2p!EnglandxReader: Alice Underground

  "Long live the red king!"

  "The red who?"

  "Long live the red king! Long live the red king!"

  Small images of a sea of red, rejoicing over a man in red robes, regally decorated with a dark red cloak over his shoulders, a small red and gold crown on his head, slightly leaning to the right. His hair was a pale blond and his eyes a stunning violet. But something was...off...about him. A look in his eyes took you off guard.

  "Long live the red king!"

  "Who is the red king!?

  "My loyal subjects!" The man in red spoke out in a calm, childish voice to the crowd, immediately hushing them,"The search for my beautiful sunflower that will become my wife is continuing. I have met the most beautiful young woman though she seemed rather confused about our wondrous homeland."

  "I wonder who the poor sap is-"

  "The sunflower's name is ___________."

_________
Trippin' out
Spinning around
I'm underground
I fell down
Yeah I fell down
_________

  Your eyes flew open, heart pounding rapidly in your chest and a cold sweat breaking across your pours.  Around you, everything seemed almost too weird, decorated in pinks, purples and light blues. Right now, you were sitting up in a queen sized bed, the color scheme similar to the rest of the room.

  Bringing your legs over the side of the bed, you tried to figure out what was going on exactly,"Hello? Is anyone there...?" You hoped you might be able to meet the girl that saved you or took you in.

  Or maybe could tell you what the hell was going on.

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I'm freaking out, where am I now?
Upside down and I can't stop it now
Can't stop me now, oh oh
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  The door opened to a rather curious sight indeed. A young man entered the room, his cloths dirtied and obviously showing some wear and tear within them. Pieces of pink and light purple cloth were stitched on certain spots on his jacket of light violet. On top of his head of pink, a hat of similar proportions aided his outfit. And his eyes! They were so amazingly hypnotizing, swirling pink inside a light blue. It almost reminded you of cotton candy.

  "My dearest lady! It seems you have woken up!" He gushed, rushing to your side and gripping your hands. He knelt down, his eyes pooling deeply into your plain (e/c) ones. "I don't mean to sound too pushy but would you like to join me for a cup of tea while we discuss the circumstances of your situation?"

  "Situ...please...just tell me what's going on...I'm so confused..." Your voice cracked as you spoke as if unused for a few days. "W-Who are you...? Where am I...?"

  The man's eyes dulled,"Oh my...we can't have that. We can't have that at all now, can we?"

  "H-Huh...?" Your wrist was grabbed tightly around a bigger hand and you were torn to your feet and affirmed to stay where you stood. "Um...m-mister-"

  "Hush love, I'm working." He began digging through dressers and closets in the room, quickly making a mess in the room before pulling out a simplistic dress and throwing it to you to catch.

  Finding your voice again, you piped up,"S-So who is the red king...?" You watched as his body tense,"I-Is he the guy t-that wants to marry me...? W-What's going on here...?"

  It took him a momentary pause and an elongated sigh before continuing whatever he was doing and answering you,"I'll explain once we get you all gussied up and I have a fresh kettle of tea for us. Ah! Here it is!"

  Getting up, he revealed a corset of tan about your size. "Now I need you to take off those drap cloths of yours so I can get you fitted into something more...descrit."

  Looking down at the dress you wore, you found nothing wrong with it until you realized the color scheme. Red and black, hearts decorating the hem of the black skirt. He lifted the dress up slightly and smiled,"It seems Ivan already gave you a crinoline and stockings to use-"

  Quickly acting, you brought your hands down to cover the part he was staring at,"Quit looking under my skirt you pervert!"

  A light chuckle sounded in the room as he stood up. "I apologize. Now can you take that dress off for me so I can put this lovely little corset and marvelous dress on you?"

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  After a long argument over being able to dress yourself, you had to sit there as a complete stranger tightened the corset near-nude and slip the dress on your body. You hated to admit but the dress actually looked relatively appealing in the dress. It was mainly pink, less the smock on your waist wasn't light blue and ribbons now tying up your (h/l)(h/c) hair in the same hue.

  Stepping into the hatter's view, you sighed,"Please, can you explain what's going on now?"

  "Of course love, just go ahead and take a seat outside." The man scooted you out the door, pointing out the long, lone table that rested outside. Taking a step outside, you finally able to examine this odd place you were in. This house, much like it's owner's clothing were made of different pieces of wood and such, leaning on the side slightly.

  Surrounding the house was plain forest, an eerie fog hanging over the dead treetops. Last you remembered, the world was so vast and green, so alive and rich.

  "It's a saddening sight, isn't it ___________?" A playful voice whispered in your ear, causing you to turn around completely. The sight before you took you off guard. There was a young blond man sitting cross cross applesauce, floating in midair with a content grin on his face. His cloths were striped with two different hues of purple, running up his slightly-torn shirt in a diamond pattern. He wore a beige bandana wrapped around his neck and light-purple sleeves on his arms. On his head were a pair of purple kitty ears and by his tailbone, a tail. He wore glasses in which hid his blue eyes. "This place used to be such a spectacular place to visit."

