Yeah I know, it's been a long time since I posted a chapter. But here is the next chapter of Ever After, more coming soon.

Ch 3, Royal Dinner

Footsteps could be heard as Rumplestiltskin walked through the corridors of Wing A. He was carrying a big bag that had greasy liquid dripping from the bottom of the bag on the floor. He eventually stopped in front of a cell and put the bag down on the ground and regained his breath.

He stood in front of a metal door that had a small sliding hatch. Rumplestiltskin opened it and looked inside where he saw a girl sitting on her bed. She had bleached hair in two pigtails with two yellow, candy-like bows on it and onix colored eyes. She wore a white lederhosen costume with green lines and two yellow cloths, and her belly was exposed.

"Good afternoon, Miss Gretel." Rumplestiltskin said.

"Morning Rumpled skin." Gretel said.

"It's feeding time again."

"Do you have some real meat today? You know sweet, juicy, soft meat."

"Yes… but it's from a cow."

"You always disappoint me, Rumple." Gretel said with a grumpy face. "If I keep getting that animal flesh, I might go insane and eat you, no matter how disgusting you are." she said with a small grin on her face.

"Well, you have to live with it. You're lucky we don't serve you tofu, that would really kill you." Rumple chuckled.

"You're not funny."

"Sorry, here you have your meat!" Rumple opened a panel in the door and shove the bag through it and quickly closed it again.

"I suppose it is better than nothing." Gretel said and started to eat the eyeball of the slaughtered cow. Rumplestiltskin walked away again.

Meanwhile in a cell, that was a block away from Gretel's, was a young boy. Like Gretel he wore lederhosen uniform only for males. His shirt was white while his lederhosen were green. He had silver hair and blue eyes and wore long brown stockings. He goes under the name of Hansel.

Hansel was just sitting on his bed and was silently mumbling a little song. Suddenly the door of his chamber opened and he saw Dr. Know-All standing in front of him along with some other guards.

"Are you ready for your next session, Mr. Hansel?" Dr. Know-All asked to the boy.

"I'm not really in the mood." Hansel mumbled very silent, which sounded if something horrible would happen. Although he already knew something terrible was going to happen.

"C'mon little guy." Dr. Know-All walked towards him and sat down next to him. "What if I'll walk along with you to the lock? Then we don't have to put you to sleep." He requested.

"Uhm…" Hansel didn't really know what to say. "I suppose that is possible, it's different than usual so…" Hansel said still mumbling like he did before.

"That's great!" Dr. Know-All smiled and tugged his big ears. He stood up and was shortly followed by Hansel. "But when we are picking up your sister, she does have to be put to sleep."

"I understand. My sister can be a bit… unpredictable."

"Weird isn't it? How twins can differ so much from each other."

"We also aren't identical twins, that's probably the cause of that."

"Yeah, I mean your sister is so much taller than you are and also has bleached hair instead of silver, like yours. And don't let me begin about the difference between your personalities." Dr. Know-All laughed as they walked through the corridors of the room.

Before they had left the chamber of Hansel, the soldiers attached a chain to his handcuffs, in case if he tried to flee.

"Why do we always have to wears the handcuffs but not always the chains, doctor?" Hansel asked.

"That makes it easier for us. If we wouldn't do that patients could escape much sooner. Some patients would do that, for example; we once had a patient who constantly would run away because the handcuffs didn't fit. We weren't able to catch him, and he probably left the island and went back to Grimmoire." Dr. Know-All told.

"Is that even possible, escaping from the island?!" Hansel asked now with much more interest than a few seconds ago.

"He did. But I don't think anyone will ever be able to do that again. He also was a Gingerbread Man, they are hard to catch."

Hansel looked a bit disappointed but they continued the conversation.

"So these handcuffs, is it possible to ever get them off?"

"Nope my boy. Only one person is able to do that, but she rarely comes to the island. Mostly she only comes to visit a dear patient of her."

"Who?"

"You don't know her, she resides in… another wing." Dr. Know-All told as they arrived at the cell of Gretel again. "You know the drill guys." Dr. Know-All said as one of the soldiers sprayed some gas into her chamber through the slide hatch, and went inside to get her.

