Alice/Hatter, "A Cool Fire"
Title: A Cool Fire
Characters: Hatter's POV, Alice/Hatter
Rating: safe for kids
Spoilers: Parts 1 and 2
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Summary: It started out as a 100-word drabble with the prompt "Love Triangle". Then it... wasn't 100 words anymore. XP Set in Hatter's POV.
He definitely couldn’t blame Jack for fighting for her. Alice was something nobody in Wonderland had seen in a long time - a glimmer of change. She was radiant with the energy of possibility, she was a wildfire wearing an ice blue dress. Yeah, he blamed Jack for hurting her… for treating her like any pawn and breaking her heart… but he couldn’t blame him for wanting her back.
He couldn’t blame Alice either, for trying to be loyal, for wanting everything to work out through sheer force of will. Beating the world around her into submission. It was stunning. It was mad. But it was just the way Alice worked.
Hatter was unfamiliar with that particular brand of stupidity - loyalty - and he admired it, was fascinated by it, loved her for it as much as he was frustrated by it.
No, he couldn’t blame either of them. So the only person Hatter had left to blame was himself.
He dropped the stick, and he let the two of them walk away.
Characters: Hatter's POV, Alice/Hatter
Rating: safe for kids
Spoilers: Parts 1 and 2
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Summary: It started out as a 100-word drabble with the prompt "Love Triangle". Then it... wasn't 100 words anymore. XP Set in Hatter's POV.
He definitely couldn’t blame Jack for fighting for her. Alice was something nobody in Wonderland had seen in a long time - a glimmer of change. She was radiant with the energy of possibility, she was a wildfire wearing an ice blue dress. Yeah, he blamed Jack for hurting her… for treating her like any pawn and breaking her heart… but he couldn’t blame him for wanting her back.
He couldn’t blame Alice either, for trying to be loyal, for wanting everything to work out through sheer force of will. Beating the world around her into submission. It was stunning. It was mad. But it was just the way Alice worked.
Hatter was unfamiliar with that particular brand of stupidity - loyalty - and he admired it, was fascinated by it, loved her for it as much as he was frustrated by it.
No, he couldn’t blame either of them. So the only person Hatter had left to blame was himself.
He dropped the stick, and he let the two of them walk away.