Mad as a Hatter

And there she was. She learned that the Queen's name is Chara, from her servants and that the 'Knave of hearts' or the lizard man as Frisk called him also has a name.  Stayne. He kept looking at her strangely. Frisk has been carried around by the Queen and would eat with her 3 times a day. At night however, she would sneak out of her room and search for her friends. No luck...the dungeons were really well hidden..non-existent even! The guards bearly gave a fuck about anything that happened if the queen didn't order them. It was a strange way of how the things worked...but it showed how weak her power truly was. Roght now however? The Queen was taking her with in the throne room. 

Large Alice, clad in hastily constructed garments, proceedswith the Queen down the great hall toward the throne room. Along with the Footfrogs,  spiders hold up tables and chairs with their arms and heads. Exhausted birds flap their wings to stay aloft with lamps hung from their beaks. The Queen plops down on her ornate throne. Spiders serve as legs of the throne. They strain under the weight. The Queen kicks off her shoes. Frisk scrunches up her nose as the spiders look at her enormous body. 

"I need a big spider here!" Frisk's eyes widened. A huge spider covered in some sort of frosting hurries over and lays down, belly up. She puts her feet on his belly and sighs. 

"Sit! Sit!" Frisk looks at the spiders and her eyes soften. Poor things...She sits, trying to keep her weight off the chair held up by spiders. The Queen waves her hand at the three Courtiers in the room. 

"Go away. Oh but you stay Azzy~" She said. The goat monster nodded. Frisk looked at the Queen and saw how she softened at the sight of him. Did she--..? Nooo.....Oh my god. Nooo.... Stayne enters. The Queen blinks her eyes seductively at him. Stayne represses a shudder. That was disgusting...It was clear she liked the goat monster but...why would she do that?

"There you are, Stayne. Any luck with the prisoners?" The man scoffs. 

"They are stubborn.." Chara norrows her eyes. 

"You’re too soft. Bring them!!" Stayne finally notices her. He smiles seductively. 

"SHE is here as well..?" Frisk norrows her eyes at him. Such a disgusting bastard...

"Hello, mi'lady."He kisses her hand. She pulls it away quickly. The guards drag the Hatter in, chained by hands and feet. Frisk stifles a gasp. He’s been roughed up. His eyes have an empty far-away stare. next they dragged Ches in. Frisk had to look away. The same stare and roughed up shape. What have they done...?

"We know Alice has returned to the Underground. Do you know where she is?" 

They don't respond. She claps her hands in front of the two, but they don't notice Frisk standing there. Finally, Hatter speaks. 

"I’ve been considering things that begin with the letter “m”: moron, mutiny, murder, malice..." Chara was now getting mad.

"We are looking for an 'F'...Do you know where Frisk is??" Sans finally notices her. Frisk looks away in a 'not guilty' way. His smile grows. He snorts. 

"Excuse me..? Are you finding this AMUSING?? How amusing would it be if i chop off both of your heads!!" Chara starts laughing.  The Hatter laughs louder and keeps laughing. That worries the Queen as she takes a step back. 

"STOP THAT!! you lunatic.." Frisk norrowed her eyes behind the Queens back. How dare she speak like that to them?

He laughs louder in her face. She slaps him. He keeps laughing, madly. The Queen makes a “loco” motion to the
others. But when the Hatter sees Alice, the mad laughter stops. Surprised at her new size, he gives her a wry smile. He turns to the Queen, smarmy and unctuous. 

"MY MY...WHAT A BEAUTIFUL HEAD YOU HAVE!! I WOULD LOVE TO HAT IT!!" He says, getting his energy back. Frisk tries to hide the smile creeping up on her face. That was the Hatters she knew and loved. He was mad...Mad as a Hatter...

"Hat it..?" The goat monster, Asriel, was trying to hide his relief as Stayne was just staring at Frisk. That's when his eyes stopped at her chest. She put her arms over them so he would stop staring. What a pervert...Sans noticed it as he starts silently started growling and showing his teeth at him. 

