Author's Note: Yep, I am going to writer hell for this. I know I am. I already have two other projects that I have started I can't be starting another. Sadly, this little thing just had to come out. I would say that this little story is a mix of fairy tales and mythology. Anyways, this is just going to be updated randomly as I am focusing on my other Vampire Diaries fanfic.

So here is the story.

Correction One: Disney got it Wrong

"If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does."— Excerpt from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis C.

To set the record straight, Alice did not fall down the Rabbit Hole. She wasn't that dumb. She was pushed…

By a witch.

The constant chatter of other children rang in Caroline's ears but she was not focused on whether or not Patty McIntyre had a crush on Tyler Lockwood and Daniel Jones (she knew that Patty really had a crush on Matt Donovan like all the other girls in the grade). Oh no, Caroline Forbes was meant for better things, much better things. Like right now, the five year old girl was investing all her time and energy into coloring inside the lines of a Winnies the Pooh coloring book.

With a proud huff Caroline pulled herself away from her coloring book to proudly stare at beautifully colored Winnie the Pooh. Not one stray mark was made so that meant that Caroline was getting good at this. She should become an artist, she thought idly. Caroline giggled as she imagined her coloring book being presented in a gallery.

"All right children, pay attention!" Ms. Morrison clapped her hands to get the other students' attention. The loud chatter quickly quieted down once Ms. Morrison wobbled up to the chalk board in her too high heels.

"Okay class," she said. Caroline frowned as she noticed that the layer of make-up around her mouth cracker with every moment of her lips. "As you know today is the last day before Spring Break―" the class erupted into loud hoots and holler from mostly the guys and some of the girls. Everyone was so excited to do nothing for a week. "So for Spring Break I have a little homework assignment for you." Cue the moans and groans. "It is really simple you guys. All you need to do is color in this flower."

Ms. Morrison hobbled around to each table putting down a small pile of paper. When Caroline got the paper she wasn't all too impressed. It was just a generic four petal flower, nothing compared to her Picasso drawing skills. "Now in each petal I want you to write one wish you have. To get a one hundred all of the flower must be filled out and colored."

"That's all we have to do?" Elena asked her hand high above her head. The teacher nodded and the class erupted back into incessant, childish chatter.

Caroline smiled as she looked down at her flower. One petal obviously had to be pink because pink was awesome and then another one had to be teal or sky blue because those color (in her opinion) looked the best with pink. Caroline was leaning towards sky blue. It just looked better. With her Picasso artist skills her flower would be the best in the class. Not only will she get a gold star, it'll probably be presented to the class and everyone would complement her on how wonderful of a job she did.

She couldn't wait to get started.

It was the first day of Spring Break. The very first and her schedule was packed. Not that Caroline minded though, it kept her mind off of―

"Where the hell have you been?!"

―things like that.

"Where have you been, huh?" Liz shouted. Caroline stood at the top of the stairs and watched as her parents stabbed at each other without knives.

"Where I have been is none of your business, Liz. Why are you acting like this?" Caroline's father asked. Bill stood tall. Caroline noticed that he was still in his clothes from yesterday, but they were a little wrinkled like he had slept in them and the shirt was not buttoned the whole way showing the under shirt that he had beneath.

"Why? I'm working my ass off and you're just―"

"Don't you dare act like I am unemployed! I am working hard for this family―"

Liz threw her hands up into the air and angered expression settled one her face. "That's the point! How can you call this a family when you ever barely spend time with me or Caroline!"

Bill shook his head and as he moved his head from side to side, Caroline noticed that her father seemed to have a purple bruise on the juncture of his shoulder and neck. "Quiet before the neighbors hear you!" Bill hissed. Caroline knew how this soap opera would go from there. Liz would lower her voice and they would hiss and spit at one another like beast all because they wanted to keep up the pretense that they were the perfect family when they actually weren't.

But when they went out to social events like the Founder's Day Ball, Bill and Liz would be the perfect family. Gone were the constant belittling and underlying marks of anger and the undercurrent of betrayal in every sentence. Bill and Liz would love Caroline and they would love Caroline. Now don't get her wrong, her parents did love her, but neither of them seemed to love her enough to spend time with her, in her opinion.

They always seemed to be busy with something and when they did pay attention to her they would always make her do these "games" that were badly disguised chores. But in front of company they couldn't get enough of her. Once in front of company, Bill allowed her to sit on his lap instead of shooing her off it and Liz actually grabbed her hand to make sure Caroline was right behind her instead of just assuming that Caroline would follow.

