A/N: Like the title says, this is a chapter full of memories. Though I will not use italics all the time. I despise reading too much italics. hehe. Am I mad? I hope so. After all, all the best people are :) To prevent confusion, in this chapter, Alice the Champion will be named Alice Kingsleigh. She kept her last name because she is the Champion! The Champion always stay the same. That, and because Alice wanted to keep her last name as a reminder of the Upperlands
Alice Hightopp's POV
That marvelous night, the full moon was as bright and as white as the Kingdom of Marmoreal.
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"Daddy, will mummy be alright?" I asked with the cutest little grin on my pale painted face like a Hightopp.
"Oh, of course she is." Daddy replied. "She still has to wake up and see how much all you children has grown!" I knew mummy won't ever wake up again. But it is far better to hope than to lose your muchness, is it not?
"Oh, I do hope mother will find her way back from the spiritual outlands." Poor Alex. He needs a mum far more than Angelica and I do. Even though he's only one year younger, he doesn't seen to act that way. That, or I'm just too mature.
"Hehe." I giggled.
"Whatever is the matter, my dear?" Daddy asked with his half emerald, half blue eyes. I never understood how sadness and happiness could both fit in one eye. But then again, I'm mad!
"Nothing.. Hehe." I replied, with that little Hightopp giggle of mine. Aunt Alice says that it reminds her of Uncle Tarrant. Funny thing is, neither daddy or mummy has the exact same giggle. Only my siblings and Uncle Tarrant. Odd.
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"Alice!" I heard Aunt Alice calling out to me, disturbing my flashback. Oh well, nothing better than a little break from thinking about that coward of a man.
Alice Kingsleigh's POV
On the glorious Hiliohroni Days*, all were cheerful. Except for the Tarrant and I, of course.
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"I present to you, the birth of the twins of Alice the Champion and Tarrant Hightopp!" McTwisp announced on the white balcony of the White Castle while everybody cheered.
An year passed since Tarrant and I got married, and I gave birth to the lovely twins, Alice and Angelica. But I have to give them up to Maria and Glen, who can not have children. My poor baby girls, not to have a mum at the age of two months AND at the age of twelve. It's all written in the Oraculum that Maria was to die.
"I can't just keep Alice and Angelica! They'll get killed by Stayne and Iracebeth! You know they have escaped from banishment and is now trying to dominate all of Underland!" I shouted across the room to Tarrant. "I have to give them up to Maria and Glen. It's okay, we'll still be their relatives, won't we?"
"But Alice.." Tarrant hesitated. "*sigh* If that is truly what you want, Alice, than I will not argue. After all, you are the one who gave birth to them."
"Thank you, Tarrant." I said. "Thank you..."
Then Tarrant and I gave the warm little girls a goodbye hug and then handed them to Maria.
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"Oh, Alice, Angelica. I love you both so much. I'm so sorry." I whispered
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Once again, I had a baby, this time a baby boy. Once again, I'm not risking getting my baby killed. So I handed it to Maria, with the two one-year-old Alice and Angelica, and told her to name him... Alex. Oh, I'm happy to see that all three of them will now be safe. At least until Maria passes away.
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"Oh, my Alex. I hope to have all three of you back in my arms someday. When you're older. I promise." My Alice, my Angelica, and my Alex. A noble, an angel, and a warrior. All mine. I smiled at the thought of that. Looking right into Tarrant's green eyes, I said to him "Tarrant, I think I'll be ready to tell them soon."
Tarrant looked at me with a funny/serious face, which made me giggle.
"Are you sure, Alice?"
"Yes, yes I am, Tarrant."
"There's my Alice, full of muchness. Can't believe at one point, you actually lost all of it! But now it's back , and I'm just so happy that the muchness is back and.."
"Hatter! Calm." I said to him.
A/N: Big shocker! Alice, Angelica, and Alex are not really Glen's kids! Sure does explain the giggle that Alice Hightopp has. BECAUSE SHE'S THE OFFSPRING OF ALICE KINGSLEIGH AND TARRANT HIGHTOPP! There must be a lot of questions now. Then why do the three children own magic when Tarrant obviously, as said, do not have magic? When will Alice tell the kids about this? (That I can answer! In the next chapter when Time flies by an year. I know originally, it's supposed to be when they're 21, but you'll see.) *Hiliohroni means to live a thousand year. (I had to search it up ;D Do me a favor and just pretend it's Outlandish, will ya?) This is an awful lot for an author's note, isn't it? I'll shut up now.
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Doubts of This Life
FanfictionThe Hightopp family goes through life with many doubts. The Hightopp twins doubts their father while on the other hand, their younger brother understands their father. Can the Hightopp twins really forgive their father for leaving?
