Was it a Mistake? (HNKNA) Chapter 3

'Outsiders are loved by everyone, White Rabbit. We've never had more than one outsider in Wonderland at a single time. You know just as well as I do how everyone has already developed feelings for Alice; some more strongly than others. Our residents would fall in love with this person in time as well but, with everyone already focused on Alice, who knows what could happen. Not even I know what effects a second outsider coming here could cause. I do not think this is a good idea, White Rabbit.

Nightmare's warning about bringing in a second outsider flashed through Peter's mind as he and the new outsider fell down the hole. He had dropped the girl at the entry so he wouldn't have to hold her the whole way and was now falling just inches above her. Glancing upwards, the rabbit man attempted to ignore the girl's screaming and saw the opening from above closed up. It seems like Peter had made it just in time and now all he and the girl had to do was continue to fall until they reached the clock tower.

Well, even though it nearly took him the full twenty-four hours, part one of the plan was finished. Peter had found what he thought would be a suitable friend with Alice and successfully got her down the rabbit hole. Part two of the plan was to give the girl the vial which would contain the medicine of hearts. That way she couldn't leave and it won't be a waste of time for Peter to have brought her in the first place. Third part of the plan was to return to Castle Heart soon after for some sleep, so he wouldn't be tempted to shoot the poor girl for attempting to make him go deaf.

"Would you stop screaming already?" Peter snapped tiredly, staring down at the girl in annoyance. It's not like he didn't expect the girl to freak out but, with his lack of sleep, Peter was far more irritated than usual.

Taking a short break in her panic attack, Alana glanced upwards to glare angrily at the rabbit eared man. How dare he kidnap her, throw her down some large hole and tell her to shut up when she's freaking out. If it wasn't for the fact that the falling motion was making her feel sick, and Alana felt weird when she tried to move her limbs, she'd have reached for her weapon and sliced off his rabbit ears.

"Stop screaming? I get kidnapped by a perverted rabbit eared man, thrown down a hole and you tell me to stop screaming?!" Alana shrieked in fury, feeling her own throat go raspy to do the volume of the shriek. Peter simply heaved a sigh as he studied the angered girl.

What was it with these outsiders and thinking he was a pervert? Peter was far from a pervert; his feelings were pure when it came to Alice. It wasn't like he ever had dirty thoughts of her in bed or had intentions of hurting her in such a way. So he never understood why the love of his life constantly called him a pervert. Now this girl had the nerve of calling him a pervert, but why? Out of all the names she could have picked from, she chose pervert.

"I am not a pervert. Besides, even if I was, it wouldn't be you I'd be interested in." Peter replied bluntly as he finally landed on the ground just outside the clock tower, landing as if he had simply jumped a few inches in the air rather than fell from a deep hole. Upon realizing what he had just said, a small blush found its way to his cheeks as Alice entered his mind.

'No, I must not think of Alice in such a way. She'd hate me for sure if she found out.' He thought, giving his head a hard shake. Turning his attention back to the girl, he was about to tell her where she was, give her the vial and leave but stopped mid track when he noticed her curled up on the ground, clutching her stomach.

Alana got motion sickness really easily. Normally she could handle fast speeds but there was two things that her body could not handle. One of them was spinning in small circles and the other was the feeling of falling. The feeling of both actions usually had two or three effects, both involving dizziness and a sore stomach. Sometimes Alana wound end up puking up the last thing she ate. Luckily Alana was just suffering the after effects of falling and her stomach felt nauseated. This was something that Peter, when noticing the girl's slightly sick looking face, noticed quickly.

Pulling out a vial from inside his red waistcoat, Peter took a few steps towards the girl and held it down to her. He sure hopped this girl would be much less stubborn to drink the potion than Alice was. Just because he gave the Medicine of Hearts to her via kiss that didn't mean Peter desired to do the same to this girl. His lips belonged to Alice and Alice alone. Luckily, the rabbit man had already thought of a way to get this girl to drink the potion willingly.

"What the hell is that?" Alana demanded, staring at the vial he held out to her in an suspicious way. Peter dropped the bottle from his hand and the girl, pulling her hand away from her stomach, catch it in hers by reaction.

