the_rabbithole | Wonderland Open Post

She could tell just how much they wanted the other girl around. Could tell and it did more than upset her. In fact, she wanted to throw the girl out of their little group and just... well, she's not entirely sure. Though, in the back of her mind she knows that if she does then she loses all of them. Especially with how close they've all gotten to Alice. So she does the next best thing and takes off. She couldn't handle being around anyone in that moment, not with her mind warring with her. Not with... not with the hatred bubbling up at the new girl for mixing herself into their group uninvited. Unwanted by her.

The only place she knows to go is to the woods. A place she used to feel safe at when she was younger. When things were simpler. Hell, when it was just her and Ronny versus the world. It doesn't, unfortunately, stop her from punching a nearby tree. Punching the damn thing until her knuckles split and bled. When she has worn herself out she slides down against the nearest tree and pulls out her notebook, but it was hard to see the pages through the tears. Through the war raging in her mind.

Ronny had seen her run off and panicked, not sure what to do exactly. After some brief panicked flailing over thinking, he decided to run to get Jay and say he wanted his help to find her. That's why the two of them would be arriving to the spot in the woods together, Ronny looking worried as he found her, seeing her crying and shifting foot to foot, not knowing what to do.

"Red." Jay was the one to speak as he stepped closer to her, not afraid of getting yelled at or told to go away. He didn't care. He reached pulled his zip-up hoodie off, offering it to her as a temporary solution for the bleeding knuckles. "You seriously need to stop overreacting to opinions. Also maybe try plainly stating your views on situations before they're ruined for you." Bluntness was one thing the guy was good for, and Ronny looked almost mortified at his saying something like that as bluntly as he did.

It didn't surprise her that Ronny had found her and to an extent that Jay had been there. After all, when shit hits the fan why not turn to the one person who can fix it. Something that Jay was pretty damn good at. Though when he says her name she barely even registers it. Hardly registers that the two guys are in her fortress, so to speak. Or what used to be her fortress anyway. A place of solitude to get away from the world. Away from everyone in it too. So Jay doesn't get told to go away or yelled at, her mind really isn't all that with it.

The hoodie is taken, slipped on and once on she wraps her arms around herself. This wasn't the Queen that most knew. No, this was a side of her that only Ronny had ever seen but that was when they were children. When she'd lock herself away and not talk to anyone or anything for that matter. "It was already ruined for me," she whispers, barely even looking from where she'd pulled her knees up to her chest and laid her head on her knees.

Jay sighed, resting his face in his hands before running his fingers back through his hair. He moved to get to more eye level with her, crouching down on the balls of his feet. "I'm going to say something and if it offends you, I'm leaving you with the rabbit." Ronny didn't say anything in response but being a hare specifically was something he was proud of. "You're as much a drama queen as you are the Red Queen of the school. You look at things as though you own them. Like pointing and saying 'mine' is enough for people to get what you mean and go with it." He sighed as he thought through exactly where this was going to go before continuing.

"Frederick and Danny figured you would refer to them in conversation because of infamy that they had in school. That they still have in the town. Not because of being part of some group you decided was had. Your methods are very much beat around the bush compared to what they need and that just doesn't always work out. As we're seeing right now."

He blinked as he caught the small hare out of the corner of his eyes going to Red, hesitant the entire time, not sure if she wanted the comfort he was offering.

Ronny carefully lifted himself up onto his back paws before hesitantly placing one of the front ones on her leg, ears pressed back as he offered comfort. Something he would do when they were children less hesitantly, but he wasn't sure of what things were like anymore.

And Jay used that as an example. "This guy, for example. He's been unsure what you thought of him for years. Because you never once went to him and said 'I want to bring you up with me. I care so much about you and never want to lose you'" It was obvious to him how things works in her mind, but alas.

Normally Red would have something to say about being called a drama queen. She wasn't one, not really. Maybe every once in a while but she wasn't or at least it's not how she saw things. Gwynne maybe but never herself. Not that Jay was wrong about any of that. Ever since her sister she had started to look at things differently. Thinking that she had to outdo Lilian. No one told her otherwise and she'd continued on that journey. Down that destructive path. Maybe she could've honestly made friends with the boys, the proper way. Or maybe she'd of been an outcast like Alice.

