Slip, Slappity, Hop, the Rain Drops Plop
An "Alice in Wonderland" Story
By: Draculamomma
Author's Note: Hello everyone! I just finished my first exam today, Women's Studies, haha; it was very easy, I am happy to say. I felt very confident during the entire exam, and I'm sure I will get a good mark, so hooray to those who wished me luck and kept me in their thoughts! Bravo! I heart you guys *Smile*
Since I'm in such a generous mood, I thought to myself: Why not post another chapter up? So here it is! Your reward for being so nice to me! I hope you guys enjoy this chapter! Stay tuned at the end of it for 2 quick announcements! PLEASE REVIEW too! It keeps me motivated! Enjoy! P.S. This will be a bit shorter than usual and part songfic!
Chapter 14-Blast it all!
The Mad Hatter pulled on his rope, trying to get it out of Tweedle Dee's grip. The little bugger held on tightly though, and yanked the rope hard, nearly causing the Mad Hatter to choke.
"Alice! Let me speak to Alice!" he gasped out, coughing harshly.
Tweedle Dee pulled the rope again, "No! You'll do no such thing! You tried to kill Alice!"
"That's insane! I'd never hurt Alice!" the Mad Hatter argued, refusing to believe it.
Alice stopped walking and glared at the Mad Hatter, "How can he act like nothing happened? How could he forget?"
"Dear, don't listen, keep walking." The Dormouse gently pushed Alice's head in the opposite direction, and urged her on.
"Alice!" This time his voice was more desperate. Alice stopped once more and glared at him.
"Don't you dare try to trick me again Hatter!" she cried, wrapping her arms around herself when a gust of cold wind blew by them.
"Yeah! Stop trying to trick Alice!" Tweedle Dum yelled, stepping on the Mad Hatter's foot.
"Damn it! Tweedle Dum!" the Mad Hatter shrieked, hopping on his unhurt leg.
"Serves you right!" the Twins glared at him and pushed him forward.
The Mad Hatter shook his head violently, trying to get the blindfold off, but it was no use. "Alice! Please!" he cried desperately, fighting the twins.
"Don't talk to me!" Alice yelled, throwing her head back and walking forward taking long strides.
"Blast it all!" the Mad Hatter yelled before his throat constricted as the twins pulled him forward once more.
A FEW HOURS LATER
For the following two hours the Mad Hatter tried numerous times to get Alice's attention, and failed a greater number of times. The only reaction he'd get was the violent tug of the rope on his neck, or a rude comment from one of the twins.
After two hours, the Mad Hatter grew weary, and his throat began to hurt like he had never experienced, so he remained silent. His feet began to ache as well, and he didn't know how much longer he could allow the twins to keep stepping on his feet, or pushing him around. The Mad Hatter gritted his teeth in pain, and clenched his fists, but nevertheless kept walking silently.
"What'd you know? He's finally shut up!" Tweedle Dum laughed.
"Don't start." Alice warned, throwing him a death glare from over her shoulder. The last thing Alice needed was the beginning of a new headache. She had just gotten over a nasty one from the Mad Hatter's sudden attack, and she didn't need a fresh one from the twins.
The Dormouse slumped on Alice's shoulder, yawning softly. "How much longer do we have to go on for, Alice?" she asked tiredly.
Alice stopped suddenly, causing the Mad Hatter to ram into her back painfully.
"What's happened?" he grumbled like a zombie.
"I'm sure we're almost there!" Alice told the Dormouse, squinting into the distance, as if to prove her point.
"Alice?" the Mad Hatter asked gently.
"Shut it!" Tweedle Dee immediately jabbed into the Mad Hatter's thigh with a twig.
"Stop that, it hurts!" the Mad Hatter yelled, blindly swatting at the twig.
Tweedle Dee only laughed and danced around the Mad Hatter, poking the twig into his back. The Mad Hatter whirled around angrily, trying to locate the exact position of Tweedle Dee, but unknowingly, he only managed to wrap the rope around his legs as he followed the string of laughter in circles, which eventually tightened the rope around him, and tripped him flat on his face.
The Dormouse leapt off of Alice's shoulders, and chased the Tweedle Twins, yelling all sorts of insults as she ran after them through the tall grass.
Alice carefully bent down to help the Mad Hatter up, when the ground beneath them suddenly caved in.
"Help!" Alice yelled in fear as mud and grass fell beneath her feet, pulling her down with the Mad Hatter into a large hole. Alice and the Mad Hatter landed hard at the bottom of the hole, and gaped up at the Tweedle Twins and the Dormouse, who were looking down at the duo in shock.
"Alice! What happened? How did you get down there?" Tweedle Dee asked.
"I don't know!" Alice yelled, trying to crawl through the thick mud away from the Mad Hatter who lay unmoving beside her.
