So I decided to try my hand at Alice in Wonderland. I had watched the movie again and inspiration hit me! Also, never fear for those avid readers of my other stories! Inspiration has hit me full force! (I've been sooo busy with school it hid away for a while). But many a chapter will be up soon!

SO for now... ENJOY! :)

Chapter 1

It had been nearly a year, a year in the time of Aboveground, since Alice Kingsleigh had slain the Jabberwocky. Over that year, through her travels to China and Australia to expand the trade of her

father's business with Lord Ascot, she had never once stopped thinking about her dear friends back in Underland. There had been few times when she had seen Absolem fluttering by, and of course the

glorious nights when she dreamt of Underland. But there were times more often, when she could have sworn she'd seen a bright orange flash of hair in a crowd, or a pair of bright green eyes following

her, but by the time she had turned it was gone. She began to think herself going mad when, on one afternoon, she followed a man down a city street, yelling for him to stop. She followed his bright

orange, top-hatted, head, until she got close enough to realize he had no hair at all, and that his top hat was only a normal black one.

"Fairfarren, Alice..." the whisper faded away, and soon thereafter, so did those bright green eyes. Nothing but black fog swirling in her vision..." Alice awoke with a gasp, looking around her dark bed chambers on the ship. It was not

the first time Alice had had this dream. It came quite often, (more often than usual lately, she noted to herself). Alice sighed and rolled over in her bed, she would be glad to be home again. While

traveling to many far off places, seeing her father's dreams come to fruition, and gaining many new experiences she would have thought impossible a year ago, all the business of the business left Alice

with very little time indeed to daydream about Underland and her dear friends there. It wasn't as if the travel had been unkind to her, the sun had kissed her skin, her eyes seemed brighter, and her

body was leaner and stronger than it had been before, but still, after an extended amount of time on the sea, one does start to miss home.

It was not long after Alice had returned home that she was sitting in her father's study, going through her ledger of her latest trades in China, when something bright blue caught her eye. By the time

she turned her head there was nothing there. Sighing, Alice shook her head, looking back to her ledger.

"Wishful thinking Alice."

Once more she turned her head towards the window, and indeed, right outside her window, was a bright blue butterfly.

"Absolem?" Alice crossed to the window, moving to open it, when another movement caught her eye; a white rabbit in a blue waistcoat. "It couldn't be…could it?" Alice turned and ran from the study,

and out to the back garden. There, at the edge of the forest, stood the white rabbit. "McTwisp? Whatever are you doing here?"

"Well, well you see, i-it has b-been precisely one year, your time, since the sl-slaying of the Jabberwocky. And we wished you would come back for a v-visit? We are having a feast." The little white

rabbit wrung his hands nervously, as was the normal nature of a rabbit.

"While I would very much like to come along, I'm afraid the rabbit hole isn't anywhere near here."

"There are other ways to pass into Underland without the rabbit hole. We can get there through the looking glass." Alice was surprised that she was surprised by his statement. She thought her days

of disbelieving the impossible were over after her last adventure into Underland.

"But where would the looking glass be around here?"

"Right this way, child." McTwisp turned and led Alice into the woods. She paused but a moment, looking back to the house, sighing. There was hardly anything here keeping her back; she had no

other friends but her sister and Lord Ascot, the business was doing extremely well and she knew it would continue to blossom, and she had no romantic ties what-so-ever. With a nod she turned and

continued to follow the white rabbit into the woods.

When their walk was just beginning to seem too long, McTwisp stopped at a lake, looking out over its surface. Alice watched as he touched the surface, and saw the water ripple over a flat surface.

McTwisp turned and motioned for Alice to come forth. She stepped softly, the light blue trousers and long coat she wore swishing softly with her steps, the fall leaves shuffling underneath her feet. She

looked down to the lake, seeing a clear solid surface.

"Through there then?"

"Precisely, and then we shall be back in Underland. Just follow me my dear." And with that, McTwisp gave a soft bow and jumped through the surface, disappearing cleanly without a splash. Alice

watched as the Looking Glass rippled, and took a deep breath. She closed her eyes, mentally saying goodbye to the world she was currently in. A quick flash of orange flashed through her mind and

she opened her eyes, looking determinedly to the lake.

"Seven…you can travel through a looking glass and get back to Underland." And with that, Alice took a deep breath and dove into the surface, falling down a dark hole.