Here is the second chapter. Hopefully you will also recognize these characters.
Capter 2; In Your head
Somewhere in the base level where the inmates reside there also was a room that had a young girl in it. She only seemed to be at the age of 11, making her one of the youngest patients. She has long blonde thick hair which she ties in a black bow. She wears a blue dress with a white pinafore, along with white tights and Mary Jane shoes, this girl was known as Alice Liddell.
She was lying on her bed but wasn't asleep, which was weird since she had big bags under her eyes, though she kept her eyes wide open. She stared at the ceiling, trying to think about nothing. Alice never closed her eyes for a long time, and avoided sleeping. Why? No one really knows.
"You should get some sleep dear." a voice said out of the room. Alice sat straight up in her bed and saw the Mad Hatter standing in the corner of her room. Alice rubbed her eyes and the Mad Hatter was gone. She quickly stood up and went to the mirror in her room where she started to brush her hair. In the reflection of the mirror she luckily didn't see any people. Alice laid her brush down and stared at the mirror, her finger slowly reached out for the mirror, and almost reached the glass of the mirror.
"You sure?" the voice startled Alice who immediately turned around. "You really want to go there?" the Mad Hatter said. As Alice remembered he wore a big green hat with a card saying 10/6 on it, a green jacket, a black shirt with a ribbon and trousers. His gray hair could be seen underneath his hat.
"Why are you still here? I want you out of my mind, all of you!" Alice said angry. She blinked with her eyes and the Mad Hatter was gone. Someone knocked on the door of Alice's room and the sound startled her but realized it was only the door.
"Come in." Alice said in response to the knocking. Humpty Dumpty opened the door and stepped inside, closing the door behind him.
"So child, how are you doing today?" Humpty asked and sat down on Alice's bed.
"I've been doing… well." she answered.
"Did you see anything today already or…"
"Unfortunately I already saw someone today. And he also spoke to me, I could see him very clear. He was in the room."
"Can you tell me who it was?" Humpty asked concerned.
"Mad Hatter." Alice said abruptly.
Humpty sighed. "You want to go along to the cafeteria with me?" Humpty asked and stood up. He held his hand out to Alice to take her with him.
"I will come soon, you go ahead already." Alice said.
"Just alert the security to unlock your door so you can go to the cafeteria when you're ready, okay? I will say that you can walk alone." Humpty smiled and left the room. After a minute or two Alice stood up and asked the security if she could go to the cafeteria. Alice left her room and walked through the corridors of the inmate wards. Suddenly she saw something hopping away behind the corner.
"You don't say…" Alice mumbled and followed the thing. She turned around the corner and saw a white rabbit wearing an uniform holding a big clock in his paws. He hopped further and Alice chased it, she followed him for a few meters but then lost him when she entered the cafeteria.
"Alice!" Humpty Dumpty waved with his arm and motioned Alice to sit next to him.
"Humpty, I have a question." Alice asked after she sat down on her chair, while Humpty was drinking a fresh glass of milk.
"What is it my dear?" Humpty smiled after he put his glass with milk back on the table. "You didn't see anyone again, did you?"
"Well, yes. But that aside, why do I have the luxury to walk alone and to have a better chamber than other patients?"
"Wait, you saw someone again? Was it the Mad Hatter again?"
"Can't you answer my question first?" Alice asked.
"I will tell you when you answer my question first, I promise." Alice looked slightly annoyed but obeyed him.
"It was the White Rabbit, he hopped away from me but I lost track of him during my chase."
"You followed him!?" Humpty asked surprised.
"You would answer my question first, you promised."
"Okay then." Humpty sighed. "The reason behind it is because you are my favorite." Alice looked confused, but didn't want to continue about it. "And now my second question, why did you chase him?"
"Be-Because… I… I actually don't really know. I was wondering if he was real or not. Lately all the persons I see, seem to be real."
"What do you mean?"
"All the people I've met in my dream seem to become real persons. They try to interact with me... I don't like it, but on the other hand I want to speak with them again too."
"Alice, stop saying such nonsense, there is no way they are real. It's all in your head." Humpty tried to comfort her.
"I guess." Alice sighed.
"I think I'm going back to my office, still have to do a lot of paperwork. I advise you to go back to your chamber too." Humpty said as he took a last gulp from his milk and left the cafeteria. Alice followed his instructions and went back to her room.
Humpty Dumpty was walking in a high pace through the corridors of the Control Tower until he arrived at the elevator. He took it to the ninth floor and entered his office. There he sat down in his round chair and then stood up again, anger appeared on his face.
