Ah. . . I kept forgetting to look at this one so I could do it. I'm sorry! Its pretty late, but I hope you enjoy it! This a request from SayaKisaragi! Oh but thanks to this request. . . I can bring forth Clown!Alice! ^-^ And also before I forget, this gives more of a backstory to the vessel the current Alice has.

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"Wow the character in that book is named just like me. I am named Alice too!"  A young boy with short slightly curled black hair and brown eyes looks up from his newest book that was recently printed, "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll. He sees a smiling young girl about his age with dark brown hair and gentle reddish-brown eyes. He becomes intrigued at the fact that she was named like the book character of Alice.

"Sorry I interrupted you. I just really enjoyed that book myself when I read it. By the way, what is your name?" Alice questions the quiet young boy.

"Allen Gray Lionmane." He says proudly and his eye twitches as she covers her mouth to laugh. She straightens out and adjusts her light blue dress and tugs at her puffed short sleeves.

"Sorry for laughing, but that is a funny family name. I am terribly sorry, although my family name is no better. I am Alice Bloodworth, so as you can see it is also laughable." She says with a smile. Allen smiles a bit himself and nods his head in agreement. The young girl sits beside him and they talk about the book and whatever else their heads can come up with. By the end of their meeting. . . they become good friends.

"What a silly memory." Allen thinks to himself as he picks his now old and worn book of "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" as he was rummaging through the bookshelf of his room. He doesn't even smile at the once happy memory for he had lost the ability to do so as he started to grow older and he no longer saw that friend after a year of meeting. Now he is eighteen years old, the youngest of three brothers. He would call himself the black sheep of the family for his behavior brings great disapproval. His behavior is basically acting like a commoner even though he comes from one of the wealthiest families where he lives.

He takes the book with him towards a couch and turns on a candle to read beside his window. He carefully opens the book and starts to read the night away.

"My goodness, what a gloomy child. Would you not agree my fair lady?" A young woman of sixteen years says to herself as she puts a hand over her chest feeling the racing heart in her chest. A heart filled with fear. She chuckles at the fear she feels in her chest, but the fear is not of the person in control.

"How long has it been since you have seen your only friend, my dear Alice. . .ah no wait you are no longer Alice. I am Alice now, for you gave your body to me." Alice says with a giggle as she pulls down the hood of her cloak and looks into the window where Allen reads without a care in the world. She brushes back her red bangs and tucks them behind her ears.

"Hmm, now that I know what your dear friend likes. . . let us kill him in viewing what he likes. Let us make a circus!" Alice says a bit loudly. She covers her mouth and goes on her way, laughing at her blunder. She starts to skip away and heads over to her vessel's family home to plan out her circus for Allen.

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"Come! Ladies, gentlemen, boys and girls! Come to the Wonderland Circus tonight! Laugh with our humorous clowns! Gasp at the beautiful performance of our own angel of the trapeze! Come view exotic and intelligent animals who make your pedigree pets look like idiots! And much more!" Alice calls out as she stands on the top of a fountain. People stare at the woman, feeling that she is making quite the fool of herself, but they do not know her identity over the make up or her unusually colored hair.

Allen pauses as he hears the announcement and watches the girl toss rolled up flyers to those who are interested and catch them. He puts his hand out and he catches it and unrolls the flyer. He sees the name of the circus and his brown eyes widen a bit as he sees a drawing that almost resembles his childhood friend as the ring master. He lifts his head to look at the clown woman, but he finds her gone from a top the fountain. He didn't even hear the water splash.

"Wonderland Circus. . . It is rather amusing that I seem to have many triggers that are making me recall my childhood friend. Is this a sign that is saying we will meet again?" Allen thinks to himself as he rolls the flyer up again, puts it into his golden tailored coat and heads back into the family carriage to take him back to his home so he may dress a little less extravagantly and to attend the circus.

"See you at the circus, Allen!" He quickly looks out of the window of the carriage and sees the clown woman without her red nose and her face already cleaned off. He looks back at the flyer and sees the resemblance.

"Alice?" He questions softly, growing more and more intrigued by the mystery of his missing friend, the clown woman, and the circus. He nods his head, realizing that he definitely has to go and see what is going on.

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"I hear you decided to remain here until you could see me. Have you come to question my identity?" Alice questions Allen as he waited for her at the center of the ring.

"No, I know who you are. You are Alice Bloodworth, the girl I met as a child who had been a good friend before she disappeared all of a sudden even though she never moved away." Allen says to Alice who nods her head and undoes her curly pigtails and lets her hair down.

"Yes, well there was a life changing event and I just had no purpose to see you again. But do not fear, I am no longer the same person I was then. I am now much stronger." She tells him as he continues to stare at her with an indifferent expression but deep inside he wants to know what had happened to her.

"Well, if that is all you would like from me, I shall be taking my leave and preparing for tomorrow night's show. Goodbye, Allen Gray Lionmane." She says as she turns and skips away while laughing. He watches her go and frowns a bit as she pauses as she looks back at him over her shoulder.

"Why so serious?" Is her only question with a grin before she continues to skip away.

"Because I cannot smile." He says after she leaves and walks out, but already made up his mind about going to every show through the length of the time the circus would be running. On the last day hardly anyone showed up. Those that did seemed pretty lifeless and even the performance was dull.

"What is happening here?" Allen questions as he looks at the performance.

"You are seeing the performance as it has always been. I really put no effort into it all." Allen jumps a bit as he hears Alice right next to him. He knew he had sat all alone so now he is confused as to how she ended up seated next to him. He stares at her smiling profile and frowns a bit as Alice pulls his lips into a smile with her fingers.

"Lets see that last human smile before you become a monster." Alice tells him and he becomes confused by her comment as he removes her hands from his mouth. His eyes widen as he finds that he can't bring his mouth back down to normal, in fact it feels like his smile is widening.

"You always did say that Cheshire Cat was your favorite character of the books. My favorite was the Red Queen. . . up until she fell from power." Alice says as she watches him rise, trying to get out as he also tries to make his lips go back to normal. He can't find the exit and turns back abruptly to find the performers back into their glamourous state and start to pull him into the middle of their crowd. 

"Welcome to My Wonderland, Cheshire." Alice says before she holds up two cat ears staked through with two sharp metal rods and she stabs them through his head.

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"Good morning, kitty cat!" Cheshire Cat opens his now golden cat eyes that look amused and fit his permanent, fanged smile. He doesn't want his face to feel that way but he has no control over his face. He touches his more prominent hair that had turned blue along with the cat ears on his forehead and the blue tail that rests uncomfortably in his pants.

"This is your gift to me, girl who is not Alice Bloodworth." Cheshire says to Alice who smiles as she looks down on him. She honks her red nose and shakes her head.

"No, it my gift to me! You are only one of the very few who shall be my toys. Just like you to have a similar personality as myself, so I know what you are thinking without you having to pretend to feel another thing. My thirty sixth sacrifice. . . have fun." Alice says as she waves at the grinning boy and walks out of the tent.

"I am not your puppet or anything. I have freedom of choice." He says to himself. Alice pauses outside of the tent and giggles.

"I will let him believe that. It is always fun when they think they are not under my control."