Mad Woman // Ned Stark // Petyr Baelish (2)

10. Impossible

Alice ran before falling onto a garden bench and wept. She couldnt save wonderland, she wasnt a warrior, why pick her?

"Nothing was ever accomplished with tears." Alice turned to the tree.

"Absolem?" She questioned wiping at her eyes.

"On the leaf." he informed her. He was hanging upside down on a leaf, spinning a chrysalis. 

''Why are you upside down?" Alice questioned. 

"I've come to the end of this life." Absolem answered.

"You're going to die?"

"Transform." He corrected as the chrysalis began to cover his body. 

"Don't go. I need your help. I don't know what to do!" Alice begged.

"I can't help you if you don't even know who you are, stupid girl." Absolem remarked and Alice huffed out a breath.

"I'm not stupid! My name is Alice. I live in Westeros, kings landing. I had a mother and father, I have two sister, Catelyn and Lysa and a brother named Edmure. I am Alice Tully. I married a man that I love and has always wanted more from life and he worked hard to give us everything and more. I love another man that became my best friend, I have beautiful nieces and nephews thats dreams and minds are as wonderful as my own. They would like it here." Alice added softly. 

''Alice At Last! You were just as dimwitted the first time you were here. You called it Wonderland as I recall..." Absolem remarked.  The name stir a distant memory, she realized no one called it that here. 

"Wonderland." She repeated happily. 

Her dreams came flooding back. She's Young Alice in Wonderland; Young Alice in the Room of Doors; Young Alice with the Cheshire Cat; Young Alice at the Mad Tea party; Young Alice with the Red Queen and Playing Cards painting the roses red, Young Alice with the Caterpillar.

"It wasn't a dream at all. It was a memory! This place is real! It wasnt a dream. It was never a dream." Alice whispered. ''All those times. And so are you. And so is the Hatter."

 All real, all this time, now she was truly going to die here, get her family killed here, what had she done?

''And the Jabberwocky. Remember, the Vorpal Sword knows what it wants." Absolem declared. "All you have to do is hold on to it. Fairfarren, Alice. Perhaps, I will see you in another life.'' He disappeared inside the green chrysalis.

"I know what I have to do." ALice told Ned and Petyr confidently. 

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 The Red Queen rode a black steed, Ilosovic Knave at her side. Behind them, the Red Queen's Army marched steadily across the red desert. The JubJub flew ahead. A monstrous winged shadow soared above. 

 Everyone had gathered just outside the castle walls. They waited nervously for Alice to make her decision. The Bandersnatch loped out, a White Knight astride him, her hair hangs down the back of the shining armor. Alice held the Vorpal sword high. Ned and Petyr rode on their own steeds behind her. A rousing cheer rose up as she got closer. 

But the cheer faded as they felt a shadow pass overhead. 

"It's coming! Look up!" The march hare declared. But Alice was undaunted, she knew what she had to do. She was going to save Wonderland.

"To the Tulgey Wood!" Alice demanded, confidence filled her. 

The White Queen and her allies meet the Red Queen and her army at the same clearing in the wood.