Full summary:
Alice returned after 5 years back to Wonderland with her sister Josie. There she found out that the whole land had moved to the Country of Diamonds and the role-holders don't remember her except of Nightmare. Feeling weird in this changed world she tries to get used to it while the Hatter seems to show more interest into her than before. Besides the dangerous Jaberwock seems to have a certain interest in her, too. AlicexBlood, T-rated for blood.
All characters besides Josie and the Jaberwock belong to QuinRose.
Prologue
-The end of the war-
08. May 1945. Berlin, Germany
"Which time is it?" The woman asked and stared over to her sister who looked with a quite serious look over to the Brandenburg Gate. They came together with the Army they were in, the Allied 21st Army Group, together with field marshal Montgomery and general Harton, one of the youngest generals in the history of the British Army. The both women stood with some from their soldiers on the streets and walking around, checking if everything was all right.
The elder of the sisters, Joseline Liddell – called Josie, looked around, holding her specially modified machine gun in her hands which she got from the engineer of the Army as a congratulation of becoming a captain. She was looked around if there were some survivors but she only saw burining or collapsed buildings. The younger one of the sisters had the other machine gun of Josie since her modified sniper was only made for long range fights. She was also looking around and while she looked at the buildings which were burning or partly collapsed and felt pity for the people who had lost their homes. Her own home in London had been destoryed partly, but the Liddell Residence was huge enough so her family could live in the other part. But there the houses here were uninhabitable.
Alice spotted a clock which still was functioning.
"It's 23 o' clock." She said as she looked at the clock.
Just then a huge explosion sounded from the eastern part of the town and Alice turned around, surprised who of the Allied Forces would have caused that. They have made the agreement that they would come into town and fight against those who fight against them and the other ones should be arrested.
Alice saw some children hide with their mothers or relatives behind several houses, the corpses of the German soldiers who mostly were still children, younger than she was, who were killed due to them attacking the soldiers of the British Army. Some of those boys had surrendered and the British soliders were standing around them, waiting for instructions.
"Captain! What should we do with them?" The soldier asked Josie, pointing with his head at the boys. Some of them were shaking of fear, the others were staring at the beautiful faces of the two women and some others hissed at seeing Josie.
The Liddell woman put her forefinger around her chin and titled her head while looking at the boys. Then she begun to speak in German to them.
"Habt ihr noch eine Familie, zu der ihr zurückkehren könnt?"
Alice had difficulties in understand what she was saying but when she was interpreting right then Josie asked them if they had a family to which they could return. The eyes of the boys got bigger as they realized that the woman in front of them were actually speaking in their native language with them.
The one who looked oldest of them stepped one step forward to her and spoke up – of course in German.
"Miss, die meisten von uns haben keine Väter, die anderen keine Mütter und weiter andere überhaupt keine Familie." He said. Now Alice furrowed her brows as she tried to understand what he was saying. He was talking fast, as if he was stressed and nervous but Alice interpreted that most of them lost a family member or their whole family.
"Verstehe. Ich werde euch alle gehen lassen. Unter einer Bedinung: die, die eine Familie habe, kehren zu ihr zurück. Die anderen kommen mit uns mit. In der britischen Armee gibt es eine Sektion, die sich um Waisenkinder kümmert. Und keine Sorge, ihr werdet nicht bestraft, weil ihr in der Hitlerjugend wart." She explained. The boys looked uneasily and Alice only understood that she wanted to take those without family to the section of the British Army which was taking care of orphans. Some of the boys looked over to Alice.
Since Josie was too serious because of the situation right now she flashed the boys a kind smile and said in her best German that they shouldn't worry about this too much and only accept since it would be best for them.
The boys slowly agreed to it while those who still have a family were taken by the soldiers to get protection in case of something happened.
"Your language skills are perfect like always." Alice said to Josie who only gave her a wry smile before her expression turned into the usual, serious one.
