Take Me To Wonderland

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Fifteen Years Later
"White! Where are you White?! White!"
"Aly, what are you yelling about?" Meredith said as she walked into the hall.
"I can't find White. Could you help me mum?"
Meredith sighed.
"Did you look in the kitchen?"
"No."
"The office?"
"No."
"Library?"
"No."
"Guest rooms?"
"No."
"Dining room?"
"No."
"Outside?"
"No."
"Well where did you look?"
"My room and this hallway."
Meredith sighed again.
"Alison, It's a big house look through the house then I'll help you alright love?"
"Alright." Alison said. "I miss dad."
Meredith looked sadly at Alison. Freddy had been drafted to fight the war that was going on. With everything that was happening in America and the threats the world faced, Britain needed to build a defense system.
"I miss him too darling but, I believe in him and I think he'll come home when the war ends."
Aly nodded. "I love you mum."
"I love you too sweetheart. I'm sure you'll find him." Meredith said kissing Alison's forehead before she turned and went back into her room.

Alison walked through the halls of the huge mansion.
It had been in her family for generations. Well, her mothers family. She still wasn't completely sure if she counted because she was found on their doorstep. Her parents put her in their wills as the inheritor but it felt like so much more than that. She felt like she belonged there.
Aly played with the little charm around her neck that had her name engraved on it.
She had so many questions and answers that somehow seemed wrong.
All her life she had been told that she was left on her doorstep with a bunny and an extremely illegible note.
It all seemed a bit impossible to her.
Impossible. What an interesting word.
Just then she spotted White out the window.
"White!" She exclaimed.
She ran outside and into the garden.
"White!" She called.
She saw him again. He looked straight at her before bounding away into the forest.
"White! Where are you going?! Stop!"
She ran after him not noticing the storm clouds beginning to form in the sky.
"White!" She yelled as she ran through the forest.
She ran and ran until she got to a peculiar tree with a huge rabbit hole at its roots.
"White!" she yelled. The wind whipped around her.
"Alison..." A voice said behind her.
She jumped and turned to face the voice.
There was no one there.
"Alison...."
It was growing louder and she could hear her mother calling her in the distance.
The wind pushed her and blew the hair in her face so she couldn't see.
"Help! Help me!" She called as the wind grew stronger and stronger.
She felt the ground beneath her end and she fell backward down the rabbit hole.
"Alison...."
"Help!"
She fell faster and faster until she hit the ground with a thud and she blacked out.

"Alison. Aly wake up!" She heard.
She opened her eyes to see White sitting in front of her.
She gasped and backed away.
"W-White?" Alison said. "Did you just... talk?"
"Yes."
Alison screamed.
"Woah woah hold on! Stop screaming!" The White Rabbit said.
"All those times when I was little! And I thought you could talk! I thought I was going crazy!"
"Well you weren't."
"Well I can see that!" She yelled, hyperventilating. "Where are we!"
"That is going to be a little hard to explain."
"Why?!"
She looked around at the room she was sitting in.
It looked like a normal room but with about five normal sized doors and one tiny door.
"Wait... Didn't we just f-"
"Fall down a rabbit hole? Yes." White said.
Alison seemed to loose balance and stumbled backwards. Slowly she sunk to her knees.
"I'm dead." She mumbled. "I fell down a hole, cracked my skull open, and now I'm dead. My poor mother. She's gonna kill me." Alison said.
White laughed. "Aly, you're not dead."
"Really? How else can I explain a talking rabbit and a secret underground room in the forest?"
"Do you remember when you were six? And you ran after a ball into the street?"
Alison thought hard.
She did remember.

Ally giggle as she threw the ball into the air and caught it.
White sat in the windowsill watching the girl's every movement.
If she didn't know any better, she would have thought that White was smiling at her.
As she smiled back at her rabbit, she forgot about the ball she had just thrown into the air.
It hit the ground and rolled down the hill as Aly raced after it.
White saw that a car was traveling around the bend toward the ball and toward...
"Alison!" He screamed. Alison looked up at the sound of her name and screamed when she saw the car racing towards her.
Her scream caused the car to swerve, barely missing her. It also caused her parents to run out of the house.
After that whenever she was asked, she said that the bunny had called out her name. Her parents told her it was just a figment of her imagination formed out of fear and that she should just forget about it.
But she couldn't forget about it.
She was sure she heard something and soon, when she told other kids, they called her crazy. And she began to believe them.

"That was the first time I had spoken to you since you were a baby." White said.
"A baby? Wait did you know my Birthmother?" Aly said.
White's face turned sad.
"Yes. That was a long time ago."
"Then you can tell me about her! I have so many questions! What was her name? What did she look like? What-"
"All in good time Alison. But, for right now, we need to go find the others."
"Others? What others?"
"The other descendants." White said.
"Descendants? Of who?"
"The guardians?"
"Wait what guardians? White, you're not making any sense."
"I promise I will explain everything on the way but, right now we have to go." White said as he walked over to the table that was positioned in the center of the room.
"Drink that." He said, pointing to the small vile of half full bright blue liquid.
"Now you want me to drink mysterious substances?"
"Just drink it."
Alison downed the weird blue liquid.
She immediately felt funny.
Her head started spinning as the world around her morphed until it grew and grew. She was now smaller than white.
She screamed again.
"Alison! What is it with you and the screaming?"
"What was that?! What did I just drink!? What did it do to me?!"
"Hey calm down! We'll changed you back when we get there. Now, hand me the key." White said.
"Key? What key?"
"The key you grabbed off the table."
"You never told me to grab a key off the table."
They both looked up through the glass table to see a golden key laying there.
"Oh great!" White said. "You're just like your mother." He grumbled.
"What do we do now?"
"Get on my shoulders."
"What?"
"Get on my shoulders and try to reach the key. I don't exactly have a growing cake on hand."
Aly climbed onto to White rabbit's shoulders and just barely reached the key.
Using all her might she pulled the key down and with a clang it fell to the floor.
"Wonderful." White said putting Aly down and picked the key up.
He walked over to the smallest door and slid the key into the lock.
It creaked open and Aly walked towards it.
The landscape was dark and any green that was once there was now gray brown or black.
"My god what is this place?"
"This is where you were born. This is Wonderland."