Alice the 19th

Wooo~~!! Chapter Nine!

And thank you to all those who enjoy the story, even if I am not the greatest storyteller in the world. Goddess knows that I need improvement with my English and grammar. ^_^ I've been trying extra hard for those who reviewed and were brutally honest, though~! ^^

And I hope you do not mind a bit of humor in this latest chapter... after all, I somewhat thought that this story was getting way so serious....
what with all the bad stuff going on. The Duchess's home was a humorous episode in the original Alice story, and so it shall be too in this one, in honor of Charles Aka Carroll Lewis (his pen name). At least I hope it'll be humorous for you all. I have such strange sense of humor sometimes. Not everyone can laugh at my brand of humor.

I hope you will enjoy my little spin off the duchess here. ^^

Enjoy the latest installation of

Alice the 19th
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"Oh thank the gods! I actually thought we would have to walk all Night. " The Hatter muttered, as they finally walked up to the gate.
Beyond the gates, were a big white house. In fact, it looked like a charming white Victorian house, along with a very big garden.
It was already night, and the huge moon was rising into the sky.

Adonis was just as relived as the Hatter was to see the white house. In fact, Adonis thought that the house with the garden was the most beautiful sight that he ever laid his eyes on in his while life right now.
He eagerly wondered if the Duchess would be so kind to let him rest his feet and let him rest inside for the night.
Because after all, his feet was aching so much right now. He would not be surprised if he got blisters right now.

Then a loud moaning noise from inside startled both Adonis and the Hatter. But it did not stop there.

"OOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" a loud, moaning shriek rang though the air. It was followed by a very loud exclamation.
"YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!"

Thttertter and Adonis both stood there, both baffled and numb with shock.
Both of them stared at the white house with gaping mouths and wide eyes, as if they had just seen the house do a black flip or something equally impossible.

"What the hell was that? " The Hatter said, finally breaking the silence.
Adonis just shook his head and said: "Um, I have no clue..."

"Okay.. I just hope nothing weird is going on...We need the herb for Dormouse after all.." The Hatter said, as he op the the gate.
"I second you on that one.." Adonis replied, as he walked though the now open gates right after the Hatter.

Both of them straightened up, and were about to knock on the door when the door suddenly swung open with such a loud noise.
Adonis let out a loud yelp and went to hide behind the Hatter, who looked equally startled.

"Okay, who's being rude and coming to bug us at such a late hour?!" The woman before them bellowed.
Adonis peeked out from behinttertter in a rather childlike way, and he could not help but notice that the woman was very pretty.
She was 5'4, and had black curly hair. Her skin was a light pinkish color, with ruby lips. Adonis could not also help but notice that she was very..errm, underdressed because her breasts were practically popping out at both of them. As seeing she had nothing on expect white lingerie, sas sas stockings, a corset and a lace underwear. There was also a bra, but the bra seemed to be very tiny for a woman her size....
Adonis looked up at the Hatter, and could helphelp but note that the Hatter had also noticed this fact, as he was blushing and looking at the woman in a such strange way. He felt a negative, unknown emotion tug at his heart.
He then pouted, and pulled hard on the Hatter's hand to make him snap out of it.

"Huh? Oh right. I am dreadfully sorry to have woken you up. But I wanted to talk to the Duchess. You must be her, of course... with the beauty you have.." The Hatter rambled, grinning idiotically once he found the words.
Adonis pouted once again, that strange emotion tugging at his heart at hearing the words.

The woman then let out a very loud bellowing laugh. "By the gods, no! I am only the cook.....But thank you anyway. You can come in, even if you were so rude to be so loud outside..."
As She left the door open and went back into the house, Adonis thought to himself: "She thought we were the loud one? I bet she was the loud one inside the house, what with that loud voice of hers..what such an obnoxious-sounding woman! I do not see what is so great about her..."

The Hatter let out a loud wolf whistle.
"Boy, if the cook looks like that, I bet the Duchess looks even much better. Right, Adonis?" Hatter chuckled, but he stopped chuckling and grinning when he noticed Adonis scowling at him.
"What? Was it something I said?"

Adonis sighed disgustedly and stomped inside as he yelled: "Really! you are such a stupid man...not even knowing what it was that you did wrong!"
It was just then that the Hatter realized. "Oh no. Adonis I'm so sorry! I did not mean it like that, honest!!"
With that he ran inside after the red-haired boy.

