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She had to leave. It was in the cards from the beginning. She didn’t belong in a place like Wonderland, and he wouldn’t condemn her to that life.
Still, when they stood there by the mirror and Alice hugged him one last time, Hatter knew he would love to beg her to stay.
She probably didn’t even realise she was taking the larger part of his heart along with her when she left.
If this was what love felt like, Hatter wondered if he wouldn’t have been better off without, but to have never had met Alice would’ve been worse.