I take a step back in my unfurnished bedroom, as I do, he follows. I mutter to myself "this isn't real! Your dead!" he then says "yes it is, sweetie, and no I ant dead, but you know who is, my Meredith, you killed her!" I shake my head and say "no, it wasn't my fault!" he takes a long gulp of whisky then nods "yes it is! If you weren't born wrong, she'd still be here. You did it on purpose, you killed her deliberately, twisted her inside and bled her dry" I cover my ears trying invain to block him out "and then you killed Michel to, if you weren't such a selfish BITCH you'd have been here, to save him, but no you let him die because that's what you do, you kill everything! You deserved what that boy did to you and more!" I shake my head and scream "NO! STOP IT!" I feel the heated sting as he slaps me to the ground "everything around you dies, your mother, Michel, your grandad, pretty soon your new little friends are goanna die to, your sweet Hatter will suffer the most. All because you just wouldn't leave them alone, coz' you're a SELFISH, HEARTLESS, EVIL, LITTLE BITCH!" he kicked me hard in the stomic with each word as I cryed in a cumbled mess on the floor.

He then bends into me and says "but there is a way, a way to make everything better. Tell me where the ring is and then it'll all be over. Wouldn't you like that? For all the pain and loneliness to go away? To finally be free? Just tell me where the ring is and then I'll make everything better" his offer was so tempting, but I shook my head as I cried.

He stood and kicked me repeatedly then the door flew open and there stood Hatter who screamed "LEAVE HER ALONE" he runs and punches my dad to the floor then picks me up and says "it's ok am here" he quickly and carefully brings me out of the house and then the pain disappears, I look down to see that the bruises that where there just moments ago had vanished. Hatter looks to me and asks "are you ok?" I nod as I cry and lunge at him, my arms tightly around his neck as he hold me close to him. When we pull away he says "Charlie went to get Alice, there meeting us here" then as if on que Alice and Charlie appeare from around the corner, suits chasing them, we all run.

We run into a lift and Hatter presses the top button and Alice asks "up? Why up?" he shruggs and says "do we have a choise?" then Charlie starts rambling about Alices destiny, that's when I notice that his hand is holding mine. Hatter cringes and says "Charlie, now isn't really a good time" Alice looks at Hatter and says "you guys shouldn't have come, you could get yourselves killed" he looked to her and said "well you could have gotan Jackie and yourself killed. Did you give them the ring?" they argue and when he asks "do you really think that the queens jus goanna send you and your boyfriend home?" and I answer before she can "not fuckin likely considering he's her kid" Hatter looks at me "the prince? Jack Heart?" then Alice and asks "Jack Heart is your boyfriend?" she looks at him with tears as the doors open to reveal two suites.

Hatter runs and starts fighting with one as Charlie trys to fight the other, standing in front of me and Alice, but the suite punches him so Alice takes over, kicking the suites ass. I look over to see Hatter smack the head of the other one on the ledge then walk up, wipe his lip, pick up his hat, through it into his other hand then punch out the suite, and I cant help thinking I've never seen him look so sexy.

Hatter comes to us and I have to close my mouth as alice asks "what now?" I look over to the famingo things and asks "what bout them?" we walk over to them as Hatter says "get on" Alice asks if they fly and Hatter says something as I look down like Alice had and she declares "you don't understand, I'm not getting on that" and he says "it's perfectly safe…safeish!" I give him wide eyes as she explains "I have a thing about flying" then suites came from across the landing fireing guns and he replied "well I have a thing bout bullets!" he can see the fear in both our eyes as Charlie grabs Alice onto the flamingo and says "excuse me my dear, but we must be off." then Hatter looks at me and Alice and says to us both "I wouldn't let you do it if I didn't think you'd be ok" with that I clime on as Charlie muses "how do you get it to fly?" he then presses a button and they both go at the speed of light.

I stare and say "fuck that's fast" he then says "yep, hold on" I rap my arms around him very tight as we fly away from the casino. As we fly he asks "why didn't you wake me?" I look at him and say "because she dosent trust you" he turns and asks "so you don't eather?" I shake my head and say "I do, but I need her to trust me, coz right now I don't blame her for not being very trusting, she just had her heart ripped out and stamped on" he nods in understanding as we catch up to Alice and Charlie, then gun fire, two suites shoot Alice and Charlie down and we shout after them. Being brought down aswell.

I open my eyes and can see the sun through the water and faintly hear someone shouting my name, I'm to tired to struggle for air, and instead ready myself for death, and it goes black.

