Alice kept on staring at Lori and only occasionally looked at Nightmare, who was sitting in front of her. She thought the possibility of encountering Lori's look-a-like, but she quickly abandoned the idea. Even though she didn't have any face, Alice could still tell that it was Lori herself.

Why is she alive? I thought Gray killed her?

She thought of the possibility of Gray killing her, but survived through the attempted murder. If this was the case, then Lori must resent Gray, but when Alice looked at Lori and then at Gray she didn't see any contempt in their eyes, only mutual understanding. This confused her further more and finally struggled to the only conclusion; the only thing that she thought it was impossible. Gray set her free.

But for what reason?

She looked at Gray's face and tried to figure out the reason. The man noticed Alice's stare as he smiled back. The brunette suddenly felt her face boiling and lowered her eyes to hide her colored cheeks.

It wasn't…it wasn't for me right?

She didn't want to think of the possibility; it was such a self-conceited and arrogant thought, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't find an alternative explanation.

Just when she turned to look at Gray again, Nightmare shouted in frustration, "Alice! Are you even listen to what I am saying?"

The girl stopped herself and glanced at Nightmare, "Yeah I hear you." Totally forgot that Nightmare was here.

The incubus let out a heavy sigh, "I know that you forgot about me and went into your own sugary love world, but stay with me for a sec, alright?"

Alice filled her thoughts of protests against the statement, but only shrugged and continued staring at Lori. Lori uncomfortably fiddled with her hands and shifted her eyes from Alice to the ground. Nightmare shook his head and took out his timer, "Fine, I will give you guys 5minutes to do all the talking. You understand? 5 minutes. I will be timing."

Alice turned to Lori and looked at her directly into her face. Despite the limited time, neither girls moved an inch.

Lori didn't know how to act in front of Alice. She wasn't intending to show herself in front of her friend. Her fear of the foreigner not remembering her had subsided when Alice blurted her name out, but she was still uncomfortable with the possible bombarding set of questions along with hostility. You stalked me all this time? Ew, are you a criminal? And who asked you to get me out of the Gray's hideout? I was perfectly happy over there. Are you trying to ruin my life? Lori knew that Alice did not have a clue of what her faceless friend was doing, but there was always a possibility that her actions would be known.

Lori closed her eyes. Of course anybody would be creeped out when they know what I did….

As soon as she closed her eyes, a rush of embrace engulfed Lori. The faceless woman opened her mouth blankly in complete surprise. Alice held her tight and merrily exclaimed, "Lori! It's really really great to see you again! I thought you were dead."

In this instant, Lori's dark fear passed away and a surge of mirth erupted from within. She also hugged her friend back and exclaimed, "It's also good to see you and I am glad to be alive too! You know I will never think of dying at such a young age."

"Well yeah. So Lori what were you doing all this time? As I can see that you somehow escaped from Gray…" Alice's eyes shifted quickly to Gray and back to Lori.

"Ah um well…" Both girls awkwardly stayed silent.

The atmosphere grew uncomfortable, until Nightmare started his countdown, "3 minutes."

Gray looked at both girls and opened his mouth to start the conversation, "Lori was always watching over you."

"Gray!" Lori looked at him with panic in her eyes.

He glanced at Lori and sighed, "Lori, I don't know what you are afraid of, but Alice is not one of those hoodlums you see in the back alley or the underground organization. You should trust her more and just tell her everything." With that statement, Lori shut her mouth and slowly turned to Alice. What Gray said was true, but she still had lingering fear and doubt as she gulped and slowly opened her mouth, "After I was out of the hideout…I stalked you and wondered how I should save you. I heard that Peter White in the Castle of Hearts was very fond of you and was looking for you so I…I thought it was a chance to save you from Gray, but in the end I was just a hindrance to you. I was the one who told Peter White where you were and made you suffer a lot because of that. Sorry Alice."

Alice shook her head in denial and took Lori's hand. Her smile melted down all the tension and "No, you did all of that for me. You're my best friend and will always be no matter what." "Oh and one more thing, don't you think of anything more negative or you will soon turn into an emo."

