Okay, remember how I said I was going to get these out Monday and Friday. I might have been not completely truthful. I'm working on getting and keeping to that schedule, but it's hard with everything else I got going on. But here is the chapter that should have been up yesterday.

~(Light)Grey~

-Security/Maturity-

"Hatter, do you think my hair is starting to grey?"

He glanced from his workbench that was littered with hat projects and other things that his mind had called up from the creative corner resting in his mind. Bright-colored fabrics and ribbons usually kept his attention, however his Alice was far more important.

"Hmm…" he hummed, turning to face her as she turned from facing a full-length mirror standing in the shop, "your golden locks fleeting to grey? I'd perish the thought." The dramatics he produced was a small gift for her on the current situation at hand. Or at least for her, it seems. He didn't quite understand just why grey hair would bother Underland's champion. Then again, his Alice was just a woman –incredible and remarkable– but a woman as well.

"Ah, Alice dear," he spoke once more to her, getting up and moving over, "They are merely joining the golden and wavy locks of Jabberwock slayer. Do not fret. You are still so beautiful."

The smile that graced her lips made him smile even more so as well. His Alice was true perfection and serenity. She was forever beautiful to him no matter the tricks that Time liked to play with people. Nothing would ever change the beauty that is Alice.

"Hatter," her soft voice caught him from his thoughts, making his focus back on her. She stood before him like the same woman who stood against a jabberwocky. The same woman who was regal in ways most wouldn't understand. She stood there like a she was the true sense of maturity and security in a mad world. Well no, not 'like', but she had actually brought peace to this world and all who lived in it. By her hands, harmony lingered and flowed about the air as a breeze would in the springtime.

"I love you," he finally breathed out, arms going around her in a loving fashion to hold her against him. She returned the motions, a smile never leaving her lips.

"I love you too, Tarrant."

His own eyes mimicked both that love and security that was held in her person, shimmering bright silver.

Alice…true beauty is you…everything you are…I love you and your true beauty…forever…

Well, sorry for the wait and hope y'all enjoyed this chapter. It's moving along maybe a bit slow now, but next chapter I can't say that is true.

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