The Alice That Fell
Mireille-chan: Chapter two, and I know it took me excessively long ' I'm sorry for the delay.
To elba-erised: Yay for my first reviewer. I hope this is longer, it should be.
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To Scarlet Ash: Thanks a lot for your review! I hope I can keep the details up, it's always hard for me. And, I can't explain the end quite yet, there are a few characters to be introduced first.
Disclaimer: I do not own Alice in Wonderland, nor any of its characters.
Part two: Gates
Alice walked along the dark muddy road from the church, all the while marveling at the curiosities of the night. She turned the corner and headed past the cemetery. When she approached the iron–wrought cemetery gates she paused. The autumn wind rose in an eerie cry between the gravestones. Dead leaves rattled and swept across the ground.
Alice grasped the cold iron bars and leaned in. Suffocating a sob she whispered, "Mother, my beautiful mother, what shall I do without you?"
In return, she half remembered, half heard her mother's voice saying, "My dear Alice, I love you so; my wonderful fair-haired daughter, please stay well," but soon the voice was gone forever, carried on the wind.
Alice let go. She walked on down the street. At a fork in the road she instinctively turned left. There sat a fairly large house of gray brick, not that anyone could tell at first glance that the house was indeed gray brick, for it was covered in thick curtains of green ivy. The perimeter of the lawn was surrounded by a large wall, made of the same gray brick and covered in the same ivy as that of the house. The only entrance was a large iron gate at the front.
Alice stood for a moment. She considered slipping through the bars of the gate as she had in her younger days. When she stepped closer she realized such a task would be impossible for her now sixteen-year-old-self.
"Well, I suppose I have grown a bit," Alice said indignantly. She then glanced at the wall. She took some vines in her hands and began to pulls herself up the walls surface. With some struggling and a lot of effort she managed to make it up and over the 8-foot-tall stone structure.
Alice strolled across the grassy lawn, the roses of red and white had already died off, and the scene was damp and dreary. Alice quietly approached the house and opened one of the downstairs windows. This window in particular never locked due to some fixing Alice had done when she was eight.
She climbed in and began to walk through the hall and up the stairs. The house still smelt of her mother's perfume, light and cheerful, just like her mother had been. Alice then tiptoed past her parents' bedroom door, she could here no sounds except for the occasional snore, which indicated her father had probably fallen asleep. She past two more doors and the third, at the end of the hall with the ribbon on the door handle marked hers.
Alice wondered what would happen to her. The death came as a shock to the family. Alice and her two sisters were very close to their mother, seeing as their father was hardly ever home.
That day at the funeral, Alice felt so betrayed. She was looked down upon by all her kin, and the other people in the town because of her "wonderland incident". At the funeral all she ever got were fake looks of pity and what people though where concealed looks of disgust. She knew everyone thought she was crazy, but she was used to it. Even if they thought wonderland was just her imagination, even if they thought she had lost her mind, she knew wonderland was real.
"Oh, how I wish I was back there now! At the time, all I wanted was to leave, I wish I had not been so eager. I would give anything to be back there now, but I have no way of knowing how to get there. The only things left of wonderland are memories… and this," Alice said drawing out the last two words in a whisper. She then reached into her pocket and pulled out a silver pocket watch.
She held the watch in the air in front of her and swung it slightly. Moonlight glinted off the watched silver case. "Pity I could never get it to open," Alice said as she continued to watch the silver pendulum swing. Within moments Alice was helplessly asleep.
Mireille-chan: That's all for chapter two! I hope you enjoyed it, please review!