Ok my lovely little dub-dubs! You all know the drill: no matter how much I wish I was lying, I do not own Alice or the Hatters, but you little smart cookies already knew that didn't you? If I did own it, Alice 2 would already be on the way and there would be Hatter plushies for you all to enjoy. Before we begin, I have to thank winter heaven for the ingenious idea of the tea tasting. Kay, I'm done… on with the story!!!!!!!


"A madness test?" Alice asked incredulously. "Are you kidding?"

"Absolutely not!" Reggie exclaimed. He put his face so close to Alice's that his large square be-speckled nose slightly crushed her smaller one. "But I did hear a lovely one recently," he grinned pulling back. "OK here it goes: Once a Jabberwocky walked into town." He burst into mad giggles here. "What do you think happened next, my dear?" he gasped to Alice, tears streaming down his face.

Alice was slightly taken aback. "Umm…. aren't you suppose to tell the end of the joke?" she asked a little worried things of that nature were different in Wonderland.

"Joke?" Reggie asked confusion painting his face. "I was asking a riddle, my dear. Now, what happens when a Jabberwocky walks into town?"

Alice thought for a moment. "Hmmm…what happens when a Jabberwocky walks into town?"

"What was that?" Grandpa Hats asked looking up from a teacup the size of his own face.

"I'm trying to solve Reggie's riddle," the young woman explained patiently.

"OOOO!" Reggie exclaimed. "I absolutely love riddles! Let's hear it!"

"But you-" Alice stopped herself. "What happens when a Jabberwocky walks into town?" she recited.

"Why that's just silly," Reggie stated. "Preposterous really."

"But it's your riddle!" Alice protested.

Reggie huffed indignantly. "Now my dear how could someone forget their own riddle?" He leaned over to Grandpa Hats and stage whispered, "Looks like we won't have to test this one's sanity," while the younger Hatter giggled.

"Now look here!" Alice shouted. "I am NOT-"

"Temper, temper duckie," the maddest looking Hatter grinned.

"And who might you be?" Alice snapped.

The red-haired man smiled wider, showing off a set of very pointy teeth. ""Why I'm the Mad Hatter of course!" He giggled hysterically to Alice's superb irritation. "Ah, but everyone here insists on calling me Mad."

"Ah, yes," Hatter grinned uncomfortably, "Dear old Dad."

"Dad?" Alice asked twitching a little bit.

"Absolutely duckie!" Mad chirped, reaching over two full plates of crumpets to snag a "special" crumpet and popped it in his mouth whole

Seeing that everyone was done interrogating her Alice carefully sat down in the chair next to her husband and picked up the nearest teacup and pulled it to herself. As soon as the pink and orange polka dotted cup touched her lips Reggie stood up in his chair and bellowed "CLEAN CUP! CLEAN CUP! MOOOOOOOVE DOWN!!" Unfortunately, the poor man made to usher Ally down and she reared back and slapped him clean across the cheek.

"I have not had any tea yet you-you-you-" she stormed slamming her fist on the table. "I refuse to move from this spot until I get tea!" In the shocked silence that followed Ally calmly sat down again and delicately sipped her tea. With a shrug Reggie followed suit and poured himself his two hundred and forty seventh cup of tea.

"Does that happen often?" Alice asked Hatter who was sipping tea with an almost bored look on his face.

He looked up. "Oh, Grandma Ally? Almost every time we have a tea party."

Soon the noise of having a bunch of mad men, an irritated woman and a confused woman at the same table for a extended length of time died down and an awkward silence settled over the table. "Soooooooooo, Alice," Reggie beamed. "I think it would be an appropriate time to start the tea-tasting section of our little insanity test."

Alice blinked quickly around the table, but noticed the unconcerned look of apathy plastered across her Hatter's face. He promised to keep her safe, so she decided to put her qualms aside and faced her problems like a big girl. "How exactly are we gonna do this Rege?" she grinned, making the eldest hatter's eyes to light up with excitement from her long awaited participation.

"Well my dear," he giggled, "this is how we do it around here…"


DAH DA-DA DAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't you all love me ever so much? =^w^= This is my first chapter story so this is my first cliffhanger. I was going to put it all in this chap, but it would have taken even longer to update and it would have been dreadfully long. :/ So to please everyone, I just inserted this lovely little cliffy.

Anyways, It's… … … … you guessed it… … … … SHOUT OUT TIME!!!! So to all my wondrous reviewers, Thank you ever so much! ^^ Double thanks to those who reviewed both chaps!

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