When the cook found out that they had business from the healer, she sighed anld tld them that it'd have to wait until morning. She then went to make the guest room for both of them where they would wait until morning.

Both the Hatter and Adonis had no compliant with that, since a long rest after a long time of walking sounded so good.
Once inside their guest room The hatter went to give Adonis a loving cuddle, but foudonidonis giving him a very cold reception.

"Oh come on. What is wrong? If it's about the cook, she doesn't mean anything to me.."
"Yes, but you said that she was beautiful.... and from the way you looked at her, you had like to do it to her like what you did to me, right?" Adonis retorted back, pouting.

The Hatter blinked, and then he laughed, much to Adonis's annoyance. "Why, I didn't think you were the jealous type!"
"I AM NOT JEALOUS!!" Adonis blurted, without even realizing that he had said it until the words left his mouth.
The Hatter smiled a genuine smile. "You know, somehow you are so much cuter when you are jealous like that... it speaks volumes in your feelings for me.."
With that he bent down to kiss him. Only to get a slap in the face.
"That's all you are looking for, isn't it? Getting laid everyday.....you're nothing but a dirty man! I knew from the start that it was a bad idea to associate myself with strangers so familiarly and friendly from the start... to get nothing in return expect this.." Adonis muttered, as he went to peel off his pants and shoes before he got into bed.
The hatter was rubbing his cheek, shocked that he actually had gotten slapped by such a cute shy boy like Adonis.

"I'll tolerate us sleeping together in the same bed," Adonis said, "But you better stay on your side of bed... I would not like it if you touched me tonight!"
With that, he crawled into bed and pulled the covers over himself.

The Hatter's mismatched eyes blinked back some tears, as he still rubbed the sore spot where Adonis had slapped him.

Oh boy, it was going to be one LONG night for him....
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The next morning Adonis woke up, feeling particularly great even though he had no idea why.
It was just that he felt so warm, so safe and protected.
He suddenly realized why.
It seemed that over the night The hatter had wrapped his arms around Adonis. Both of them had slept like that; in a spooning position. The hatter's chest was keeping his back warm, and he could feel his hot breath on his neck.
He then slowly turned around in bed, as not to wake the Hatter.
Adonis examined the sleeping Hatter's face, sorely tempted to kiss him right there. After all, Hatter sleeping like this, he seemed like such a sweet man...

But then he remembered yesterday. The way he had ogled at the cook and the way she had greeted them both in lingerie, practally begging for and and attention. Okay, maybe she did not open the doors like that, but still...
The strange unknown emotion tugged at his heart again, and all the content and warm feeling that he was feeling went away.

He shoved Hatter off the bed, slingling the sleeping man.

"Huh? What's going on?" The Hatter said, rubbing his eyes.

"You touched me while I was sleeping. Even if it was to just sleep wyouryour arms around me, I still told you not to touch me!" Adonis said, trying to sound deeply angry as he pulled on his pants.

The hatter groaned. It looked like Adonis was still angry at him... What could he do to win Adonis back?

The hatter started mumbling to himself as he got up off the floor, and started looking around for his own pants.
Well, He could always do what he did to get people that he wanted. Drug Adonis again. But here that was impossible. He had left his pibackback home, and he doubted that the Duchess was much of a tea-lover like he was.
But then again, even if he did have his pills it would not work very well in stopping Adonis from being angry with him. All it did was make people horny and turn into raging nymphs...And it might even make Adonis's view on him even worse. That or twist his mind around so much. That was an unfortunate side effect if people like him took the pills more than once.
It's not like he always wanted sex all the time. After all He did have the few loves in his life, right?
Filled with romantic dinners and all that jazz...

But at that thought he grew even more depressed, because he knew even without looking back on his past that it was not exactly true. What Adonis had said to him in anger yesterday dide soe some of the truth in it. Probably why it hurt so much more than the slap did. After all, That had been how he had gotten his former love, the Mad Hare... though the pills slipped into the tea.
He had gotten the Dormouse that same way too.
And all those other people that ever caught his attention that passed by his house, like that lovely but still odd travelling woman from the land of chess one time, or those cat men 50 years ago..... He too, hadnarenared them by inviting them in for tea and slipping them the pill so that he could have one-nights with them... and maybe if he was lucky, maybe two nights with them.

