Hey, guys! Hopefully this chapter will make up (to some of you) the whole Jack incident from Chapter 2! Enjoy the dreams…

Chapter 3: Confronting Hatter and Dreams

Alice walked into the bedroom, closed the door before sliding to the in tears. Hatter walked up to her and bent over her.

"Alice." He said, she looked up to him. Hatter's eyes were red with tears as well.

"Hatter, what's wro…. What did you see?" she said, eyes welling up once more.

"I saw… enough. I saw Jack kiss you." Hatter said solemnly. His little conning heart had been crushed by Alice, his true love.

"Hatter." Alice said, pulling him into an embrace. "Hatter, don't be upset or… angry. I didn't like it or want it. Jack came on to me. I'm so sorry. Hatter…" before Alice could finish, Hatter spoke.

"He what!?" he was furious. "I'll kill 'im!"

"Hatter, just leave it be. You could try and fail and… and I don't want to lose you again. You have me, not Jack. Don't you know that? I love you and no one else." Alice said softy within her teary voice. As she spoke she pulled him closer.

"Alice…" he whispered into her ear. "I love you. I'm still upset but I love you." He kissed her and they went to the bed.

After there confrontation and everything else that had happened today, Alice and Hatter's heads swam in weary dreams, doubts for who knows what but most of all each other. Alice dreamt first of Hatter.

In her dream, Hatter and her were on a picnic. They were enjoying the sound of the waves crashing on the beach, eroding the little bits of sand upon which they sat. The sun shone bright and everything was right in the world. This scene of perfection quickly changed though. The sun disappeared behind monstrous clouds of black from which rain fell in buckets. They gathered their belongs and ran but before they could get far enough away and to shelter, a wave came up and swallowed Hatter up. He was gone.

This scared Alice and she made it known as she woke from this terror in a scream.

"HATTER!" was all she yelped as she bolted up right.

Hearing this, Hatter himself couldn't help but check on her, waking fully and wrapping her in his arms as she began to cry softly.

"Alice. Shh. Calm down, it was only a dream." Hatter cooed as she continued to cry on his shoulder.

"It… it was awful… Hatter. You… you died." He tears engulfed her once more in a fury. Hatter rubbed her shoulders and whispered soothing things in her ear. He continued to do this even when she had fallen into a deep sleep once more. Not long after did he follow her in sleep and then enter a dream world himself.

In his dream, Hatter sat in his office chair at the Tea Shop. It was the same as it had been when Alice had first met him and fallen through the looking glass.

"Hatter, you are truly mad!" she laughed, sitting on his lap. His arms circled her small frame.

"Says the girl in the blue dress." He sniggered before planting a kiss on her pink lips. As they got deeper into the kiss and started to melt away from reality, the Tea Shop gained their attention.

SMASH! POP! POP!

The tea bottles were exploding around them and the building ignited. They both got out of the chair.

"Alice, come on, we have to get out of here." Hatter called as he made it to the ladder. Alice didn't move a muscle though. She just stood as glass shards whizzed by her face. She stood, petrified of her surroundings and of the heights she would have to face to descend to safety.

"Alice!" Hatter called to her once more. He looked to her as she opened her mouth. A heart stopping scream cut through the chaos. Unfortunately, that's what happened, the heart stopping bit. A shard of the window was glistening in her ruby blood as it protruded from her breast. It killed her.

"No." Hatter whimpered. "Alice, NO!" he yelled into the air. She was gone and there was nothing he could do. He couldn't protect her from danger. He, Hatter, had failed the one person who made him truly happy.

Hatter woke from the dream in a sweat. He could feel an ooze on his fingers and immediately checked Alice. He looked at her, seeing nothing wrong. She was fine, perfect. There was no shard of glass breaking her pale, perfect skin that he loved so.

Hatter looked at the sleeping figure of Alice next to him some more. He them went from just staring to stroking her silky brown locks and she stirred into a state of consciousness.

"Hatter." Alice whispered, a small smile creeping across her face as though she was waking from a very good dream.

"Yes love?" he asked softly, moving a strand of hair from her face. Alice didn't respond though, she had fallen back to sleep. Hatter followed not even a minute later.

Hope you enjoyed Chapter 3! Please Review this chapter and tell me what you thought of the dreams!

Love, As Always,

The Poison Owl

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