Alice in Wonderland AU
By: Immortal Wolf Lover
(A/N I own nothing except plot and some scenes and comments. MALICE AU SUPER/ABUSED/ POWERFUL/MODEST/HUMBLE/ SINGING ALICE) A/N THANKS FOR THE WONDERFUL REVIEWS SO FAR KEEP THEM COMING AND I'LL KEEP THE STORY GOING THANKS MUCH NOW LET'S DO THE FATTERWACKEN!
"THACKERY!" Alice yelled worriedly when the Mad Hare threw a particularly sharp knife over her head and imbedded it into the wall behind her up to the hilt. Thackery stopped throwing things but was still ranting and raving about someone hurting Alice. Alice was suddenly in front of Thackery before reappearing at the table where she was a minute ago silence now only broken by muffled shouting from Thackery who had some silver duct tape over his mouth. Mirana looked at Alice in shock and confusion again when Alice offered her a shy smile.
"Silence is golden…but duct tape is silver." Alice said blushing shyly which made Mirana laugh lightly but elegantly.
"I can see that, dear one. Alice, can you tell me how you have gotten such injuries? Most look years old but infected and as if they had been purposefully reopened several times." Mirana questions gently while placing a cold and deathly white hand on Alices cheek softly.
"My apologizes but I-I'd rather not talk about it. I-It brings back bad memories that I don't want to remember." Alice said avoiding the White Queens worried brown, almost black, eyes. Mirana smiled understandingly and nodded in acceptance of this answer.
"I understand. Come now though. You need some new clothes, my dear Alice, or else you will be running around naked. I would not mind in the least myself but it would be most inappropriate." Mirana said guiding Alice to her personal chambers and handing the blushing girl a t-shirt and pair of sweatpants from her closet.
"I can tell that you are not the kind of girl who enjoys formal clothing and those should fit you perfectly." Mirana said smiling at the younger woman gently before ushering her to the bathroom to change.
"I will be right here waiting for you to change but please take your time." Mirana told Alice softly before leaving the young champion to change her attire. Mirana closed her eyes and took a deep breath to settle the nausea and other emotions that had been hitting her with the raw force of a freight train since seeing the wounds that had been inflicted on Alice. She saw the wounds on Alice again and recalled a few more horrendous ones from memory and resisted the urge to throw up. Her eyes snapped open and she turned around with a fake smile that seemed to fool everyone when she heard the bathroom door open again.
"T-Thank you, your majesty." Alice said shyly diverting her blue eyes from Miranas warm yet worried brown ones as she stepped back into the room her feet not making a sound, not even a faint patter.
"You are quite welcome, my dear Alice. Do you wish to join me in some late tea or would you like to do something else?" Mirana questions gently with a small smile on her face.
"Um? Could I join you for tea, please?" Alice asks blushing shyly before blinking and smiling.
"Did I just make a rhyme?" Alice questions innocently making Mirana giggle as she nodded. Mirana acted on impulse and locked arms with the younger woman as they headed down to the kitchen for tea and grinned devilishly.
"You're funny. Perhaps you could enlighten us with some good jokes while we enjoy tea?" Mirana asks grinning like the Cheshire cat himself. Alice blushed and nodded uncertainly as Mirana motioned for her to sit down directly to her right of the small table just as Thackery joined them carrying a pot of tea with several cups precariously perched upon the tray.
"Here. Let me help you Thackery." Alice said holding a hand to her temple in concentration as the tea cups and pot floated out of Thackerys hands and landed softly on the table in between Mirana and Alice. Mirana looked shocked for a moment before shaking her head in bemusement and pouring three cups of tea before Alice could say anything against it.
"Amazing. I have never seen magic like that but anything is possible impossible things even more so and with you around, dear Alice, why the most impossible things seem to become daily occurrences." Mirana said her voice laced with mirth while Thackery thanked a blushing Alice and took his seat on the left side of the queen.
"Do you have any good jokes you would like to share, my dear Alice?" Mirana asks smiling encouragingly when Alice nodded and Thackery cheered.
"The problem with life is that there is no music. However, if you must face the music, pick a good dance partner." Alice said shyly before looking happy when Mirana and Thackery laughed and encouraged her to tell more.
"A fake friend returns your things at once. A real friend has them so long you're not sure who they belong to." Alice tried looking uncertain but beamed happily when Mirana chuckled and nodded in agreement while Thackery cackled.
"Please, dear Alice. You tell the most amusing jokes and say the funniest things, do continue." Mirana urged grinning like a loon. Alice flashed her a brief genuine smile before nodding excitedly and continuing, not noticing the queen blush.
"A fake friend doesn't ask for food. A real friend is the reason you don't have any." Alice said grinning lopsidedly when her two companions laughed delightedly. A single knight came up to Mirana and bowed respectfully before Alice could say anything else.
"Your majesty, I was sent to tell you that you are wanted in the throne room for a brief meeting. If I may suggest something your majesty?" The knight asks waiting on the queens' nod.
"I would suggest that you bring Lady Alice with you to tell some jokes. The tension in there is thick enough to not only be visible but also thick enough to blind your vision as well as a thick fog." The knight said rather bluntly while Alice looked to Mirana questioningly.
