The Story of Time

The Letter

A/N: I'm gonna try to put an original chapter between all the requested ones! So here's another one from my POV. Enjoy~

"Phew! Finished!" I looked down at the now taken apart clock. I shined the parts up and took them over to Julius.

"Good, I'm glad you learned how to take the clock apart properly." He commented while taking the parts from me.

"Heh! I'm just too amazing for words, aren't I?" I stood in an accomplished pose. "I'm gonna go make some coffee, want some?"

"Yes, please." He didn't look up at me, but that was normal for the Clockmaker.

I walked into the kitchen. Julia was perched on something and began to squawk at me when I entered the room.

"What is it?" I held out my hand and she hopped onto it. She had been standing on a white envelope. I picked it up and it said:

To: Julius and Priya

From:_____

The from answer was blank.

Hmm...thats odd.

I kept looking at it while making my way out of the kitchen to Julius' worktable.

"Mail's here," I handed him the letter. "Do you even get mail?"

"Well, it's strange indeed." He picked it up. "Normally people just come to me with their problems."

I patiently waited for him to open it.

...

He set it down on his worktable and went back to fixing a clock. "I'll open it later."

"WHAAAAT!?" I accidentally yelled.

"Lower your voice. Why don't you just open it? It's addressed to you as much as it is me." He sighed and stood up from his worktable. "You read it, I'll make the coffee."

"Fine, I was gonna make it but...I guess not." I picked up the letter on his worktable.

Dear Julius or Priya,

I am holding a party. It's going to be located in the labrinthe outside of the Castle. I will send someone to fetch you both because this is going to be secret. A blue bird swooped into my window this morning and it instantly reminded me of Priya and Julius. So, I invited you both.

It's in the next three time periods. Be dressed fancy with a mask outside the Clock Tower right when the third time period ends and the fourth from now begins.

~♡~☆~
The Party Host.

I looked down at the little symbols at the end of the letter. What an odd way to end it.

"Well, what did it say?" Julius emerged from the kitchen with two mugs of coffee filling his hands.

"We've been invited to a party. And we need to be dressed fancy and have a mask. We need to be ready by the end of the third time period from now..." I watched the sky change from blue to orange instantly. "Scratch that, next two time periods from now."

"Did it say who it was from?" Julius asked, setting both mugs down onto the table. He walked over to me and took the letter.

"No, it just had some weird symbol at the bottom."

Julius' eyes went wide and he dropped the lettter.

"What's wrong!?" I went over to him as he began to shake a bit.

"W-we have no choice...we have to go..." Julius cut himself off by kissing me harshly on the lips.

Wow, that was a quick change of attitude.

"Don't worry about it." He panted as he pulled away.

I touched a finger to my lips. He hasn't shown passion towards me since...that incident. Sure when I returned home from the Hatters he had scolded me and that ended with a kiss as well...but...

I looked at the now emotionless Clockmaker.

He had seemed to afraid after he read the letter. He kissed me hard...what did this mean!? I still have to figure out what he wants to express with all these actions!

~♡~☆~

I sat on the viewing platform of the Clock Tower, reading the book Blood had given me.

I had gotten pretty far through it by now. Thyme was a normal girl, to my standards anyway, so far. And I could relate to her...A LOT! It was scary that she and I were doing basically the same exact things. In the last chapter I read, she had broken a expensive piece of porcelain over the Garden Keeper's head. That was awesome. And this time, she had been invited to something mysterious~ my occasion exactly. Good Lord, I need to contact the author and tell them about my life.

I refocused back on my book. And just as I had began reading, the time changed from sunset to day time.

The third change... I thought to myself.

Just as I had gone back to reading for the second time, Julius came out onto the Viewing Platform.

"It's time to get ready." He beckoned me inside.

~♡~☆~

Julius put me in a purple dress with blue designs, my silver watch in one pocket on the dress and gave me a black mask. It was just to cover my eyes. He didn't change my hair or eye color this time but he made sure I was concealed enough for no one to know who I was.

Him on the other hand....

Well he had a mask that covered his eyes but...umm...

"Julius, I think people are still going to recognize your hair style..." I pointed at his hair.

"No one there knows I'm going to be there...they have never met me either." Julius strightened his coat.

I sighed and went to examine myself in the mirror.

"Priya, I want you to listen very closely to me." Julius walked over to the mirror as well. "This is not a regular party, you must not act like yourself one bit. Do you understand me?"

"Yes." I replied.

"And at this party, things might happen that might...put you on edge...you cannot react to these feelings, it will be over soon. Do you understand me?"

"Yes."

I looked at us in the mirror. It was weird to see Julius dressed that way. But I guess it made sense if he wasn't going to act himself.

"Come, it's time to go."