Chapter 13
"You want to go to wonderland?" The Rabbit asked as they all looked at her as if noticing her for the first time, her voice was cold and stoic as she looked at the group though her crimson eyes, who would want to go there? "You do realise that it isn't a happy go lucky place like you read in that ridiculous story don't you?" She spoke
"In case you don't realise-" Caz begun, but fell silent upon the woman's look, she swore the look alone could rival her mothers, and she suppressed the urge to shiver, or run and hide.
"I know all about your daughter Caroline Victoria Kurgoni-MaCdonald" The albino woman spoke, and Caz could have felt the icy tone wash over her like a morning wake up call. "I know the Hatter had her sights set on winning this Game, weather she knows it or not, Hatter will use her in the Game, even though Angela isn't part of the Blood line that started the Game with Hatter"
"Wait…how'd you know my name?"
"That's not important Caroline" The Rabbit eared woman spoke as she sat down on the table, a look crossed her face, she knew where this was going, and she could be safe there whilst the others were busy playing the Game. She ignored the woman's mumbling as she thought though a plan of action.
"I'm guessing you'll want me to help you get into Wonderland?" She asked
"Long as you don't run off to say I am late I am late when the need takes you" Caz mumbled darkly, feeling a very powerful glare on her back, she dare not look at the woman and looked around the room, she hated someone having a look like her mothers. She was glad Raist wasn't here otherwise he'd be ripping the shit gutta her right now, thank God for small miracles
"Aye" Johnathen spoke "As long as Monica knows what's going on"
"Tell her then" The rabbit spoke "Its no good keeping the truth from loved ones, excuse me now, me and my Alice need to talk, I believe he is looking after the human girl who you so helpfully put to sleep?" She looked at Cain when speaking this, her eyes narrowed slightly.
She felt kind of sorry for the human girl; she had learnt a lot about human emotions from her time with her own Alice, and new what it was like to be in despair and hope for things that couldn't possibly happen. And they all despised demons. She sighed as she stood up, Caz finally looking at the woman.
"Gather a small team Caroline, we leave tomorrow" She spoke
"Why not now!" Caz asked
"Because I will need to prepare for the trip, and so will you, Wonderland will not be kind to you, there is time to think of something else, but I cannot see any other way" A soft look came across her face, as if the thought of going home brought some piece to mind "I will help you and ask for nothing, but when we get your daughter out of this, we are to never cross paths again, simply because things will become too…involved otherwise, now if you'll excuses me"
"Thank you"
The woman looked round as she reached the door, a confused look upon her face, but it soon became a smile and she nodded before walking away. What a strange thing to thank her for.
And the group began to decide who was staying and who wasn't.
The door opened as the red haired man looked up, he smiled as the woman walked in.
"Usagi" He smiled, she didn't complain about the name like she usually did as her crimson eyes stared at the sleeping teen.
"NO! That's not like her! She was never like that!"
Something bugged her greatly, if Cheshire had once been nice to the humans what made her hate them so suddenly? Surly Hatter must have been like that once, finding humans interesting before hating them completely, was it because they were forever trapped in this never ending Game?
"Alistair" She spoke, the man looked surprised to hear his name from her lips, he was so used to the name she called him. "You will come with me to Wonderland, we'll leave the child here and erase her memories of ever having met Cheshire" She spoke softly as she sat next to the girl "It is kinder right? Then to put her through this pain"
"I think so; nobody seems to share her views on Cheshire"
"Only you, because you know what I told you of life before the Game" The rabbit spoke as he nodded "You may die in there Alistair" She spoke as she looked at him "Do you realise that"
He smiled and nodded, she frowned, not understanding why he was so happy about it before she placed her finger tips to the teenage girl's forehead and began to erase her memories, making them her own, and she couldn't help the tear that trailed down her porcelain cheek as she did so.
The home was quite as the White rabbit sat with her Alice's head upon her lap on the sofa, ideally stroking his hair as she sat in deep thought about the following events. She didn't know when she had started to care about the humans so much, considering how crewel they were to her and her kind. Her eyes narrowed as she thought about what her life had consisted of. She missed her home, she missed doing nothing but what an adviser should do, and hell she even missed the occasional Tea Party at the Hatters, because it was what they done, The Cheshire was forever stealing from the Queen, but nobody tried to kill each other.
She frowned as she stared at the sleeping form on her lap, she had felt sorry for him, he was too young to be on his own in a world as crewel as this. She had brought him up, if he lived though this, she will do what she done to the girl. This life was crewel and unjust to him. To every Alice that had entered the Game, bar those who sought nothing but to destroy those she shared her home with. It was their fault.
She looked up as the door knocked and Johnathen came into the room. She looked him over once and saw his own pain. he son of Lilith and a human man who at some points on his career as a paranormal archaeologist had been cursed with a witch hunters soul and the soul of Anubis warring with his own soul.
On Johnathen's part he remembered how his grandmother would stroke his own hair and even his brother's wife when he was a child and had woken crying for a mother he would never know.