He had never honestly tried to court somebody though anything romantic, like a dinner only for two... reading them poetry, or even buying them chocolates and flowers. And he knew why. He had always thought of that to be a waste of time, when all he wanted to do was kiss them and maybe more than just that. After all, he had lost all his patience always having that eternal tea time party... ten years of that had not been so bad, even if he started to lose interest in tea and crumpets in such a severe way. The crumpets and the tea had started going completely tasteless in his mouth because he always had so much of it... and having tea all alone for ten years can really get to a person. So he had been all too happy when the Mad Hare came to live with him. But with another ten years, he had slowly started to go mad... He had cravings for other things. The desire for beautiful people to come to please him, for instance. To go out and have the fun. He did not want to take the time to court somebody properly...That was why he had always used the pills in any situation.
So slowly Tea-time had turned into a time of playing for him. After all, He was sick and tired of the blasted tea, to tell the truth. And it served him well for over the 200 years that he had been alive...

It was then that he started to understand truly why Time had done this to him as a punishmfor for arguing with him.
Blasted Time... Time had worse pride than anybody else he ever knew. It was why it was still in affect. Him being stuck in time. For him, it would always be 6:00 PM, tea time. Exactly the moment, that Time had lost his temper with The hatter. And for the rest of the world. They would still move on, age somewhat. And Time would never reverse his decision, no matter what. Because if he did that, Time would be admitting that what the Hatter had said to him would be right... and the fact, that Time was wrong.
Although The Hatter could not remember what it was that Time and the Hatter had argued about.
But anyway, the rest of wonderland would probably be going on, aging and doing all those other things.... like taking the time to court one another, having the time of their lives.
Although he did hear a rumor that the blasted old man was now imprisoned by the Queen of Hearts, so there was ssibssibility that all of Wonderland was alsuck uck in time like he was now too.

The hatter sighed, now depressed. He finally noticed that the pants had been right by his bed all along, and begin to pull them on.
"Hatter...." Adonis said to him, making the Hatter look up at Adonis hopefully.

Adonis had been watching Hatter from his side of the room, and he had noticed that the Hatter did not seem to be in a very good mood himself. And in fact seemed to be thinking of something depressing.
He then felt guilty, most likely the cause for it. Maybe it was just like what the Hatter had said. That cook did not mean anything to him at all... But he could not feel like he was being threatened. After all, Who would not want a beautiful woman right over a young boy?
But before Hatter had seemed sincere when he had said that he wanted Adonis, even saying that he would love him. So if He had truly loved him. The cook would not mean anything to him, other than being attractive-looking.
"Hatter..." He said, about to walk over to him and hug him. Hatter looked up at Adonis hopefully.
Adonis was about to say more when there was a loud ruckus.

"OOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! OH YES I LOVE THIS TYPE OF A WAKE-UP CALL!! I WANT MORE!" A loud voice shrieked, startling both of them.

"Wasn't that the same voice we heard last night....?" The Hatter asked. As he pulled back on his pants.
"Yes, you are right. And it sounds like it came from inside this house, just as I thought.." Adonis said, looking puzzled.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" a moaning shriek sounded, and there was the suspicious sound of creaking... and then there was a very loud thud, like something big crashing into the floor.
The noise made both the Hatter and Adonis jump.

"OH DARNIT!" The voice bellowed, "LOOKS LIKE WE BROKE THE BED AGAIN!"

It was followed up by loud laughter. Both Hatter and Adonis could not help but groan.

"Looks like we shall be around very noisy people today.." Adonis sighed.
"Ugh, how can anybody be into somebody that loud? I would had strangled that person a long time ago....Yet by some miracle from the sounds of it, it sounded like they were doing the sex act.." Hatter muttered to himself.
Adonis could not help but laugh slightly at that.
"At any rate. We have to go to see the Duchess, right? It's nine now in the morning, I think. So it should not be too early to go to see her now.." Adonis suggested, about ready to do the errand and to get out of this strange house right away.
"I agree...I do not want to stick around such noisy people, pretty cook or not.." Hatter nodded, approvingly.

Adonis smiled. So, the cook was nothing but a pretty face to the hatter. That was a relief to hear.

