My second chapter…sorry for making it so late. I was in Tennessee for a week and I'm not aloud to save documents on my grandma's laptop. I just want to thank all of you who have subscribed to this and added it to your favorites. Nineteenninetytwo thank you for reviewing and reading it! I LOVE JACK ATLAS has also been a great sport. Good work on your stories! My later chapters will probably have some action in them though. Not for a couple though. And I would also like to dedicate this to one of my two best friends, Angela. Without her advice and smarts, I wouldn't be able to do this. Thank you and enjoy! Leave comments I love them!

After about five weeks, me and Tarrant were going to be married. The time In between getting ready for it had caused Tarrant more stress than I had ever imagined. I had to be there pretty much almost every five minutes to calm him down. But at one point he had to calm me down. I had been so worried over something that I would rather not say for embarrassing reasons, that I lost my temper and threw a fit. Tarrant had to shout at me to snap me out of it. He hadn't been mad at me or anything, he only had to shout because that was the only way that I would have heard him. Soon though, it all calmed down about a week before the wedding. I was in my room at the White Queens castle, and Hatter was there with me. We sat on the bed talking.

"So where are we going to live?" I asked. "I mean, not that I wouldn't love to stay here its wonderful here and I'm sure the place we are going to stay is lovely too and I'm not comparing it to anything but…"

"Alice." Tarrant snapped me out of it.

"Sorry. You have really got to stop doing those rambles in front of me. I'm starting to do them myself." I said. He laughed and then started explaining.

"I have a small house just on the edge of Witzend. I've always thought of the windmill as my home, but that place just seemed too dreary. As much as I love the place." He said. I really couldn't help but notice just how handsome he was. Sure he looks crazy, but wonderful.

I was unbelievably nervous about the wedding, and I wasn't sure what he felt like. I think he could see about how nervous I was, because he turned my head toward his and softly kissed me. Our lips only brushed against each other. It sort of felt like what our first kiss should have been. Starting out slow, and building as you go. But this just felt right. It started out soft, and then became deeper. I pushed him down onto the bed and pulled the covers up over us.

When I woke up, it was about nine in the morning. Hatter was still asleep next to me. His arm was around my waist and his hand was on my back. I had pressed my hand against his cheek. He looked so sweet. I don't know what would have happened if I had never met him. I probably would have ended up marrying Hamish.

I hated that he doubted that I loved him. He thought that no one thought he was…well, attractive I guess.

I put my head on his chest and my hand on his shoulder. He smelled like a mixture of me, and tea. He was around me so much that my scent was lingering on him. We almost never let each other out of our site. We were both so protective of one another. If one of us heard someone saying something bad or insulting about the other, we didn't hesitate to set them straight.

I heard someone saying that I was around Tarrant so much that his madness had rubbed off on me. And of course, I was fine with that. But Tarrant thought that he had a bad influence on me, and was making me, well, mad. He hated that and almost always brought it up in a conversation. And, as usual, whenever Tarrant got angry, his eyes would turn red and he would go into his Scottish brogue.

He must have woken up, because he tightened his arm around me and put his hand on the back of my head.

"Good morning, my Alice." He spoke.

"Good morning." I whispered. "I suppose we should get up now."

"We should. But I would like this moment to last. Just for now." He said sweetly. I looked up into his now blue eyes.

"Hatter, after we are married," I started. "You have to promise me that you won't constantly ask me if I really love you. I don't like that you think it's impossible for me to love you, because it's very possible. And I just made it completely true."

"I promise. I'm sorry Alice. It's just that it's so hard for me to believe that any woman could love me. Let alone a beautiful woman like you. But don't worry. I believe you now. I love you." I giggled.

"Thank you. I love you too." I put my head back on his chest and closed my eyes. I felt him let out a content breath of happiness. I could tell he was smiling. I moved closer to him, if that was even possible. It kind of seemed like he fell asleep again, so I whispered to him,

"Hatter? Hatter are you awake?" when he didn't speak, I knew he was asleep. I wasn't surprised. He had been exhausted the past few weeks. But just then, the door opened.

"Tarrant? Alice?" Mirana whispered, poking her head in through the door. I motioned to her that he was still asleep and we would be out in a little while. She smiled and nodded. When the door closed, I reached my head up and pressed my lips against his. He woke up immediately.

"Sorry." He murmured against my lips. I didn't even answer. I put my hand on his face and completely gave into the kiss. He kissed my jaw, and then went down my neck.

"Tarrant… we… we need to… go... now…" I breathed. But he only kissed harder. His hands were in my hair, and mine were keeping him pressed against me.

After a few moments, he was the one to pull away. I lay there, breathless and my eyes still closed.

"Alice." He said. I opened my eyes and saw that his were the deepest blue I had ever seen them.

