Chapter 3:

Ashley got her baby and I've been hanging a lot with her and little Alexandra lately. Henry almost died in a mine with Archie trying to find proof of the fairytale world. I scolded him real bad for that, I mean there must be other ways to find proof without endangering his life like that, anyway… Then Graham died and operation cobra was put on stand by. Emma became the town's sheriff and operation cobra is now back in action. Storybrooke got a newcomer. Weird…

Henry lost his book in the demolition of his castle and Emma and aunt Regina had a misunderstanding sort of fight and she banished Emma from seeing Henry unless she says otherwise. Mr. French my ex-employer got beaten up by Mr. Gold. Everyone heard about Mary-Margaret's affair with David and she was called the town's tramp also Emma found Henry's book and he told me the rest of 'my' story. Then there was minor's day and David got arrested because Kathryn went missing. He got released and the next day Ruby was hired as Emma's assistant at the sheriff's station since she quitted Granny's diner. Then Mary-Margaret got arrested because Kathryn's heart was found in her jewelry box. Ruby went back to working for granny after she found the heart.


''Good bye Ashley.'' I told her as I grabbed my blue winter coat, ready to go home.

''Bye Lily, thanks again for the help.'' She tells me with Alexandra in her arms from the kitchen as I put my boots on.

''You know Ash you don't have to keep thanking me. I really love spending time with you and Lexie. Anyway see yah.'' I then walked out the door. ''Hi Sean, good night.'' I told him as he got out of his car.

''Hey Lily, thanks for helping with Lexie it's really appreciated.''

I smiled. ''You're welcome, but like I said to Ash, I really don't mind, anyway good bye.''

''Bye.'' Then I started to make my way home. When I got home, I ate some diner, then put the dishes away and when that was done, Henry walked in. He looked preoccupied about something.

''What's up Henry?'' I asked him as we both sat on the living room couch.

''Mary-Margaret escaped and Emma is looking for her.'' Oh, that is bad. Okay.

''Well it's getting late, but if you want I'll go look if I can find her first thing tomorrow. Okay?'' That seemed to do the trick because he smiled and hugged me.

''Thanks Lily. You're the best.'' I smiled and got ready for bed since I was to wake up at 5 am.


5 am, my alarm rang. Grrrrr, it's so early, time to wake up. I washed my face and applied some make up then I put on my bright blue skinny jeans with my white Alice in wonderland t-shirt and my ring necklace that I always wear and that so happened to be an exact replica of Alice's wedding ring in Henry's book. I then went silently downstairs to eat some breakfast, I decided on some mustard toast with raspberry tea. When I was done it was 5:30 so I hurried to brush my teeth, I grabbed my purse with my phone, my black boots, blue winter coat and light blue scarf then started my quest of finding Mary-Margaret.

I started to make my way close to the town's limit, I figured if she was to run she was going to leave town. I started to look around, I was searching the woods when I received a text from Henry saying Emma found her. Okay, that's great. I started to make my way out of the woods when I noticed something on the side of the road. I picked it up it was a wallet. It was still pretty early so no one was around. I looked inside to see some I.D. It belonged to a certain Jefferson Hatter and judging from his driver's license he was pretty cute but about ten years older than me. Oh, well. I then looked at his address, 316 Mirror Street. Hmmm he doesn't live very far from here. I'll go give it back to him. Emma is already busy enough with Mary-Margaret and proving she's not guilty. I'm not going to bother her with that. I looked at the time on my phone 7:53 pretty early, oh well. I started to make my way to his home, about 15 minutes later I was there.

Wow that house is massive. It's as big as Henry's school or a hotel. I made my way to his door and rang the bell. While I waited I started to get nervous and ask myself why didn't I just leave it in the mail box? I don't why I was anxious, it's weird but I just was. After awhile I started to turn around to go put it in the mail box and go home when the door opened and I heard a ''yes?'' I turned around and the man was gorgeous, I almost forgot what I was doing here.

I shook my head a little to clear it then said: ''Hi I found your wallet a couple blocks down.'' I then handed it over to him but he didn't take it right away he looked as if he just saw a ghost. ''I'm sorry if I woke you up. Um, here.'' That snapped him out of his daze and he took the wallet with a smile.

''Thank you miss…?''

''Elysa. Mills. Elysa Mills'' He tested my name on his tongue and then after a moment of us both staring I said: ''Well it was nice meeting you Mr. Hatter but I think I'm going to go now.''

I started to turn around but stopped when I heard him say: ''Would you like a cup of tea?'' I looked back at him with a smile and nodded my head.

