OOM: The Past- Checkmate.

[mirror_alice]

It's so terribly frustrating, seeing that other world in the Mirror. A world where she ruled with absolute power, as she should! Alice longs to step through the looking glass and into Wonderland....

She needs to hurt something, but animals and accidents aren't enough anymore....

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It isn't the first time Tommy Sullivan had woken up and not known where in Hell he was, but it is the first time he woken up tied up in a deserted warehouse.

"You call yourself a King," a young woman's voice says from nearby. He twists his head to look at her.

"Let me the fuck out of here, you bitch!" he snarls.

Alice laughs. "A fitting title for you, I think. The weakest piece on the chessboard, but a terribly self-important one."

Tommy struggles against the ropes, cursing. "What the Hell? Do I owe you money or something?" he asks.

"You don't know me, and I don't know you," Alice replies, voice eerily calm. "We have no connection, other than this."

"Then, why?!" he asks, perplexed. "Why tie me up like this? Somebody hire you?" he asks, voice getting frantic as the knots dig into his wrists.

"Oh, this isn't work," Alice replies, giggling. "This is strictly for fun," she adds with a disturbing smile.

Tommy blinks in surprise. "If that's what you wanted, you didn't have to tie me up," he replies with a shaky grin. "You're a pretty little thing, and I wouldn't mind showing you a good time."

Alice's smile turns malicious. "Oh, I think you would," she replies idly, twirling his knife between her fingers. "Because I don't plan on bedding you."

All the blood drains out of his face as he makes the right connection as to her intentions. "You're going to kill me...." he manages to choke out, voice strangled.

"Such a clever boy," Alice replies with a smile. "Eventually, yes." She picks up an empty bottle of gin, and breaks it against the wall, leaving a sharp edge.

"You can't get away with this!" Tommy screams, desperate.

"There's nobody around to hear you, and you go on drinking binges for days at a time," Alice points out. "Nobody will find out until I'm long gone, Tommy boy." She gives him a delighted smile. "Let's open you up and see what makes you tick, hm?"

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Two days later, early morning.

"God in heaven!" the police constable hissed quietly. They've been called down because someone reported smelling something rotting. He feels a bit ill as he catches sight of the corpse.

His limbs had been flayed open, the bared bones showing where they'd been neatly broken, and pieces had been removed from his body. Even more horrifying, there was far too much blood for it to have happened after he was dead.

It's the first such grisly murder the city has ever seen. In the coming months, there would be many more...