CH 2 I Think I was Dead

by OhFrabjousDay

It was white. Everything was white, and it hurt too much to look at anything. Harry felt heavy and could not move or feel anything. He heard a choked whimpering noise near him and thought he heard Dumbledore calling his name nearby before darkness swallowed him once more.

The second time he woke did not quite feel like waking should. It came too quickly to be natural, and was a clawing, aching thing that sat in his head and pushed down on his chest. He could not remember how to breathe, until he was suddenly hyperventilating, and he could not move until he was suddenly bolt upright, blinking his eyes open and grasping around for his glasses.

Opening his eyes, he found his destroyed glasses just beyond his reach. Reaching to grab the busted frames and powdered lenses, he searched his pockets for a wand with his other hand. He found his replacement wand alright, snapped in at least three places, and cracked quite badly in another. He wailed in frustration, how was he going to be able to see without a wand to repair his glasses? Or better yet, how was he to get out of this extremely deep hole without a wand?

"I thought it was rightly dead, didn't you, Tweedledum?"

"Righto, Tweedledee, I swears I saw it with a crushed skull not two minutes ago, didn't you?"

Harry whipped his head up at the exchange and choked on his breath, trying to calm himself down. Gaping at the realization that he could see perfectly fine, he patted his face in shock, his hands coming away tacky with an awful lot of half-dried blood.

Rubbing his hands on his trousers in a casual dismissal of his death that he would have to ponder later, Harry looked back up. Taking in his surroundings as he eyed the two before him, he wondered if he had truly going mad. Before him stood two boys, hand in hand, dressed identically in what he would have to identify as Victorian-era garb. They had curly light brown hair and were quite short, looking to be about seven years old. Behind and around them were giant plants as tall as twelve feet, giant mushrooms, huge dandelions, massive lilacs and enormous blades of grass to name a few. As he looked back to the two boys, they sported mischievous grins and their hair flashed red.

"Well it seems loud and alive now, eh George?"

"Right, Fred"

Wait, what? Fred had died. He saw it. What was this? Was he imagining things?

He blinked and shook his head and when he looked again their hair was the light brown it had been before. Ouch. Shaking his head had been a horrible idea.

"Shaking your head right after your bashed-in head has mended is a poorly idea, don't you think Tweedledee?"

"Oh, most definitely brother-mine! I wouldn't recommend it to anyone!"

"He-Hello," Harry croaked. "Where am I? What happened?"

"What's happened, he says."

"That's what we'd like to know!"

"Yes, how'd you come about Rabbit's secret magic escape hole?"

"Yes, how did you? It's supposed to stay secret!"

"Well brother, at least it punished the boy and killed him."

"True, there is that. Rabbit will be pleased to know it worked."

"But it didn't work, he came alive again!"

"Oh. Right."

Both brothers looked back at Harry and pouted, as though he had spoiled all their fun.

"Well sorry to spoil your fun by not dying properly," he snarked gruffly, his frustration and confusion mounting enough to make him lash out at the boys.

"That's alright-"

"-We forgive you!" The twins replied in sing-sing voices.

"Er- thanks," Harry replied cautiously. "Where am I? This cannot be at the bottom of a super long hole!"

"Why you're in Wonderland, sir!" One of the boys replied.

"My name is Harry. Just Harry."

"What an odd name. I'm Tweedledum."

"And I'm Tweedledee"

"Right, nice to meet you," Harry said shortly. "Listen, I'm kind of in a hurry, I was on my way to go do something important, and if I don't get there soon a lot of people will die and it'll be all my fault!"

"What a lot of pressure he's under! No wonder he's so snippy, eh brother?"

"It's too bad you can't get out the way you came in."

"Right, everyone knows that."

"You'll have to go see the Queen!" They finished in unison.

Harry paled in dismay and turned to look behind him. It was true. Any sort of tunnel or opening behind him had well and truly vanished.

AN:

So... Sound good so far? How do you like the twins? Are the twins the twins? Or is it all just in Harry's mind? Such plans, guys... Very muchly plans...