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( Before we start I would just like to say I am new to this website and if you have a hard time imagining some things I have put some things in bold to help, please review, I like others ideas and I am open to them so let us start. After 3 years in trade Alice returned to Underland and became part of the queen's court, I am going to make a story about that later, but she would wed Tarrant and then have a child herself and this is story is about her mainly)

Chapter 1: Dress Problems

Life was perfect for a miss Annabella Hightopp, great friends, great family and being born with her mothers curiousness, her fathers imagination and the fact of living in a place like Underland, every day was a new adventure for her. But the greatest adventure for her would be in a very different location.

12 year old Annabella woke up this morning with a most chipper of faces that might just give envy to her Uncle Chess. That was because today was actually when she was to see him as well as Uncle Thackery, Aunt Mally, and the Tweedles for a tea party, down by Thackeray's windmill. Annabella lived in the white castle with her mother, father, her friend Lily and her mother the White Queen. Mother was the queens champion, friend, and most trusted advisory. Father was the royal hatter and one of her other advisers.

Annabella did indeed love the white castle and the people inside it. In fact the queen was her godmother and Lily, who was just two years younger than her, was her best friend, but even though Annabella admired the kindness and sweetness of her godmother, her visits to her fathers friends were always fun and mad that you never knew what someone would say or do and if their was one thing Annabella loved was things that were fun, creative and just well, mad. Hey she is the mad hatter's daughter right. With a yawn, little Anna hopped out of the bed and clumsy walked toward the wardrobe while blinking, trying to get the sleep out of both her legs and eyes. Now fully awake she opened the wardrobe door and picked out a green and purple hatter dress. Anna had two types of dresses her hatter dresses and old home dresses. Her old home dresses were long so that they reaches her ankles and usually had lots of lace on them. (Imagine something like the women at the engagement party in beginning of the movie would wear) she called them that because her mother said women from her old home would wear them. Her hatter dresses were puffy like the old home dresses were but shorter and would reach to her knees or a few inches lower than that, always colorful and always had a matching headband with a mini top hat on top. (Imagine something similar to the Madeline Hatter dress from Ever After High) Anna gave them their name because her father said that girls from the Hightopp hatter clan would wear them. Annabella usually preferred them over the old home ones because they seemed to have more energy to them and made it easier to run or walk. Annabella decided on a hatter dress with dark green bodice with matching stockings with a dark purple skirt and short sleeves. She slipped on her dark green flat shoes, smoothed the small gold buttons on her skirt and put on the matching gold, green, and purple hat headband. Annabella went to her gold vanity and tried to brush her hair. Annabella had thick, curly red hair that reached past her shoulders with a slight trace of blonde in it. (If you are having a hard time imagining what she would look like, imagine Felicity from the Felicity:American Girl Adventure). With one more look of herself with emerald eyes shining, Anna hopped up and reached toward the door. But before she could turn the doorknob, it turned on it's own, the door opened to find her father on the other side. He seemed to have a dim and grayish tone to his usually bright eyes. The hatter looked up at her with a small smile that slowly dimmed back down.

"Daddy is everything alright" said Annabella.

"Oh yes dear I'm fine" the madman said to his daughter.

"Well if you are sure, is mommy ready so we can go to the tea party"?

Actually the tea party is going to be here and our friends should be here momentarily".

Anna's eyes lit up "really".

"Yes but for today,could you wear one of your longer dresses ?"

"Oh okay".

"Thank you dear".

Her father left her to change into something else and as Annabella went back towards the wardrobe she couldn't help but feel upset over it, but why did it bother her so much, it was just a dress, but why would her father who usually loved seeing his daughter in a hatter dress rather than an old home dress, want her to change. But it was just a dress after all so she tried to shrug it off as she slipped on a pale yellow old home dress with a floral pattern embroidered on the bodice, slipped on matching gloves and stockings and a pale yellow sun hat with a ribbon to tie under the chin with fake flowers sew on to the side. (look up victorian era sunhat on google images for a better idea of how it would look) Then put on some white shoes then slipped outside her room to the hall.

Hatter POV

When he walked into the room to see his little girl in one of what she called a hatter dress, he couldn't help but smile, she looked so much like her mother yet still reminded him of himself but mostly a lot of his little sister, Maggie was such a sweet soul yet still knew how to get into just enough trouble. She did not deserve to have her life cut so short, but when he saw Annabella with her face in utter happiness, or whenever she got into trouble but still managed to come out clean or even when she just wore a hatter dress, he knew that his sister's spirit lived in Anna. That was why he hated telling her to change, Anna did like the other dresses but she always seemed the more spirited in the hatter dresses plus he didn't want Anna to think she disappointed him over it, but it was one of those few days in the year that Alice needed his help and if having all of her friends together and seeing her daughter in that dress would work, it was worth it, he just hoped the plan would work.

"Tarrant"

The hatter turned around and their before him was the White Queen

"Mirana" said the hatter trying to rid himself of the shock, "How is she"?

The queen gave a small smile, "still depressed, but I'm sure this will cheer her up"

"I sure hope so, but I'm more concerned on if Annabella will suspect anything, she is quite clever for her age"

The queen shrugged her hand, "Anna and Lily will be too caught up in riddles and rhymes to notice the true reason for this party".

"I do hope so Mirana for both her and Alice's sake"