"How can you not know? After all, you are the one down there!" Tweedle Dum called down, his voice echoing in the hole.
"Idiot! She just said she didn't know!" Tweedle Dee shoved Tweedle Dum hard to the ground, and they began insulting each other and arguing.
"Alice! You've fallen into a well!" The Dormouse cried, studying the walls of the hole they were in.
"A what?" Alice called back, she couldn't hear very clearly suddenly.
"I said you've fallen into a well!" She repeated.
Alice shook her head and slowly stood on her feet, "I can't hear you over the rush of water-" Before she could finish, water began filling in at the bottom of the hole, rising quickly until it was already past Alice's ankles.
"Water!" she cried, pulling the Mad Hatter up from drowning.
"Water?" the Mad Hatter woke up when the icy water hit his body. "Why's there water here? Where are we?" he cried, looking around wildly.
"We're in a well!" Alice cried, backing away from the Mad Hatter with her hands up in defense.
"A well?" the Mad Hatter cried, looking down at the water, which was now almost up to his waist.
Alice tried to climb up the walls of the well, but they were wet and muddy, so she only grabbed handfuls of mud against the walls, and fell back down into the cold water.
"There's no way up!" she cried, looking around for another solution.
"Alice! Hang on! I'm coming!" the Dormouse moved closer to the edge of the hole, but suddenly was grabbed by Tweedle Dum.
"Are you crazy? You'll drown!" he cried.
"So will Alice!" the Dormouse cried, trying to wriggle out of his grasp.
Alice felt the water biting at her neck, and she fought to stay up, but it was no use; the water was only getting colder and higher. She ducked under the surface, and looked around the dark hole for another way out, but she saw nothing.
She leapt up and grabbed another mouthful of air before ducking back down, and swimming in the large hole quickly before she ran out of breath.
Alice suddenly saw what appeared to be an odd rectangle shape near the Mad Hatter. It was carved in the mud covered wall of the well. As Alice swam closer to it, she saw a golden light flashing underneath the bottom of the shape.
Alice swam back up the surface and grabbed the Mad Hatter. "There's a door! It's our only way out of here!"
"Did you say you saw a door, Alice?" Tweedle Dee called down into the well.
"Yes! Don't worry about us Tweedle Dee, we've found a way out!"
"But Alice, you don't know where that door might lead to!" The Dormouse argued.
"Just trust me! We'll be out before you know it!" Alice replied back, fighting to keep her head above the cold water.
"But it's not safe!" the Dormouse called down.
"She's right, it might not even be a door at all," the Mad Hatter sighed.
"It's worth a shot!" with that said, Alice sucked in another mouthful of air, and ducked down into the icy murky depths of the well.
The Mad Hatter followed suite, grabbing a hold on Alice's arm, as the blindfold was still attached to his face. He let Alice guide him to the door, and he waited patiently as she pulled the handle of the door.
Alice began to panic when it didn't budge. Alice was running out of air, and the door hadn't opened a fraction. She pulled on the Mad Hatter's shirt, and pulled him close. She grabbed a hold of one of his hands, and placed it on the handle of the door.
The Mad Hatter seemed to get the message without her speaking, and he pulled on the door handle strongly, getting it to open. A whole bunch of light shot through, and the water level began to lessen as the water shot out into the room behind the door.
Alice felt her heart beating faster as she felt she could no longer hold her breath. She pulled on the door handle along with the Mad Hatter, trying to poke her head into the room behind the door to get some air.
The water behind them suddenly pushed them forward with a strong wave, and Alice and the Mad Hatter shot forward into the room on the water slide. They landed on a now wet stone floor of what appeared to be a tiny cellar.
"Where are we?" Alice whispered into the air.
The room was actually very mystical. There was a large window to the right side of them which showed them a brightly lit garden filed with apple trees and orchids of all sorts. On both ends of the room, two long bookshelves stood packed with old thick books.
Old paintings of kings and queens of the Underland lined the room. Above, the ceiling was mostly covered with similar stones as were found on the floor, except for the far left side of the room, which was a beautiful skylight window.
Alice got up from the floor, shaking her head to get some water out of her ears as she made her way to the front of the room, where an old oak door stood closed. She hoped and prayed it wasn't locked, but when her hands found the handle of the door, she found it was locked, and tightly at that.
"Why are there so many locked doors?" she cried out loud.
The Mad Hatter behind her had taken off his blindfold, and was smiling deviously at her. "You should ask: why is a raven like a writing desk, Alice." The Mad Hatter offered, standing up and walking towards her slowly.
Auschwitz, the meaning of pain
the way that I want you to die!
Alice slowly turned to the Mad Hatter, eyes wide. "Hatter, why aren't you wearing your blindfold?"
