No one talked on the train ride, the only one who would make eye-contact with me was Morris, but I didn't feel like talking to him. When we had made it to out stop, we waited half and hour until the next train would depart. The Cat and Caterpillar headed to The Looking Glass, while the rest of us went to The House of Cards.

There were a group of three spades standing outside of the wall around the palace. We hid behind rose bush. Alice's bow and quiver of arrows was slung over my shoulder, and I pulled out an arrow pointing the bow at one of the spades.

"No," The White Rabbit nearly shouted, stopping me from shooting.

I clenched my teeth, and lowered the bow. "Well we have to at lest knock them out."

"Yes, but you don't have to kill anyone." He argued.

"Go distract them, and we'll try to nock them out from behind." Morris said.

The White Rabbit did as he was told, and we each picked up a large rock, sneaking up behind the two while they were talking. The clean hit to each of them left the two out like a light. We pulled them behind the bush that we had been hiding behind, and tied their hands and feet with rope that Morris had brought. We took their uniform coats, and headed to the wall.

We were let in without any suspicion, although I wasn't sure how long the nervous look on The White Rabbit's face would go unnoticed. We both knew the way to the dungeon, but I let him lead the way, incase something had changed since the last time that I was there. We were almost there, when I suddenly froze. I could here a clear voice singing a familiars tune from inside a room a few feet away. The other two stopped as well giving me irritated and confused looks.

"Ivory," I whispered. I did everything I could to fight the trance-like-state that the her voice provoked. I didn't have time for this, I needed to focus

"What?" Morris asked.

"Nothing," I mumbled, pulling myself back to Earth. "Let's go."

When we had reached the room that Alice and Jack were being held, we were lucky that no one was hanging around the hallway. I used my knife to pick the lock, and flung the heavy door open. Alice was leaning against the wall, the look of fear in her eyes disappeared when she saw me. Jack must have been pacing, because he was standing in the middle of the room, a look of surprise on his face.

"What are you doing here?" He asked me.

"Saving you, that's what," I told him dryly. "Come on we gotta go."

Alice shot up quickly walking out of the room, and Jack followed her. I closed the door as softly as I could, paranoid that it would make a loud enough sound to attract attention. We heard shouts coming from the down the hall and I turned to the others.

"Sounds like the distraction worked." They nodded.

We were able to get out of The House of Cards and to the train station almost too easily. The train pulled into the station the moment that we had arrived, I quickly boarded it, pulling Alice with me.

"What about the others?" The White Rabbit asked Morris.

"You can wait for them if you want, but we need to get out of here," I answered before he could.

I earned an infuriated look, and he seemed like he was about to say something, but we was interrupted by The Caterpillar and Cheshire Cat running toward us.

"Thank God," The White Rabbit murmured.

By the time anyone in The House of Cards had realized that the prisoners who were supposed to be executed that very day were missing, we were already back at the tea shop. Alice's state of shock had finally subsided and she was back to asking questions, mainly about how we were all still alive. I let one of the others answer her, my mind flowed back to hearing my sister's voice for the first time in years.

"Hatter, could I talk to you?" Jack's voice broke my train of thought.

My fist flew at his face before I had fully realized what I was doing. "You knew the whole time, didn't you?" I shouted.

The rest of the room fell silent and The Cat and Caterpillar looked like they were ready for a fight, but Jack waved his hands at them.

"It's ok," he said several time. "Could you guys give us a moment?"

They hesitantly filed into the back room of the shop. Jack waited until the door had completely closed before speaking.

"Let me explain," he started, but I cut him.

"Explain what?" My voice came out louder than I had intended. "All of this time you didn't even try to tell me, don't you think I have a right to know who I am?"

"For the longest time I had no idea where you were, when I did I was waiting for the right moment to tell you," he said sheepishly. "And I had other responsibilities."

"You mean you were to caught up in being the hero and saving every Alice." My voice was dark, and for the first time my words seemed to wound him. "If you knew me becoming queen would break the curse then why did you stop me from taking over?"