Somewhere in the mental institute was also a block where light traumatized persons would reside. One of this persons was a royalty, going under the name of Prince Charming. A man with a long back story, never to be really traumatized but he did fell into a deep depression, and hasn't come out of it since. Although he did seem to make progress when a new employee started to work at the institute.

Prince Charming was sitting in his chamber. Like most chambers in his block it was decorated with furniture and had actually a good look. Unlike the chambers of patients with a more worse disorder.

"It's almost three o'clock, she should be here soon." Prince Charming said as he was watching the clock that was hanging on the wall. As a few minutes passed a young woman approached the chamber of Prince Charming.

The woman has brown hair which she lets down, but ties it back with a blue bow that matches her dress. She wears a white shirt, a white apron and black shoes. She always walked around with a kind smile. On the car she was controlling there were several medicines and a book of herself.

"Hello Charming." she said as she entered the cell of Prince Charming.

"Hello Beauty, you look beautiful today, just like always." Charming said to her.

"Oh, you flatter me. I just wear the same clothes as I always do." Beauty giggled.

"I see you have started reading a new book." Charming said and looked on the book lying on the cart.

"Yeah. I started reading it yesterday, and I like it so far."

"What is it about?"

"The story revolves around two siblings, the girl is sick so her brother goes on a quest to find a cure for it."

"That sounds like a good book indeed."

"But here's your medicine." Beauty picked up a pink bottle with an upside-down hear on it and handed it over to the prince. "I have a busy day today, so I should be going. If I have any time left I will visit you again, good?" Beauty asked.

"Great. Hopefully I will see you again later." Charming said as Beauty left the chamber. She waved and continued with her daily routine.

"She is so great." Charming said to himself. "If I just had the courage to ask her out for a date, or something like that. Or will it end up bad like all the other relations I had?" Charming sighed and looked to the ground.

Hansel and Dr. Know-All were standing inside of an elevator along with two other soldiers who were carrying Gretel in their arms.

"Are we almost there yet?" Hansel asked.

"Almost, just be a little more patient." Dr. Know-All smiled. The door of the elevator opened and they walked through a hallway where it was really dark. At the end of the hallway was a metal door.

"Is that the door we always get put in?" Hansel asked.

"Yes." Dr. Know-All stood still in front of the door and opened it with a rusty key. The door opened and made an annoying squeaky noise that would hurt the ears of a normal person. Hansel entered the room where he saw a big round door, the locker.

"What is going to happen now?" Hansel asked and looked around and saw a flamethrower and several other weapons hanging on the wall.

"You're going to sleep." Dr. Know-All smiled as some gas was sprayed in his face. He quickly blacked out and fell on the ground next to his sister.

After some time they woke up, now in some sort of trans. Hansel grabbed the flamethrower that was hanging on the wall and used it on the locker that melted down into a hot liquid. Hansel and Gretel walked out of the lock and saw the many soldiers and battle-nurses surrounding them. Hansel just stared into the distance when suddenly Gretel jumped out.

"I've been waiting for so long now, finally I can eat!" Gretel drooled and stormed at the army while Hansel followed her in a slow pace.

Gretel jumped on the men and women who were in front of her and ate the flesh from their bodies. There were many screams of everyone who greatly suffered from being eaten by the girl. Hansel on the other hand just blasted fire with the flamethrower and burnt all the people in his surroundings.

Meanwhile Dr. Know-All was watching the twins while they murdered all the people of his army. "That Gretel is a real killer, it will be hard to restore some of these soldiers. Maybe I even have to use plastic to fix them. That actually might be pretty funny." Dr. Know-All thought with the screaming people on the background.

While Hansel was burning all the people in his way, he suddenly snapped out of his trance.

"I-I am burning these people alive." Hansel thought but kept burning them, and seemed to enjoy it, just like Gretel did.

