Here is the first chapter of my new Heart/Clover/Joker no Kuni no Alice story! Hope you like it! (The title is sooo original isn't it? -_-) The chapters will be pretty long; I think I will make them one or two of her days in wonderland per chapter ^-^ Please enjoy! And also for those who read my other story 'And So She Met Him' then I should be posting the update tomorrow ^-^ And for 'A Vampire's Love' I'm still working on the next chapter. ^-^"

Now, on to the story! ^-^

(EDIT:

Thank you to MusicalUchiha for pointing out to me that my chapters had no spacers in them to represent time skips. Apparently Fanfiction deleted them, because I can most certainly see them right now in the word document I am typing this in, I apologize for any confusion and hopefully the problem is fixed now, if not I will keep editing and updating until it is. ^-^)

"Kira~! Kira!" My mother sighed, "Where could that girl be off to now…?" She wondered aloud, placing a hand on her hip.

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At the same time I was outside, wandering the woods behind our house.

"Crap!" I cursed under my breath. I reached up behind my head to try to try and untangle my hair from the low hanging branch it had caught in. When I was free I smoothed out my hair with my fingers and shook away the loose blond strands from my fingers. Occasionally as I got further into the forest I caught glimpses of deer, small rabbits and other forest animals that would scurry away deeper into the woods. Only making me want to go farther and follow them, farther away from home, I had never been this far into the forest either. Then something caught my eye that made me stop in my tracks, something sparkling and shining through the trees. I walked towards the light, moving branches out of the way until I came to stand in front of a beautiful crystal lake. It was very small, maybe more of a large pond than a lake. Its surface was smooth and undisturbed, reflecting everything around it like a looking glass. I moved closer and knelt next to it, looking at the upside down mirror world of trees and a small patch of sky reflected from above. But when I looked closer to see my reflection it wasn't there, in its place was what looked almost like a map on the water's surface. There was mostly forest and trees, but four main territories seemed to be a clock tower, a mansion, an amusement park, and a castle. As I reached out to touch the reflection I lost my balance and felt myself falling towards the water, as if in slow motion. I had nothing to grab onto to steady myself, and it felt almost as if I was being pulled to the water. After falling in all I could see was darkness, I don't know quite when it was that I lost consciousness...

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I blinked and opened my eyes, I wasn't drowning anymore, I was still alive. I didn't even have time to think of where I was besides knowing I was on dry land, because in the next second I leaned over on my side and coughed until I spat up water. My lungs felt like they were on fire and my eyes were tearing up. I was soaking wet and freezing, and my skin had an unnatural blue tint to it.

"W-where am I…?" I soon regretted that, I felt my lungs burn more and started coughing again.

"You're in Wonderland of course," A voice answered.

'Wonderland…?' I thought, afraid to speak again now that I had gotten my coughing under control. I only looked to where the voice had come from, and was surprised to see three people standing in front of me. We were all standing, and in my case laying, on the roof of a large building or structure, as I now realized. The first person I noticed was a tall man with long dark hair pulled into a low ponytail, and had blue eyes. He had on dark blue businesslike clothing that looked more than a little dated, like something from the seventeen or eighteen hundreds, but with a more modern touch. He also had a strange earring hanging from his left ear, it was a long gold band with a small pocket watch at the end. The next person was another man, he had short slightly spiky brown hair and was dressed in a red soldier's uniform with black trim. He had a small smirk on his face and a mischievous glint to his red eyes. The last was a girl who was maybe a few inches shorter than me. She had long blond hair with a large bow in it, and had bright blue eyes. She was wearing a blue Lolita looking dress that had yellow trim at the bottom of the dress skirt, with a white apron over top. I looked up at the three and risked a question.

"Who are you…?" I asked. Before I got an answer my lungs flared up again and I started coughing before everything went black.

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Iss…? Iss…? Miss…?

"Miss…?"

"Mmmm…?" I opened my green eyes to see a pair of blue ones staring back at me, making me flinch away a bit.

"Oh, sorry…" The person said 'This is a different voice than the one I heard earlier on the roof' I noted.

"No problem…" I said, realizing, once my eyes adjusted, it was the long haired man from earlier.

"My name is Julius Monrey,"

"Kira Allen," I said.

"Are you alright?" He asked.

"Yeah, fine now I think, it doesn't feel like my lungs are on fire every time I breathe anymore," I said in relief. Julius just nodded.

"So, how'd you get here?" Another voice asked, the same voice I had heard on the roof, I looked over to see the other man from earlier, leaning against the wall opposite Julius and I.

"Ace…! This is hardly the time for that…! Give her time to recover first," The girl from before scolded, hitting him lightly on the shoulder.

