Obviously, it wasn't like we were getting anywhere standing there and talking about "copies" and their lifes and connections to the real people. My heels clicked and snapped down the road as we walked in silence, awkwardly. He looked over at me now and then, and when I returned it, he looked away quickly. It went on like this, playfully, until I heard a snap to my left. Suddenly, like a blink, I was sitting on a tree branch with Chase's arm wrapped around my waist.
He hushed me up quickly, and only then I noticed music nearing our former path, if we had stayed there they would have met us.
I remembered the tune immidiatly, from a song I always loved.
"If you go down to the woods today you're sure of a big surprise..." I muttered to myself. Chase looked at me confusidly, and then looked back.
~~ With every second the music seemed to near closer until Angela started feeling nervous and uncomfortable. There was something about the joyous tune that was offputting, unsettleing, and something seemed to make her blood run cold. It was the music itself, and not what she thought may carry the tune themselves. No, the music.
If you go into the woods today you better go in disguse.
She almost screamed.
Three bears walked by. They looked like normal everyday bears, just walking in a line.
Minus the fact they were carrying bits and pieces of a dead body.
One of them had an arm and leg it it's sharp mouth, devouring it as they walked. The blood dripped through it's fur and down the chin until it began to form a small trail of red dots. Another had just a leg, and one had a head barring it by the hair. The sight was absolutely disgusting.
For every bear that ever there was...
She got a good look at the head that was being carried in his mouth, it seemed too slender to be a mans. It had blonde hair, much like the one she had seen on Alice earlier, and a small red mouth. The face was drained and looked to be a pale white-blue colour. Angela knew she did not meet a painless, quick end.
has gathered there together because...
They made their way down the path and they hobbled on, not noticing the scent from them both and not caring enough to stop and examine the area before moving on.
Today's the day the Teddy Bears have their picnic...
"Just keep walking this way." Chase, or "Cheshire Cat" told me while hastily pulling himself along. He walked faster with every word and I struggled to keep up with him, but right about now I could care less about telling him to slow down.
"Where are we going to?" I asked him, moving my legs faster and making the ruffles just bounce more.
"The Mad Hatter Gill." He said, looking ahead and not bothering to show any emotion or distaste.
My heart skipped a few beats. He would have obviously known me, through the real Gill, but I can't help but think he wouldn't like me as much as the other Gill does. Thus the marriage and everything in the real world, but this tiny voice in my head silently wished he did so I could feel a small bit of hope and rays, that I could get through the world and go back.
I never really thought about it until now.
Would I get out?
Everything hit her like a ton of unmovable bricks. Would I get out? Would I get married, have children, have a life of my own, love and be loved, look my first born in the eyes and feel that feeling of pure and utter happiness?
Chase grabbed my hand and took a sharp right.
"Over this way" he said. The path had split into two paths, and it looked like Chase knew where he was going.
I stayed quiet the rest of the way.
"Here's the Hatter's residing." Chase said, outstretching his arms to the once-golden arch covered with vines and rust.
"How do I know he's not evil?" I asked. Chase raised an eyebrow at my reasonible question.
"Well... you could wait out here for a bit. I can sense the bears know us... they're coming back..." He gave a crooked smile at me, and like something from a script, once again a bear roared in the distance loudly. "Oh look, they're running." He smiled cruelly. I hissed.
"You really are a more evilly strung-out Chase." I said, partially to myself.
"Well trust me, and shut up. If he asks any personal questions, you keep your mouth shut" He began to walk away with two hands behind his head.
"Especially about Gill in the real world." He took another stride.
"Wait don't-"
He dissapeared.
Shit.
Angela walked in warrily towards the black setting.
The large black table had a white cloth over it, dotted with a few red spots here and there. The plates and tea cups were black as well, and the hedges and flowers seemed to be black as well. There was a house to the left that seemed to be once pink and white, but now seemed to have changed itself... without paint. The smell of tea and sugar filled the air and gave only a small bit of comfort.
There was a large chair at the end of the table, it's back to her. Like everything else, it was also black.
Taking another step something crunched under her foot and made the chair wheel around like nothing to reveal a man in red and black, with a large tilted hat on his head. He looked up from a cup of tea he had previously been drinking and examined everything, and when he saw Angela, a large smile painted his face.
"Alice?"
He stood up on his chair and whipped the cup to a corner, letting it shatter into fourteen small pieces before getting up on the table and walking towards her, stepping on plates and smashing things while letting others fall to the floor. The passed out small mouse was toppled to the ground and the march hair shivered and looked at him.
"Alice, you're here!" He cried, opening his hands as he made his way to her. She backed up, still wary is she should trust him or not.
He pulled back and hesitated for a moment, looking her with a scared feature.
"You're afraid of me..." He finally said. He seemed like the opposite of Gill, but in a way, just like him...
"Well it's kind of hard not to be. It is wonderland, after all..." She muttered, kicking a stone that was near her foot only to find out it was the body of a dead mouse (not the one that fell off the table, relax guys XD) and she twitched a bit thinking of it.
He smiled.
