Alice In Madness

Chapter 2

"Oh, you come now Alice t'was only just a dream." The doctor said,

"But no that's completely wrong! It wasn't a dream it's my world! Like a memory and it's starting to make me sick!" Alice said as she held onto her stomach.

"But Alice remember you musn't be like this, what I told you before yes?" The doctor said.

"Focus, now, wait..your floating again but just this again. You are weightless, a cipher.. relax. A feather, dear Alice." Alice was strapped to a peeling brown chair.

"No! This isn't right! It's fire, I'm in hell!" Alice said looking at the ceiling as she was slowly falling farther, too far the doctor noticed.

"No Alice, forget it! You abandon that very memory. It's unproductive, go.. to Wonderland." The doctor soothed. Alice struggled,

"I-I can't, I'm trapped, in my past. Help me please!" Alice sat far down again,

"Sergeant, this little girl is badly burnt. Call for a doctor, immediately!" A voice in the distance chimed as it stayed slowly with the red fire burning behind. Her house burning through every window door and crevis as she slid through this terrible memory. Mommy, daddy! Alice said as she tossed and churned her head this way and that.

"No, that is incorrect Alice! Discard that preposterous illusion. Again forget it, go to Wonderland." The doctor said as he held onto the back of the seat and got close to Alice searching her face. Alice's nose was scrunched and her brow furrowed.

"I don't- no- I'd rather not doctor, really. My Wonderland- it's shattered. Dead to me as it is now." The water streamed down with purple waves high enough for a frog not even leaping over. Tree's stabbed the waves and leaves fell into the water. A storm perhaps?

"Ahem, your preference does not signify, girl. Now, where are you as I speak in your ear?" The doctor said.

A boat calmy slowed on the river down and down as a rabbit and a girl drank tea. The tea different, a table on wood not the wood on table. Correct as it is. A blue butterfly flurrying around the girl pleasantly flapping it's cerulean wings.

"Oh! I see it now there he is! I'm sailing and-and with a friend!" Alice said as she was faced up and staring at the ceiling eyes closed. "Wait, hmmm. Things are different now, something has changed." Alice churned a bit again.

"Yes, yes Alice my dear, change is good. Tis' the first link in the chain of forgetting, a long chain for you I suppose, hm?" The doctor asked Alice.

"Perhaps." Alice said as her brow furrowed again. The rabbit lowered his hand that latched onto the tea and gripped it harder. He opened his mouth wide to show his rotten teeth, his eyes lazy and he shook. He was shaking fast, a heart attack, maybe.

"What is happening, are you mad, dear sir?" Alice leaned a bit to the rabbit in fear of his shaking costing an injury to him.

"I'm not mad, girl." The doctor said his one brow lifting.

"Rabbit? Oh, fellow." Alice said reaching an arm. Hm, a rabbit. Wonderland? The doctor thought as he searched Alice's face again.

"That's not right, what's he doing here Alice?" The doctor said as he crossed his arms and leaned against a table. He rightened his spectacle. The rabbit shook and shook until blood pooled out of his mouth and through the gaps of his teeth coloring his white fur.

"Is something wrong, or the matter in that matter?" Alice said as she had her eyes closed and pupils wilding about.

"Haa, something wrong, matter? Raaaaaather..." The rabbit answered in a distorted voice as his head tilted further and further until it popped. Blood spat everywhere in the water, the tea, and even on Alice.

"Oh, no not that, anything but that!" Alice said as she turned this way and that faster. The rabbit blood spewed and spewed like a fountain only it started to turn tar black.

"Ah, don't struggle Alice, dear. Let this new.. Wonderland emerge from the depth of your charred mind." The doctor said with his hand out, getting somewhere he thought. The tarred blood spewed so much that the river had now turned black and the boat went even slower. The trees turned into black tar too and oozed into the river as a mask that of a chunky baby doll fell down. Arms whisking in and out of the water again, a thick white doll's hands. The fingers gripped and snatched back into the water. The sky, fire as tar overlapped with the parts of these mysterious dolls. What was once a beautiful butterfly was now a bone flying in the hot air. Then a large wave swept the tar up, taking the parts with it. The wave splashed into the river onto Alice's party as the rabbit's body still spitting tar from the neck sat in the what was now a black seat. Alice was now covered in tar and wringed her hands around.

"Pollution! Corruption, it's corrupted now! It's killing me! My Wonderland! It-it's destroyed! My mind it's in ruin!" Alice yelled, getting scared. Alice thrashed around. Her eyes went wide as she watched hands trying to grab at her. The doctor ran to her and grabbed her shoulders.

"Forget it now, Alice. As I told you, block that dream! Wake at the sound. Alice was grabbed down in the tar only her head still out. A hand scratched her face, it bleeding out onto her eyes still wide with fright. The hands scratched at her face till there was no skin left, only a bit of muscle and bone.

"Aaaargh!" Alice screamed. Alice's eyes, wider now. The tar and parts pulling her fully under. Then there was nothing. And she awoke.