Hello everyone! It would seem that I now have a possible "obsession" with Alice in Wonderland! This story is nothing to do with my other story Return to Wonderland...it is just another idea that I had of how Alice's life could lead.

Obviously I do not own anything which people recognise (I wish I did!) but I have created a few of my own characters and two of them shall be rather prominent throughout the story.

Enjoy!

Alice was having one of her many dreams of her Wonderland. She always had these dreams ever since she first fell down that rabbit hole when she was younger. But this dream was not the same as the others had been...it seemed different. As she was wondering down the path towards the tea party she noticed that she hadn't seen the grinning face of the Chess like she normally did and that she felt like she was being drawn in the right direction. She would normally get lost if Chess hadn't of been there. Another thing that she noted as wrong was that none of the flowers tried to make conversation and in fact there seemed to be nobody, creature or human, around. She turned the corner and saw the first living creature of her dream.

It was Hatter. He was sitting in his chair at the head of the table with his head down. He looked like he was asleep.

As she walked towards the table she couldn't help but feel different. This was the first dream she had had where she felt that she was actually there. She got to the end of the table and took a look at Hatter. He seemed so peaceful when he was asleep.

"Hatter...wake up...Hatter...it's me Alice." she said in a soft tone. Hatter seemed to start to wake.

"Alice..."

"Yes Hatter it's Alice!" she said and smiled.

Hatter lifted his head up and looked at the end of the table. He saw that Alice was standing there and stood up. He climbed up onto the table and got down the other end. He hugged her tightly and Alice couldn't help but smile.

"I've missed you so much Alice!" he picked he up and spun her around.

"So have I. Hatter is this real? I mean it can't be because I went to sleep and you are the only living creature I have seen here thus far. But this all feels real and you seem real and-"

"Alice!" he broke her out of her rambling "This isn't real but it feels like I am because we are sharing a dream."

"What? But that is impossible!" Alice's eyes went wide.

"Only if you believe it is dearest." he smiled and led her to the other end of the table. He sat down in his chair and she sat in the one to his right, the one she always sat in at that table and the one which she had sat in when she last visited Underland. But because this was a dream she was the right sized Alice!

"But how can two people share a dream?"

"Well if someone from Underland is thinking about someone in their dream and said person is dreaming about the person from Underland then they will have a dream in which they can be together. But the two people have to feel the same way about each other at that moment in time. It is a tricky business and I am surprised by this whole situation come to think about it." he poured Alice some tea and she accepted it.

"Wait so we must have been thinking of each other in the same way and were both going to sleep at the same time?" she took a sip of tea.

"Yes. It is all very rare that it happens and when it does it is a special thing."

"So you was thinking the same thing as me when you went to sleep?"

"It would seem that I must have been. It would also seem that we both fell asleep at exactly the same and that we were meant to be doing something that was important."

"I know what I need to do now. Thank you Hatter."

"Please call me Tarrant. My real name is Tarrant Hightopp and we have known each other too long and now we have both shared a dream together, so please call me by my true name."

"Alright Tarrant. I truly do miss you."

"And I you Alice. It sounds like it is time for us to wake up and get back to our business." They could hear the sound of people calling their names.

"Fairfarren" Tarrant said before they were both gone.

"Alice wake up."

Alice opened her eyes and saw her only true friend from London and that was Elizabeth. She had met Elizabeth when she had came back from her travels to China. They had met when Alice had been allowed to go into town by herself and they found that they had a lot of things in common. Elizabeth had long brown hair with hint of blonde in it which came down to her waist. It was slightly wavy and she she had a side parting. She had lovely blue eyes and her skin was just as pale as Alice's. She had some light freckles on her face and long black eyelashes. She was a little short for her age and she was just a year younger than Alice. They had bonded over there mutual hatred for corsets and stockings. Elizabeth shared Alice's curiosity and her sense of adventure. In short, she was like another Alice.

"I am sorry Elizabeth I have just been so tired this week."

"Oh I should think you have what with your mother's death, taking over the family estate and looking after young Jennifer." she turned to look at Alice and put a hand on her shoulder.

It had been a long week for Alice. Her mother had died and she had been left the family estate among other things in the will. Her mother had always wanted Alice to live there when she settled down with a family of her own. The day after the funeral Alice's sister Margaret her first born child to Alice. It was a beautiful young girl and had blonde hair and blue eyes. Sadly Margaret and her husband Lowell decided that they didn't want her because she was too much like Alice and they didn't want a child that would be unruly and looked down upon by society. They told Alice that they wanted to put her up for adoption and put her in an orphanage but Alice believed that Lowell was lying for her and her sister's sake and that he was actually going to kill her so she would never try to find them when she grew up. Seeing this Alice told them that she would take her and raise her as her own. She took the child and her sister was grateful. Once out of the room Lowell threatened her and told her that if she told the child the truth, he would kill the both of them. The only other person that knows all of this is Elizabeth.

"I was there. I was there in my dream. I was back at Underland with Hatter. He told me to call him Tarrant. We shared a dream and he misses me just as much as I miss him!"

Alice had told Elizabeth all about Underland and she knew that she could trust her.

"Alice I know you want to go back but you have a life here and you don't know how to go back without the white rabbit. The Ascots had the hole filled in. It may have taken them three days straight but they did it!" they both giggled.

"If I did find a way back would you come with me?"

"Of course I would. I would be honoured to."

"If only there would be a way to get back."

"Fairfarren" Tarrant said before they were both gone.

"Hatter...Hatter...Tarrant Hightopp I order you to wake up!"

"Oh sorry Mirana..."

"Like I was saying you need to get some proper sleep so things like this don't happen!"

"Yes but..."

"None of this is any good for you. We are doing our best to try to create a new hole that will lead to the Kingsleigh estate and then we can send McTwisp up there. It will then be Alice's choice if she decides to return or not."

"But what I am trying to say is that I saw Alice in my dream."

"I know you did Hatter because you always do. She seems to be one of the only things that you dream about."

"No I mean I actually saw her. We shared a dream!"

Mirana's eyes went wide. "But...really!?"

"Yes and she said she missed me and that she knew what she needed to do."

"I will tell McTwisp to send news to everyone involved with the hole that we need to speed up!"

That night Alice went to sleep knowing that Hatter was okay and that Elizabeth would be moving in tomorrow. She had asked her to during tea so if McTwisp did ever come back to help her return to Underland Elizabeth could go with her and Jennifer.