You've captured Alice's voice very well. I love this backstory. Thank you for posting.

Great stuff! Punchy, rich, no filler, increasing in intensity throughout. Loved how she tilts her head up, and mentally soars into the universe, deciding at that point her parents and their mediocrity should leave it. Normally I'm not a fan of that 'let the reader use his imagination' trend in writing, as it's just sloppy, but I think here you actually put it to apt usage with Natalie, just hinting that her relationship with Alice, however intimate or reserved, drove her to suicide. Very punchy, and put me somewhat in mind of a similar scene in 'The Omen'.

Couple of refinements / clarifications I'd like to see:

1) How did she overcome Kent's adult Pitbull? Alice is far from a physically imposing woman, so presumably she must have used her genius to somehow neutralise the animal (though I'd love an AU Alice who is as powerful a woman physically as ours is mentally). I'm also curious as to whether the dog was still alive, when they found it...also, given that, I'd be tempted to rewrite the part near the end about her parent's do scuppering her plan.

2) Similarly, was Kent a fully fledged Paedo, or did he just have that one moment of weakness with underaged Alice? If the latter, how did she plant child porno onto Kent's computer? She would have had to obtain the material somewhere, which alone could have drawn attention to her. It would also have taken tremendous time, effort (even for me who's been in IT for over 17 years), and ingenuity to collate that data, and fabricate an entire forum of users, posts etc, all without getting caught by computer forensics. It would have been cool if Alice actually DID to that, breezing through the whole process in a month, though obviously it's best to only hint at the details of the image procurement :)

Lastly, I'm not sure the 'Anthropic Principle' was well used, but you can fudge that by adding 'just' before 'matter', and nobody except other Physicists will argue :)

Anyway, more more more please!

Wow. This is a great piece with some fantastic insight into Alice Morgan. You definitely had her voice down, and all of the events were totally plausible. All in all, a brilliant piece of writing. Keep up the great work!

You should do one about John. His life is just as interesting.

Love the way this is written, I think you've done so well at getting into Alice's backstory.