Disclaimer: I do not own anything that DC created, nor do I own Colorful/Erin. Half the time I don't even own what Alice says.

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*Flashback*

I'm burning, and it hurts so bad. I want to lash out at Colorful and Dodge. If I make some one else scream, and they feel the pain it goes away. If I hurt them I won't know how to get out and I'll die. So then I can't hurt them, and I don't really want to. Dodge is my brother and I love him and Erin too. When I feel the burning I have to kill though, and that drives me mad. I have to kill and then I won't feel the pain and everything will go numb. It burns even though the flames on my skin are out. Yet I can't hurt them, because if I do I really will just be a Freak. We have to get out. Are we almost there? I can hear the biulding falling down. My mind isn't working like it should, because I've only just remebered that Alice pushed me. I still can't breathe, and I'm more scared than I've ever been. Things are falling around me and something hits Dodge I think because he yells and lets go of my arm. I pull away from Colorful and hold out my hands trying to find him the only way I can. There's flames on my hands and I want to run but I need to find Dodge. I find his hand, and pull. I know it's him I remember running pulling it like now, except then the air was cool and now it's stiflingly hot. Colorful says something about fire covering the door way out. I'm trying carry Dodge, but I don't think I can. I'm scared, and I can't see. Colorful grabs my arm and says that the second story is gong to fall in. We're running again and the air burns for a second and then it is blissfully cool. I want to ask whether we've died because I still can't tell where we are, but I'm tired and the air feels good here... I'll just sleep for a few minutes... a few minutes... just a few...

*End Flashback*

After that I was in the hospital and I don't remember much. Except they said lots about my eyes and they kept giving me medicines that gave me wierd dreams. Dodge says I look like Harvey Dent, and that he does too. I can tell I messed up my hands too but they'll get better, all of us pretty much messed up our hands. Colorful's face is okay though, I wouldn't know really. Mom visits sometimes, dad can't of course. Mom visits him too, He's still crazy so everything is fine. Dodge doesn't want to go back home with Mom, says that he'd much rather live at the warehouse. She'll kill us when she finds out. I can' go home with her though. All of my scars still burn and I need to make it go away. I think Dodge feels it too, so maybe we can be Song and Silence again that was fun. I'll make him like me, I hope whatever god there is can forgive me for that. I think he will, he has no right to damn me for it. He doesn't know how it feels to still feel the pain after the wound heals. Hell'd be fun any way, I'd probably get to be some sort of devil since I've killed so many people. Ellda the sister of Berith, princess of the Cherubim tempting mortals to commit homicide, what a thought...sounds like fun.

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" I must break the Batterwock, But Alice, you cannot do such without the vorpal blade, as is said in the books. Has Hatter a suggestion as to where to find said blade? Hmmm? I thought not." Alice muttered to her self as she pushed peices of cloth through a sewing machine, " I know not know where to get the blade, but I know to get it you will need help. From who? Who-ever. Look outside Alice, children with nothing like you were once desp- Like we were- of course. They are desperate, and you have everything they hunger for and more."

Alice hid a smile, best to not show emotions when negotioating, " And of the ones who are noble and choose to follow the Red King? I show them my home and they'd betray it perhaps? Like March tried to. Alice the sweet rabbit is near broken and I can still make hats you know. Lovely hats to twist the mind. So, I need to find runnaways? Now you're talking Alice, finish up this and get ssome of my hats. And take tea and scones, we might not be back by teatime."

Alice turned of the sewing machine, she was done any way. This peice had gotten quite easy to finish by now, A simple blue dress with a white pinafore. The last one had been given to the talking flower before she died. It didn't matter one Alice was as good as the next, and there were plenty more of them to go through. She put the dress on a hanger and hung it in a small closet in the empty tailor shop. Before she went to get the hats she looked over a red ball gown. If it was ever going to fit the Queen of Hearts she had in mind it would have to be made much bigger. This one had been sewn for a ten year old. That would be done later. She had to do something now, something about cats, or rats, maybe bats... No It was hats! She needed to get hats for... for what again?

"To brainwash the noble ones into helping you find the vorpal blade, can't you remember anything? Well it's difficult With all the details Hatter!" Alice pouted, it really was depressing to be berated by someone living in your head, "You don't even pay rent. I help you remember everything that should count!"

Alice rolled her eyes and pulled her own hat on before going to dig up her wagon full of hats. Something else too...bees and bones? Or cheese and cones maybe?

"Tea and scones, Alice. That's what I meant."