Chapter 1 –

The tri colored hair girl walked down the pathway with her mother to their carriage.

"Mama, where are we going?" The nine-year-old Maddie Hatter asked.

"It's a surprise, sweetie." Her mother answered.

Maddie clapped her hands and jumped up and down.

"I love surprises!"

Her mother laughed a little.

When they got to their carriage, Maddie's father, The Mad Hatter was waiting for them.

"Finally you two are here, you know that the dog will jump into hot water if time ticks!" The Mad Hatter riddled.

Maddie giggled and jumped into the carriage. She looked out of the carriage window to see her parents having a conversation. Her mother finished the conversation by kissing her father's cheek and headed to the front of the carriage where there were the most beautiful white horses she had seen.

Her father walked into the carriage and sat on the seat in front of her.

"Is mama going to drive the carriage?" The young Maddie asked.

"Yes, mama is going to drive the carriage teacup." Then the carriage started to move.

As a few hours passed the sun was starting to sink and the moon was climbing to the top of the sky turning every inch of the sky a camouflaging night blue.

Maddie fell asleep due to the movement of the carriage and her father was having tea with Maddie's dormouse, Earl Grey and his dormouse Mallymkun.

It was dark and the streets were lit by shop lights that were rainbows shining in the night sky.

Just then another carriage was infront of them but was still far away. Before Maddie's mother had a chance to move away from the carriage someone grabbed her from behind and she let out a huge scream before the figure placed its hand over her mouth.

"What?" The Mad Hatter looked out of the window to see that another figure cut the harnesses. Maddie woke up not knowing what was going on. Then...

BAM!

The carriage crashed and the last thing that Maddie heard was her father screaming out her mother's name and her own name.

...

Maddie opened her eyes to be greeted by a bright light. 'What is going on...?' She thought to herself.

She rubbed her eyes and she could finally observe her surroundings.

There she was lying on a plain white bed with machines by her side. There were some chairs and what looks like a curtain at the door hiding it.

She turned her head to the right side and saw a man, not her father but a man dressed in a white lab coat and is wearing some kind of necklace around his neck. 'It can't be a necklace, it's to different.'

No, it wasn't a necklace. It was stethoscope.

"Well your finally awake." The man had a strong voice. "I'll send your father to talk to you." Then he went out of the room.

Maddie was confused. She had no idea whatsoever. Why couldn't she figure out where she was?

Just then her father walked in wearing a sling to hold his arm. He sat on the bed next to her.

"Papa, where are we?" Maddie asked.

"We're in the hospital, the carriage crashed." The Mad Hatter replied rather grimly. Maddie placed her hand on her fathers arm then sighed.

"You know today is your birthday. So today is not your un-birthday!" He cheerfully sang and handed her a small box.

It read 'Happy Birthday my love. I hope you like your present, From Mom'

She opened it to find a necklace with an anchor emblem on it. She slipped it on and smiled.

In a flash her smile faded.

"If this is from mom... Where is she?"

The Mad Hatter froze.

Maddie repeatedly yelled out 'Papa' and she finally got an answer:

"She's dead."

"What?" Maddie choked out.

Then The Mad Hatter's body started to become dust.

Maddie screamed.

"Papa! WHAT'S HAPPENING?" Everything started to disperse and she was also turning dust.

"HELP! PLEASE, SOMEONE HELP ME...!"

Maddie sat straight up screaming. She realized it was only a nightmare and covered her mouth. Fortunately, Kitty is a heavy sleeper and the rooms were soundproof so nobody heard a thing.

'It was only a dream, it was only a dream.' She kept repeating in her head.

But the question is, why did it feel so real to her? Why did she even get this dream? Did she actually have a mom?

She shook her head and grabbed her MirrorPhone from her bed-side table.

'3:00'

She groaned. Maddie couldn't fall back to sleep so she woke up Earl Grey and they had a quiet tea party.

Yayy! Chapter 1 is finished. So, this my first fanfic and this is probably going to be a multi-chapter fanfic but this is it for now. I hope you enjoyed this, please tell me what you think about it and I'm out :D