Authors Note: 10 years later and the Syfy version of Alice is still the best adaptation of Alice of Wonderland, in my humble opinion. As much as I like Alice's character, I decided to create an OC (her sister). In the first half of the show I really believe Alice is in love with Jack so I've kept them together. Elizabeth reacts to Wonder land much differently than her sister. I only own my OC. This story is also posted on AO3.

For all of Elizabeth's life she'd been compared to Alice, but she knew she wasn't anything like her older sister. Elizabeth sometimes wondered if they had anything in common at all. When they were young, they had been as thick as thieves but as they got older, they grew apart and their differences became much more apparent. The Hamilton sisters were complete opposites. Alice was slim and had dark hair, while Elizabeth was rounder and had lighter brown hair. Alice was athletic with her martial arts and Elizabeth was less so, so she stuck to her music and singing. Alice was a type A that liked everything in order and in place, while Elizabeth was laid back. The list went on and on.

Elizabeth was younger by only a year but with the way Alice lauded her assumed authority over her sister it seemed like Alice was her second mother at times. Alice was always her mother's favorite and Elizabeth felt like she never could quite get Carol's approval. Elizabeth wasn't the overachiever that Alice was and sometimes that caused her and her mother to butt heads. She knew her mother loved her and she loved her mother too. They just didn't click the way Alice and her did.

Alice taught classes at a Dojo near their apartment, while Elizabeth worked at a coffee shop and played open mic nights in attempt to get her music out there. Both still lived at home with their mother. Living in the city was expensive and their mother was happy her girls stayed even if she tried to guilt Elizabeth from time to time. Elizabeth did her best contributing to the bills but she knew her mother and Alice would never support her dreams. Her father would've if he would've stuck around.

It was odd, Elizabeth had always been closer to their father when they were younger but it was Alice who was obsessed with finding him. It'd been fifteen years since their father just disappeared without a trace. After the police found no leads for months the case was eventually forgotten. They had to come to terms with the possibility that he left on his own. Elizabeth felt as though if he didn't want to be around, then there was nothing to do about it. But he was the one that always told her to follow her dreams no matter how hard they were or unpopular. That advice was what she chose to hold on to from him. Maybe he just had different dreams to follow, that took him away from them.

Elizabeth was on her way home from another flopped mic night. She sang well enough the but crowd was small and tips were lousy. Alice was having her boyfriend over for dinner that night and hadn't even invited her. She'd met Jack once. He was nice but nothing special in Elizabeth's opinion anyway. He seemed too rigid, uncomfortable almost but Alice always did like structure. Elizabeth didn't particularly want to sit at a dinner where their mother gushed over Alice's new paramour but an invitation would've been nice.

Elizabeth walked down the wet sidewalk nearing their apartment, when she saw Alice running into the alley.

"Alice?" Elizabeth called out, but her sister kept running. "Alice!"

For a split second she thought of letting her sister handle her own problem, whatever it was but she knew her mother would ream her if she didn't help her sister.

Groaning, Elizabeth ran down the alley. Spotting her sister's blue dress, she heard her sister yelling after Jack. Was her boyfriend running away from her? She followed Alice into a warehouse when she saw the most bizarre thing, Alice falling into a mirror but instead of it breaking Alice disappeared into the mirror. Elizabeth approached the mirror cautiously. Shaking Elizabeth reached out and her hand disappeared as well.

"What the fuck?" Elizabeth cursed.

She tried to pull her hand back but it wouldn't budge. She pulled too hard and her weight rocked forward falling fully into the mirror.

Elizabeth fell through the air, at least she assumed it was air, until she fell to the ground. She didn't hit as hard as she expected to but it still hurt. She looked around. She had landed in a patch of grass but in a run-down building that appeared to be flooded. She realized she'd lost her purse in the fall.