"Medicine. I suggest you drink it before you mess the ground with your stomach contents." Was all the rabbit man said as he crossed his arms over his chest. The sooner he made sure the girl drank the liquid inside, the sooner he could return home to some well-deserved sleep.

Alana started at the rabbit eared man suspiciously, a small glare on her face. Somehow she felt he wasn't lying when he told her the content inside was medicine. Although she also doubted the medicine was anit-nausea medicine. Besides, why would he be carrying around some random medicine and then offer it to her? By the look on his face, the rabbit eared man didn't exactly look too happy and rather looked like he wanted to be far from wherever it was they were. It didn't really matter, however, as a sudden voice caught both of their attentions.

"Ace, no, we are not taking a shortcut through that ally! Look, the clock tower is right over here!" A female voice, layered with annoyance, called out. A male laugh soon followed and two people came into clear view.

One of them was a young girl in a blue, Victorian like, dress accompanied with a white apron. She also wore blue and white stripped stockings that stopped just before her knees. On her feet were red shoes that Alana didn't know the style name of though, as a tomboy, that was normal for her. The girl had straight, brown hair, a couple shades lighter than Alana's own brunet hair. On the top of the girl's head was a blue bow which was lined in purple and had a purple heart on its left side.

The man walking beside her looked to be a couple years older. He was wearing a long red jacket that seemed reach below his knees. The jacket was lined in black and white and hung open near the bottom. Under his jacket, Alana could see a black shirt accompanied by matching black pants. As if it complete the outfit, black gloves, the opposite from what the rabbit eared man wore, covered his hands. While his eye color remained hidden due do his eyes being closed, the man was shown to have slightly shaggy, short brown hair; a few shades darker than the girl walking next to him.

"Looks like you knew where you were going after all, Alice." The man said with a humorous laugh. The girl, now known as Alice, sweat dropped and looked over to the man named Ace with a unamused expression.

"That's because I'm not a directionally challenged idiot." She bluntly replied, her tone coated with annoyance and what sounded like exhaustion. Despite the clear insult in her voice, Ace let out another laugh.

"Aw, that's mean, Alice." He whined, though didn't sound a bit insulted. Instead there was more of a playful tone to his voice as he looked at the girl next to him.

The two people were so busy speaking that they hadn't yet noticed either Peter or the new girl yet. Alana took this to her advantage and snuck the vial inside her pants pocket before anyone could notice. Her stomach was feeling better anyways and she didn't trust that this man would actually give her medicine after throwing her down a hole to who knew where. Well... at least Alana knew she couldn't be in China; at least nothing remotely looked Chinese and, last she knew, the Chinese didn't resemble animals or could shift into them.

"Alice, my love~!" Peter, who suddenly gained hearts in his eyes, cried out as he jumped towards the unexpecting girl and wrapped his arms around her. The large, brown paper bag of stuff she had been carrying nearly fell out of her arms in surprise from the sudden attack.

'What the hell was that all about?' Alana thought, watching the scene in front of her as she pushed herself onto her feet. She watched in confusion as the girl named Alice struggled to push the rabbit man way without dropping the bag of goodies.

The anger she had felt for the rabbit man, who she heard the girl named Alice mention as Peter, slowly transformed into confusion. She was still beyond pissed off about being kidnapped and thrown down a hole but the whole thing was just confusing. Even the man's sudden change in behavior, which seemed to start off as cold, changed. Now he was acting like a love struck puppy who hadn't met its master in a long time. Although, in his case, it would be a love struck rabbit instead of a dog.

"If Mr. Peter doesn't let Alice go, she might suffocate." Ace laughed playfully, gaining glares from the both of them. Alana simply turned around to leave, the remainder of her anger turning into pure annoyance.

'Maybe I can find someone else who can tell me where I am; someone who seems saner than these three.' She thought and started to walk away while the other three seemed too busy to notice. Alana, ignoring the conversation behind her, only managed to take a few steps before a very familiar clicking sound stopped her in her tracks.

"Peter, put that away!"

Turning around, Alana watched with wide, shocked, eyes as the rabbit man held out a gun, directed to the man in the red coat. Suddenly her shock transformed into anger and her left hand turned into a tight first. There was nothing in the world that Alana hated more than guns; besides maybe people who prey off children. The only people who should have guns, in her opinion, were the cops. Alana never did believe in the rights that anyone could own a gun; so many wrong people got their hands on the guns and it resulted in things like school shootings.

