Button Eyes, Clock Hearts

Door To The World

Wonderland, beautiful, mystical, no supernatural danger lurking around. The smell of pumpkin spice and humidity filling their nostrils. The cool air of the mansion giving them a warm welcome. Relief, that's what they felt. Coraline felt shaky, weak, perhaps all the adrenaline had left her. Her pockets feeling heavy, mainly those of her old yellow jacket she had decided to use this day. It had been ages... what made her put on her old clothes, an impulse she could hardly control. A tar-filled knife on the floor, and the key as her necklace. Boris noticed something wrong with her, making his way towards the foreigner extending his hand with worry.

"I'm just a lil' shaky, that's all" Coraline tried to excuse while the Cheshire Cat helped her up.

"Then let me carry you!"

"That's embarrassing! I don't wanna do that cheesy stuff!" exclaimed a blushing Coraline.

"Ok, how about a piggy-back ride?"

"That's better..." mumbled the girl agreeing to his proposal.

"Don't try to woo her when she can't run away boy!" yelled Gowland.

"I'm not a dick!"

"Grayson, I am glad we made it out alive!" said Juliet, blinking when she felt the sun in her eyes.

The girl hugged Gray and kissed him fully on the lips. The lizard was surprised but responded with desperate, sweet passion. Both had been terrified of losing the other in some unfortunate event. Julius looked at them a mix of emotions on his face, slightly glad but at the same time a bit miffed by the affection she gave the man instead of her own brother. Ace smiled hugging Julius by the waist calming the lord of time. Coraline smiled slightly.

"Everyone is so happy..."

Suddenly, everything was interrupted when something fell.

"Coraline...your vial.." whispered Nix.

Coraline stared at the object on the floor. It was full, the only key back to her world. Her mission was complete. She wanted to leave, to see her mom and dad again, but something made her want to stay.

"Coraline...what is your decision?" asked Cat.

"I don't know. I want to go back, yet I want to stay here." said Coraline with a confused voice.

She was tired, her eyes closed, and suddenly she was in a void. Poker cards and chess pieces floated in the darkness, her body weightless. Two girls there stood, one with button eyes crying Blood, and the other, the doll she had locked in the music box. Both staring at her with small nostalgic smiles. It was strange, those two used to unerve Coraline, now they brought her peace. And, falling? why would she fall instead of rise? Wonderland was never a place of sense or logic. It must be the end.

"Coraline Jones..." said the girl in black. "My name is Edith Liddell...thenk you for saving my sisters."

"Oh! it was nothing...really! But...yous till seem trapped."

"No, I'm not" answered the one in black. "Not anymore. Her Majesty is holding my eyes, so I am as free as her"

"Coraline, thy time hast cometh. But, thy holp hasn't ceased being behoveful. At which hour they pick thee up." stated the empress taking the key on Coraline's neck and raising the vial with a smile. "Recall, thou art the link to this realm and the other. With poison, thou enters with poison thee leaveth, but all changes once thee dip the key in it"

The bluenette's eyes widened as both girls vanished into nothingness. Before she could say anything, she felt a pair of arms grab her. Coraline looked up letting out a shocked scream, Boris was right there keeping her close. He did not look hppy at all.