Lizzie's POV

I had found a rock and was furiously hitting it against the lock trying to break it, I'd given up counting the minutes now or the hours but there was no longer light coming from the small barred window in the back of my cell which told me it was dark now and my Aunt still hadn't been back...I was so sick in tired of being locked up by my deranged family.

"Argh!" I brought the rock down hard but it fell out of my hands and rolled to the furthest spot possible from my cell. "Damnit!" I hit the iron bars then fell against the nearest wall. "Could really use a hook right about now" I tried to joke knowing Harry was in the cell beside me even if we couldn't see each other.

"Yeh Aunt better not bloody destroy it" he growled back since the guards had taken everything from us except the clothes off our backs including his hook.

"At least I was smart enough to not have Ace's heart on me" I sighed but I had a feeling they were ripping apart my room and it was only a matter of time before she found it. "I never should have helped him, I never should have stayed with my Aunt but I..." I trailed off.

"Yeh wanted to know her" Harry finished for me and I sighed.

"I guess I wanted to believe that there was one person in my family who wasn't deranged or...I don't know, it was stupid"

"It wasn't stupid Liza" he argued but it did nothing to ease the guilt I was feeling since this was all my fault.

"Yeah it was, I was blind in my wish to have a connection to someone I share blood with no matter how many times I've been let down in the past and now here I am as a prisoner yet again" I pulled my knees to my chest to curb the hurt I was feeling, maybe Ace was better off without a heart I mean at least he didn't have to feel anything like this. "I should know by now that I can never have what you have with your Dad, your sisters...I'm supposed to be on my own"

"Yeh not alone" he insisted. "Who cares about the people yeh share blood with, yeh mine and I'm yours remember and that's all that matters, me family cares about yer, Uma cares about yer...that's yeh family Liza, we can chose our family and we all chose yeh"

"Great speech sea-rat" a voice interrupted us and I jumped standing up in my cell looking at the one across from me since I didn't know we weren't alone but it was darker over there since that cell didn't have a window...but that voice, I recognized it.

"Ace?"

"Aw kid, you want break your dear ol' Dad's heart" my eyes widened when he came into view before I rolled my eyes.

"You ain't got one" I shot back and he smirked at me.

"That's true, your bloody Aunt found me and locked me in here before I got the chance to meet back up with you but after listening to you two I'm almost reconsidering wanting it back"

"I'm sorry, I got it but-"

"It's okay kid, I know you bloody well tried but I did warn ya about your Aunt"

"Yeah" I scoffed since I should have believed him.

"Well that's just weird, yer agreeing with each other" Harry spoke up and I chuckled a little.

"Don't worry, I still hate him"

"Hey!" Ace protested and I laughed a little since this was the most strangest conversations of my life between me, my fiancé and my father.

"How long have you been down here?" I asked turning back to Ace.

"A couple of days I reckon" he replied and I frowned since this whole time he'd been so close, I should have come down here like I had planned to with the Hatter that day I'd originally thought my Aunt had captured him. "I was on me way to see old friends when those chess pieces knabbed me while taking a nap-"

"You took a nap while on the run?" I questioned since who the hell does that.

"It wasn't my brightest idea I'll admit" he nodded and I scoffed rolling my eyes at him.

"Do you have any idea how to get out of here, you were a thief once upon a time so you must have been in a situation like this before"

"I might have" he replied but I saw the look in his eyes.

"You've got no idea" I sighed and turned away from him.

"Alright fine, I'm a bit rusty but give me some time kid and I'll get us out of here" he quickly argued.

"Well we're doomed" Harry spoke up and I laughed when I saw Ace glare in his direction.

"Oi, watch it sea-rat"

"Or what, lap-dog?" Harry shot back.

"Will you two shut up!" I exclaimed since seriously the last thing we needed was to start yelling at each other but I was amused by their arguing, the bond of a father and a future son-in-law was downright entertaining...in other circumstances. "I'm trying to think" I looked around my cell since maybe there was something I can use...anything...hang on.

I reached up into my hair which I had pulled up into a ponytail and felt for the pesky bit of hair in which I'd always had that refused to stay and I smiled when I felt the pin I'd used this morning to secure it was still in my hair.

"Yes!" I ran towards the door and grabbed the very old fashioned lock...the ones we used to have on the Isle of the Lost and that I was familiar with since I'd once tried to break into Jafar's and that place was notorious for it's fifty locks...all of which I had gotten unlocked before I made the mistake of waking that stupid parrot Iago.

"What?" Harry asked trying to see what I was doing but couldn't.

"Hang on" I told him and tried to listen closer to the lock trying to figuring out the pins.

"Looks like you take after me, after all"

"Please this is self-taught" I argued with him.

"Well remember it's all about-"

"The tumblers, I know" I rolled my eyes since I wasn't stupid and I smiled when I heard the six click and the lock sprung apart. "Like riding a bike" I pulled the bolt across and the door swung open. "Don't underestimate a Villain Kid" I smirked as I made my way towards Harry's cell and started to pick the lock but before I could really get started we all heard the heavy door which lead to the dungeons open down the hall.

"Go!" Harry told me.

"I can't leave you-"

"He's right kid you need to go, find my mirror than get out of Wonderland"

"No, I'm not leaving you down here, I'll be back" I nodded at Harry before I turned to Ace. "With your heart and the mirror than we'll all get the hell out of Wonderland" I told him then started to leave but felt a hand grab my arm and I quickly turned back to Harry.

"Be careful love"

"I promise" I nodded then leaned in and kissed him like it was the last time we'd ever kiss again.

"Oi, enough of that and get the hell out of here" Ace interrupted and we pulled apart as I felt a slight blush since while I may hate him, he was still my father and I was just making out in front of him. "There's an old tunnel to the east that'll take you out into the Tulgey Woods, now go" I nodded sending one last look at them both before I ran for it finding the tunnel that Ace mentioned and followed it escaping my Aunt but leaving behind Harry and my father.

A/N: I know this chapter isn't particularly long but I hope I make up for it with the banter the three of them exchange and that it's as funny as I thought it was when writing it and I gotta say I love the dynamic I created with Harry and Ace.

Tell me, do you think Lizzie should forgive Ace for the parts he's played in her madness?