  "I-I'm sorry," You murmured, snapping from your daze,"Who are you again and...how did you know my name?"

  "King Ivan is looking for your hand in marriage, is he not?" The man asked once more, not even bothering to answer your questions straightforward. "I couldn't have gotten the wrong girl, now could I have?" His tail twitched as he smiled once more,"Seems I may be...loosing my head."

  As he said it, his head literally rolled off his shoulders and into his right hand,"But I think it might be a hunch."

  "I-I..." Taking a step back, you felt everything crash down on you like a brick of cement. One step back sent you falling to the cold, dead surface. "W-What's...what's going on...? S-Someone please...explain what's going on!"

  Tears fell before you could do anything about it, hitting against the ground and literally causing life to grow. You took a moments break of sniffling and acting like a baby to watch as small flowers began to bud from the end of glowing green stems to bloom into the most beautiful flowers you have ever seen, all multicolored and glittering.

  A lone hand slid onto your shoulder, the man now floating beside you,"I see why Ivan is so interested in you...you can bring life back to places like this..." He drifted backwards slightly, crossing his legs once more,"He sees you as a threat! I knew it!"

  "Where am I!?" You questioned once more,"What the hell is going on!? I don't understand anything! It's like I'm in a deranged-!"

  You paused, looking towards the man in front of you, a content smile on his face as he vanished from in front of you and pressed on from behind. "Well, say it girly..."

  "W-Wonderland..."

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I found myself in Wonderland
Get back on my feet, again
Is this real?
Is this pretend?
I'll take a stand until the end
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  "Oh Wonderland! Is that what you call it!" The Cheshire continued to muse, his eye glittering with excitement,"I love you feminine, dream-struck mind darling! Mind if I take a look at it?"

  As you felt his hands on your head, you darted a yard away,"Y-Yes! I would mind a lot actually!" He came closer, purring in amusement at your surprised and shocked expression. "A-And it's obviously Wonderland...either that or I've gone insane..."

  "You make it sound like a bad thing." He pressed on,"Everyone here is partially insane you know."

  "That...makes no sense..."

  He came up close, his breath hitting your lips. Your face flushed a deep red as he moved over to your ear, sending chills down your spine as he brushed your (h/c) hair away slightly,"It doesn't have to. It never has to..."

  Before you could process it, he had vanished from your field of view once more. The hatter came out of his house holding a kettle of tea,"You look like you've seen the Cheshire around here. Please take a seat and do tell."

  "No...! You need to tell me what's going on! I just want to go home! I-I just want to wake up from this dream..." Tears fell once more, a similar process as before beginning where your tears hit.

  Within a second, a pair of arms wrapped around your body,"It's okay love...don't cry." Kneeling beside you, he watched flowers grow in amazement,"Wow love...that's an amazing talent you have there...you wouldn't happen to be King Ivan's bride in waiting...could you?"

  "I-I don't know..." You whimpered pitifully. "I-I just want to wake up..."

  "Wake up?" He questioned, moving away. "What do you mean 'wake up'? You are awake right now, are you not?"

  "I-I can't be..." You shakily got off of the sullen ground,"None of this can be real-"

  The hatter stood up, grabbing your upper-arm and magically obtaining a knife from his coat sleeve. You watched in horror as his grin grew,"Well, of this is a dream, then maybe you won't be able to feel this..."

  He took the point-end of the knife and brought it down your arm, making a thin, red line. You tried to pull away, the pain spreading on your arm,"I'm awake! I'm awake! Stop it please!"

  Hearing this, he dropped the knife and chuckled,"There you go love. Now how about we talk about you over this nice kettle of tea I made for us." You had failed to notice at this point that he had the kettle under his hat the whole time until he pulled it off and handed it to you before taking the tea.

  You examined your arm and sighed,"I'm sorry if I said something wrong. I-I mean...I-"

  His lips pressed softly against yours, silencing you in a second. He pulled away with a soft smile on his face. Wiping the tears off your face with his thumb, he then re-applied the salty tears on your cut. You watched curiously as it healed up instantaneously. "W-What...?"

  "Simply marvelous!" He said happily, clapping his hands together. "Now come, we shall discuss what's going on over tea."

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  "So...I will be stating this as simply as possible." Arthur (as you now found out his name is) began after pouring his half cup of tea. And literally, he cut his cup in half and poured tea in it. "King Ivan...The Red King found you unconscious in his garden of red roses and took you in, thinking you were the most beautiful creature he laid eyes on. You woke up all flabbergasted and talking nonsense.

  "Well, Ivan still decided you were to precious and wanted you to marry him by force is needed. Truthfully, no one wants to marry Ivan. He's mean, forceful and abusive and you figured that out.

  "You told him,'I can't marry you Ivan. I don't love you.' So he got angry and hurt you. When your tears hit the fresh injuries, they healed up immediately. This brought shock to Ivan, not in a good way either. He was terrified! What if you had gotten ahold of someone like...the dashing Mad Hatter Arthur...and used this against him to restore our world to it's former glory?