Those tear filled eyes look towards the hare before a hand reaches down to run between his ears, pet along his back. "I love how you all seem to think that I never once went to him," she states, voice choked up with raw emotion. "I tried. More than once. But that damn whore and the bitch always got in the way. I think she knew this was going to happen. And then she showed up." Her knuckles hurt and she didn't feel like much of a queen in that moment.

"Why are you even here, Jay? None of you are bound to me. So maybe it's time you all cut your losses and go where you want to go." It might of been the emotions talking but after seeing how they all acted around Alice.

"Because I'm one of the only two people that've seen you at your weakest. At least as weak as you've shown me." Jay knew exactly what kind of person was under the hard exterior that she put on for everyone else. Sure, the small hare getting pet might know more, be able to handle this better, but at least he was attentive enough to know someone was looking out for her. Maybe not actively defending besides an incredulous look here and there, but alas.

Ronny meanwhile had nuzzled up into the petting, eyes closing for a moment because it was comforting to him as well, as he shifted to rest his head against her side a bit.

She shakes her head and continues petting through Ronny's fur even more. "You seeing me at my weakest isn't a reason to stay though," she states quietly finally looking up towards Jay, eyes red from crying. "I'm not sure why any of you do. Only one I know why is Ronny." In that moment a part of her just wanted to be able to shift and fly off, go as far as her raven wings would take her. "It's not like you like me and we both know it," she tells him quietly picking the hare up and placing him in her lap so she can pet him easier.

"Oh my god you're so dumb" Jay groaned and there was a squeak from the hare as he looked over "Don't you judge me, rabbit." There was a more panicked squeak as Ronny nuzzled close to Red because Red had always been safety to him. "So let me put this bluntly. Him. He loves you and he knows who you are better than I do." He pointed to Ronny again before pointing to him "Me. Same thing. I know you well enough." Saying those words was hard for him. He was terrified of commitment, but he was as close to admitting it as he would get for me.

Red honestly didn't like the fact that Jay was calling her dumb but doesn't call her out on his shit. Doesn't argue with him to say she wasn't because in a way she knew it wouldn't get anywhere. Though she feels like she can't breathe for a moment and stares at him," That's... What?" She didn't say how Jay could love her. Couldn't see," I didn't want to ruin anything."

"For the entire time you've known me, if I didn't want to deal with your shit, I could've killed you. On the spot. Just by going 'No, fuck you', glowing my eyes, and using my powers. Yet here you are alive. I'm kind of a royal dick" With a heart of gold, dear Jay. "If you don't see something right in front of you, you're so dumb."

Ronny twitched an ear, the tenseness of the area leading to his just curling up against Red as much as he could. Maybe not the best to be around a stressful situation, but alas.

"There's been days where I'm surprised you all haven't just up and killed me," she states softly, fingers brushing over one of the hare's ears. She bites her bottom lip and yeah, the pain in her knuckles were starting to really get to her. Show her that 'hi, my name is pain and I'm here.' "I love both of you," she states, voice full of confidence. It doesn't mean that her mind isn't still warring with her. "I've loved Ronny since we were kids and you... I don't know what you did, Jay. Just know you wormed your way in somehow and I fell in love with you too."

Ronny snuffed his nose against her arm a bit, close to where the sleeve covered her hand. He closed his eyes for a moment, wanting nothing more than for her pain to just go away and for Red to be better. Jay saw the pain too, and the words definitely helped to prompt him to move next to her, placing his hand on her leg, where he could put one hand on the fingers of her wounded hand. Both boys eyes gave a gentle glow they weren't even fully aware of happening. The wound was healing up, though. The boys wanting nothing more than to help.

She felt that cold nose against her arm and watched Jay as he moved beside her. As one hand was placed on the fingers of her wounded hand. However, she notices what they don't. Notices the glow of their eyes and it's different somehow, has a different feel to it. "What're you doing?"