The pair walked out of the guest bedroom that the cook had ready for them, and down the hall. Just then they heard loud footsteps running down the stairs, and into the next room. They followed the sound, and found themselves in the kitchen.
There was the cook, now dressed in a dirty and plain dress. Not looking like the sexpot she looked like last night. She was shaking pepper into everything in a frenzied way, which seemed to create a whole smoke of pepper in the air.
The whole kitchen seemed to be in chaos, dirty pans and pots everywhere. It was almost as if the cook never bothered to clean the whole kitchen up at all.
Only the table with chair seemed to be the cleanest place, and even the table itself seemed to be smudged with dirt and such.
The thick smoke of pepper was what really got to Adonis though..his nose itched, making him feel like he needed to sneeze terribly. He covered his nose though, to keep any more pepper from getting in.
"Oh god. This is worse than my bedroom and my tea table. And I thought I was a messy person.." The Hatter groaned, looking about the kitchen.

The cook let out a scream as she spun around, spilling pepper everywhere. "Oh, it's you. I had forgotten about you.."
Adonis could not help but groan at that, while The Hatter just sighed. "You forgot about a bunch of beautiful men like us? Oh well, not that matters. We need to see the Duchess.."
The cook sniffed. "The Duchess will be down soon.... She is just calling for the bed repair person to come over here. As you can see, I am cooking breakfast for her."

Adonis raised his eyebrows. "But you seem to be shaking pepper into a pot of boiling water. what kind of breakfast is that?"

The cook sniffed once again. "It's pepper soup, silly! It's the Duchess's favorite... she has it for breakfast, lunch and supper. Good thing too, since It's all I know to make. "

The hatter mumbled under his breath so that only Adonis heard, "By the gods, that has to be the worst cook I've seen.... She certainly got the looks, but certainly no talent when it comes to cooking. I am a better cook, and all I can do is bake crumpets."
Adonis stifled his mouth, to fight the laughter that seemed to be desperate to escape from his lips.

It was then that a very plain-looking, and obviously very ill woman in a formal white dress came down the stairs that led into the kitchen. Her hair was long and brown in a way that made Adonis think of Alice, with the exception of the bangs, which was still in curlers.
Her face rensembled nothing of his beloved sister Alice though. Her eyes were a striking green, which stood out even more thanks to the redness of her eyes. In fact it seemed like the whites of her eyes had gone red completely, giving her eyes a strange look. Her eyes also seemed to be constantly watering.
The Duchess also had a red swollen nose which did nothing at all to help her sickly appearance. In fact, if anything it made her appearance an even more worse one.
In fact, she seemed like a very sorry-looking woman...

"ACHOO!!" The Duchess let out a giant sneeze, as she looked about the kitchen. "Oh, let me guess. Pepper soup again?"
She sat down at the table, and it was then she noticed the two standing there staring at her.

"Hey..ACHOO! Who are. ACHOO! You? Ahhhhh..." The Duchess asked between sneezes, and then it trailed off into a pausing sneeze. "CHHHOOOO!!!" she let it out in one blast, which made Adonis jump.

"I'm the Hatter.." The Hatter said, very simply.

"So you are a hatter, eh? Well, we have no need for somebody who sells hats, much less makes them. ACCCHHHHHHOO!!!" The Duchess let out another sneeze, and then sniffled. "But state your real name, and why are you here? I suspect it's not to sell me hats, what with that pretty redhead clinging to you..."

Adonis had started clinging right behind the hatter, as seeing he was not too keen with the idea of catching whatever the Duchess had...

The Hatter nodded. "Certainly. My name is Axel Bailey. And I am here with my boyfriend on an errand for the healer..I was wondering if you had the Bramble weed growing in your gardens that the Healer needs? He said that you would have some.. "

At the mention of the healer, the Duchess's disption seemed to lighten up somewhat.

"Oh! Just in. ACHOO!! Time. I ran out of allergies medicine here...ACCCHHHHHOOO!! I need some more anti-pepper pills, it cures my allergies to pepper pretty well..." The Duchess said.

At this point, Adonis stopped clinging the Hatter, relived to hear that it was only an allergy. However, there was something strange.
Adonis raised one red eyebrow, and then said: "But the cook said that your favorite was the pepper soup and that you have it every time it's time to eat. How can you eat something you are that badly allegeric to?"

