On a roll! Advantage of being out of work AND having most of the function of my hand? I have time to do this! Cheers

So this is rare, and I will admit unfair. I am taking up a recent What-if. Because the question intrigued me.

No one in specif (Guest): What if Alice(from Alice in Wonderland) is a girl from current times-who was simply on a dozen different types of drugs

I am going to guess you meant "dozen" figuratively? Also I haven't seen the movie in YEARS so I apologize if stuff happens out of order, and I KNOW the dialogue is wrong. I hope this is still enjoyable.

Disclaimer: While I am a nurse, I have not done a lot of work with drugs and drug rehab. I have never had friends or family take these types of drugs. So I hope I can do the situation justice. It is a delicate subject that hits home to many people, and I just want to make sure I don't offend.

Dina fretted while she pacing in the claustrophobic studio apartment. She bit her thumbnail while looking from her sister, to the table containing an empty syringe, plastic bag, and a prescription bottle with the label torn off.

"What did you do, what did you do," Her sister was lying on the floor, mumbling incoherently. "Hold on Alice, help is coming,"

Alice looked at the field around her, hearing indistinct voices in the distance. She didn't want to read... Dina and her books. She just wanted to sleep. A noise caught her attention, and she turned her head to see a white rabbit dressed in some rather dapper clothing.

"Well aren't you a silly thing?" she chimed, and rolled over so she could approach the strange creature, who seemed to be staring at his watch,

Dina saw Alice's hand reach out, the girl hardly able to control her own muscles. She shook her head, and tucked her phone between her ear and her shoulder,

"How far are they? Her breathing is slowing down and she keeps shaking!" Dina shouted into the phone.

"Just stay calm ma'am, and stay with me, okay? Help is on the way. Just be sure to protect her head if she's shaking"

"What if she stops breathing?" Dina croaked, the sob she had been restraining finally breaking.

"Stay calm, help is on the way, just stay with her," The emergency operator instructed.

"Hmm... a strange mushroom and a strange drink. One says eat me, one says drink me." Alice reached for the mushroom and took a bite. It tasted horrible. But then again, the most fun mushrooms always tasted terrible. She felt like her whole body was filling was air, the roomshrinking around her. She giggled at it. Languishing in the feeling. Then she saw the little rabbit again. "Strange creature," she commented. The rabbit disappeared through a tiny door. "Well that's not fair," She complained, and then remembered the drink on the table. "I wonder..." She took a sip,

"She's seizing!" Dina cried, have to resist the urge to hold her shaking body still. "Stupid... stupid Alice! I told you this would happen!" she screamed at the unconscious girl, tears pouring down her face. She hear sirens, their blue and white lights flashing against the window as they pulled up. She dashed to the door, running to the porch railing waving her arms wildly to catch their attention, "Over here!" The ambulance arrived first, the first responder running up to her while his partner gathered a gurney from the back of the truck.

"Can you tell me what's going on, ma'am?"

"I think she took a bunch of drugs... there's a needle, a bottle, and a bag that probably had something else in it," Dina stammered through her sobs, leading the man to her sister. "I don't know what was in the bottle, as far as I know she wasn't on any meds. I think she bought it." She continued.

"How long has she been like this?"

"I came home from work early, she was like that when I got in so I don't know... I-I tried to call, before I left work, she never answered. So at least twenty minutes?" The second man came running run to catch up to his partner. He saw the needle on the table, and assumed heroin,

"Narcan?" The conversation dissolved into medical technobabble Dina couldn't keep up with while they loaded her sister onto the stretcher and the group moved to the ambulance.

Alice was lost in a forest of flowers and towering mushrooms. She smiled, it was beautiful. A caterpillar was atop a mushroom, smoking from a hooka and judging by the smell of the smoke it was not tobacco in that hooka. She approached, curious about the creature.

"Who are, a-you?" he inquired, blowing smoke rings into the air.

"Alice," She answered. This certainly looked more fun than studying. Dina can take her books and her 'you need to get into a good school' attitude. College wasn't for her. It would just be more books and studying. She wanted to go to trade school, learn how to do something fun. Well truth be told she just wanted to party, maybe own a club, but she knew she wasn't smart enough for business school.

"And who are you?" Alice inquired, climbing atop the mushroom. She wanted to inquire about the hooka, try whatever was in it,

The EMTs hooked Alice up to oxygen, putting needles into her arms and hanging bags of clear fluids. Dina was sobbing into her hands, praying to any deity who would listen that her sister would make it. Alice had fallen into these bad habits while she was in middle school after their parents died. She was eighteen at the time and successfully appealed for custody of her sister to keep her out of the foster system. She dropped out of school to work full-time so she could raise her sister. I can do better. I have to do better. This is partially my fault. If I was a better caretaker... and she resumed sobbing.

"Well that panned out poorly." Alice complained, the caterpillar had refused to share and then she had been chased off by some angry flowers. She was beginning to think this magical land wasn't as fun as she thought at first glance. But then she saw the rabbit again, and decided to follow. Why not?

Dina spent what felt like hours in the waiting room before being allowed to see her sister. She was still unconscious, an oxygen mask over her face, a tube going down her nose, more tubes in har arms, wires coming off her chest to a noisy machine displaying an EKG reading, it was as if the girl was part machine. The doctor was trying to explain to her what happened, but the horror of seeing her little sister in such a state made it impossible to listen to him.

"Will she make it?" The only question that mattered.

"She should. But we want to send her to a rehab facility," Dina agreed, she wanted whatever would help her sister. Alice was only sixteen, Dina was allowed to make this choice from her. Even If her sister never spoke to her again, she would get her help. She would fix this. It's what Mother and Father would have wanted. She approached Alice, sitting in the chair set next her, clasping her hand,

"I know these last four years have been hard... but you were always the stronger one when we were kids. That's why I know you can beat this. I kind of want to kill you for scaring me like this," She chuckled nervously. "But this isn't right..."

"Off with her head!" the Red Queen commanded. Alice swallowed and ran, faster than she thought possible. She felt like she was a moving car. Her heart began to thump faster, she was running fast enough the colorful fantasy colors began to fade. There was a clamor of voices as she was chased through a long tunnel. There was a dim light at the end and she ran. Faster and faster, her heart pounding ever harder. She dove through the light in the tunnel,

"Alice?" Dina's voice inquired, and her sister's eyes fluttered open.

"Dina?" Alice croaked, her mouth felt like she had spent the last day eating cotton. Her muscles were sore, and her head was throbbing. "Where... where am I?" She looked around, everything was still partially blurry but it looked like a hospital?

"The hospital Alice..." Dina trailed off. She wanted to yell, scream, cuss, tell Alice how stupid she was, lecture her about the idiocy of what she did. But she just threw her arms around her sister, "You scared the life out of me,"

"The hospital?" Alice couldn't remember much other than her dream, but even that was beginning to fade. "What happened?" Dina sighed, and told her sister everything.