"YES INDEED!! I USED TO HAT THE WHITE QUEEN BUT...THERE WASN'T SO MUCH...MUCHNESS IN HER HEAD!! YOURS HOWEVER IS BEAUTIFUL!! I COULD DO SO MUCH WITH YOUR BEAUTIFUL GORGEOUS HEAD!!" 

"what can you do..?" Chara asked skeptical. Papyrus raised his hands in a helpless manner. Chara sighed and looked at her right hand. 

"What are you waiting for? UNBIN HIM STAYNE!!" Tha lizard man wanted to protest but the Queen raised an eye-brow and him and he immediately obliged. She was really scary...Frisk looked at Papyrus who gave her a reassuring smile. 

"Shall it be a bonnet or a boater, or something for the boudoir? A cloche, dunce hat, death cap, coif,
snood, barboosh or pugree, , yarmulke, cockle-hat, pork-pie, tam o’shanter, billy-cock, bicorn, tricorn, bandeau, bongrace, fan-tail, night cap, garibaldi, fez--..." Shit if she didn't stop him he would go manic!! She pretended to sneeze. 

"Hatter!!" Papyrus jerked back to reality and Sans sighed in relief nodding at Frisk, thanking her. 

"I'M FINE...THE CHOICES JUST TOOK ME ABACK..." The Queen smiled a maniac crazy psychopatic smile. That sent chills down her spine. Her red heart shapped liptsick didn't help. Her mouth looked like it was splitting the heart in two.

"Leave us..." The Queen says. Frisk's eyes widen but the two brothers nod to her. She obeys, reluctantly. Asriel exists through a staff door as the other two exit in the hallway. As they were abou to close the door the Queen says. 

"OH!! Please take the other one with...he is quie useless for now." Stayne pulled his chain and the three walked...well they walked until Stayne decided to do something stupid.He’s right behind Frisk, breathing down her neck. She tries to move past him, but he grabs her arm with the wound. She cries out as he pushes her against the wall. He was small..but not that small. The fuck was this pervert doing?! Sans sockets went blank at the sight. She hated it just as much as him. Maybe even worse. 

"I like you, Um. I like them large..." Sans slit eyes were back..thinner than before..he was growling now. His fangs were showing. He wished he didn't have those magic binds. He would throw that fucker off of her in a heartbeat. These stupid chains!! He rattled his chains and his ears were down as he looked hopelessly at the two. That dirty bastard needed to learn how to not mess with someone else's girl. That fucker will have it coming alright once he gets out of his binds. He leans in for a kiss just as Lady Long Ears passes. She smiles and goes off. Sans started struggling even more. He touched her and he was D E A D.

"Get away from me!" Frisk yelled. She kicks him. 

"AHH!! SON OF A BITC--" Frisk backs away from him and looks at Sans. He was norrowing his eyes at Stayne. He looks at her and nods. She nods back as she runs out of that place. Sans smirks. 

"thought luck, eh?" The lizard man looked at the skeleton cat and scoffed. 

"What makes you think you've got a better chance with her, eh dirty mutt?" Sans smirks. 

"because i ALREADY kisses 'er. take that fucker." Stayne was stunned and looks at him. 

"the hell?? when??" Sans shruggs. 

"some time ago, in some place, at some hour, on some day." Stayne gritts his teeth and starts pulling his chains again. 

"Don't get all smart with me...kitten.." It was clear Sans won that. His grin widens as he closes his sockets and lets himself be pulled, with a gruff chuckle. Man...Frisk truly was making him soft and really possesive...Paps was right, he had some issues, alright.

As Frisk was walking around the hallways she noticed something...or should she say someone...following her. A man in a strage coat and was wearing glasses. As he started closing the distance between them she found out that man was also a skeleton. 

"Hello miss. May we talk in private?" Frisk's eyes widened as he put his skeletal hand on her shoulder. She jerked at the touch and backed away a bit before she nodded and the two stepped in a fancy room. It looked like the skeleton man was an alchemist. 

"Ok. I know you are Frisk." Frisk froze. Oh no he will rat her out!!