Looking up Elizabeth caught sight of Alice running down the hall. She knew then she should've faked a cold that night and stayed in bed. Chasing Alice, Elizabeth could see that her sister was chasing some old man with pig tails in his white hair. Bold choice for a man that age Elizabeth thought.

Elizabeth followed them out a set of double doors skidding to a stop outside. The buildings were extremely high in the air. The wind blew her back to the building as she tried to figure out what the hell was going on. Making sure she made sure to watch her step she followed where Alice went. Although she could see Alice now, she didn't want to draw attention from the wrong person by yelling.

A large what Elizabeth could only describe as a spaceship flew nearby and shined a light on them. She quickly stepped back into the shadows to get out of the spotlight. Elizabeth felt something warm on her collar bone. She looked down to see the edges of a green leaf like tattoo appear. She looked up to see Alice going inside a building.

Elizabeth followed her into the building that had White Rabbit on the doors. She finally caught up to Alice in the hallway.

"Alice!" She panted trying to catch her breath.

"Elizabeth? What are you doing here?!"

"I've been chasing you since the alley. I thought you were in trouble. And where the hell is here anyway?" Elizabeth asked looking around them.

"You shouldn't have done that. I'm a black belt remember. And I have no idea where this is." Alice scolded her.

"Why are you chasing some old dude?"

"Some guys took Jack and want a ring he gave me."

"He gave you a ring?! You've been dating like what two months?" Elizabeth's voice rose.

"Shhh. Two and a half." Alice defended.

Elizabeth rolled her eyes.

"More importantly," Alice continued, "these men took Jack and I need to help him."

Elizabeth groaned but followed her sister down the creepy hallway, but suddenly the hallway floor gave way falling into a slide of sorts. The sisters slid through the muck that was on the dirty floors.

I knew I shouldn't have done drugs in college. This is just a bad trippy dream. Or maybe karma. Elizabeth thought as they slid through who knows what.

The girls landed in a white padded room. On the far side of the room there was a table with a small bottle of red liquid labeled 'Curiosity-killed the cat'.

"I don't like this." Elizabeth said.

Alice looked through a slot in the wall and whispered.

"Oh my god."

"What? What is it?"

Alice didn't have a chance to answer because the padded wall slid shut locking the girls in and then all the walls started moving in on them. The room shrank forcing them to squeeze together.

"Oh God this is a nightmare! Wake up Elizabeth, wake up!" Elizabeth pinched herself.

"Calm down. I am here too. It's not a dream."

"Not really helping Alice." Elizabeth scoffed.

The old man Alice had been chasing appeared at one of the slots cutting off her complaining.

"You shouldn't have followed me." He warned and then shut them in.

The space was then lifted, it felt like the whole room was swaying.

"What are you doing?" Elizabeth asked panicking as Alice used a hair pin and poked around the bottom slots where daylight was shining in.

"Trying to find a latch..." Alice grunted as the floor suddenly gave way and the girls grabbed onto the edge of the box.

They were high in the sky above water being carried by something flying.

"I can't hold on." Elizabeth gasped looking up at her hands slipping off the edge.

"Try." Alice grunted.

But soon Elizabeth lost her grip and her sister fell after her. Elizabeth screamed until she hit the water. Rising to the surface she coughed and sputtered, as Alice swam to her

side.

"What. Is. Happening?!" Elizabeth cried completely confused about everything at the moment.

"I don't know but I didn't think we wanted to stay in that box. Let's swim to shore. Hurry." Alice took charge and Elizabeth followed her swimming to shore.

The two girls swam towards the buildings on shore. The water flowed into the city in canals, like Venice but much creepier. They pulled themselves up on a dock of some kind only to run into a greasy looking man with a knife. Alice immediately put herself in front of Elizabeth, who was shaking. From fear or the cold water, she wasn't entirely sure.

The man's demeanor immediately changed upon hearing Alice's name. He said he could help them find Jack if they followed him.

"Yeah right, we're going to be chopped up into little pieces and never found!" Elizabeth hissed.

