Special update because a very kind guest keeps on asking for updates! Will be the last one for a few weeks as I am in college and finals are coming up! Please do feel free to leave comments and such! Please enjoy!

"I should have known you'd be trouble in the end for me Hatta! I should have taken your head the last time I had the chance!"

"Nonsense! You'll do no such thing! He is such a dear friend!"

"A dear friend is he? Then why is he a knight for your sister's army?!"

"If I may-."

"No you may not! If anything, you ought to be grateful that I have done anything drastic…yet!" The Queen of Hearts stamped her foot dramatically and proceeded to sit in her throne.

"Yet? What do you mean yet?" A nervous Hatta looked towards the angered queen and the more worried queen clad in white standing next to her. "What does she mean y-?" He was interrupted by the slamming of the palace of the doors behind him.

"Yes! Yet! Here is your something drastic!" And through the large doors came two White knights and between them was-.

"Bernice!" Scared and struggling against the grip of the soldiers, Bernice was dragged to the throne of the Queen of Hearts.

"Hatta!"

"Silence!" The queen brought down her scepter hard, a loud harsh sound echoing throughout the room. "Sir Knight." He attention was focused on Hatta. "Say hello to my new chief healer!"

"What?"

"I didn't say, say what. I said say hello!" As she spoke, she sent the knights away, leaving Bernice sitting in the floor next to her.

"Why?" Hatta walked slowly toward the three women. "Why her?"

"Because…" The White Queen began. "My sister has you… So… We have her. It's only fair!" She explained.

"But she isn't even from here! Why not someone else-!?"

"Why are you so concerned?!"

"I had every right to be, I now know that much…"

"Why does it matter whether I am concerned or not?!" From where she was, Bunny could see that he was becoming very upset… So she stepped in.

"Hatta." She stood up from where she was and walked toward him. "It's alright. I'll be a healer, that's all."

"Of course it'll be alright! Because I say it will be alright, I will be alright! Now come here at once Bernice-!" Shouted the Queen.

"If it may please your majesty, Bunny is the name I most commonly answer to." She turned and bowed lowly to the angered woman.

"Mmm, it is a far more attractive name anyway. Fine. Bunny come here and once!" And she did just that, and soon after, the White Queen took her gently by the hand and led her out of the room. "And you Hatta. I urge you to do your best to stay as far away from here as possible."

"B-but you brought me here!" As he shouted, she shot up from her seat.

"So you could see with your own eyes what is to come! BLANC!" In through the same large door strolled in another white knight, this one, however, highly decorated.

"Yes my Queen?" He bowed lowly at the waist and then grinned brightly. "How may I be of service?"

"Do you see this man?" She pointed her scepter at Hatta.

"Yes my Queen." He nodded.

"Next time you see him… Take of his head." She said the last part in a whisper, but from the look of pure delight on Sir Blanc's face, it was clear that she had spoken loudly enough.

"Yes my Queen." He turned towards Hatta. "'Tis a shame really that we have met under such circumstances." As he said this, he continued to smile.

"Yes…A shame. I hope I don't see you again any time soon." And as Hatta offered one last sneer to the Queen and headed out of the room, he heard this.

"I'm afraid I must disagree with you, for nothing would give me greater pleasure than seeing you without a head."

"So… I'm afraid I still don't understand. How does all of this come up to you not being able to go home…And you to die?" Alice sat in the tea room of the former Hatter, nursing a cup of lukewarm tea, trying to make heads and tails of the situation.

"Well, first things first. If I had gotten any more upset with the queen, she would have ordered Blanc to come into the room and take my head without a moment's thought." He shook his head and absentmindedly adjusted the collar of his shirt. "Furthermore… That would have been my first…and last battle."

"But how does that keep you from going home?" Alice was becoming slowly frustrated with asking the same questions over and over again.

"If I left, then Hatta would be left without a buffer! The only reason that Blanc has never really done any real damage to Hatta is because he knows it would upset me terribly." She took a sip from her tea cup, not realizing that it had been empty for the past 10 minutes. "Oh…" She looked sadly down at the cup before noticing Hatta chuckling weakly at her.

"Yes, well it seems that I am not the only one in here who is taken with her charm, or lack thereof perhaps." She shook her head and pouted playfully.

"Oh hush, I'm getting more tea." She stood up out of the room and went for the kettle in the kitchen. Although, thought Alice, perhaps she has ought to have just brought the pot with her in the first place…

"She would have if she had a reason to." Alice turned to look at him surprised.

"She what?"

"Bunny. She left the kettle because she always hates hearing what I am about to say." He looked past Alice's shoulder and then continued quietly. "Blanc would have her now if I weren't he having certain feelings for me already."

"What?" She shook her head confused. "I don't understand, I thought that if she weren't here, that he would have killed you already. Do you mean to say-?"

