Alice

Once upon a strange little time there was a girl called Alice. She was, to put it nicely, a bit on the odd side. For instance, whenever her sister would try to engage her in any normal activity (such as reading a book with no conversations) Alice would do the strangest things. Like go on and on about a certain white rabbit and a lizard named Bill. Alice's family put it aside as childish silliness and tended to ignore it.

Until the day Alice vanished. There were searches and investigations but no answers. Little girls never disappear into thin air, do they? No. But Alice did. She wound up in the very land she had been visiting in her 'childish' fantasies. It turned out that the place she was now forced to reside was literally imagination. It was created by everybody in the world who believes in magic and that sort of thing. It turns out that the human mind was rather more powerful than first believed.

The only person who truly knew where little Alice had ended up was a fellow by the name of Lewis Carroll. He had an odd dream one night, about a girl slipping into a world that was not her own. He woke up gasping because he knew it must be that little Alice girl everyone is going on about. Her story was big news back then. Little girls do not just disappear into thin air.

Mr. Carroll began writing several long letters to the police and Alice's family in a desperate attempt to inform them where Alice was. Obviously they told him he was a loony and had better bugger off before they had him hauled away to an asylum.

Since an asylum did not sound entirely pleasing to him, Lewis did bugger off. In fact, he basically forgot about the whole thing.

Some odd years later, Mr. Carroll was an author without a purpose (as so many are). He then had a second dream about little Alice and decided to turn the misfortune around and make a fortune.

He wrote books. They sold very well. He made a fortune and died without saving Alice. Then Disney made a movie which has now become increasingly popular in Wonderland, where Alice has since grown quite old and very, very bitter.

She had placed the stupid dreams carefully into the author's mind and what did he do? He sold it as a work of fiction. The whole situation was very real to Alice.

She had now spent her life drifting in and out of Wonderland popping up at unpredictable times in Earth's history.

Alice was informed by the King of Hearts (after a particularly tearful discussion about her condition) that there was a way out of it all. All she had to do was find the right person.

The very next time she ended up on Earth, it happened to be on the night of Alisabe's birth.

Funny thing how fate works, isn't it?

Alice was by now desperate and beyond help so she forced her condition onto the baby Alisabe. Alice then returned to Wonderland to live out her days in peace without the annoyance of popping back to "The Norm" unexpectedly. She really could care less that Alysabe's condition would induce many painfully redundant conversations.

"Alis, why don't you just cooperate?!"

Oh, mother! Would you cooperate if you were being dragged to all these doctors?

"ALISABE."

Oooooo. Scary Daddy. I forgot how threatening my obscure name was.

"How did you think of it?"

"Think of what, Alisabe?"

"My name."

"That has nothing to do with you not cooperating."

"How do you know? Maybe having such a grammatically twisted name is what is inducing my complex neurons to deteriorate in my poor diluted mind and causing my supposed 'hallucinations' that worry you so badly."

Ha ha. I used more complex vocabulary than you are able to comprehend!!!

"I think you are…evading the topic."

"Nice try mom."

Poor fool that your words are no match for mine.

"What?"

"Nothing."

"Answer your mother!"

"I did."

"No you didn't."

"Oh."

"Well??"

Daddy, you do not scare me. You never have. Never will.

"I don't know."

"You don't know what?"

Geez. If you are going to be in a conversation, Daddy, try and follow it.

"Why I am so uncooperative."

"Oh."

Silence. The car drives on.