Black Kitten Chara: I know I said this would be up in March, but I decided to go ahead and write it. My obsession with both Hollow Fields and American McGee's Alice has become too much for me to sit and wait.

P.S. Do not let the title mislead you! Claude, Carmen, Simon, and Francine are the main character and Lucy will not appear until the middlish of this story! It is called the title it is because they are in Lucy's Wonderland!

DISCLAIMER: I do now own Hollow Fields or American McGee's Alice!

Claude McGinty was impressed. In fact, he would have never guessed that his dizty redhead friend, Lucy Snow, actually came from a wealthy family with her father being a dean of a Oxford University or her mother being the well-known author, who goes under the pen name Michelle Rotfield.

"And you didn't tell me from the beginning because...?" The twelve-year-old boy asked his friend.

"Because I wanted to make friends who liked me for me, not because my family is wealthy." Lucy answered happily as they entered the white Victorian-styled house after getting through the black iron gates. "Mum, Father, Phoebe! I'm home!"

Claude sat his backpack down as a woman in her late thirties came from the spirling staircase. She had flawless skin, her blonde hair was wrapped thightly in a bun, and her bright green eyes shone with happiness. "Lucy, may I ask who this is?"

Lucy smiled at Claude as she said, "Mother, this is my friend, Claude McGinty. Claude, this is my mom, Serena. Or Michelle Rotfield as you know from her books."

Claude stood up as he fixed his uniform and blew a dark brown strand of hair from his face. He held out his hand and said, "Mrs. Snow, pleasure to meet you."

"My, he is such a gentleman." Mrs. Snow said as Lucy rolled her eyes. Mrs. Snow looked at her duaghter and said, "Your father is outside with his students. I am pretty sure he would like to meet this young man."

Lucy nodded her head as she took Claude's elbow and dragged him through the long hallway through a French door as they reached the lush backyard. There, sitting at one of the glass table with a yellow umbrella, was a forty-something man with dark brown hair and blue eyes that matched Lucy's own. "Father!"

Mr. Snow looked at his daughter as she came running up and hugged him. "My God, Lucy! Look how much you've grown!"

"Father, my hair has only grown inches and I am only a few inches taller." The eleven-year-old girl said in her thick British accent. "But, there is somehting I would like for you to meet." She motioned to the brunette behind her and said, "Father, this is Claude McGinty."

Mr. Snow patted his large stomach as he said, "Well, hullo there Claude. I'm Dean Snow of Oxford University, but many call me Arthur."

Claude smiled in good-will as Mr. Snow laughed when he looked at the shocked faces of his students, and Lucy giggled as she said, "My dad has his students to come over for tea every Sunday. They must be pretty confused on him having a daughter."

Claude seem to feel their pain. Just today did he learn that his redhead friend came from a rich family, so it was kind of shock meeting her family. Her mother seem to be that elegant queen his parents always talked about meeting and her father seem like a good man who is very well-educated. Nothing like the people he thought he would meet from hearing that "Dentist story" Lucy had told him.

As Lucy's father talked with his students and Lucy sat down like the good girl she was, a girl about eighteen came through the French doors. She bared a shocking likeness to Lucy; wavy red hair, deep blue eyes, flawless pale skin, and a good body for her age. She wore a red sundress as she came through with some tea.

"Hullo, Father. Some tea for you and your students?" The girl said.

"Of course, Phoebe!" Mr. Snow motion his hand to Claude and said, "This is Lucy's friend, Claude."

Phoebe smiled as she placed the tea down, then shook Claude's hand and said, "Hullo there. My sister has told me so much about you. So, it a pleasure to finally meet you." The older girl's voice was light and happy, but yet it was mature and elegant.

"Hi there. Lucy brought me here to finally meet all of you, and I must say that I am pretty impressed. Not even my parents would welcome my friends this warm nor would my sister be this nice." Claude joked. He knew how to make adults love him, which his older brother called his gift besides working with robots.

Mr. Snow smiled at the brunette as Mrs. Snow came outside and wrapped her arms around her husband's neck. Phoebe smiled and looked at her her younger sister. Then she pulled Claude to the side and whispered, "My sister is a little daydreamy, if you haven't guessed."

