Chapter 2: Time to Try
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2010 – USA

it had been 21 years since Lily and John found that baby girl in the bushes, and while they had passed on they continued to watch their daughter from the spirit world. Samantha had grown up into a nice young woman. She didn't make many waves at the office where she worked, her mouth and temper tended to get her into trouble so she usually tried to shut up. Samantha knew that she was adopted, but not the strange circumstances under which she was found. Even when her parents died from the swine flu last year, they never told her.
"Hey slut!" Samantha's office friend Jamie came up to her cubicle, "bunch of us are heading to Karma tonight, celebrating Ken's finally leaving, you in?"
"Yeah, what time are we going?"
"The party bus can come get you at 11, does that work for you?"
"Sure, and no one makes fun of my hat this time, ok?"
Jamie laughed.
"I'm serious skank, don't diss the hat." Samantha playfully hit her.
"Okay okay, no one will diss the hat I promise."

Underland – 25 years after Iracebeth's defeat

Although Iracebeth and Stayne were still banished, Mirana allowed them to be unchained as long as they remained in the Outlands. Of course they had a couple spies in the White Queen's court, just to make sure they were still aware of what was going on. According to their spies: Alice had returned to start a family with Tarrant, Mirana still had no suitor, Iracebeth's head alchemist was offered a job in Mirana's court, yet other than that things remained the same. Iracebeth constantly thought about her daughter Samantha, Honikular was nice enough to give her a small mirror that allowed her to watch her daughter grow up. While she was not a maternal person by any means, part of Iracebeth's heart broke as she watched these Overworlders raise her child. Stayne returned from hunting to find her crying by the fireplace of their shanty cabin. He still didn't like her, but he did feel an obligation to protect her.
"Iracebeth, what's the matter?" he sat down next to her.
"Oh Ilosovic, I just am feeling envious. Part of me wishes I could be raising my daughter myself, but then I look at the woman she's become and then I don't know whether to be happy or not. I may be a mean and heartless person, but she is still my flesh and blood."
"My lady, you did what you needed to do so she would survive. However if it helps any, there may be reason for her to return to Underland."
Iracebeth turned from the fire to face him, "What do you mean Knave?"
"I mean our spies have informed me that Mirana is sick, and according to the Underland law, an unbanished relative is the only one who may take the throne. This means that we can bring your daughter back, have her take over the throne, and we will be unbanished!" Iracebeth jumped up to hug Stayne.
"Oh Stayne that is wonderful news! But how do we go about bringing her back?"
"Demitri gave me a potion that will take me to where she is in Overland and it will create a portal to bring her back here."
"Well then what are you waiting for? Go! Go bring me my daughter!"

USA

Samantha woke up from her nap with a start. Every so often she'd have these odd dreams about a woman with a really large head. Sometimes she'd even see other peculiar characters, like a floating cat, a crazy rabbit, and just other weird things. What was weird was how realistic these dreams felt, she could smell the flowers, feel the cat's fur. She shook off the feeling and went to her closet to get ready. Samantha hadn't had a chance to get her hair re-done yet, so it was growing back in brown creating a contrast with her dyed black hair.
Digging through her closet, she pulled out a pair of black pants to try on.
"Ugh, dammit! No more McDonalds for a while!" she groaned as she threw her pants on the other side of the room. Grabbing some size 6 pants, she was able to get those on. Matching that up with a red and black corset style shirt, she checked herself in the mirror. Out of the corner of her eye, she thought she saw someone; but when she turned around there was no one there. She laced up her heeled boots, grabbed her infamous black and red fedora, and headed downstairs to get into the party bus.

Stayne landed on the ground with a loud thump. He didn't know how the potion knew where to dump him, but he assumed it worked. He caught a glimpse of himself in a nearby window and was intrigued. His clothes had been morphed into something more fitting of the time period, his pockets held a wallet with ID and money, and his eye patch was gone, replaced with a glass eye.
"I look good!" he said to himself.
"Let's go bitches!" He turned around and saw Samantha jumping into a giant motorized carriage. He recognized her from the hat that Iracebeth had that hatter make. He followed the contraption down the road, trying to come up with a plan to get Samantha back to Underland.

A/N: Sorry this took so long, got ideas for other things and had some problems. Hopefully next chapter will be longer. And anything mentioned about AiW characters will be further explained in the coming chapters. In the meantime, if you like SAW, there's some good ones I've done there.

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