"Listen sir i don't kno--"

"Thank you...for coming after my sons...i was so scared when i saw them in this prison as well!!" Frisk's eyes widened. 

"You are...their father..?" The man nodded. 

"yes i am...i have been trapped in this damned place for so long...i just want freedom...peace...And i heard you may be the wrong Frisk but something tells me otherwise..after all..No one in their right mind would come here to rescue people just like that!! You are just as big of a lunatic as all of us!" Frisk's smile softened. 

"i am glad to know i have another ally here sir...ummm.." Frisk says. The skeleton nods as he magically pulls out a hat, like ut of a void. 

"Gaster. Wing-Dings Gaster. Pleasure to finally meet you, Frisk." She smiled as she bowed while Gaster bowed as well putting his top-hat over his chest. Gaster looked her up and down and scrunched up his nasal cavity(?) as he made a disgusted face. He had two cracks going from his scoket, one up and one down, with purple eye-lights. He was slim but his face was a bit chubbier. He did look like the mix of Sans and Papyrus apart from a few features. He also looked tired. Purple eye-bags were under his eye-sockets. He must have not slept in days. 

"Frisk i am going to be frank with you about two things: 1. Abuse is written all over your soul, face and body and 2. My sons will be soon sentaced to death." Frisk's eyes widened. First at the blunt call-out he just made and second at the heart-breaking information. 

"Knowing my sons they will surely do something to piss the Queen off. So please..take care of them..." Frisk nodded and as she was about to exit turns towards the loving worried father. 

"Do not worry Gaster...i will free everyone in this damned place." Gaster's sockets widened as the girl leaves with a peculiar glow to her. Gaster smiles for the first time in years. He was finally feeling it. Hope. She was, no doubt, Frisk. The little angel returned. 

Next day, Frisk was out in the garden searching through the bushes. She found the hedghehog she save and right next to it a hat. She took it in her hands and with loving care she straightened it and wiped off the dirt on it. The Queen was watching from the window having a conversation with the Knave of hearts. 

"You must find Frisk, Stayne. Without the Jabberwocky, Toriel's followers will raise against me. Toriel...Asgore...what do they have and i don't?" Asriel in the back looks at his once best friend and then looks away. The true question is...what happened to what you had...? Stayne comes up behind her, but does not touch her, to Asriel's relief. 

"I cannot fathom it. You are far superior in all ways." He says. Asriel almost scoffs. Such a kiss-ass. 

"I know. But they can make anyone fall in love with them: men, women, even the furniture." Asriel almost wanted to scream that he was right there. But he knew he couldn't. Stayne wanted the crown...HE wanted to take Chara's place. Stayne manipulated his sister and now he turned her in this...MONSTER...But he will fix it..no..Frisk will fix it. He will help her fix it. That's what he will do. And he will do that even if it costs her life. 

"Majesty, isn’t it better to be feared than loved?" He says with fake honey in his voice. Toxic words he whispers. How...how could he be such a monster...they were all monster kind but he was an animal...insticts like a beast's. 

"I’m not certain anymore. Oh, let them have the rabble! I don’t need them. I have you." She says as she leans into him. Asriel almost wanted to puke at the sight. Bastard...

"I do have you, don’t I, Stayne?" He manages a smile, but gives her no reply. Down in the garden Frisk was finally leaving and was going to search for Hatter and Ches. She heard they shared a room somewhere. That's when she heard soft humming coming from a room. The Hatter hums as he works with ribbons, bows, veils and feathers. Alice enters a room full of huge, colorful hats. Frisk smiles at the sight. Sans was sitting on the bed wiggling his tail and leaning back with hands behind his head in a bored manner. 

"They’re wonderful! You must let me try one on." The two immediately jumped up and smiled at her. Papyrus  puts a hat on her. She poses like a grand lady. She puts one on him. He poses like a grand lady too. Then it was Sans turn. She even did a small walk and a wave. They all laugh. She took the hat off and looked at it. It looked like somethin gher mother would make her wear. 

"IT'S GOOD TO BE WORKING AT MY TRADE AGAIN!! NYEH HEH HEH!!" Frisk looks at all the hats and gives him a sad smile. 

