The White Queen had just put the last ingredient into the potion. Hatter watched on with hope and excitement.

"All right, Hatter. I think this might be it." She stirred the potion together. Then she took a spoonful of it from the pot. She held it out to Hatter. He blew the steam away. Then took the beverage.

He scrunched up his face at the taste of it. "Well..." He coughed. "I hope it works. When will we know?"

"I think it will take until tomorrow morning until we know anything. So if nothing has happened by tomorrow evening i don't think that it worked," said the queen.

"So you mean that there is a chance that I might wake up tomorrow morning completely normal?" he said with great hope.

"I think so, Hatter," she said with a smile.

He was so delighted to hear that. "Well I can just barely wait!"

"I would have to agree with you on that, Hatter," she said, clasping her hands.

After some time Hatter went off to bed. The only problem was that he was so wound up and excited about everything that he didn't know if he would be able to sleep. "I hope that the potion doesn't not work because of lack of sleep," he said to himself.

After a half hour had passed he was still awake. "Oh...Getting married! New cure! Alice! I might be normal again!..." He couldn't stop thinking about how happy he was about everything. "Come on, Tarrant! Sleep! Sleep!"

Just then there was a knock on his door. At first he just stared at the door. "What was that?" He thought. His mind was just not working right.

Then there was a knock again. "Oh the door!" He jumped out of bed and ran to the door. He opened it. The White Queen was standing there. "Oh, hello, Majesty. What brings you here?"

"I could hear you shouting."

Hatter blinked a few times. Then he started to blush with embarrassment. "Oh...sorry, Majesty. I...can't sleep."

"I suspected that." She held out a potion to him.

"What is this?"

"It's a sleeping potion. You must sleep in order to see if this new potion that I made will work."

"Oh, yes. Thank you so much, Your Majesty!" He drank it down.

"Well, that will be all. You should be sleeping in three minutes precisely. So off to bed with you. Good night."

"Thank you, Majesty. Good night." He went into his bed and laid down. Then in three minutes he was asleep.

New scene

The sun poured through Hatter's bedroom in the morning. His eyes opened from the bright light. At first he just laid there in an absent minded state. He was thinking of the dream he had just had.

"Some do do birds are awfully rude," he thought. "But then again why should they not be?"

His mind was the mind of someone who just arose from a very deep sleep. So he laid there for a while, not even realizing what had happened the day before.

All of the sudden it came to him. "Why am I thinking so,...steadily...? I almost feel like I am not...mad..." Just then he stopped his thought. He gasped with delight. "The potion..." Slowly he pulled his hands out of his blankets.

They were clean. He gasped again. "My hands!" He ran his fingers along side each other to make sure it was real. They were as real as ever. "Oh my,...goodness!" He jumped out of bed and ran to the mirror.

The skin on his face was all one color. His hair was tamed, but still curly. Now it laid to his shoulders in long red locks. His eyebrows were perfectly normal and his eyes where a regular, natural green. His eyelashes were no longer thick and white and his lips were a normal natural peach color.

He ran his, now clean, hands along his face and hair. "I am so...so...normal..." he said. "I'm...free..." His face lit up with tremendous happiness. "I am free!"

He ran out of his room with much enthusiasm. He ran into the breakfast room. Alice and White Queen were in there. They looked at him with shock.

"It worked! I am cured, Your Highness! I am cured!" he yelled with great happiness.

White Queen's face lit up with overbearing joy. "Oh, Hatter! That-that...Is just too wonderful!"

Alice did not know what was going on. But she did want to know why he looked so...normal. "How did this happen?"

"Her Highness gave me a potion that cured me! Isn't it wonderful, Alice. I have a steady mind now! I don't look frightening! I am normal again!"

Alice went up to Hatter. She took his hands and ran hers along them. Then she felt his face. It was all so real. Alice was so happy that she didn't know what to say. Neither did Hatter. He was so happy that he almost felt as if he were mad again.

After dozens of thank yous and celebrating Hatter went back up to his room. He realized that he was so ecstatic that he didn't even get ready for the day yet.

Alice and White Queen were left alone with each other.

"Well, that is just wonderful," said the queen, as she sipped some tea.

Alice was still mind blown from the past event. She sat there with a very stunned look. "Yes...very..."