And even though Caroline knew that all of it was for show, she couldn't help but hope that her parents would keep up the act and notice that through all their fighting was a child that needed their affection. But then the doors would close and so would the hand holding.

Caroline frowned at turned away from the bickering parents. She retreated back into her room, with a storm in her mind. She closed the door behind her so she didn't have to hear her parents. Pulling out her homework, she colored the first petal cobalt blue (that was what the Crayola color pencil said) and wrote her first wish.

'I want a family that will always be with each other. Not just because people will be around.'

Her parents stopped their fighting long enough to remember that they had a child that needed to be driven to ballet practice. In a rush to get away from his raging spouse, Bill rushed Caroline, telling her to get ready and shoving her homework into her dance bag. They both knew that they were going to arrive early and Bill really did not feel like being bothered by Caroline while waiting for her lesson to begin.

They made it to the dance studio in record time. In the time spent waiting, Caroline colored the other four petals of her flower, coloring each petal a shade of blue with the center being teal. She was upset that it was not up to par with her Picasso like Winnie the Pooh, but it would have to do for now.

"Next class ladies!" The nasally voice of Miss Chester sang out. Jumping off her chair, Caroline smoothed out her tutu first before going into the dance studio. The class began and Caroline was at the very front following the teacher's lead and trying her very best to out shine everyone else; this was her time to be the star of the show.

Soon thought it neared the end of class and Miss Chester clapped her hands. "Ladies! I know that you are all aware of next week's recital. We shall be doing Swan Lake. I have taught all of you how to do Swan Queen's role, but only one can do it. So to choose: whoever does the best routine will be the Queen."

Caroline felt confidence well in her at hearing this. Out of all the girls Caroline was the one who received the most complements from Miss Chester. She had never been the lead role in one of the recitals, but this was her chance. Now all she needed to do was prove herself. "Ready ladies?" Miss Chester said. She had moved herself closer to the CD player and tapped a button. "We begin now."

The music started and Caroline could feel her feet flowing into the steps that she had learned. It was so easy now to slip from first to second position and then so on. She felt like a princess! Caroline felt as if all eyes were on her. She was the star after all. Caroline's eyes flickered to the window to see if her father was her. Did he notice the graceful way she put herself into first position? Or how pretty she looked in her tutu? Caroline looked at the window looking for her father's face―he wasn't looking.

Why wasn't he looking?!

What did she have to do to get him to look at her?!

Her father was playing idly on his phone. Smiling a wide smile that she hasn't seen for a while and clicking some buttons on his phone.

Caroline felt a whirlwind churning her insides, distracting her as she leaped, tripping over her own two feet during the landing and promptly landing on her butt. Miss Chester did not twitch at Caroline's falling and Caroline felt the stinging in her eyes long before the teacher lifted her off the floor.

Miss Chester marched Caroline to a corner of the room as all the other girls leaped and danced. "Now Caroline," Miss Chester started as she dusted off Caroline. "You know this puts you out of the running for the Swan Queen right?" Caroline frowned but nodded.

"Maybe next time." Caroline's frown grew but she did not say one word as Miss Chester walked away.

"You always say that," Caroline murmured to no one. The class ended quickly after that and Caroline stomped into the waiting room with a shadow over her face. He father said nothing as he was still absorbed in his phone and Caroline felt the urge to slap it out of his hands rise within her.

"Come on Caroline," Bill said still not looking at her. He rose from his seat and walked out of the studio with Caroline following behind him lagging behind because she was left to carry her dance bag. They quickly climbed into the car and they rode in silence.

Why wasn't she the one that everyone over looked? Even though she was a hard worker and did a lot of things to capture peoples' attention she never got any recognition. And the worst part was that she knew what Miss Chester was going to do; to be nice, Caroline was going to be the Swan Queen's understudy. And honestly that was even worse than actually not being the Swan Queen. It was horrible knowing that while you were a Swan Queen you weren't the best Swan Queen and that you were only a stand in if the actual Swan Queen couldn't be present. You were the second best and the word understudy was always in front of the word Swan Queen to remind Caroline of that.

With a loud slam Caroline closed the car door as soon as her father parked the car to their house. She lugged the heavy dance bag into the house and up the stairs and into her bubble gum pink room. She quickly dropped the dance bag onto the carpeted floor of her room. She unzipped the bag and grabbed her homework and stomped over to her desk. With her favorite pen, she scribbled down her second wish.

