Ok, I do not own Alice In Wonderland or any of its affiliates. This is a very, very, short one-shot on the Hatter's feelings when Alice was leaving. It's from the Hatter's POV so it's gonna be kinda crazy, excuse any grammatical errors. Because this is crazy talk, especially because it is the Hatter's crazy talk, it's gonna be all over the place.

Don't leave, can't leave, she'll forget like last time, why would she want to leave? I don't want her to forget, forget, forget. But she will if she leaves. I want her to stay, stay with me.

What is this strange feeling I have?

When she left the first time, yes when she was a wee-beetle girlie, I was sad, so sad. Don't want to feel sad again. Yes! That's it! Don't want the sadness to come back, but it would be worse this time.

Why?

She was truly Alice, the Alice, I always knew. She slew the Jabbawockee, the bloody big-head's Jabba-wabba-wockee. "Off with your head!" She cried, her beautiful golden locks flowing behind her. But the Jabba's dead, and bloody big-head is banished. She doesn't need to be the White Queen's champion anymore. Why would it be worse when she goes this time? She's all grown up and muchier…that must be. She's muchier, much more than she was a little girl.

So why won't she stay?

She says she wants to leave, go back to her world, but this could be her world. She doesn't need to go back, when she could stay, stay with me.

"Why is a raven like a writing desk?" She asks, and I have no answer.

Why indeed? What is the strange connection between the writing desk, a wooden writing desk and a raven, a black raven, so black it swallows the light around it? Why, why, why?

Why is she leaving?

She's starting to shimmer, disappear before my eyes. Why would she leave? And why is a raven like a writing desk? A writing desk like a raven?

As she disappeared I remembered what I wanted to tell her, what I really wanted to tell her before she left. Before she vanished into her world of rules and where there were no drinks that shrinks you or cake that makes you grow or animals that talk or cats that evaporate or…a Mad Hatter.

I wanted to tell her to stay, stay with me.

Any thoughts? Comments? Criticisms? Like it? Hate it? Love it?

r.e.v.i.e.w.

please?

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