Together Again

This is my first fanfic, so I appreciate all critique, good or bad. Enjoy! Anything you recognize from Alice in Wonderland is not mine. I plan on this to be a one shot. If this story gets a lot of people, maybe I'll continue it.

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"Alice!" Mrs. Kingsley cried exhaustedly. That was the third time her daughter was not focused on the conversation.

Mrs. Kingsley and Alice were currently having brunch in the dining hall. When Helen would start a conversation about scandalous stories about neighbors, Alice would stare out the window, seemingly bored.

Helen squinted her eyes at her daughter, "Dear, are you feeling alright? Do you have a headache?"

Alice snapped her head up. She glanced at her mother and sighed.

"I'm fine mother I just feel a little blue." Alice said, reassuringly. Eager to change the subject she continued, "What were you saying Mother? The Ascot's found what?"

Her mother's eyes brightened at the subject. She loved to gossip, and it seemed gossip loved her.

"Ah yes! Lord Ascot himself was strolling around in his massive yard when he spotted a rather large rabbit hole! He was so shocked, he nearly stumbled! Oh, I couldn't imagine the expression on his face when-, Alice dear are you alright?"

While listening to her mother ramble about the Ascots, Alice turned pale. She worried of what he might do to the portal of her dreams.

Alice cleared her throat, "I'm alright, Mother. Did Lord Ascot say what he was going to do with the hole?"

"Yes love, he said that he would hire someone immediately for the disposal of it. For who would want a big hole in the ground!" Helen laughed.

Alice though was feeling ill. That rabbit hole was the only way she knew that could get her to Wonder-, Underland. Her eyes pricked with tears when she thought about never seeing he'd dearest friends again. She looked down at her teacup, shaking in her hands. She stared at her own reflection, hating the sallowness of her face from lack of nutrition or the dark bruises under her eyes that has been there so long, they seem permanent. Her nightmares of the Jaberwalky and the expression on Hatter's face when she said goodbye haunted her every night.

After she got back, Alice went along with her plan and left for China to expand her fathers trading company. When she felt accomplished and satisfied she handed the company over to Lord Ascot's capable hands. Only two years later she returned to London and her home with her mother. A month later after her return from China, here she sits hearing the worst news she has ever experienced.

"Love, are you alright? You look as if someone killed someone dearly to you!" Her mother hollered worringly. "Alice, you know you can talk to me. Your happiness is my happiness and you havent been very happy lately. In fact you haven't been yourself since your engagement party. Do you regret your decision?"

Alice looked at her mother with a disgusting look on her face.

"Of course not mother! That man had no sense of humor or wit! He was terribly boring and dull." Alice replied.

"Well then what is it?"

Alice hesitated.

Should she tell her mother? Would it be wise to confide in her something that unbelievable, but very true? She bit her lip in thought. Her father would have believed her if he was alive. An her mother married him, so they must share the same belief. Maybe she would just tell a half-truth, they were simple.

"Mother? Have you ever felt out of place before? That you belong somewhere else in the world instead of London?" Alice asked, hesitantly.

Her mother was startled. She didn't expect Alice to ask her that. Then again, Alice has always been different then anyone, even Charles, her father.