Mad as a Hatter

Philip

Just a year after the Frabjous day in Underland, our Champion Alice found love.

Though I am quite dissatisfied to tell you that it was not our favorite disheveled Hatter, but a quiet young man with raven hair. They met on Alice's journey to China where she attended a meeting with a potential client. They met and talked.

Alice's dashing young friend was so charmed by Alice and soon enough he asked for her hand. If not for Alice's memory of her dear friend Hatter, she would have said yes on the spot. But this reaction did not push her suitor back. And he refused to take no for an answer. So he waited and waited.

While they spent two more years together, Alice found herself drawn closer to the man with raven hair. Yet she herself, ceaselessly charming him in turn. And 4 years after which Alice has last seen the Hatter, she finally said yes.

The two wed and had a son together. He had his father's raven like hair and his cool and calm expression. Alice named him Philip.

Alice loved Philip and she cared for him in every way possible. He often accompanied his mother during her trips abroad and advised Alice with her decisions big and small. He grew up surrounded by books and excelled in his studies so well that by the time he was 12, he spoke in four different tongues. (not counting English which is his native language) Chinese, Arabian, German and Italian (not nessecarily in that order).

During the afternoons when the sun rose high over the lazy Sunday, the family of three sat in the middle of their grand garden and had tea in the cool shade of the apple tree. Alice would braid a headband out of the flowers nearby while his father and he would read a very boring book on politics and the like.

Philip listened to the sweet humming tunes of his mother and was often warned: "Now Philip, don't go chasing after white rabbits in waist coats, alright." Alice said this in a stern yet gentle voice, while his father chuckled. Like they both shared a private joke.

Philip, of course, would never understand this but he never had gone looking for a rabbit in a waist coat. Because, between you and me, he is absolutely terrified of rabbits.

But before Philip learned how to speak Arabian, Italian and Chinese, he heard the most wonderful (if not horrifying) news in his first 5 years of being born. He was going to be a big brother.

Alice and the second love of her life, were so delighted with the news of Philip's baby sister, they made preparations for her arrival immediately. Everyone in their happy mansion was bustling with excitement. From maids to cooks, they chatted on and on. And for the first few days, everyone was too busy to go about their normal business. For this in fact was how everyone reacted when they first caught wind of mistress Alice's first born son, Philip.

Philip too was excited he made sure to be extra obedient to his mother. He took extra precautions to carry all her heavy loads, help her up and down the stairs and massage her shoulders when she got too tired with the boring paperwork. Philip dragged his mother to the music room and made her sit still, long enough to play for his baby sister. Alice was delighted whenever Philip asked to play his violin for her.

"Annie." He shouted one afternoon. Running through the corridors with a face that screamed 'Eureka!'. He ran as fast as he could to the study where Alice and the raven-haired man sat in a heated discussion. He burst through the doors, both parent's stood up to meet him. When he finally found his mother he blurted out "Annie." with a sweaty and shinning face. And in mere seconds, Alice mimicked her son's smile.

The house waited with tension haunting in the air. Alice was in bed, unable to move. Philip visited her and stayed by her bedside for 21 hours. (The remaining three hours were spent in the library researching treatments for pregnancy pain). He took the place of his raven-haired father when he was out on an important meeting, or when he was asked to go in Alice's place. But when he returned, he hurried back to his beloved wife's side.

And in the 8th month since the news filled the Regall's Mansion, Alice's piercing scream filled Philip's home.

Son and father paced the study where they awaited the screams of Alice to die down. Philip was in his favorite master's chair by the fireplace, his eyes unmoving from the same paragraph for over the past half hour. His father was staring out of the tall window, with thoughts only on his beautiful baby daughter next door. When the maid knocked on the door, both boys bolted straight for Alice's room.

Inside they heard the cries of the baby girl Philip named Annie.

Author's Note

I recently got addicted to this iphone game An Adventure Beyond the Mirror. It's about Alice in Wonderland and I just really love both the book and the movie. It's really great I suggest you try it! (The game I mean) so I hope that you liked this. I got the idea from watching the movie again ^^

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