I feel heat, soft sand and someones lips on mine, then pressure on my chest. I open my eyes and see nothing as they burn from the light, I turn to the side and couth up the water I swallowed. I hear a voice "Jackie you ok?" I turn to Hatter, Alice and Charlie and smile weakly, and can only manage a nod. I reach for someone to help me up, Hatter is istantly at my side picking me up, I lean on him for support as I ask "so…what I miss?" Alice smiles, comes over to me and says as she shows me a watch "Jack slipped me this, its my dads, hes here, Jackie, in the casino. I have to go back for him" I shake my head still leaning on Hatter slightly "Alice, are you sure? don't get me wrong if your dads here that's grate, but what if this is some trick, coz lets face it Jack ant exactly been honest with you so far has he?" Hatter raises the arm that isant keeping me up and says "finally a voice of reason" I look at her and she says "hes trying to help me" I nod, know standing on my own, hands on hips and say "you still trust him? He nearly got us killed Alice! Because of him I came face to face with my dead abusive dad, my worst fear! And you still…you know what, whatever, you wanna go get yourself killed, fine, am out! Am done!" I raise my hands in defeat and she says "Jackie, please" I start walking away when Hatter comes over to me, takes my arm to make me turn and look at him "Jackie wait, I know your angery, but we have a plan. Am goanna go into the city to get a message to Catapillor, the top man of the resistantce, you and Alice go back with Charlie, I'll be back in a few hours, we'll meet Catapillor and find out if Alice's dad is here. If so we'll get him out, if not we send you both home straight away. Ok?" I look up to him and say "fine, but am comin with you, coz I'll just end up killin her" I say still angry, he looks like he's about to argue but nods instead.

Alice and Charlie head for the camp as Hatter and I get his smuggling boat and head for the city. As we sit in the boat he asks "so that man, the one I punched in the truth room, that was your dad?" I look to him and mearly nod, he then looks back at the water and says "wish I'd known that at the time, would have givin him more than a fuckin punch" I smile and move closer to him, linking my arm around his and say "thanks, for everything. I don't think I'v said it even once since we met" he smiles to me and says "don't mention it" I rest my head on his shoulder until me reach the city.

We reach the city and as we walk to higher levels I ask Hatter "so who we here to see exactly?" he glances to me and says "Dormie, he worked in the Tea Shop, he's the message man for the resistance" he stops speaking and quickly turns pushing me into a wall, resting his head in the crock of my neck, his body flush against mine, as Suites run past us.

I can feel my body heating up from the sensation of him being so close and then feel his hard cock pressing into my thigh, just like in the pit. I turn slightly to his ear and say "whats your excuse this time?" he lifts his head and says "guess I just like you" the cheeky grin on my face disapers when I see the intensity of his eyes, then I look away and he go's to move back, "sorry" he says, thinking that he's making me uncomfortable or something, so I grab hold of his waist and tie "don't" I look up to him and see the concern as he asks "whats wrong?" I look into those beautiful brown eyes and ask "whats goanna happin to me? If you cant sent us home?" he looks at my lips then my eyes as he rests one hand on my waist and cups my cheek with the other "then I'll make sure your ok, I'll look after you" I give a small smile and ask "promise?" he smiles back "promise" then leans in to me, his soft, supple lips touching mine, full of sweetness and comfort, but as I pulled on his shirt it became a hungery, passionate battle. The kiss lasted for what seemed like hours, but when we remembered oxygen was a necessity, we reluctantly pulled away. We rested our heads against each others as we gasped for air.

After a few moments he broke the silence and said "hay" I giggled and said "hay yourself" he smiles to me and watches as I lick my dry, swollen lips. I lean up to him this time and give him a long tenter kiss, we pull apart at the sound of hurried scared footsteps and Hatter turns the corner slightly to see who it is, then grabs a small mousey man in a suite who panics "AAHHH, NOT THE FACE, NOT THE…Hatter? What do you want?" he holds the man inplace with one had as he looks to Hatter then me with questioning eyes. "jus keep your voice down Dormie. I need you to get a message to Catapillor, we still have what they want, we're ready to make a deal." with that he takes my hand and walks us away from the small man, who I wave goodbye to with a light smile.

By the time we reach the boat its getting dark, and Hatter says "come on, if where lucky we'll get to the horse Charlie left us before dark" I sit beside him in the small motor boat and can feel my eyes close then I shiver with cold "Hatter looks to me and asks "you cold?" I nod and yorn at the same time, he raises one arm and says "come here, you get some sleep, I'll wake you when we get to shore" I don't argue and instead just nuzzle into him as he raps his arm around me and kiss's the top of my head. I fall asleep with a smile and the scent of sweet tea.