He smiled and bowed, "So I can see your lovely face, Alice, why else?"
She backed into the door, "Hatter, you're scaring me."
He chuckled and walked closer, eyes darkening by the second.
Slow death, immense decay
Showers that cleanse you of your life!
Alice shook her head, "I want the old Hatter back!"
The Mad Hatter instantly began to shake and he dropped down to his knees. He coughed violently, and writhed on the floor in pain. Alice rushed over to help him, but he held out a hand. "No! Don't!"
Forced in
like cattle
you run
He slowly stood, his eyes their normal color once more, "Alice, please, get out of here before I hurt you!"
"I cannot leave you here!" she cried.
"You must!" he urged.
"No!"
Stripped of
Your life's worth
"Come here Alice, it's only the two of us now!" the Mad Hatter chuckled, his eyes again deadly orange.
Alice leapt back as she watched the Mad Hatter fall to his knees once more as he fought to push away the murderous side of him she had only known for such a short amount of time.
"Just go!" he cried, his voice dropping a few octaves on the last few syllables.
"Do be a dear and open the door for me, Alice!" he yelled out in a monstrous manner.
Human mice, for the Angel of Death
Four hundred thousand more to die
"Alice, I'm going to kill you very slowly, and I will enjoy every second of it!" the Mad Hatter hissed as he stood to his feet, his hands reaching out for Alice like the talons of a bird of prey.
Alice screamed and ran to a bookshelf, throwing a book at the Mad Hatter, but he ducked and laughed. He had only laughed for a few moments, when he doubled over and shook once more as the internal battle raged on.
The Mad Hatter's eyes widened as they turned green again, "Alice, please, I cannot hold them much longer!" he wheezed out painfully.
Alice stood taller, but still held a book in her hand ready, "Who are they?"
Angel of Death
Monarch to the kingdom of the dead
"I cannot answer now, Alice leave!" he cried, trying to get up to chase her, but he only managed to shake violently, and fall back down.
Sadistic, surgeon of demise
Sadist of the noblest blood
destroying, without mercy
to benefit the Aryan race
Alice grabbed her head in her hands, feeling ready to cry. She knew she couldn't leave the Mad Hatter in such a state, but then again she feared if she approached him he would lose control and truly kill her.
The Mad Hatter suddenly dove across the room, sliding wickedly across the wet stone floor until he was right in front of Alice, and he grabbed on to her ankle and laughed manically. Alice screamed and tried to pull her foot back, but his grip was too tight.
Surgery, with no anesthesia
Feel the knife pierce you intensely
Alice squirmed in the Mad Hatter's grasp, crying in pain as she felt his strong fingers clench tightly around her ankle, looking down at him in fear as his orange eyes bore into hers, his evil, cold laughter piercing her ears.
Inferior, no use to mankind
Strapped down screaming out to die
Alice was about to kick the Mad hatter in the face, when he reached out and grabbed a hold of her other ankle, bringing her down onto the hard cold floor with him. He grabbed a hold of her legs tightly, and began pulling her down to meet his form.
"Hatter, stop! Please stop!" she cried.
"Why? I know this is what you want!" he laughed back, grabbing a hold of both her shoulders, forcing her down onto the floor beneath him.
Angel of Death
Monarch to the kingdom of the dead
infamous butcher,
Angel of Death
The Mad Hatter suddenly pushed Alice aside, eyes turning aqua green once more, "Alice, I told you to leave! It's getting worse!"
Alice nodded, getting up. She couldn't hold him off if he tried to hurt her again.
Pumped with fluid, inside your brain
Pressure in your skull begins pushing through your eyes
The Mad Hatter gathered all his strength, and pushed all the books off one shelf. He grabbed a hold of one side of the shelf, and began pushing it towards the door. "We're going to break down the door!"
Alice nodded and grabbed a hold of the other side of the shelf, pulling it towards herself, and she moved out of the way when the Mad Hatter rammed the shelf into the wood of the door.
Burning flesh, drips away
Test of heat burns your skin, your mind starts to boil
Again and again, they ran the shelf alongside the door, and the door slowly began giving way as a dent began growing larger and larger in the woodwork of the door.
"It's working!" Alice cried happily, as she pushed the shelf into the door.
"Good, we're almost through!" the Mad Hatter cried, feeling victorious.
Frigid cold, cracks your limbs
how long can you last
in this frozen water burial?
Alice cried out in joy when the first bits of wood shot through from the other side, and a hole was formed in the door. She held on tighter to the shelf, and was about to push it forward again, when she heard a sickening THUD behind her.
She turned to see the Mad Hatter on the floor once more, his side of ceramic shelf on the floor by his side. He was coughing violently, obviously not giving in to his odd behavior of late.
