Everything around her was blurry, but she knew she was in a mushroom inhabited forest, the mushrooms as tall as the trees next to them. She was running, playing hide and seek. She ran as fast as she could, wanting to hide before the purple eyed boy she knew so well could find her. She finally got to the pool of tears, her favorite spot in the whole kingdom. The only way out of the looking glass. There was a waterfall flowing down into a swirl of images from the outside world. All over the waterfall were boulders. She heard footsteps coming her way and quickly scudded into the opening from behind the falls.
From behind the waterfall she giggled, expecting to see a young boy, three years older than her come out of the bushes at the opening of the forest. Instead it was her father. Alice was about to go out to her father when two hands grabbed her pulling her back. Tiny Alice about five years old struggled until she saw it was Hatter and Cheshire holding her. They simultaneously put their fingers to their lips, begging her to be quiet. They both knew how out spoken and loud the young girl could be. Alice looked out curiously, while another figure came out into view. Her foster mother, the red queen stepped into view.
"Charlas Spade, you have been charged with going out and fraternizing with a woman from the neatherlands." Justiene Heart looked her husband straight in the eyes, "And you have been disloyal to your queen." With that her black eyes turned deep red. "You are here by banished from the kingdom, never to return again."
"What about Alice? What are you to do with her? I brought her here because..." The rightful king of Wonderland pleaded.
"She will be taken care of, but you will never see her again. She will never know any of this happened..." And with that the twins the duchess and the Jack of hearts came out from behind their mother. You've been naughty they said before smiling taking out their knives. And pointing them at Alice's father. Alice screamed under Hatters hand, pushing and shoving against Cheshires hold. Hatter was whispering soothing words into her ear and turned her head into the curve of her neck when the queen took the twins knives and slashed Alice's father through his heart. Alice's fathers face went still, looking out to the distance. Seeming to see everything and nothing. He fell into the pool of tears.
Alice shot straight up, she was drenched in sweat and it was night out. She looked around still thinking she was in the dream when the memories of the past several hours washed over her brain. She shivered pulling a soft fuzzy spotted blanket around her. A hand fell on her shoulder and she turned to look, seeing the young boy from her dream but all grown up. She squinted then shook her head. It was only a dream. "Are you feeling better?" She whispered.
He shook his head, seeming to come out of a dream himself then smiled softly. "Of course. Nasty ol' Jack couldn't touch me for long if he tried." His face darkened as he said this, his purple eyes falling into a swirling deep maroon, "So Alice, that is what Cheshire tells me you name is correct?" His face brightened again including his eyes, Alice just nodded not knowing what to say. "Hmm, very good, very good indeed." He said seeming to go into deep thought, Alice got up standing very close to him, studying him. He was the little boy from this dream… Her mind must be slipping further and further from her grasps. "So what are you doing in our little realm of insanity?" He said with a grin, not knowing how mad just those simple words made her get. She felt like she was about to internally combust.
"You know what? I have no idea what I'm doing here, I saw a white rabbit, and he had a vest on, and a pocket watch. I couldn't help but run after him instead of seeing my sick father in the mental asylum, I fell down a hole following the rabbit and found a mirror..."
"Looking Glass…" The hatter whispered under his breath. But it was too much for Alice to take. She screamed loudly and ran into the forest, kicking every giant mushroom she saw. She took the same direction she saw herself running in the dream. She took every twist and turn and found her self standing at the edge of the pool of tears. Gasping she sat down at the edge looking into it. Just like she remembered from the dream, the pool changed rapidly from picture to picture of all the outside worlds. Showing little glimpses of every person alive. Alice let out a sigh... "Oh," she said the tears flowing down her cheeks. "I really have gone mad." With that she collapsed to the ground.
