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Anastasia wants to turn the clock back ([info]notpureofheart) wrote in [info]wariscoming,
@ 2014-04-02 09:33:00

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Entry tags:anastasia tremaine/red queen, hatter

Who: Anastasia/Red Queen and Hatter (because version lulz)
What: The Red Queen arrives in Lawrence
Where:: Main St, Lawrence
When: 2nd April Morning
Rating: TBD
Status: In progress

Anastasia knew she was hated. Why shouldn't they hate her, she'd never cared about the people, forgotten them as she had forgotten Will. And now they were going to kill her for her crimes. No one would pay ransom to the cruel Red Queen. No one would miss her if she died. And Will, she didn't even know where he could be. That blasted wish, 'end her suffering'. How did Alice and her pain somehow cause Anastasia to lose what she loved all over again.

But no, blaming Alice was unfair, she had lost it herself, with her need for power, for position. Prestige, she'd married into royalty, learned magic from the Queen of Hearts herself. And where had it gotten her, what had it gained her.

"I'm sorry." she tried again. "I know what its like don't you see, I was like you?!."

As it transpired when she looked up something had changed. No longer was she surrounded by peasents out for her head. Instead she was in quite a strange place. And there was magic in the air. Both light and dark 

She was no longer tied to a post. No longer in fact, in Wonderland.  Still garbed in her usual deep red and expensive clothing, Anastasia had found herself somewhere strange.

Was this the Rabbit's way to save her? Why would he ever have saved her? Given what she'd done to him, More likely it was some spell of Jafar's creation to rid himself of her. Either way it simply wouldn't do. Much as she wished beyond hoping she would never have to go back to Wonderland, she would not abandon Will, and perhaps she could be the Queen she should have been. The Queen Wonderland deserved, if not the one it wanted.

For now though, The Red Queen was guarded, worried, and lost in a world not dissimilar to the place called Storybrooke.


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[info]passthehat
2014-04-02 10:45 am UTC (link)
Wishing for teleportation powers had been an awesome idea. Actual awesome. Which wasn't surprising, Claudia had thought of it. And Claudia was brilliant. Hatter wanted to try to console her about Connor leaving, something he was also pretty depressed about. He actually didn't know how to process his facetwin's departure. Not while remaining sober anyway, and he'd been clean for a while.

So he had protected his sobriety by practicing with his new powers, working out how to focus his mind, to teleport from one place to another.

This time he appeared in the middle of the street, which was possibly not his best idea ever. He jerked slightly on arrival, making his hat slip a little before he adjusted it again, straightening himself, his clothes, and trying to look like he had meant the entire thing. Honestly, he had. Yup.

Luckily there seemed to be only one person around. A woman in very odd clothing. Well, odd by this world's standards. Hatter looked merely curious at her. "Hello."

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[info]notpureofheart
2014-04-02 10:56 am UTC (link)
Ana had a choice. Be herself, the frightened girl worlds away now from a love she'd just seen lost because of a wish. Or be the Queen, affected accent, attitude and all, and Ana had never been good at choices. This man would help her find a way back to Wonderland and to her Will, because it was the only way she could break the laws of magic and the only way she could have him back, make the past different. Spend her life with him.

"Hello" she said simply, looking him up and down. He looked shoddy. Hat all askew and he'd appeared out of nowhere. If she'd found a warlock it was quite a disappointment.

Or of course it was Jafar. The man was known for his disguises. Still he'd announce himself pretty soon if he knew he wouldn't get a rise out of her. The decision was made.

"I'm not altogether sure where I am darling but would you mind awfully helping me find a looking glass or a rabbit. I need to return to my people you see. They need their Queen now more than ever."

She met his gaze.

"Find me a way back to Wonderland and you'll be rewarded for your aid, I asusre you of that."

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[info]passthehat
2014-04-02 11:04 am UTC (link)
Okay. What the fuck? Hatter frowned, a faintly bewildered look on his face.

"Wonderland? Why would anyone want to go back to Wonderland? Queen..." His voice trailed off slightly as he backed up, looking abruptly wary. "You're not the Queen of Hearts. You don't look like anyone in the Hearts dynasty." Maybe the Duchess, maybe if she'd married Jack Heart, taken over as Queen, had a lot of surgery, no, she couldn't be the Duchess. And the other Houses of Cards, they had never been Kings or Queens in anything other than self proclaimed titles. The Queen of Hearts had seen to that.

"Who are you? And what are you to Wonderland?" He flexed his hand, the sledgehammer, enhanced to be strong enough to punch through a wall. Oh he really hoped he wouldn't need it, he didn't like hitting women, but if this was some agent of the Queen of Hearts, he would deal with her.

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[info]notpureofheart
2014-04-02 11:14 am UTC (link)
Anastasia blinked. He clearly wasn't Jafar. Jafar would have been choking her to death by now. "I need to get back to Wonderland simply because it belongs to me and not to that charletan from Agrabah. And no darling I'm not the Queen of Hearts. It's been a while since I've seen her in Wonderland. I am the Red Queen and I need to get back to my people."