"What? I just wanna know, before she got here you were the only outsider in clover, Alice," Ace stated

'Outsider…?' I thought, tilting my head to the side.

"Ace, for now the questions can wait, Alice, find her something to wear and show her to the bahroom," Julius said, looking at The girl, Alice.

Alice nodded and motioned for me to follow her as she left the room and I stood and followed quietly behind, looking at Ace for a brief moment before turning my attention back to Alice.

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I shut off the water and stepped out of the shower, wrapping a towel around myself. I looked in the mirror and was pleased to see my skin was back to its normal color.

"These must belong to Alice…" I thought aloud, noticing the neatly folded clothes on the counter. I got dressed and brushed my hair before stepping into the slippers in front of the door. I looked at myself in the mirror again and smiled. 'A bit different, but I like it, I guess Alice noticed my preference for black.' She had left a black lolita style dress and high black socks with small bows at the top, and even a black bow for my hair. 'It's cute~!' I thought smiling. Lastly before I left I picked up my black cat collar off the counter and secured it around my wrist. It used to belong to my beautiful little black cat Hana before she died and I rarely took it off.

"Now let's see if I can find my way back…" I said, walking out into the hallway.

"Kira?"

"Oh! Alice, hi," I said, giving a small smile.

"You look a lot better," She said smiling back, "Julius sent me to get you, he thought you might get lost,"

"Oh, thanks, and thank you for lending me this," I said, gesturing to the outfit.

"You're welcome, sorry I didn't have shoes for you though,"

"Its fine," I said, "Umm, so what is this place, this building…?"

"Oh, this? This is the clock tower."

"Clock tower…?" I murmured, remembering the reflection I saw in the lake. A castle, an amusement park, a mansion, and… a clock tower…

"Alice…?"

"Yes?"

"What did Ace mean when he called us outsiders…?" I asked. She stopped walking for a second and turned to face me.

"Outsiders… are what they call people not originally from this world… people like you and me." She explained, a small hint of sadness in her voice.

"Not from this world…? We're in a different world…?" I asked, not quite believing or comprehending.

"Yes, this world is a lot different than our own…"

"How did you get here Alice…?" I asked.

"I was kidnapped by that mangy rabbit Peter White…!" She said, sounding angry.

"Kidnapped? By a rabbit?" I said, disbelieving.

"Yeah, just hope you don't ever meet him, or he might just fall in love with you too…!"

"Fall in love with me…? And why would he do that?" I asked, tilting my head.

"Apparently it's pretty normal for residents of this world to fall in love with outsiders," She said. I just nodded and decided to think about it later.

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"You… you fell through the looking glass…" Julius murmured in amazement.

"The looking glass?" Ace asked.

"It's just a term used for someone finding a kind of portal of sorts to wonderland through a reflection. It's been least two hundred years, maybe more since this has happened. What's also strange is having more than one outsider in Wonderland at once, I don't think it's ever happened before…"

"Is the lake where Kira fell the only place it can happen…?" Alice asked.

"No, but, that lake is one of the few places in her world where it's possible to find Wonderland through that way, it's only by chance that Kira was able to come here." Julius answered.

I sat quietly next to Alice as I listened to them talk about looking glasses and portals and legend, as slowly I my mind tried to accept what had brought me here, though part of me was feverously hoping this was all just a vivid dream I was having.

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"But I don't have any money…!" I protested.

"And you don't have anything to wear either, and that's a problem," Alice countered.

"Yes but-"

"No more arguing,"

"Fine… but when I find a way to make some money I'm paying you back…" I said stubbornly.

"Alright, alright, let's go then," She said walking out the door, me following behind.

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"Wow, soo cute," I said looking around at all the little shops and stands selling goods.

"Yup, now then-"

"Alice! Alice~!"

"Oh no…!" Alice sighed, putting her head in her hands.

"Alice~! I love~ You~!!"

"W-what the hell…?!" I exclaimed.

"The person that voice belongs to is Peter White…" Alice said frowning.

"You mean that Peter White?" I asked.

"Yeah…"

I turned to see just who this Peter White was and saw a tall man dressed in a red plaid uniform jacket and dark tan pants, and was wearing a large pocket watch on a long chain across him over his shoulder. He had white hair and glasses… and bunny ears.

"T-that's him…?!"

"Yup, that's him…"

"Alice~!" Peter shouted, hug tackling Alice, "I love you! I missed you soo much! You haven't come to visit~!" He said pouting.

'A man pouting like that… is very strange…' I thought to myself.

"W-who is this?" He asked pointing to me.

"It's rude to point you know," I said frowning.

