Alice wasn't sure where or when she was. Her vision kept slipping in and out. She could hear shouting but nothing she could understand. Her whole body was in a numb trance. She couldn't tell if her eyes were open or shut. She didn't know if she was dreaming or awake. She started to feel warm and an old memory popped into her head, clear as the day it happened.

Hatter was lying next to her naked and panting. They were in bed on the last day of their Wonderland honeymoon. He turned his head to her and remarked that she was going to kill him one day with her wild stamina. She had laughed through her own deep breaths.

"Doctor, she's going into shock."

Alice was sure that was the night she got pregnant. They had run out of condoms earlier that morning and Wonderland didn't sell them. Hatter said that Wonderland women only get pregnant if and when they want to. This was a luxury Alice didn't have but that day she didn't care. The only reason they ate anything that day was to keep their energy up. If it had been up to Alice they would have stayed in bed until they hadn't a breath left.

"We need to get the baby out of her. I will not lose both of them."

Alice had woken up on their last night in Wonderland to discover a pudgy cat curled up on her stomach. It was purring and also fast asleep. She wasn't sure but by the looks of it she guessed it to be the Cheshire Cat. She didn't mind it there and it seemed so happy. She stroked its back until she fell back into her slumber.

The next morning Alice awoke to find Hatter, still naked, chasing the cat around the room with broom. He was yelling trying to shoo it out a window. The cat just tumbled through the air smiling at him, mocking him. It started speaking in riddles as it avoided the broom only making Hatter angrier. It disappeared a moment and then reappeared on Hatter's head. It looked down at him with its wicked grin and asked him where he got so much Wonderland blood. The cat said he had never seen anyone less than royalty with powerful blood like his.

"Oh dear God, look at it. That's why it's killing her."

Hatter swatted the cat off his head and forced it out the window. Before he slammed the pane closed the cat looked to Alice and said something about how privacy was such a vital thing. Once the cat was gone Hatter stomped to the bathroom mumbling about being safe from flying, psychotic cats in New York.

"Wait, why doesn't it have an umbilical cord?"

Alice asked Hatter what that little display was all about later that week as they settled back in to their apartment. Hatter waved his hand and told her not to worry about the babble of a Wonderland cat. While the Cheshire Cat was the oldest creature in Wonderland it was also the maddest by far. He did also note that he had never seen the Cheshire behave as it did. Acting like a normal cat and sleep on people was something it was very opposed to and being pet or scratched was also something it despised. Alice had used that moment to ask Hatter if they should get a cat for the apartment. Hatter chuckles and decreed that the last thing their apartment needed was another creature bounding around.

"She's crashing, doctor. She's got too much internal bleeding."

A few weeks later, Alice was sitting in the doctor's office staring at an ultrasound machine. The doctor had been looking for the baby for a while now. They knew she was pregnant but he just couldn't find the baby on the screen. The doctor mused that the baby might be invisible.

"Sew her up the best you can. Steve, why is your nose bleeding?"

Up until the last days of her pregnancy no one could locate the baby in her body. Alice's stomach was enormous and she had been ordered to bed rest weeks ago. Hatter looked like he would eat his hat at any moment because between not working, being idle, and being wildly uncomfortable Alice was not fun to be around most of the time.

Alice felt her body go cold. Her mind went blank instantly. She felt like she was falling but there was no way to catch herself.

"Her heart stopped."

Alice felt a pressure on her chest and something screamed in the distance. The scream rattled Alice to her core and her lungs gasped for air. Her heart lurched under the pressure. She felt something grip her big toe gently and then everything went black.

A/N: Thank you for all the reviews and everyone reading. Very intense few chapters, eh? I have BIG plan for this story and I hope you guys stick around and enjoy the ride. As always, thanks again and see you next chapter!