For the ones who found friends as crazy as them.
For A and M -you're the maddest people I know
Disclaimer : I don't own Alice or Dorothy or their universes.
Fandoms : Alice in Wonderland/Wizard of Oz
Words : 600+
Genre : Tragedy ? If you have any other suggestion...
Main characters : Alice and Dorothy
Dream's asylum
"Hello Alice."
No answer. Alice never spoke, except for the doctor.
The teenager was looking at the barred window.
She was lovely : big blue eyes, a curled blond hair and a soft round face, very baby-like.
"The doctor wants to see you. Come on."
The young girl stood up and took the nurse's hand. They left the small bedroom and followed a narrow corridor, leading to a door. The lady knocked at the door twice.
"You can come in." someone shouted.
Alice pushed the door, and the nurse left her. A man was sitting at his desk, a brown haired girl was settled in a chair next to him.
She, as Alice, was silent.
"Alice, dear. Take a seat. As you see, we're not alone today. Dorothy, say hi to our lovely friend." a man in his mid-forties smiled at her.
"Hi." the girl mumbled awkwardly.
Alice doesn't reply. Alice only replied to the doctor, and she was obviously not the doctor.
"Alice, may I ask if you do the same dream again ?" the man bent forward is desk.
"It's not a dream, Doctor. It's true." young Alice snapped at him, reproachfully.
"Sorry, dear. Tell me about it again, please." the doctor's voice sweetened.
"Well, it always begin with the white rabbit. He's late, you know, to see the Queen. I follow him and... After, I don't remember well. There was that huge blue caterpillar, smoking, and... Yeah, speaking flowers, that's it. And also a bench of strange people drinking tea. Er... There was a strange cat, from Derbyshire. No, Cheshire, I reckon. Do I already speak of the cards ? The cards are the Queen's slaves or sort of. She's really heartless. The Queen, I mean. She wanted to cut off my head ! My head, do you realize ?" Alice started babbling.
"Some details... As always... And those cards... That's new." the doctor grumbled, taking notes.
Alice stopped speaking.
"Dorothy, what about your adventure ?" the doctor sighted.
"I live in Kansas. One day, there was a tornado, and my dog and I were brought to a strange country. There, I tried to go home. With a scarecrow who lacked of brains, a Tin Woodman without heart and a coward lion, I met the great Wizard of Oz. Unfortunately, he was an usurper, and can't bring me home. We've walked miles and miles to meet him, two witches tried to kill us and steal me a gift from a good witch. At the end, I come home safely. But nobody wants to believe me !"
The doctor looked harassed. And they were only his first patients for this afternoon.
"I believe you Dorothy. You too, doctor, don't you ? He's the only one who believes my story, you know. All the others think I'm mad, but not him. He's the best doctor ever." Alice whispered with gleaming eyes.
Alice took Dorothy's small hand and smiled to the poor man facing her.
It was a start. At least, Alice accepted to speak and acted friendly with other people than him, in the end. As long as they were as mad as her.
The doctor left the room and met the nurse waiting for him in the corridor.
"Same case, same treatment." he sighted, shaking his head hopelessly.
The lady nodded.
"Any other mythomaniacs this afternoon ? I'm done, they are running me mad."
"Not that I know of. Always the same stories ?"
"Yeah. Someone could write a book with all the details they feed me with. A strange, mad story."