"Would you please shut up?" Alice begged and continued to follow the homeless man anyway.

The greasy man told them to cover their ivy tattoos and to wait a moment before following him inside a building that had red marque letters saying 'Tea House'.

When they got inside, they found it much like a bidding floor of a rundown WallStreet. People were buying and selling stuff but they couldn't quite tell what. Bottles filled with different colored liquids were labeled with emotions.

"I have to be fucking dreaming." Elizabeth mumbled. It was the only feasible explanation, just a really vivid dream.

Just when the chaos was getting overwhelming the greasy man returned and led them to a back room of sorts. There was white furniture with a desk and other odds and ends, but the floor was lush green grass. Whoever they were led to was facing the other way. Elizabeth could just see a top of a hat sticking above the back of the chair. A voice called out.

"Would you like a cup of tea?"

"I would love one." Elizabeth said the same time as Alice said no thank you.

Her sister gave her a hard look. Elizabeth shrugged. She was cold and wet, tea sounded good.

Alice spoke up addressing the mystery man.

"No, no tea. Who are you?"

The man turned around in his chair. He wore a loud paisley shirt with a brown leather jacket, his hair was wild underneath the hat he wore. The stranger was good looking Elizabeth noticed. Jeez I need to get laid, she thought, I'm even thinking strange beings in what must be a drug induced hallucination are attractive. His scruffy jaw, and what

Elizabeth was pretty sure was guyliner, actually worked for him.

When Hatter spun his chair around, he was surprised to find a very different kind of delivery than Ratty usually brought him. There were two very pretty and very wet women standing with Ratty. He noticed how different the two looked but they had similarities as well that he couldn't quite place. Hatter knew immediately from their odd dress that they were oysters.

"A friend." He said as though it was obvious. "I hope."

He had some kind of accent that Elizabeth couldn't place.

"My name is Hatter and I run the tea shop." He informed them as the greasy man tried to uncover their tattoos. Elizabeth leaned away from him to prevent him from getting any closer.

Hatter noticed one of the oyster's obvious discomfort of Ratty's closeness.

"See?" The greasy man pointed out the green leaves on Alice's arm.

Hatter stood up and walked out from behind his desk.

"How did you break out of the scarab?"

"What, the space ship thing?" Elizabeth asked.

"I used my hair pin and..." Alice trailed off.

"Fell." He nodded.

"And as you can see, we're soaked." Elizabeth pointed out.

She had on skinny jeans that were now uncomfortably wet, a tank top and an olive green, silk bomber jacket that was probably now ruined.

Hatter took a better look at the oysters. One had a serious face with intense blue eyes scrutinizing his every move. Her dress looked impractical but he assumed that they hadn't planned on an interdimensional trip. He looked at the other and was struck at her softness. Her dark eyes were so welcoming and warm. He had an odd desire to pull her in his arms and warm her up.

He nodded and for the first time Elizabeth made eye contact with him. Yep she was definitely crazy or high, or both, because her body was reacting to the handsome man as she flushed underneath his gaze. His eyes stayed on her even as Alice asked him a question.

"What is this place?" Alice asked.

"Oh," He pointed up, "Wonderland." He said like it was obvious.

But things were falling into place for Elizabeth. Looking glass, white rabbit, mad hatter.

"You've got to be shitting me." Elizabeth cursed out loud.

The man widened his eyes in surprise but smirked at Elizabeth's outburst.

"You mean the kids story?" Alice said not believing what he was saying.

"Does this look like a kid's story to you?" He said seriously.

Elizabeth boiled over and laughed hysterically throwing her head back.

"My fucking luck," she turned to Alice, "I follow you into your name sake! An acid trip of a world. Why couldn't it have been my name sake? The lovely English countryside. A handsome Mr. Darcy waiting for me."

"Elizabeth shut up!" Alice held her hand out cutting her off of her rambling.

