Anyway, I've been obsessed with this pairing, and was surprised nobody tried this approach. The first chapter is just an alternate ending to the movie, but will lead to more.

Alice took the vial of Jabberwocky blood from the white queen, she smiled wearily and turned to look at her close friends. Her eyes slide past Chess, and Mallymkun. They come to rest on the hatter. He always was her closest friend, he was just the right amount of hopeful insanity that made her smile.

"You could always stay...?" He smiled hopefully, his arms raising up for a hug.

"What a mad idea: a crazy, mad, wonderful idea!" She smiled brightly and hugged the hatter, his arms wrapping around her. She inhaled the sweet smell of tea, sweets, and something just purely him.

"But, I can't." She took one step back, noticing the hurt look on the hatter's face.

"I have unfinished business where I come from. I have questions I need to answer, and things I must do. But..." She glanced nervously down, a small flush crossing her cheeks.

"But, what?" the hatter used his hand to lift her chin, so she was staring right at him.

"But, maybe you'd like to come with me?" His mouth fell open in shock, and she took this as a bad sign so she rambled on "It wouldn't be forever, we'd be back in Underland before you know it?"

Mirana quickly pulled a vile from her pocket and filled it with the Jabberwock's blood, cringing at the grotesqueness of the head. When it was full she walked over to the hatter and placed the vile in his palm. "If you decide to go Tarrant, know that there will always be a place in my court for you. And that your home will be taken care of." She smiled pleasantly, giving him a gesture to urge him to answer the champion of Underland.

"I-I'd love to." He stuttered.

Alice positively beamed knowing that her friend would be coming with her this time. She made a silent promise to make him all his favorite types of tea while they were gone. "Shall we?" She smiled. The hatter gulped and drew the vial to his lips, swallowing the vile contents inside. Alice did the same, and waved goodbye to everyone. "We'll be back as soon as we can."

The scene of the chess-board battlefield changed, growing darker and smokier, and Alice stared at hatter's eyes. They were turning a pale green, and she felt like she was falling up them. She lost her footing and grabbed a hold of the ledge, grabbing at the dirt and grass to hoist herself back up. Once out of the hole she reached a hand down for the hatter. He got to his knees and looked around curiously.

"Where are we Alice? And, do I hear music?"

Alice blanked for a moment, but then remembered that Hamish had proposed to her. "We're at what was supposed to be my engagement party. That was one of the questions I had to come back and answer hatter."

Tarrant's eyes changed from a green to more of a red, his anger building up at the idea of anybody forcing his Alice to do anything like that, against her will. "An' yew w're gon' sey NO, righ' lass?" He growled, his thick brogue accent filling the air and making her shudder.

"I don't know." She answered truthfully, "It had been so long since I traveled to Wonderland that I thought I might have dreamed it all up. Dreampt you up..." She shook her head sadly. "But then, as I stood on the alter not knowing what to say, the white rabbit found me and I followed."

Tarrant's eyes slowly changed to blue, then back to green as he said "I'll have to remember to properly thank Nivens for that."

The crowd stood waiting as Alice and her companion made their way out of the garden. The red-haired man stopped at the edge of the crowd and smiled as Alice made her way back to the alter to give Hamish his answer. Hamish walked over confused, but happy "So?" Alice scanned the crowd and locked eyes with the hatter, then turned towards Hamish.

"I'm sorry Hamish, I can't marry you. You're not the man for me, 'lest I trouble with your digestion." Hamish's smile faltered, he looked rather baffled that anyone would turn down his hand in matrimony. Alice quickly walked through the crowd to find her sister. "I love you Margret, but this is my life. I'll decide what to do with it." Her eyes snapped to Lowell. "You're lucky to have my sister as your wife Lowell, you be good to her. I'll be watching very. Closely."

Next she finds Aunt Imogene, grasping her hands lightly. "That's not a prince you're seeing aunt Imogene, you need to see someone about these delusions." Alice makes her way back up through the crowd to Lady Ascot, glaring at her."I happen to love rabbits, especially white ones." she passed by Lord Ascot and finds her mother smiling lovingly at her "Don't worry mother, I'll fins something useful to do with my life." Finally Alice looked at the twins, smilingly madly. "You two remind remind me of some funny boys I met in a dream." The twins look at each other and smile.

Alice then turns around, but Lord Ascot's voice halts her. "You've left me out."

Alice smiles slyly and says "No, I haven't, sir. You and I have business to discuss."

Lord ascot looks into her eyes and sees her father's mad determination and laughs "Shall we speak in the study?" Alice nods and makes her way through the crowd, the hatter following her. She suddenly turns back around

"Oh. And one more thing." Alice lifts her dress to reveal that she is improperly dressed, and then does her best impression of the futterwacken she could. The gasps roared up in the crowd, and the hatter laughed at her gesture.

-Tarrant/Alice-

A year later Alice found herself in China, and the hatter was being positively batty at the moment. Turns out he has a bit of sea sickness, and the months on end aboard the ship left him rattled and grumpy. "Alice dear, can we please go and get some proper tea now? I've been left tea-less for the past week now." His lips drew down in an adorable pout that left Alice wanting to give him all the tea in China.

"Soon," she smiled, "As soon as our meeting gets underway we can have tea. We have lots to discuss with these people, and if we're successful, then my father's dream will be expanded even further. He can be proud of me, and my mother can stop worrying about my well-being."

Tarrant sighed and threw his coat on. Mr. Ascot had been very kind to Tarrant, he had provided Tarrant with all the materials he would need to make a new wardrobe for his abroad adventure. His only request was that the hatter made a few articles for his wife as well. Hats and parasols, gloves and other such trinkets that the hatter made finer than any had ever laid eyes on. Today he wore a purple jacket with a white undershirt. He embroidered tea pots onto some cloth and turned it into a new bow-tie. His pants were a deep black, and fit him rather scandalously.

Women stopped and stared at him, not only because of his odd appearance and colorings; but, because he was handsome. His fingers were no longer stained with mercury, and he left his sewing things aboard the boat, save a small mending kit in his trouser pocket. His hat was on top his head as usual, and he smiled warmly to everyone as they passed. Alice's mood darkened slightly as a particularly handsome woman walked up and flirted with the hatter, looking up from her fan and winking at him.

The sooner this meeting gets started, the better. Alice thought.

Lord Ascot met up with the two friends in front of the Shanghai trading Co., he gestured them inside and rambled on about tips and tricks to get the meeting to go well. After some questioning from the hatter about why ravens were like writing desks, they all sat down and began the meeting that would change London's economy. It all went amazingly well, the executives fancied Tarrant and asked him lots of questions about his work. Alongside the deal to establish a trading stronghold, they offered Tarrant a job overseeing the local seamstresses. Which the hatter surprisingly agreed to; however, he did make it clear that he would do it when he wanted. And, that he could leave at any time he wanted.

This was going to be a good day.

Anyyyywaayyyy let me know what you think? And if you've read any of my other stuff, let me know if you prefer this form of writing over my previous one. thhannkkss :P Also, reloaded this with a few spelling errors being fixed. If you notice any, feel free to tell me so I can fix them. :3