Chapter 4
Hatter looked down at her, for she was very tiny and he was very tall "Its absolutely Alice!" he said in a low voice "You're absolutely Alice! Id know you anywhere!" Cheshire was so surprised that Hatter recognized her, for she looked so completely different from her last visit "Hater I missed you" she whispered to him, his eyes were now the wicked green she loved, but he wasn't well, not completely, this broke her heart, she knew, instantly that the butterfly kept most of the unpleasantness from Hatter, he would've been furious if he knew "Thank you, your now free" she told the butterfly "Fairfarren, may you travel far under fair skies" she whispered gently and the butterfly flew away, hatter was now looking at her lovingly, she remembered what he told her when she left wonderland, his heart suddenly felt funny, his eyes traveled down her face, down her neck, until he reached her shoulder and when he did, he completely lost it, there was blood in her shoulder, and her snow white skin only made the blood look more noticeable, he immediately looked at Cheshire, there was traces of blood in his claw, this enraged him, someone had hurt her, he let her go walking towards Cheshire, suddenly a small knife appeared in his hand, he moved so fast and with so much grace, as if he had killed a thousand times "Oh dear" Chess said "see the trouble you put me in, Alice" he grinned and a knife flew in Cheshire's direction, and just before it hit him, he disappeared, hatter moved so fast Alice's eyes could barely keep up, suddenly he had chess in his grip, choking him, he was unable to disappear, how did hatter do that? How did hatter see Chess? Why couldn't Chess disappear when Hatter was touching him? "HATER!" Alice screamed "It was an accident, an accident!" Hatter let Chess go and turned to Alice "Is that so?" his eyes immediately softened when he looked at her, but she could see he was still mad "I just wanted some pieces of fabric from my dress, so I used his claw without permission" his eyes returned to normal and he approached Alice, his eyes were loving and caring and sad that she had hurt herself "Alice please be more careful" he begged they turned towards Cheshire who was still in the floor "I'm so sorry old friend" his voice filled with sadness and regret as he apologized to Chess "Finally, its been so long since you last apologized Tarrant" Chess was clearly not mad, he suddenly realized he might as well leave Hatter and Alice alone "I must go now, Im sure you have many things to do" and he disappeared, Alice was blushing uncontrollably but she realized hatter wasn't very happy "I tried to harm my friend" he said in horror "Have I gone mad?" he asked Alice, Alice's eyes became Loving as she approached him hesitantly she looked up at him and very nervously, never taking away her eyes off his, she lifted her hand to check his temperature with so much care, as if he was about to fall to pieces any second now "I'm afraid so, you're entirely Bonkers" she said, her tone was dead serious but then she leaned very closely and letting her lips brush against his ear as she whispered "but ill tell you a secret. All the best people are" and she felt hatter smile.
