Chapter 2

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I felt myself fall onto something soft and bouncy. I opened my eyes to find three children staring back at me.

"Is it an alien?"

"No it's a bird" I raised my eyebrows. A bird.

"Shut up the lot of you, it's a boy"

"A boy?" the other two children said in unison.

I got up and they all backed off quickly as if I was going to kill them.

"Its ok, I wont hurt you" I explained but they ran off.

I sat back down and looked around. The garden was full of beautiful flowers that were fast asleep and rocking horseflies. It was just like my dream. This must be the White Queen's garden.

"Curiouser and curiouser" I stood up and headed towards the White Castle.

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Tarrant POV

"Why is a raven like a writing desk?" I asked to no-one personally.

"Hatter!" Someone called me.

"Hatter" Or more than one. I looked up to see the three orphans of the White Queen run through the tree's towards the table.

"What heavens is the matter?"

"An alien landed in the garden of the White Castle" little Anne exclaimed.

"Really? And what did this alien look like?"

"Well…it had blonde hair that hung to here" She pointed to her waist. I furrowed my eyebrows, she couldn't be talking about…Alice. Could she?

"And blue eyes, and a blue dress"

My eyes widened in shock as I realised she was talking about Alice. My Alice. "Really, well where was this alien?"

"In the White Castle garden"

"Well I'll go check it out ok?"

"Ok"

I stood up and put my hat on my head before heading towards the garden so fast I thought my head was going to fall off it hurt so much.

Alice POV

"How doth the little crocodile improve his shining tail, and pour the waters of the Nile on every golden scale. How cheerfully he spreads his grin and neatly spreads his claws and welcomes little fishes in with gently smiling jaws"

I smiled at the fact that I remembered the poem from so long ago. The gardens certainly hadn't changed. I was just about to head up to the castle itself when I was interrupted by a voice I knew anywhere.

"And who might you be? Sneaking around the castle gardens?" The grinning cat appeared in front of Alice looking slightly annoyed as usual.

"Its Alice, Cheshire." I looked at the grinning cat and couldn't help but laugh myself. It had been so long since I saw a smile on a cat.

"Thee Alice?"

"Yes"

"What did you say brings you back to Underland?" he yawned and rested on a nearby tree.

"Well I sort of had a fallout with my mother"

"Wrong!"

I looked confused and then realised that I hadn't said why I came back to begin with. "Oh I thought you meant.."

"If I meant it I would have said it" he interrupted me.

Just as I was about to reply we were interrupted by a White Guard.

"Well well well, what do we have here?" he asked.

Cheshire disappeared and left only but a puff of smoke. Great I was alone.

"I'm sorry to say but the gardens are out of bounds to those who arent invited therefore I will have to take you in"

"In where"

I didn't get an answer, instead I was marched through the gardens and into the castle. We walked up the corridor and through a very narrow passageway and stopped in front of a very obscure door.

"The queen is in there, good luck" And with that the guard was gone.

I knocked for politeness and when I heard a faint come in I walked through the door.

The White Queen was facing away from me therefore didn't know who I was.

"Why were you in my garden without permission?" She asked with a hint of anger in her tone. I was a little scared at first but then I decided that when he saw me she wouldn't be so hard so I answered her question truthfully.

"I landed there when I drank the Jabberwocky blood, your majesty."

Just as I thought the queen turned her head around and smiled at me.

"Alice, our champion! You have returned. Why is this?" She sat down and gestured me to sit next to her and so I did.

"Well mother and I had a fallout"

"Dear that cannot be a good thing"

"No its not"

"And what was the reason behind this bad thing?"

" She accepted a mans proposal without my consent"

When I said this the White Queen's face went from a smiling gentle face to a sour upset face. "Oh dear that is bad"

"I refused of course, I wasn't marrying him"

The queen looked up at me again.

"Do you have someone else in mind my dear?"

"Yes, sort of but I don't know if he loves me back in the same way I love him"

She cocked her eyebrow in annoyance. "Well who is he?"

I took a deep breath and said it out loud for the first time. "I'm in love with Tarrant"

Yes, I'm in love with a Mad Hatter.

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