** Please keep in mind, this is an old fic! Publish date was in 2009! **

This is my take on Wonderland. Alice is Young-Adult aged, so is The Rabbit and the other Wonderland residents.
So everyone involved in the story is "of age". This is a Rabbit/Alice fic and will also have some Alice/Queen of
Hearts and possibly other slash situations in the future. *Whispers* Rabbit is also female in this, so please do
not read if slash, femslash, or gender-bent White Rabbit is something you dislike. As a note, the White Rabbit
is a humanoid with rabbit ears and a tail, not actually a rabbit. Pairing was a request on an old forum site I
used to go on.

Rated M for some sexual content and situations. Please no flaming. Constructive comments are appreciated,
but please keep in mind I don't claim to be the best writer, and I basically write fics for fun. = ) Formatting
is a bit awful, please look over it. I don't know if I'll get around to updating it!

And last but not least, I dearly wish I owned the characters, but sadly I don' belong to Lewis Carroll, I'm just
the one that mangles them a bit when I re-imagine them.

Alice leaned over the little picket fence to stare wistfully at the cozy cottage that sat just a bit beyond it. She had once again found her way to Wonderland by chasing the White Rabbit. And yet again, Alice had had no luck in catching the beautiful furry creature. It was a warm Summer's Eve but the wind was still very heavy in a soothing sort of way. The sun beat down on her fair skin and tinted her cheeks with pink from heat. The force of the sudden gusts of wind whipped her golden blonde hair around her face and she smiled in spite of the yearing in the pit of her stomach.

"Maybe I should knock." Alice stated to no one but herself.

And with that she pushed open the little gate and took care in latching it back behind her. She counted the stepping stones as she walked across them. 1...2...3...4...5...6. The stepping stones were incredibly unlevel and they wobbled as she stopped on each one. Somehow, the off balance stones were oddly satisfying. Alice looked at the door and brought a hand up to knock, but stopped short. What if the rabbit was home? What would she say?
How could she possibly explain what had brought her to Wonderland. How could she tell the Rabbit of her need to follow everytime she noticed the tuft of white fur bounding through her meadow? Would the Rabbit even remember her? The only time she had been this close to the Rabbit's house was when she ended up accidently eating something that made her grow so large the Rabbit swore she was a monster. She thought of this, shivered, and hoped the Rabbit wouldn't still think her a monster in her shorter form.

Her fist finally found the door and she tapped gently on it. No one answered. She placed her ear to the door and listened intently. Inside she could hear no one stirring. The whole house seemed silent other than the small sound of a ticking cuckoo clock. Alice placed her hand on the knob and jiggled it.
She then realized the Rabbit had left it unlocked. Deciding she should just let herself in, Alice ducked as she entered the short door frame. Shutting the door behind her, she noticed a rose colored cushioned chair sitting next to an antique looking table. The table had a small china plate sitting on it, and on the plate was half of an uneaten carrot sandwich. She decided to sit on the chair, as it looked remarkably comfortable, to wait on the Rabbit to return home. If the Rabbit hadn't returned in half an hour, she decided, she would go back home and try again some other day. Her stomach churned and she hoped that the Rabbit wouldn't come back while she was there. She was so incredibly nervous, but she tried to calm herself by listening to the ticking of the clock.

As Alice was focusing her attention to a painting of a rabbit in a vintage frame by the door, she noticed the door knob turning gently. The White Rabbit stepped into the room and her eyes opened wide with surprise at the sight of the blonde girl. The Rabbit of course was no ordinary rabbit, but a half rabbit (half rabbit, half human). She had all the makings of a human except for her extraordinary colored hair, pink eyes, cotton tail and pair of ears.
She straightened her stance and cocked her head to get a better look at Alice.

"Hullo?" The White Rabbit questioned more than greeted.
"Oh, hullo!" Alice said as she stood.

As Alice stood, she took notice that she was several inches taller than the rabbit, but that didn't make her any less attractive. In fact, in seemed to make her even cuter. The Rabbit's white hair gleamed in the sun light that was coming through the window in the door. Her fuzzy white ears stood attentively as if waiting for Alice to say something else, and her pink eyes grew wide.

"I...uh, I thought I might stop by for a visit. I'm Alice." Alice realized at once how truly lame that sounded.

"Oh?" The rabbit wiggled her human nose in a very rabbit like manner.

"Yes, we've met before you know...You called me...Mary Anne was it?"

The rabbit slapped her own forehead in mock embarassment. "Oooh yes. I am terribly sorry for that. You see I'm terrible matching faces to names and my house keeper, Mary Anne, she looks a bit like you."

"Oh it's quite alright." Said Alice hoping the monster issue wouldn't be brought up.

"Didn't you eat one of the cookies in my trinket box on my dressing table?" The White Rabbit smirked as Alice grimaced.
"Why yes...I believe I might have. Oh I do apologize! I am extremely sorry! Could you ever forgive me?" Alice was almost on the verge of tears but she noticed the Rabbit snickered.

"Don't worry about it, these things happen. Everyone makes that mistake every now and again. Why just the other day I was trying to pull a "growth" cookie out of my pocket, so I could get an apple down from a tree, I'm so short you know. Well anyway, I ate the shrink cookie by mistake and ended up growing so small I fell straight down into an ant's hill home!"

Alice laughed and the Rabbit began to chuckle at her own mistake.

"So Alice dear, why have you decided to come and see me on this fine Wonderland day?"

And here it was. The question Alice didn't want to answer honestly. At the same time, she didn't wish to lie to the Rabbit either. It was hard to understand what she should do, so she decided to just open her mouth and let whatever come out, come out.

"I just really wanted to get to know you better. I see you from time to time, you know, running through my own realm. Everytime I've saw you I imagined we could be good friends." Alice sighed.

It wasn't the full truth...but it wasn't exactly a lie either. Alice felt at the time she just couldn't express her deep obsession and love for the elegant creature that stood before her, fluffy tail looking cute as a button.

"Well Alice, I would like that very much. I haven't had a good friend in quite sometime. I'm always so very busy, no one like to work around my schedule for long."

"Oh I wouldn't mind! In fact I would be fine with working around your schedule!" Alice said and then bit her tongue. She didn't want to sound obvious.

"Indeed." The Rabbit smiled again. "Well Alice, I am incredibly busy today. I have another meeting with the Queen of Hearts in a while, and I mustn't be late or, well you know, off-with-my-head. But I do have a bit of time to spare. Would you like to possibly have tea with me in my upstairs bedroom?"

"You're uh...bed..bedroom?" Alice stammered.

"Yes, I have a tea room just off from my bedroom so we can boil the tea in there and bring it into my main bedroom. Unless you would feel more comfortable at the table here?" The Rabbit gestured to the table Alice had noticed earlier.

"No the bedroom...the bedroom is fine. Afterall, we're friends now, aren't we?"

"Why yes. Of course. Friends..."

Sorry if ch. 1 seemed a bit lame, I didn't want to dive head first into the story.
So please review and feel free to add this to your alert list if you're interested in what happens next!