DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Alice In Wonderland characters, this is merely a work born from imagination based on the original story.

Nightmare

- "There was a white rabbit..." - Alice whispers slowly to herself recalling all her experiences in wonderland, they were still stuck in her head. She was the first one that ever got out of Wonderland, the only one that didn't gave herself in, Wonderland kept roaming in her mind for a very long time, never forgot, never forgave, she never really wanted to stay, but her morals got in the way, Alice saw in Wonderland what "was wrong", or what she was taught as wrong, Alice loved Wonderland, but as a quiet lover, it was a romance that she kept hidden, Wonderland and her were together only in her dreams and since she couldn't share with anyone, she wrote her twisted fantasies down.

- "EAT ME... and...DRINK ME as I recall" - Alice remembered this simple sentences, how it all started, simple sentences that commanded actions that led to madness. For quite a while, Alice had been dreaming of Wonderland, some were good dreams, some were complete nightmares, but deep inside she even loved those, dreaming of her wonderland was more than enough.

Alice tried to keep on living her life as if nothing had happened, as if she has never been, nor visited Wonderland; but it is hard when you go to the perfect place and then a nightmare of something that looks like you invade your dreams, you tend to want to keep your distance.

But to this day, she was obsessed with Wonderland, she wanted it for herself, but she could only have it in her dreams. In the end, it was Wonderland, she dreamt about it constantly, she craved it but at the same time, feared it, she feared what she kept dreaming of, what she felt while dreaming.

The journals she kept of every dream she had were her way of trying to hold on to the fantasy she believed to be Wonderland; the way she wrote was so detailed and amazing, she could even write the way flowers smell or the sweetness of the jam or how bitterness of the tea. Every time she read this she got excited, she got the same thrill she felt when she dreamt it.

But not all dreams were pretty and nice, some were bloody and mysterious, some were simply dark and some were complete nightmares.

At first, she ignored them, but she started noticing that they were more and more common, so she started writing this nightmares on a separate journal, they were the dark and twisted, the ones she named "Dark Wonderland". In these nightmares, she noticed the constant reappearance of a dark girl.

She scared her because of her looks, at first she just saw the silhouette of a girl in a dress like hers, but in a deep-ish, blood-ish shade of red, little by little, she started seeing more and more about this dark figure, she was amazed by the resemblance she had to her, the only difference being that she had darker hair and deeper blue eyes, everything was the opposite to Alice, darker and scarier, she was one girl that could be described as the kind of person that when she saw you, you would feel the compelling need to walk away as if she had murder written on her eyes, and psychosis on her smile. Whenever she dreamt about this dark figure, Alice always showed up near her, but never actually knew if she could see her or talk to her.

One night, while dreaming Alice gather up courage in her dream, and walked towards the girl, standing next to her and said in a shy but firm voice:

'Who are you?' - she asked shyly - 'you look so much like me.'- Alice said and immediately felt a shiver up her spine as the girl turned to her, slowly showing her face in all her glory, a pale skin with rosy cheeks, darker hair and full red lips, deep blue eyes, she was almost surreal. To Alice, she looked like a porcelain doll, one of those you could buy on an antiques store, almost too fragile to even touch, with a firm gaze. The girl slowly opened her mouth and with a soft, yet deranged, tone she whispered something that Alice could not hear, because suddenly everything around her disappeared, she could hear nothing but the girl in front of her, she was the only thing she could see and listen to.

She woke up, and to this day, the thought of what she heard haunts her. Alice never wrote it down, she shivered as soon as she remembered, at first she ignored it and pretended she didn't even had the dream, but the dream kept coming back; so one day she finally wrote it down, and that is when she remembered, even after all this time she still remembers the answer and it's still written in her journal, she remembers how the girl in front of her looked into her eyes firmly, she started approaching little by little to Alice grabbing her by the chin, pulling her face closer to hers, brushing her lips against hers, the taste of blood on her lips and the smell of murder all over this sweet deranged figure and just as she remembers, when Alice was close enough, the girl whispered:

'Look around you... This is wonderland, Our Wonderland, what we have created, don't you remember? I am darkness and light, I am your beginning and your end, I am you as you are me, I am the one known as Dark Alice, I am you." Alice began to cry, what did she meant by "Our Wonderland"? Who was Dark Alice really? Was it really her? all these questions roamed in her head, even now.