Trustworthy?

Sitting outside of Jack's palace Alice noticed a huge flaw in her plan; she had no way into the palace. It wasn't like she was visiting just anyone in Wonderland; she was trying to see the King. She looked through the iron gates straining her eyes trying to catch even the slightest movement on the grounds.

Finally after what seemed like hours she saw a group of suits that seemed to be doing a perimeter check of the castle grounds. She sighed in relief and waited until they were close enough to talk to.

"Can we help you ma'am?" The Five of Spades asked her politely, he was obviously the leader of patrol made up of six suits.

"Yes, I'm Alice, and I would like to speak to King Jack." A small smile appeared on the suit's face and he opened the gates letting her onto the grounds. She was quickly ushered into the castle as if they didn't want anyone to see her there.

Alice felt safe with them; even though the rushing startled her a little she knew security was probably tight because of March being after the thrown. Glad to no longer be alone and in the company of six men who worked for Jack and were armed she let her guard down.

When she realized letting her guard down was the wrong move it was too late. The Five of Spades grabbed both her arms and held her tightly while the Seven of Clubs grabbed her legs so she couldn't kick.

Panic set in and Alice had no idea what to do. With her arms and legs immobilized she couldn't fight back no matter how hard she tried and with four other suits around them if she did break loose there was no doubt they would catch her again.

The Two of Spades then walked up to her with a cloth soaked in some sort of chemical. When the cloth was pressed to her face Alice was overcome by the sweet scent before everything went black.

Alice opened her eyes then immediately closed them again to block out the bright light. After slowly adjusting her eyes to the blinding light she started to take in her surroundings. She was in what seemed like a large white room with nothing in it. The whole ceiling was radiating a bright, white light that hurt to look at.

About ten feet away she noticed someone looking at her. He was wearing a brown leather jacket, a pair of dark wash jeans and a tan pork-pie hat. She smiled at the sight of Hatter out of habit. However once she was positive it was him her smile turned into a scowl, he had cheated on her.

She started to make her way over to him intent on chiding him for his behavior when she hit a wall. Confused she put her arms out in front of her and tried to walk again but again ran into a smooth glass wall.

"Hatter!" She yelled for him but his only response was a sad smile. Alice continued to yell to him from her side of the glass and he took a few steps forward and placed his hand on the other side of the wall.

She saw him mouth the words 'I can't hear you" and she realized why it was so quiet in her little glass room; it was sound proof. Looking into his deep brown eyes she saw another message that melted away the anger, or at least dulled the shape edge of it. He was truly sorry for everything and he wanted her to know that.

They sat down both leaning on the glass wishing it wasn't there, even if he was a cheater he needed her at that moment and she, no matter how much she wanted to deny it, needed him too.

Suddenly the lights went out then flicked back on in a softer light that didn't sting Alice's eyes. Looking through the glass wall in front of her she saw a small door open and a group of suits walk in lead by March. The last one to file into the room on the other side of the glass was Madelyn.

I see she made her choice. If the situation weren't so dire she would have smiled to herself knowing that the woman Hatter seemed to choose over her chose some one else over him. But, remembering what she over heard in the Tea Shoppe she knew this was no time for smiling.

March pushed a button on the wall by the door they entered and Alice could hear the sounds of the suits shuffling around on their side of the glass, also two doors appeared on the glass wall she suits stood behind, one lead to her cell and the other to Hatter's.

March opened the door to Hatter's cell and ordered the suits to get him. They ran in and the first suit to get there made sure to grab hold of his right arm, they didn't want that to be left free any longer than necessary.

Roughly they pulled Hatter out of his cell and presented him before March. March smiled at the anger and pain in Hatter's eyes, he was proud of his handiwork. Madelyn stood next to March and had no trace of emotion on her face.

"Don't hurt her." The words came out slowly and with purpose.

"I won't, at least not too badly." March's reply ended with a dark laugh. The suits all had to fight Hatter down as he lunged at March whose eyes danced when the suits stopped relying on manpower and started using tazers on Hatter.

While he was being pulled out the small door Hatter looked back at both March and Madelyn with a pleading glance. "Please." His voice was strained because of the pain even though he tried to hide it and Alice feared for what they were planning on doing to him.

When he was finally gone March turned to Madelyn and gave her a small kiss on the cheek. "I want to watch this. You can put back the room right?" She nodded with a happy smile and waved as he left.

Alice tensed up; it took all the self-control in her body not to attack the little woman. She had shred the only happiness Alice had had since her father went missing and now they were left alone in a room together.

Because she was only thinking of how much she hated the woman, her jaw hit the floor when she saw Madelyn open to door to her cell.

"C'mon, we don't have that much time and I need to get you out of the castle." She motioned for Alice to come over but she was frozen in place. She couldn't trust her, she was with March, but then again how much worse could her life get.

"Please Alice, we don't have time for this."

"I can't trust you."

"Great!" Madelyn's voice was unusually cheerful for someone who was just told they were untrustworthy. "I don't want you to trust me. I am probably the worst person to trust in the history of Wonderland, I mean look at Hatter, he trusted me and look what I let happen. Please just let me get you out of here, no trust required."

Never in all of her life had Alice been told that someone did not want her trust, and because of that she respected Madelyn. Even though it stung that she had brought up Hatter trusting her Alice decided she might as well let Madelyn help her.

Walking out of the cell Alice didn't have to wait long for Madelyn to push some buttons on the wall and the doors into the cells disappeared once again. She was then lead up a set of steep stairs where they stopped at another landing briefly whole Madelyn hit some more buttons, Alice assumed that those were the light switches.

Rounding the corner they went up a final flight of stairs and opened a door into a long hallway. Alice could see through a window on a door that they were so close to getting outside when she was grabbed by behind.

"What do you think you're doing?" March's voice so close to her ear froze Alice in fear. She should have stayed in her cell, Madelyn did tell her not to trust her.

A/N I just want to say thank you to everyone who has spent time reading and reveiwing my story, your comments mean a lot to me.