"Maybe I can escape, I have the flamethrower so why can't I just break out of here?" Hansel spun around and burnt everyone surrounding him. He then walked in a straight line towards the platform where Dr. Know-All was standing on to exit through the door behind him. Hansel made his way through the people and blasted himself upwards and was ready to attack Dr. Know-All.

Peter Pan then flew against him and held the flamethrower down to the ground and held his dagger against Hansel's throat.

"Hansel, what were you thinking?" Dr. Know-All asked.

Hansel didn't answer.

"Peter put away the dagger, but be sure he can't use his flame thrower." Dr. Know-All said and Peter obeyed him.

"What you just did could be very useful for us, but we have to keep an eye out for you." the doctor looked to Peter. "Knock him out." he said.

Peter poked with the back of his dagger on his shoulder which paralyzed him.

"Now that you're busy, also knock out that girl. She has eaten already too much today."

Peter nodded and flew towards Gretel and picked her up and paralyzed her too.

"I will bring them to their cells, okay?" Peter asked.

"Thank you." Peter flew away while Dr. Know-All decided to head towards Professor Cricket.

It was around 6 o'clock and Prince Charming was sitting in his cell doing something on his looks. Since he came to Ever After his looks didn't get better on it. He was lucky because his beard didn't grow so fast so he only has stubbles. His hair has lost its pep and a bang hanged between his eyes.

Suddenly Beauty approached him and knocked on his door.

"Come in." Charming said.

"Hello." Beauty greeted him.

"Beauty! You came, so you finished your work earlier?"

"Luckily yes. But since I don't want to go to my apartment yet, maybe we should sit down at a table in the cafeteria." Beauty said.

"That would be great, but I first have to get permission from the faculty."

"Don't worry, I already took care of that. Let's go." Beauty held his hand and the two walked to the cafeteria. They sat down at a table close to the window and began to talk about how they were doing when Beauty asked something very serious.

"I have been wondering this for quite some time." Beauty began.

"What?" Charming asked surprised.

"How did it actually happen that someone like you, you know a royalty, ended up here in the mental institute?"

"I thought you would ask that." Charming paused for a moment but continued. "Once I was a very wealthy royalty who could get everything he wanted. But I also was seeking for love. I dated a beautiful woman for a while. She had pure white skin, ash black hair and red lips. Her name was Snow White. But after we had dated for some time she went into a coma. Seven dwarfs said her spell could be broken by a true loves kiss, so I tried. But she didn't wake up."

"That is really sad." Beauty said.

"My next relationship was with a woman named Cinderella. I met her at a ball my father organized for me to get a girlfriend. The woman was so beautiful but around midnight she fled and only left a glass slipper behind. I went on a search for her and eventually found a cabin where two sisters lived with their mother and stepsister. I let them try on the slippers but they desperately cut off pieces from their feet to fit inside of the slipper. Then I saw the one who looked like the woman I met on the ball and her slipper fit. I married her but after some time she played tricks and I ended up on the street and she got all my money."

"What a bitch, if I may say that."

"Yeah. But then came my last girlfriend. She was very beautiful. Long brown hair and she mostly wore a green dress. She was always very calm and kind, and I wanted this relationship to work so I didn't do anything stupid. But unlike me she fell into a deep slumber along with the whole castle that is still hidden behind the many thorns. Unreachable for a normal human. I desperately wandered from town to town until I ended up here in Grimmoire. I tried to get into a relationship with some woman but I apparently wasn't attractive anymore, not in looks nor personality. I looked like a zombie. I was so depressed that I was taken to this place."

"Sorry, I didn't know you went through so much pain."

"Don't apologize. Although my name is Charming, I'm not charming at all. Unlike your name, your name really fits you. I'm just a beast."

"That's not true. You have recovered so much if I hear your stories. In the condition you are now, you could easily go back to Grimmoire and try to find happiness there. On this moment I just want to give you some pills and sent you to Grimmoire." Beauty said.

"It's no use. I think there's someone who causes all my relations to end up badly. It's either that they die or my situation gets worse. Someone evil is behind all this, I just know it." Charming said.

"Calm down Charming. Why don't you go back to your cell, then I will have a word with the staff, okay."

