulling my hands away as they hit my nose. That's right I hit my nose on the table…

I thought to myself looking around the room finding I'm in Nightmare's office again and in his bed. I look over to the fireplace hearing it crackle and see the mouse boy and Nightmare sat in front of it drinking hot drinks. Nightmare had his legs pulled up to his chest with a blanket around his shoulders, the mouse had taken his hat off and was laughing at Nightmare. They seemed to be having a pleasant conversation.

I keep quiet sliding my legs to the side of the bed and sit there staring at my bare feet. "I hope you've calmed down a bit" Nightmare called over not facing me, which irritated me, but I suspected he was mad at me for my actions earlier. "I'm not mad at you Marcy" he answered still not looking at me.

I nod at him. "Sorry for the trouble" I say quietly feeling a little embarrassed by my behaviour. I acted without thinking, there was no way I could have taken those men on I would have died. I guess I'm just so tired of being helpless.

Just then the door to the office opens with a strong smell of tobacco blew in the room. My head shot up meeting the golden gaze of the lizard. A cigarette hanging loosely in his mouth and a pile of papers balanced on his left arm while the right held the door. "Master Nightmare on my way up I brought some paper work regarded the Bird Mafia attack" he said entering the room and places the papers in the coffee table in front of Nightmare who shuddered. Gray took the cigarette between his fingers and took a big breath in through the stick then pulled it out his mouth and exhaled a cloud of smoke. I enjoyed the smell of cigarette smoke it reminded me of my late father who smoked, though I did not enjoy smoking myself.

"Marcy!" Gray yelped running over to me and looked at my face panicked, "oh no your nose why did neither of you treat her, she has a bleeding nose it might be broken!" he scolded the mouse and Nightmare.

"She was asleep I didn't want to disturb her, plus you're here now" Nightmare said sluggishly drinking his drink and making a blah sound, displeased with the taste.

"I'll get the first aid kit and an ice pack don't move!" he ordered me and ran out the room.

I watch Gray run frantically from the room then turn my attention back to Nightmare and the mouse boy. I was feeling a bit rude referring to him as mouse boy, so I told and walk over to the two and sit on a chair across from the two. "Here you go Miss" mouse boy chirps leaping up and hands me a cup of tea I presumed.

"thank you…err sorry I never got your name earlier" I say apologetically.

"I'm Pierce Villiers, dormouse, I was doing some work with the bird mafia till the move" he explained kneeling in front of me and smiles brightly. He was cute.

"Move? Grython said something like that too" I say looking over at Nightmare.

He smiled at me. "You seem to be taking this rather well considering you almost got shoot" he said with a small laugh. "I remember Alice's first encounter with firearms" he snickers.

"I'm not Alice" I snap looking at him with a stern look. "please stop comparing us, I'm not her and I react differently" I protest looking away from him. "I've encountered firearms during my first visit" I explain frowning, I notice Nightmare frown as well.

"Huh? First visit?" Pierce asks getting closer to my face. "Have you been to wonderland before miss, you say you're not Alice and I can see and smell that so what do you mean?" he asked softly not moving away from my face.

"Pardon Pierce but would you mind moving back from my face, personal space and all" I say politely and gently push his chest, he begins to laugh and moves to sit on the edge of the couch beside me instead.

"Sorry you're just so pretty even with blood on your face, I wanted to kiss you!" he confessed, my impression of him was changing.

"The only one you kissed during your first visit here was Peter, right? Who's going to be next" Nightmare says smiling over at me, my cheeks flush.

I exhale deeply through my nose and turn my attention back to Nightmare with a new topic. "I wanted to speech to you about my first visit as a child, I'm having trouble remembering it except when it involves certain people. I remember Peter, Joker and you and recently remembered Ace during the prison, but everything else is lost. I was hoping you could help me remember?" I ask him beginning to run my fingers against the tea cup anxiously about his answer.

"Don't be nervous I'm glad you asked. Of course, I can help I would just need to put you in a dream state and enter the dream world with you, together we would go through your first visit start to finish" he explain using his hands to gesture in his sentence.

I smile wide and nod relieved he said yes. "Also" I start Um…a new topic Nightmare raises his brow. "um…well back home in my world all my gift from the first visit were placed in boxes, a few da-time changes ago they appeared in my room, the boxes from my world"

Nightmare's face lights up with excitement and he drop his tea cup and jumps up. "Let's go see them, I never got to attend this gift giving party for you so I'd like to see these" he was very excited and we all left for my room.

Entering my room, I go to the closet and pull it box out, being careful due to their fragile state. Once all boxes are in the middle of the room I sit down with Pierce and Nightmare and we each open a box.

"AHHH!" Pierce screams with his tail going as straight as a board and hides behind me. "It's the cat!" he cries trying to hug me, as he is doing this I could have sworn I saw his lips pucker. I push him gently to the side and move to his box and open it. At the bottom of the box was a china figurine of a boy dressed in pink and black punk outfit with a pink boa and cat ears and tail. I gently reach my hand into the box and pull the figurine out looking at it carefully. I had a feeling I knew who this was, though I could remember which made me feel bad causing a pain in my chest. I stroke my fingers down the figurine admiring the features of it.

"I'm sorry…" I whisper, though not quite sure why I whispered it. I look up at Nightmare and hand him the figurine, "who is this? I know him I just can't remember help me!" I beg feel like I would burst out in tears again. "Deep down I feel as though I made a promise to forget and I've broke unintentionally. I've forgotten and I don't know why, did I forget the reason for forgetting?" I ask, my thoughts all over the mess confusing me and concerning Nightmare. He snatches the figurine out of my hand and pulls me close to him laying me hand on his shoulder.

"Shh lets take this slow okay. Names later okay, I will help you Marceline, I promise you" he said softly, nodding I watch Pierce go through another box and smile like a child.

"Mister white rabbit!" He cheers pulling out a big stuffed rabbit toy and hugs it. "Ohhh so soft" he nuzzles into the toy. I remember that toy having it when Lucas was born, the only thing that stopped him from crying. I smile softly remembering a happy memory of soothing my baby brother with the teddy.

I then go through the box in front of me again and pull out a square white box with the golden writing 'To Marcy, Love Peter'. I pulled away from Nightmare and opened the box slowly, my eyes tear open at the gold heart locket with the engraving 'My unexpected girl'. I pop the locket open and find a photo of Peter in it and giggle at his goofy expression, I realised being in Clover I missed him a lot. Above his photo was engraving says 'My Peter' his pet I gave him. "I miss the rabbit goof ball you know" I said aloud closing the locket and begin putting it around my neck.

Nightmare tapped my shoulder and I turned to face him, "if you like I can arrange a meeting in the dream realm with him, just the two of you" he offered with a soft expression. I couldn't find words so I nod eagerly till my nose hurt again.

"Ohh a box of fancy tea!" I heard Pierce say as he was still going through my boxes, I let a small laugh out. This had to be the most relaxed I had been during my whole stay, I was almost shot.

"Marcy there you are!" Gray says panicked bursting through the door and scrambles over to me to treat my names, I try and protest saying it's not that bad but he insisted he treat.

Thank as always for making it to the end! I hope you enjoyed remember to leave your opinion of the chapter in the comments. let me know if you'd like the pacing sped up or more romantic action happening with Gray, Nightmare, Pierce, Joker or any of the Bird Mafia lot.