Mirana: RabidOrochimaruOtaku doesn't own Harry Potter, Alice in Wonderland, or any of the characters. She only owns the intricate plotline and Eileen. Oh, and Eileen's rescuer. Please do enjoy her story.
"All you have to do is jump into the fountain," the white queen assured.
"I'm coming," she breathed before she leapt in like a madwoman, with hatter grabbing onto her to follow. As soon as they were under the surface, she felt the familiar waters of the Black Lake in Hogwarts. "Are you mad?"
"Yes, thank you," he beamed. "Now, where are we? Is this Hogwarts?"
"Yes," she said eyeballing it. "It'll be more like the Red Queen's palace, though, right now. It's normally not at all. Is that Uncle Severus?"
"Eileen!" Severus yelled astonished, and led her, and the hatter (under a disillusionment charm) to his office. "What on earth are you thinking? You should be in Wonderland!" he hissed.
"I want to know your opinion of my marrying if I was at age nineteen," Eileen said curiously, and Severus frowned deeply, and as did the hatter.
"You've gone mad," he realized, looking into her eyes to find that she had, indeed, gone slightly mad from overexposure to the tea parties in her memories. "If he is who you want, then I will not stand in your way. However, I must warn you that if he begins to behave like my father, I shall step in to protect you. You are the only child in this family that isn't of my parentage, you know, I can't have you getting lost."
"Of course," she beamed, and realized her attire. "How fitting that I should be dressed like the Hatter…"
"You should go back to Wonderland," he hissed, "Go back!"
"I cannot," she breathed, her eyes lighting up. "My soul mate is there. I'm not ready for that. I'm not ready for the prophecy."
"You must be," he hissed, before a feline appeared from thin air. "You must be her new familiar, then?"
"I wouldn't exactly say that," Cheshire purred. "I'm merely here to take her back to Underland… the White Queen wishes to see you, Eileen…"
"I'm sure the Red one would, too," Eileen muttered before taking the cat's paw. He grinned madly.
"You're mad," Severus stated.
"We're all a bit mad down here," the hatter beamed, and Severus dropped the disillusionment.
"You are…?" Severus piqued.
"Tarrant Hightopp," he beamed, "Otherwise known as the Mad Hatter!"
"I can see that last one," Severus scowled dryly. "Then you must be the Cheshire cat."
"Indeed," he purred.
"I sometimes used to imagine six impossible things before breakfast," Eileen reminensced, "Before…"
"Before what?" Hatter asked.
"Uncle, can I go back to Wool's for a moment?" Eileen beamed, her eyes changing color ever-so-slightly like the hatter's.
"I don't think it wise," he said warily. "Mrs. Quickly will be looking for you and will likely lock you up."
"Oh, but she can't," Eileen beamed. "You see, I'm as mad as a hatter now. And with hatter at my side, I can take her, and those-those-those monsters!"
"This is what you meant by if you had a reason to," hatter said, and she nodded as he recognized the black shadows under her eyes and the orange in her eyes as a trait from him. "You truly are descended from a Hightopp, otherwise your eyes would still be normal to my exposure to you."
"They ran out to save their own skins, those gutless," Eileen began, but hatter put a hand on her shoulder and said her name very firmly. "Thank you."
"I see a reason to go," hatter said. "I will escort her to ensure that she does not get locked away, and it is only fair that those miniature Jabberwockies get what they deserve."
"Very well," Severus conceded. "But you will return straight to Underland. I'm putting my only niece in your care, hatter. Don't fail me, or there will be dire consequences."
"Aye," he beamed before Cheshire vanished them to the outside of the castle and then to a tall, run-down orphanage. "Is this it?"
"Yeah," she beamed. "I can't wait to see the look on that murderer's face when she sees what she's created in me. all those nightmares of what those others did – she'll wish that she'd protected me, but it's too late. She'll be going to the Red Queen's court under the Imperius curse if I have anything to say about it."
"You do," the hatter smiled before the door was yanked open.
"You ungrateful little bitch!" the woman yelled and grabbed at Eileen. "Thank you so very much for catching this little menace. She's just like her father used to be – always torturing the other children, scaring them, doing things that children her age shouldn't even know about!"
"Oh, I wouldn't worry about her," the hatter smiled. "May I come in?"
"Of course," she beamed. "You'll probably be looking for one of the boys then if you're without your wife."
"Not married," he smiled, "Engaged. I was thinking of surprising my fiancée with a daughter, since she can't conceive."
"Ah," the woman said warily. "This one is off limits. You know why."
"Oh?" he piqued, tilting his head as he walked in. the orphans stared at him before most of the boys started snickering and giving grins towards Eileen that sent shivers up her spine and made her want to fight the Jabberwocky unprepared. She knew what those smirks meant – trouble.
"Hey, Eileen, you missed all the fun!" the oldest boy yelled.
"Yeah! Come sit with us as a welcome back to hell!" they laughed. "Come on!"
"No," the hatter growled, putting his hand on her shoulder. "Something's not right here…"
"You got it, hatter," she beamed before tilting her head. "They remind me of RQ's Jabber-baby-wockies, wouldn't you agree?"
"Hm," he considered, noting what she'd said pertaining to Underland. "The Vorpal Sword."
"Yes, and WQ," she smirked evilly. "And let's not forget our little Chess set."
"Or the rodents," he continued.
"or the birds," she continued.
"or the cards," he said. "or the cat."
"Or the bandersnatch," she considered, and he looked at her as though she were mad. "Just a speculation."
"I don't know what you're pulling on him, Eileen," the caretaker said yanking her up. "but I will not have any of this witchcraft in my house! Get to your room and stay there! Isaac, Steven, Raye, Norton, make sure she doesn't leave the room. I don't care if it drives her mad, don't let her out."
"You bloody cowards!" she screamed. "I'll slay you lot after I slay the Jabberwocky!"
"No need for that, love," the hatter beamed quietly, his eyes once again returning to orange and the shadows returning under his eyes. The woman backed away quickly at the hatter's newfound, terrifying image. "This time, it'll be I who be slaying the Jabberwockies."
What should hatter do to them? I was thinking of yanking them to Underland and putting them under the Red Queen's rule. Or letting them into Hogwarts and destroying them.