The Duchess laughed weakly. "Oh, the cook told you that, huh? Ahhhhh.... ah... oh, false alarm. Anyway, It doesn't matter if I am allegeric, I still love the cook...er, I mean, I love the cook's skills of course. Ahhhh...choo!! She is such a dear to have... ACCHOOO!! around the house..ahchoo! so helpful to have around..Ahchoo!!"

The Hatter and Adonis then looked at each other with raised eyebrows. It all suddenly seemed so clear to them now...

"Anyway," The Duchess said rather hurriedly, "I can take you out to the bramble weed patch outside. I know it well, I do love to garden after all.... "

"That would be great, thanks... you have no idea how much you are helping us. You are such a sweet woman to go to all this trouble.." Adonis said, grinning.

The Duchess blinked, and then she fluttered her eyelashes at Adonis. "My dear, it was nothing. Anything I can do for such handsome men like you, after all... is a reward in itself."

There was then a very loud crash in the back, and everyone turned to stare at the cook, who had overturned the pot which held the so-called "pepper soup" (which Adonis suspected was really just hot blackened water with pepper in it)...
The cook had been scowling as she heard the conversation where Adonis had paid the compliment to the Duchess, and the way the Duchess had batted her eyes at that pretty boy...
But now she was falsely smiling, saying: "Oh my! It seems that I've dentdentally dropped the pepper soup you like so much. Looks like I will have to make some more!"
With that, she shook her pepper bottle with such vigor that the whole room actually seemed to be covered in pepper smoke.

So of course everyone but the cook who seemed to have a strange immunity to pepper, was now coughing and sneezing.
So the Mad Hatter and Adonis had no choice but to rush outside in a despite attempt to get fresh air, and away from that pepper smoke. The duchess followed them.
Once outside, The duchess said to them: "You must forgive my cook. Sometimes she gets a little overexcited...But it looks like you will have to go to get the bramble weed in my backyard yourself. It's the only giant flowers in my backyard, they should be easy to spot. I will have to go back inside to attend to my cook. By the way, tell that Healer I need refills on my allergic pills. Do not forget!"
With that, she went back inside into the house. And again there were the sounds of loud sneezing, and loud shouting.

The Hatter shook his head. "Oh man... I cannot help feeling sorry for the duchess. Serve allergy to pepper, and the only thing that the cook can make is pepper soup and even that sounds bad. I suspect the Duchess doesn't really like it like she claims she does. And she is such an annoying loud person too... it's a shame that the cook's the pretty one instead of the duchess. Talk about such an odd pair. What do they see in each other?"

Adonis responded simply: "It must be love, what else could it be? I actually think its kind of sweet... willing to put up with all the annoying things that even ruined your own health just so that you could be with that person...yeah, it must be love, that is the only reasonable explanation. I must confess I find the whole thing kind of funny..."

The hatter shook his head. "Whatever. let's just get the Bramble weed and get out of here.."

Adonis giggled, his mad mood with the Hatter forgotten. Especially now that he knew that he had nothing to worry about.
"While we are at it, how come you never told me that your real name was Axel Bailey?"
"Oh, that? Eh, everyone just calls me the Hatter. And they know me better by that name than by my real name. So I never bothered.."
"I see.."
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Alice was now walking along the road with the Cheshire cat.

The Cat looked up at her curiously and asked, "Why are we going this way to the Queen of Hearts castle instead? I thought you wanted to find your brother Adonis.."

Alice replied: "I do. But the Hare did say that he and everyone else was not there anymore. And He mentioned something about going to the Queen's castle...that everyone possibly was there.."

The cat could not help but point out: "But there is more than one Queen. Granted, there is the Queen of Wonderland here, But there is also the land of Chess which has the other name of Mirror land; which has the two Queens along with the kings. And of course, there is the land of yours from when you used to be the Queen, and still is... even if you hired somebody to look after your land and rule it in your absence. Adonis could had still gone to any of them...."

Alice groaned in frusation when she heard that. "Well, The Queen of Hearts is the closest, is not she?"

"Well, yes, but..."

"Then we will check for any signs of them there first, and then move on to the other castles. Simple enough, right?"