In these past five years they had fought in many battles, killing a lot of people, probably because of that Josie had got a more serious personality. Seeing these people die, their heads got cut off, got shoot, got sliced while screaming in pain and the bowel and broken bones sticking out of their bodies also let Alice change to a person who truly thinks that being alive at all costs is precious, after all others had it worse. These people mostly lost their lives due to her, there was more blood sticking on her than on Ace, although she had washed it off.
She only was happy that the war got to an end since they heard that the Führer was dead and thus the war had come to an end. Alice missed her home and family, but she missed also all the role-holders in the Wonderland, giving her a truly difficult decision if she should stay here or go back together with the White Queen who was leading the soldiers through the corpse and debris filled street of Berlin, towards the Reich Chancellery building where the Red Army and a part of the British Army with field marshal Montgomery and general Harton as well as a little part of the U.S Army.
As soon as the last troops arrived Alice spotted around five or six children - four girls and two boys - laying on the ground, surrounded by the Red Army and a man closer to the building. The Russians were holding a photo of the Führer to check if it's him.
"Miss Liddell, I need your good eyes." Said field marshall Montgomery and turned to Alice. "I can't see any difference from the photo and the... man. Could you please check and tell me what you think?"
"Of course." Alice replied and went a little bit nervous over to the corpse. It looked so alive she was afraid that he might stood up again. After all a lot weird, partly supernatural things, happened to them while being in the middle of war. But Alice studied the picture and the face and found the eyes of the man smaller, his nose bigger, just like his mouth.
"Why is he alone?" Josie asked after she explained why the former Hitlerjugend was with them to the leader of the troops of Britain and Russia.
"What do you mean?" Asked a Russian in English with a hard accent.
"We have been the last two weeks in Germany and through the radio I heard the announcement that the Führer had gotten married to a woman called Eva Braun. But where is she?" Josie asked. As always she was one step ahead of everything and the soldiers looked perplexed at each other. Alice turned again her attention to the children laying over there.
"And why are here children who presumbly have been poisioned?"
That was when a younger boy of the former Hitlerjugend tugged on her sleeve. Alice looked surprised down at him.
"I... I heard that the Führer has got a bunker under the Reichstag." He told her. Josie - who heard that - immediately froze on the spot.
"A bunker?" She asked shocked at the boy nodded shyly.
"We should look if they are hiding there." Said Montogmery. He looked over to both Liddell sisters.
"Captain Liddell, Lieutenant Liddell, please go and check if they're really there."
"Yes, sir!" With this the two went off and disappeared in the Reichstag building.
"But where could the bunker be?" Alice asked as Josie furrowed the brows - a trait that she's thinking over something.
"It's obviously on the lowermost floor, so the one we're at the moment and it has to be a steel door. If he wanted to hide it then it's probably hidden behind a curtain or something like that."
Alice only nodded and then the two sisters seperated to go search for the door to the bunker. While searching in the whole place for the door she could hear outside how the tanks arrived and the Allied Forces begun to take over the capital of Nazi Germany.
Soon she found a hall with many heavy curtains by the windows and doors to other rooms. But in the middle of them was an unconspicious looking door, like it was made of wood. But it seemed to be thicker than the others. Alice touched it and through her gloved hands she could feel that it wasn't simple wood. She knocked on it and the sound told her that it was actually made of iron. Alice tried to open it but it was locked. She walked some steps back and took out her walkie-talkie. With this she made a simple sound so Josie would hear it and come over to her.
Shortly after she made the sound Josie came running down the hall with an usual serious looking face although her face showed that she was happy that Alice found it.
"I think it's here. But the door is closed." Alice said, pointing at the door.
"Good job." Josie said as she inspected the door. "And the lock won't be a problem."
The olive brown haired woman steped one step back and raised her right leg. With a powerful kick she let the door jump of it angles and flew over to the wall before falling down on the ground with a sound. Due to Josie being a master hand-to-hand combatant she has a lot more muscles and was more flexible than Alice who sometimes manage to copy her movements. Besides Josie was a lot more experienced in fights since she had lived in the Wonderland for three years before hearing the news of nightmare that her world is in a war and dragging Alice along to get there.
