Hearts and Diamonds: The Genesis of the Mad Hatter

Hearts and Diamonds: The Genesis of the Mad Hatter

Date Started: July 24th, 2021 ---- Date Finished: st, 2021 ---- Setting: East Blue Characters Involved: Fedora C. John Fitzroy K. Alice Synopsis:

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Do You Remember?

It was the evening in the seas, and the waves were smooth for the The Rabbit Hole, the ship of the Mad Pirates. It was only a day that quickly went by for the crew as mainly Captain Fedora C. John was being trained by his sensei, Grimm Jacob. John was seen entering his bedroom, which Alice was seen sitting on the bed brushing her hair. The bedroom had a very homey feel for it being a room in a pirate ship. The walls were painted of a cream white that was on every slab of wood. There was a nice little fireplace on the left of the door, which stones protected the wood from the fire in that area. The bed in the center of the room was a royal king sized bed with soft wooden paint surrounding the frame. White bed curtains fell from the ceiling as it covered the white bedsheets and the blankets.

Alice turned around while brushing her hair and sees John entering, "Hey John, finished with your training for today?"

"Indeed." John replies placing his hat and jacket on the coat rack on his right. "The training only gets tougher and tougher."

"I thought with the sound of it, you guys were going to tear a hole in the ship." Alice replies as she was still combing her hair.

"Heh, You know we wouldn't even if we could." John says as he walks over to Alice and kisses her in the cheek. He then sits down on the bed and soon takes off his shirt. He then leans on Alice as Alice put her arm around John's shoulders and pulled him into her side.

Like a mother caressing her child, Alice was caressing John as she tried to brush her own hair. Alice then looks over and sees John's long black hair being a bit frizzy, "Move your back toward me, your hair needs brushed." She then stops brushing her hair and starts brushing John's hair.

John had his back toward Alice as she kept brushing his hair, he was looking at the small white dresser in front of him. On the dresser was a mirror for Alice and different picture frames of different people. John was looking through the picture frames as he looked and saw different memories of his past. One was a picture of him with his hat for the first time, another was him capturing a fish, another was with him and another boy. There were also plenty of pictures of the couple from their earliest childhood to now. John smiled as he grabbed a picture of himself as a baby and held it for a moment.

"Thinking about home?" Alice asks John as she brushed John's hair straight.

"In a way." John answers as he looked at the picture, "I'm just thinking about the times there and how I was raised."

"It wasn't all sunshine and roses right." Alice asks as she finished and pulled John right into her chest, John not minding it and still looking at the photo.

"Indeed it wasn't." John replies, "You remember how I was born? Born with dwarfism?"

"Like I'll ever forget that little dwarven you." Alice teased as she held the photo as well, "Even still...that was a long time ago."

The Mad Hatter's birth

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A Long Time Ago

It is a cold and long night as it is October 26 of 1503, it has been a cold night and it is toward midnight as there was the sound of a woman panting and screaming while in labor. Nurses were in the bedroom while a doctor was watching the birth take place. A man with dark brown hair and glasses was sitting in the living room in front of the warm fireplace. The man's eyes staring at the fire as the screams were heard in the background. The sound of his nails being chomped by his teeth as the man was nervous for a healthy childbirth.

Upon 11:45 pm of the night, the doctor was seen with 2 pipes in his hands and smiling at the man.

"Congratulations Mr. Fedora C. Henry." The Doctor responds, "The boy came out healthy." And he hands out a pipe to the man, who graciously takes the pipe and smiles.

"Thank you!" Henry responds with a wide smile and puts the pipe in his mouth and then immediately throws the pipe onto the table, "I must see the boy!" He gets up and runs to the room.

"But sir! Your wife is trying to recuperate! And there's a slight issue I haven't told you yet!" The doctor says but was ignored by Henry as he ran into the bedroom.

The bedroom was only but a simple room, as this couple weren't of the higher classes. The walls were made of stone and there were only a wooden bed and a few chairs and dressers scattered, and there was a bit of a soft rug at the side of the beds of which they could afford. Laying on the bed was a woman with black hair and was resting after the recent labor.

Henry was seen walking over and kneeling to the bed to see his wife's face, "Where's the baby Anna?"

Anna, the wife, responds by pulling her blankets off and giving her hand to Henry's, and she reveals the baby boy that was literally in the palm of her hand, sleeping soundly in her palm with only a napkin around him.

Henry's eyes couldn't believe it, seeing a boy that is such small, "This isn't real right?" He then gives a smile before seeing tears in his wife's eyes.

"He has dwarfism Henry." Anna cries as Henry just knelt there and looked at the baby that is in his wife's palms. Henry leans in and hugs his wife graciously as he too cried in solemn of what they were given. And as they cried, the baby decides to cry as well hearing the sounds of his parents crying.

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In the Morning

"You should have that baby killed." The doctor was speaking to Henry and Anna at the kitchen as baby John was seen sleeping in the bedroom of the couple. "There is no way that baby is going to last the winter or even the year."

"And who says so?!" Anna shouting at the doctor, "We may not have much but I'll take care of that boy if it costs my whole salary as a baker!"

"Why should we kill the boy?" Henry asks calmly, showing the difference between him and his wife's stance.

"The boy carries dwarfism, a rare condition in this world, even for an adult." The doctor responds, "Dwarf kids are known to die before they're even 10 years old. They'll shrivel up one day and die. And besides that, that kid is going to get poked on for being very small, you don't want a kid that'll be having a rough childhood."

"Doctor, I'm going to have to ask you to leave." Henry responds immediately after the doctor made his statement, "I don't think what you're saying is very "doctorly". Cause not giving a baby a chance to live is very unethical in our eyes, man deciding who lives and who dies by their hand is pretty immoral, especially cause the kid is going to be different from the rest."

"Which, doctor, may I add from my husband, I believe that my child will be different from the rest aside from being born with dwarfism. He will be a boy that will have an impact on the world despite of who he was, he may be the kid that no one pays attention to, but that boy has something in him that I feel will be impactful!" She then points to the baby boy sleeping, "That boy's name is John because he is a gracious gift from God! And I am honored to be taking cared of such a gift by God."

The doctor adjusts his glasses before standing up, "Find some other doctor, cause I ain't your doctor anymore. And if he dies before he's 10, don't blame anyone but your stubborn asses!" He then walks off and leaves the residence of Henry and Anna.

Henry looks over at Anna and then asks, "John? Why not a more special name?"

"I just like the sound of John." Anna responds, "Nothing wrong with that is it?"

"I guess not." Henry asks, "I just would've like to name him something ridiculous like Methuselah or Maher-shalal-hash-baz!" He laughs.

"Henry!" Anna pushes Henry as Henry went down on the floor laughing as baby John was asleep soundly, unknowing of what happpened.