"You could stay you know..."

A flash of emerald green eyes... and then I was falling, deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole that would take me to him...

I woke as I did most mornings, by falling out of bed. The sensation of falling always landed me on the floor... and I started to wonder if the floor was the better place for me to sleep.

The dream I had was the same as it had always been for the last year, the last few words I heard from ....

I shook my head, and untangled myself from the sheets, If I started day dreaming of my wonderland again, I would never get anything accomplished.

I glanced around and smiled when I noticed a blue blur flutter in from the half opened window.

"Absalom"

My only reminder of Underland, besides the scar on my arm, landed gently on my shoulder.. with his usual smirk already planted on his face.

"Fall down again Alice? Seems that happens quite often with you"

I smirked when I heard the tone of his voice.. he was in one of his teasing moods.

"As always my dear butterfly, I'm beginning to wonder if I should set up a permanent residence on my carpet".

He chuckled quietly to himself and then cleared his throat, "Are these nightmares you suffer from?"

I smiled, a flash of emerald green eyes surfacing in my memory... "Hardly..".

Absalom seemed to notice my sudden mood and fluttered between my tangled curls "He misses you, you know".

I gasped slightly, and twirled around to look at the butterfly in the face.. "Who do you speak of?" I asked him... knowing that was a stupid question.

He picked up on my stupidity and flew into my forehead, "Stupid, foolish girl! You know exactly of who I speak of!".

I walked away from the suddenly angry butterfly and sat back down on my bed, "I know absalom.. but I wouldn't know what to say to him... I left without even hugging him goodbye... he must hate me".

I heard a "Pshh" come from his side of the room, but my underland friend remained quiet.

I continued on, not caring if absalom was listening or not, "He told me I wouldn't remember him, so why would he remember me?"

"Is this why you have avoided underland for so long?"

Absalom was suddenly fluttering throughout my curls once again, his wings tickling my skin ever so lightly.

I lookeed down at the ground, and pretended to be interested in the carpet... "I-I'm not exactly sure".

"I would make a visit to underland soon if I were you"...

I looked up to see him perched on the windowsill, "why would you say that?"

He flapped his wings as he was ready to depart, "it's a dark place dear alice, and a certain dark heart.. maybe you could bring the sun once again".

And with that my blue friend disapeered.

I sat wondering for hours what he meant... Had underland changed? Was the red queen back in power? What of Mirana, tweedledee and dum, the march hare... the hatter...

"Even if I could go to Underland now, how could I get there? I am no where near the rabbit hole at the ascot's home!"

With that I laid back down in my bed, hoping that my wonderland would soon follow in my dreams.