Six Charms and a Locked Locket
By Rurple101 & BiGbLuEeYeS1136
Chapter Eight
She was walking down a path, full of jungle but there was a clearing ahead of her. She hurried up, her blue silky but torn peticoats sliding as she sprinted down the pebble path and her hair flew from behind her.
She stopped at the end to which there was a gap (where a presummed gate should have been) and looked around curiously. It was dark and gloomy if you had asked on first sighting. There was an old windmill which had been singed and there was a very long table. But what made Alice gasp, she reconized it from her previous dreams was that is was completley laid down with teacups, teapots, saucers, tillars of cake and god knows everything to expected or guessed to have at a tea party.
There were free 'people' at the table. There was a small dormouse, now what was her name? Molly...Mandy..Manny...Mally! There was a March Hare - she couldn't remember his name - urmm Thakery, she thought it was. There was a floating..chessuire cat and then..at the very end of the table...
She expected herself to wake but she did not. The man at the end of the table, instead looked up and she saw two emerald glowing eyes in the darkness. He looked pleasantly shocked and rose to his feet. Alice held her breath as the madman came onto the table and walked down it, as it being the shortest route to her.
He knelt down in front of her to talk to her (which at this time she was two feet tall still) and he had a bemused expression upon his face. He was wearing raggred and scorced top hat with a pink salmon ribbon around the rim. It had two gold pins sticking out and a 70% label still on the side. He wore a threadbare dark velet coat hung loosely on his thin frame. His eyes had heavy bags of tiredness but it had seemed to evaparate the moment he spotted her.
She felt worried for him as he beamed down at her and whispered "It's you."
"No, it's not!" Mally the dormouse snapped at him. "McTwisp brought us the WRONG Alice!!"
The man shook his head at his friend's words, eyes still fixed upon Alice.
"It's absolutely Alice!Your absolutely Alice! I know you anywhere!" He turned sharply round at his friends "I know him anywhere!"
He reached out without warning and seized her hand and pulled her back to the table with him, back the path he'd taken - over the tabletop. On the other side he plunked her down in the chair next to him (which already ahd books on to make her smaller self reach the table top) with a soft THLUMP.
"Well as you can see, we're still having tea," he explained the now messy table in front of him. "It's all because I was obliged to kill Time waiting for your return. Your terribly late you know...naughtey!"
Why was this all very familair? Alice screamed at herself while she dreamt of the mad tea party. The words 'Frabjous Day' and Downal wyth Bluddy Begh Hid' as well as 'The Underland Underground Resistance' kept reminding her of key points. She focussed on the man who had been called Tarrant after he'd nearly lost his temper at the inocent Chessuire Cat.
Then the dormouse said the fateful word...
"HATTER!"
"HATTER!" Alice yelled, jerking awake, yelling it at the same time Mally had.
She gasped and put her hands over her face.
"Hatter...." she trailed off. "Oh no! Oh..Tarrant.."
One thing was certain - Alice had remembered her Hatter - and everything else for that matter.
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