White Rabbit X Human Female Civilian Reader.
(I need the top image redone with the Rabbit in place of Dante...because...reasons.... We need more images of Rabbit in general! Especially heroic ones of him with his paramour!)
You were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Just stopping in at a local diner to get a meal after work, when there was a loud commotion, it looked like a fire just down the street, when it turned into an explosion, and a fuel truck came thundering down the road, smashing into another building and exploding.
It had knocked you on your back, the air punched out of your lungs and your ears ringing.
You wouldn't find it out till later, but Rabbit had been conducting a raid on a Darkcom supply depot to steal weapons and materials for his hideouts and to help refugees on Makai protect themselves from other demons until they could be smuggled over to Earth.
Things had not gone according to plan, as a demon he'd hired to make a lot of noise and cause a distraction for Darkcom had gone on a rampage and ignored Rabbit's orders to stop.
In the ensuing fires caused by the fuel truck, everyone was panicking and didn't know what to do. You had just enough presence of mind to start waving people to the back entrance of the diner and using your cellphone flashlight to get them out of there and show the exit, but the flames and smoke made it hard to see where you were going, and when everyone else had made it out, you were left trapped as the fire grew closer and the smoke made it impossible to see.
The flames were getting hotter, you couldn't breathe, your skin was screaming from the heat and your eyes were unable to see through the smoke. You were just about a minute away from fading from smoke inhalation at best. You found a nearby fire extinguisher dented on the floor, yet it was still usable! But the flames were too big, and all you could do was force the flame back for a little bit longer.
Just as you started to worry this was it, a figure moved with impossible speed and grace through the flames, as if he were dancing around them, in order to get to you.
It was a Rabbit in the shape of a man, dressed in a suit, and he'd come to get you out of the fire. The White Rabbit picked you up in his arms with ease and asked you to point the extinguisher ahead of him to help clear the way.
"Forgive me, but I'm sure I have a lady's permission here." He told you through his coughs as he swung you up into his arms, and forced his way through the flames, taking you out the nearest exit and away from the expanding inferno, as you could see people on the other side looking confused as to how they were suddenly safely away from the fire.
Rabbit took you down a different path, cutting through alleyways to avoid police and firefighters catching him (as Darkcom was no doubt also lurking nearby). Yet he soon found himself accidentally coming face to face with the demon who had caused all of this.
It was a large Arachnid like demon, clinging to the walls of the alleyway, who seemed to have been crossbred with a praying mantis. It was covered in chitinous amor, with far too many limbs, eyes, and a drooling maw of mandibles. Rabbit gently put you down, and stepped in front of you to keep the demon's focus on him.
"You were just supposed to cause a distraction, not a massacre you stupid bastard!" Rabbit shouted up to the other demon, who crawled down to be at eye level with the Rabbit.
"Is the Rabbit going soft? No longer have a taste for killing? Just in stealing food and medicine for the weakling kiddies?" The demon said as it clicked its mandibles and its multiple eyes looked at the both of you, gears turning in its head.
"I kill when it is necessary. Not for fun. What you've done is fuck things up for all of us. Now DarkCom will be out for blood! Do you have any idea how many places we'll have to evacuate now before DarkCom arrives to start killing Makaians?" Rabbit shouted up to the demon, who gave what was effectively an arachnid like shrug.
"It matters not. We will kill them all! Feed them to me as payment." The arachnid demon chuckled, its mandibles clicking and clacking together in mimicry of laughter.
"Are there any actual thoughts in that head of yours? Or is it all just noise? Do you shit where you eat too?" The Rabbit said as he threw his arms up in disbelief.
The other demon was silent a moment, still thinking, before it finally spoke.
"Me thinks you have gone soft...grown weak Rabbit. Or is it because you can't ever be bad in front of an 'Alice'?" The Demon asked as it tilted its head towards You, and began to shift his body posture ot face in your direction where you stood behind Rabbit.
In your fear at seeing a true demon you'd forgotten you were still holding a fire extinguisher, and were not clutching it like a safety blanket, for all the good it would do you.
"I can fix that for you, Rabbit." The creature said, mantis like pincers rising up, one of them pointing straight at you.
Rabbits eyes had narrowed and he took a single step to place himself between you and the demon. His off hand moved towards a sword at his him and took a firm grip of the handle.
"In the next second I'm going to draw my blade. And you're about to lose a lot of blood over a very stupid decision. Would you like to lose all of it?" The Rabbit asked of his hired demon, but the way he spoke made it more of a promise. If the arachnid made a move towards you, then it would seal its fate at the end of Rabbit's blade.
At first it looked as if the demon was backing down, slowly lowering his pincers down, before he suddenly brought them down quickly only Rabbit's shoulders, puncturing them like two spear thrusts before the demon raissed him up into the air.