"It’s just a pity you had to make them for her." Papyrus however...Realizing what he’s done, he’s suddenly filled with remorse and self-recrimination. His clothes “slump” as well. Sans looks at the clothes as well and hisses more for himself. 

"you shouldn'hav said that...err.." Papyrus looked dumbfound around him. 

"What’s The Hatter With Me? The Hatter... Mmmmm. Mmmmm, Ma, Ma." Sans looks away from Papyrus in guilt. He couldn't bare watch his brother like that. Fury seizes the taller skeleton. He takes scissors and murderously attacks a hat, cutting it to shreds, then another and another. Frisk grabbed it just in time. 

"Stop!! STOP!!" Frisk beggs him. He doesn't listen. She needs to calm him somehow...

"But it's time to rest, now
Let it all melt now
Wipe your tears.." She starts singing a slow lullaby. Hatters freezes and Sans looks at her in surprise. Red dusting his cheeks. The high notes would susually hurt her vocal chords when her mother forced her to sing this to impress someone. Now? she sang out of compassion for her friend. 

"The sun's already set, now
Won't you go to sleep, now?
I'll see you in your dreams.." Hatter let the scrissors fall to the ground as he started calming down. His breath coming back to normal from his fury. 

"'Cause I'm right here
Darlin', I'm right here..
Close your pretty eyes, my butterfly
Baby, have no fear..
'Cause I'm right here
Darlin', I'm right here.." Papyrus finally calmed down and Frisk pulled him into a hug. Sans smiled at his brother and human. Frisk gestured for him to join and the three hugged. Papyrus then looked at Frisk with saddened scared eyes. 

"Have you any idea why a raven is like a writing desk? I’m frightened. I don’t like it in here, terribly crowded. Have I gone mad?" Frisk remembered something from a long time ago and looked at Sans who seemed to be just as uncomftarble. She put a hand on their fore-heads, just like her father did. 

"I’m afraid so. You’re entirely bonkers. But I’ll tell you a secret...all the best people are." Papyrus straightens his shoulders with pride. His clothes puff up. Sans looks away and shoves his hands in his pockets. He has red dusting his cheek-bones, ears down and his tail swinging from side to side. As Frisk looks at the smaller skeleton she actually finds that cute and flushes a bit as well. That's when she rememberes she came to give Papyrus. 

"Oh!! Right!! Here...Your hat!!" She put it on his head and Papyrus and Sans both freeze. 

"That's better!! You look like yourself again!!" She says with a bright smile. 

"Th-Thank You..." He says taking it off. That's when Gaster walks in. 

"I am glad to see you kept the hat i made for you....son. I do like the touches. It gives it quite the pop." Papyrus and Sans both looked at the door. 

"d...dad..?" Sans askes with a cracking voice, looking dumbfound at the door in surprise. Seeing their father after all these years must be such a happy thing. If only.....But it's not the time. The skeleton father smiles and opens his arms as both of her friends rush and they all hug, like a happy family. When was the last time her mother hugged her like that....? Unfortunately the sweet moment is ruined by a loud voice coming from down the hallway. 

"Hat Man! Where are my hats? I am not a patient monarch!" The nerve of this woman is out-standing....Nice way to ruin a happy reunion...Tsk. She can't wait to leave this place. Her grating voice reminds Hatter of his purpose. Sans looks at her and frowns. 

"i’m told she keeps the vorpoal sword hidden in the castle. find it, alice. take it to the white queen. help us make the world right again...please..." Frisk looks at the smaller skeleton and then looks at the chains and binds on all three of the skeletons. She thinks of a better way to use the Vorpal sword.

"We’ll go to the White Queen together...i promise." Sans eyes widen as she smiles at him. He takes her hand. There’s a moment between them that might have been something more if it weren’t for her large size...and the other two in the room.

"why is it you’re always too small or too tall?" Frisk giggles as she rushes out of the room. 

The next however is yet to come. And no challange is easy, especially this one. You must be mad to pass. Mad as a Hatter. But i think our little human already is.