Le Author - Hey really sorry about not updating yesterday. I kinda wanna keep up the streak, at least until I go back to KS, so I'll try to double post today. I'll see if I can introduce all the characters before I fly home Sat. So sorry again for the late-ish update. Hope you enjoy. Read, Review and follow/favorite, your choice. Have fun.
I scrunched my eyes closed as I fell and screamed. Not my sonic scream just a normal one. You kinda forget you're a superhero when you get pushed into a really big hole by a talking rabbit boy with cobalt blue eyes.
That's what haunted me as I continued to fall. His eyes. The regret that clouded them before he had even pushed me.
Fwump
I opened my eyes.
Fwump. Fwump.
Something white and about the size of my hand flew past my ear. Then another. It took me a second before I recognized what they were. It was a china creamer and sugar bowl.
Then I noticed the walls around me. They weren't dirt filled with knotted roots anymore but tiled walls covered in china cabinets. Each filled with a different tea set.
I turned my head to watch them as more random dishes flew up past me. I was surprised to see dishes come off and fall with me or fly up and put them on the shelf. They all seemed to animate themselves like Mrs. Pots and Chip from Beauty and the Beast. It was so weird to see a white teacup with blue designs on the side jump off its shelf onto its saucer and navigate the air like it was snowboarding.
I know I probably shouldn't have but curiosity got the best of me and I reached for it. As soon as I touched it fell faster than I was. I heard it shatter below me.
You know that scene in the new Journey to the Center of the Earth where they drop a glow stick into the hole to see how deep it is. Well Blossom explained after that it's actually true and that the longer the time the longer the distance. Well… The cup hit the floor about a second after I touched it, meaning I was about to hit the ground.
I screamed again.
The first thing I heard was the sound of shattering glass. Then there was a scream, a thump and a groan. I heaved a sigh and pulled myself out of my chair and away from my novel.
"Boomington Theodore White," I called as I approached the door. "That had better not have been one of my blue china cups, or I swear on my pretty pink bonnet I will end you." [A/N: this is a reference to Firefly a sci fi tv show that was canceled by fox for no good reason. I dare you to look it up, just understand that if you fall in love with it there will be a lot of pain.]
I reached the door and swung it, a crinkle of pride crossing my face as the old door opened without a squeak. It paid to put oiling day on the calendar. But my smile disappeared when I found not a blond bunny dressed in blue standing in my storage room but a small girl with bright blond pigtails sitting on the ground rubbing her bottom.
I know it was rude but I fully admit to staring openly at her. I hadn't seen and Uplander in years. Not since The Law was passed and travel was banned. Curiosity got the better of me and I took a step forward. She noticed me then.
Her eyes were the color of the Upland sky and there was a lot of fear in them.
I lifted my hands and tried to form a friendly yet not frightening smile. "It's ok," I told her slowly walking toward her. She didn't move as I crossed the small space of my Cabinet Room. "I won't hurt you." I reached her and held out at hand to lift her up and off the floor. She accepted and I pulled her up.
"Are you ok?" I asked.
"Yeah, I think so." Her voice was soft and sweet like honey and sugar. "I don't know how I survived that fall though." I noticed her dirty clothes and proceeded to dust her off. I HATE dust. And there was no way I would let her sit on my furniture with a dust covered bum. I wasn't perverted though. I only brushed off her shoulders and back and let her do the rest.
"That's how it always is the first time down the Rabbit Hole," I said with a shrug. I then took her hand and started to lead her toward the door. I had decided I would question her over a cup of tea while we waited for her escort to arrive. I was planning out which of my sets to use, which tea I should serve, what variety of snacks should be presented and how, and where would be the perfect place with the best atmosphere when I was hit from above by a large blue and blond object into the dirty and dusty floor.
I landed with a humph. The body above me squirmed as it tried to sit up.
"Sorry, so so sorry, Brick," he said accidently pushing my face to the side. "I didn't know you'd be in here. Sorry."
I didn't react. Not even when he stepped on my ankle which hurt worse than a dragonsnap's bite. My focus resided on a collection of blue and white shards about a foot away directly within my line of vision. Then everything turned red.
"MOTHER OF A BANDERSNATCH! BLOODY LITTLE JABBERWOCKY!" I had Boomer up by his throat.
Le Author - I'm ending it here. For now. I'll try my hardest to update later tonight. Have fun, until then peace my peeps and penguins.
