moved ! ( because legacy post! ) || @senzafili
♡♠♢♣ ⁀ His strange eyes jitter back and forth, back and forth, vibrate in place as they try to force still, glance at the rose, down at his tea, up at her tea, away from her eyes. But that's fine, that's fine, the Hatter often avoided eye contact. For multiple reasons.
He nods at their words, mouth gaping just slightly as though on the verge of needing to speak but never quite does, clearly very animated by their every word with how he frowned at the sad words and smiled at the words he liked to hear. The mere mention of not having any dreams they'd like to remember strikes like a dagger through his chest at first. All of his better judgement was unravelling, every waking thought of conspiracy, paranoid delusion seeping in. Every thing said, everything done, done in deliberate intent to harm. He was hurt-- SO hurt they chose to forget him. Then a pouting, pitying forgiveness granting sympathy at their mention of a hard world. They were perfect, they were helpless, something beautiful this world wanted to destroy-- just like all beautiful things! Up and down, up and down! Do they know they're pulling him asunder with every sentence? They must know, he decided, they must realize what they're doing to his heart, playing this endless game!
" But that isn't TRUE! " Abruptly the words tear from his mouth, the scrape of his chair against the ground as he stands, though he half laughs the words in just the way one does when they realize they sound mad. A hand goes to his head, impatiently flicking away the loose dark bangs that fell over his eye. " Y-you've had dreams ever since you were a little girl-- of course you have! Haven't you? E-even if you can't remember them, you must have, surely! " He's forgetting. Forgetting who she is-- what she even is for that matter-- the only answer he can stand to hear is who she is supposed to be. A human girl that once dreamed him up. Every slight deviation from that story in his mind caused painful aches, torture to his nerves. And the flowers, the flowers were beginning to make accusations he was desperate to prove wrong.
" Please... my silly girl, I beg you... haven't you any idea how long we have been playing this game? " It was obvious now that Tetch was unwell even despite his desperation to cling to some semblance of composure, appearing somewhere between frightened and furious with the other, never quite certain which to feel but feeling it all so intensely. " I've played pretend, acted like just a new friend, but now the fun and games MUST end! I know who you are...There must be some part of you that still remembers! "