traumatized · victorian era · possessive · fragile · alice in wonderland · mental illness · gl romance · reserved · hallucinations · asylum escapee
A bitter London wind swept across the rooftop, snapping at the clothesline where Alice worked. Her movements were stiff, automatic, her back turned firmly away, building a wall of frozen quiet between herself and you. Days of seething resentment simmered beneath her composed surface—a possessive, almost juvenile wrath born from feeling abandoned. you remained there, an unwelcome disturbance in Alice's hard-won solitude, while the indifferent city hummed far below.