We Ride With the Tide

CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN - AN ADVENTURE IN WONDERLAND

Lizzie's POV

I don't know how long it had as I sat clutching my knees to my chest, my necklace tightly held in my fist as I kept myself on the edge, neither okay or allowing myself to sink into the madness in which was calling to me...the sky around me had grown dark and the wind was creating goosebumps on the skin of my arms but I wasn't ready to go back yet.

My Aunt had opened up a whole new set of fears as well as old ones, there was no possible way that she could think that I can actually become princess of wonderland or it's queen eventually...I was a villain kid, a dirty no good so why the hell did she ever think that I would be able to rule an entire land of people all in which would look to me to lead them especially when I barely had control over my own mind majority of the time...and Harry.

I wouldn't be able to marry him because no way would he want to be a prince or a king, he was a pirate and always would be, not to mention that I knew royals married royals so there was probably some stupid law in which forbade me marrying him, although Ben just married Mal but I don't know how things are done in Wonderland...Underland...whatever this place is called, it didn't matter because I cannot and will not become a royal.

"Lizzie, Lizzie...what fun" I looked up startled out of my head to find Jefferson standing in front of me, his top hat perched slightly tilted on his head.

"Go away Hatter" I glared at him since the last thing I needed was more madness right now when I was so close to sinking into my own.

"What is the hatter with me?" he asked and I raised an eye.

"It's matter, what is the matter with me?" I corrected him.

"I don't know, what is the matter with you?" he asked and I rolled my eyes getting to my feet.

"Look I'm already afraid I'm going mad so I cannot not deal with you-" I turned and started to walk away.

"A land was full of wonder, mystery and danger, some say to survive it you need to be as mad as a hatter. which luckily, I am" I frowned as I turned back to him seeing him looking down at the ground looking lost in thought.

"You're crazy" I spat.

"I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours" he argued and I rolled my eyes I continued walking, I was not in the mood for crazy right now and he'd interrupted my thoughts...I had to find my own way out of this hell if I was going to get back to Auradon...hopefully before this place pushed me over the final edge of my dwindling madness.

Harry's POV

We'd gotten word from Ben that they'd found Lizzie's father but he didn't have her which meant we were back to square one but it was soon restored when Ben went on to say that apparently he'd received some kind of message from the White Queen...Liza's Aunt through a rabbit which had found Ally, the daughter of Alice...the message was that Lizzie was in wonderland and the moment I heard that news I began to fear for her sanity as that place could be the very thing in which sends her mad but once again they were all arguing because apparently one just can't get to wonderland.

"I have to get to her!" I exclaimed slamming my hands on the desk. "Where's this rabbit?" I asked since he can take me through a rabbit hole if that's what it takes to get to her.

"I sent him back" Ally said and I turned to glare at her since what the hell was that good for. "I told him to tell the Queen that I had delivered her message"

"I couldve gone with him!"

"Harry, we understand your worried-"

"No you don't" I cut Mal off since she had no idea what I was feeling, she hadn't seen Lizzie at her darkest, she hasn't seen everything I have or how hard I've fought to keep Liza from the slipping into madness and the longer she spent there the more at threat she was of losing that battle. "You don't know what it'll be like for her there, I have to get to her"