Author's note: So, I need a break from my actual story that I'm working on, and my head began to turn and. . .Well, ta-da! The first chapter in the Twisted Wonderland sequel. Hope I've made a few of you happy. ^_^ Just a heads up, if I don't update as fast as I did with the Twisted Wonderland story, it's because I am working on my book. So, hold tight and be patient. Much love, hope you enjoy. . .And there is some lemon in the scene. -grins- ~DarkMage6
And So It Began Again. . . .
"What are you thinking about?" The voice asked.
"I don't know." Alice answered.
"Why don't you think about home anymore?" The voice asked now.
"I am home." Alice said in confusion.
"You know that your happiness can't last forever. He'll have to return. Something that was not born naturally cannot exist is the natural world. He'll have to return to Wonderland where he belong, with the unnatural things." The voice hissed.
"Who are you?" Alice demanded. "And why are you telling me this? Why are you trying to take him away from me? Don't I deserve a little happiness after all I have been through? He'll die here, human, when I die, so why is it a big deal? Even if he returns to Wonderland, he'll die when I die! Just leave us alone!"
The voice laughed. The laughter was dark and echoing. It was also sexless. Alice would never pin the voice to who it belonged too.
"Have you heard the story of the Walrus and the Carpenter?" The voice taunted.
Alice gasped. 'Is it the Twins?' She wondered.
"Who's painted me roses red?" The voice now said.
Alice furrowed her brow in confusion. Why was it quoting these different things?
"We're all mad here." The voice hissed now, trying to make her hurt. "You belonged to me Alice, you were taken away."
"You're dead." Alice said, her voice unsure. "My Mad Hatter killed you. He un-wrought the pain you brought me. It's over!"
The voice laughed more.
"I am not the Cheshire Cat. So fear not that Alice. But he is alive, and he is searching for you. The Mad Hatter may have undone all when he killed the Cheshire Cat, but that also meant that the Cheshire Cat lived again as well. I bet you and your lover didn't even think of that, did you?"
"What do you want?" Alice screamed.
"What we always want for out children. We want you to come home Alice. Come back to the Dark Wonderland."
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Alice jerked awake and sat up quickly. Sweat poured down her face and she drew in deep gulps of air.
The Mad Hatter, who called himself Michael while living with her, sat up and pulled her into his arms. "Baby, what's the matter?"
Alice shook her head and said, "It's nothing, it was just a nightmare. Just a silly, stupid, nightmare."
The Mad Hatter rocked her back and forth slowly, placing small kisses a top of her head, and murmuring reassurances. It did nothing to calm Alice's fears.
Wonderland was trying to bring them home. . .She just didn't know if someone was behind it, or the world itself.
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The Cheshire Cat stared into the mirror that hung in the bedroom of the Mad Hatter's home. With the mirror, he watched Alice daily. He yearned for her, wanted her, missed her, but he was content to watch.
At least, that's what he told himself.
Dark whispers began in his ear again, telling him things he could do to make sure Alice was his. Strangely, he didn't want to do it. . .More strangely, he felt like he had already tried that, though he hadn't. Whatever the result was for that though, he wasn't going to try again.
Plus, he didn't want to lose his only friends. The Mad Hatter and Alice were the only people in Wonderland who weren't afraid of him. . .
Cheshire Cat's weren't supposed to have humanoid forms.
He did.
He didn't know how, but he did.
It started when he had first seen Alice as more than just a child play mate. They were growing up. She was changing, and he didn't want to be left behind. So he changed too.
No longer was he welcome within his family. He was to dangerous. His change brought about more power within him. The other Cheshire's both fear and wanted it. But no one was willing to go through what he did to get it. The pain in the change was unbearable.
The dark whispers grew stronger.
"Shut up." The Cheshire Cat hissed. "You will not tempt me, Darkness."
The whispers grew quiet, leaving him alone in that room, watching the Mad Hatter comfort Alice.
He reached out and touched her face gently.
At that moment, Alice looked up, staring into the mirror that he knew hung within their bedroom. She was starring at him.
Her eyes became frightened and haunted at once, and he choose to leave her in peace.
He had done something bad to her.
If he ever figured out what he did, he would spend the rest of his life searching for her forgiveness. If it was something to horrid for her forgiveness, he would spill his own blood at her feet to appease her pain.
That was love. . .His love, at least. Hard to know what love was when nobody loved you. . .
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The Red Queen covered her ears and whimpered. Tears streamed down her face, ruining her perfect make up.
The voices were back, whispering in her ear. They taunted her, called her weak, reminded her of the failures she had endured at the hands of one man. Reminded her of what one man took from her. On and on they screamed in her ears, jeered, whispered, moaned, groaned, sang, and over all just talked. Thousands of voices, all haunting her for whatever reason.
She hated it.
She couldn't make it stop.
And she would do ANYTHING to make it stop.
"Anything?" The voices whispered at once.
"Yes! Yes! Anything! Anything within my power, I'll do!" The Red Queen promised, her voices breaking with sobs. "Just tell me and I'll do whatever if you'll leave me in peace!"
"You must set things right. You must bring Alice and the Mad Hatter back to Wonderland. And as you promised, Alice must take her place as Queen!"
"I'm the Queen here!" The Red Queen shrieked.
The voices all began again, this time, a million times worse than before. Unnatural voices began sounding, and within seconds, she was crying out again, this time, in forgiveness.
"I'll do it!" She cried. "I'll do it! Just tell me what to do!"
The voices quieted again and began to speak in one low, soft voice.
They gave her instructions, and she followed.
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Alice giggled as the Mad Hatter nipped at her toes gently. He had fed her breakfast in bed, made love to her, a lot. . .And it looked like they were about to again.
He was nibbling his way up her legs now, sticking to the inner parts of her legs.
Alice hissed in a breath as his tongue slid up her center in a slow erotic lick that she knew would soon have her crying out, panting, and overall begging for more.
As Alice reached her umpteenth orgasm, the Mad Hatter chuckled.
"Always so sensitive. It never takes me long to have you writhing on the bed in pleasure." He purred in her ear once he had crawled up her body.
He slid into her with a practiced stroke that made Alice gasp.
"I love you." He told her softly, thrusting into her gently.
"And I love you." She told him, matching his soft thrusts.
His lips covered hers softly.
"Isn't this sweet?"
Alice stilled beneath the Mad Hatter, and he stopped, a puzzled look on his face.
"It's time to return home."
Alice began to shake her head.
"Alice? Did I hurt you baby? Alice tell me what's wrong?" He said, his expression becoming panicked.
"You don't hear it?" Alice asked, her voice a hoarse whisper.
"Hear what?" The Mad Hatter asked, pulling out of her and setting up.
"Oh, look. The sane one is hearing voices. The murdering one will doubt you. You're worrying him. Just watch."
"What do you hear?" The Mad Hatter asked.
"It's a voice. . .and sometimes, its many voices. They say that we are going to go home. . .To the Wonderland." Alice whispered.
The Mad Hatter buried his hands in her hair and forced her to look him in the eyes. "Alice, we are never going back there. There is nothing that can make us go back there. I think you might want to take some time off from work. Maybe you're a little stressed."
Alice gaped at the Mad Hatter, unbelieving of what he just said to her.
He was from a mythical, non-existent land, and her hearing voices was weird?
"Your time on Earth is up, for the both of you."
The Mad Hatter looked around, searching for the voice that he had obviously heard.
"Shit." He said softly, gathering up Alice in his arms as a strange wind began to blow around her apartment. It all stopped, suddenly, and a portal opened.
Now the wind began to suck them in.
Alice cried out, clinging to him desperately.
"Hold on." He roared in her ear.