Sewn together, joining heads
Just a matter of time
'Til you rip yourselves apart
Alice turned and pushed against the hold in the door with all her might, hoping the wood of the door would just break apart like toothpicks.
"Alice…how dare you try to get away from me!" the Mad Hatter's deep voice growled out.
"No!" Alice threw her body against the door, feeling pain shoot throughout her body.
Millions laid out in their
crowded tombs
"Get back here Alice!" the Mad Hatter jumped up and pushed the heavy shelf away, grabbing a hold of Alice.
Alice shoved him away, and rammed her fists into the hole in the door, causing the hole to grow larger. She almost had made a hole big enough for half her body when two cold hands grabbed her fists and turned her around violently.
Sickening ways to achieve
the holocaust
Alice felt frozen to the spot as she looked up into red eyes.
"You should have stayed home, Alice. You should have never come back here." The Mad Hatter warned in a growl.
"I'm glad I came back! You need me!" she argued, feeling him tighten his grip on her fists.
Seas of blood, bury life
Smell your death as it burns
deep inside of you
He suddenly threw her against the door violently, teeth like a wolf, "I don't want you. I only want you dead!"
She shook her head, "That's not the Hatter talking. It's someone else."
He laughed and pushed her harder against the door. Behind her, Alice felt the wood groaning and cracking. The door was going to give way if he pushed her into it again.
Abacinate, eyes that bleed
Praying for the end of
your wide awake nightmare
Alice decided to anger the monstrous version of the Mad Hatter. "I will stay here forever now!" she cried defiantly.
He hissed through his teeth, "No! I will kill you!"
Wings of pain, reach out for you
His face of death staring down,
your blood running cold
She threw her head back and laughed as if she didn't have a care in the world, "I won't die, I have many friends who love and care for me here."
He threw her against the door harder, cracking off more wood. "Go away!" he yelled in a voice she had never heard him use before.
Alice pressed up against the door harder, feeling the wood pushing away from her.
Injecting cells, dying eyes
Feeding on the screams of
the mutants he's creating
Alice leaned forward and looked straight into the Hatter's eyes. "What has she done to you?" she asked gently.
The Mad Hatter covered his eyes immediately, groaning and moaning in pain as he shook his head back and forth wildly.
"Tell me!" Alice cried, trying to pry his hands away from his covered eyes.
"No! Leave me alone!" he cried in a deep voice.
Pathetic harmless victims
Left to die
Alice tugged on the Mad Hatter's hands until she managed to pull them away completely. His eyes were back to their original color, and he looked at her sadly, his head hung low. "I'm so sorry Alice."
"Hatter?" she asked gently, "what's wrong, Hatter?"
"I'm so sorry."
Rancid Angel of Death
Flying free
Before she could move out of the way, the Mad Hatter's eyes turned orange once more, and in one smooth motion, the Mad Hatter threw Alice into the door hard, causing her to break through the hole and bring the door down with her in a mighty crash as she landed on the floor of the other side of the door in a painful heap.
Angel of Death Angel of Death
Monarch to the kingdom of the dead
infamous butcher,
Angel of Death
End of Chapter 14! I hope you enjoyed that one! It was rather exciting to write! Lots of joy all around! Well, maybe not for Alice, hehe. Now, before you review, read the announcements, please.
Song Credit: "Angel of Death" by Slayer. Lyrics & Music – Hanneman
Announcement 1: This is a bit sad, but true. I am soon due to get my wisdom teeth pulled out, and I was wondering, if anyone reading has gone through the procedure, could you please tell me how long it takes for the wounds to heal? How long do I wait before I eat solid food? And I heard that apparently the anesthesia gets you 'high' is that really true? Thanks guys! (I'm kinda scared and worried, but hopefully it won't be that bad!)
Announcement 2: Here's a question for you guys, I'm getting all these ideas for the next chapter, but I want to involve the readers more! I believe a good author will keep the ideas and comments of the readers in mind, so I was thinking we could play a game. YAY GAMES!
Here's how it goes. How do you guys want the next chapter to go? Simple, we are going to write it together! In order to do this, everyone needs to cooperate with one another, and participate as much as possible. You don't have to participate if you don't want to. But I thought it would be really neat if I could get a few bits and pieces from everyone and put it all together for one chapter!
You guys are in charge though. Send me about 3 paragraphs max of what you want written, and I will gather everyone else's ideas and write a chapter on it. You can go as far as even writing some of the parts or conversations between the characters if you want.
But please be sure to follow the storyline, don't go entirely off track, but I encourage diversity and creativity!
So let me know if you guys like this idea, if a lot of people don't want to do this it's fine, I will do all the hard work. *SIGH* hehe. Happy reading and writing!
P.S. Be sure to check out my new fanfic called "Muchness of Childhood" it's also about Alice and the Mad Hatter.