'I want to be a Queen. The one and only queen.'

The next morning, Caroline woke up without a care in the world. Something about today seemed like it was going to be a good day. It had to be a good day today since she had a bad day yesterday. It was only seven in the morning so that meant that she could watch her morning cartoons.

Caroline galloped down the stairs, taking them two by two wondering what antics Tom and Jerry were going to be up to today. She prepared herself a simple bowl of corn flakes with untold amounts of sugar and sat in front of the mind numbing television. Luckily, her favorite episode of Tom and Jerry was on, it was the one where Jerry left Tom to go to live in the city. Caroline marveled at all the bright lights that the cartoon showed. She wondered if the city actually looked like that with lights, and colors, and action. Even though she was small, Caroline understood that her town was dull and would never change. She imagined that when she was older and had her license and could do all of the things that the teenagers that she saw on TV doing, she would make this town exciting and make sure everything that she did was memorable.

It was near the end of the episode (when Jerry was returning home to Tom after discovering that, though exciting, city life was lonely) that she heard someone from upstairs wake up. She decided to ignore it, thinking that one of her parents were awake and getting ready to do adult things. Half way through the second segment of the show, more noise was emanating from her parents' upstairs bedroom. And Caroline ignored it again waiting for Baby Looney Tunes to come on. How come kids had to where clothes, but the Baby Looney Tunes didn't?

"What are you doing, Bill?"

Caroline frowned and put up the volume knowing what was going to happen next. She gripped the hem of her pink Super girl pajamas and focused her hearing on the lisp of Daffy Duck.

"I don't remember you having a business trip." Her mother's voice carried down the stairs and to Caroline. She put the volume higher and sighed when the voiced became muffled. She watched her TV in silence…

Then her parents decided to take their fight down the stairs.

"Where the hell you are you going Bill?!"

"None of your business Liz."

"It is my business if you are just going to leave for God knows how long."

The stomped past the living room, not even giving Caroline a glance or complaining at the noise level of the TV, and strode easily into the foyer. Caroline muted the TV and followed them, peeking behind a wall, to see her father standing in front of the door and her mother right behind him. Her father had his head down and her mother looked livid. This was the first.

"Well what do you have to say for yourself?" Liz asked, her bare foot, tapping impatiently against the floor. Her mother was still in her cotton pajamas and her hair was in a messy bun on top of her head. Her father was fully dressed in a casual shirt and jeans. He still kept his head down and he picked up the suitcase that seemed over stuffed.

"I'm gay." Caroline watched as her mother's jaw dropped and all signs of anger escaped her face. Caroline did not know what that meant but from her mother's reaction it seemed like it probably wasn't a good thing for her. The whole house was quiet for a moment. Her mother looked at her father with this look of shock and amazement. Her father still didn't look up and Caroline watched the both of them.

"Bill," her mother's voice was the softest that she had ever heard. "You can't be serious." Her mother had managed to close her mouth, but it shook in a way Caroline was familiar with, just not on her mother. Liz was going to cry.

"No. No no no no Liz. Don't do that. I'm sorry, but I can't―"

"Please don't say you can't help it 'cause you can. You can by saying here with me and Caroline," her mother's shoulders were shaking. And Bill held them and gave her mother a tender look. This was the nicest they had been to each other in a long time. Caroline watched happy that they were finally getting along maybe they could be a real family now.

"But then we would all be living a lie," Bill said. A honk sounded from in front of the house and Caroline's dad turned his head to peek out of the door's window. He picked his overstuffed suitcase from the ground. "My cab is here. I'll send for the rest of my things soon. And tell Caroline I'm sorry I had to leave." And with that her father walked right out of the door.

And Caroline stood there and then without a thought, quietly made her way up the stairs as her mother sobbed in the foyer. Caroline went to her bed and tucked herself in just to stare at the walls of her room.

Was that it? That was the end of their family? Was there even a family to begin with? And what was her Dad? What did this gay even mean and why did it end her family? Caroline felt a large hole begin to open where her heart was. It just wasn't fair.

Elena had both her parents. Bonnie may not have had a mother, but she had a grandmother which was just as good in Caroline's book. And what did Caroline get. Yeah, nothing.