So," He began "Is this really how it works. You all pick a human to act as guardian angels for want of a better word"
She looked at him, and then looked back at the sleeping human on her lap, a frown on her face.
"We are anything but; Humans name us Demons, just as they do every evil thing in the world." She shock her head "No, maybe there was a time with my companions, but not any more. I guess you really hate us right?" She asked "After all, we are the reason behind so many deaths of innocent lives, it's not fair on them right"
Johnathen sat down and clasped his hands before him as he leant forward.
"We demons are all the same to humans" She spoke sadly.
"My mother was Lilith, the first woman and the wife of Lucifer. My father was just a soldier and I do not think you personally are to blame for what your brothers and sisters do" She looked at him silently "Been fighting my own brother-in-law and his cronies for so long I know what humans will do to get eternal life., my wife's own brother sold his soul for eternal life to the dark gods"
"I am sorry to hear that" She spoke, and shockingly she sounded like she meant it.
"Seems to me that you have the same struggles as us but like us there are good and bad in both. You have your bad guys and your good guys" he spoke. She nodded as she looked at him then back at her Alice. "My best friend...a lot younger then me I grant you but he died at the hands of demons and monsters from otherworld's so whilst the others have a hard time differentiating the two I don't. Your older then heaven and hell and have been here longer then both. I serve the powers that were here long before god noticed and fight against the dark powers so I suppose in a way I am a warrior for your people that are good"
"Would you believe me if I said that the one that are causing the most trouble, i.e. Hatter and Cheshire never used to be like that?" She spoke "None of use did. We were nothing to humans but a way to gain power over other tribes; at first we ignored their calls, because we didn't like the way humans constantly wanted power." She spoke, not sure why she was telling him this, maybe because someone had to know. "In the end we answered them, because in a way they interested us, someone else had found interest in our rock, things went down hill from there, because it didn't stop, its like a wild animal being taken from its home and placed in a cage for the rest of its life." She spoke
"Its not a nice feeling, and I hate humans because I will never go home, over the centuries the others changed, it wasn't he same every time a game finished, because they would be more blood thirsty and eager to win, is it so wrong to want to win and wish that things could go back to before the humans exists. I think I under stand Hatter and Cheshire's reasons, if you destroy the human race, you no longer have to be stuck in a loop that never gets broken."
Johnathen was silent for a while as if he was lost in thought then he spoke quietly and she found his Scottish accent calming despite the war that went on in him.
"Maybe that is the way of things. I was introduced to the old beings through someone I cared about once - about 500 years ago and I saw what they could do. They give boons and probably what people like Kitiara worshipped when she was young, but sometimes humans need for control and power for example like Caroline's eternal war with Boadicea corrupts those same beings that were once benevolent. When Bruce and his friends sealed their deals I think they knew exactly what they were getting into, a pact with the dark ones comes with a price that no being human or otherwise should have to pay.
you will get to go home one day...but maybe those that serve the darker needs of people enjoy their own power so much that they don't want the game to end"
She looked at him then at the floor, he was true on so many things.
"I just want to go home, is that too much to ask for?" She chocked, holding back tears she had not shed in centuries "Even my Alice now suffers because of this stupid game, and he is something…different then ones I have had before. I want to end this game, I want things to return to what it used to be" She looked up, a smile upon her face which looked sad and lost.
"So in order to do that humans cant exist, because if they do, then we will forever be called upon, I hate this world, and I hate the man who calls himself God who sits on a throne and lets things like this happen." She hissed "But when I look at Alice, I get a calm feeling that maybe, if there were people like him, maybe one day my dream will come true."
There was silence in the room.
Johnathen rubbed his stubble and got up. He looked down at the sleeping human and then leant forward and kissed the rabbit's forehead. She blinked in confusion and looked up at the man. Not getting what he was doing or why for that matter.
"If humans were anything easy to get along with then you'd go home and if god was anything but god I would still have my mother to talk to...we can't always get what we want but we can make life what we want to make it. That's down to us and us alone and no body else's fault its just the way the universe goes...I better go get a shave before I go see my wife...I have a lot of explaining to do and she hates stubble" and with that he bid her goodnight and walked out the room.
She stared after him, the talk had done her some good, she looked down at her Alice, a frown upon his face, was he having another nightmare again? She stroked his hair the way a mother would to soothe his pain. Yes when this was done, she'll make him forget, but for now she enjoyed the silence between them.
The following morning everyone was up and accounted for. The teenager had been taken home in the early hours, and they met up with the Albino as she stood by the cliffs, goodbyes where short with promises to return.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" She asked then once more as they stood near her.
"Yes, I want my daughter out of this" Caz spoke as the others nodded and the Rabbit faced away from them, speaking in a tongue none of them knew as a portal opened up and she stood to the side.
"Then go on in, but don't say I didn't warn you" She sighed as they entered the portal.
When they exited they where on a fresh meadow, the sun shone and the summer breeze refreshed them. It didn't look like anything they were expecting. It was like walking into a countryside.
"Welcome to Wonderland" The Rabbit spoke in a soft voice "Welcome to my home"
please R&R