"I mean to say," He held up a single finger. "If I weren't here for Bunny to have feelings for, then she would have no choice but to be with Blanc. And not by her decision either. You will soon learn that Blanc will often take what he wants, and with that way of thinking comes a mean temper. Even if I weren't here, and Bunny had no feelings for him, which she says she never will-."

"I won't!" An agreeable shout came from the kitchen. Hatta chuckles and shakes his head.

"As she says, she won't, but Blanc would have her anyway. You see?" Alice nodded slowly.

"I do. Rather a terrible cycle to be caught up in isn't it?"

"I should say so." He looked out of the room, past her shoulders. "Bunny?! Have you got your tea?!"

No answer…

"Bunny?!"

Still no answer…

"Bunny! Remember what we said about nodding long distances?!" He said smiling widely. "I can't hear that far!"

"OH! I have my tea!"

"Yes well, the conversation is all well and done now! You can come back!" He continued to smile as he took a sip from his cup of now very cold tea. Through the door came Bunny with the kettle of tea.

"I brought more if yours is cold Hatta!" She sat down and placed the kettle in the table before motioning to Alice with her cup. "Would you like more tea?"

"No thank you." She said kindly. "I think I've had just about as much as I can handle today." She nodded at the statement.

"I understand. After one day, you've probably seen more than you were prepared to." Alice nodded in agreement.

"Bunny? You work alongside the White Queen and the Queen of Hearts?" It was more a statement than a question.

"Yes, I'm her personal healer. The Queen of Hearts I mean."

"Hmmph." Said Hatta as he took a sip of the tea.

"Hatta…" She looked at him with a raised brow and a half smirk. "She isn't all that bad."

"No of course not…" He drained his cup and looked into it wistfully. "She's even worse.

She rolled her eyes and sipped at her tea as she poured more tea into Hatta's cup. "I act more of a hand maid for The White Queen though. She always seems to be needing help with something. And since her sister isn't with her like she used to, I suppose I'm kind of like a replacement."

"Of course she needs as much help as she can get."

"Hatta!" She smacked him on the shoulder.

"What?! It's not as if she isn't kind, she just isn't known for her intellectual prowess." He shrugged his shoulders in defense.

"So then, is that the only reason that you can't go home?" Alice looked toward Bunny.

"Well, that's the least complicated reason anyhow. Anything more I could tell you probably wouldn't be of much use to you. Not that you couldn't understand, but it's just be simpler all around if it wasn't talked about." And with that, Alice nodded and resigned to ask about it again the next day.

"Well then Miss Alice, I presume that you'll want a place to rest after such a trying day?"

"Yes," She yawned. "I dare say I do. But I won't have either of you being put o-."

"Nonsense." Said both at the same time.

"You gone through just as much as the both of us today." Said Hatta.

"Probably more than I have today!" Added Bunny.

"Alice, you'll sleep in my room tonight and I'-." Bunny slapped a hand over his mouth.

"You'll do no such thing. Alice, you'll sleep in my room tonight. And you," Her attention was back on the Hatter turned knight. "Will be resting quite nicely in your bed and I'll be on the seatee." He looked at her pointedly as if to say, "Oh really?".

"Are you sure Bunny?" Alice said attempting to stifle her giggle at the look Hatta was giving off. "I'd hate to leave you uncomfortable."

"Oh no! No worries!" She removed her hand from his mouth as she waved off Alice's concern.

"Though…Wouldn't be easier if the two of you were to just share a bed for the night?" As Alice spoke, Bunny began to blush and Hatta's mouth hung open like a fish out of water.

"U-uh…Bunny, why don't y-you take Alice to rour yoom, I-I mean your room and I'll get the kea tettle, I-I mean tea kettle." He stood up and nervously began picking up the various dishes and said tettle, I mean, kettle. And at the same time, Bunny practically gathered Alice into her arms and began to lead her out of the room.

"Brilliant idea! It's just this way Alice, you remember the way of course!" She nearly dragged her to the room.

"Bunny! What on earth?!" Alice shouted as Bunny plopped her down on her bed. "What is going on?!" Bunny continued to blush as she sat down on the bed next to her. "Bunny what on earth is the problem?"

"… Alice…" She looked down to her hands and said quietly, "I…we've never…"

"Oh!" Alice began to understand a bit better what happened a few moments ago. "You two have never-."

"No… No we haven't…" And she decided to end the conversation there. "Anyhow. I hope my dragging you away didn't hurt you. I've been told I have a grip." She stood up from the bed and went to stand up in front of Alice.

"No, not at all." Alice, went on to make a small show of checking her arms and hands over, showing no sign of physical injury. "I'm completely fine."

"Oh good." She sighs half smiling. "I know today has been a really trying day for you." She walked over to the door and looked once more towards Alice. "Is there anything else you need?" Alice shook her head.

"No, I'm fine Bunny. Really…I'll be alright." Bunny nodded once more before closing the door, leaving Alice with her thoughts. For tonight at least…I should be just fine

A bit shorter than usual, but! Longer chapter already written and on the way to being posted! I try to write a new chapter before I post a previous one. TTFN!