A/N: Sorry for the cliff-hanger, guys! Thanks for the lovely reviews from SuperSentai199 and TitaHightopp05.
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Suburbia Asylum for Delusional Minds
Meg awoke to the distant sound of her mother's voice saying, "Megan? Meg honey, can you hear me?"
She blinked twice, and opened her eyes slowly.
Her vision was still a bit blurry as she looked around at her surroundings.
She was lying on a hard bed covered in dingy covers, dressed in a dirty smock. The walls around her were stark white, with the slight signs of wear.
She held her hand to her forehead, and tried to sit up, but her mother's strong hand laid her back onto the bed.
Mrs. Boggs said in a voice laced with worry, "Don't worry, Meg, darling, Mr. Morrison is going to help get those fantasies out of your head."
At that, Meg's eyes flew open, and she sat up completely, taking in the entire scene.
She was in one of the many beds in a large circular room filled with beds and tables, with a few shaky nurses walking through the beds carrying rags or trays of syringes.
And then all of her previous memories flooded back to her. She tried to jump out of the bed, but a nurse's strong grip pinned her back to the mattress.
She looked desperately to her mother, but she just walked out of the room, dabbing her eyes with a handkerchief.
Meg swung her gaze to the man standing besides her bed, and her eyes widened in panic.
He was average height with slightly mussed brown hair, and his eyes might have been kind if they did not have that harsh glare in them.
His lips curled upward into a horrifying smile, and he said in a smooth voice, "Now, Ms. Boggs, just lie back, and it will all just be a bad dream."
Her eyes darted desperately to to unattended syringe on the table, and as the nurses started to relax their grip on her arms, she lunged forward, and shoved the syringe into Dr. Morrison's arm.
His smile disappeared, and he collapsed to the floor clutching his arm as Meg bolted out the open door.
She ran through the hallways, hearing the deranged screams from the other patients as she dodged past different nurses carrying trays.
She heard the guards yell, "Hey! Get her!" and ran as fast as she could towards the stairs.
She flew up the staircase with speed she never knew she had, and flung open the door to the roof.
She ran to the edge of the roof, and halted immediately when she saw the fifty foot plung to the ground.
But she heard the approaching footsteps and yells from the staircase behind her, and jumped out from the roof to grab onto a nearby tree.
She lept from the tree's branches down into the bushes. She pulled out another outfit she had snagged from the nurses, and pulled it on over her inmate smock.
She smoothed down the soft yellow fabric, and ran away from the asylum as fast as she could, and called a taxi driving nearby.
The doors opened, and she lept inside. She tossed the driver a wad of cash, and said in an exhausted voice, "Suburbia please."
The driver just shrugged, and drove off towards the neighborhood.
Back inside the asylum, Dr. Morrison pulled the syringe out of his arm, and limped over to the phone.
He punched in the number for Mrs. Boggs with his now-stiff fingers, and said, "Mrs. Boggs, your daughter Megan has escaped!"
He heard her astonished gasp from the other end, and hung up as she seemed to drop the phone.
Mrs. Boggs turned back to where her husband was sitting in the car, and yelled, "Meg's out!"
He choked a little bit, and said, "What?"
She looked at Edward, who was in the car as well, and said, "She'll go straight home!"
She whipped the car around, and sped down the street towards the house.
Meg ran out of the cab, straight into her home.
She bolted into her room, and held her grandmother's white dress to her chest.
She cried, "What am I going to do, Grandma?"
But somewhere in her mind, Kim's voice told her, "Meg, the only way this is going to end is to prove that Wonderland is real."
Meg lifted her head, and said softly, "That's it, isn't it. I've got to show them."
But she bowed her head again, and said, "But I can't risk it. They wouldn't believe me."
Then suddenly, through an open window, a soft blue butterfly fluttered into her room, and landed on the floor in front of her.
Meg lifted her head, and said, "Absolem?"
The butterfly nodded, and said in his deep, soft voice, "Follow me."
She stood up, and followed him as he fluttered out of the house, and started heading towards Edward's castle.
Mrs. Boggs slowed down as the car passed Phillip's house.
They were standing outside, catching fireflies, when Mrs. Boggs told them, "If you see Meg running through here, please tell us? She's run away."
Phillip nodded, and ran inside to start playing spy.
He was resting his chin on the windowsill when he saw Meg in her yellow outfit running after a blue butterfly.
He turned around with a start, and yelled into the house, "Meg's outside! She's chasing a butterfly!"
Absolem flew through Edward's castle, and flew up to a door that Meg could see Edward couldn't open.
She turned the doorknob, and followed Absolem into the dusty room, wiping cobwebs out of her eyes.
Absolem flew up to a neglected looking glass, and flew straight through it.
Meg frowned, and placed her hand on the smooth surface of the glass. Expecting it to stop her hand on the slightly cool glass, she was startled when her hand passed right through it like a soft mist.
She pulled her hand back, and looked at the mirror suspiciously.
But she heard her mother and Phillip yelling downstairs, "She's up there! Come on!"
She took a deep breath, and stepped through the glass completely.
Phillip ran after his dog into the room, and watched his dog bark after the empty space in front of him.
He bent down to the dog's level, and said, "Come on, what's the matter boy?"
But a bright flash of light flooded from the mirror in front of the group, and they all gasped as their world swirled and fluxed with something else that they couldn't identify.
Suddenly, the strange lights and sensation stopped, and Phillip opened his eyes.
He looked around at what used to be an empty room, and gasped.
A/N: Hopefully none of you forgot Mirana's prophecy from the last story! :)