"This is Kira, my friend," Alice said.

"A friend of Alice…?" Peter asked, staring at me with a blank expression. "But the only friend Alice needs is me…" Peter said.

"Peter," Alice said in a scolding tone.

"Get away from Alice…" He said, still looking at me.

"Excuse me…?!" I asked, placing a hand on my hip.

"I said get away…" Peter said.

Taking his pocket watch off of his shoulder, it turned into a gun which was pointed right at me.

"Peter, no!!" Alice shouted at him, running in front of me, between me and the gun the crazy rabbit was holding.

"The only friend Alice needs is me, she'll only get in the way…" He said, still pointing the gun in our direction.

"A-alice, w-what's going on?!" I asked, terrified for the both of us, ~Bang~ we both jumped when the shot went off, and the bullet passed me just inches from my head.

"Alice, you don't need her, you only need me…!"

"Are you mental…?!" I yelled at the rabbit, about to step out from behind Alice.

"Peter, stop this right now, I will never speak to you again if you hurt Kira, you can't go around pointing guns at people and shooting at them, especially not my friends, and you don't get to decide the people I call my friends either!" Alice yelled at the man.

"But Alice-"

"No Peter, now turn around and go back to the castle, what I just said is a promise, I don't want to see you right now, so leave!" She ordered, pointing toward the direction he came from.

"O-ok Alice…" He said in a defeated tone, lowering his gun, which turned back into a pocket watch as he turned and walked back.

"Are you alright…?" Alice asked.

"Y-yeah… I'm fine… You sure were off about the whole falling in love with me thing though," I said.

"I'm sorry, it's my fault…"

"No it's not, it is in no way your fault Alice, that man is just psycho…!" I said.

"People in this world don't view lives the way we do… to them a life has little value at all, people getting killed here is a normal… a daily occurrence…" She said sadly.

"Normal…? How could they not realize how precious life is…?" Alice stayed silent, as neither of us could think of an answer.

"Do you still want to go shopping…?" Alice asked after a while.

"Yeah, I'm ok now," I said, "Alice, did you mean what you said?" I asked as we started walking.

"Mean what…?" She asked looking at me.

"That I'm your friend…?"

"Yeah, well, only if you still want to be…"

"Of course I want to be friends!" I said hugging her.

"You do? Even after I-"

"Even after you what, Alice…?" I asked with a slight glare.

"Nothing…" Alice said with a sigh.

"That's what I thought." I said, "Let's go then!" I said, pulling her towards one of the dress shops.

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"What do you think about this one?" I asked, stepping out of the dressing room.

"Wow, it really suits you Kira," Alice said.

"Really? I think I like it too, it's cute," I said smiling. I looked at my reflection in the mirror. I was wearing a ruffled black plaid dress that went to my knees and had black lace at the skirt and the top and straps. It had lines of red through it too, and had a medium size bow that went around my waist and ties in the back, and instead of it having a zipper it laced up in the back.

"Oh! And what about this?" Alice asked, holding out a black plaid bow that had a small skull in the center.

"Oh, soo cool…! It matches the dress perfectly!"

"Yeah, it does," She said, arranging the bow in my hair, "Perfect," She said smiling.

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"It's night already…?" How long were we gone…?" I asked, looking up at the stars in the sky.

"Not long, the times of day change randomly in this world, there's no way to tell how long day or night will be either."

"Oh…" I murmured, 'This world is soo strange… it can't be real, I must be dreaming… I mean, a crazy man with rabbit ears trying to kill me, day changing to night in an hour, life with no value… It can't be real…' I thought. I blinked, it felt like it just got lighter… I looked up and sure enough, the stars were gone and the moon was slowly fading into the lightening sky as the sun came up. I sighed.

"This is gonna take some getting used to…"

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"Julius, we're back," Alice called, as we walked into his office.

"Everything go ok?" He asked.

"Yeah, we got groceries to make dinner too… but we did run into Peter…" She said with an unreadable expression. I frowned at the name.

"Did he give you any trouble…?" He asked, placing the clock he was working on back on his desk and looking at us, taking in our expressions.

"He… he aimed a gun at Kira and was trying to… get rid of her…" Alice said, looking down at the ground.

"What…?! Kira, are you alright?" Julius asked concerned.

"Yeah, I was just shaken by it, but I'm fine…"

"You should try to be sure whenever you leave the clock tower not to be alone, you should have Ace go with you whenever you leave if he's here," Julius said.

"I'm not sure that's such a good idea Julius, Ace will just get her lost if she traveled with him," Alice said.

"I'm safe now though, thanks to Alice, we can worry about this later," I said, "Alice, we should go put this stuff away and start dinner," I said, turning toward the door.

