Escape
Alice
Alice had no idea what Duchess was up to when she came in and slipped her a note saying:
'Act daft, I'll explain later!'
She had played along and they talked about meaningless things for minutes.
Duchess had been all: 'Oh my goodness I can't believe this is happening!' playing the part of the perfect blonde.
But though she played along the only thing that stayed in her head was Hatter. It took all she could not to scream at Duchess, asking what they'd done to him.
He was so cold. He didn't even remember her.
But not only that but he was an assassin! An assassin!
It didn't even faze him. She just could never even imagine her Hatter being like that.
Suddenly there was a loud thump and she peered behind Duchess to see Hatter lying unconscious on the floor. Duchess looked too.
"Finally!" she said going over and taking the keys from his pocket. "I drugged the drink," she told Alice opening the door.
"You knew he would drink it!" Alice said amazed.
"Welcome to my life as a queen," she said bitterly. "Come on, I've arranged for a few of the resistance Suits to march us out like you're being taken somewhere." She began to walk to the door.
"Wait! What about Hatter?" she cried. Duchess looked at her sympathetically.
"He's not the man you knew Alice… forget about him."
"No! I won't just leave him," she said desperately trying to drag him up. "I can fix him, I can bring him back!"
She had done it to her dad, why wouldn't it work on Hatter. Sure she only had two days worth of memories of him, but she remembered those few memories better than anything else in her life.
She hadn't let herself admit it till now, but in just two days she had utterly fallen for Hatter.
Seeing him like this was just breaking her heart again and again. Yet it was more as if her heart had become numb. He was alive, she could see him safe and well, that was what made her numb.
She had to hope that she could fix him, she had to fix him.
"Fine," Duchess sighed. She whispered something out the door and some suits came in with a covered trolley.
They put Hatter in it then grabbed Alice like they had when leading her around.
Together they all waked from the dungeons and got into an elevator.
"We have flamingo's waiting on the roof," they told her. "You're escape will be harder now we have Hatter. But we can tie him to your flamingo. He won't wake up for at least another fifteen minutes."
She just nodded and looked down at Hatter, unconscious in the trolley. Lying there 'asleep' she could barely tell anything was wrong with him. He looked like the kind Hatter she had known.
On the roof were three flamingos. One was for her and Hatter, one for Duchess and one for an escort Suit.
They had just finished tying Hatter to the back of hers when gun shots sounded from the doors. The Suits on their side helped them onto their flamingos.
Alice didn't even have time to battle herself over the old fear of heights like she had last time. One of them just leaned over and pushed the red button, she barely had time to hold on.
Hatter's hat nearly fell off, so carefully she reached behind her, took it off him, and pushed it down firmly on her head. A hatless Hatter was never a very happy Hatter.
And this assassin Hatter hatless was just plain dangerous!
She looked back behind her to see the roof top get smaller and smaller. But still she could see the Suits who had helped them, fall one by one, dead to the ground.
The Suit who was meant to accompany them hadn't even made it onto his flamingo…
"They'll come for us really soon!" Duchess yelled to her.
"Where to now?" through the strands of hair that whipped against her face, Alice could see Duchess's guilty expression.
"I didn't really plan this far ahead," she admitted. "Quite frankly I'm surprise we got this far. I've been trying to do this for a year and a half!"
"Well no offence, but it's a good thing you only did it now," she told her. "I know a place we can go, I don't exactly know the way but I know how we can find it… Wait! Is Charlie still alive?"
"The crazy old man in armour?" Duchess asked in confusion. "He disappeared the second you left; no one's seen him since."
"Have they found the Kingdom of the Knights' yet?"
"Who?" she sounded dumfounded.
"I'll take that as a no then," Alice laughed.
Behind her she could feel Hatter stir and she quickly headed them towards the shore where she thought they had hidden the boat last time.