Caroline flipped over in her bed, staring at the picture of all the Disney princesses; Belle, Ariel, Aurora, Cinderella, Jasmine, Mulan, Snow White, and Pocahontas all stared back smiling and happy. They each got to meet the man of their dreams and when the movie end, whether written out or boldly implied, they all lived happily ever after. And by what Caroline knew, happily ever after meant, having kids and not leaving. She knew she couldn't fix her family, but she was determined to make sure that whatever was happening to her mother never happened to her.

Caroline got up and walked over to her desk again. Her homework still lay there from the day before. Picking up her pen she quickly wrote down her next wish.

'I want to have a Prince Charming. One that will never leave me.'

Caroline stopped and looked down and the paper and added one more word.

'EVER.'

There were only there people in the world that Caroline spoke freely with; Bonnie, Elena, and her Barbie doll. Now while Barbie was the one of the best people in the world that she could take to, she wasn't alive and the other two were and knew how to keep a secret (not as well as Barbie, but well enough). So the next day, Caroline gathered her things and walked down the street to Elena's house. Her mother was asleep and wouldn't be awake till much later, so she probably wouldn't notice her absence. She might even welcome it.

The walk was sweet and quick and Caroline got there faster than she ever thought she would, but that was nothing but childlike thinking on her part. Caroline quickly rang the doorbell and smiled as she saw Mrs. Gilbert open the door.

"Hi, Mrs. Gilbert!" Caroline said with a grin. She waved her hand erratically before she put it behind her back. Mrs. Gilbert gave her a smile and waved her in.

"Elena is in her room. If she isn't there you can check the backyard," Mrs. Gilbert said. Caroline gave a quick thank you and wandered up the stairs. As she walked Caroline couldn't help but feel the sting of jealousy as she looked around the hallway leading to Elena's room. Pictures of precious family moments hung proudly on the walls, giving an almost nauseating display of how a fully functional family looked like. Caroline did not have pictures like that lining the walls of her home anymore; her mother took them down as to not be reminded of her father. But those pictures weren't real anyways just pictures that gave the ruse of happiness when people came over.

Caroline had by now reached the door to Elena's room and was about to open it just to escape the pictures of happiness when she heard Elena's voice conversing with Bonnie's voice and she just had to listen in.

"Okay, Bonnie but before I tell you, you have to promise to not tell anyone, not even Caroline," Elena said. The door muffled the sound of her voice but Caroline could still hear it clearly enough to know what was being said.

"Okay, okay just tell me!" Bonnie's voice said. It sounded as if she had been waiting to hear this for a while.

"Pinky swear?"

Bonnie groaned but Caroline assumed she swore because Elena continued after a momentary pause. "Okay. So you know how everyone likes Matt right?"

"Yeah."

"Well, he came over my house yesterday and he told me that he liked me best!"

Elena and Bonnie squealed happily and Caroline felt something akin to sadness well up in her chest. Of course Matt would like Elena it would only make sense. Elena had a lot of gold stars on her behavior tracker in class and she was really nice. Though it didn't make it hurt any less.

"Wow, Elena. You guys might get married," Bonnie giggled. That pang in Caroline's heart? It grew into a punch. Elena giggled back and Caroline could imagine the giddy smile on the Gilbert girl's face. It was going to be rainbows and sunshine from here on out for her.

"I know! Thank you, Bonnie for keeping this a secret. You're just easier to talk to than Caroline." And that was the straw that broke the camel's back. With a set of tears ready to fall, Caroline stormed out of the house. (If she had stayed she may have heard Bonnie jump to her defense, but alas she was a child and a tantrum needed to be thrown.)

Caroline said a hasty goodbye to Mrs. Gilbert and ran outside and straight home. When she returned her mother stayed silent and did not ask where she had been which sadden Caroline even more at her mother's lack of caring. She rushed into her room and closed the door behind her. The girl sat on her bed and cried because Elena liking Bonnie more meant that Elena did not like her. And the fact that Bonnie did nothing to defend Caroline showed that even Bonnie didn't like her and that made this even worse. No one liked her.

Caroline looked at her Barbie Malibu Dream House and sniffed as she picked up Barbie. "At least I have you."

Caroline wandered back to her desk and quickly jotted down her last wish on the last petal.

'I want better friends who like me.'

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"Her main targets seem to be adults and children and we here at KW12 News Station caution all parents to watch their children closely.

"The police are in pursuit and you can trust KW12 news to be here every day to update you on any developments. Until then stay safe."

It really isn't Caroline's fault that she lost her homework.