Jay blinked, frowning a bit before realizing there was that familiar feeling that he was using his powers, not realizing it was a different sort of power until Ronny had opened his own eyes and he spotted the purple there. "Apparently not killing anyone or thing, or bringing anything to life." He was baffled, unsure what was going on.

The moment Red sees purple in those eyes she pulls her hand from Jay's. Pulls it away from his and reaches up running fingers lightly along the edge of his eye," Your eyes are purple." We're sure if the boys are paying attention she doesn't seem to be in pain and her knuckles? They're completely healed. No sign that she ever decided to fight a tree and lose.

Ronny had opted to hop off her lap to change back to how he was, the purple fading the same time as Jay's, but remaining bright because of the shield he put around them out of instinct. "Red, your knuckles..."

Jay blinked at the contact, his eyes fading back to their brown. At Ronny mentioning her knuckles, he had moved to take her hand gently to examine them more closely. "... How the hell...?" It was baffling. He looked to her, confused "It's like nothing ever happened..."

"What about my knuckles?" She asks making a slight face before looking down at them. Though not until Jay's eyes returned to normal and he'd taken her hand in his own. "... What just happened? None of us can just... You and Ronny's eyes were both glowing purple too. I noticed that. I've never seen either of your eyes do that before."

"I didn't want you to be hurting anymore." Jay frowned, Ronny nodding in agreement of that being the main thought. "... Maybe it's our powers evolving...?" It seemed to make sense.

"M-maybe it's... A connection between us...?" It was an idea. Ronnys voice was quiet, like he wasn't confident enough in his own response, nor that he even actually had a place to say it.

Red just smiles a bit and wraps an arm around Ronny and the other around Jay. First kissing Ronny's cheek and then Jay's, smiling," Maybe you're right and it is the connection between the three of us. After all, neither of you could do something like that before. Not that I'm aware of."

Both boys leaned against her, Ronny giving a bit of a squeak because of not quite expecting it, but definitely finding it comfortable. He smiled softly, Jay smiling a bit as well, moving to put his hand over the hand on his side.

He then decided to teasingly poke at Ronny "By the way, when she clawed Gwynne's face. That moment. Safe to assume you're no longer dating her." There was a brief moment of inability to talk or even know how to respond, eyes going wide at the sudden mention of that whole fight because what huh what?

Red didn't realize just how good this felt. Having both boys beside her and encompassed in their warmth. Though she does give Jay a bit of a smirk," I hope you realize that you've lost your hoodie, mister." However, at the mention of Gwynne she resists the urge to growl," No one is dating that bitch. She's a single whore now. She can go find somewhere else to play. Outside of us and our friends."

She bites her bottom lip," You know..." Actually, she goes quiet for a moment," It's up to you two how this plays out. I know how I'd like it to, but I'd want you both on board with it too."

Ronny was the first to make a move about how he wanted to proceed, perhaps not being as bold as he wanted to be, but moving to kiss her cheek, smiling a little as he nuzzled close to her side. A kiss in general from him was a sign he would be ready for a relationship or whatever the two of them would be.

Jay, meanwhile, waited for that to be the situation and chuckled "As long's you're both comfortable with it." He put an arm around Reds waist as he spoke.

She smiles at the kiss to her cheek and leans into both of them, especially when Jay wraps an arm around her waist. "I'm comfortable with it. What about you, Ronny? You okay with it being the three of us against the world?" Her tone is teasing but he'd know what she meant. Was he okay with the three of them being a trio, in a relationship with one another. "I'll have to find something of yours too because I've got Jay's hoodie."

Ronny gave a small smile and nodded "I'm okay with it, yes." He blinked, though, trying to think of what she could possibly grab. "We can go back to my apartment and look for something there?" It was an innocent idea, honestly. Nevermind Jay let a bit of a huff of a laugh because of implications most guys would have with 'Well we could go back to my place'.

Red tries not to laugh when Ronny suddenly says something about going back to his place. "We could do that. Besides, we have to make sure that the bitch gets her things out anyway. Besides, it'll give us a place where we can sit and curl up properly together. Maybe even watch a movie." Whether or not it actually got watched or not was a whole other story.

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