"Traitor! Human Lover! No better than Sparda! Slay you and then feast on your Alice!" the monster had said, while Rabbit flailed about to break free.
"Get out of here!" Rabbit yelled at you, as he struggled to pull his sword out since he couldn't properly use his arms, and settled for grabbing hold of the demon's pincers and using them for leverage to swing his feet up and kick it in the jaw. The Arachnid had forgotten that Rabbit was faster than most demons, and even with his arms out of action, his legs had a mean kick to them.
Yet when presented with a chance to run away, you refused, and instead swung the fire extinguisher with all your might, cracking the demon on the side of his head. It stunned him for a moment for you to hit him again, this time he threw the Rabbit down and tried to lunge at you, screaming how he'd feast on your bones and swallow your soul.
You managed to shove the nozzle of the extinguisher into the bug's mouth and began shocking the demon out with what remained of the extinguisher fluid, giving Rabbit a clear shot to slay the demon with one swing of his sword.
One swing of his sword and the demon lost his head, another swing had its Pincers sliced off, and a third swing cut it hope from throat to thorax.
It twitched and wobbled about for a moment, before finally falling dead, and so too did Rabbit fall as the pain of being stabbed twice and slammed against the ground caught up to him.
Rabbit insisted that he'd be fine, but you couldn't just leave him there. So, you helped him to get to your car while everyone was distracted by the fire and DarkCom was distracted by the slain demon. You couldn't take him to a hospital, so instead you drove to the nearest pharmacy you could reach and you went to the trouble of getting as many painkillers and gauze bandages as you could afford on short notice.
As you bandaged him up and helped deal with the pain, he assured you he could heal from this. He wasn't a human, and he only needed help for the initial injury and blood loss. But you insisted enough he allowed you to at least drive him to where he could portal home and handle the rest himself.
It was a long drive in the middle of the night, so you both got to talking. He learned your name, what you did for a living, and you learned about him, and why the other demon called you Alice. You even admitted to him that you didn't expect him to actually come to your aid like that.
"A gentleman never strikes a lady. Nor does he let one come to harm." The rabbit said and the two of you conversed until you were able to reach where his portal was, and helped him there until he could get to it and open the way back to Makai.
"It was a pleasure meeting you. Please get home safe." Rabbit said, leaning down to plant a kiss on your hand and making it one of the softest kisses you've felt in your entire life.
And just like that Rabbit disappeared, leaving you with many questions, and the memory of his soft fur on your hand, and the feeling of his lips against your skin.
Yet that wasn't the end of your story. It was only the beginning.
You both just had the (un?)fortunate luck of running into each other over and over again. Sometimes you saw a flash of Rabbit running across a rooftop, or Rabbit caught a whiff of you on the wind, or heard your voice in the distance. Fate seemed to keep making your paths cross, and for you both to be teased with glimpses of the other.
Rabbit would end up making the first move though. You lived in a region where Rabbit needed to conduct business and so now and again he would check up on you and make sure you were alright, that Darkcom had not targeted you for reprisals. He even came with money to reimburse you for what you had spent in helping him recover from his injuries, but would never stay for long. Just a quick check in, before departing.
However, this brought its own problems. Rabbit's scent was on you, and demons who had issue with the White Rabbit smuggling Makaians to Earth to live in peace would regularly try to track him down, which meant that they kept running into you and that Rabbit had to keep showing up to kill some of them until they got the message that you were off limits.
You didn't see much of Rabbit since then. Yet you know he's around. Rabbit would leave flowers on your windowsill when he knew you'd be at work, so that you would know he'd come to check on you. So, you made sure to take a few days off from work when you knew he'd be by for a visit, so that you could open the front door and invite him in since it was cold out there, and you had some warm dinner already prepare for him.
At first he tried to turn it down, until you called him out on it in a way he couldn't refuse.
"Will a gentleman really turn down a lady's invitation? For shame Wister Rabbit!" you said with a mock gasp as if you were both in a stage play, that drew a real laugh from him.
"Well, if a lady insists, how can a gentleman deny her?"
So it was that you and Rabbit shared your first dinner together, and it was but the first of many. Almost three times a month he would come to see you, bringing flowers, treats, and looking to forget about his hardships with you, and pretend to live a normal, peaceful, life with you. With each visit he will become more relaxed, and long for you more and more. But the first kiss will have to come from you.
-The first few times Rabbit is inside your home he is very stiff and almost afraid to touch anything, as if worried he will break everything. It will only get better with time as he becomes more comfortable with you and being in a human home, yet he still tends to default to his ideas of being a gentleman whenever he is in doubt. (You would later on learn that he picked this up from multiple books from different eras which had been found on his homeworld, each with a slightly different version of how a gentleman should act. Thankfully it seems he picked up the best traits out of all of them).
