The Secret Romances of Under and Overland
Chapter 4: Together
A/N: Hey, slaves! :D I think that people thought that the last chap was the final one of Mally and Bander but it wasn't. This one is. I own nought.
Sometime last night, with Mally curled up on his neck, Bander had fallen asleep. He lazily opened his eyes, and blinked at the white light over them.
The sun.
"Bander?" Mally looked up at him.
"Yes…Mally?" He swallowed.
"Nothing…" She was happy just knowing he was there.
"Okay…" He smiled.
"Bander?" She repeated.
"Yes…Mally?" He laughed.
"Did you mean it?"
"What?"
"That you just want to be…loved?"
"Yes."
Without another look, Mally got up, climbed down, and walked off.
"Mally?" Bander whispered, knowing she couldn't hear him.
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Mally climbed up to her seat and took a sip from her cup, which was already filled with tea.
"Mally? Where've you been?" Tarrant frowned.
"I went for a walk last night when I couldn't sleep…and I uh…must have fallen asleep under a tree!" She laughed, nervously.
"Oh." The hatter nodded and thought nothing more of it.
Mally blacked out the hare's cup smashing against a nearby tree, and the hatter mumbling to his hat.
"Hmmm…." She laid on her stomach and watched the forest's strange gnarled trees sway side to side.
"You're not yourself today, Mallymkun," The hatter's voice shattered her bubble.
"Then who am I?" Mally smiled.
"Not 'erself?," Thackery screeched, "Argh! IMPOSTER!" He smashed one of the many sugar bowls against the tree that Mally was beginning to feel rather sorry for and then he went back to nursing a spoon.
"I just mean you're rather out of sorts…acting sort of strange…"The hatter dusted down his hat and placed it firmly on his bright orange head.
Mally shifted so she was sitting up and looked at the hatter with a very serious expression, "I don't think someone like you should call OTHER people strange."
The two of them burst out into high pitched giggles, Tarrant even dropped to the ground and rolled around, chuckling, whereupon not even the hare's doing a rather ridiculous looking solo cha-cha on the table, with a cake on his head, could interrupt him.
Sometime within this fit of laughter, which, to Thackery seemed to be lasting an awfully long time…even for Mally Tarrant, The Hare turned his eyes to the woods, and saw a dirty white…thing…even a creature of Thackery's low mind power knew at once that it was no other than…Bandersnatch.
He wasn't moving fast, a brisk trot at the most. But Bander's speed increased as he approached…finally he slowed when he reached the long table, a rather annoyed looking hare, a mouse and a red headed, pale man rolling around laughing.
"What's wrong with them?" Bander nodded at the giggling duo.
Ignoring the question, Thackery looked at Bander, "Would you like a scone? With some Jam?" The hare smeared raspberry jam all over a scone and threw it at Bander, getting jam all over his face.
"Mm…lovely," Bander nodded, wiping off the jam.
Finally after what seemed an age Mally and Tarrant stopped laughing. They both sat back up and composed themselves. All would have been fine, had the hatter not asked, "What…were we laughing about?"
Mally stifled a giggle and choked out, "I can't remember!"
The two of them cracked up again.
Bander ran over before they could get to engrossed and said, "Mally!"
"Bander!" Mally turned serious.
Bander's presence had no effect on Tarrant who continued laughing.
"Mally!" Bander repeated and picked her up, and placed her on his shoulder.
The hatter stopped laughing, and got back up.
"AAAARGH MONSTER!" The hat maker fled and was in the top branches of the cup smashing tree within a few seconds.
Mally rolled her chocolate eyes at him, "Pussycat!" She shouted, which sounded rather ridiculous coming from a mouse.
Bander walked off, Mally still on his shoulder.
"Where we going?" Mally mumbled leaning against his neck.
"No idea," He answered.
Both of them laughed.
They walked through the misty woods until they reached one of Underland's nicest spots.
The stream.
This part of it, was thin and mazed in and out through tiny rocks.
Bander sat down and Mally jumped off of him.'
"You think Tarrant'll mind?" Bander whispered.
"Does it matter?" Mally changed her mind about her position and crawled back onto his shoulder.
"No," He looked at her.
Without another word, she leaned over to him and, as difficult as it was, kissed his lips.
A tremble went through him…he'd forgotten what contact felt like…forgotten the wonderful feeling of love.
He kissed her back.
She smiled through his lips and knew one thing was certain…he did love her.
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His green eyes smiled through the whispering leaves of the tree he was situated in.
Mally was like a sister to him and seeing her like this…it almost made him…proud.
Tarrant Hightopp turned around in the branches and faced towards the rest of the forest.
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A/N: ZE END! MWHAHAHAHA!
Sorry for the wait. Your reviews are appreciated. Coming up on ' The Secret Romances of Under and Overland,' another unsuspecting couple gets paired…who will it be? Find out that and more in chapter 5! Coming soon to a computer near you :D :D
*Disclaimer: (said in extremely fast voice) Chapter may not come soon…chapter is likely to be late due to the writer's laziness.
Me: (to mysterious disclaimer) Who the Depp are you?
Disclaimer: (silence).