"Thank you. Alice, my dear, would you care to accompany me? You can tell me more of you marvelous jokes and sayings both on our way and once we reach our destination?" Mirana asks the younger woman with a warm, real, smile adorning her black lips. Alice nodded shyly as Mirana stood and held out a hand to help her up. Alice took the hand and pulled herself up before spotting the knife that Thackery had thrown into the wall. Alice easily pulled it out and tucked into the waist band of the borrowed sweat pants.
"Do you think that a weapon will be required during this meeting, my dear Alice?" Mirana asks worriedly while looking at the other blond curiously.
"No, your majesty, not really. But I have an idea that you may or may not find amusing once we arrive at your meeting." Alice said with a hesitant grin fully expecting to get hit or ordered to explain but was pleasantly surprised when Mirana merely nodded in acceptance grinning back at Alice in anticipation.
"Alright. I won't ask because I trust you but do tell me more of your lovely jokes and sayings on the way to the meeting, please?" Mirana asks sweetly making Alice nod with a smile on her pale face. Mirana hooked her arms with Alices and led the way to the throne room, laughing all the while due to Alices jokes and sayings. Everyone looked at the two women as soon as they walked into the room, shocked at seeing the queen laughing and with her arms hooked with another girl that they didn't know. The queen calmed down slightly when she caught sight of all the looks being sent her way but still had a silly grin on her face. Alice pulled out the knife from the kitchen and began cutting the air up randomly, being careful not to hit Mirana.
"What are you doing, dear Alice?" Mirana asks the other blond curiously, watching attentively as Alice swung the blade around expertly.
"Cutting the tension, your majesty." Alice said grinning at the older blond when she fell into loud laughter, while a few of the people in the room chuckled, effectively cutting the tension in half.
"Oh, dear Alice, you are truly a pleasure to be around." Mirana said as she calmed down and lead the way to the top of the table that had been set up. Mirana sat down at the head while signaling Alice to sit down to her immediate right, to several shocked or angry faces from those in the room while others merely grinned or looked indifferent.
"Your majesty? Might I inquire as to who this woman is and what she is doing in attendance to this meeting?" A snobby rich pretty boy asks glaring at Alice as if she were something found on the bottom of his shoe.
"Alice, won't you be a dear and introduce yourself to these fine people anyway you see fit?" Mirana asks the younger blond while grinning in anticipation when she saw a spark of mischief in Alices eyes before it was smothered.
"Of course, your majesty." Alice said with a wide grin slowly creeping across her face. Alice stood up and gave an overly flourish bow to the ones in front of her while Mirana fought not to giggle.
"Alice Kingsleigh at your service. Mistress of all types of blade fighting, master comedian, voted number one most surprising person in the Abovelands and the prank mistress from hell. Pleasure to meet you all I'm sure." Alice said with a crooked grin while Mirana lost her resolve and dissolved into loud genuine laughter at the look on everyones faces, even the white guards had to fight not to snigger at the looks Alices' introduction had earned.
"You do know that women normally curtsy not bow right?" A man that looked to be in his mid-thirties asks with a wide grin, obviously amused by Alices' antics.
"I know but I have never been normal a day in my life, why should I start now?" Alice asks grinning lopsidedly while the man laughed as well.
"Why indeed?" Mirana said after calmly down enough to merely smirk at the young blond who blushed prettily.
"That still does not explain why this joker is attending this meeting." The snobby man from earlier says glaring at Alice balefully.
"It's quite simple really. She is here because I asked her to accompany me." Mirana said with a tight lipped dangerously looking smile.
"Why would you ask her to accompany you? I am sure that there are people more worthy to bring than a simple foreigner." The snobby man said making Alice stare at him unblinkingly for a few minutes while Mirana took a few discreet deep breathes to calm her sudden anger at the stuck up man.
"You're a foreigner too." Alice says bluntly causing everyone to stare at her in confusion.
"What? How dare you say such things? Do you know who I am?" The man asks enraged Mirana was about to scold the man but was stopped after Alice sent her a glance that clearly said 'let me handle this'.
"I dare pretty well, thank you for asking. I don't know or, frankly, care who you are. You are a foreigner as well as I am and I am sure like many others here are, besides the White Queen of course. Were you born here?" Alice said getting a shake of the head from him before continuing, "Were you raised here? Do you live here? No to all? That makes you a foreigner just like it makes me one. You, for all intents and purposes, have no power, authority, or sway here no matter who you are. So I suggest you lose the snobby attitude, sit down, and put the shut to the up." Alice said all with a smile on her face. Mirana and a few guards had to hide their sniggers while others at the table didn't even bother hiding them. The snobby boy flushed in anger and sat down pouting.
"Thank you, dear Alice. Now then. Why was I summoned here with no idea that this meeting was happening to begin with even though it is in the middle of my throne room?" Mirana asks grinning at Alice briefly, who bowed and retook her seat, before turning serious at the end.
"To be perfectly honest your majesty. We were debating your effectiveness of being a queen." A portly man in his middle ages said with a pig like squeal in his voice.
"What brought this on?" Mirana asks her eyes narrowing almost unnoticeably as both she and Alice stiffened in their seats.
"You did not stop your sister or the Jabberwocky when they first struck, even though you easily have the power to do so at your disposal and you would not have even ruffled your dress. You allowed many lives to be lost and even more to be lost with every day that passes by. We are beginning to think that you are not strong enough to be queen anymore, not at least, without a husband that will help guide you in your duties as queen and –"He was suddenly cut off by an extremely pissed off Alice who had bodily lifted the man and slammed him into a wall with her hand crushing into his wind pipe cutting off his words and breath.
