He's just so pretty...

[mywillisthine]

Mistress mine,

While I appreciate being in a place that isn't a cage where I would be taunted by my enemies, I think I would rather that prison to this one. Why? Because Alice knew where to find me there and I should think she'd have a hard time finding me in this place. Where ever it is.

So, unless you will assist me in reuniting with my Alice...please put me back where you found me. I know I can not wish anything for myself so call it a sincerely polite request.

Comments

[unwished]

If you think you can escape me in this realm either, you've much to learn, genie.

[mywillisthine]

It doesn't matter what realm I'm in, you will not succeed.

[unwished]

For all your confidence, you are still the one who is not free to do as he wishes.

How delightfully ironic.

[mywillisthine]

I am confident because despite having me in your grasp for so long, you still have not gotten what you desire. You have your genie but yours is the wish I can not grant.

I can live with the irony. The question is, can you?

[unwondered]

I think all that time being imprisoned is getting to your head. Making you daft.

[mywillisthine]

Why do you say that? I thought it was a perfectly rational and polite request.

[dolleman]

Perhaps she'd have an easier time finding you, should you cease getting captured or stolen away.

[mywillisthine]

I assure you, I don't go looking to be stolen. But I suppose it's my fate as a genie.

[dolleman]

I suppose that's probably true.

Still. Better that than what happened to King Leopold's genie.

[mywillisthine]

So I have heard. To be permenantly trapped in a mirror...I couldn't imagine a worse fate.

[dolleman]

I can think of some awful fates, but that's fairly up there in horror.

[mywillisthine]

At least in the bottle, there is hope of being released, to be free for a little while. Or even just to have your own will. To be a slave in a mirror, never to do anything for yourself...horror is a good way to describe it.

[dolleman]

I certainly wouldn't wish it on anyone.

[mywillisthine]

Neither would I.

I heard rumors that you were caught up in Regina's curse. How are you fairing in that other world, Hatter?

[dolleman]

I hear I'm doing well, if only my player had taken me from that point in my life.

[mywillisthine]

They can do that? Take us from a different point in time?

That's...both a comforting and terrifying thought.

[dolleman]

They can. And it is. You could meet an Alice who hasn't met you yet.

[mywillisthine]

I think it would be worse to take me away from her when we were happy. Before I knew what it was like to lose her. When I didn't have hope she was out there, searching...

As I much as I hate to admit it, it would be kinder to take me from before I even met her.

[dolleman]

Perhaps. I suppose it would depend on if they decided to have you meet again, in a 'game'.

[mywillisthine]

I can't say I know what to think about that idea. I can't help but be happy at the idea of being free with Alice but...it sounds more complicated then that.

[dolleman]

It may very well be.

[mywillisthine]

are you in one of these games?

[dolleman]

I am, yes. A settlement in space with access to other dimensions and planets.

[mywillisthine]

...

Not to sound totally naive but it sounds like an adventure. Even though I know it's not that simple.

[dolleman]

It isn't unadventurous, I suppose.

[notinsane]

I can always find you, Cyrus.

[mywillisthine]

I know Alice, I know. I have every faith in you. I just want to make things easier so we can be together again.

[notinsane]

We'll find our way back to each other in Wonderland, I know it.

[This is the closest she's been to him in...so very long]

[mywillisthine]

In Wonderland or wherever. It doesn't matter as long you are with me.

[takes her hand and kisses it, as If to prove he's really there]

[notinsane]

[It took only a split second after his lips grazed her hand before Alice threw her arms around him in an enthusiastic, but long denied hug. Possibly knocking him off balance a bit in the process]

It feels like it's been forever and a day since we last embraced, Cyrus.

[mywillisthine]

[Laughs as he returns the hug and allows himself to tumble backwards, taking Alice with him, not about to let her go now]

Forever and forever more like. Despite anything Jafar or the Queen said, I knew I would see you again.

[notinsane]

[She didn't want to say she had almost given up hope, back at the asylum. It didn't matter, he was right here. Solid and real]

Cyrus, you really have to stop causing so much trouble.

[She was being playful of course. None of this was his fault, not really. Jafar would have gone after any genie he could get his hands on]

[mywillisthine]

[she was here and Jafar and the Red Queen were no where in sight. That was all that mattered. But even so, she had thought he was dead. He wouldn't have blamed her for giving up, though he was quite grateful she hadn't. ]

Only the kind that keeps us apart. I'm rather fond of the trouble we got into together.

[it was his due in life, to be coveted for the power he had and not wanted for the person he was. He'd almost forgotten what that was like with Alice but Jafar had brought the feeling back quickly]

[heartlessknave]

I wouldn't hold your breath if I were you, mate.

Muns are worse than evil queens, I think.

[mywillisthine]

I doesn't hurt to try.

At least before I try more desperate measures.

What else can I do?

[heartlessknave]

That's the thing, I don't think there's anything we can do. We're screwed, mate.

[mywillisthine]

That's quite the...interesting choice of words considering things, Knave.

[heartlessknave]

Oi, you know what I meant!

I'm talking about the kind of screwed where you find yourself trapped in a terrible place you never wanted to be with bloody pirates and the Muffin Man after you.

... Well, the pirate's all right but it's the other bloody stuff.

[mywillisthine]

You would have every unreputable character in Wonderland after you. What were you doing in Drury Lane that got th Muffin Man on your tail?

Only you would approve of the pirate.

[heartlessknave]

Yeah, that was not one of my better moments, I can tell you that. I was running an errand for the Caterpiller, you know, and I thought I'd take a bit of a detour and then people start coming after me, you know how it is.

Best damn muffin I ever tasted, though.

[mywillisthine]

[rubs the bridge of his nose]

You stole a muffin from the Muffin Man?! I have lived countless lifetimes and even I know how stupid that is.

No wonder you spend you time with pirates now. You live dangerously, Knave of Hearts.

[unmad]

There isn't a place they could take you where I wouldn't find you.

[mywillisthine]

I have every faith in you Alice. It doesn't mean I won't try to make it easier. Or get to you on my own.