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The Wood of Wonderland - an Alice in Wonderland parallel with a dark turn. 

SAME CHARACTERS WITH SOME FROM ALICE IN WONDERLAND

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Gabe and Sam were sitting in a flower field near the bunker, just enjoying the day, when a little white butterfly flutters past. Gabe decides to follow it and Sam follows Gabe.

The butterfly leads them to a hollowed-out tree. Gabe peaks his head inside but to no surprise, there is nothing there. There were sudden gusts of wind. Suddenly there was a powerful gust of wind that knocked both Sam and Gabe into the tree, but they didn’t stop falling.

They land in a pile of leaves and sticks in a dark forest. The trees look as if they are watching them. Sam is the first to speak, “Where are we” “I think we are in Wonderland,” Gabe responds as he gets up.  Gabe hears that there is a bit of pain in Sam’s voice. That’s when he hears Sam groan in pain. Gabe quickly turns to see a stick piercing Sam’s hand.

“SAM” Gabe rushes to the injured man’s side.“How bad is the pain,” Gabe asks, not knowing what to do.

“About a seven,” Sam winces in pain as he lies, knowing it’s about a thirteen, but doesn’t want to worry Gabe. 

Gabe can see straight through Sam’s lie. 

“Ok I’m going to take the stick out just try to breathe,” Gabe says trying to prepare himself to do what he dreaded.  Sam yells in pain as the stick is removed from his hand. 

  Gabe flinches at the yell. He didn’t want to injure him more. 

“I can help you know,” they hear a voice say.

Gabe gets up and looks around in the clearing of the looking. No. They watching trees. Was it the trees talking? A faint smile appears out of seemingly nowhere. “Hello,” Gabe questions to the smile.  “If you answer this riddle I will stick him up.” Says the smile, forming into a cat-like figure as he emerges from the darkness.

Gabe was good at riddles and Sam was about to pass out so he needed to hurry. “Ok, shoot” Gabe answered the cat. “What can travel the distance between souls but doest move an inch.” The cat sneered, and fully emerged from the shadows, showing an amazing pink and purple striped fur. Gabe didn’t know the answer to the riddle. Time was running out, sam was on the near edge of passing out.

“L-love” They hear Sam say as he starts to close his eyes. “CORRECT” the cat howled.  The cat leaped from the tree he was perched on and sauntered over to the passed-out Sam. Gabe’s gaze falls put the huge cat, “If you are who I think you are you have the right mojo to heal him, right?” “Well who do you think I am, perplexed little human,” the cat hums. “The Cheshire Cat” Gabe said. “You would be correct” the cat reviled.  

The Cheshire Cat stitched Sam up, only leaving a nasty scar. Both men thank the cat and wander off into the woods, but not before seeing the cat dissipate into a smile and then into the darkness.

Sam and Gabe walk until they find a peculiar-looking tree. Sam circles the tree and as he does spots a small door.  He calls over to Gabe who is messing with a nearby bush, “Hey Gabe, I think I got something over here.” “What do you mean” Gabe questions as he wonders over.  “A small door,” Gabe laughs. Gabe kneels to examine the door more, running his hand over the rough door, wonder in his eyes.  

“You think it leads anywhere,” Sam conspires. 

“No idea,” Gabe grins.

Sam knows Gabe wants to go through the door. There was only one problem. They both were too big to fit through the door.   Sam hears a clang in the wood, as if glass were to fall but not break. Sam goes to investigate such a stray noise.  

Sam goes into the wood to find two vials of some sort of liquid with a piece of parchment attached to each, both reading. “Drink me.”  Sam returns to Gabe with the vials. Gabe studies the vial that was handed to him by the slightly taller man.

“Drink me?” Gabe questions, raising his eyebrow.  “No harm in trying it,” Sam retorts.

Before Gabe can say anything. Before Gabe can say anything about how it may be poison. Before Gabe can call Sam an idiot for even thinking about drinking it, Sam has downed a quarter of the first vile.

