Disclaimer: I don't own Alice or it's characters. I only own the plot and the OCs. If I did own Alice, Hatter would be currently tied up in my basement while I had some fun ;)
"Becoming Alice"
Prologue
It happened out of the blue. One minute Elaine was laughing and chatting with her older and younger sisters in the kitchen, the next, white hot agony erupted in the left side of her chest. It was so sudden and unexpected that a surprised cry escaped her lips as she fell to her knees. She heard a scream and maniacal laugher, but it seemed to come from a great distance. Elaine looked down and saw a steak knife sticking out from between her ribs. "Where did that come from?" came the foggy thought. Next she looked up. Tony was screaming and Amber was laughing. "What's so funny? I want to know the joke." That was the last thought Elaine had before she slumped to floor.
After that, time became disjointed and seemed to lapse. The world around Elaine looked as if it was on fast forward yet she was stuck in slow motion. Her brain couldn't keep up. She saw her father and mother rush into the room and stop in shock; the dog snarled and then her father practically tackled Amber. Elaine's mother was frantic and shouting hysterically into the phone. And the whole time Tony wouldn't stop crying and panicking. Time slipped and then Elaine was being loaded into an ambulance. She looked at the paramedic and vaguely recognized him. She thought she may have possibly gone to school with him, Charlie or Chris, something like that. It was getting harder to think. She couldn't breathe. "Why can't I breathe? Why does it hurt so much?" her panicked mind screamed.
The paramedic leaned over Elaine and said something to her but she didn't understand. He must have seen the confusion in her eyes because he repeated it again, more slowly.
"Elaine, its Chris, I need you to try to and slow your breathing down. You're panicking and it is not helping your lungs or your heart."
But with the white hot fire originating from her chest and racing through her veins, she couldn't calm down and black started to appear at the edges of her vision. She knew she couldn't hold on much longer; her chest was too tight and she couldn't pull enough air into her lungs. With her vision blacked out and unconsciousness just seconds away, Elaine managed to choke out what very well may be her last words ever spoken again.
"… S'rry … … hurts too much … G'bye …" and she slipped into the black void.