"No! I must stop this, those people have to stay where they belong, in Alice's mind." Humpty almost boiled from anger, he slammed his hand on the table. "Rumplestiltskin!" Humpy shouted and after a brief moment the little man arrived.
"Problem, Mr. President? Is there something wrong with a resident?" he asked. Humpty took a piece of paper and wrote something on it. He afterwards gave it to Rumplestiltskin. "Be sure Dr. Know-All gets this letter, it's very important."
"Will be done sir." Rumple ran out of the room. Humpty calmed down a bit and sat back in his chair.
"Calm down Humpty, it will be alright."
Red Riding Hood was walking along with two security guards and Iggy through the corridors of Wing B, where the solitary confinements were located.
"Where am I going?" Red asked Iggy. She and Iggy had been very close, since they both felt a connection with each other, Iggy knew about Red's encounter with the Big Bad Wolf and thought it might be because of that. Iggy however survived along with his brothers and decided to help others in the institute.
"I'm afraid you have to go into a solitary confinement. After your last session Professor Cricket recommended that you had to stay in this room for a while." Iggy said and saw the sad face of Red.
"But look on the bright side. You don't have to wear a straitjacket and you don't have to do a session for a little while." Iggy tried to cheer her up, Red only smiled but quickly her face became emotionless again.
The security placed Red in her new room and Iggy stayed there with her for a little while. After they talked for some time, Iggy left and passed the chamber of another patient, Tom Thumb. Tom had been here for some time. Upon his apprehension by the faculty of Ever After, he was subject to various experiments to determine the nature of his bizarre connection with his shoes. Tom claims that his boots berated him and told him to do things sparked interest in the higher tiers of the faculty. Despite their best efforts, they were unable to remove them from his feet, figure out where in the world Tom's real feet went, and never determined whether or not the boots were sentient.
Tom was locked away in a solitary confinement and was equipped with a straitjacket. He sat alone in his cell with no one to talk to and nothing to do. He would spent most of his time, actually doing nothing.
"Geez, there's just nothing to do in this crap hole." Tom complained and scratched his head with his boots.
"How the hell can I break out? I can't use my arms and you two are also useless." Tom said, apparently to his boots. "Yeah I also heard that, but there's no way she can hear me from here." Tom was silent and then sighed. "Okay I will try it."
"Hey! New girl!" Tom shouted as hard as he could. After a few moments of silence Tom laid on the ground. "See, it's useless. She can't hear me." Tom's head leaned against the wall now and then heard a voice.
"Yes I can." a girl's voice said. Tom was surprised someone could hear him and put his ear against the wall.
"You really can hear me?" he asked.
"That's what I just said, dumbass."
"Yeah." Tom was happy to finally being able to speak with someone else. "So what have you done to get in her?" Tom asked curiously.
"Nothing."
"What do you mean, 'nothing'?"
"Cricket put me here to rest for some time. I'm also not wearing a straitjacket like you."
"I see." Tom got bored already from the conversation.
"And what's your deal?" Red asked.
"Well I stole some boots from a giant that became attached to me. They're telling me to do things and of course I obeyed, unconsciously. And because of my bad behavior, killing people and stuff, my parents put me here and for some reason the facility put me in here." Tom said like it was nothing
"Okay, that doesn't seem very traumatizing."
"You've experienced something worse then?"
"I think I did, that must be why my mother has sent me here. I don't remember what happened, I don't even remember what happened the last couple of years." Red said with a bit of sadness in her voice, like she really wanted to know what happened.
"Ow…" Tom could only say, he then heard some footsteps in the hallway and knew exactly who it was.
"Good midday Tom, who's your new friend." a deep voice asked.
"Hello Gijs. This is…" Tom stopped because he hadn't asked her name yet.
"Call me Red." she said.
"Well, hello then Red. My name is Hollow Bulging Gijs, but people just call me Gijs. I'm a janitor of the B Wing." he introduced himself.
"But I think you two should keep it some more down. Your voices can be heard through the hallways." Gijs said.
"Okay, I was just planning to take a long nap." Tom yawned.
"I guess I also will take a nap. It's not like I have anything else to do." Red said, she laid down on her bed and fell in sleep. Tom laid down on the soft floor and did the same. Gijs continued mopping the hallways.
