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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 5:22 pm
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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 5:23 pm
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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 5:52 pm
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"No, don't trouble yourself," Marchy protested. "I'm fine right here. Go to sleep." He waited until the rodent finally dropped off, and was about to leave when he realized just how tired he was himself. With a sigh, he removed his shoes and filled the space that the White Rabbit had made for him. Within a matter of moments, he was asleep too. ~~~ "Would I... what? Would I like it back? I... you don't-- you're not...." He dared not hope, but his stomach churned with anticipation all the same.... ~~~ The blade clattered to the ground and the girl stumbled backward. "No...." she said, shaking her head. "No, it can't be...."
She had gotten taller over the past two years, and even thinner, too. Her crimson hair barely brushed her shoulders, and her eyes had lost most of their innocent gleam, but now they were wide with shock and disbelief. Slowly, tentatively, she asked the unthinkable: "Jasper?"
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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 6:15 pm
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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 6:34 pm
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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 7:09 pm
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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 7:21 pm
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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 7:22 pm
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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 7:27 pm
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The Night Faery "Tick-Tock," the Hatter whispered. He hadn't cried since that fateful day, but now tears were brimming in his eyes and spilling down his cheeks. He tentatively reached for her, afraid that she might not be real. "Tick, I've been so lost without you...." ~~~ "Jasper..." she said again, also sinking to the cold ground. Despite her reputation, she looked like she was about to cry. "You came out here on purpose, didn't you? Why did you come looking for me? After all this time, why were you still searching?"
She took his hand and brought it against her cheek, running her own hands, smaller in comparison, over his. "As have I, Hatter." She gasped, feeling breathless. Tick bit her lip, trying to practice restraint and gave up. So, she jumped foreword and tackled him to the floor, crying along with him. "Oh, Hatter...We'll never be apart again! I swear it. I love you...I love you." She whispered this to him, over and over again.
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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 7:30 pm
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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 9:04 pm
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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 9:22 pm
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The Hatter happily gave in to the embrace, hugging his Tick-Tock tight. "I never stopped hoping," he said, tears of happiness streaming down his face. "I always knew you were tough. But how did you survive? Where did you go? I'm sorry, I'm asking too many questions. I'm just so happy to see you again!" ~~~ A few tears slipped down her cheeks; she quickly wiped them away. "Jasper," she said, her voice a little shakier than before, "Nana doesn't exist anymore. That part of me died in the dungeons after the months of torture Rosalie put me through. This--" she indicated her changed form "--is not the girl you loved. I've become something else now; something that has killed more people than you can imagine, something that can't feel, something that doesn't know how to love."
She sighed. "When I woke up alone in a dark and dirty cell, I knew I wasn't going to see you again, so I swore never to love again.... and then after long enough, I... forgot how." She turned away, shaking her hair in front of her face so he wouldn't see the tear-tracks on her cheeks. "I'm not my old self, Jasper, and I don't think you could love what I've become."
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Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 2:51 am
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Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 2:57 am
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Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 12:35 pm
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