Title: Return to Madness
Pairing: Halice (Hatter/Alice)
Rating: K
AN: Hey, this is gonna be a project. If you want a nice, steady fic, this is for you. Eventual Halice, but I'm just continuing the story from where the movie left off. Hope you like it! Oh, just one more thing... review? Pretty please? Even not very helpful reviews make me happy :) Thanks! Dray xx
"You could... stay."
Alice looked into the Hatter's kind face, clouded with worry and... perhaps something else that Alice couldn't quite put her finger on. She smiled at the boyish man who had been her best friend from the moment they met.
"What an idea... a crazy, mad, wonderful idea..." She had made up her mind already, but still her heart broke a little as she spoke her next words, "But I can't."
The hope drained from her dear friend's face.
"There are questions I have to answer, things I have to do."
The hatter looked desperately sad and Alice so wanted to tell him that it would all be alright, to make it better.
"I'll be back again before you know it."
He huffed knowingly with a sad smile.
"You won't remember me."
"Of course I will, how can I forget?" All of those adventures, the memories would stay with her forever.
"Hatter, why is a raven like a writing desk?"
He grinned at her, "Haven't the slightest idea."
She would keep this last cheeky image of her hatter in her mind until she returned. He leaned forward until his bright orange hair was tickling her cheek and she could feel his breath on her neck. "Fairfarren, Alice." She felt like weeping as her sanctuary, her Underland, melted around her. She kept her eyes locked onto Hatter's until the garden reappeared, two brilliant green orbs seared into her vision.