The feeling was all too familiar to Alice: the dread, the guilt, and the fear.
She continued to do what she did best, and that was to run. Her flats hit hard against the tiles while she ran through the large garden.
It was dark there, an odd thing since it was just sunny moments before. Tears pricked her eyes before she finally collapsed on a nearby bench.
"Nothing was ever accomplished with tears." A voice commented.
Alice looked up and saw a familiar face. "Absolem?" She asked, her eyes red and irritated.
Absolem was hanging upside down off of a vine. A small thread was being woven around him creating a cocoon.
"Why are you upside down?" She asked.
"I've come to the end of this life." His voice was slow as he grew more tired by the minute.
Alice gasped a little before taking in a breath of air. "You're going to die?"
His lips pressed together as he failed to hide a grin. "Transform." He spoke slowly as the chrysalis covered more of his body.
Alice shook her head. "Don't go. I need your help. I don't know what to do!" She cried quietly before wiping some of her tears.
Absolem rolled his eyes. "I can't help you if you don't even know who you are, stupid girl." He muttered bitterly.
Alice glared at him. "I'm not stupid! My name is Alice. I live in London. I have a mother named Helen and a sister named Margaret. I have an Aunt named Y/n who has traveled a course my father, Charles Kingsley, had created."
She then paused while letting out a shaky breath.
"He had a vision that stretched halfway around the world and nothing ever stopped him. He would have liked it here."
Blinking away some tears, the young girl took in a deep breath. "I'm his daughter. I'm Alice Kingsley."
Absolem grinned widely as the chrysalis started to wrap around his head.
"Alice, at last. You were just as dimwitted the first time you were here. You called it Wonderland as I recall..."
Wonderland......Wonderland! Of course!
All those years, all of those dreams...
"It wasn't a dream at all. It was a memory!" She grinned sadly as stray tears continued to fall.
"This place is real!" Gasping the words out kind of hurt, but it was also a relief.
Absolem nodded slowly. "And the Jabberwocky. Remember, the Vorpal Sword knows what it wants. All you have to do is hold on to it. Fairfarren, Alice. Perhaps, I will see you... in another life."
Then, Absolem closed his eyes and disappeared behind the green chrysalis. Alice stood in silence as she watched him, it was almost like he just fell asleep.
"Alice?" A voice asked from the entrance.
Y/n was standing between two pillars that towered over the girls. Alice gave her a shaky smile before walking over. Y/n stood still and just waited. She didn't know what to do in the moment.
"Are you okay?" She asked her niece. When the young girl was a small reach away, she placed her hands on Alice's shoulders.
Alice nodded while putting her own hands on her aunt's hands. "Yeah... I am." She then took in a deep breath. "It might sound mad, but... this place is real."
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The Night We Met || Tarrant Hightopp x Reader||
Adventure|| I had all and then most of you, some, and now none of you. Take me back to the night we met || "She was never meant to show. Yet there she was, batting her eyes as if she wasn't ruining her life with impossible things."
