Jess

"Isabella Angelo." The queen said calmly. "I'd like to honor you, as you've saved our kingdom and brought my sister to me. I'm presenting to you a title, and you will be a righteous knight of Wonderland. Do you accept?"

"Yes, Ma'am." Willa muttered.

She knelt in front of the throne, the Queen's court standing on either side, and a bunch of peculiar Wonderland residents as an audience. The rest of the Keepers and I stood in the front row. Well. I wobbled on one leg, and crutches. The guard's spear had ripped through my flesh and fractured my bone. Yeah. Ow. I try not to think about it too much.

Anyway, Willa was the big hero of the day. The Queen had learned what Willa had done as soon as she had dragged the Red Queen's sorry butt into the room (Willa was covered in poop, might I add), and immediately decided Willa needed to be rewarded (well, immediately after a shower). I mean, I think we all did a pretty bang-up job, but, hey. We'll let the kid have her glory.

The Queen touched a fancy sword to both of Willa's shoulders.

"I knight you, Willa the Valiant of Wonderland."

Man, this is cheesy. I almost laughed. My crutches creaked, and the entire line of keepers looked at me. I shrugged.

"Willa, I may be able to grant you one wish, as a reward." The Queen said. Willa looked down at us. Philby nodded. What?

"We just want to go home." Willa mumbled. I smiled. Home sounds nice.

The Queen smiled, too.

"I anticipated that. We've prepared some potion for you all to drink. It'll send you home whenever you're ready."

She nodded.

Not even an hour later, we stood on the balcony, looking out at the beautifully strange snow-covered wonderland.

"Beautiful, huh?" Philby laughed, standing with an arm around Willa's waist. I smiled.

"Yeah. It'll be weird being home." Willa whispered.

"You okay?"

"Yeah." She laughed. "I just… I want to go home, I guess. I'm tired. So tired."

Phil nodded, leaning over and kissing her neck.

"EWWWwwww…" I mumbled. "PDA!"

Amanda laughed, throwing an arm around me, carefully avoiding my crutches.

"It is adorable." She laughed. I nodded.

"Can we go home now!?" Charlie grumbled.

"I'm all for that!" Maybeck said. "It's been great, really, but I want to go home."

"We might just end up in another movie." Philby added.

We all groaned.

"Everyone ready?" Finn mumbled. "May as well try, I mean.

We nodded.

"Drink up."

And we all chugged the small vials.

…

I opened my eyes, feeling a bit carsick. I sat on a bench, in the main street train station, next to Amanda. It was nighttime, but the park had some lights on. The other keepers sat on the floor in front of us, all looking as confused as I felt. My leg was in a walking boot cast, my crutches resting against the bench next to me- a bit of frost was on them, too- so it had happened; I'm not crazy.

And suddenly, Philby pulled Willa to him again, pressing his lips to hers. Ew. Finn and Amanda were doing the same. Maybeck and Charlie.

Wow. I'm the seventh wheel.

It was then I realized I was wearing skinny jeans. Skinny jeans. And a black tank top. And a black, oversized hoodie. And converse. No medieval dress. No suit of armor, no 1910's upper class or lower class or whatever class outfit- everything normal. Everything perfectly normal and 'Jess'.

Well, except the boot. And crutches.

I shakily stood, using the crutches because crap, my leg really hurts. Leaving the couples to talk amongst themselves, I managed to get down the stairs without falling. I crutched down Main Street, and had to stop halfway (crutches are hard work). I caught my breath, and kept going till I was past the statue and staring up at the castle.

It was dark. Ominous. We're home-yes- but we'll never be home safe, I realized.

Suddenly, someone's arms wrapped around me in a hug. Amanda planted a kiss on my temple, and rested her forehead against the side of my head.

"We're home, Jessie."

"Mh-hm. Why are you hugging me?"

"What? I'm not allowed to be affectionate?" She laughed.

"Eh. Affection." I muttered.

"Eh, I know. Not a big hug person." Amanda laughed.

I don't know if it was just to prove her wrong, or maybe because I was happy, too. But I turned and gave her the tightest hug I've ever given anyone. And I laughed. And maybe cried a little.

"Aw," She laughed. "Jess…"

Eventually, the keepers joined us. We sat, facing the Castle.

And something beeped- I almost forgot what a cell phone sounded like.

Finn reached in his pocket (he was now wearing a normal Finn outfit, not medieval clothes), and pulled out his cell phone- Yes, his cell phone- and put it up to his ear.

"Mom? Yeah! I've never been so happy- mom- Mo- how long!? A month!? I'm s- Mom!"

He cringed, and brought the phone away from his ear.

"We've been gone a month." He whispered. We fell silent.

"My mom is going to kill me."

"Yeah, but at least-"

We were cut off by a loud explosion. We all jumped. One of my crutches fell, and had Willa not been there, I would've toppled over.

We turned toward the source- the castle. And realized the explosions weren't what we expected. The sky lit up blue and white as fireworks burst over the castle. It was lit up blue.

We watched the amazing display. "It's like… the park knows we're home." Charlie whispered.

We all nodded, but our attention was fixed on the sky. I smiled, resting my head against Amanda.

So, maybe we'll never be home safe. But we'll always have a home.

….

And that is the pretty terrible ending. Short and sweet. Thank you to all you loyal followers who suggested, reviewed, read- everything!

Yeah, that's seriously where it ends. 1000 words of cheesy ending.

To those of you asking, YES, LOST II will be continued. But, as you know, it is a story being worked on by two people, and it seems whenever Neon Clouds is free, I've got schoolwork, and whenever Im free to write, Neon's got schoolwork.

Go check out ON THE RUN, My new story! Or don't. I really… yeah, I dunnno.

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