A/N: Hi all! Well, I'm partially back for now and I'll be fixing/finishing one story at a time starting with the old ones and working my way up till I only have my new stuff to work on. Which are MSAL AND TBR. Anyways! I hope you will still enjoy Finding Happiness even with the shorter chapters and all that. Welp lets get this "show" on the road and get a going finally! Again I'm sorry for being gone so long... Before I forget to mention this... Finding Happiness will be cut down to shorter chapters!

I OWN NOTHING BUT THE PLOT AND ANY ORIGINAL CHARACTERS I MAY ADD IN FUTURE CHAPTERS! EVERYTHING ELSE BELONGS TO ITS RESPECTIVE OWNERS!

Reviews, flames, etc are welcome lol.

Till next time!

Lee

Fading

Alice was fading slowly.

She missed Underland so much, terribly. Her journey to China might have sated her hunger for adventure for now at least partially. But the bad weather and bad luck had forced the entire crew to turn back long before reaching their final destination in China.

Alice found herself back in London before six months had passed. Once more having to suffer the many disapproving glances and glares and the whispers when they thought she wouldn't hear. Her mother was also still dead set on marrying her off, and Alice had endured an endless parade of suitors, none of which were suitable to her liking.

Every last man was proper and rich and dull, no better than Hamish at all. Not to mention that she was still expected to wear her dreadful stockings and corset.

Alice was becoming more pale and distant than before, daydreaming constantly about her friends and her real home, and her dreams were haunted by their faces every night.

Her dear silly Mad Hatter would say that she was losing her muchness again. He would be right. Her free spirit stifled under the gloomy and oppressive boring social expectations here in London. Everything was just so horribly dull. She would find herself sometimes even looking around to see if she might spot a white rabbit with a vest on, or even a bright blue butterfly.

Though neither had shown up in her line of sight just yet. Alice knew though that soon she would lose the rest of her muchness if she didn't go back to Underland.

If she didn't go back to her friends and her dear hatter.

Alice had to go back; she had to get back soon.