AN: I want to thank all of my reviewers and I want to send a special thanks to NxOxRxMxL for posting the mini series on youtube makes it ten time easier to get those quotes, and I will be honest I wasn't going to finish this story but I am gonna finish it. The chapters are gonna be kinda short until we get out of Wonderland and into Alice's world. But until then its literally their inner thoughts and how they fall in love with each other. I hope everyone is liking that Alice is slightly out of character. Well here is chapter three.
You Make Me Better
Chapter Three
(Hatter's POV)
Okay, I am taking her to Dodo, its the only way I can help her find her boyfriend, Jack. But I can't tell her that Dodo wont help us without some sort of payment, and her rings is the only thing she has that is even remotely valuable in this world. I can only hope she forgives me for what I have to do. I know it will kill all the trust, I worked so hard to build up.
"She is looking for her boyfriend a Jack Chance."
"Chase, his name is Jack Chase."
"She needs help, I automatically thought of you dodo."
"And why would I help your oyster, when you know that bringing her here puts all of this in risk."
"Oh, please I spent years smuggling much more dangerous stuff then this down here."
"You know what wrankles me most about bloodsucking carpetbaggers like you Hatter, we work so hard, risking our lives to give your type of people freedom while your swag about living the good life." "Stop your crowing, you know I am on your side."
"I am sure you say that to all of your enemies."
"I do whats necessary, I kiss what butts need kissing so your machine stays oiled."
I shouldn't be surprised at this guys attitude, I mean he gives me this shit, even when I bringing him all those great comfits that help keep him fat. But I will tell one thing that does surprise me is when Alice spoke up to interject her two cents.
"Look, if you cant help, ill just leave."
"Headstrong isn't she."
"Look can you help me get Jack out of the casino or not?"
"I don't see how."
Okay, this guy is seriously pissing me off. My Alice, has come to honestly ask for his help, I can tell she isn't the type of person to ask for help, you either have to just give it or offer it. So I called him on his bluff, he isn't gonna not help my Alice. What a minute?, MY Alice, when the hell did that happen.
"Doesn't the resistance have contacts within the casino?"
"No comment."
"Use your contact to help us find our guy, she can pay you but I want my usual cut up front."
And this is where I get that 'I hate you' stare again. Why doesn't she just see that I am only trying to help her find her dear old Jack, and if it takes us selling her rock then so be it. Besides it looks more of costume, perhaps if we give the ring to Dodo, he might even pay me more for it so I can help his people out more by expanding my tea shop. I still just hope she will forgive me, and give us another chance. What is with that damn us thing again, if I didn't know any better you would think I liked that damn, stubborn beautiful girl.
(Alice's POV)
What does he mean, I can pay him? I can't pay him, the only money I have is worthless he even said so his self. I think I was to quick to say that I was beginning to have feelings for him, to him I am only just another pay check. I can't believe I was so close to trusting him.
"Pay me, pay me with what?"
"Show him the rock Alice."
"What?"
"The ring on your finger."
"That's not for sale."
I cannot believe he wants me to just give the ring to this Dodo person. I mean Jack gave it to me, its kinda like an engagement ring and I really like Jack, I don't want him to be upset with me after I find him for giving up his precious, beautiful heirloom of a ring that he entrusted to me. Also, what if this man doesn't help me get Jack back, then I am stuck in this foreign world with no bargaining chip.
"Its the only thing you've got."
At this time that rude, smug man known as the Dodo grabs my hand as I am arguing with Hatter, all I here is a huge gasp from the also rather large man.
"It's not possible. Where did you get it?"
"It's none of your business, it isn't for sale."
"Where did you get it!?"
And this is when the man I was foolish enough to almost trust, interjects with utmost curiosity.
"Why, what is it?"
"Your oyster is wearing the Stone of Wonderland."
"That's not possible."
"I am never wrong."
"Where did you get it Alice?"
"From Jack."
I mean seriously, does it look like I just wear random gaudy costume jewelry, that just so happens to sound as if its something important. I guess it was smart of me not to give it to the rather rude man.
"Jack, who?"
"Jack Chase, my boyfriend."
"Well, where did he get it?"
"I don't know!"
"Give it to me!"
"NO!"
"Take her out."
The man known as Dodo tells the woman with what appears to be rabbit ears on top of her head. I can honestly say I was truly terrified by this point.
"Are you crazy?"
(Hatter's POV)
Alright, now I know I must like the girl, because seeing that gun pointed at her chest was the scariest thing I have ever experienced, and I am a tea shop owner. I have to get them to stop or shoot me, I have armor on she is just in that slightly damp dress and an obnoxious purple blazer.
"Stop just wait."
"Your in way over your head Hatter."
"Let me talk to her for a minute."
"That ring, it controls the looking glass, you know that."