''Yes, please.'' I went inside with him and wow his house is beautiful. ''You're house is beautiful Mr. Hatter.'' That made him stop to look at me like something was bothering him.

''Please call me Jefferson. Mr. Hatter makes me feel old.''

''Alright then, you have a beautiful home, Jefferson.'' He gave me a bright smile then told me to make myself comfortable in his living room while he went to prepare the tea. I sat on the couch and took off my coat. I didn't wait long after that. Jefferson brought in a tray of tea and cookies.

''Raspberry tea and vegan cookies.''

''You're vegan?'' There's not many vegan that I know of in Storybrooke, well there's none so, wow.

''Yes. Are you?'' He asked with a seductive smile.

''Yes.'' I blushed a little then took a sip of my tea and a bite of a cookie. Jefferson was staring at me. ''Hmmm, this is delicious.'' He kept staring at me so I asked: ''What's wrong?''

''Nothing, it's just that… Your name… It just doesn't suit you.'' What? Okay that was random. I laughed a little.

''Oh. Okay. What name would suit me then?''

He replied without hesitation: ''Alice.'' I couldn't help it I burst out laughing. After I calmed down enough he asked with a smile: ''What's so funny?'' I couldn't tell him about Henry's theory could I? Oh, well here it goes.

''Well my cousin, Henry have this book of fairytales that are not exactly like the classic fairytales everyone knows and he's convinced that everyone in Storybrooke is a character from his book and he thinks that I'm Alice, from Alice in Wonderland. So that's why I laughed.'' He seemed really intrigued by that.

''Oh? And what's his theory exactly?'' Is he really intrigued by that? Okay…

''Well there's the evil queen that put a curse on everyone from the enchanted forest and the curse ripped everything that everyone of them loved from them. It brought them here and now they don't know who they are and the only one that can break her curse is Emma who is supposed to be Snow White's daughter.'' Now he's going to think I'm crazy.

''And what's Alice's story? You say it's not the classic tale, so…''

''Are you really interested about that? You sure?'' He simply nodded. ''Okay well…'' I told him Alice's story up until she woke up in Jefferson's house. Now that is going to be weird telling him how Alice and Jefferson got married and … since I'm supposed to be Alice and his name is Jefferson like in the book… Anyway…

''She woke up in Jefferson's house, he took care of her and soon they got married and had a baby girl named Grace. Then after a while Jefferson had to go back to Wonderland for a job and Alice convinced him to take her since she wanted to see her friends and she eliminated the jabberwocky so there was no danger. He agreed and they left their little angel with the neighbors for their trip. When they got to Wonderland Alice went with the Cheshire cat while Jefferson went with the white rabbit to get the shrinking drink and growing cake. But Alice got intercepted by the queen of heart's guards and they took her to the queen for her sentence since she killed the queen's jabberwocky. The queen sentenced her to be pushed over the never ending cliff that was so deep you couldn't see the bottom of it. The Cheshire cat that was with Alice when she got her sentence, went to find Jefferson to try to prevent this. They pushed Alice over the cliff when Jefferson arrived, he was too late. He felt his world crumble, he lost his wife he wanted to join her but the white rabbit reminded him that he still had his daughter, and so she became his world.''

''But what happened to Alice? I mean if you're here and Henry says you're Alice then Alice can't have died.'' He's really into this. Interesting. Weird, but interesting.

''Well Alice landed in Neverland you know with Peter pan and the lost boys. They took care of her when she was unconscious and then she took care of them but she cried every night since she couldn't be with the ones she loved. And one day she was picking up fruits for their dinner when she ate a poisonous one and fell to the ground paralyzed. The boys found her and thought she was dead, so they made her a funeral boat and send her to sea. And apparently that's when the curse hit her.''

He seemed thoughtful for a while and I looked at the time. It's already 1:03 pm. Maybe I should get going surely a rich guy like him has some more important thing to do than to listen to me telling him silly stories. ''Thank you for the tea and cookies but I think I'll go now.'' I started to put my coat on and suddenly an alarmed look came to his eyes.

''No, please, at least stay for one last cup of tea.'' He had the cutest pleading puppy dog look ever. How could I say no to that?

''Alright but only one, okay?'' I said with a small smile.

''Promise.'' And with that he took back the tray and I took off my coat once again. He came back with the tea a moment later and it tasted different this time, I couldn't put a name on it. I started to feel dizzy.

''What is happening to me?''

The last thing I heard before I lost consciousness was: ''I lost you once, I'm not losing you again.'' Then everything went black.