Defying Logic

Disclamer: I do not own WCMI or Disney, but if I did I'd be the happiest person on the face of the plannet!!!!!!

Sorta Kinda Somwhatofa Summery: Takes place after the Spring dance segment of Bri-chan's and Rain's WCMI. Alice's feelings for Reginald are growing stronger but she refuses to admit it to herself let alone him. As with Reginald, his feelings for Alice have evolved beyond mere phyical attraction. He to is having trouble admitting to himself that is is possible that he is in love. So everything's pretty much cannon. Anyway, Alice's finance( whom I've dubbed Jonathan Dickinson) from the arranged marriage her parents set up before she left home is back and he won't take no for an answer. His character is brutal, extremely chavaninstic, and self absorbed. Just imagine a guy who beats his girlfriend, plus Gaston, plus, Lord Barkus from Corpse Bride. Yeah I know. So he comes to claim Alice which doesn't end well. Actually it ends with Reg beating the snot out of him and him vowing to return. And return he does. He kinapps Alice and takes her back to the reall world where Reginald can't follow. You see he overheard Reg talking to Ears about telling Alice about the whole un-birthday thing (see the Q and A segments of WCMI on Live Journal) and the fact that He can never go back to the real world. For if he did he would revert back to his true age, 142 I think. So Jonathan uses this to his advantage, but Reggie finds a way, he always finds a way to do the impossible. Hey, he's mad! He can get away with anything...

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Chapter One


Happiness, they often say, is finding where you truly belong. Not exactly where you fit in, but where you, yourself, are accepted. Strengths, weaknesses, and faults. When you find that place, you are not easily separated from it. It becomes part of who you are as a person. Sometimes it can help you grow as a person, opening you up to new idea's and possiblities. When Alice Liddell left her dreary, constricting life at home, this is what she went searching for. She was looking for the wonderous realm of her childhood. A world of grinning cats, insane tea parties, and axe-happy Queens. What she didn't expect to find was that her Wonderland was part of something much bigger. Something so grand that only the brillant mind of one man was ever able to personify it.
So she settled in and made herself a home. I't's cliche to say that this is where our story begins, but truly it is. It begins at a very confusing time for Alice. She's stuggling with feelings and emotions she's never experienced before. She frequntly finds escape in the endless volumes of the books she tends to at the shop she works at. The cause of her fluctuating emotions, one Reginald Theophilus (the III), was currently disrupting the usual peace of the little book shop in a way only he could.

"Honnestly Cricket, I don't know what your so afraid of?" inquired Reginald for the third time that morning. "It's only dinner!"

"Exactly Mr. Theophilus, dinner, with you." Alice retorted as she struggled under a large stack of books she was trying to organize onto there proper shelves. In an effort to help her, Reggie took the top volume off the stack and placed it on the top shelf where it belonged. He then turned to address her again.

"Awww, come on! I don't bite... much." he smirked.

Alice made a noise of disgust and thrust the pile of books into his arms catching him off guard. He steadied himself and flashed her another grin.

"Reginald Theophilus!"

"The third!" he interjected setting the books down on a nearby windowsil.

"Whatever," she continued throwing him a very inperious look that stopped all further comments he might have had. "Until you learn to mind that tounge of yours and start acting like a gentleman, I refuse to go anywhere with you!"

"So thats a definate maybe to dinner tonight?"

"Uhggg! You are impossible!" She cried in exasperation, illiustrating each syllable with a sharp poke in his chest. On the last syllable he grabbed her hand and held it there.

"Nothing's impossible!" he smirked again. But there was something different in his smirk this time that had nothing to do with vulgar inuendos. Was it hope? Alice wondered. She shook her head and focased on the more imediate question, why did he still have her hand? And more inportantly, why was there a small part of her that didn't want him to let go? Ignoring the blush creeping into her cheeks, she quickly banished these thoughts to the dark recesses of her mind and focased her attention back to the original problem.

"Unhand me you mercury addled nitwit!!!"

"No," he repiled just as stubborn as she was,"not until you agree to go to dinner with me."

"Must we go through these negotiations again? If memory serves, the last time you tried this you ended up clinging for your life from my second story bedroom window!"

"Ahh yes, but that was also the night you agreed to grace me with your glowing presence at the spring dance!"

"You blackmailed me!"

"Well you blackmailed me!"

"I did no such thing!" exclaimed Alice using her captured hand to shove him in the chest. Just as she expected he kept true to his word and kept a tight hold of her hand. What she didn't expect was to get shoved back.

"HOW DARE YOU!" she roared pushing him again. He met her push with a push of his own and after a brief exchange of shoves their fingers ended up interlocked as they pushed into each other as hard as the could.

The comotion in the front had drawn the attention of the bookworm brunette worling in the back. Belle emerged from the storeroom only to dart up a conviently placed ladder to avoid being plowed over by a struggling Alice and Reg. She perched herself atop the bookshelf and proceeded to watch the spectical below. She laughed at the odd couple, throwing her own comments into their mix of miscellanious insults despite the fact that neither one of them was actually listening.

"Are you two ever going to quit? I mean honestly..." She was cut off as Alice's snarls of distain turned into shrieks of laughter. She had mommentarily been able to pin Reggie against the back wall and was now laughing in his face in triumph.

"Clever Cricket, clever, but alas you forget who's stronger!" Thanks to genetics and an insane amount of dexterity, he managed to reverse their positions and pin her arms above her head.

"Ok! Ok!" Alice laughed in defeat, her nose centimeters from Reggie's, "I give up, you win, I'll go to dinner with you!"

"Yes!" Reginald exclaimed pulling away and leaping into the air. He punctuated his leap of victory with a triumphant arm pump. Alice blushed and surpressed a giggle.

"Ahem..." interupted an unfamiliar voice.

                                                                                              To be continued...   
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A/N:  sorry about any grammar errors, my spellcheck is currently on the fritz. Anyway I hope you enjoy this. Please tell me if you think I've got the character's characters down pretty well. I'd like to thank Bri-chan and Rain for writing this wonderful comic and inspiring me in a way I haven't been inspired for a long time. Thank you for bringing back my muse and helping me beat writers block!!!!! I AM A BEAUTIFUL PALM TREE!!!!!!!! youtube it.