"You tried to kill Alice, that was why I stopped you," he snapped defensively. "You were no longer the girl that I knew, so I gave up on the curse to do what I thought was right." He waited for me to say something, but I was silent so he continued. "When you came back I didn't trust you at first, but when I saw how you were willing to sacrifice your own needs to help your friend, and my hope was reawakened."

"You knew that the house would make me remember," I stated and he nodded.

"Before The House of Cards was taken, my father told me that when the time was right I as supposed to take you there. Of course he had thought that we would have been able to make it to the world that you're from."

"Did you know why that place held the answers?" I was no longer shouting, but my voice was far from calm. "Did you know about Ivory?"

"No, no I swear I didn't." He hesitated for a moment before asking: "What happened to her?"

"She took The Queen's place, and it was my fault." I whispered the last part, but I knew he could hear me.

"I don't understand," his voice was soft and comforting.

"It was my fault," I said again. Part of me wanted to keep what little pride I had left and not tell the story that would end with me in tears, but I knew that he had to know. He was one of the few people who actually trusted me and I didn't want to brake that trust with more secrets.

"I wanted to go on an adventure," I started. "When we found the house she wanted to turn back, but she followed me anyway. There was a mirror inside of it, any The Queen was trapped inside. When she saw us the mirror tried to pull us in, I was able to make it to the out of the room. But I didn't help her, I let her fall."

My voice broke, and the tears I had been fighting started to spill down my cheeks. Jack put his arm around me the way that he had all those years ago. I told him about my soul being inside of Ivory and hers being inside of me. We waited until my tears had dried before letting the others back into the room.

"Your father's alive," I said before he opened the door. "They didn't kill him yet."

"How do you know?" I could tell that he didn't want to believe, incase I was wrong.

"Ivory wanted him to have to watch your execution before his own," I cringed at my own words, but couldn't think of a way to say it nicely.

"Thank you for telling me." He said with a sad smile, then opened to door, apologizing to the others for making them wait for so long.

"What are we going to do now?" Alice asked. "It's only a matter of time before they find us."

"You three need to get out of Wonderland," The Caterpillar said.

"No, I need to strike as soon as possible." I stated.

"You're not still after the throne, are you?" Morris moaned. "Hatter, it's impossible."

"But everyone will be to focused on fixing The Looking Glass so now would be the time," Jack put in, but I shook my head.

"No, The Queen's focus will be on getting rid of me, it still would be even if half of Wonderland was burning." I said flatly.

"All the more reason for you to leave Wonderland," The Cheshire Cat said through his teeth.

"I'm not leaving," my voice was more bitter than I had intended. "I just need a plan."

"You said that you would leave if you could." Alice whispered, and I tried to give her a apologetic look.

"Why is ruling Wonderland so important to you?" The Cat asked, harshly.

"Because she's The Red Queen," Jack nearly shouted.

I didn't know if I was irritated or relieved that he had told them. I was about to send him a chastising glare, but I could see that the aggravation that everyone was showing was bothering him more than me. Everyone was quite for a long moment, taking in what had just been said. I'm not sure if I had ever seen more astonished faces in my life.

"Really?" Alice asked in a small voice, braking through the silence.

"This whole time?" The White Rabbit mumbled.

"Yeah," was all I could say.

"Well that changes everything," The Caterpillar said and the others nodded in agreement.

"Do you have a plan?" Jack asked me.

"Not yet," I said. "But I don't need the rest of you to take part in it."

Jack laughed. "Don't think for a minute that I'm going to let you do this on your own."

"Jack-"

"No arguments," he cut me off, slightly grinning. "I've been involved in this from the beginning, and I'm not leaving now.

"Neither am I," Alice spoke up.

"You know I can't go back, right?" I asked her.

"Yes, but I'm not going without knowing that you're ok," she said to me. "Both of you."

"What about the rest of you?" Jack asked the group.

"We're in," The White Rabbit answered for them.

"Good."