Fic: R - Tarrant/Alice "I dreamed you" Chapter 8
Fandom: Alice in Wonderland 2010
Rating: R ( M )
Warning: Explicit content, do not read when under 18.
Pairing: Alice / Tarrant
Genre: General/Romance/Hurt/Comfort
Disclaimer: I don't own anything nor do I profit.
Au: Sorry for the short chapter =) But it's better than nothing, eh?
I dreamed you
It's Now Or Never
Tally cuddled Alice close.
The blonde was sweating and trembling and looked up at herself in the mirror. Her first thought was that she looked pathetically miserable.
Tally smiled at her. "You start to look healthy again."
Alice frowned for she had just concluded the opposite.
Tallulah laughed at the girl's facial expression of stupidity. "Your cheeks, they colour again."
Alice ran her hands up into her hair.
"I feel horrid." She groaned. As she rubbed her temples she found herself surprised at seeing a glass of water being held in front of her nose.
"Drink this."
She glanced at Tally.
"Will it make me shrink?"
The brunette shook her head but Alice still didn't trust the situation.
"Will it make me grow?"
Tally rolled her eyes and started to clean up the vomit that had formed a pool next to the bed. "For Mirana's sake, just drink it! It's to get rid of the nasty taste." Alice shrugged and thought that she was too tired to let her inner self debate whether drinking from a glass of water would be dangerous or not. She sipped it while watching her resemblance cleaning the floor. The girl looked quite cute and Alice blushed as she realized she must look pretty much the same if she would do such a chore. It was a good thing she wasn't a cleaner then. If she had been she was a hundred percent sure that Hamish would have ravished her.
A shiver run down her spine and made her almost drop the glass.
'Tarrant.'
As far as she was concerned the hatter had taken her against her will and hadn't any romanticness planned for her. Alice could feel her heart clench inside her chest.
Why did her heart have to hurt so painfully?
Tally sat up on her knees and smiled at her. "Don't worry, Alice. We could go and see a doctor?"
Alice shook her head. "No, that won't be necessary. I think I'm just slightly traumatised by what has happened. I thought back at it and suddenly it made me feel so nauseous." She leaned back into a chair and finished her glass of water.
Tally stood in front of her, she had finished cleaning the floor, and smiled warmly. "You will help me?"
Alice looked up at her. Confusion was readable in her eyes and Tally's smile changed as her face turned pleading.
"Please, Alice. I don't want to marry my cousin tomorrow. He might be a wonderfully talented man and favoured at the court of both the white as well as the red queen but he is still family." Tally winced. Her eyes and voice where honest and Alice felt her heart sink. She hadn't thought it to be possible to feel this down in her whole life, but then again she was told that nothing was impossible except when you believed it was - her heart clenched again at remembering Tarrant's whispering voice as he spoke those words- and in fact Alice hadn't believed six impossible things before breakfast that day.
"You want me to help you stop the wedding?"
Tally smiled widely again and nodded her head vigorously. "Yes. Please say you'll help me?"
At the pleading puppy-eyed look the brunette was giving her Alice had to laugh.
"Sorry!" She exclaimed making Tally look sad. "I just realized how good I should be at manipulating people. You have the cutest face when you look so helpless."
Tally blinked and realized that Alice must be talking about their resemblance and slowly nodded her head.
"I will help you." Alice said with a smile as she stood up from the chair. She grabbed for her lower abdomen and winced at the pain she felt when she rose from her seat. Tally eyed her warily but decided not to comment on it as she had no idea what had passed between her and Tarrant exactly.
Alice tried to ignore the feeling of emptiness and loss. It was a feeling that reminded her of how Tarrant had taken away her innocence.
"Just tell me what I can do."
Tally smiled. "It's simple. We just have to ruin all that is prepared."