Author's Notes:A collection of drabbles/ficlets exploring Alice's history, her relationship with Alan and the darkness that threatens to destroy all she loves.
I'm neither a professional writer, nor an English literature professor, so go easy on me. I assure you any and all mistakes be it grammar/spelling or otherwise are not intentional.
As always this fandom does not belong to me.
Alice was a child born of the light, as her grandmother once said. She also warned, that the darkness would always haunt her. The elder woman's words were more than an expression, it was a fact.
Alice was five years old when she lost her mother to a drunk driver. It was a warm spring day when Alice returned home from school to learn that her mother would never return.
Everything changed that fateful day, and with it came a new horrifying revelation. This was not the same darkness that Alice had always known and feared it was something different, yet no less threatening. It was not like the shifting shadows that had haunted her in waking, and invaded her dreams. Instead, it was almost a presence, one that hung in the air like an unseen and unwanted guest. No amounts of flashlights, or nightlights could protect the child from the dark that now sought to tear her family apart.
The guilty, a wealthy business executive walked, while the innocent were buried. Soon after, her father fell prey to depression and rage, unable to live on without Alices' mother. His need for vengeance was only sated after the violent death of his wife's murderer. By fall, it was Alice's father who departed from her life. With the promise of a lifetime in jail, he found peace at the end of a noose's rope.
By winter, Alice had moved in with her grandmother. The old woman protected Alice from her father's actions and the shadow judgment long after the newsreels quit turning. The old eccentric artist was all that remained of the family the child once knew and loved. She was also was all that stood between Alice and the growing darkness that threatened her at every turn.
Though grandmother was able to protect her from the darkness of the world. In the end, nothing could protect Alice from her grandmothers' passing.