"Yes?" I said. He smiled his famous gap toothed smile. "We should get going, I know. Mirana came in a few minutes ago and I told her we would be out soon. Might as well go now."

"Yes, we should." Tarrant said, getting out of the bed. I got out and did up the buttons on my dress. Tarrant put his jacket and his top hat back on. As I fixed my hair, I saw that Tarrant was starring at me. I turned to face him.

"Tarrant?" I said.

"I'm fine. Lets go see Mirana." He said, and smiled. I started walking when he did and fell into step besides him. His fingers brushed on mine and I twined them together. I moved closer to him and let our shoulders touch. We walked out into the main entrance of the castle. Mirana was sitting with Bayard and his wife and pups. She was telling the puppies a story I think. But it sounded all too familiar.

She was telling them about when I fought the Jabberwocky. I laughed.

"Are you sure you should be telling them this? If just thinking about it makes you gag, then it's bound to give them nightmares." I said.

"Ah, yes. But they were not there when this happened. They wanted to know more about it." She told me.

"Oh. So what did you need us for?" Hatter asked.

"I need Alice and Chessur is going to help you with the things that still need to be done." Mirana said. Chessur popped up in front Hatter.

"While I'm fixing you up, would you mind if I wear that hat?" He said. Hatter never liked that Chessur was overly obsessed with his hat, and he held it a good distance away from him. I walked away with Mirana and Hatter went with Chessur.

"Are you sure you're going to go through with this?" Mirana asked me. She was fixing my hair, and doing up the back of my wedding dress to go over what I would look like when I got married. Her question caught me off guard.

"Mirana, why would you even ask that?" I said. "I love Tarrant and he loves me. We are getting married. That's it. If you try to talk me out of it, I promise that I will never talk to you again."

"I know, Alice. It's just, you have only just turned twenty." She said.

"So? I'm supposed to be married by the time I'm twenty. Why, Hamish proposed to me when I was almost finished with nine-teen." I recalled.

"All right, I know. And I also know that Tarrant loves you more than his own life. So he is not making the wrong decision." She said. I smiled and looked at my reflection.

My hair was curled and more sleek and golden then I had ever seen it before. I looked at my dress. It had the sides embroidered with diamonds and on the rims of the sleeves. It also had a light blue ribbon tied around my waist. I wore a necklace that was made of the same diamonds and a bigger blue one in the middle of the necklace. And the flowers I was holding were light blue and white roses.

"Oh, Mirana!" I gasped. "I look beautiful! You're amazing, thank you!" I hugged her.

"You're welcome, Alice. Now, let me see if I can make this look even better…"

POV Change: Tarrant

"I still can't believe this is happening. I never thought in a million years, would Alice love me, kiss me, let alone marry me!" I exclaimed. Chessur was floating by my head doing my hair so it looked slightly less unruly than usual.

"Well believe it. You're marrying her. I don't know why that is so hard for you to understand." Chessur said. "You know that when she had been on her way to Mirana's castle to get some sleep she happened to bump into me. I asked her what had brought her back down. She game me one answer. You. You are the one and only reason that she came back down." Me? She came back down because of me? I found this to be slightly shocking. I could see my eyes turn blue again, and a felt myself smile.

"She said that?" I asked. Chessur had on his usual smile that no one can beat. Except for me, according to Alice.

"Why, yes! I have a feeling that you are all she ever thinks about."

"That's nonsense!" I said. "I'm sure she thinks about other things, since there are plenty of other things to think about and talk about, none come to mind at the moment but that doesn't mean that…"

"Hatter!" Chessur yelled at me. I blinked and shook my head.

"I'm fine." I squeaked. I kept thinking about how beautiful Alice would look in her dress. Her golden hair bouncing around her neck…and for the shortest moment, I wondered what it would feel like to…No! Tarrant Hightopp! You will not think about that now! You will let her decide when it is to happen!

"I'm not sure I want to know." Chess said. I covered my mouth.

"Oh good grief! Was I talking out loud I'm sorry Chess. I hadn't realized it!" I said blushing.

"Quite all right, old friend." He murmured. I was dressed in my famous top hat, as usual, and in a black and white suit. When Chess was finished with me, I got dressed into my old suit and we walked out.

POV Change: Alice

I went to my room, knowing that Tarrant would be there momentarily. He was there within ten minutes. Tarrant came in and ran up to me and picked me up and spun me around in a circle. I laughed and felt like a little girl again, when my father used to do the same thing to me. Hatter brought me down and kissed me.

"I can't believe I'm marrying you." He murmured.

"Well I can." I said. "You deserve this. I love you Tarrant. I think it's me who cant believe I'm marrying you."

"I love you too, my sweet Alice." He said. And he kissed me again. I had no idea just how wonderful our wedding day was going to be.

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