A/N: So I put chapters together and edited them to make them better and longer yay!
Boys and A Jabberwocky
"Why does everyone insist upon shouting my name today?"
" Alice you must hurry! It's the Queen!"
"What's wrong with the Queen?" I said looking down wordily at the White Rabbit. "Did she try beheading herself again?"
"No, no, she's been listening to herself ever since that fiasco! She was playing croquet with the White Knight, and oh, well, I can't say it! You need to see it!" The White Rabbit grabbed my hand and dragged me through the maze. We came to an opening in the hedges. The Rabbit pointed for me to go in.
"Aren't you coming?" I said tapping my foot.
"Oh no, no, no, no, I can't! It'llget me too!" I rolled my eyes and walked in. After three steps I froze. I'd heard about it through out Wonderland. I never thought that it was real. Just a story the Cheshire cat told to scare some of the more gullible inhabitants of Wonderland. The Jabberwocky! It had coiled itself around the Queen's feet. He was asleep. I crept over and waved a hand in front of the Queen's face. It was clear that the Jabberwocky had bitten her. She was frozen in time.
I began to walk back to the Whit Rabbit to tell him what was going on. That's when the hedges around me started to sway and melt together. I fell to my knees; one hand holding my head and the other supporting myself from falling.
"No, I can't go back yet I can't . . ." Not being strong enough to hold me weight I collapsed. My body returned to the real world. My eyes fluttered open and I saw my mother and sister hovering over me.
"Oh my, Alice is you alright?" My mother said. She must have thought I had gone completely carrot top.
"Yes mother. I'm fine."
"Are you sure, Alice, because one moment we looked over here and saw nothing. Then heard a thud and then we looked back and saw you!" My sister said breathlessly. I was tempted to ask her why she was worried, but then thought better of it.
"No, really, I just got a little dizzy and fell over that's all." I said standing up. My knees buckled a little. I put my hand on my sister's shoulder for support. I quickly drew it away remembering that it was her. I looked at my mother,
"Yes I've taken my medicine, and no I haven't been drinking." She looked at me mouth half agape.
"How did you know what I was going to say?"
"Because mother, that's what you always say." I said, looking at her quite defiantly. She merely nodded and went back to afternoon tea with Abigail. I looked over at the stove and read the clock. 2:43 PM.
'I was gone for that long? Hmmm . . . my trips to Wonderland seem shorter there but longer here. Something's going on and I think I should find out soon before the Jabberwocky freezes everything in Wonderland.'
" Alice, would you like to join us for tea?" Abigail said sweetly. I could tell that this was the last thing she wanted me to do. I shook my head.
"I'm going out for a walk. I'll be back when I feel like it." My mother stood up in protest, but I just walked past her and out the door.
I made my way to the local connivance store. I knew the clerk; he had been fond of my family ever since my Father died. He smiled and waved slightly. I nodded to show acknowledgement. I went to the back and took out a bottle of mead; then went to the front to pay. I went for my money, but the clerk just waved his hand.
"Your mother was in here the other day. She says that you have been having a hard time with your medicine lately; so this one is on me." He smiled and rang it up. I nodded and walked out bottle in hand. I turned the street corner and saw boys from school. 'What fun!' I thought, 'an encounter from the narcotic Nancy tribe . . . oh wait I'm British! WHY DO I KEEP THINKING I'M ITALIAN?'
Jonathan came over to me and put his arm around my waist. I sighed in relief realizing it was only Johnny and his friends. I could bear them. Johnny was at least 6 feet tall and maybe 150 lbs. He was taller than I was. His hair was short and spiky on top a little longer on the back. All died blue black to match mine. He kissed my cheek and took a swing from the bottle in my hand.
"So Alice how's Wonderland?" Johnny was the only person, other than my family, who knew about Wonderland. Unlike my family Johnny believed me. Once he traveled with me; which was very odd. The Mad Hatter and the March Hair thought that he was my boyfriend when I brought him to our un-birthday party.
"Not so good Johnny." I sighed and rested my head on his shoulder as we walked over to his friends.
"Here let's talk about it in a more private area." He made a motion to his friends; signaling that he and I needed to talk alone. Either that or not to do anything stupid without him; I smiled this was the Johnny I knew and loved . . . in a non-romantic situation of course. We walked into a near by alley and I leaned up against the wall. He put one hand above my head and looked me dead in the eye.
"It's the Jabberwocky
"The who-err-wonky?"
"No, the Jabberwocky! I thought that he . . . no excuse me it was just a story that the Cheshire cat told to scare people, but I guess it's real."
"Well how do you know that's what's going down in Wonderland?"
"It froze the Queen of Hearts right in the middle of a croquet game."
"Hmmm." Johnny had his thinking face on it's so cute when he tries to think . . . I mean umm . . . stupid and manly . . . just get back to the story. "Well I guess it's time you take me back to Wonderland."
"WHAT?" I sputtered a little. Trying to swallow down the swing of mead I had attempted to drink; before Johnny did his whole "thinking" routine.
"Johnny, NO! It's bad enough that I took you to Wonderland once. We don't know what will happen if the both of us go. Remember, we almost had to share your body because something went wrong when the both of us came back at the same time."
" Alice you can't fight the Jabber-thingy-"
"JABBERWOCKY!"
"Ok, whatever but you can't fight it alone and if you try and it bites you what do you think'll happen? You'll just come back fine and dandy? I'm sorry but that's the incorrect answer please try again." I sighed and looked at him.
"You know there's a chance that once we're both in Wonderland. Neither of our judgment will be all that great. Well for this world anyways . . . oh . . . you know what I mean!" He smiled and nodded. He loved to see me flustered.
"Fine just let me say goodbye to the guys. If I leave without telling them they think I've been abducted by aliens."
"So, I take it they've gotten stupider since last time I saw them." He nodded and walked back over to his friends. Amongst the whispers I heard a few catcalls and whistles. Being used to it I rolled my eyes. 'Boys are icky throw rocks at them! They really have gotten dumber if they think that Johnny and I are . . . WELL THEY'VE GOTTEN DUMBER!' Johnny walked back over and I looked at him.
"So are your friends being total idiots?"
"As usual."
"Well, come on. We had better get back to my house before the Jabberwocky gets everyone in Wonderland."
"Lead the way. Go ask Alice when she is just small, when the men on the chess board get up and tell you where to go . . ." He continued singing and I just rolled my eyes. We walked back to my house in silence arms linked my head resting on Johnny's shoulder. We reached the door and heard loud screaming and furniture crashing. I opened the door, and saw my mother and sister standing on chairs. They were screaming and throwing things down at a black streak on the floor. The streak was moving fast after a little gray thing that I couldn't quite make out. Until it ran into my legs; a little gray rat was sitting on the tops of my boots. He looked horrified as Dinah crouched down preparing to pounce on the poor little thing. Dinah took a few steps and slowly crept forward. She was almost going to pounce when I picked the poor little rat up off of my feet and looked at it.
"I won't let Dinah eat you. Only on the grounds that you've scared the shit out of my mother and sister." I smiled at it and set it down outside of the door. I smiled cruelly at my mother and sister. "Mom, Johnny and I are going to my room." I looked at my sister, "If you bother us I will kill you." I smiled coldly and took Johnny up to my room. We walked in and I closed and locked the door behind him. He sat down lazily on my bed.