Staring blankly at the brunette for a few second, Lori laughed in relief. All her fear had washed away and she had the best feeling ever. It made her feel ridiculous that she was ever scared of Alice. Showing her best smile Lori tightened her grip on her Alice's hand, "You're right, life should be revolved around on positive thinking. Also best friend sounds nice. You better hang out with me in the name of being my best friend."

"Of course!"

Still wearing her smile, Lori dropped her hands and shifted her eyes to the man beside her, "Well speaking of thanks I'm the one who should be thanking Gray."

"Huh?" Alice looked at Lori and then to Gray. The black haired man also turned to the faceless girl in curiosity.

Lori always disliked Gray; she didn't understand why Alice loved him, but as she observed his change and behavior towards Alice, her thought towards Gray also changed as well. Now she was able to accept Gray as her friend, "Gray thanks for letting me go. I honestly thought I was going to die back there. What made you set me free?"

"I don't need your thanks. I did some mean stuff to you so just think that we're equal and as to why I set you free...well…." Gray's voice trailed off and uncomfortably looked away.

"Well?"

Cutting in the conversation, Nightmare spoke in boredom, "10 seconds remaining. Come on just say it lover boy."

After he glared at Nightmare, Gray quickly met Alice's eyes and soon blushed, "Because….I didn't want Alice to be sad…."

Alice's heart skipped a beat as she looked at the man in front of her dearly, "Gray…" She wanted to hug him, kiss him, and tell him 'I love you'. In fact, she was about to do so until a certain annoying incubus interrupted the mood.

The timer rang in full volume as Nightmare sat up, "Ok 5 minutes over. Now let's get on with the main topic over here."

Alice grudgingly turned to Nightmare and stated coldly, "I can see that you have no sense of empathy here."

"I have no empathy because it just looks like a stupid romantic scene for me. If you have time to get all lovey dovey do it after we have finished our talk."

Hearing that statement ticked everyone off, but they held their anger and kept silent. Alice replied frigidly, "Fine."

Nightmare crossed his fingers and leaned over to his desk, "Finally we're back to the important topic. Now, I have always wanted to say this, but you lead me to the hallway, tricked me that you were going to suicide using a bomb, used a automatic timer flash bomb, and ultimately took Alice away." Silence engulfed the room until the incubus slammed his hand on the desk and yelled, "Are you trying to make fun of me?"

Gray shrugged, "It's your fault that you misunderstood."

"Shut up! I had to deal with complaints and mockery because of you!"

Alice sighed. Really, just don't push your blame on to us.

Nightmare turned and pointed his index finger towards the girl, "Alice I heard that! Are you trying to side with Gray?"

"Well this all started because you separate me from Gray. You were too unreasonable," Alice looked at Nightmare with hostility as Lori also nodded her head in agreement.

Trembling with the feeling of being betrayed, the landlord lowered his head on his desk and wept, "Nobody is taking pity out of me!" Seeing the man weeping, everyone let out a huge sigh.

After a few moments, Gray stepped up, "Alright, I did cause you some trouble. I will take responsibility."

Nightmare looked up in curiosity as Alice worriedly asked him, "What are you going to do, Gray?"

Giving a gentle reassuring smile to Alice, he replied, "I will become Nightmare's subordinate."

Alice and Lori blinked, "What?"

"WHAT?" Nightmare stood up from his chair and made his most hideous expression.

Gray, then, approached to Alice and held her hands, "I've been thinking if I am going to stay with you, I should stop my occupation as assassin and settle into a less risk job."

"Gray…" Working under Nightmare did not seem like an appealing job, but it was better than being an assassin. She could see Gray everyday and not have to worry over frequent injuries. Alice squeezed Gray's hand and smiled.

"Hey, that means it's not a punishment!"

Gray looked at his boss and sighed, "I think it would be punishment. Look what I have to do if I become one of your employees. Organizing and make you sign piles of papers, constantly checking your health, and keeping Clover Tower out of danger. Seriously this tower lacks security. It was good that nothing dangerous happened, but what will happen if some real enemy tried to bomb this tower?"