The Cat shook his head. "Sure.. just as long we do not run into the Queen of Hearts... She is much worse than the last time you visited her, Alice. This time she might come right after your head for real. And if Adonis is really attractive like you say, She might want his head too... So I doubt that he and the others would really risk their lives going to her. Besides, The population in wonderland here is really low thanks to her, you do not want it to go any lower do you?"

Alice got confused for a moment when Cat mentioned the past which she did not remember, but then realized the cat was probably referring to her grandma or somebody equally as old in the family. After all, Grandma had been Alice the 18th.... or at least used to be anyway before shed.
d.
It was times like this she hated how everyone in the family seemed to follow along with that stupid tradition of naming every girl that they thought to have potential "Alice". Her mother had not been named Alice, but then again She was really just from the Dodgson family, rather than Car Carroll family, which happened to be her father's side.
It's not like the name itself gave the girls power or something. It was the bloodline that really counted.
But thanks to it, She was now getting confused on separating all the Alices before her of the past and herself. It seemed that something about this wonderland seemed to make all the Alices of the past and Herself seem to be the same person...
It was muddling up her mind, and confusing her. She hated that too.
It was getting harder and harder to remember her family...

"I have to. To protect Adonis. Because even if he does turn out to be all right because he found friends, there is still the chance he could still hurt others and himself because of the family power..." Alice murmured, as she tried her best to recount her family members, and her family heritage that she had been taught about ever since she was a little girl. And of course, the latest information all about wonderland that Grandma had told her before she died in the car...

"The family power? What is that?" The Cat looked interested by this point. Looks like maybe there was more to this more than appeared to the eye. He htarttarted to think that it was just one of Alice's harebrained adventures. After all, that girl went on more adventures and quests more than anybody else he ever met. But it seemed that this time she seemed to have something genuinely serious to worry about...

"Oh, I guess I should explain... You see, my family has had a long history. A very interesting history none less. Example, the earliest ancestors that anybody can remembers having used to be ancient druids in England, where I was born. That was before any actual civilization actually existed in England and there was nothing but tribes there. And then after there was a Civization born, there was family history of fortunetellers, witches and others who could also see the dead. And even right after our family modeled itself into the image of a respectable family, there was still those who was interested in solely persevering our bloodline so that our family magic would be strong, if you believe in that sort of thing. I never really believed in that myself, until I witnessed a strange event concerning my brother, which was the one my older relatives once told me had a very special mystical gift.."

The Cat could not help but be somewhat impressed by this explaining... He then asked, "So what was the strange event that made you believe?"

Alice seemed a little bit sad at this, as she looked at the ground. "The day our father died... I guess that was just the final straw right after our own gran I m I mean it was badly enough our our grandma died, but our father just had to die too. All in one year too.
I was there when he completely lost it. He just went nuts with his grief, crying and throwing a fit. That was in school when we first heard the news. Well, clearly, all the glass in school seemed to break and shatter then, and all the lockers opened by themselves even if they had been locked in the first place. I guess, witnessing something like that cannot help but make you a believer in some things.."

The Cat shook his head. "Wow. That certainly paints an impressive scene in my head... I would also hate to think if somebody found out about Adonis's power and used it the wrong way. It would certainly mean disaster for Wonderland. Although not that I really care about that. I had be more worried on how it would affect my life in the forests, especially with my hunting...After all, its how I survive."

Alice nodded. "So you must understand why I have to find him. You see, after that incident he was put into the school psychic care for a while..... and it did not do anything to help him at all. In fact, it just made it worse... there was all those kids at school. And well, let's just say kids can be such freaking' wankers with no life at all. So that is why I've always had to protect him, especially ever since we moved into a bad area... He has no friends, so of se hse he could easily be lured into believing somebody wanted him or something like that... it might be easy to manipulate him and I cannot let that happen."

The cat nodded. "Of course. In that case, I shall help you. Onward to the Queen of Hearts' castle we shall go.."
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End of Chapter Nine!

Whew, I actually pulled an all-nighter to write this WHOLE chapter. I hope everyone loves it. and it also fills up some possible plot holes and leaves us with some plots, eh?

Next Chapter, on the walk back to the Healer, Hatter tells Adonis all about his more detailed past, especially the whole thing with Time and why he was staying in his own house and never leaving for more than 100 years...
And of course, possibly. dun dun dun!! The ever demented Queen of Hearts might appear~~~!!