Chapter 7: Welcome to Never Land

Section #1: My Name is Alice

(Location: Top Secret Zenetra-Tech Never Land Facility #143, beneath Zenetra-Tech Research Facility #23, located in Eastern Australia)

Dr. Alexis Feros - of all the subjects I have studied during my time at Never Land Facility number 143 I have never been so fascinated by a patient as I am now… last month a new patient arrived here… patient number 772 and already I find myself intrigued by him. His first night here he did nothing but cry hysterically all night as I listened quietly outside his cell. I must admit even me a woman doctor who has carried out countless painful and torturous experiments on so many patients men women and children alike without even the slightest bit of remorse can't help but feel a slight twinge of guilt and pain at the sound of his frantic cries and heart wrenching sobs. I am a person who usually prides myself on having little or no caring for the suffering of others and yet I find myself feeling things for this young boy… things I thought I could never feel again. I still remember the first time I examined him.

(Alexis begins to flash back to that first examination of patient #772)

(Patient #772 is lying with his shirt off, strapped to a cold steel hospital table starring up at Alexis with a look of confusion mixed with fear and a slight hint of deep inner longing. (the patient begins to speak in a voice made weak and small by mixed feelings of fear and nervousness saying)

Patient #772 – w…who are you? Wh… why did you bring me here?

Alexis (Narrator) - I had taught myself not to get attached to patients because in the end the only thing I will ever be to them is there blood-thirsty and cold-hearted torturer... the one who preformed heinous and severely inhumane experiments on them… who could stare down at them and gaze deep into their eyes as they suffer and feel nothing at all, seemingly numb in my lack of compassion, caring or lack of conscious but something about this patient was different maybe it was that shimmer I saw in his eyes or that overwhelming sense of self-loathing and self-hatred I felt radiating from deep inside of him… I guess it was this strange fondness I felt for him that caused me to cast aside my normally powerful sense of judgment that would have normally kept me from answering the boy in fear of the possible development of eventually bonds and attachment and yet I found that for this one special boy I spoke… he asked and I answered. Some how this boy who I have never met before just by the sheer look in his eyes… those beautiful piercing eyes has managed to begin to slowly break down my emotional walls and protective barriers to pull forward that deep suppressed inner me… a more compassionate me… a better me… a me I thought I had lost along timeago back before my time in this place... back when I had a heart…

(Alexis stars down at the young patient her eyes begin to ghost over his smooth flat stomach and beautiful slender arms and legs before coming back to rest on his beautiful sapphire blue eyes… as she begins to answer him saying)

Alexis –My name is Dr. Alexis, what's yours?

(the young patient just stars up at Alexis for a moment with shakily as his continue to shimmer with suppressed tears as he answers her saying)

Patient #772 – Alice… my… my name is Alice…

(Alexis smiles for a moment before saying in a slightly amused voice)

Alexis – Alice huh… do you have last name Alice?

(Alice just stared at her for a moment before saying)

Alice – Fr… Frost…

(Alexis continues to smile as she says)

Alexis – well it's a pleasure to meet you Alice and as to your other question you were brought here to be studied… it seems that you are a very special boy.

(Says Alexis as she begins to look over Alice's files. Alice turns his head away from Alexis as he says in a voice filled with a mixture of sadness, anger and self-loathing)

Alice – you mean cursed… I can hear them you know? The lingering screams of those long past... the ones you tortured here in this room… I can feel their fear and suffering filling this room it's both suffocating and intoxicating at the same time… why... what did they ever do to you to deserve what you did to them? Answer me that… tell me why?

(Alexis stares down at Alice for a moment for the first time in here life finding remorse creeping it's way into her heart as tears began to slowly threaten to escape her eyes as she says)

Alexis – orders… that's all… I was just following orders…

Alice – your lying… you enjoyed their suffering… why?

(Alice just continues to stare at Alexis eyes filled with tears and confusion on able to understand how Alexis could of brought herself to commit such horrible acts on her fellow man, unable to understand how she was able to derive pleasure from their suffering)

Alice – now I see… so am next am I… now your going to torture me like you tortured them… will you feel no pain for me as well… shall shed no tears for my cries of pain when they come… is your heart that truly lost into darkness…

(Alexis begins to walk towards the Alice eyes filled with deep inner remorse and pain both eyes and voice heavy with sadness as she begins to speak to him saying in sad and apologetic voice)

Alexis – I'm so sorry Alice but I my heart was taken from along time ago…

(and with that said Alexis picks up her scalpel and with one last stare of sadness and regret about what she was about to do towards Alice she says in voice filled with sadness and guilt)

Alexis – I have to begin now Alice… it's going to hurt and your going to scream…. But for what it's worth I am truly sorry but this is the way it has to be… close your eyes and let your mind carry away from this place and away from your body maybe their you will find at least some protection from this hell… please forgive me…

(with that Alexis places her scalpel to Alice's soft and tender flesh and begins to work as Alice's screams begin to echo through the room)