Hatter smirked at the sharp words from the soft beauty. He like the attitude she was giving. Plus her laughter was contagious.

"I know nothing of this 'English countryside' but here, it's changed a lot." The good-looking man told them.

"So you're saying that its real? Wonderland is real?" Alice was having trouble grasping the concept.

"You oysters don't know how to find us, so you tell yourselves we don't exist. And quite frankly we'd like to keep it that way." Although he wasn't too upset with having them in his tea shop, well one of them anyway.

"Why are we oysters?" Alice asked. Elizabeth rolled her eyes her sister didn't study her name sake as much as Elizabeth did.

Hatter approached and looked at both their marks. Elizabeth slid her jacket back a bit so he could have a look. She was much more okay with him coming close than the greasy dude even if he was the Mad Hatter.

The small peek of her collar bone had Hatter feeling the first rushes of a lust tonic. He quickly turned his attention to the other overwhelmed for a moment at the feeling rising in his gut.

"These. Won't come off I'm afraid. Sorry. Only people from your world turn green in the light. It's the suits way of branding their catch. And they call you oysters because of the shiny little pearls inside ya."

Elizabeth took a step forward and whispered to her sister.

"From my recollection of the story it does not end well for the oysters."

"She's Alice." The greasy guy spoke up.

"Wow, really?" Hatter approached again. He circled the two girls like he was sizing them up.

"Yes, my name is Alice and this is my sister Elizabeth." Alice said wary of his circling.

"Well Ratty here thinks you're Alice, of Legend."

Greasy man was named Ratty, fitting Elizabeth thought.

"She's already got a huge ego let's not give her any more reason to make it bigger." Elizabeth suggested.

"Elizabeth, I said shut it." Alice growled out of clenched teeth. "Who is Alice of Legend?"

"Seriously Al? Alice in Wonderland? Through the Looking Glass? You were fucking named after her. Jeez I can't believe people think you're the smart one."

Alice elbowed her in the side. Hatter spoke about the so-called Alice of Legend.

"The last time a person named Alice came here from your world, she brought down the whole house of cards, made quite an impression but that was 150 years ago. It can't be the same girl oysters don't even live that long."

"I'm just Alice."

"I want a good price." Ratty demanded interrupting their conversation.

"Wait a minute we are not for sale." Her sister argued.

Hatter held up his finger to silence Alice.

"Just Alice, I want the other one." Ratty grabbed Elizabeth's arm.

"Whoa no way in hell buddy." Elizabeth pulled back ripping her arm out of his grip.

Ratty moved to grab her again but Hatter stopped him by grabbing his arm. Ratty winced. Hatter knew the damage he could do to Ratty and he wanted to do right then and there for putting his hands on her but he stopped himself. He figured if he wanted the women to trust him violence would not be the way.

Hatter must've had a strong grip. The thought of strong hands led Elizabeth's down a naughty path. The threat was clear from Hatter's face but then he released Ratty and offered him a deal. He went behind his desk and grabbed two colored bottles. He said something about human excitement and throwing in a small bit of luck. What stuck out to Elizabeth was the words 'oysters drained'. If they were oysters that did not sound promising.

Alice asked what he meant by that, but he changed the subject. He didn't need them freaking out.

"Ratty tells me you're looking for someone." He said as Ratty ran off with his reward.

"His name is Jack Chase. He was taken by someone with a white rabbit on his lapel." Alice told him with a hopeful tone in her voice.

Elizabeth moved to sit on the white couch. She was exhausted and had no fight in finding Alice's boyfriend Jack. Sure the guy was nice by New York standards but Elizabeth had a feeling it was every man for himself in this world. Alice glared at her but continued talking with the man.

She listened in on the nonsense. White rabbits work with suits who use the looking glass to vanish people from their world to this one to use in a casino. Not creepy at all, Elizabeth thought sarcastically.

