Down With The Bloody Big Head

Chapter 9

Wilkins was waiting for them at the door.
"Alice you're here already! Good. Okay, follow me." The butler ordered.
"How did you know we were coming?" Tarrant questioned.
"Alice is already upstairs preparing medical supplies, to be ready for when you bring Time here," Wilkins replied.
"How?" Hatter asked.
"The Chronosphere," his wife answered for the butler.
"Yes, you will go back to just before Time left, and -"
"Tell you that we to start preparing medical equipment and that you should wait for us at the door?" Alice interrupted.
"Yes, hurry no Time to lose!" And with that they followed the hurrying butler who was already halfway down the corridor.

When they reached the Chronosphere Wilkins began to get bossy again tell the Champion to hurry up.
"Alright! Alright! Keep your mustache on! However before I go I AM saying goodbye to my husband," Alice told him sternly.
"Oh, yes of course Miss!" Wilkins sounded very afraid.
Alice turned to her husband and gave him a quick kiss goodbye. "I'll see you soon, mo grá," Alice whispered to Tarrant.
"I'm afraid I will see you, before you see me, Cricket," Tarrant reminded her.
"I know, I love you."
"I love you too, stay safe."

She took the chronosphere, and last things she saw before disappearing was the toothy grin of her husband.
She just went a little while back through the sea of time, not even leaving the shallow waters of the day. Alice landed a few hours before she left or arrived in Time's castle, depends on which way you look at it. She hid behind a wall and watched as Time gave orders to Wilkins as he was leaving. Once Time was out if sight she made herself known to Wilkins.

"Wilkins you must listen to me, we don't have much Time."
"Alice?"
"Yes, now hurry we need to prepare to gather medical supplies for your master. He's about to become gravely ill."
"Oh dear, oh dear! Can't wait we stop it?" The butler fussed.
"You know the rules even better than I do so you know the answer."
"We can't...."
"No" the champion muttered. "Come on, we have to do what I came here for."
"Medical supplies. Right. This way."

Wilkins lead Alice through a number of Time shaped corridors. Finally they arrived at a big white room filled with everything they could possibly need.
"Get the minutes and seconds and we'll start moving things up to Time's room," the champion ordered.
"Why," questioned the mechanical butler.
"Because the last I saw of Time he was in an awful state, and he didn't seem like he was going to be better any Time soon.... sorry I know you care about him... he will be alright, I know it."
"He's a great friend to me, I don't want to lose him," Wilkins' mechanical eyes oiling up as if with tears.
"He'll be fine if we get to him on Time."
"Of course."

With that Wilkins rushed out to find out all the seconds and minutes. When they reached Alice she ordered Wilkins to go and wait for her and the hatter and when they arrive to send the hatter up to her.

Alice only had to wait three hours to see her husband again, he smiled a toothy grin when he saw her. "Hatter! You're here, I didn't know how much longer I was going to have wait!" the champion exclaimed as her husband wrapped her in a deep embrace.
"How long have you been here?" asked Tarrant releasing her.
"Three hours and we're all sorted here. Now we just have to get Time here," Alice replied.
"Yes, some how I don't think that will be an easy task unless there's a way without nearly being sliced in half by the second hand," Tarrant stated.
"Hmmm, yes that will be difficult. I have hope though because Time itself- not the man but you know what I mean, doesn't appear damaged, only the grand clock is cracked." Alice pointed out.
"Yes you're right, he is shielding Time by keeping the man in a comatosed state," Wilkins said entering the room. "But you must hurry, he won't be able to do it for much longer. I will put back the Chronosphere and you must bring him here. There is an easier way into the castle, just place this key," he said handing them a key. "Place this in the back of the White Queen's entrance, don't worry the key whole will appear when the key is present. Then a dark passage will appear. Do NOT enter it! Clear?! You must state where you want to go in the castle. Now hurry!"

The mechanical butler then lead them to a clock that look like the Mirana's clock. Wilkins then told them to do exactly as they have to with the queen's clock, state where they want to go in the Palace of Marmoreal. They did as they were told and told the vast dark void that they wanted to go to the room in the palace where Time was being treated and stepped through when the void changed to a looking glass. When they arrived they were greeted by an empty room.

Sorry I haven't updated in a while, school is just piling the homework and well I have like no free time. Oh well that's what exam year is all about. I'll try update sooner next time. Just for anyone who hadn't read Take my hand "mo grá" means my love.
Until then Fair Farren all!