===Patient Confidential Incident Form===
Therapist: Professor Jiminy Cricket
Patient: Alice Liddell
ID: Wing A – Cell 103
Date and Time: 31/25/203 12:25 – 12:45
Incident: During my session with Alice I noticed she was drifting off and would be focused on a whole other thing. I asked Alice why she wouldn't go to sleep but got a really vague answer. All of Alice's answers were vague, since she said it like it was some kind of riddle. What I finally managed to get out of her was why she was constantly drifting away, she said because of the people in the room. This answer shocked me and I asked who they were. I got the answer that they were residents of Wonderland. I imagined that she must have her own imaginary world. I had no further questions and brought her back to her room. She didn't come out of her room the rest of the day.
Analyses: I conclude that Alice must have been experiencing bad nightmares, which caused that she wouldn't go to sleep anymore. What this 'Wonderland' exactly is, is unknown to me but it might be her own imaginary world.
Precautions: None to date.
-pr. J. Cricket
Humpty sighed and put the incident form back into his drawer. He took his hand out of the drawer and held a picture of Alice standing in a grass field with an egg in her hands. Humpty Dumpty put his arms on the table and supported his head as he looked down on his desk to the picture.
Alice was brushing her hair while looking into the mirror. Luckily she didn't see anything in the reflection and also didn't hear any voices. After she brushed her hair for some time she put the brush down and sat on her bed.
"I'm actually getting very… sleepy." Alice thought and blinked slowly.
"C'mon little girl. You know you want it, just go to sleep." a woman voice said. Alice eyes widened again and she looked forwards but saw no one. But then she felt a hand on her shoulder which startled her.
"It's okay." the woman said, Alice looked behind her and saw an elder lady. She wore a veil covering her hair and most of her head, her dress is a pale with a pink design by her waist, a pink corset top around her chest, and the dress is down to her ankles. Her nose is pointed and her eyes are covered by blue eye shadow.
"Duchess…" Alice blinked again but she didn't disappeared.
"Don't freak out my dear. I mean you no harm, relax." Duchess comforted her.
"What are you going to do to me? I don't want to go back, I want to stay here."
"You still don't understand, do you?"
"Just go away!" Alice shouted. After finishing her sentence she looked around and didn't see the Duchess anymore.
"I think that I'm close to really going insane." Alice said and walked circles through her room. "First I saw the Mad Hatter followed by the White Rabbit and now The Duchess appeared, who is coming next?" Alice eyes widened even more. "What if the Red Queen comes… No, stay positive, just relax and don't fall asleep." Alice told herself. She laid down on her bed and stared to the ceiling again.
At the same time Iggy was walking through the corridors along with Rumplestiltskin. They passed the room of Alice and Rumple stood still.
"What a beautiful girl, isn't she?" Rumple said with a smile on his face, as he looked to the young girl.
"Rumple, you shouldn't get a crush on a patient." Iggy advised.
"She reminds me of someone, a girl that needed my help a long time ago. I helped her to get her baby, to have my own princess, but I failed." Rumple sounded sad at the end of his sentence.
"Please Rumple, don't bring any memories back. I also don't talk about my past either." Iggy said. "Now, let's continue. We have to bring medicine to the patients, else Dr. Know-All will get angry at us again."
"That's true." Rumple said and followed Iggy.
"Tom wake up… wake up Tom." Gijs woke Tom up after his long nap and entered the cell of Tom. "Dinner is ready, can I come in."
"What kind of stew have they come up with today?" Tom asked and chuckled a bit.
"Well, it's actually very good today. Spaghetti with meatballs and tomato sauce, I've already ate five plates of those." Gijs laughed.
"Your diet won't work if you keep eating everything like it's nothing."
"Ha, I know I won't become thinner but I can prevent myself from becoming fatter."
"Yeah. Well, give me that plate!" Tom said and grabbed the plate with his feet.
"Good luck with it. I think the girl next to you must be hungry too." Gijs said and closed the door behind him as he left.
Tom ate his plate and actually liked it for once. Mostly the meals tasted very awful and sometimes you could not even make out what it was. Occasionally a good meal would come by and that always pleased Tom. Tom finished his dinner and shoved the plate away with his feet. Suddenly his boot bit in the plate and faced Tom.
"How the hell can I break out with only a plastic plate?" Tom said angrily.
"That's impossible, and besides, maybe I want to stay here."
"I'm not staying here forever, you think these people would do that. They only are trying to help me get you off my feet."
"Yeah right. Maybe you just should stop talking and let me make my own decisions. It's better for both of us."
Tom stood up and kicked against the wall in an attempt to hurt his shoes, but it didn't seem to work.
"Forget it." Tom plumped down on the floor and continued his nap.
…
"You'll never get rid of me."
That was it, expect the next chapter soon.