The both entered the room, only to find a storeroom.
"A... storeroom?" Alice asked surprised and Josie went forward, pushing some boxes aside. Underneath the boxes was a trap door with the sign of the Nazi: the swastika.
With a jerk she opened the trap door, revealing a ladder down in the basement.
"Look." She said and looked over to Alice, pointing at the rungs. As Alice looked directly at them she noticed blood.
"Blood? Whose might it be?" She wondered, titling her head.
"I've already got an idea but I'm not sure."
With this both went down into the bunker.
As they reached the ground Alice got really surprised. The whole thing was built in a spartanical way, making it feel weird.
"So he wasn't having it snobbish." Alice said while they searched on but the Führer was nowhere to be found. Josie only pointed at the blood on the ground and followed the strain while Alice followed her.
Outside the blood strain ended outside in the garden by a spot which looked like it was burned. There was pnly a jaw with dental work laying there.
"So... they have brought the corpses here... and burned them?" Alice asked and Josie nodded.
"It seems like it." She said. Then she smirked and looked over to Alice. "At least this war, our little adventure, came to an end."
Alice giggled when they returned to their troops only to see in shock that general Harton had collapsed.
"What had happened?" Alice asked as she ran over to them. But Josie stood there, looking shocked at her childhood friend and the blood which was coming out of his stomach.
"Немецкая стрелять в него" One of the Russian soldiers said. Alice heard that but couldn't understsnd what it means. She only heard shoots and looked up. There was a German soldier with a gun and field marshall Montgomery with some of the soldiers but the guy avoided easily.
Being angry Alice went up to a higher place and took her sniper off her back. She pulled the telescopic sight on the headband she was wearing before her right eye while squeezing the other one shut and pointed the muzzle to the German soldier's head.
With a gast move she fired and the head of the guy looked like it explosed before he fell to the ground.
After the rest of the troops artived they decided to take the deadly wounded general back to London and then the both sisters returned home alongside them.
While being on the plane Josie watched her unconscious childhood friend while Alice stood behind her, trying not to remember the saddened face of her sister.
The next moment Josie let go of Jacob's hand and sigh as a single tear rolled down her cheek.
"He had died." She only commented before putting her hands before her face and quietly sobbed.
Alice knew that it was hard to lose someone, after all their mother died due to a really heavy illness nine years ago, but she knew that she had killed other people, too who also had a family which was mourning for them. Besides she has to be the stronger one now so Josie would feel better.
Silent she laid her hands on Josie's shacking shoulders, watching the pale face of her friend. A single tear dropped from her face.
That day many lives had been saved by freeing people from the concentration camp in the Nazi German territory but also some people left their lives. But in all the war finally came to an end.
Editor's note:
Yeah, I knew I have once rewritten the story but after reading I felt bothered by the bad grammar and the story being written in the first person I decided to write it over again.
Hope you liked the prologue and please comment if you want.
Besides, the story was historical not 100 percet right since I've only written down what I knew and the whole thing about the Liddell sisters.
Translate:
"Habt ihr noch eine Familie, zu der ihr zurückkehren könnt?" - "Do you have a family to which you can return?"
"Miss, die meisten von uns haben keine Väter, die anderen keine Mütter und weiter andere überhaupt keine Familie." - "Miss, the most of us have no father, the others no mother and again others had lost their whole family."
"Verstehe. Ich werde euch alle gehen lassen. Unter einer Bedinung: die, die eine Familie habe, kehren zu ihr zurück. Die anderen kommen mit uns mit. In der britischen Armee gibt es eine Sektion, die sich um Waisenkinder kümmert. Und keine Sorge, ihr werdet nicht bestraft, weil ihr in der Hitlerjugend wart." - "I see. I will let you go, only under one condition; those who have a family can return to them. The others are coming with us. In the British Army is a section which take care about orphans. And don't worry, you won't be punished for being a part of the Hitlerjugend."
"Немецкая стрелять в него" - "He had been shot."