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If there was one rule that Artemis was getting sick of hearing it was this:

"There must always be a Hatter. He can be tall and round, short and thin, there must always be a Hatter. He can be any colour that you wish, but there must always be a Hatter."

This was all the White Rabbit would say if he bothered to answer her questions at all and Artemis didn't even try asking questions of the Tweedles. They had a habit of not allowing each other to finish their sentences and they spoke in riddles. Artemis learned the hard way…

"What is this place?" She had asked.

"What is-!"

"Well, of all mad things - !"

"You're Alice and Alice always - !"

"It's a place of all wonders - !"

" – wonders of all place!"

And then both boys had proceeded to stare at her waiting for her to acknowledge the sense they believed to have made, before waddling their round bodies up the path happily.

The blonde hero sighed and pulled at the tight fabric of her uniform, for once wishing she had listened to Zantanna and used shorts instead of pants. The heat was getting to her and she had already lowered the zipper down to her waist. Just as she was pulling her blonde hair off the nape of her sweaty neck, a cooling breeze blew, instantly cooling her down.

"Oh that feels good," she breathed, her eyes slowly closing. She was jerked out of her reverie when she bumped harshly into something furry. The rabbit and both boys were staring at her in awe.

"She is starting to –"

"Just one thing doesn't –"

"She couldn't have done it if she wasn't –"

"I'm not saying she isn't, I'm saying a breeze means nothing in –"

While the boys spoke in the way they did, Artemis had a staring contest with the White Rabbit who was so still Artemis was afraid his heart had stopped. All of a sudden he blinked and his little pink nose quivered.

"Yes," he mumbled, turning away from her and starting up the march again. "This is the Alice he wants…she can save him…"

Artemis followed, puzzled by his odd behaviour…not that the whole situation wasn't odd…he was a talking rabbit in a waist coat! But still, it was odder than he had been acting earlier. This was a truly mad place if a conveniently timed little breeze had its inhabitants muttering about her being Alice… and just when she had gotten the boys to stop calling her Alice, too. Artemis was staring at the white rabbit, when from behind her, the two Tweedles rushed forward, shouting gleefully.

"Hatter!"

"Look it here – "

"We've got her!"

"No, Dum, Mr. Rabbit's got her –"

"It's Alice –"

The rabbit sighed as they ran up to a long, narrow table covered with a white table cloth that had seen better days. The table was covered in cakes and cookies, tea cups and mismatching plates, and kettles upon kettles of tea. Hopping and twitching at one side was a ragged looking hare and at the other, calmly sipping his tea was the Cheshire Cat who, upon noting her arrival, gave a rather toothy grin, before calling out to a form vibrating so fast, Artemis couldn't make out what (let alone who) it was.

"Hatter! She is here."

The form made its way over to her in a flick of the Cats' tail. Artemis reached out and touched the vibrating figure tentatively. Almost immediately, the figure began to stop vibrating and became a solid form. A solid human form with emerald green eyes that made her heart pound so hard it hurt. His name she had cried in her sleep and his name she breathed now.

"Wally…"

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