BOOK TWO: Interesting & Confusing Twisting Events
By Rurple101 & BiGbLuEeYeS1136
Chapter 9
"Confessing"
"Oops! Did I say too much?" Angela squeaked out.
Alice regained her slight moment of madness and turned back to her. The wave of madness vs her muchness made it hard to listen to the young princess sitting beside her.
"No you didn't. If you don't mind Angela, I'd let you go but would you prefer to remain in the castle as I need to finish this with you at some later time. Would you mind?" Alice said, returning to working mode.
Angela nodded and surprised Alice by hugging her.
"I'm sorry" she whispered so only Alice could hear.
Alice smiled and hugged her back and exited the room, brushing past Tarrant rather coldly and walking towards her chambers.
Mirana sighed and Angela stood up and hugged her as well. "Sorry Auntie Mirana, I'm a horrible niece. You don't know the gruesome details do you?"
"What gruesome details?" Mirana asked hocked.
Angela shrugged "Nothing" and walked past Tarrant down the hall as well.
Mirana watched her niece follow the Champion and looked at the Hatter. He seemed to look shocked as well as worried.
He turned to Mirana, meeting her glance "What in the name of Trotter's Bottom do I say to her?"
He fiddled with the edge of his waistcoat, distantly as he rambled. "I mean I love Alice yet how can I be able to tell her in the way I need to tell her about Isla as she will feel jealous or hurt either way?"
Mirana considered him for a moment, thinking it out. Alice would feel upset and a bit alienated. She needed the truth from the hatter. They also just had to confess their feelings towards each other – it was driving her mad!
"I think you should go find her Tarrant and explain it all to her. She needs to know she can trust you and telling her your past so nothing like this happens again will prove she can trust you."
Tarrant looked relived and hugged Mirana. "Thank you Mirana!" and he hurried off. Mirana rolled her eyes and went back to the Gardens.
Alice was livid, furious, angry, seething.
How could Tarrant not tell me he was married before?
That he was already married?
I could now never be able to be with him if I was cheating with him while he wife, wherever she was, was still attached to him in that way.
And to think I wished that if I got married to him then it would be the first time for both of us, I sighed.
I walked to my chambers, right across my bedroom to my balcony and leaned onto the balustrade.
I sighed and closed my eyes, feeling the cool and gentle breeze around wash over me, chilling my anger and calming her down.
Looking up, I surveyed the view from my balcony, right across Marmoreal and Underland. My childhood land, the place I'd escaped to for freedom. And a place where I may spend the rest of my years, growing old (can you grow old here?) and having a family and grandchildren.
The image of me and Tarrant surrounded by grandchildren filled my mind and I shook it free, wiping the tears that had fallen down my face.
There was a knock on my chamber door.
I sighed and heard Louisiana, my chambermaid get the door. Walking from the balcony, I went to my bed and collapsed on top of it, wrapping myself in a circle and cuddling a pillow.
"Lady Alice? It is Mr Hightopp here to see you."
I got up quickly and went to the door. There was Hatter, looking nervous. I thanked Louisiana and walked through to the balcony, motioning Hatter to follow me.
"So?" I started, sitting down in one of the chairs there around a small table. He sat in the other one and looked across at me.
"I think I should explain about Isla. Do you want to hear the sad tale Alice? Tis not a pleasant story to how my wife died."
I froze; she was dead? But no part of me celebrated. "Hatter when did she pass away?"
"She passed away many years ago. Years ago when the Jabberwocky murdered my clan. She came to apologise to me for cheating and I got angry and it wasn't' till later that I saw her dead body. Not burnt to a crisp, but bleeding and cut in several places. Her lover, Stayne killed her." He said in a calm voice.
"Right –" I said, slightly confused. "_can you start at the beginning? Then I can understand better."
So he told me the whole story of him meeting her in her fabric shop, how his father had seen the spark between them and set them up. Then how that had turned to a few years sweet marriage. Only to end when he found out she was cheating on him with Stayne for some reason which I thought was linked to Princess Angela's story. Then how when his clan had died he has seen Stayne walking away from her dead body which had made her death a lot more worse to cope with. I knew how he had gone mad and crazy after he'd yelled at her and not had a simple deathbed apology
"Tarrant?" I asked after the sun had set on the horizon and leaned across the table. "Are you ok?"
He looked up and smiled weakly, reaching up and rubbing the side of his face. "Yeah. Makes me feel slightly lonely…"
But he didn't finish as I'd gotton up and hugged him around the shoulders. "Don't worry Tarrant. I'm here."
I AM SO SORRY I TOOK SO LONG! Been catching up with Twilight and Misfits 2009. Just thought I should do this one as well :)