Alice. Syfy story.

Alice and Lindsey

Chapter twenty-two: Perfect Moment, For Perfect Two

(Lindsey pov.)

Alice woke me up and waned to take a walk.

Charlie was asleep and didn't want to wake him.

I didn't mind. We headed up this steep hill and looked out over the old kingdom.

"How did it go in the story again?" Alice asked me.

I thought about it. And climbed the closest tree I could find. "Well, the young girl, finds her way into a game of kroke with the queens and duchess. So, when she messes up the shot, she is asked with doing it for her, to win the game. Alice does, but the queen tries to take her head off anyway. She runs for her life."

"Which version is that?" Alice asks me.

"I've read so many, I don't even know anymore." I said. I was finally here. And I couldn't, still can't, believe I'm here.

"Lindsey. Do you want to stay here?" Alice asked.

"No way! I love the book, and thinking up a world like this or that is great, but this isn't a wonderland. Not anymore." I said. It made me sad.

"Well, Hatter isn't really mad." Alice teased. "Stop it. It's not funny anymore Alice. This is now...real. But...I can't see this life. I can't see Hatter." Mainly because I knew he liked her and not me.

"I said this before and I'll-"

"Alice. Stop trying. There's no one out there for me." I have accepted it now. I'm not ever going to have my happy ending.

"Lindsey." I could hear her tone of voice and climbed up higher to not listen to her. I was done with this.

Soon Hatter came up the hill and talked with Alice.

"Good news. The resistance wants to help. They'll send a special agent that'll take us to Caterpillar." He said. "That's quite a steep hill. You okay?" He asked her.

Alice was surprised he came back at all. Guess that shows her that not every man IS like her father. And if he is here, then he didn't leave on purpose. He was taken, like everyone else here is.

"I was beginning to think you weren't coming back." She said. I could hear the happiness in her voice. Now she was falling for Hatter. Good. He's a good man for sure I thought. I'm not jealous. I'm just happy for Alice. And he's WAY better than Jack.

"You still don't trust me?" He asked with a little chuckle behind his grin.

"How fast do they get here?" Alice asked.

"They work pretty fast when they need to." Hatter said.

Soon it was quiet. They stared out at the ruins of the old kingdom.

Hatter would be joining the fight. Dodo was right about him. And he knew it. If it were me, I'd keep his far away from that war as possibly could.

"We should head back. They'll be here any minute I'm sure." Hatter said.

"I'll meet you down there." Alice said. "Can you get here out of the tree? She's gone back to being her child-self." Alice pointed up at me.

I smiled. She knows me and trees aren't the safest pair. As she left I couldn't help but laugh. I made my way down to the lowest branch and met the stunned Hatter. "A girl needs to have some thrill of adventure when she can't do much else in a new world that's part of fiction." I teased.

Hatter chuckled. "Yea. How did you even get up there?" He asked.

I shrugged. "I'm just good at climbing trees. A close friend of mine taught me. Without him, I don't think I'd be the person I partly am today." I said.

"He sounds like a great friend." Hatter said.

"Yea. He was." I mumbled. I laughed and swung down where I'm seeing him eye to eye, but I'm upside down. "Sorry. I'd always wanted to do this!" I couldn't stop laughing.

"Sounds like you've had some crazy tea." Hatter laughed with me.

"What in the world in that?"

"A tea I made that makes people laugh like crazy." He smiled.

"Mad Tea. Sounds good to me. You drink any of it?"

"Nope. I'm not that crazy to drink it." He said. "Do you really feel that way?" He then asked me.

"What?"

"Like, Alice is always the...center of attention."

"You mean the one girl every guy wants? You didn't have to see them all drooling back in school." I scoffed. "I was never the one the guy wants. I'm no princess in the fairy tales that gets her prince. Alice is that type of girl. I'm not. I'm the side girl who watches from afar as she makes her way in life. And I'm..." Watching Alice disappear down the steep hill. "Always the one that ends up alone."

"Come on. Do you really think that?" Hatter asked me. "You are a beautiful girl, Lindsey. You are, a woman, of adventure! You may not like boats or horses, but you have this glow about you that makes you different from Alice." He said.

I kept quiet as he was getting closer to me. The thought of when I panicked back in the woods, came to mind. Why?

"You like tea, you read many books, you stand up for yourself. You know the right people to...trust." Hatter possibly realized how close he was to me.

I quickly swung myself back up, but my hands slipped, and Hatter caught me. Now who looks like the princess.

Hatter put me down and cleared his throat. "We should head back cause..."

"Yes, I heard. Let's head back." I said. We caught up with Alice in time.

As we headed down, Alice stopped. "What will happen, if we are stuck here?" She asked.

"That's not going to happen." I said. I saw Hatter getting closer to her and turned my back away. My heart was beating fast before, and now it feels like it's breaking all over again.

"Then I'll make sure both of you are okay." He said.

I didn't bother looking back at them when I heard Hatter whisper something I couldn't make out clearly to the sounds of me moving away from them. But as I landed on flat ground, "Hello Alice."

"Jack?!" I screamed.