So I had this chapter finished this morning, but then fanfiction was down for maintenance or something so I couldn't post it till now.
Disclaimer: I do not own Agent Carter, only Alice.
Peggy was disappointed, Howard was now wanted by the SSR. Which wasn't good considering Alice showed up at his house randomly in the night, from some other world.
The future. From the future.
Peggy was getting ready for work while drinking her tea as Alice sat beside the window with her teddy.
"I have to go to work today," Peggy said to the child who refused to talk. It wasn't an odd occurrence anymore, Peggy and her roommate Colleen had grown used to it, along with Anna Jarvis who often babysat for Peggy.
Although Anna didn't know Peggy personally, Howard had told her about Alice and she agreed. Peggy would bring Alice to Howard's mansion gates and Anna would come get her.
When Colleen came in the two talked about how the veterans were taking jobs from the women before Peggy left with Alice trailing behind her.
When they got onto the street, Peggy took Alice's hand.
"Come on, we don't have all day," Peggy said. Alice seemed not to be happy about this as she tried to stay on pace with Peggy. It didn't work though so she stopped, which halted Peggy. "Alice, we need to get going,"
The child didn't move though, just stared up at Peggy. Sighing, Peggy picked up the girl and carried her to the taxi that had stopped for them.
"Stark Manor," she said to the driver as she leaned back with Alice holding bear to the window as though it could see out.
When they got there Peggy got out and brought Alice to the gates where Anna was waiting.
"Thank you so much," Peggy said with a smile as Alice walked over to Anna.
"We have fun, don't we?" Anna said with a smile down at Alice. Alice didn't do anything though as she looked down at the ground.
Inside Anna and Jarvis's home was a piano, it wasn't a very pretty piano. It was beat up with peeling paint, dents, and chipped keys. Everyday though Alice walked over to the piano and touched the keys, it was a piano after all.
She never pressed a key down, she couldn't do that. Alice knew she wasn't to say anything, not to make a sound. That is what her Uncle said before sending her here. She was to be a good girl, good Alice.
Anna would let her go outside to play in the garden. Once in a while, Howard would come out and see what she was up to. Alice never said anything, but Howard had a big enough imagination of his own.
"What are you doing today?" He'd say as she walked around on the grass in her Mary Jane's and knee high socks. "Trying to find wonderland?"
He called her Alice from Wonderland, a place that nobody knew existed and one day she just appeared. Although she wasn't blonde, Howard said that it worked and not to question it.
Today he didn't come though, and Alice was left to search for her white rabbit, alone.
"Jarvis Residence," Anna said into the phone as it rang late that night. Jarvis was in the sitting room with Alice, trying to teach her how to play chess. The girl was insistent that the horse must be on the wrong side of the board, or that the pieces needed to be messed up.
"Anna, its Peggy… I cannot come pick Alice up something has come up," Peggy said through the phone.
"Peggy, what's wrong?" Anna asked.
"I just got home and it seems as though my roommate has been killed…" Anna instantly felt for Peggy. Many of the people she used to know had been killed too.
"I'll watch her, take as long as you need," Anna said.
After the two hung up she walked to the sitting room where Jarvis and Alice were now looking at a Winnie the Pooh book.
"Alice, you'll be staying here the night," Anna said with a tight smile as she leaned over and picked up the child, making sure that she also had bear. "What do you say? Want to get ready for bed?"
Alice nodded although it seemed as though she wasn't completely sure what was going on. Whatever it was though, she didn't know whether or not she liked it.
Peggy looked around the room. She got everything that was either hers or Alice's, and some of Colleen's thing packed up. Jarvis had put it in the car, and she looked around at everything. It was odd, the place was cleared out which was something Peggy wasn't used to.
She'd miss this place but knew it was for the better that they left. She couldn't be somewhere where her friend was killed, and wasn't going to subject Alice to that either.
She walked out and saw that Jarvis had left, as he said he was to get something ready, but Alice was sitting on the steps with bear.
"Hello," Peggy said as she stood beside the child and looked down at her. Alice looked up with large eyes. "It seems we are going to need to find a new home," Peggy continued as she held out a hand to the child.
Alice took her hand and they started down the road towards L&L Automat. She walked slower so the child could keep up. After about a block, Alice stopped and looked up at her.
"You need to walk further," Peggy said to the child but picked her up none the less. "Mummy is tired too you know. She doesn't want to carry you everywhere," Peggy frowned at herself. Alice was not her child, she was not the child's mother.
When they got to the restaurant Peggy grabbed a newspaper before going and sitting at the usual table. Alice sat across from her with wide eyes and bear in her arms.
"The usual?" Peggy looked up to see Angie.
"Hi Angie, yes please," Peggy said with a smile.
"What does Alice want?" Angie asked as she looked down at the girl with a smile. Alice looked over at Peggy.
"Milk and something soft like a sandwich," Peggy answered.
"Be back in a jiffy," Angie said with a smile. Peggy nodded and Alice kicked her legs a bit as she waited.
A few minutes later Angie came back with the requested items before sitting down next to Alice.
"You moving?" she asked. That sparked a conversation between the two adults as Alice watched on.
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