Staying In Wonderland

Chapter One: Saying Goodbye

Alice Kingsleigh was a young twenty year old girl, she had blue eyes and long blonde hair. She was wearing a traditional chinese outfit with flowers on it. She was standing in front of Tarrant Hightopp. The man who was her greatest and bestest friend. Tarrant Hightopp was a twenty eight year old man with green eyes and bright orange hair. He wore a wellington top hat that was made of leather and silk. It was burned and old, the hat had muted pink colored ribbons tied onto it. The hatter had two thimbles and a pincushion ring which had a few pins in it on his right hand and four thimbles on his left hand. He had twelve ribbons hanging out of his jacket pockets. He also had a thread sash with 25 bobbins on it that came across his chest. He had two pocket scarves in his pockets and a bird patch and an arrow pin on the blue green jacket. He had five hat pins on his coat. He had a blue lace shirt and a patterned black and white vest. He also wore fingerless cotton gloves. He had wool pants with lace sewn on the sides of the pants. He had a silk bow-tie, made of two layers of fine thick shiny silk. He also wore cotton socks with black leather shoes. "Alice, You have to come meet my family. After all, you are the one who saved them?" Tarrant said as he looked at Alice. Alice smiled as she looked at him. The mirror beside them shimmered. Alice looked over at the mirror. "But of course, you have your own family. Family is very important. You only have one." Tarrant Hightopp said as he looked at Alice. Tarrant grabbed Alice's grabbed hands and held them on his own. "Hatter, I fear that I may never see you again." Alice said as she looked at him: "My dear Alice, in the garden of memories, in the palace of dreams. That is where you and I will meet." Tarrant said as she held his hands in hers. "But a dream is not reality!" Alice exclaimed. "Whose to say which is which." Tarrant said as he smiled. Alice hugged him tightly. Tarrant put his hand into her hair and stroked it gently. She let him go as all her wonderland friends gathered around her. "You did it, Alice. An impossible thing." The dormouse said. "Not as impossible as saying goodbye to you, my friends." She said as she looked at Tarrant. "Goodbye, Hatter." She said as walked through the mirror, slowly letting go of his hand "Goodbye, Alice." Tarrant said softly as he looked at the mirror.

As Alice walked through the mirror she saw herself as a child. "Wonderland." She said softly as all of her memories came flooding back. She was a young girl walking through Underland. She remembered walking through the Room of Door. She remembered meeting the Cheshire Cat and having fun with the hatter at the Mad Tea party. She remembered painting the roses red with the cards and the red queen. She remembered meeting Absolem and everybody for the first time. She smiled softly as she looked at her memory of Tarrant Hightopp. The tea party that has been going on for years. The mismatched tea set and all her friends. She remembered all of their adventures in Underland. "Absolem?" She asked as she looked around. "On the leaf." He said as he was hanging upside down on a leaf, spinning a chrysalis. "Why are you upside down?" Alice asked curiously as she looked at him. "I've come to the end of this life." He said. "You're going to die?" Alice asked, "Transform." He said as the chrysalis began to cover his body. "You called it Wonderland as I recall...''Absolem said as he looked at the young woman. The name stirs a distant memory. "It wasn't a dream at all. It was a memory! This place is real! And so are you. And so is the Hatter." She said as her heart leaped at that last thought. "Fairfarren, Alice. Perhaps, I will see you in another life." Absolem said as he disappeared inside of the green chrysalis. The memory faded into a new memory. She was now remembering how she watched Tarrant dancing on Frabjous Day. She smiled as she remembered everything. Alice was given a vial of the jabberwocky's blood by the White Queen, Alice lifted the vial when Tarrant placed his hands on top of hers, closing the vial. "You could stay." Tarrant suggested. "What an idea... a crazy, mad, wonderful idea." Alice said as she looked around at the strange and wonderful beings that she had met in this strange and wonderful place. She then thought of her family. She drank the potion. "I'll be back again before you know it." She said looking at the Hatter. "You won't remember me." Tarrant said softly. "Of course I will, how could I forget." She said as his face started to shimmer as he whispered into her ear. "Fairfarren, Alice." Tarrant said as Underland shimmered and faded away.