"Yeah, I figure that out." Claude said.

Phoebe smiled as she kept talking. "Our nanny used to say that Lucy would daydream more than practicing on the piano. Lucy used to say that she made up a world called Wonderland. She says that her Wonderland is amazing, and she reads Alice's Adventures in Wonderland all of the time."

"I never knew that." Claude said in surprise.

Phoebe smiled as her parents talked to a tall student with glasses and a slight beard. "Well, it was nice to meet you."

Phoebe walked back inside as Claude felt his phone in his pocket. He got it out and flipped it open to see "Claude, teach us how 2 make bots!- Simon and Carmen" Claude sighed as Lucy came behind.

"What's the matter?"

Claude was scared by her as he put his phone back in his pocket. "Um, I have to leave. Carmen and Simon are having troubles making their dumb robot."

Lucy's face looked sad, even with a smile, as she said, "Oh, well you better go." Claude nodded his head as he looked at her family.

"Good-bye Mr. and Mrs. Snow. Good-bye Phoebe," Claude said as Lucy was leading him back inside.

"Good-bye dear. It was so nice to meet you." Mrs. Snow said.

As Claude was lead back in by Lucy, he leaned in and said "You're family is pretty cool."

Lucy smiled as she opened the front door to the cold winter day. "Yeah, I have no idea what I do without them."

~0~

Many hours are Claude left then finally the students left, Lucy put out the fire in her family's library. Her father's photography equipment was near it, and her parents had gotten into an argument a few days ago about getting the flammable equipment away from the fire.

Lucy left the library with her black cat, Luna, rubbing against her legs. "Good night, Luna." The cat purred as Lucy went upstairs and lay her head down on her soft pillow. She clicked on her light as she read her favorite book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and her stuffed bunny in her arms.

After a few hours, Lucy fell asleep with her book wide open on her lap. But the story didn't stop there...

"Hello, Lucy. Welcome to my tea party."

"Hullo, Hatta. I see the March Hare, Dormouse, and White Rabbit could make it."

"I am still going to be late!"

"Oh, Rabbit. Still worry about making to the Queen's match. She wouldn't mind if you spend some time with me, Alice's descendant."

"Wake up, Dormy! Lucy is here!"

"March, be nice to Dormy. He has to sleep or else Cat will come and scare him to where we have to put jam in his nose again. And Hatta, Rabbit, and I will not be to please with that, would we?"

Lucy dreamt happily of the tea party. Long ago when she was six, she fell into Wonderland and figured out that her descendant was the original Alice. She went through all of Wonderland and still made it back to leave the park with her sister. Even today, she still went into Wonderland in her dreams.

As she slept and enjoyed tea with her friends, she began to smell something. Something like smoke and burnt oil. But she pushed it off as it being the fireplaces just going out. "What is going on?"

"Fire! Fire!"

"What? What do you mean fire, Rabbit?"

"Save, Lucy! Save, Lucy!"

"Lucy, wake up! Wake up!"

"But, Hatta... What is happening...?"

Lucy bolted up and saw flames under her door. She ran out of her bed with her stuffed rabbit in her arms and grabebd her door. "Mother? Father?!"

She could hear her father's voice yelling "Get out, Lucy! Save youself!" Lucy pressed her ear against the door as she could hear her mother yell for Phoebe to wake up and banging on her oldest child's door.

"Mother, Father! Where's Phoebe?" Lucy coughed as smoke got into her room.

"Save yourself!" Her father yelled again.

Lucy took his warming as smoke gather in her room. She ran as fast as she could to the open window she had and stood on her desk. She then jumped out from the buring house into the snow. Her face smacked against the hard-paced snow as her stuffed rabbit fell against her leg. And something else was there.

Lucy looked up as she saw Luna and her copy of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Lucy knew Luna must had jumped out, and she always kept a second cope of her favorite book on the desk, which must have fell when she jumped.

"Meow..." Luna said as Lucy turned around as saw her house burned. The last thing she heard before the ambulance arrived were the screams of her parents dying as the flames destroyed the bodies in front of their youngest child's eyes.

And that is only the beginning of the story.