As he explained everything to 'just Alice' he kept flitting his eyes to Elizabeth on his couch.

"How do I get to this casino?" Alice asked, clearly ignoring all the warning signs.

"That's the thing you don't. Way too dangerous."

"Aww darn. Well it looks like we should be getting home Alice. Say thank you to the nice man." Elizabeth stood up and tried to pull Alice but she wouldn't budge.

"No I'm not leaving without Jack." Alice argued.

"Ugh! You are ridiculous." Elizabeth groaned dropping her head back in frustration.

"You should listen to your sister Alice." Hatter gestured to Elizabeth.

Alice held her ground.

"But I know somebody." Hatter eventually conceded when Alice wasn't giving up.

When Hatter realized he was actually going to have to take them through Wonderland he decided to grab 'just Alice' a jacket. He figured he wouldn't win any bonus points with Elizabeth if he let her sister freeze.

Elizabeth could barely focus on his words with that accent of his washing over her as he explained his connections but she did notice him grab Alice a jacket. Elizabeth was fine with the one she wore she supposed and tamped down the irrational jealousy that rose in her belly as he handed Alice the jacket.

"And why would you help us?" Alice asked skeptical of his help.

"Do I need a reason to help two pretty girls that are soaking wet?" Hatter meant for it to be flirtatious but he heard how leering it sounded.

He eyes looked them up and down but Elizabeth looked away not being able to stand more guys lusting after her sister. She'd seen this before when they were together and men took noticed of them, well her.

Alice looked affronted of course. She always thought she was above the attention but she was always the one with boyfriends. Alice could never commit to any of them though. Elizabeth wondered if this Jack guy was any different. He gave her a ring for goodness sakes.

Hatter hadn't meant to offend Alice. He quickly looked over to Elizabeth to see if he offended her too but she seemed to not be paying attention looking around his spacious office.

"Do you know why they call me Hatter?" He wanted to give them a reason to trust him, just a chance.

"Because you wear a hat?" Alice guessed.

"No because I'm always there when they pass the hat so to speak. Philanthropy. Call it whatever you want. And seeing you two standing there, there's nothing else I want than to help you find..." He was at a loss of Alice's boyfriend's name.

Elizabeth spoke up.

"Jason." She smirked saying the wrong name on purpose.

"Jack." Alice glared at her and corrected her.

"Jack. And return you all to your charming world of children's stories."

Hatter smiled at Elizabeth for her wrong name joke and she got lost in watching him move around the room. He wasn't incredibly tall but Elizabeth was short so that wasn't a problem. Stop! She yelled in her mind. He's potentially not real, Elizabeth still wasn't sure if she was on drugs or not. And if not he was from a completely different world, literally. Plus he kept eyeing Alice and not her so why bother. But as she sulked in her thoughts, she didn't notice his eyes tracing her.

Hatter was explaining his position in Wonderland but his eyes kept drifting to Elizabeth. He would avert his eyes to not get caught. He didn't understand what it was about her but he wanted to watch her, to get close to her, have her eyes on him, if her damn sister would get out of the way.

"Lots of scratching." Hatter ended his explanation of how he could help them find this guy.

Elizabeth returned to the conversation confused on what was going on.

"Eww like crabs?" She said.

Hatter looked genuinely confused and it made Elizabeth laugh hard. When she was done, she found Alice glaring at her per usual but Hatter had a look of amusement on his face.

Hatter had no idea what she was talking about with the crabs but he enjoyed watching her laugh anyway. He could see the underlying anxiousness in her face though. The oyster was taking it all in stride though.

"I'm over your jokes Lizzie. This is serious." Alice chastised as she put the jacket Hatter gave her on.

"Not my name." Elizabeth grumbled.

"Do try to keep up." Hatter led them to an orange door that looked like it led nowhere but a ladder connected to the side of the building went down.

Elizabeth instantly thought she really didn't want to find out if it was a dream or not by falling off a building and dying.