-Rabbit is very interested in stories about your family, because he never knew his progenitors. He grew up with the wandering peoples of Makai and knew only them and the hardships of always being on the move.
-Rabbit has no problem eating meat despite being a rabbit. Honestly, anything you make for him will be happily consumed (even carrots, ugh). Because the secret is that you made it with love, and he can taste it in the food, and it moves him.
-Your first kiss will come from a rare movie night with you. Rabbit just needed to get away from it all for a little while and your home was the only place he could think to go, so you put on a sweet movie for him, and as it drew to a close, you made your move, and left the Rabbit so stunned his ears suddenly sprang up and he had no words to give for how you made him feel. All he could do was kiss you back, and thank whatever divinities which might exist that he was able to find you and save you on that fateful day. Because with a single act, you have saved his soul from being lost to madness and despair. Anything more intimate will take time, but he will not want to rush things, because Rabbit doesn't want to ruin the best thing in his life.
-Since you and Rabbit can't go out and dance, you've had to settle for dancing together at home, or in an empty field with music playing from your car radio. Its clear that while he's studied the moves (and is relying on his enhanced speed to make it look smooth) he's not had much practice. But that doesn't matter, time with him is worth it no matter what you both do.
-If you genuinely offer to let some Makaians shelter in your home, Rabbit will be left speechless. He will be happy, but stunned at a human making that kind of an offer. Sure, it might make being intimate with you a little more awkward, but he mostly fears making you a target, and so if he uses your home as a safehouse for Makaians, he will only have it be temporary, only a single family at a time.
-Rabbit has killed to keep you safe, and he will do it without issue in the future. Before you were a lady, but now you're his lady. A gentleman must keep his lady safe, no matter what.
Demon, Human, it doesn't matter. Anyone or anything who is a threat to you will be put down by his sword.
-Your presence in Rabbit's life is starting to affect how he plans his raids and missions. He is much more careful now and plans everything down to the smallest detail to make sure there are as little chances of it to cause undue casualties or injuries as possible. He doesn't want to become a profane monster in your eyes. He still wants to be the Rabbit who saved you from the flames and protected you from another demon. Maybe the arachnid was right...maybe he is going soft?
-Once Rabbit came to your home while drunk, utterly stinking of alcohol and looking like he'd been crying his eyes out. He wanted to check on you and be sure you were okay, and as soon as he was sure of that he fell asleep on your couch, still clutching an empty wine bottle in his hand. The following morning he'd suffer one of the worst hangovers of his life, and refuse to say why he suddenly had to see you while inebriated, but at least he could recover somewhere safe, even if it meant you had to take a sick day off from work.
-You know it will leave you tired after work, but sometimes you have pushed yourself to be able to spend all night with Rabbit on his visits, as it's the only time you can actually safely be together. Going for a drive, or walking through the woods, or even just sitting together in your home. Every second counts, and your visits are preciously few.
-You bought several versions of Alice in Wonderland, illustrated and ones closer to the original printing, as gifts for Rabbit, and he didn't know what to say, he promised to bring you a gift just as good your own.
-Eventually, Rabbit will come to you on one knee and ask a very important question. Would you be his? Would you be the light of his life, for the rest of your lives? He knows it is early, but he hasn't been more sure of anything in his life.
When he finally shows you the ring, it's a small metal one, with a little rabbit head on the end. It wasn't bought, he'd spent months actually getting good metal to fashion it for you and making sure it would fit perfectly on your finger.
Part of why it took him so long to finally pop the question was because he kept having to resize it and kept triple checking to make sure it was well made, and that you wouldn't be allergic to the ring's alloys.
He wants you to be his bride. He wants you to come with him, even if only part of the time. To help him only as much as you are willing.
"It's not wonderland there. Your people call it hell for a reason. Others will hate you when they see you. I cannot offer you comfort or wealth. All I can give you is my love and the promise that I will do my best to care for you."
When you say yes, it is like you breathed new life in Rabbit, you've never seen him this animated in your entire time together, he's jumping (or rather, hopping) with joy, embracing you and kissing you and promising to try and give you as big of a ceremony as he can for the wedding back home.
But you tell him it doesn't matter. It's not the ceremony or even the ring that matters, only the love you share together.
That's when you see tears of joy from Rabbit for the first time, and he gets to see those same tears from you.
"A gentleman shouldn't cry in front of a lady...but it's okay in front of his wife."
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Couple's Playlist.
~"Fairytale" Alexander Rybak.
~"Dreaming Wide Awake" Poets of the Fall.
~"Sleep" Poets of the Fall.
~"I Need a hero" Bonnie Tyler.
~"Savior" Skillet.
