AN: For those who have read my other stories, this story does not fall within my established Hatter-Alice universe. This is a separate story altogether – a series of song-fics, and very different from what I usually write. Let me know what you think... please review.
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Sinead O'Connor – Nothing Compares to You
It's been seven hours and fifteen days
Since you took your love away
I go out every night and sleep all day
Since you took your love away
Since you've been gone I can do whatever I want
I can see whomever I choose
I can eat my dinner in a fancy restaurant
But nothing
I said nothing can take away these blues,
'Cause nothing compares
Nothing compares to you
It's been so lonely without you here
Like a bird without a song
Nothing can stop these lonely tears from falling
Tell me baby where did I go wrong?
I could put my arms round every boy I see
But they'd only remind me of you
I went to the doctor guess what he told me
Guess what he told me
He said girl you better try to have fun
No matter what you do
But he's a fool
'Cause nothing compares
Nothing compares to you
All the flowers that you planted mother
In the backyard
All died when you went away
I know that living with you, baby, was sometimes hard
But I'm willing to give it another try
Nothing compares
Nothing compares to you
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She came back from Wonderland on October 18th. They had been reunited on October 20th. They had made love for the first time on November 6th. The Looking Glass ceased to be a portal, sealing Hatter to her world on November 17th. He had told her he loved her on November 29th. She had moved into his flat with him on January 3rd. She had told him she loved him on January 11th. They had their first big fight on April 23rd. They had amazing make-up sex on April 25th. She threw him his first ever birthday party on June 4th. He filled the apartment with gerbera daisies and took her on the most amazing date of her life on her birthday, August 10th.
… She moved back in with her mother after they had a huge fight on September 5th. Her mother kicked her back out on September 12th. They had amazing make-up sex on September 13th. They fought again on September 19th, and September 20th, and September 24th, and October 2nd, and October 8th.
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Alice lived her life by the dates. Remembered each one, like they were burned into her brain. Maybe they were. One was.
October 14th. A few days short of a full year since they had met. It was the day Hatter stopped fighting back, the day his heart broke. It was the day he looked at her with sad, tormented eyes and said, "I can't do this, Alice. I don't want to fight anymore." And she had watched in horror as he had started to pack his things.
"This is your apartment!" she had protested.
Hatter had just shook his head. "Jack didn't really give it to me, he gave it to you – knowing you'd live here too." And he had kept packing.
"What will you do?" she had asked, all the while defiantly fighting to keep tears out of her eyes, the tremor out of her voice.
He had turned, with that horrible false grin and forced levity, and said, "I'll be fine." And she had flashed to a moment, on the hill at Charlie's camp when he had said just that... when she had been about to leave with Jack.
As though remembering it himself, Hatter had immediately turned back to his packing, and she had run from the flat, no longer able to stem the flow of her tears. When she had come back the next morning, he was gone.
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And all she had left was the dates. And the painful realization that it was 4 o clock on a Saturday. December 2nd... exactly seven weeks since Hatter had left.
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AN: What do you think? Sad, I know. Should I continue?