"You would do something like that for me?" Charming asked.

"Of course, I will escort you back to your cell, let's go." Beauty and Charming stood up and headed back to Charming's cell.

Meanwhile in the Control Tower there was a meeting of the staff. Dr. Know-All, Nurse Hulda, Professor Cricket and Humpty Dumpty were there. But there was also a noble from Grimmoire present with them, Grimhilde. She was a woman wearing a black dress only nobles could afford, she also was a noble in Grimmoire.

"Hello everybody. As you can see we have a guest here today. Miss Grimhilde, the richest noble from Grimmoire." Humpty Dumpty said who sat in his round chair. "I want to give the word to Dr. Know-All, he has some important news to tell."

Dr. Know-All stepped forwards and faced his colleagues. "As we all know the patients are suddenly making much more progress. Miss Goldilocks seems to almost have control over her powers, as does Red Riding Hood but there is someone who already has full control over his powers." he said as the others were paying much interest.

"This person is Hansel. During his session along with his sister, Gretel, he suddenly could control what he was doing and wanted to make an escape. Luckily Peter Pan was there to prevent this, but it does mean we have to be more careful. Our army is on the risk."

"And what do you suppose we must do, doctor?" Mother Hulda asked.

"Good question. My answer is to speed up the progress, if we just train some more they will be able to remember their past and control their powers."

"But if we do that we put all the patients under high pressure!" Professor Cricket immediately commented.

"Don't worry. Red and Goldi are close of controlling their powers. Gretel also seems to be useable already. We almost figured out what Tom's boots can do and Ali…"

"Alice isn't going to join the army." Humpy interrupted.

"Why not, she has so much potential."

"She isn't ready. Her Wonderland is started to open, if that happens worse things can happen."

"Why is it that makes you so attached to Alice?" Hulda asked while Cricket was nodding in agreement.

"She is very precious to me. If she dies, terrible things might happen." Humpty said.

"But doctor." Miss Grimhilde asked the attention. "I've heard that there are at least 4-5 more patients who could be useful to you." she said with a sinister voice.

"Ah you're talking about those people. Two of them don't need sessions, they are battle prepared. But I must say that the others need some more training too."

After Dr. Know-All finished that sentence someone knocked on the door.

"It's open." Humpty said. Beauty stepped inside the room and saw how crowded it was. She saw a woman she never had seen before, Miss Grimhilde. "What is it Beauty?" Humpty asked.

"I want to talk about the release of one of the patients."

"And who might that be?"

"Prince Charming." Beauty swallowed. "He has been here for some time and he recovered really good. He would do no harm to anyone in town, and you can give him some medicines with him, just in case." Beauty said.

"Prince Charming, huh?" Miss Grimhilde said. "Well, Mr. president. I guess you have another soldier for in your army."

"There is no way someo… I mean that Prince Charming is leaving this island. He is not healed yet, he's still insane." Humpty said.

"But…" Beauty said.

"No buts. He's staying here, and that is final." Humpty said. Beauty looked disappointed and she fisted her hands.

"Come on Beauty, I will walk you back. I'm done listening to these people anyway." Mother Hulda said and left the room along with Beauty. A tear crawled over the face of Beauty as they left but was not seen by anyone.

"I didn't know that Prince Charming was in here too." Mrs. Grimhilde said.

"He's been here for, let's see…" Humpty wanted to grab his files.

"He's been here for two months now." Professor Cricket said so Humpty wouldn't have to search for the files.

"Funny that he ends up in the same mental institute where my dear princess is now too." Grimhilde said.

"Mrs. Grimhilde." Dr. Know-All said to get her attention. "If you want to visit your 'princess' you must better hurry up. It's already late and were going to lock the Control Tower soon."

"Yes, sorry. I will visit her right away. Don't worry I will find my way out." Mrs. Grimhilde left the room but it could be seen she was taking the elevator to the highest level of the tower.

"Let's begin closing everything. It was a though day for everyone again." Humpty said as his colleagues left his office.

That's the third chapter, the ending of the Asylum story is near. Be sure to check out the next chapter!