[fanfic fifty] [heart no kuni] 08. Apathy
Title: Little White Lies
Author: spicy_diamond
Fandom: Heart no Kuni no Alice
Characters: Nightmare Gottschalk / Alice Liddell
Table: Four
Prompt: 08. Apathy
Rating: PG
Challenge: fanfic50
Summary: [Clover] The Clock Tower was gone, but never beyond reach.
Word Count: 222
“Gone?” She repeated the word dully, looking between the pair of men in confusion. “But, how am I supposed to go home if the Clock Tower's gone?”
Nightmare watched her face fall. Her expression slipping into a lost, lonely look reminiscent of her first night in the Country of Hearts, before she quickly shook it away. A familiar stubborn frown taking its place on her lips as she turned towards him, determined for answers.
“How do I go back?”
In truth, it would be a terribly simple thing to send her back home to the Clock Tower and Julius and the new life she had just barely began to settle into in Wonderland. The distance between Heart and Clover was nothing in comparison to the distance between this world and that one. All one needed was a door and a guiding hand.
But, watching Alice as she stood there in front of him. So very close after nothing but stolen moments between dreams... Nightmare was loathe to do anything but shake his head quietly.
“I'm sorry.” He told her. “It's part of the Move. You won't be going back, Alice.”
Because, just like the rest of Wonderland, now that she was here, he was far too in love with her to ever dream of letting her go.
Author: spicy_diamond
Fandom: Heart no Kuni no Alice
Characters: Nightmare Gottschalk / Alice Liddell
Table: Four
Prompt: 08. Apathy
Rating: PG
Challenge: fanfic50
Summary: [Clover] The Clock Tower was gone, but never beyond reach.
Word Count: 222
“Gone?” She repeated the word dully, looking between the pair of men in confusion. “But, how am I supposed to go home if the Clock Tower's gone?”
Nightmare watched her face fall. Her expression slipping into a lost, lonely look reminiscent of her first night in the Country of Hearts, before she quickly shook it away. A familiar stubborn frown taking its place on her lips as she turned towards him, determined for answers.
“How do I go back?”
In truth, it would be a terribly simple thing to send her back home to the Clock Tower and Julius and the new life she had just barely began to settle into in Wonderland. The distance between Heart and Clover was nothing in comparison to the distance between this world and that one. All one needed was a door and a guiding hand.
But, watching Alice as she stood there in front of him. So very close after nothing but stolen moments between dreams... Nightmare was loathe to do anything but shake his head quietly.
“I'm sorry.” He told her. “It's part of the Move. You won't be going back, Alice.”
Because, just like the rest of Wonderland, now that she was here, he was far too in love with her to ever dream of letting her go.