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Chapter seven - Fluffy weirdness.

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Alice woke up in Hatter's arms, it was quite late, it must have been about twelve or one o'clock in the afternoon.

 

Hatter eventually awoke from Alice's movements. He yawned a little bit, looking down at the petite now seventeen year old in his arms.

 

Alice had forgotten all about her birthday, no one celebrated it in the asylum though, obviously. They didn't celebrate anything, one day was the same as the last there, yet Alice still tried to remember her birthday.

 

"What's the date, Hatter?" Alice asked, Hatter thought that this was a strange question to ask, but didn't question her.

 

"The fifth of July I think, why?" he asked the grinning girl.

 

"I'm seventeen now!" she laughed a bit.

 

"It's your birthday?" Hatter asked her, she nodded. He was relieved to see her looking so happy.

 

"Well then, we need to celebrate, don't we?" he smiled.

 

"How?" she asked him.

 

"Follow me." he said, jumping up and running through the forest, Alice let out a loud laugh as she followed him, trying to keep up with him, but of course, he was a lot stronger than her and had much longer legs, so it was difficult. But she found him and jumped on his back, tackling him to the ground. 

 

They both laughed a bit, rolling back onto the grassy bank that they were sitting on.

 

Hatter looked at Alice.

 

Alice looked back at Hatter.

 

"Seventeen." Hatter said, smiling at her.

 

"Seventeen." Alice repeated. Still grinning. She got up and sat on Hatter's chest, smirking a little. 

 

Hatter gasped as she sat on him, trying to breathe. He could breathe seeing as Alice was so light, but he just pretended so that Alice would laugh. 

 

He grabbed hold of her waist and tickled her stomach, grinning. Alice now gasped.

 

"Ticklish?" he raised an eyebrow. Alice shook her head.

 

"N-no..." she said quietly. He grinned even more as he started tickling her more. Alice laughed, falling back onto the grass.

 

"No!- please,-stop!" she said as she laughed.

 

"Not until you say..." hatter placed a finger to his chin. "Hatter is the bestest Hatter in Wonderland, he is also the most attractive." Hatter said eventually.

 

"Never!" 

 

"Well then..." Hatter said and he started tickling her again. 

 

"Fine!" she said eventually. Hatter stopped, but then Alice shoved him back and started tickling him. 

 

"Stoppppp." he pouted. 

 

"Not until you admit that Alice is the bestest person ever with the nicest hair." 

 

"Never!"

 

"Well then... Something must be done to control you." she said, thinking for a bit before pressing a gentle kiss to his lips. They stopped. 

 

Hatter stared at Alice.

 

Alice stared at Hatter.

 

"Urm..." Alice said slowly. "Sorry." she said.

 

"No, it's okay. I mean, I urm..." Hatter sat up, so did Alice.

 

"Let's just forget that?" she asked. He nodded. 

 

"Yeah, it sounds like a plan." he said, standing up, she stood up as well.

 

"I'd better go and practice..."

 

"Yeah, I'll help you." he said.

 

They walked back to the tea party table and then Alice started firing arrows again.

 

"Oh, um Lucas gave me a gun to use..." she said, taking it out of her boot and putting it on the ground next to her.

 

"That was nice of him." Hatter said, he was making a new hat, Alice hadn't paid much attention to it.

 

"Yeah-" she fired an arrow again. "It was." she said. 

 

Hatter hadn't really taught her anything much with swords, just how she could protect herself, she wasn't as good with swords as she was with archery and knives.

 

She wasn't sure how she would smuggle a bow and arrow into the castle, but she guessed that Hatter had a plan for that.

 

Alice picked up a knife and sat on the grassy floor, digging out big chunks with the knife.

 

"I'm sorry about earlier, Hatter, I wasn't sure why I did that..." she said.

 

"It's fine." he replied, she nodded.

 

"Good..."

 

"Yeah..." 

 

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Chapter eight - The day before.

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Alice had a nervous feeling in the public of her stomach. She couldn't get rod of it and she wasn't sure if it was because she kissed Hatter or if it was because she was supposed to go towards castle in a day, make an impression on the prince, then kill his mother and possibly him if he wouldn't leave her alone.

 

Hatter and her had been getting along a bit better since she kissed him, but she didn't think their friendship would ever be the same, which she didn't like to think about.

 

Hatter's head was swimming with thoughts as well, ever since Alice kissed him he couldn't think straight, he could barely talk to anyone. He was currently sitting in a rather empty bar downing as much alcohol as possible.

 

"Hatter, don't you think you've had enough to drink?" Cheshire asked him, Hatter simply shook his head as he ordered another whisky from the bar man. 

 

"What's wrong with you?" Cheshire asked. 

 

"Alice," Hatter said. 

 

"Hmm?" 

 

"She kissed me." was all he said before downing his whiskey.

 

"What? Why did she do that?" 

 

"That's the thing, I don't know!" Hatter shouted, standing up quickly, sending the stool crashing to the floor. "I'm going back." he said, leaving the bar,Cheshire sighed, now left with Hatter's rather large bill...

 

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"I don't know why, but I did Peter, I kissed him." Alice sighed deeply as she chucked a knife at a target, missing the bullseye. 

 

Peter watched her, he twitched his nose a bit. "Do you like him?" he asked her as she went to get the knife and throw it again.

 

"That's the thing, I don't know." she said quietly as she gently threw the knife, getting a bullseye this time.

 

"Oh..." he said as quietly as Alice.

 

"I suppose I must if I kissed him." she said, retrieving the knife. 

 

"Hmm." Peter said. "Maybe you could talk to him?" he asked. Alice shook her head.

 

"I tried that, he just doesn't seem to want to talk about it." she sighed.

 

"Speak of the devil." Peter said, watching Hatter stumbling towards them, Cheshire trailing behind.

 

Hatter got closer to the pair. 

 

"Evenin' Pete." he said, waving at Peter but ignoring Alice completely. She sighed a bit before starting to play around with a couple of knives.

 

"Evening Hatter." Peter said before scurrying up to Alice. Alice glanced down at him sadly. 

 

"Don't worry." he told her.

 

Alice found this a rather stupid thing to say, she had kissed Hatter, making him ignore he and just get drunk because he didn't want his problems, while she needed him to help her train and she was going to the castle in one day! 

 

"Okay..."she said, looking at the knives in her hand.

 

Hatter stumbled off into the forest, she heard him shout something that sounded like: 'Damn her!' 

 

That was when she realised that Wonderland wasn't as wonderful as she thought.