"Calm down. Put the gun down, I am sure we can all get what we want here."
(Alice's POV)
I still can't believe the audacity of this damn man, after me having a gun pointed at my chest my two different people and all he wants is his usual cut.
"No one is getting this ring."
"I've been waiting for a break like this for years, and now it falls right into our laps."
"Stop waving that thing around, your scaring everyone."
"If we can return the oysters back to their world, maybe we can save ours."
"Just put the gun down!"
"Just think about it, the queen, the queen being reduced to mopping floors, and justice, reason and the rule of law will finally prevail again."
"Stop this!"
He just shot Hatter, he just shot the only person in Wonderland that helped me, even if he did have his own selfish reason. But, I know I wasn't that mad at that stupid Hatter, or else it would have hurt me so much to see him laying there, his body lifeless. What I am I suppose to do know? I have to try and save my own life and try my hardest to get out of her.
"You shot Hatter."
"It doesn't matter we don't need him anymore, the ring is our ticket out of here."
Dodo beings to walk towards me and the only thing I can think of is to use my black belt abilities to defend myself enough to were I can get to that damn bus/elevator thing.
(Hatter's POV)
FUCK!! That really hurt, god damn I must some lucky son of a bitch, because if he aimed just a lil bit higher I would be a very dead Hatter. I listened to what the asshole of Dodo said about not needing me any more, well fine then see if I ever help that daft old man again. I watched as Alice ran out of the room after using a special kinda kick/move thing to knock Dodo, as I saw him begin to chase after him that was when I decided to show everyone that you don't take a Hatter down that easily, I decide to do this great revelation with a shot in the air with my most favorite pistol.
"Leave her alone or the next one will be aimed at your head."
"Look Hatter this is a game changer ill give you double ... no wait triple the amount of your usual cut, but if you let her leave with the ring I will have every member of the resistance hunting you down. "Back off! That's the thanks I get for keeping yall bums safe, fed and warm for all these years."
It sucks that I am still pretty wobbly after getting shot, so Dodo was easily able to push me off my feet and onto the floor. I watch him run down the hallway to try and get to my Alice, I know if he gets to her she wouldn't be safe.
(Alice's POV)
I run down the corridor in desperation, I really need to get to that damn bus before that Dodo man gets me because I am pretty sure that I wouldn't be safe or alive much afterward if he got a hold of me. I finally get to that damn rickety bus and I was trying to find what button turns this thing on, when all of a sudden I hear, 'It's the blue button.' I look up and there is Hatter alive and well and fighting that damn Dodo.
(Hatter's POV)
Since when does an old guy move that fast, it took me a whole two minutes to catch back up with him in the hallway and tackle him from behind. I told Alice, who was looking at all the levers and buttons with quite a confused expression on her face, that it was the blue button. Dodo was sadly able to stand, but I was able to push him against one of the pillars in the library hallway. I begin to pull my right hand back, about ready to literally take the head off of that idiotic man, where he seemed to read my mind and moved at that second. Damn, lucky, but he took me by surprise and I was down and he was holding my right hand and punching me repeatedly in the head, I told Alice to just go. I was ready to be killed by the resistance, just so that she could get away. I was starting to lose consciousness when I feel Dodo fly off of me and I look up to see Alice there. I wondered if this girl really needed someone fighting for her, 'coz it looks to me like she can take care of her self. She pulls me back on to the bus and I know that this if gonna kill her trust of me even more when she finds out I had armor on.
(Alice's POV)
I couldn't leave Hatter their... so he did try to sell my ring and had me almost killed, but he was the only person seriously trying to help. So I suck up my fears and run of the bus and use a leg kick to Dodo's head, suffiecently knocking him on his ass. I grab Hatter he looks shocked that I was able to save him, I help him back into the bus. He is breathing painfully and heavily, so I go to check his chest to see how bad it is, and to my surprise I see that he has body armour on. I cannot believe he lied to me again, but not in words but in his actions. I mean I can understand around Dodo, it's liking playing dead when some crazy guy shoots you, but now when its just us. I can't believe him and it starts one of our biggest arguments.
"Your not even wounded, you lied to me."
"I was trying to help you."
"By selling my ring?!"
"I didn't know it was the Stone of Wonderland, did I?"
"You could have asked me."
"You wouldn't have come."
"Your damn right I wouldn't have come, he almost killed me."
"Yea, well he actually shot me, so yeah."
"Tell me the truth what is the Stone of Wonderland?"
"It"s a really big deal it was mined by the ancient knights to power the looking glass to connect both of our worlds."
"Knights?"
Maybe there were some other people that would be willing to help me.
"All wiped out a long time ago by the queen, she took the looking glass and of course the ring. How did jack get a hold of it?
Now that's the question I am beginning to ask myself.