"Do not fret, my lovely pet. I'll soon get rid of this germ infested threat." He replied coolly, one arm still latched around Alice's waist as he prepared to shoot. Ace simply grinned and reached for his sword but didn't get a chance to deflect the built as something unexpected happen.

"I believe the girl you claim to love told you to put your gun away." Alana's cool voice growled, glaring venomously at the White Rabbit. Pure surprise replaced all three's current expressions when they saw what Alana was doing.

Her weapon, which was revealed to be a custom made dagger, was pushing down Peter's gun. The blade was silver and shiny, as if it were only a few years old. On one side of the blade was an engraving which couldn't be made out do to the glare of the sun. The handle was the body of a silver dragon, with its wings perched out. No one had even noticed that Alana had walked over until she had Peter's gun pointing at the ground.

"Who are you and why do you have a sword?" Alice suddenly questioned as Peter hmphed and transformed his gun back into a clock. Alana pulled her dagger away and placed it back in its holder against her hip as she found herself staring at the watch that had once been a gun.

What in the world? Since when could a pocket watch turn into a gun? Then again since when did full grown men have rabbit ears and how could she be thrown down a hole to land who knew where. The question asked from the girl in the blue dress finally clicked through Alana's mind and she looked her way, arms crossed against her chest.

"It's not a sword; it's a dagger. Why I have it is none of your concern. Now, would one of you please tell me where I am already?" She asked, tapping one of her arms against her crossed arm. Alice blinked in confusion a few times and looked questioningly at Peter while Ace suddenly smiled excitedly.

"Oh, I thought there was something different about you. You're a foreigner like Alice~" He said excitedly before rubbing his chin thoughtfully, quickly giving her a look over. "Well, not exactly like Alice; she doesn't wear pants."

"A foreigner?" Alice almost shouted in surprise. Her gaze studied Alana for a moment before it then turned accusing as she stared at a now innocent looking Peter as Ace began to laugh.

"Oh, does this mean Mr. Peter has gotten tired of Alice already? Does that mean I can have her?" he asked, grabbing the girl and pulling her into an unwanted hug. A angry twitch formed in the White Rabbit's forehead as his hands turned into fists.

"Do not speak such nonsense, you stupid knight! I brought her here simply for Alice's sake." He shouted, his eyes holding a murderous look in them. Upon hearing this, Alice stopped squirming in Ace's grip to turn her surprised and confused eyes at Peter.

"WHAT?!" Both she and Alana cried out in surprised -while Ace simply looked innocently confused- though Alana sounded far more pissed off. Peter, realizing what he had just said, looked over to Alice with an innocent, sheepish smile.

"I wish I could talk to you some more, my lovely dove. However, I fear I may pass out from exhaustion. Until we meet again, I wish you a good day." He said, quickly grabbing one of her hands and placed a kiss upon it. Then, before the remaining three could have a chance to react, the rabbit man bulleted down the nearest forest path.

Sighing exhaustedly, Alana put a hand through her hair before letting it travel down her face. What the hell was going on today? It seemed to be going so normal until that white rabbit morphed into a full grown man and kidnapped her, throwing her down a hole. Now she was who knew where, surrounded by people that didn't look completely sane. Or at least the two men didn't seem completely sane; at least the girl looked the most reasonable out of the three of them.

"Well, you want to know where you are, right?" Alice, who was finally released from Ace's grip, asked after a short moment of silence, where Alana simply nodded. "You might as well follow us. I'm sure Julius can help explain what's happened to you." She smiled in a friendly way as she began walking towards the tower behind Alana.

"Are you sure we can't take an adventure in that ally. We've got time to kill." Ace whined playfully, walking right next to Alice. An annoyed tick appeared on her forehead and Alana followed at what she thought was a safe distance.

"For the last time, no! We're already late because of you; I was supposed to get these back to Julius five time changes ago!" She snapped, only to grow more ticks as Ace laughed some more. Alana simply groaned and put a hand through her hair again.

'Kill me now.'