Alice groaned as she tumbled over the rough ground until her back was against a tree. A very familiar tree. She realized that this tree was so familiar because it was, in fact, the tree in her backyard in London.
Alice stood and looked around, brushing dirt from her dress, until she spotted a tall, white haired man with rabbit ears.
"What in the bloody hell have you done, Peter!? You can't just kidnap me like that. Again!" She yelled.
Peter looked at her blandly. "It's for your own good, Alice. You just don't belong in Wonderland. I'm terribly sorry I ever disrupted your life by bringing you here. It was a mistake, driven by my love for you," Peter stepped toward the large hole that remained in the ground, "but I was blinded. So now you can continue your life normally, and forget about Wonderland." He looked away.
"But Peter I don't want normal. I want adventure, to wonder what each new day will bring. I don't want this life, where everyday is the same. And I," Alice looked away, blushing, "I need Blood. Is that why you really brought me here? Because you're jealous of him?"
Peter stiffened and said sharply, "Enough of this Alice! You can't love him. And even if you really do, you'll never see him again after I leave. The only way into Wonderland is to be brought there by a roleholder. So, Alice, this is goodbye for good. I'll give your regards to Blood."
With that, Peter stepped over the ledge and dropped into the rabbit hole. Alice lunged, and hit the hard ground just as the hole closed up. Trapping her in the real world.
Alice dropped to her knees, her fisted hands pressed into her eyes. Tears streamed down her face, tears for her friends,whom she missed already, and for her bed in her room at the Hatter's Mansion. And... him.
His pitch black hair and his sarcastic smile. His top hat and his way of making her smile without trying. The way he kissed her. All of her memories of him rolled through her mild like an avalanche, pounding her brain and making the tears stream faster.
"That damned rabbit!" she sobbed.
She didn't know how long she sat there, sobbing. Only when she heard the rustling of skirts on the dry grass did she look up. There stood her two sisters, staring wide-eyed at her.
"Lorina...? Emma..?" Alice asked, sniffling.
"ALICE!" they screamed, delicately throwing themselves at her.
"Oh, Alice, where have you been? We've missed you so much!" cried Loretta.
"I've been... in the most fantastic place." said Alice.
"Oh mother and father will be ecstatic to find out you're back!" said Emma.
Lorina picked herself up off the ground and brushed herself off. "Yes, let us go back! What great fortune has befallen us!"
Alice fidgeted in her seat and forced herself not to scratch her arms encased in the itchy fabric of her new dress.
"Alice, sit up straight!" snapped her mother.
Alice complied, glaring at her mother.
"Oh don't give me that. You've brought this on yourself." her mother said.
The carriage pulled to a stop in front of the Bethridge Insane Asylum. A fat, bald man hobbled over to the carriage, offering his hand to Alice. She ignored it and stepped out onto the cobbled stone road. She, in fact, ignored everyone on her way into the building, as well as on the trip to her room, and any questions the doctors asked her.
Alice couldn't believe that her sisters had betrayed her.
She told them everything, all of her adventures in Wonderland, about the Queen of Hearts, and Ace, and Peter. She finally, tearfully, told them about her boyfriend, Blood Dupre.
And although they seemingly believed her at first, here she was, in an insane asylum.
Doctor Willingston walked into her small, damp room, and approached her. She sat on a cot, her head down, staring at the grimy floor.
"Now Alice, I would like you to answer these questions truthfully, as they will help my deciding what procedures you should have. Now, where have you been all these years?"
"I've been in Wonderland."
"Alright. Now this 'Wonderland'. Is this a real place, or a make believe place?"
"It's as real as you and me."
"Good good. Now, who is Blood Dupre?"
"Blood..." Alice whispered.
"What's that dear?"
"He's my boyfriend."
"See now that wasn't to hard. Now I know just how to fix you."
"What?" Alice asked,"I'm not crazy! There is nothing wrong with me, nothing to fix!" Alice, for the first time since arriving at the asylum that morning, was afraid.
She had heard the rumors about this place. About the screams that echoed through the halls. She had heard about how the patients were rarely seen again, and the ones that were released were never quite the same.
"You, Alice Liddell, have thought up an imaginary 'Wonderland' with imaginary characters, who happen to be almost all male, to satisfy your need for attention. You are the middle child, so it's not unheard of. But to go as far as claiming that you are in a committed relationship with one of these figments- a mafia boss for Christ's sake- is absolutely unacceptable," he said looking her over.
Alice jumped up from her cot. "But it was real! It IS real! I didn't make it all up. Blood is probably making a rescue plan right now. He WILL come for me, and you WILL see that he IS real!" Alice shouted.
"ENOUGH!" boomed Doctor Willingston. "This foolishness stops now!" He grabbed her by the arm and dragged her out of the room. They stopped at a door with a sign on it which read 'blood letting'.
Alice began to struggle against the large hand wrapped around her wrist as her captor began unlocking the door. The doctor turned around and swiftly slapped her across the face.
He yanked her into the room and slung her on a cold metal table. There were already other doctors in the room. They strapped her down and injected her with liquid sliding through her veins like ice.
Alice couldn't move, but she was fully conscious as the scalpel was drawn down her arm.