Gosh it all sounded so noble of her. But she really did mean it. Jafar would not have Wonderland whatever the cost.

"Now can you tell me, who you are, where I am and where the nearest portal is. Wonderland is in rather grave danger and I don't have time to waste in another land. Was this the blasted rabbit? In some misguided attempt to help Alice and her genie?"

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[info]passthehat
2014-04-02 11:19 am UTC (link)
Hatter actually took a step back, the frown deepening. "The Red Queen? The Reds and Whites are just legends, they died out decades ago. Last one standing was the squire of the White Knight, and let's face it, he was a little bit mad, and that's coming from me and..."

Wait. Other Wonderlands. Fan-fucking-tastic. Now Hatter really wanted to find a wall to bang his head against.

"They call me Hatter, owner of the Tea Shop," he made a popping sound at the end of 'shop' and even gave a slightly flourished bow, though his tone was sarcastic. "And there's no portals around. Don't know what your rabbit is like, but where I'm from the secret police won't be any damned help to anyone. So sorry, your Majesty. But you're stuck in this world now."

There, that covered it all, didn't it? Except for "Oh and Alice, of legend or otherwise, isn't here and no clue about any bloody genie."

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[info]notpureofheart
2014-04-02 11:26 am UTC (link)
She blinked at that, died out decades ago, Reds and Whites, squires. It made not a bit of sense to her. She was out of her depth but she would not let this man see that, whoever he was and whatever he thought he knew of Wonderland. "I assure you. I am not of legend. I am very real and I will NOT allow Jafar to do as he wishes in Wonderland."

Wait, had he said... "Hatter? No you're not. I've met him, madman locked away by the Queen of Hearts, making hat after hat, previously he had been a collecter in the enchanted forest, dealt with all sorts. I assure you whoever you are, you are not that man."

"Our rabbit is quite the pest and any guards in Wonderland serve me. I refuse to be stuck. I refuse to let him win."

Alice not being here though, well that was a step in the right direction at least.

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[info]passthehat
2014-04-02 12:10 pm UTC (link)
Jafar? He knew of no one called Jafar in Wonderland.

Oh great. She knew of another Hatter, of that one it seemed, the one who had so briefly been in Lawrence. Had his head chopped off or something, well that was how the Queen of Hearts liked to be in any version it seemed.

"Right, so I'm not that Hatter, but I am Hatter, and I'm not from your Wonderland, but a different Wonderland. There are several versions, you see, at least three, possibly four, probably more." His, hers, that one with Johnny Depp face him, possibly the animated one, who knew how many others. Bloody Lewis Carroll.

"Is your rabbit a literal rabbit? I always wondered. Code name in my one, little shits, the lot of them. You can refuse all you like, Queenie, but you are stuck here. We all are. Welcome to Lawrence."

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[info]notpureofheart
2014-04-02 12:15 pm UTC (link)
Different Wonderlands, different versions of her world, it was all more than she was willing to deal with right now. Ana kicked a nearby bench in some fury. She didn't get Wonderland, or break the laws of magic. Or get Will. None of it. Nothing.

"Yes he's a rabbit. Wife and children an' all" she said, her accent slipping for just a moment in her anger before she corrected herself quickly, the mask she wore so well back in place.

"So, tell me Hatter, does that mean Jafar wins. That this seal has plucked me out of my kingdom and taken everything from me and that that...madman holds power now?" She was unwilling to accept that, and had he really just called her Queenie? She'd had people executed for much much less, but here. Not here, not in this world where he was the closest thing she had to home even if he was wrong. Even if it was all so wrong.

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[info]passthehat
2014-04-02 06:10 pm UTC (link)
He raised an eyebrow at the way she kicked the bench, and at the change of accent. Now that was interesting. The accent was something closer to his, actually.

And apparently, rabbits married in her Wonderland. Hmm.

"Haven't got a clue about Jafar, or your world or any of it. Only that people get brought here from all kinds of places, different realms. And people claim that when you go back, you return to the same point in time." There, that was helpful, right? "Do you have a name other than Red Queen, your majesty?"

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[info]notpureofheart
2014-04-03 09:27 am UTC (link)
Same point in time. Well that was something. She was in a holding pattern of sorts. It was not ideal but it meant she could still get back some day and save Will, and no time would have passed whatsoever. If that was true then she would be more than happy about it.

He was asking her name, and she supposed that was fair. She knew his, knew of his equivilant in her world anyway. So this was fair. But she couldn't bring herself to say it, Anastasia Tremaine, the sister that wanted more, wanted love, Anastasia Tremaine that had hoped for a new life in Wonderland with the man she knew beyond a doubt was her true love.

"Ana" she finally allowed. "You can call me Ana. You've been very helpful Hatter, when you didn't have to be. I am grateful for it"

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