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Prompt 38: Unexpected

Kitty was at a loss for words. Her father has last appeared to her several months ago, and all of the sudden, he was back. She wanted to do a lot of things right in that moment. She wanted to scream and kick him where it hurt. She wanted to yell and destroy him. He was above all the last person he wanted to see right in that moment.

But before she could do any of those things, a tentacle from her dad's back slid around and covered her mouth. Before she could moan, her father held a finger up to his non-existent mouth. Kitty was still going to scream when his tentacle let go, but her father shook his head and walked past her and around the cornor.

"Have you cut the cables yet?" her father asked using his telepathy. Kitty peered around the corner to see that the hare was shaking his head.

"Nope! Stupid Wonderlandian rope. I know I helped create it and everything, but seriously, so annoying to have to cut it myself," the hare said. It took Kitty a moment to realize she knew who the hare was. He was a fellow Wonderlandian and Maddie's father's best friend, the March Hare. After the connection between Ever After and Wonderland was restored, she knew Maddie's dad was looking for his friend, but he was nowhere to be found.

"We must hurry," Slender said. "My daughter's in that elevator. We need to make this thing crash so she can't be a hindrance to us."

Kitty did a double take for a moment. On one hand, her father wanted her dead. That didn't make her love him any more than she already did, which wasn't much at all. On the other hand… her dad knew she wasn't in the elevator. What was he thinking?

"Alright! Geez. You know, sometimes I look back on teaming up with you to gain glory for my story was a bad idea," he muttered, pushing the shears harder.

"You know you want more people to recognize you," Slender said. "I come from a world where we aren't myths: we're cold hard reality. And people fear us. You're lucky to be seen as harmless."

"Harmless? Please, the only good thing about my story was the Hatter," the March Hare grumbled. "But look what he thought of our friendship? Abandoned me for no reason! Pfft, whatever. Killing the daughter of the Cheshire Cat will show Wonderland who the true Wonderlandian is! You sure killing your daughter is ok with you?"

Her father shrugged. "Let it be what it is," he said. The March Hare shrugged, and, with one last push, snapped the wires. Kitty could hear the scraping of the elevator down below as it fell quickly down the shaft. And she screamed.

Everything after that happened so quick, Kitty couldn't comprehend it. She teleported to where the March Hare stood, and, with no warning what-so-ever, pushed him into the shaft. The Hare gave her a look of surprise as he fell down below. Kitty spun around, angry and hateful toward her father, and was ready to shove him down the shaft too.

But he was nowhere to be seen.

Alistair kept low as the elevator dropped. This was it. He was going to die here in an elevator. He sighed to himself, accepting his death. He just silently hoped that Kitty would never blame herself for his death. She tried her best. He knew she did.

However, quite suddenly, the elevator stopped, sending Alistair slightly airborne. He groaned at the pain, but managed to rise from his position on the floor. He looked around a moment and saw nothing out of the ordinary. A loud BANG was heard at the top of the elevator and he could have sworn he heard a moan.

"Is someone up there?" Alistair called. There was no reply for a moment. Alistair shrugged, and was about to see if the door would open before the ceiling broke and scattered around him. Alistair managed to dodge the harder debris as a giant hare fell down into the elevator with him.

"Ungrateful devil spawn," the hare muttered and glared at Alistair. "You too, even though you didn't shove me down an elevator shaft."

Alistair silently thanked Kitty in his mind, since he figured she could be the only one who could have possibly saved him. Before Alistair could ask the hare any questions, the doors slid open. And outside of them revealed Kitty's father, holding the elevator up with all his strength.

"Get out! I can't hold this thing for too long!" he said. The March Hare didn't hesitate and bolted out of the car. Alistair caught Kitty's father faceless glance. He nodded and slipped on out. Kitty's father nodded, and was about to let go…

… only to be kicked hard in the upper body. Kitty's father let go of the elevator, his upper half in the elevator car. The car, not being held up anymore, dropped, slicing him in two. His lower torso shortly fell after the top half, leaving Alistair in complete horror.

BN: *whistles until he's beaten to death* Ok, so this didn't really bring in the Christmas spirit. I killed Kitty's dad. Yeah, that totes screams Christmas spirit! *someone beats him to death again* Ok! Geez, I get it! Basically, I wanted to portray Kitty's father in two lights. One, in front of Kitty, as a complete jerk who didn't appear to care for his daughter. Two, away from Kitty, a hero who knew how much she relied on her boyfriend. Her dad loved her, he just didn't know how to show it in front of her. However, for plots to work, I had to have the March Hare, who is in no way a good guy, backstab him and kill him. But don't worry. His plot isn't done just yet. (Remember, I love happy endings.)

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