Everything started out fine, like every relationship does. Alice had fallen into Wonderland for the last and final time. But this time was different. She finally stayed. The Mad Hatter had persuaded her to. The Hatter finally had the guts to tell Alice how he actually had felt. He loved her. Plain and simple. Alice ran from him that day to The White Queen's palace. She needed someone to talk this out with and the only person she ever spoke of her problems to was the reason she was having problems in the first place. The Queen had her servants make them a pot of peppermint tea. "Now dear," she said, gently, "tell me what is bothering you so much." Where could Alice begin? The very beginning of course.
"It's the Hatter. You know very well how he persuaded me to stay, correct? Well, I don't regret staying, not even in the slightest. I went to the Hatter's house yesterday and we were having our usual discussions about the meaning behind life. Hatter said he thought meaning behind life was each and every one of to find that one person we love. The one person we would allow to hurt us, hate us, and abuse us that we still love anyways. Our one true pairing. He them proceeded to tell me how he felt that was us. We were meant to be with one another. No one else. The Hatter loves me. And I don't know how to handle this...I don't even know my own feelings." she ended, taking a few deep breaths.
The White Queen didn't say anything at first. Her face began to contort itself, making her normally beautiful, angelic features almost demonic. Alice wasn't sure what had just happened. The sky began to darken to a strange dark green as if a terrible storm was coming. The clouds went from their serene white to a sinful black. The Queen finally spoke. "The Hatter can't love you!" she shrieked. "He told me he loved me. Hatter loves me and me only!" Alice was scared, with good reason. The Queen jumped out of her chair and launched herself at Alice. Alice jumped up for her chair. The Queen continued onward towards her, knocking pots and plates off right and left. She stood up and kicked one straight at Alice's face. Alice's eyes bugged out of her head before ducking. She frantically searched for someone who could have helped her. But all of the Queen's guards and servants had also turned into demonic creatures.
Alice saw the forest as her only escape. She ran towards the clear opening path she could see. But before she could make it, a guard jumped on her, pinning her to the ground. They wrestled as other guards tried to get into the brawl as well. The guard on top of her pushed all of them off so Alice was all his own. He managed to scratch up Alice's face a bit and bit her shoulder with his dagger-like teeth. But there was blood curdling scream that made everything cease to a halt. All of the servants and guards that had been attacking Alice just moments before, backed away from her. She now saw where the scream had come from: the Queen. The Queen was next to her in an instant. "This isn't over." she whispered in her ear. "I'\ will kill you over him. I'm only letting you go because it isn't your time to die just yet. Enjoy your time to live..." And with that, everything went back to normal as if the events in the past ten minutes had never occurred. "Now sweetie, would you like to come finish your tea?"
The sky had gone back to its original white, serene nature. The guards were no longer savage, creatures of hell. Everything was as it should be. What is going here? Alice thought. She felt as though she was glued to the spot in which she stood. "What's wrong? You look as though you've just been attacked by some demon." the Queen laughed. Leave. Run. Just do anything you can to get away from here. Alice was finally unfrozen. The speed at which she ran felt as though it was faster that of lights. Alice looked back a few times just to make sure no one had followed her. To her great surprise, no one was behind her and everything was still ok. Without knowing where she was at, she ran into a mushroom. There upon it smoking a pipe was the Caterpillar. "Hello, Alice. You look as though you've been fighting. Come, tell Aslan what has happened. And smoke this;" he handed her a pipe, "you'll feel much better. Might help you regain color." Was it smart for her to smoke something so foreign? Alice took it anyways and took a drag. To her surprise, she wasn't coughing or dying. Not everyone is after me at least. "It's the White Queen." she paused to take another drag on the pipe. "I told her about...what the Hatter had told me. He-" Don't tell him. He'll turn just the same. "He told me he loved me." Idiot. Aslan's face and body stayed calm. It was only his voice that changed; it belonged to the demon White Queen. "How dare you go around telling other people! I should killed you when I had the chance. That pipe could be fucking poisonous for all you know." Alice sat there stunned, unable to move. "Which it's not, sadly." the Queen said under her breath just loud enough for Alice to hear her. She stumbled back, throwing the pipe back at him. "You're such a crazy bitch. Leave me the fuck alone!"
Alice ran away once again, not wanting things to turn out like they had before. She knew this time she wouldn't just get away with a few scratches and gashes. But there was a new sound behind her. She's chasing after me. And that was the truth. Alice turned around and saw the demon Queen running after her, slowly catching up to her. "You won't get away this time!" Alice gulped. What if she didn't make it out and was never to see anyone, including the Hatter, again? Suddenly, she was stopped by a dark figure that was as hard as metal. The person grabbed her. "No! Let me go! Let me go!" she screamed and fought. Alice hit the figure with all of her strength. "Alice!" said the voice stumbling out of the person. She knew that voice; it was that of the Hatter's. "Hatter! I'm so sorry. I just...I thought you were someone else." she paused and wiped away one of her tears. "Someone who's after me."
The Hatter pulled her in close and just held her. He stroked her hair, trying to soothe her sobs. "I'll always be here to protect you from danger." I know...