Not-so-Wonderland
A/N: Hmm, half-so response to chapter One, but I suppose it's only fitting seeing as Syfy Alice has only been out about two weeks. Anyway, this story is mostly for me, myself, and I, so I suppose I should be happy. :) Oh, any nonmembers, I allow and encourage anonymous reviews. ALSO, changing the drabble thing to an actual plotted story. It seems more fitting since I can't remember things from the movie as exactly as I could when I started writing. By the way, anyone know exactly where Alice lives in the movie? I don't remember it saying.
Disclaimer: Haven't seen Alice in Wonderland in forever, forgive my errors. I use them to my advantage.
I gazed silently out over the active, bustling but dull London landscape. Why Alice loves this place so much, I'll never know, but she does. Sighing heavily, I unlocked the door to our little apartment and entered, smiling gently when I saw her reading by the warm light of a little lamp. Alice in Wonderland. When I closed the door, she looked up, and made a noise of interruption when I moved to put my hat on the hook by the door.
"Keep it on, please," she grinned. Rolling my eyes but obeying her, as I did everything, I move over to the chair. "How was your day?" she asked as I leaned in, silencing her with a kiss.
Setting her book aside as I sat down on the couch next to her, I sighed, "All right. I didn't get the job, though."
"There aren't very many tea shops that need employees, I guess," Alice murmured, watching my face carefully.
I nod absentmindedly, glancing around the room listlessly for several more moments, covering her hand with my larger one. Alice watched me closely again, pressing her lips gently against mine before saying, "You're not happy."
"No, I am," I defend, but it's halfhearted and she can tell. She pursed her lips and gave me that "I'm-so-mad-at-you" look that just made me want to kiss her again, but I resisted, seeing that's not what she wanted now.
It's not that I'm not happy with her. Alice has proven to be… fantastic, in so many ways, more so than I ever saw even back home.
Wonderland… It's still home, even if I play at being in a happy home here in Alice's world. It can never be my world. My world, the colors are more vivid, richer, brighter. My world, you don't have mundane, bare technology, my world, there is fantastic alongside the throwbacks of a previous time. My world, the world isn't limited. My world, I am at home. That's the most I can put into words;
"Is it me?" Alice asked softly, bringing me back to the here and now. My head snapped around, and I met her blue eyes.
"Alice, it could never be you."
She bit her lip, blue eyes searching my brown, and finally stood up. "You need a vacation, Hatter."
"To where?" I called as she walked to the door, tugging my hand gently before dropping it and putting on her coat. I stood up and followed, jogging to catch up.
There was a strong urge to gag in the night air… The smell of automobiles was so strong, the odor of gasoline and smog so heavy. That was another thing about my world, the air was clean and pure and easy-to-breath.
I caught my breath when I realized where she was going. Grabbing her arm and spinning her around, I shook my head. "No, Alice! You won't go back with me, so why would I ever want to go back?" Because that's where you belong, that voice in my head chided, but I pushed it away.
"You can't be at home here until you say goodbye to your home there," Alice murmured, pulling us together and looking up at me, her face in that pouty you-know-I'm-right look all girls have.
I roll my lips, studying her before nodding, more willingly than I would have liked. If only I had the willpower to say no to things like this… However, ever since I laid eyes on Alice I've been wrapped around her finger, and there's no going back, even if I wanted to.
So, we share a kiss goodbye, and I whisper to her, "Three days, in there."
"About an hour and a half, then," Alice laughed.
I smiled faintly, and walked to the Looking-glass. I fell through easily, slipping into that other world.
My world.