Chapter 26 be excited! Enjoy! And, I screwed up royally. This is the real chapter 26, so if you read the old chapter 26, it wasn't real. Sorry.

"Alice?" Margret repeated, and Alice's mouth hung open as she watched her sisters through the passing by dancers. Nicholas too had stopped to stare at her sister, and then they were running. They pushed and ran through the many dancers, getting dirty looks and huffs as they did, and finally Alice landed in the familiar and read arms of her elder sister.

"Alice!" Margret cried, it was as if that was the only word she could say, and it didn't bother Alice that it was. She was much to excited to see her sister standing in front of her to care. "Thank god, we found you."

"I know," Alice replied, pulling back and smiling up at her sister whose eyes were wet with tears. "Margret, I'm so happy to see you."

"Me too," Margret told her. "But, Alice! What are you doing here?"

"What are you doing here?" Alice asked, quite confused. How did Margret find Underland? And more importantly how would she know Alice was there in the first place.

"Looking for you," Lowell explained, coming up form the side with Nicholas next to her. "What are you both doing in this mad house of a country?"

"Well…" Alice's voice trailed off, how was she supposed to explain everything off the top of her head? Right now?

Sensing her awkwardness, Nicholas turned to Margret and Lowell. "Look, why don't we go outside and talk, shall we?" the married couple nodded and Margret released Alice, walking out the doors and as Alice flowed, Nicholas pulled her back. "I'll go find, Mirana."

"Thank you," Alice whispered and she turned, following her sister out into the gardens.

Night had fallen over Underland, the sky dark and dotted with stars brighter then Alice had seen. Irisa had picked the perfect night to have a party, even if it had been interrupted for Alice with news of an unbelievably bleak and bloody battle that she didn't even know when was coming and the fact that her sister had come to Underland and now she had to explain why Alice herself was already here.

She found them in the same place she once sat, were the realization that her Wonderland actually existed as did all her friends here. The waterfall's dark water churned lighter against the black sky, star's reflections blinking and spinning off the water's surface and it looked absolutely breath taking.

Margret and Lowell were facing the scene, and from behind Alice finally got a good look at them. Their clothes were dirt and torn, they must have gone through a tough journey to get here, and Lowell's arm was around Margret's waist protectively. It was hard to believe nearly two years ago he'd been kissing one of his close friends behind her sister's back.

When Alice walked next to them and leaned onto the railing, she realized, she wasn't rather nervous. She had nothing to be ashamed of. She belonged to this world, just like her sister belonged to the real one, what was so hard to understand?

"So," Alice said awkwardly, refusing to meet the eyes of her audience. "Where would you like me to begin?"

"How about why you're here?" Lowell asked, and Alice was surprised to see that her sister was staring down at her hands.

"Well," Alice took a deep breath, and told her sister the story of how she fell down the rabbit hole as a grown woman. From the point when she fell down the rabbit hole the first time, to meeting all the mad friends here, and to slaying the jabberwocky.

Of course she took out some of the more personal details, consisting of the tense filled moments between herself and the Hatter and about Iracebeth's mad fits but otherwise she explained everything to when she crawled back out of the hole and back to the party.

"That's where I had gone when I wasn't at the party." Alice finished.

"That's impossible." Lowell scoffed. "You weren't gone for more then an hour. Everything you're just told us couldn't have happened in that short time."

"Time works funny here," Alice mused. "But I swear everything I've told you is true."

"That's impossible." Lowell stated, quite firmly.

"That," A melodious voice said from behind. "Is precisely, Underland."

Like a beam of hope the white queen floated toward the group of above landers. She looked unbelievably striking against the mostly dark background, and her lips and eyes were soft yet firm as a queen must be, and now they were begging for acknowledgement, yet commanding faith.

Lowell and Margret's eyes widened as the queen stopped next to
Alice with a smile and Alice gave the queen a small smile back.

"Your highness," Alice said formally, her tone helping to explain who this woman was to her sister and brother in law. "This is my sister Margret and her husband Lowell. Margret, Lowell, This is Mirana the queen of Underland."

"Please to make your acquaintance." Mirana said warmly with a gentle nod while Margret and Lowell stared. "It's good to minuet the family of our champion."

"You're…champion?" Margret whispered and both Alice and Mirana nodded.

Margret stood, and suddenly ran, like Alice had the day that she was told only her hand with the vopal sword could free Wonderland, but this time Alice wouldn't let the Kingsley girl cry away alone, this time she chased after her sister.

. . .

"Margret!" Alice cried, and stopped a few feet from where her sister was leaning against one of the castle walls. "Margret, what are you doing?"

Her sister had her arms around herself, staring down through the dark, her darker blonde curls falling around her face.

"Margret," alive whispered, coming close. Her sister looked up, and Alice saw that she was crying. "Margret, why?"

"Alice," Margret sobbed, her lowering her head again. "I'm so sorry"

Alice blinked. "What?"

"I'm sorry, Alice." Margret cried, looking up and wiping tears from her eyes. "Don't you see, Alice? This is my entire fault."

"What's your fault?" Alice asked, softly.

"All of this." Margret whispered then her voice grew larger. "Mother's in a coma, and that's why I came to find you. But I never thought you would be here!"

"Mother's in a coma?" Alice repeated but Margret kept speaking.

"You're here because of me, because I was so stupid and didn't watch you that day." Margret said, mostly to herself.

After a long pause, Alice ran up to her sister and grabbed her arms, forcing Margret to look into her eyes finally whispered. "What are you saying, Margret?"

"I'm saying I should have been watching you." Margret yelled. "I should have been watching you but I didn't! I kept reading my stupid book, and you fell down this hole because I told you the story wasn't real!"

Confused, you should be. What story is Margret talking about and why does this make it her fault? All will be revealed soon. Please review!