Half a Heart (Heartless alternate ending)

you were more than just a short time

goodbye, goodbye goodbye. you were bigger than the whole sky. you were more than just a short time. and i've got a lot  to pine about; ive got a lot to live without. i'm never gonna meet what could've been, should've been you- 

Jest. 

Mutilated. Severed. Dead. 

I froze. This was impossible. It couldn't be. Some kind of trick or something. Jest? Dead. Maybe my mind was playing tricks on me. Maybe it was some sort of twisted test from the sisters. 

But no. 

He was dead. 

I spun to Mary Anne, not even noticing the sword still in my hand. 

"YOU" I screamed. "You. This is all your fault. If you had just minded your own business we could be safe. " 

She backed away, fear in her eyes. I didn't care. 

I turned to Hatta. 

"There must be something we can do." I said. "Something."

"It's hearts after all, and everything's possible- maybe we can.."

But i trailed off, as I noticed Hatta shaking his head. "I'm sorry love," he said. "Nothing can save him now."

"Unfair." I cried, sinking to the ground, tossing the sword away. Yes it had helped me slay the Jabberwock, but Jest was gone and he was all that mattered. Over everything. I had promised to choose him... but yet I didn't. I chose Mary Anne. Some stupid servant girl who didn't even matter. Some blond girl who had pretended to share a dream with me. Who had betrayed me to my parents for what? A king? A king couldn't possibly matter, when there was someone like Jest. Jest was my everything, and now he was gone. Mulitated, severed, dead. The martyr. 

Murderer, martyr, monarch, mad.