Button Eyes, Clock Hearts

Jailed Meeting

The jail, creepy and cold. Jester Joker wasn't there, instead was the warden, for once quiet as he guided them to a conference room in grey and black. It was very unlike the other territories Coraline had seen. Nightmare slapped his hand down on the table in the conference room to gain everyone's attention. "You all know zeh zituation, I juzt eenfoghrmed you; Coghaline and the twins are not to vee levt alone, at any time, under any zeercoonstanzes. Do you all unperztant!?"

The twins groaned while everyone else nodded, "Why us?! We only went through once, and we're replicable, just like the rest of you."

Nightmare glared at the two, "You fools! Zat opzezeev olt hach pill never let you cho! Anp if she does chet you, she von't just kill you! She'll rip apart your clocks and zuck out your zouls!"

"Please, Dee, Dum...Obey this time" begged Alice. "I know its hard, but we need to work together and keep you three safe"

Cat yawned from his place on the table in front of Coraline, "I propose that the three stay together at all times. ...Alice should stay with them as well; just in case the little miss here gets too curious."

"I agree," said Blood, hugging Alice close. "It would be for the best."

Nightmare nodded relunctantly, "zounts like a plan. Ve vill take tughns protectik zem in eet teghitoghy, ezcortink zem in peetween. Each teghitoghy, EXCEPT ze manzion. Zat teghitoghy is cughently off limits."

He turned to Blood and Elliot, "Yourgh voghkeghs can go to zeir homes, put you ank Elliot vill stay at ze caztl...seeik as zey are ze only teghitoghy zat can tolerhate you."

Blood rolled his eyes, "Thank you so much."

"We believe we can manage will with them. A temporary truce" said the Queen nodding her head.

"As long as I'm not called a rabbit," said Elliot.

"Insolent, idiot! That's what you are!" answered Peter angrily.

Nightmare cleared his throat, successfully interrupting the argument, "Ughtil I feegur out hov to approgt tis, tis iz hov tings vill pe. Eveghrypoty...ztay aleght, ztay ghready...and ztay zafe."

"Well then, I'll do what ever I motherfucking can to find any shitty door that could lead to that fucking creepy dimension," said Warden Joker nodding. "But, if any of you four idiots dare to disobey, we will punish all of you!"

They were transported to the tower of Clover with the power of Joker. Coraline and the twins were taken to a large room in the tower to spend the night. As the three sat in boredom, Alice finally came in and she, Coraline and Cat got down to the interrogation of the twins. It felt strange to be back at the tower for the blonde, she was used to being in the mansion. Then again, in Joker Season she didn't come so often.

Coraline got right down to business, "Were you two the first ones to find the key?"

Dee nodded, "Yeah, but we always locked the door after going in!"

Dum nodded and added to that, "But one day, at a Circus event, we lost it!"

Alice tapped her chin, "...What was that world like?"

Dee grinned, "It was amazing! The Other old man and the Other Elliot were the ones guarding the gates and the Other Mother she said that she owned the Other mansion let us do whatever we wanted! We even got to play with our new knives! Even the Other father was cool!"

Dum nodded, "Yeah! And we could play killing games all we wanted and everyone would be proud of us and clap when we killed someone!"

Alice shuddered at the thought, 'there's a copy of ME there?! And one that allows them to kill?.', "Just what about this Other me?"