A/N: Hello there! Here's the third chapter!

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The Looking-Glass Room

As Meg stepped through the glass, she felt the entire world flux and move as a bright stream of light flooded into the room.

She shielded her eyes with her hands, and stepped forward slowly.

The light subdued, leaving behind a room very similiar to the room she had just left behind.

She looked around, and saw that everything was larger than her, and the dust had been removed from every single surface.

She looked over to the chessboard in the corner table, and saw the chess pieces were battling each other, throwing insults at their opponents.

She saw a thick lamp string hanging from the ceiling, and ran towards it in hoping to get over to the chessboard.

She grabbed hold of it mid-air, and slid down the string, wincing as her hands dragged across the rough surface.

The chessboard grew closer as she fell, and she pushed off of the string to launch herself onto the table.

Her knees buckled as she collapsed on the surface of the chessboard, and tumbled forward between two large knights.

The black knight reared back its gigantic head, and let out a large thunderous whinny as it charged right in the direction of tiny Meg.

Meg screamed and rolled out of the way, standing up once she was out of their way.

Unknowingly, she wandered towards the edge of the chessboard, and bumping into a hard, round something near the edge.

She turned around with a start, and saw a huge, round egg-like thing falling down to the floor below.

It rotated as it fell to face her, and said in a lowish, dull voice, "Not again."

Meg cringed, and said, "Sorry."

The egg man finally hit the floor, shattering into a dozen little pieces.

The white king piece on the chessboard ran over to the side, and yelled, "All my horses! All my men!"

Meg followed the knights down a long staircase stretching to the carpeted floor, and walked cautiously forward as they began putting who appeared to be Humpty Dumpty back together again.

She picked up a nearby piece that contained the majority of his face, and said, "I'm sorry."

He rolled his eyes, and said in his dull voice, "Oh, it happens all the time."

Meg frowned, and nodded slowly as one of the knights snatched the piece of egg-shell from her hand, and re-attached it to the rest of his body (?).

She warily walked away, and saw Absolem fluttering towards her.

As he grew closer, Meg could see that he was much larger than her, almost twice the height of her.

He flew lazily besides her as she walked towards the wall, saying in his smooth, deep voice, "You've been gone too long, Meg."

She nodded, and said, "Yes, I know."

Absolem just blinked, and said, "Tarrant will be gone before long, you had better hurry."

Meg frowned, and said as she opened a small door in the wall, "Why does everyone keep saying tha-"

Absolem interupted as she stepped through the door, "Watch your step."

But suddenly, where her foot should have met ground, it dove forward, sending her tumbling through empty space.

She tried to scream, but the wind tore her voice right out of her throat.

She fell through a ring of strange pink birds who looked at her curiously before she saw the ground approaching quickly.

She screamed again, and held her hands in front of her face before she crashed through the tree below her.

Meg crashed through the top branches of the tree, and had slowed down enough before she fell onto the flower bed below.

She picked herself up carefully, and looked around.

Suddenly, Alice's voice rang out, "MEG!"

Meg looked up, and saw Alice, Mirana, Mallyumpkin, Nivens, Thackery, Bayard, the Tweedles, and the Bandersnatch were sitting at a tea table encircling the flower bed.

A wide smile broke across Meg's face, and she launched herself at Alice to wrap her thin arms around her friend's torso.

Mirana actually shed a few tears as she hugged Meg next, patting her back as Meg laughed and said, "It's so great to be back!"

But Mally said darkly, "You're dreadfully late, you know, Meg."

Meg broke her hug with Mirana, and frowned as she said, "Late for what?"

Alice frowned, and said, "Well, three years ago, Tarrant and I had a baby boy. We named him Torin."

Meg said with a joking smile, "Well, isn't that good news?"

Alice nodded, but said, "But one month ago, Tarrant, Mally, Bayard, Thackery, Torin, and I were taking a nice walk through the woods, when Torin found a small blue paper hat in the grass. Tarrant took one look at that hat, and ran back to the house without one word to us."

She shed a small tear from her now blue eyes, and said with tears in her voice, "The days after that, he wouldn't talk to us, he wouldn't eat, he wouldn't sleep; when we visited him, h-he didn't even recognize us..."

She broke into a rough sob, and wiped her eyes as she choked, "H-He s-s-saw me, a-a-and he a-a-a-asked i-i-if I-I w-w-w-was someone e-e-e-else... W-W-When I r-refused, h-his eyes t-t-turned a dark shade of o-o-o-orange that should never h-h-h-happen to a H-H-Hightopp. He growled for me to g-g-g-go away, a-a-a-a-..."

She collapsed into her arms on the table, and sobbed as her shoulders heaved.

Meg held her hands over her mouth, and said, "Alice, I'm so sorry. Where is he? Maybe I can talk to him?"

Alice wiped the tears from her eyes, and pointed shakily towards the waterfall, where Meg saw a small hat-shaped house on the cliff facing the tumbling water.

Meg nodded, and said, "Thank you."

Mirana nodded, and said softly, "Alice, you know that seeing Meg back in Wonderland might help him."

Alice hesitated, but then nodded slowly, wiping her blue eyes again.

Meg stood up, and said, "Well, I'll visit him, and see what's wrong."

She turned heel, and started walking her way up to the strange house.

Once she reached the small porch, she hesitated, but then gave three clear knocks on the red wooden door in front of her.

She waited for a brief moment, but then suddenly, the door flew open; causing Meg to jump slightly; revealing a much different person.

He had his orange hair, but it was down in a plain fashion, and his head was lacking a hat of any kind. His eyes were a melancoly grey, and his bright cheery clothes were replaced with a plain, black suit.

Nevertheless, Tarrant lept forward, and latched his arms around her shoulders with a cheerful laugh.

Meg smiled, and said, "Hatter!"

He broke the hug quickly, and said in a jittery voice, "Meg! You must have heard! My family is alive, and I need your help! Come on, let's go!"

He grabbed her wrist, but she frowned, and said sadly, "I'm sorry Hatter, they're dead. It's impossible."

He dropped her hand slowly, and said in a low dangerous voice as his eyes turned yellow, "You're not Meg."

She shed a small tear, and said, "Hatter, I don't understand-"

He growled as he pulled away from her, "Nothing is impossible."

He backed back into his house, and pulled the door close as he mumbled, "It's not you, it's not you, the real Meg would believe me."

The door slammed shut, and Meg backed away with tears in her eyes.

But she wiped them away as she walked back down to the tea-table.

She sat back down at the tea-table, and everyone stared at her intently.

But she shook her head, and said with more tears, "I'm sorry, he's getting worse. I'm afraid I can't help. He might die."

She rested her face in her hands, sobbing.

Alice choked, and fell to the ground as she sobbed into her arms.

Mirana tried to hold her composure, but she failed as a loud sob broke from her mouth.

Mally blew her little nose into her sleeve, Thackery hurled an entire tea-pot at a far wall in rage, the Tweedles took turns sobbing into each other's shoulders, Nivens sobbed into his paws, and Bayard and the Bandersnatch joined in a mournful howl.

Alice bawled from her position on the ground, her voice heavily layered with tears, "I-I-I-I-I c-can't l-l-l-lose him!"

Mirana, also in tears, placed her delicate hand on her friend's heaving shoulder.

A/N: Yay, longer chapter!