A/N: 1

It's me!

I couldn't resist and put it up as soon as i was finished!, Hope you like this one! And you might notice that the rabbit is in this quite a lot but don't worry the rabbit will remain a rabbit, he's only leading Alice too the places she needs to reach...

Anyhow...Go back to the story...ENJOY!

Warnings: Alice is kind of occ and Jasper is too sort of. AU, but luckily not all human.

PS: Thanks to my new beta ILeftMyHeartWithYou.

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Chapter 2

Mystifying Illusion

Alice.

I zigzagged through the large hedge maze, searching, for what exactly? I had absolutely no idea. But i was running, and suddenly a familiar face appeared in front of me.

"You!" i cried, pointing at him. He smirked at me, lounging lazily against the side of the large hedge.

"Yes, Me" He mocked me, his smirk widening. I frowned up at him, now that i was back to my usual size, i was the one that had too look up at him.

"You don't have to be rude" I shot back snootily. He stared strangely at me for a moment before his lips twitched into a grin, it was not unlike the one the Cheshire had been sporting, only hours ago.

I had decided to call the cat Cheshire, on a whim of course. I couldn't just call it the cat all the time could i?,

No, because that would be awfully rude!.

"why do you act so old?" the blonde man asked, his eyes flashing a scarlet red. I didn't even flinch at the colour anymore, i just felt so at ease around him. I wonder if he had that effect on everybody?

"What?" i frowned. I didn't act old, I just acted the way mother had taught me to. She said that was how a dignified woman acts.

"He Means" came the voice of the Cheshire, whom was staring at me from where he had appeared on the blonde man's shoulder, his twitchy, gray eyes flicking from me to the blonde man.

"That you act as if you are an old woman, you always seem so... serious" he spat the last word out as if it was very distasteful and horrible for him to even think let alone speak it aloud.

"How do you know that?" i asked suspiciously, i had only run into them twice, this being the second time. The Cheshire's eyes widened quite comically and he started to fade away quickly.

"See you later-" he sputtered out, before he disappeared completely. The man sighed running a large, pale white hand over his face tiredly.

"Who are you?" i asked again, for the second time today. Only this time the man didn't go all weird on me. Instead he gave me a grin and walked forward a few steps, his gate, which i noticed was much like a cheetah's or even a Tiger.

"Jasper." He purred lightly. "And what might your name be ?"

"Alice" i smiled and stepped forward to curtsy, exactly the way mother had taught me to do. As i lifted from my slightly wobbly curtsy, i noticed the amused look that had spread across Jasper's face as he let out a slight chuckle.

"What?" i snapped irritably, trying not to stomp my foot in anger. He better not be laughing at my curtsy!

He stared at me for a long minute, before i started to shift under his intense gaze and he snapped out of it, while blinking quite rapidly.

"You intrigue me" He murmured , as he walked forward to graze a hand stroking softly down my cheek, and to my surprise, I leant into his ice cold palm, not once flinching at the temperature. It actually felt quite Nice against my flushed skin.

We stared at one another, his scarlet eyes boring into my Brown ones. i smiled up at him, not completely sure why i was doing it, but i felt compelled, as if he wanted me too.

"Hah-Hem" a high feminine voice cleared her throat loudly and we both spun around, my mouth dropping open in a very un-ladylike way. The woman i had turned to see, was stunningly beautiful, but she had an air of kindness about her, She looked around Jasper's age, maybe even a little older.

"Hi Bella" Jasper greeted the woman, standing slightly in front of me, protective as he scanned her up and down. Bella rolled her strange gold -brown eyes and crossed her arms over her chest.

"Have some faith, jasper" she chided him. "I'm not going to do anything, I'm not like that you know"

He sighed. "Yeah i know Bella."

Bella switched her attention to me and smiled warmly.

"Hi, sweetie" she cooed. "and who might you be?" she asked.

A smiled took over my face and to my surprise i skipped out from behind Jasper and skidding to a stop in front of her. I just felt very at ease around her. She had this very friendly aura around her.

"Hi Bella" i chirped, noting the surprise on her face. "I'm Alice."

"H-How do you know my name?" She stuttered. I frowned, wrinkling my nose in confusion.

"I heard you talking, and Jasper called you Bella" I explained, worrying if that was a bad thing, both of their eyes widened at my sentence.

"You heard us?" Jasper asked incredulously. I nodded a small smile creeping back onto my face.

"Yep!, why what's wrong?" I asked, noticing the dumbfounded looks plastered across both of their stunningly beautiful faces.

"Nothing" Bella managed to choke out, and then she turned towards Jasper, and reaching out to grasp his arm.

A wave of jealousy spread through me, I actually felt like shouting 'He's mine' To her. I do not know why i was so possessive over Jasper, i didn't even really know him yet. But i felt as if he belonged to me and me only!.

"We need to go!" she whispered to him, urgently. He casted a glance back at me, before turning to nod at her.

He turned to me and i frowned, knowing that there was definitely a sad look sitting in my features.

"You have to go" I said sadly, motioning to Bella. He managed to almost hide his look of surprise from me and nodded.

"I do" was he said.

"Bye" i waved to him, noticing him starting to back away, along side with Bella. He quickly waved back and Bella threw me a quick smile before they were both gone, too fast for my eyes to catch.

"See you soon" i called after them, knowing that i would at least, see Jasper again soon.

My head cocked to the side as i thought about their speed and beauty. How peculiar. I thought to myself. Whatever Bella and Jasper were, they certainly were not human, well, not like me at least.

The familiar pitter, patter of tiny feet came from behind me. And i turned to see who i had been looking to find from the start.

"I'm so very Late now!" The white rabbit rushed past me, wailing from the top of his lungs and staring at that same pocket watch. I stared curiously after him for a moment, before deciding to follow him.

It's not like Jasper would be back anytime soon, and I had to do something in the meantime.

I don't know how i could tell about Jasper not returning for a while. but I could strangely feel it, deep down in my bones.

It was a very curious feeling!.

" Mr. Rabbit?" I called after him, but he kept running all the while yelling out the same things over and over.

"The duchess will be so mad that I'm Late!"

"so Late!"

"Must Hurry!"

"Wait!" i shouted after him, starting to follow, trotting as fast as i could, all the while trying not to trip over the many tangled and snarled roots lying about the floor.

"Mr. Rabbit, Wait!"...

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A/N 2: Hi guys! Again...

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