A/N: I don't own the rights to any of the 'Alice in Wonderland' media. Hopefully you're all familiar with the 'American Mcgee's Alice', so this little drabble makes sense. Enjoy...
Waking up in a cold sweat, breathing heavily, Alice was sure she could still smell the sharp, acrid stench of smoke in her nostrils. It had been some years since that fateful night her parents
had perished in an uncontrollable house fire, yet she still found herself tormented by nightmares. The memories were so vivid, even now, and the pain of guilt was persistent. Why had she
survived? If only she hadn't been so caught up in her ridiculous fantasies of taking tea with all her Wonderland friends, she would have surely noticed the billowing smoke that had begun to
consume her childhood home. Now she had no one.