"Ok…" Alice said, giving a look to Julius before following me out of the office.

"Kira, are you sure you're ok…?" Alice asked.

"Yeah, I just… I don't like making people worry over me…" I said, not looking at her, she only nodded and started walking down the hallway and I followed her.

"We can put your stuff in my room for now, ok?" She asked, stopping in front of one the doors in the hall.

"Ok," I said, following her into the room.

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"What do you wanna make?" I asked.

"I don't know… maybe we can make the chicken?" Alice said.

"What about fried rice and general Tao's chicken?"

"General Tao's chicken?"

"Trust me, it's good," I said.

"Ok then, just tell me what to do," Alice said smiling.

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"It smells really good," Alice said.

"Yeah, it does, I think the rice should be done in another minute, and the chicken in five," I said.

"Ok, should we make some tea?"

"Umm, yeah, I think green tea would go best with this,"

"Green tea? I've never had it before…" Alice said, putting a finger to her chin.

"Really, it's good, my favorite actually,"

"Ok then, green tea it is," She said smiling.

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Julius, you're still not using them the right way," I said, trying not to laugh.

We were all in Julius's office having dinner, and Julius was having trouble using the chopsticks" Here, give me your hand," I said to Julius after watching another failed attempt to pick up a piece of chicken. "You hold the bottom one with the middle part of your thumb and your middle finger, and the top one between your thumb and index finger." I said, changing the way he was holding the chopsticks, "Now try,"

"Oh," He said, after being able to successfully pick up a piece of chicken with his chopsticks.

"See?" I said with a small smile, Alice giggled a little, making Julius look up at her with a frown.

"This is really good Kira," Alice said.

"Thanks," I said smiling.

"It is very good," Julius said.

"Thank you," I said smiling, happy they both liked it.

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It's night again…" I murmured, looking out the window.

"Yeah, are you tired?" Alice asked, drying the dish I handed her.

"A little…" I said, handing her the last dish.

"Ok, you're going to be staying in my room until we can get one ready for you," She said.

"I'm going to be staying here…?" I asked.

"Yes, if you want to, we talked about it earlier after you told us how you got here. Unless you don't want to stay here,"

"Really? It… would be nice, but I don't want to impose…" I said.

"Oh, you wouldn't be, really. You can talk to Julius tomorrow though if you want,"

"Ok," I said, stifling a yawn.

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"Julius…" Alice asked, walking into his office study.

"Alice? What are you doing up, aren't you tired…?" Julius asked, looking up from his work, fixing one of the many broken clocks on his desk.

"A little, but I couldn't really sleep… I was worried about Kira…" She said, placing the tray she was carrying on the table, taking a cup of coffee off of it for herself and bringing the other to Julius.

"Me too…" Julius said with a sigh, moving the clocks and tools to the side and taking the cup of coffee from Alice. "Eighty-nine points," He said after taking a sip.

"It's improving," Alice said with a small smile, Julius nodded.

"Alice, I'm worried about you too…" Julius said after a short silence.

"Julius, I'm fine, you don't have to worry," Alice said.

"Alice… This world isn't as safe as you think it is… there's still a lot you don't know, and haven't seen… that you shouldn't have to see," Alice was silent for a moment and Julius continued. "Alice, you should sleep now, you look tired,"

"But-"

"We can talk about this tomorrow if you'd like," Julius said.

"Ok… goodnight Julius…" She said, walking back to the door with her cup.

"Goodnight Alice…"

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'Where am I…?' I thought. There was absolutely nothing familiar about this place… It was nothing but strange grey metallic background everywhere…

"Hello Kira…" A voice said from behind me.

"Wha?!" I spun around to see a tall man with silver hair that went almost to his shoulders. He had on a black suit with the jacket open, the suit and tie had decorative gold trim on them. He looked young, but had a black eye patch with gold trim over his right eye that made me briefly wonder what had happened to him in his past.

"Who are you? And how do you know me…?" I asked, backing away a bit.

"I am Nightmare, an incubus," He said, giving a small bow "And how I know you is a secret," He said with a grin.

"Well then, why are you in my dream…?" I asked.

"And why wouldn't I be…?" He asked, answering me with another question and slight grin.

"Because, oh never mind…" I said, crossing my arms.

"It's almost time for you to wake up, so I guess I'll see you later, Kira…" He said with a smile, before disappearing.

"W-wait! Nightmare!" I called out, realizing just how much scarier this place was without him.

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Ok then, that's it for chapter one, I apologize for any possible lameness if any ^-^ Please tell me what you think, Review! ^-^