The three just watched Nightmare struggling to make some come back, but he was unable to produce any decent reply. Seeing this, Alice finally stated, "I think Gray has a point."

Stomping his foot in frustration, the incubus yelled, "Arrgggg! Fine, Gray, hurry up and start working!"

His new subordinate immediately walked over to carry the piles of paper work from one of the faceless employees and replied, "Yes, yes, Nightmare-sama."

"That's too creepy! Don't call me Nightmare-sama!"

"I am now your subordinate, Nightmare-sama. I have to set an example for the other Clover Tower employees." Nightmare let out a sigh of frustration and sat back down in aggravation.

Noticing that Gray was already set to work, Alice walked over and took a few piles of paper from him, "I will help you out Gray."

Gray smiled, "Thanks Alice."

Noticing Lori still standing in front of Nightmare's desk, Alice asked, "What will you do, Lori?"

Lori glanced at the defeated boss and grinned, "I think I will be working in the Clover Tower too. Sounds like it would be much more exciting than just being in some shady organization."

Nightmare shot up and shouted once more, "Who said you could work over here? This isn't a charity organization, you know?"

"Well I have some top secret information that you might need as the landlord of the country of Clover. You can have them if you hire me as your employee."

Banging his desk with his fist, he yelled in defeat, "Ahhhh! Fine, do whatever you want! Everyone just goes ahead and ruin my whole life…" Lori widened her grin and gave a thumb up sign at Alice. The foreigner giggled and put the papers on the Nightmare's desk.

"I need to tell you something."

Alice flinched at Gray's sudden voice. His mouth was right behind her ear and gave her a shiver. The brunette turned to look at the man, "Wha-."

By the time her eyes met the gold eyes, Gray had his assassin look and smirked, "Don't forget about the continuation of THAT."

"What the…." Suddenly the scene of her kiss with Gray flashed through her mind. Immediately realizing that Gray was referring to their intimate make out, she felt her face turn beet red.

At the same time, Nightmare fell from his chair and struggled to get back to his desk, "D-did I just see something really outrageous? Gray…you-."

The black haired man smiled innocently, "No, Nightmare-sama it was only just your imagination."

"That's a lie! I saw you and Alice doing something re-ally intima-."

"Geez, so persistent…" Gray whispered under his breath and swiftly grabbed Alice's hand and went out the door.

Alice blankly went along with the pulling force, "Huh?" She could only see Nightmare's red face along with Lori giving another thumb up sign.

The door to Nightmare's office closed and the two walked through the hallway. Alice curiously looked up at the man, "Where are we going, Gray?"

"I need to get some documents from the storage room; I will be taking Alice along with me. Is the excuse I'm going to make when we get back." Gray stopped his feet and opened a door to an empty room. Alice cocked her head to the side. Closing the door in front of him, he turned to look at Alice and hugged her, "In actuality, I just didn't want Nightmare-sama to know more than what he saw in your mind. Was that too selfish of me?"

Alice's cheeks were against the toned hard body. The last time, his body was cold from outside, but now she can feel the heat warming her up and cradling her. They were in a comfortable position and nobody can disturb them. Letting out her breath, Alice nuzzled to Gray and uttered, "No, I also want this to moment to be just the two of us." Lifting her chin up, Gray kissed Alice. The couple smiled; finally they are together. Alice caught her love and the lizard assassin was gone. They were not going to lose it. Never.

The End

Finally overrrrr~. I was so determined to finish this and I finally did! Hurray! It was all thanxs to u wonderful readers that I was finally able to finish this. Even now…I still can't believe I made it… Now my next goal is finish Time Bomb, but it will take some time to finish that one too. (-w-')

But this will not be over yet! I will be doing some extra chapters from Wanderling's request. It will be about Gray and Alice working in Clover Tower. Now that drama is over, what trouble will befall to them? Well that's a secret I can't spoil yet. Fufufufu. Until then see ya! ;D