Blue Skies Prompt 23: Alice in Wonderland
Title: Cracked in the Head
Author: Ranguvar42
Prompt: Blue Skies #23, Picture of cracked earth
Fandom: Alice in Wonderland, 2010.
Character(s): Thackery/March Hare
Genre: Angst
Ratings/Warnings: K+ for sad moments.
Word Count: 314
Summary: Thackery is well called the Mad March Hare.
Thackery had always been a bit touched in the head, as Mally and Tarrant could well attest. Even before the horrid Horrendevush Day he was prone to mad fits of cackling laughter and antics that made even the Mad Hatter's eyes rise in interest. He could be unpredictable, but that only made him a better companion for Tarrant when Time stopped for all those years. He was not bound by the Curse, but out of loyalty for his friend he came by the Windmill every day to lift Tarrant's rapidly darkening spirits with a joke, a dance, or a sublimely ridiculous story.
When Alice fell down the Hole for the first time, Thackery had taken great delight in confuzzling her thoroughly. She had flounced off in a high dudgeon, and Thackery had laughed until he couldn't breathe, his long hind legs kicking helplessly in the air.
He hadn't been the most reliable witness at Ilosovic's Trial, but he had done his best, considering that the whole thing was a sham.
For a long time, Thackery had a routine. He would wake up, then go to the Windmill and spend Time with his friends. But then the War had begun, and he discovered that he could use his throwing skills in combat. He felled many soldiers with well tossed tea cups on the Horrendevush Day-and then the Jabberwock had appeared on the scene, burning everything and everyone in its path, and Thackery's already fractured brain had cracked completely.
He stood staring at the utter destruction, eyes wide and body rigid as he felt himself being engulfed by a Madness from which there was no return.