"Oh, so it's just because of our world! I knew you'd love me Angela, just like you love Gill!" He said, walking again over the table.
She had to admit she felt something about him equally frightning as love. Maybe because of Gill, but this wasn't Gill, this was another person posing as him...
'with everything, including his memories and feelings.'
She tried to silence the voice in her head. At least she knew he ether loved her or strongly liked her...
He hopped off the table, slightly taller then her and taking her hands in his. He wrapped her arms around him and he did the same to her, backing her up to a black hedge that was beside the arch.
"You have no idea how much I missed you..." He breathed, kissing her.
'Gill in the real world never kissed you yet... is that what it's like to be kissed by him? Or do you like this Gill better?' The voice in her head whispered again, taunting and teasing.
She blushed as his lips felt soft and warm on hers. His breath smelled like tea.
"You like my breath? I know it's your favorite... black cherry." He said as he released her and moved down to kiss her neck.
'It does taste like black cherry' she thought as he breathed on her neck, making her shiver and blush.
His hands had obviously trailed down to her waist and started creeping her skirt up.
She blushed profuriously.
"Just relax... tell me, are you a virgin?" He said with a smile that could be felt even though she couldn't see his face.
The flash from what Chase said went through her mind. Don't tell him anything personal, he had said, but would this count as personal? He did say to trust him...
She could just nod her head and hummed.
"Then this will be fun..." He said happily.
"Tell me, the next Alice, does this feel alright? Does it feel better to be with me then the one in the real world..." He asked as his hand touched her inner thigh. Everything went through her head in a minute.
"Stay with me, then, Angela, and I can show you things you only dreamed about" He breathed against her skin. Then she came to the conclusion;
Gill would never do this.
Gill would wait.
Gill would be nicer, and a bit shy.
Gill wouldn't try to make her stay.
This is NOT Gill.
I will NOT stay.
She pushed him away and stepped a bit away from him, watching his every move while still a bit flustered.
She looked to the left to see three bears running at a fast pace.
Fuck.
She was put in the house, behind the door while Gill spoke with them. The room was dark and she could have sworn she heard something dripping in the distance. She closed her eyes and leaned to the door, feeling better that something wasn't in there with her. Her hand was on the doorknob in case she needed to run, but she listened to the conversation with a worrisome feeling.
"Where is she?" A bear boomed at him.
"Where is who? The next Alice? Oh she's somewhere around wonderland, possibly dead."
"No! Wait... the next Alice?" Another one, that sounded female replied to his case.
"Yes stupid! There was this girl that smelled..." The first said, sniffing the air, "delicious" You could hear the saliva in his mouth.
"Well I'm not sure" Gill said non-chalant. He seemed calm and collected and not fazed by their thurst.
"I never saw a girl. It was only I, but you may have seen my friend Chase, he is a bit girly." He snickered.
"This girl gave out female pheremones." The third bear hissed. "Don't fool me, hatter!" It bellowed.
"Well I'm not trying to fool you good sir, I am just stating the obvious." He said. "Discribe her for me."
"Brown hair, black and white lolita dress, white headband, I'm not going through anymore details!" The other bear had almost screamed.
"Well, brown hair, that could be Little Red (kathy), but she was killed by the wolf Owen... maybe the woodcutter Luke." Gill had said, avoiding the subject in question.
"Black and White lolita dress, I am confused as to who would wear that, and white headband, that's most likely the original Alice," Gill said, doing something that sounded like drinking tea.
"But you already seen what state she was in before, haven't you." He acted like he knew something that involved the bears, and they hushed up quickly.
"Well hatter" the first bear spit out his name like a bad meal.
"If we find out you're lying, you're going to bear our next meal." The first bear hissed.
"Ah, you can't do to me what you did to goldilocks, now." He said. "You're forgetting what I'm capable of doing."
It was silent.
On the other side of the door, many spears and knives made his body shape to each side of him. They floated in mid air, and were dangerously sharp. They all pointed towards the bears, and they quickly ran off.
The door opened.
Angela gasped before she fell out of the door and into Gill's arms.
"Well, I feel like a knight in shining armor" he laughed to himself a small ammount and held her there for a minute.
He spun her around and leaned her over the table, looking over her with dark eyes and holding her hands above her head, pinned to the table.
"Why were you hanging around with Chase?" He asked nicely.
"Because he's my friend," she replied blushing.
"You should choose me. I have more power, I can protect you. And I can satisfy you, something he can't give you. I can give you the world. Just ask." He said, moving his hands down her arms and towards her waist.
"You know that."
She got up and turned to another arch that seemed to leave in the opposite direction.
"As soon as you step out there, you are Chase's." He said, making her stop short.
"But if you ever want me. Call me with every fiber of your being." He said. Angela took another step.
"Tell Chase..." Angela looked back at him as he moved towards her. He brushed a stray hair behind her ear and caressed her face.
"He's a lucky guy." She took a step back, and like that, she was gone in his arms.
"I love you. I wish I could tell you everything."
He walked back to his seat and began to drink the black cherry tea with a smile.
The broken cup in the corner remained untouched.
Yes, It is complete!
I apologize for any typos, my finger is broken.
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