Seriously it isn't.

She was holding all of her papers trying to enjoy the outdoors and organize all of her papers when the stupid wind decided to blow a little too hard and push her only homework assignment into the creepy woods. And now Caroline had to trudge through the muck and the mud to try and get it.

Caroline thought that it would be easy. She would just get her homework from a branch or a log and then she would be back home before her babysitter woke up to even see that she was gone but things never seemed to be going Caroline's way lately, but this was much harder than she thought. There were so many trees and so many branches and―

So many stupid tree roots to trip over.

Caroline pushed herself off the ground with an "hmph" and was met with two verdant colored eyes. Caroline gave a small screamed and backed away as the owner of the eyes laughed. Caroline frowned and stomped her foot. No one laughed at her.

"What is wrong with you?! Why didn't you say something?" Caroline demanded in the childish way only a five year old could accomplish. The owner of the eyes, a woman with a light tan, giggled behind her hand.

"I am sorry, niña," the woman said. Her bronze colored hair was long and tangled in large knots. Her skin was covered in a thin visible layer of dirt and her nails were long but had dirt crusted underneath them. She would have been beautiful is she was cleaner. "I just have not seen a person, a child like you, in so long."

The woman's gaze became intense and Caroline felt slightly unsettled by the intensity of it. Her eyes flashed blow the woman's face, trying to avoid her eyes, when she caught sight of her homework. "You got it!" Caroline said happily.

The woman frowned before noticing what she was looking at. "Oh this," she said waving the paper around. "I found it on a tree. So then you must be Caroline Forbes." Caroline nodded and the woman smiled. The woman's eyes scanned Caroline and she handed Caroline her homework assignment.

"I saw your wishes," she said and Caroline's smile wavered. "Why do you wish for these things? Surely a girl like you would be happier than any other."

"I want these things because I need them. I never had them." Caroline thought to the coldness of her home to the betrayal of her two closets friends.

"Then I will grant your wishes."

Caroline barked out a laugh. Who did this lady think she was? Houdini? There was no such thing as magic. "You don't believe me?" the woman asked. Caroline shook her head. She gave a little smirk before she closed her eyes.

"Levo."

Caroline watched as the leaves and brush on the ground rose up into the air. When the objects reached a distance from the ground they began to twirl in midair. Caroline gave a small gasp and looked around her.

"How―how are you doing that?" Caroline asked, awed. The woman opened her eyes and the leaves never stopped with their twirling. She gave a small laugh at the look on Caroline's face.

"Listen to me closely, Caroline." The woman bent down so that they were eye to eye. "I can grant all your wishes. I can make you a queen and you would never have to wish for anything ever again. All I need you to do is meet me here at this spot tonight and every wish on that paper will be yours."

Caroline was frightened. Who was this woman with so much power? What would she do to her if she did not listen to her?

"Caroline, I will make sure that you never are lonely again."

Caroline made her choice.

I have said before that Alice never fell down the Rabbit Hole, but was pushed. Alice was smart enough not fall. However, Alice was dumb enough though to trust the witch that pushed her.

Author's Note: Well that took FOREVER!

I have been writing this first chapter on and off for about 4 months now, but I have finally finished it! Thank the heavens!

So to explain why the things went the way it did I am just going to say that Caroline is a child. I just based all of her actions, thoughts, and choices on what I believe a child would do. I think it looks pretty good.

I apologize for the rushed quality of ending. I just really wanted to get this out and to the people ASAP. So to answer a couple of questions. Yes, this is Klaroline. No, Caroline will not be an Original. Maybe I will allow children to be born in this story (but it's generally up to you guys). And yes, this will be a lot of fun to read.

As for the other ships I am not sure, I might just put up a poll on my profile for you guys to go and decide what ships you want to see here because for this story I honestly do not care very much for ships other than Klaroline. Also cause I intend for this to be a little more reader driven so I will leave a lot of choices up to you guys so expect a lot of polls!

Anyways I intend for this story to be canon-ish because there will be a lot of new types of supernaturals that I would like to introduce to the canon world. I just might keep the dropped plot line of Matt's mom being a succubus just for the hell of it.

Oh, I almost forgot! Welcome to the slightly reader driven story Down the Rabbit Hole or DtRH for short. I hope you have enough fun reading this story as I will writing it! If you like this story, please leave a review, favorite, or follow. Constructive criticism is very much appreciated as I would love to hear about what I could improve on!

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