My first Heart no Kuni no Alice Fanfic. I have only read the first five manga books so I apologize if any of the characters are OOC. I also have never played the game so *shrugs*. This story is a slash fic and has a twist! Please Read, Review and Enjoy. Flamers will be shot, mauled by a bear and rabid dogs, and then donated to science!
I don't own anything, apart from the plot and any OC's that may or may not appear!
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The small child struggled through the snow drifts towards the brightly lit house in front of them. They kept casting their eyes behind them in the general direction of an old tree that stood on the edge of the
lawn. Reaching the window they stood on their tiptoes and tapped hard on the glass. One of the figures closest to the window whipped their head and looked straight at him. With a slightly audible shriek they
ran out of the room followed by a very confused, familiar looking man. The child gazed longingly into the room, at the warm fire that crackled in the fireplace.

Lorina Liddell flung open the doors and rushed outside, ignoring her husband Daniel's (1) panicked shout. She ran as fast as she could, faster than she had run since her sister Alice's disappearance. She reached the shivering child and held him close to her chest, wrapping the blanket (2) she had around him.
"Are you okay little one?" she asked as she staggered inside, ignoring Daniel's protests.
"Want mama," the child stated looking straight at her with their purple-brown eyes.
"Where is your mama?" Following the child's gaze she glanced at the faint silhouette of the tree. "Daniel! Someone's still outside! Under the tree!"
Daniel, thankfully, recognized the look (3) on his fragile wives face and ran out to the tree, pulling on a coat as he did so.

Lorina carried the child into the sitting room and began to dry them off. Their clothing was extremely strange though: A thigh length dark blue shirt with black trousers and a blue/black knee length overcoat
with all sorts of swirls and patterns embroided all over in a pale blue thread. Their hair came down to the middle of their shoulder blades and soaking wet making it impossible to tell what colour it was
or what gender they were. They stared steadily at Lorina while she was drying them, seeming to be completely calm now that they were in the warmth with now miraculously dry clothes. While Lorina was pondering this mystery, Daniel ran back into the room, carrying an unconscious woman in his arms.
"It's Alice! She's back!"

(A/N I was thinking about leaving it here but then I realised that the next bit would make a really crappy, short chapter on it's own I continued)

Alice coughed weakly in her old bed. The child was sitting next to her, resting their head on her chest and quietly mimicking the sound of her heart.
"Where did you go Alice? We all missed you," Lorina said quietly.
Alice looked at her and grasped her hand weakly. "I never meant to come back. It was a mistake. Lorina, please look after my son until someone comes to get him and take him back."
"Back where?"
"To Wonderland. His full name is Alex Jesse Liddell. He has no father and two mothers. Alex."
The child-Alex-raised his head and looked at his mother.
"Here." Alice pushed herself up (with a little help from Lorina) and unclasped the necklace that was around her neck. 13 keys hung from a long silver chain that as she fastened it around his neck, shrunk so
it fit him.

She lay back on the bed, allowing Alex to resume mimicking her heart beat.
"Bum, bum"
"I missed you Lorina," Alice said with a smile, "Promise me that you will look after him fairly and tell him stories about me."
"Bum, bum"
"I promise, Alice," Lorina vowed, squeezing her younger sisters hand.
"Bum... No more bums. Where'd they go?" Alex asked from his now dead mother's chest.
Lorina picked up the surprisingly light four year old boy and hugged him, fighting back tears. Alex looked up at her, blinked and started to mimic the sound of her heart.
"How is she?" Daniel asked followed in by a priest and a doctor.
"Dead," Lorina said quietly, "I'm looking after her son until his relatives' from where ever Alice was comes and gets him."
All the way through this, Alex was silent. He didn't say a word or cry when his mother was buried, much like she had before him at her mother's funeral, Lorina did though. She cried enough for both of them.

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(1) I don't know his real name but I want to call him Daniel. If this is such a problem for anyone that they can't read this Fanfic then I will change it, but please stop being so damn picky!
(2) Its an orange blanket that she had over her legs when she was inside, that she carried outside with her. It's orange because my family has one like that and I like the colour orange!
(3) In my mind it was a Go-out-there-and-get-whoever-it-is-or-I-will- go-and-do-it-myself-and-you-will-have-to-look-after-the-small-child! Kind of look!