Red danced around laughing at her sister. She always had been unnecessarily devoted to Alice, and this was perfect. Alice might be gone in just a few years, perhaps even within this century. And it also amused her to see the Hatter trying to contain his anger. It was a lovely feeling provoking the two of them.

She stepped closer to Hatter. "You'll drive her mad if you appear, you know," she said confidently. "She's forgotten. She thinks you're just a dream. You'll have to watch her get married and grow old and die."

He trembled with rage but appeared to keep his temper. "We'll be going back now, my Queen." He turned away from her and anger flashed through her mind.

"What if I ordered you to stay?" She asked it nicely enough but her panic and rage made her voice quiver on the last word.

The man growled in annoyance, stepping away from her as she stepped towards them, making it look like a strange parody of a waltz. "You'd have to employ an ambassador for that. The White Queen is just as royal as you are, and holds the same amount of authority…as you are well aware."

White nodded slowly, and they continued to walk away from her. She dashed towards them. "Wait! You can't leave me here in neutral country!"

Hatter stopped, as this was true. She could almost see him thinking the words, and smirked in triumph.

"And Queens have to stick together," she said, well aware that this would provoke a reaction in her sister "which Alice seems to have forgotten but that doesn't matter."

Her sister began to cry and Red watched the tears fall with considerable interest, before Hatter turned around to glare at her.

"You forgot that rule when you started a war with the Queen of Diamonds, and forgot it again when you started another with the Queen of Hearts. Don't you even dare badmouth Alice, you…" He trailed off, aware that he couldn't insult a Queen, even if he was the White Queen's protector. Red shot him a scornful look and he turned his attention back to White, making sure she was okay, busying himself with that task as a method of ignoring Red.

She watched her sister's look of worry and caught her glances, grinning in the smuggest way she could manage whenever White looked towards her. She knew that she had ignored the rule of Queens sticking together when she started the battles, but she didn't exactly care. She wanted to end White's devotion to Alice. She hadn't forgotten the way Alice had scolded her right before she left, and hated the way that the Wonderlanders had looked down on her afterwards. She was a Queen. Her subjects weren't following her as strongly after Alice had done that.

She would never ever forgive her.