Sam’s eyes get heavy. His legs get weak. Sam tries to take a step towards Gabe, but his vision is all wobbly. Sam starts to see the ground get closer and closer. He is on the ground and suddenly Gabe is over him saying something that he cannot distinguish. 

Sam knows he must say something before he loses total consciousness.

I- I-lo-

l-l-ove

y-y-yo

you

I- I-lo-

                l-l-ove

y-y-yo

  you

I- I-lo-

l-l-ove

y-y-yo

you

I- I-lo-

l-l-ove

y-y-yo

you

I love you.

Sam goes limp in Gabe’s arms. About a million thoughts are going through Gabe’s head at the moment, all having to do with ways to save Sam. 

“Sam, Sam,” Gabe says frantically shaking the unconscious man. “Please wake up, Sam you are all I have, so don’t you dare leave me”  Gabe’s voice breaking with the pain and fear he felt.  Sam’s head lolled back, the man was completely limp. 

“You promised me that you wouldn’t leave me” Gabe shouted, tears in his eyes. “You promised that you wouldn’t be like everyone else,” he says in defeat

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There was no point in sitting there, doing nothing. Gabe looked at his vial. If that vial was poison, Gabe was more than willing to drink the same amount sam did, but from his own vial.

Gabe’s heart raced as he might die, but he couldn’t lose Sam. No not like this. Gabe looked at his own vial, closing his eyes as he drank a quarter of the second vial. He didn’t feel any different. When he opened his eyes he saw that he was half his original size. He was alive. He could now fit through the door, but he wasn’t going to leave Sam.

Gabe hastily hurried over to Sam, pressing the second vial to the younger man’s cold lips. Sam rapidly shrunk to half his size. Gabe looked at the door. They could get through now. Gabe picked up Sam’s limp body and raced through the door.

The door led to the kingdom. The Kingdom of Hearts.  The only words Gabe could use to describe this realm was absurd. That wasn’t his immediate concern though. His immediate concern was  Sam.

Sam had been dead as soon as the first drop of poison hit his system. Deep down, Gabe knew this but refused to accept this fact. The fact that he had lost the love of his life. The fact that Sam was gone.

Gabe rushed towards the palace, Sam still in his arms, hoping there was an enchantress that could resurrect Sam. Gabe is confronted by guards. The guards ask Gabe if he is here for the queen. Gabe stupidly says in the heat of the moment, “I don’t care about the frigging queen, I care about healing him.” 

“Off with his head,” he hears a low female voice say.  It was before Gabe could even think before he was whisked away by a guard. Gabe sees him through his tears. He sees Sam’s body lying on the ground. Sam’s body is then taken away. Gabe can’t hear much at the moment. He is screaming not for them to take Sam away from him, even though he is already gone.

Gabe is thrown to the ground on a platform. This was it. He was going to die.  Right before the ax was swung, decapitating Gabe. “See you soon Sam, I love you” Gabe whispers shutting his eyes tightly. A bittersweet smile formed across his face. Then it all goes blank.

Wait he was still alive. How? How was this possible? Gabe’s mind was going a million miles per second. That all stopped when he woke up in a field, a field surrounded by flowers. A field where he and Sam had driven to have a nice date, but Gabe had seen that stupid butterfly. Gabe closes his eyes and opens them again but only to see the person he thought he would never see again. It was Sam, he had a book in his hands. This had to be some cruel form of punishment. 

“Good morning sleepyhead” Sam smiles down at Gabe who is lying on the ground.

“Sam?” Gabe questions in absolute bewilderment.

“So, how did you die,” sam asks, looking back at his book. Gabe couldn’t process what the man was saying. 

“When I woke up back here and realized the book I brought along was the original Alice in Wonderland, I skipped to the end. I read that when you die in Wonderland you-” Sam was interrupted by Gabe sitting upright and lunging at him. Gabe tackles the younger man, bringing him close. Sam just smiles and closes the gap between their lips.

“I missed you too.”