  "So in an act to maintain his safety, he wiped out your memory and threw you out with the hopes you'd die. That's when I found you alone in the woods, unconscious." He poured you another cup of tea with a grin,"Being the gentleman I am, I refused to change you until you awoke. It would be creepy if a complete stranger just went about changing you when you're asleep."

  "It's creepy even when I was awake!" You snapped, taking a sip of tea. "I would've been fine at least slipping the corset on myself."

  "Y-You don't like the dress...?" His eyes began to water,"I-I thought...it would be nice to help you out..."

  "I-I'm sorry!" You yelled, reaching across the table to take his hand,"I'm grateful for you helping me...my...arms...still hurt." He looked up towards you, a small, unsure grin on your face,"Smile...?"

  A smile tugged at the corner of his lips and you sat down once more. "Well, I should continue with what's currently going on here. King Ivan has enslaved us to do his bidding in fear...he's on the hunt for you love. And if he finds out your here then...off with my head..."

  His smile vanished once more,"I think we should figure your way back to...where did you say you were from love?"

  "I-I'm from (country)..."

  He gave a blank expression,"Where now...? Oh, never mind! Now, how exactly did you make it here...?"

  "I don't..." Hushing up, you tried creeping to where you were before you landed in whatever mess you ended in. "That's right! That little boy! That little boy with the watch and bunny ears led me here! I followed him after he told me about some business his boss needed-"

  "Love, you met the White Rabbit and fell into the trap..." He murmured, getting out of his seat and looking towards the horizon. "It seems they have found us..." Your head turned to see flames blazing over the dead landscape.

  Rushing to your side, he tightly gripped your wrist and began running. "A-Arthur-!"

  "No time love." He said through his breath as you sprinted on. He was taking your deep into the dead woods, pointed branches snatching at your cloths, hair and skin as you ran on in the afternoon. The world around you seemed to dissipate until no trees were left, but a single passage with a light at the end. Coincidently, Arthur stopped you here, pushing you forward with determined eyes,"Love, go on ahead!"

  "I'm so confused...where will this..."

  "Just go! I'd gladly risk my own life for yours!" His eyes looked crazier than they ever had been,"They'll be here! Just go and run back to your home!"

  "How do you know!? You didn't even know where I lived-" His lips pressed roughly and passionately against yours, his hands cupping your face. It lasted an instant and before you knew it, he spun you and shoved you forcefully forward.

  "Trust me and go! Now!" He snapped. This time you took heed of his word and ran. You ran the fastest you could to reach the tunnels end only to find the world had spun and you were climbing out of a hole in the earth. Taking a look back, you saw no indicator of the world you were just in.

  Your fingernails clawed into the earth in front of you, helping you out and back onto the grass. The cloths you wore we're the only indicator of your visit in the maddened wonderland and the only reminder of Arthur.

  Feeling your lips, you felt your face burning up,'I-It couldn't be that...that Arthur is in love with me...could it...? A-And...I couldn't have fallen back in love with him too...could I...?' A sudden, overwhelming feeling of guilt washed over you, leaving Arthur alone to face the Red King. 'I have to go back! I have to save him!'

  Your noble thoughts of rescue were quickly doused when a familiar woman ran up to you. Your mother,"Young lady! Where have you been!? What are you wearing!? Where did you get those cuts from!? You're coming with me this instant!"

  She grabbed your hand and pulled you away before you had another say in the matter. "Leaving Mr. Kirkland's son standing there like an imbecile while you run off doing God knows what! Now you will go back their and kindly accept Arthur's offer to marry you-"

  "Arthur..." You whispered, pulling away from her,"Mother! I'm not a child and I do not deserve to be treated as such! I'm (age) years old now mother! I can make my own decisions if I want to and I am not marrying that man!"

  "____________...listen to me good. You will marry young Mr. Kirkland and that is the end of it." Her hand clamped your wrist once more,"Tomorrow you two will wed and all stupid thoughts of childish and immature things shall completely leave your mind!"

  Giving a scowl, you decided to keep your mouth clamped shut,'Then I have to sneak out tonight...I'm not marrying this Arthur...at least not until I have rescued the other one...please hold on for me Arthur...

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  "Tell me where she is, or off with your head, da?"

  Arthur looked up, grinning madly,"If you take my head your majesty, then you'll never find her. You need me alive and you know it."

  Ivan's childish grin never left his face, not even when he whacked Arthur in the head for the umpteenth time since he had been captured. "Tell me. I'm your friend and you know that...if you don't tell me, I'll have to send Raivis after her once more. She is very important to me, da?"

  "Joke's on you..." Arthur replied hoarsely,"I-I already warned her about Raivis...stinking bunny w-won't get her this time..." Ivan's violet eyes widened,"You see, I've grown rather...fond of your little fille and I-I plan on keeping her away..."

  This reply didn't please Ivan. His eyes narrowed and his smile vanished for the first time since arrival. "Guards! Send him into the dungeon! I'm not done with him yet..."

  Two guards wrapped their arms under either of Arthur's, picking him off the ground and dragging him out. Ivan's smile returned, dark intentions in mind,"We will be talking about this later, da?"

  And with that, the throne room doors shut in Arthur's face as he was carried down to the pits of the Red King's Castle.