A/N This one is another K rating. The next one will be a higher rating and should be up tomorrow. Enjoy!
Carissa didn't really know what to expect from her parents when she told them she had met someone. Not just anyone, but someone from the Aboveworld.
Their meeting was what her mother would have called fate with a dreamy look in her overly bright blue eyes while looking at her husband. She didn't know what her father would have called it since he detested talking about someone swanning in and taking his baby girl away, no matter how many times she and her mother would tell him he had to let go of her one day.
She looked up into the violet eyes of her fiancé and grinned at him. It was his eyes that had made her look at him a little longer when he had accidentally crashed into her on his way to the shop while she was up there on one of her exploring visits. She did so love the Aboveworld since her mother had told her stories about it when she was a child. She had scoffed at the idea of animals not talking and cats not smiling, and though the world was as grey as her mother told, it did also have a charm that couldn't be ignored. It was while she was talking to a little brown rat in Outlandish that she had crashed into Timothy. And while she tried to ignore it at first, she couldn't deny now that it was love at first sight.
He was stunning with chocolate brown hair reaching his jaw in quiet a roguish manor and a smile as wide as Cheshire's. But those eyes had captivated her. And she couldn't stop the pull over the months that brought her back up to England every week. He was as mad as her, not caring for usual things like he had been brought up to liking. And when she told him about her home he didn't laugh like she thought he would, but in fact gained an adventurous glint in his eyes.
And so now, one year since they first met she was taking him there. The diamond ring he had given her the day before left a cooling reassurance on her skin, letting her know this wasn't a dream.
He had laughed as they fell down the rabbit hole and didn't care as she shrunk and grew him. He held her hand as he took in all the wonders of the land, a childlike smile on his lips as he watched Dragonflies and Rocking-horseflies do battle above their heads. He met the Tweedles and began a conversation about what indeed was contrary to contrary, leaving the two little boys giggling and trying to work it out without a single punch. He met Mallymkun and commented on how fine her new sword looked, Carissa happy when her godmothers protectiveness of her lessened slightly, warming to the human as she hoped she would.
And then all too soon they where in front of her little cottage home, the chimney billowing out puffs of blue and green smoke which meant one thing, her parents where home and worst of all mother was cooking. She wasn't a terrible cook really, just not as good as her father. Also she liked to experiment with Underland ingredients, not listening to her husband when he said the two spices she mixed together had an argument a few centuries ago and now did not like being in the same bowl, the result was usually her mothers paler than white face covered in spices and such as the bowl exploded in her hands.
Hearing a slight bang, the chimney smoke changing for a second to purple, followed by uncontrolled giggles she knew it had happened again.
Walking faster to the door she dragged Timothy behind her and straight inside. The house was a decent size, enough room for the three of them and her father's endless supply of fabrics in every colour and pattern. Nothing really matched and it was just as they liked it, it was a home to be lived in after all her mother would say, and that's just what she planned to do in it.
Pulling Timothy a little further towards the kitchen she let go of his hand and ran into the kitchen and hugged her father from behind, making him cry out in surprise and worry who the mystery hugger was. Looking to Alice with worried pink eyes he relaxed when he saw how she smiled in a certain way she always did when looking at their only daughter.
"Hello Pumpkin, just in time for tea." He spoke, his lisp very noticeable and making her giggle.
"Of course I'm on time…" She had let go of her father and walked to her mother and hugged her tightly, happy when her mother squeezed back and bounced on her heels slightly in excitement. It had only been two days for her after all, but for Underland she had been gone for months. "… but first there is someone I want you to meet." The seriousness in her voice and slight panic made them pay attention and forget about the meal they where preparing.
She didn't have to say anything to them as they noticed the tallish man in the doorway to the kitchen for the first time. Alice smiled immediately, noticing the diamond ring on her only child's finger. The Hatter on the other hand frowned and looked back to his daughter, wanting an explanation to who this stranger was.
"Mother, Father, this is Timothy Black. I met him some time ago on one of my trips up top. He… well, last night he asked me… I said yes, of course… the thing is I love him. This is Timothy Black and he's my fiancé." She managed to shout out finally. Watching as her confused parents became ecstatic and shocked.
She didn't know what to expect when she told her parents about her engagement to Timothy Black who was from the Aboveworld. Certainly not her father's ghost white face turning paler as he passed out and head butted the kitchen counter on the way down, flipping up the vegetables he had been chopping moments before and having them cover the unconscious man. Nor did she expect her mother to giggle more violently than she had ever known her to at the sight of her knocked out husband, unladylike snorts coming from her person and making her clutch the sink desperately in fear on copying her love. Carissa didn't expect it really, but she didn't know why. It was the most Alice and Hatter reaction they could have given.
A/N This one kind of fits in with my other two stories. 'Waiting for her return' and 'Poisoned Skin'. It was meant to be a story about the daughter that's mentioned in them but you obviously don't have to read them two to read this one. I called her Carissa after some debate, in Greek it means beloved, I thought with the Hatter losing his family he would want to call her something like that. Tell me what you think?