A/N: Thank you to the readers who have shown interest in this story! I'm glad you liked the first chapter and hope you will enjoy the second chapter as well. Chapter 3 will be posted very very soon!

-sevenimpossiblethings

P.S. There seems to be a little glitch with the fanfiction images that cause story covers to show up sometimes and other times not. I'm not sure when fanfiction will be fixing this, but I apologize if the story cover is not visible sometimes!

Chapter 2

"Alice is back!"

I smiled at the warm greeting that sounded from the tea table. After leaving the Queen of Heart's castle, a day of traveling and constantly looking behind our shoulders for the queen's guards, I was glad to be among those who I could trust. "My friends! I've missed you so much!"

I ran to embrace the March hare and Hatter, whom I was so glad to see. I settled on giving Ches the cat a pat on the head, for he was quite hard to hug in his transparent state and I shook the dormouse's little paw with my pinkie finger.

"You're just in time for tea!" the dormouse exclaimed.

"Have you got it just how I like it?"

"Extra cream and four sugars?"

"Perfect!"

"That's an awful lot of sugar." I turned to see Jefferson, who had come to stand beside me, with an amused grin on his face.

"Well, I like my tea sweet."

Hatter leapt onto the table. "Oh Alice! We are so so glad you've returned to Wonderland. I remember when you were just a little girl, big as my thumb."

"I remember being a bit bigger than that, Hatter. And my dear Hatter, I must ask a favor of you."

"Anything, Alice."

"Jefferson here," I gestured towards him, "Well, he needs a hat, a magical hat."

"A portal jumping hat, to help me get home," Jefferson clarified.

"A portal jumping hat…" Hatter mumbled to himself while Jefferson glanced at me as if to ask, I thought you said he would be able to make this hat?

I shrugged to answer him as if I was saying back, Give him a moment to think!

Hatter finally turned back around. "I can make the hat," he said decisively, "But the magic, well, you'll have to go the White Queen for that."

"How far is this White Queen?" Jefferson asked.

"Just down the road to the north and a day's journey."

Jefferson turned to me. "Alice? Are you coming?"

I grinned. Of course I was, it was an adventure.

"So what kind of magic do you think the White Queen will give us?"

Jefferson shrugged. "No idea, I just know I need to get home."

"Tell me about it."

"About what?"

I smiled and repeated myself. "Home, tell me about your home. You're always talking about it."

"Well, it's a little cottage in the woods of the Enchanted Forest. Not much really, but it's home."

"I'm sure it's lovely. Otherwise, you wouldn't miss it so much," I remarked lightly.

He stopped walking. "Look, I never properly thanked you for everything."

"Oh, that's alright," I remarked casually. "You get home, and I get an adventure. It's what I wanted anyways."

"So, what happens after this great adventure?"

"I don't know."