Authors note: This is my spin on "Alice in Wonderland" the movie. I do not own any characters or plots. Please leave your critiques and opinions. Thank you ~ Anastasia
If Only She Had Stayed
Prologue:
In Underland…
"Alice, oh my dear Alice…" Tarrant whispered desperately into the pale blue silk of an elaborate dress. He delicately fitted the dress to a mannequin and placed a matching silk hat on its lifeless head. The mad hatter bent down on one knee and began mumbling sweet nothings while holding out a tarnished mercury-stained silver ring to the plastic woman before him.
"Oh my sweet Alice, where have you been?" The hatter fell, and castrated himself fully on the cold, wooden floor. His deep green eyes fading to a light teal, and spilling over with tears of sorrow and desperation.
"My sweet darling, Alice, I would go through hell and back again just to see your beautiful face…" he cried to no one.
In London…
"Hmmm…six impossible things….I can only think of two this morning." Alice said to herself. Upon having another sip of tea, she gazed out the window to find a silly looking rabbit bouncing and hopping around nervously in the garden. At first she was amused, but after a short while became annoyed. She tightly laced up her boots and stormed out of her chamber violently slamming her door. As she approached the hare, it hopped away quickly frightened by her rage. Only further frustrated, she stomped back to her chamber. She began mustering up a third impossible thing when the hare re-appeared, She jumped out of her writing desk chair, and leaned herself out her window
"GO AWAY!" she leaned out a tad further to stick out her tongue at the rabbit, and she fell out of the window! She curled herself in a ball waiting to hit the ground, but opened her eyes to find she was still falling. Her limbs twisting around her and she hit something soft, only to be sprung and tossed down again.
In Underland….
She finally stopped, suspended ten feet off the ground, and then she dropped, hitting a hard marble floor. Rubbing her head, she saw the rabbit, and before she could even fully sit up, it poured a small vile of liquid down her throat. The last thing she saw before her dress piled around her was the hare jumping through a tiny door.
Alice put her head through the doorway, and saw a bright mossy garden with heart-shaped marble furnishings, and thousands of blood red roses. She looked down to find herself nude. Her dress was a ginormous pile of laundry. She was not about to run out naked, but the door began slowly closing. Without thinking she dove threw the closing door, and found herself in Underland.
Everything was very quiet. TOO quiet, Alice thought. She peered over one of the many tall rows of flowers, and saw a court of strange people, along with a very stout woman with fiery red hair on top of her quite bulbous head.
"OFF WITH HIS HEAD!" she shouted. Alice dipped down, considering her naked-ness. She hurried away from the garden, where she came to a dark forest where she could hide. While walking along in the forest, very suddenly a large pompous indigo feline popped up in front of her, and began to speak!
"Why Alice, is it really you? And why aren't you clothed? I was not the one responsible for evaporating them I assure you." The cat said, with a strange wide grin. She slowly began to disappear! She felt like herself…though a smidgen lighter than normal.
"Cat! What is happening to me?" Alice said in dismay. The Cheshire cat slowly re-appeared.
"Well I surely can't deliver you to the hatter nude, unless that's what you intended?" The feline said with hint of naught in his tone.
Alice became quite offended.
"Hatter? And, of course not! I shrunk and my dress became too large!"
The cat snickered, and lead her to a broken down windmill with a long dinner table covered with broken tea cups and teapots, and a strange man sitting at the end. He had electrifying orange hair and a large black silk top hat upon his head. When he looked up with his bright green eyes, she was taken into shock. So many memories instantly filled her head.