Severus was about to spell the improved nutrient potion into Harry when the boy opened his eyes. He didn't notice the bright green eyes following his every movement as he get the potions ready and was a little surprised when he turned to do the deed and found green eyes watching him intently. Severus stared, his mind blanking for a second when he realised that the boy's eyes was nothing like his mother's had been.

His eyes were too bright, too sharp, too wide, too intense and most of all, alarmingly old. But most of all there was a disturbing glint that Severus just couldn't put his fingers on. It slipped away like slippery eels each time he tried to grasp it, as if his mind couldn't or wouldn't let the term become clear. Shaking his head to clear the sudden fog obscuring his most potent sense, he decided to call Poppy and was about to leave when he heard a small, shy voice asking him quietly to please stay.

Alarmed, for he knew that it was words not spoken by lips but by way of mind, Severus turned to the boy only to find his terribly pale skin colouring like a creeping blush and his wide green eyes shifting like a guilty person. Albus had informed the necessary staff about Harry's mind magic that has never been heard or recorded. What was more alarming, he had pointedly told Severus that perhaps no Occlumens could stop the boy's mind prodding no matter their skill and being one of the best Occlumens out in the field, Severus was shaken that his shield didn't even stop the boy's mental call.

Taking in a shaky breath, he approached the son of his nemesis and the woman that he revered. He stared into the boy's eyes and found himself standing in an underwater town. Severus immediately stops breathing but then he was facing a young woman in marine themed frocks eyeing him with green eyes similar to the spawn of Potter. She scoffed, "Breath before you die from the lack of air,"

Severus frowned before warily allowing himself to breath by taking a small, extremely shallow breath before slowly returning his breathing pace back to norm. He then watched her as she watched him, both measuring the other and suddenly the woman asked him, "Well, what do you want from my boy?"

It was at that moment that he realised that this was the woman Albus said to be Alice Liddell, a Muggle who was gifted by magic that no wizards nor witches has ever come across in all their history of the arcane knowledge. Her piercing eyes was sharper than Potter and it disturbing by how it seemed to gleam with different colours as she observed him, waiting for his answer. Severus drew himself together, "Merely curious,"

Alice's eyes narrowed suspiciously at him before widening, "Huh, you speak the truth. I supposed the law that I placed for visitors in Wonderland to only speaks the truth effects even a supposedly the most sly man in the Magical World," She grinned and Severus shivered as it reminded him of something unpleasant, something that he has only ever experience before the Dark Lord. She turned, a garish head of a fish facing him with pale, sightless yellow eyes, "Come along,"

One word and Severus finding that he rather not get on her bad side, the side that he has a feeling Albus had warned him from having the unfortunate chance to glance. She walked through the water as if walking down a street before turning him to say, "Welcome to Deluded Depth,"

Severus looked beyond her and his widened by the underwater wonder before him…

Alice wore a top that looked as it was made of scales with pale pink tinge and shells covering her chest. Other than the garish fish head in place of a bow and the strange tail-like appendage with a glowing end that sways with every movement, her dress were pale aqua in colour with a coral pink underskirt. Her black hair flowed with the water around them as she lead him through the town filled with what was supposed to be marine creatures that walked and talked like any ordinary Londoners.

She reached a shell based building with white shells for doors, opening it and leading Severus deeper inside with marine based designs. She peeked through a door and smiled a soft smile that seemed both surreal and broken, as though she has not smiled in such way for a very long time but slowly become used to it. She gestured for him to come, "Here, he's here,"

Severus slowly walked to where she was and peeked in, surprised to find a healthier version of Potter looking at books before him. His then caught sight of the most terrifying cat as large as a lion that sat before the boy, his grin at once frightening and out of place, purring with words at the small boy sitting before him, as if telling a story. He pulled back and looked at her, Alice, as she closed the door, "I brought him here the moment you decided to 'visit' his mind,"

Severus found his brow frowning, a little afraid for the boy inside the room with a cat that was most certainly not the domestic kind. Alice snapped her finger and he found himself looking at her, her eyes narrowed and serious. His defence immediately went up and she smirked, "Well, it seemed he has decided to trust you. I will thank you if you don't mistreat that trust. Of all the things I hated, those who took advantage of others are the worst of them all and I hated many things regarding the world I left behind,"

The world around him shifted and though it felt similar to Portkeying, he didn't feel the familiar feel of something hooking itself around his guts. But the world shifted and blue turned to red and not the nice kind of red. They were standing in a ruin and in what seemed like the inside of someone…or something that was alive and still is from how the eye with heart shaped iris and pupils suggested from how they twitched in their socket and focused toward him.

Alice smirked, "Welcome to Queensland,"

Severus looked around worriedly as strange zombie-like soldiers appears from all round the corners, some armoured and dragging a long spear behind him. All of them like a horror version of cards that comes alive with stitched on arms and legs and heads with too large helmet balancing precariously on their too thin shoulders. From the side, their body reminded him of flattened victims of fallen heavy object like a chunk of wall with only their head remained round and three dimensional.

He turned his attention back to Alice and she was dressed in black and red with black apron where before her apron was white with shell-like design. Now she dressed as what royals obsessed with cards and the colour of black and red would. Alice sneered, "Here is where you will find yourself trapped in for eternity should you betray him or hurt him in any way that does not warrant it. I am not a fool and I know children need discipline but if you misused the authority I gave you over his disciplining, I will pull both your mind and your body into our Wonderland where you will have to do all you can just to survive and if you didn't…well, we can always start over…"

Severus returned to Hogwarts with a start with the sound of Alice's mad laughter ringing in his head…

He turned to find Potter, no Harry, looking at him with worry in his green eyes that seemed to lose that worrying glint for a second and replaced to the comforting familiar gaze of his dead friend. He did not hear anything in his mind this time but Severus could tell that the boy longed to ask him if he's alright after his short meeting with Alice deep in Wonderland.

Severus blinked; clearing away the tingling in his eyes at the pure concern emitted by the boy, and chokingly replies, "I am fine," Though he was sure that he'll be dreaming of an endless nightmare where he was chased by those Inferi-like card creatures tonight. Or that he will never find rest and respite even in death should he die only to return to the beginning of the nightmare. He supposed that even the Dark Lord wasn't as merciless as Alice Liddell can be when it comes to her descendant.

But Severus almost, almost felt sorry for him should he cross Alice Liddell but he supposed that should it happens, the madman was looking for it.

As he taught Harry how to take the potions without puking it back out, he shuddered with one question chasing around in his mind…

Who are madder, Voldemort or Alice?

Severus could only pray that he or anybody really, does not get pulled into the storm brewing in the future as he walked out of the curtain surrounding Harry's bed to inform the others that the boy's awake. He peeked into Poppy's office but found her missing so he turned to leave the Hospital Wing.

Somehow, he has a feeling that world has too short a time to prepare for their Saviour wielding the mad force of Wonderland at his back or that the boy possessed a power that even the Dark Lord knows not…Severus stopped…

The Prophecy…

Does it imply Wonderland and Alice then?

Severus shuddered; he truly hope that the Dark Lord will never get his hands on any power whatsoever resembling that of Wonderland…the whole world will come to ruin if he did! Severus started to rush for Albus' office with worry marring his sallow face. If the students thought that he resemble a bat before, they will certainly compare him to the proverb of 'bat out of hell' by how fast he ran to the Headmaster's Tower…

They really need to prepare before Harry come to Hogwarts!

Otherwise they will all be doomed…