Hello readers! :) Looks like most of you were surprised last chapter! Well then, without further ado, I present to you chapter 25!

Rose & Agatha

Agatha ran, as fast as she could to God knows where, getting herself a few cuts on the throat and near her ribs from the shadows. "Rose, are you all right?"

"Yes" she said to her, her legs chest and arms cut. "Just run and don't stop."

They began running faster. The shadows were still after them, just as fast. As they ran, they couldn't help but think their lives would end.

'I'm never going to see Ace again... Never going to touch him... Kiss him...'

'All I want is to be back in Boris' arms. To kiss him and hold him, at least one more time.'

They ran and ran but the shadows kept on coming after them. "Rose... I can't take this much longer." Her twin said panting.

"Neither can I Agatha… It's too much…" She said, just as she seemed to run straight through glass. Stumbling, the blonde collapsed down onto light green grass. No longer in the forest. She looked up, shocked, to see their mansion.

Agatha gasped when her sister disappeared. Seconds later she fell on fresh soft grass. Looking up, she saw home.

"We're back!" She said standing up. "Agatha, we're back!"

The girl was speechless. Finally back home... Part of her was delighted, but she was also heartbroken, now she never would see Ace again.

The twins decided to lay down on the grass, back in the same spot where Peter had force Rose to drink the potion.

"Can you really believe we've been to Heart Land?" Agatha asked.

"If I had gone alone I would've thought I'd gone insane." She smiled. "Thank you for coming with me Agatha."

"Hey, of course I had to go! Besides, we had a whole lot of fun didn't we?" She laughed, but still saddened.

"Who would have thought we would end up doing all those things to people we saw only as characters..."

Agatha nodded. "To think we thought mother was insane…"

Rose sighed. They should've believed in their mother. Now they were proven dead wrong to have doubted her. "Let's go inside."

They both got up, but Agatha was still curious as to how on earth they got back. They headed to Rose's room and the black haired picked up Alice's journal.

"What are you doing?" Rose asked, staring back to the plush characters.

"I want to know how we left, Rose." She sighed. "I'm glad we left because we would have been killed, but I still want to have the option to go back when I'm ready…"

"Fine, if you find something wake me up will you?" She chuckled. "All that running exhausted me…" She paused, before getting up and hugging her sister. "I really didn't think we would make it."

Agatha smiled and squeezed her sister. "To be honest, neither did I. But now that we're still alive, we have to settle things." She gave her sister a quick kiss on the cheek. "Go take a nap, I'll wake you up as soon as I find something."

And so Rose lay down on her bed, and in a couple of minutes was already deeply asleep.

The black haired twin sat down on a chair in the living room and began reading her mother's journal all over again. She was amused by her mother's encounters with the Mafia Boss. She thought of him as a selfish and arrogant man… And so did Rose. She laughed to herself. Agatha read about Peter, and how her mother couldn't stand him stalking her, but also how she understood that his true feelings were just to see her being happy. Preferably with him, but even if it was with someone else, her happiness was enough for him.

She spent hours reading, and Rose rested. Agatha finally got to an interesting part, a conversation her mother had had with Julius. They were talking of something called The Looking Glass. They didn't talk much about it, but from what was written, she learned that it wasn't exactly a mirror and that it only appeared when a heart really ached for it. In other words, it was a way to return, a portal.

She quickly ran up the stairs and shook her sister awake. "Rose, Rose!"

"Uh, Agatha? What, did you find something?" She asked drowsy.

"Yes, Rose. We seem to have passed through The Looking Glass."

"And what on earth is that?" The blonde asked confused.

"It's kind of a rare mirror, but that doesn't reflect images. It only appears when someone desperately wants to go back home. And well, I guess being chased by the afterimage is a pretty good reason for us to want to go someplace safe."

Rose thought on it for a while. "Did mother say how we could go back?"

"Well no, but I suppose that if you haven't filled the vial yet then we can look for the hole… If not, then we can't find it."

The other sister put her hand in her pocket, but she already knew the answer. She took the vial out. "I'm sorry Agatha… I've filled it."

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