We fell through the vortex of colors, attempting to catch our breath as we went. This wasn't supposed to be happening! I wasn't supposed to be going back! This was the same vortex of colors, the same hard to breat air, the same everything as it was 10 years ago. I could feel the air rushing past us as we fell for what felt like hours, but it was mere minutes. When we finally fell to the hard ground, I jumped up as Alice got her bearings. The Looking Glass really did a number on people from her world. I looked around at the rundown building and saw water filled most of the floor around us with wires hanging from the ceiling.

"Hello?" Alice called out making me jump. I hadn't noticed her getting up next to me. I heard water splashing and turned me head towards it to see the man from before running away from us. "Hey!" We chased the man down the hallway and I stopped behind Alice when she looked down another one with double doors at the end. "Wait!" She ran through the doors and she immediately pressed her back against the wall. I looked around to see the city my mother and I had made our way through 10 years prior, only, it was darker now. "What is this place?"

"Looks like a city." I told her and guilt filled my gut. I hated not telling her the truth. This was my home, or it used to be. When my mother ruled, the city was never this rundown.

"Hey!" I turned as Alice ran after the man again. He turned a corner quickly with the two of us following quickly. "Wait!" Alice carefully stayed away from the edge as we ran, never breaking her speed after him. Watching him I could he was used to the city as it is. Me? I was comfortable here, but this was a far cry from what I was used to. We continued chasing him until we got to a corner of a building and watched as two other men drug an unconscious Jack into a building with the man we'd been chasing behind them, turning to see if he could spot us closing in on them. "Jack."

"Come on!" The man ordered before moving ahead of them to get the door. He opened the door and watched the only way in to see if we were there before following them inside. Alice and I waited until the door was closed before running across the bridge to the double doors. On the door was a picture of a white rabbit to its shoulders where an upside down triangle with an eye in the center sat. The words White Rabbit were written on a white ribbon under the eye. The Order of the White Rabbit. They used to be my mothers spies around the kingdom informing her what troubled her people. Alice went from the door to the window, trying to see what was inside. She looked at me and shook her head before I opened the door. We peeked inside, but all we saw were vine covered walls. We both turned when we heard something flying closer to us. The door closed as we moved back towards the stairs in time to see a large beedle like machine with what looked like a search light. The light moved towards us as Alive put her arm above her eyes to protect them. The light touched Alice's arm and my hand, but Alice's grew a green tattoo like mark and I quickly moved my hand out of the light. I examined my hand. Nothing. Maybe it only changed people from Alice's world? But if so, why? Alice and I shared a confused look before going into the building. Alice tried to wipe the mark off her arm once inside, but it wouldn't disappear.

"Come on," I told her quietly and we walked slowly though the main hall. When we got to the end it only went in two directions, and only of those directions had a light at the end. In the lit room was a bottle filled with pink liquid sitting on a table. Curious its overtook us and we slowly made our way to it. She picked up the bottle and looked at the tag. On one side it had CURIOUSITY in a typed font. On the other side someone had hand written killed the cat! She put the bottle down and I looked at the room. It was a padded white room which made my mind flash to an insane asylum I'd seen on tv. About waste high were small, thin sliding doors used to look in on the room. Alice moved to one and I knelt beside her as she opened the door. We looked inside to see people laying in boxes with the green mark on them.

"Oh my god!" She whispered.

"What?" I asked her curiously.

"I know that man." She told me pointing to what looked like a homeless man. "He didn't have that green mark but he was on the corner asking for money earlier today. I have him apples. What's happened to him?" I turned quickly to see the entry we had come in through sealing with its own padded wall, the table and bottle mysteriously gone.

"Alice!" Alice quickly stood and pushed her back into the wall staring at the former enterence.

"Hey!" She threw herself at the new, padded wall and started banging on it. Shortly after, the ceiling started moving down on us and we each cowered in our own corners as the room grew dark until the ceiling stopped moving and the wall I was on pushed me closer to Alice. The two of us yelled and tried stopping the walls until our once well lit big room was the size of a crate. We heard one of the viewing doors open and looked to see the the man looking in at us.

"Good, we have them." He told somebody. "Take them away."

"Let us out of this thing!" Alice ordered as I kicked the viewing door angrily.

"Temper... Temper..."

"What the hell is this place?" She asked him.

"You shouldn't have followed me, little oysters." He said before removing himself from our sight.

"Hey!" Alice called after him. Through the viewing door we watched him begin to walk away.

"Come back here you slimy son of a-" my words were cut off by the room we were in was lifted off the ground.