AN: MM-HM! Also, just so you know, this may turn out to be shonen ai/ yoai but NOT between mad hatter and white rabbit. Trust me. The person i'm thinking of pairing rabbit with hasn't been introduced yet.

In a matter of moments, the man had lowered his guns and placed them on a table. He smiled at the officers innocently enough and sat in a swivel chair, which spun slowly. "So, what, may I ask, brings you two to my dank, dark, little cave of a room?" He tilted his head. "And so early in the morning. It can't possibly be later than 7:30."

"Well, we've been up since 4 AM." Officer Carton spoke up, already disaproving and unsure of 'White Rabbit'. "Girl of about 28 was murdered in her apartment building last night by the looks of it. Got the call this morning from the man sharing the building with her. He and his younger son saw her first. Poor kid's traumatized." He shook his head sadly.

White Rabbit frowned and raised an eyebrow. "People get murdered a lot in New York. Not all of them are a job for me. What sets this appart, hm?" Officer Porter bit his lip nervously and spoke up for the first time. "We think it'll turn serial. Please, sir, just come see the body!"

The young man thought for a moment then smiled slightly. "Alright, fine. But you'll have to drive me to the coroner's. I don't own a car, nor do I trust cab drivers." He smiled wider as Officer Porter barely contained his 'There Is Something Seriously Wrong With This Guy' look. Officer Carton nodded. "Fair enough. Let's go."

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The coroner's office was bright, blindingly so in comparison to White Rabbit's hotel room. All the walls, the ceiling and the tiled floors were bleached white. White Rabbit rubbed his eyes as his head started to hurt. It was always the same, everytime he was here he would have to battle with a migraine due to the retna buring room.

The body was lying on a table, white sheet covering all but her head, shoulders, feet and her arms which were at her sides. White Rabbit crossed the room and inspected the top of the woman's head. A chunk of her skull jutted out of the top of her head and her blond hair was matted with blood. He raised an eyebrow. The name carved into her hand had caught his attention. "Alice...Is not her name, is it?"

"No. It's Franchesca." A man about four years older than White Rabbit, with short, fair hair and pale skin spoke up from the door way. The coroner was an albino man named Deavon Hart who had what most people would refer to as an unhealthy obsesion with death. He was probably the only person in new york who wanted to be a coroner as a kid.

"The killer begged to differ." Officer Carton pointed out. White Rabbit shook his head a little. Deavon smirked. "Perhaps the killer is following some sort of story line, hm?" White Rabbit nodded at that. "How did she die?" He asked quietly. Deavon smirked. "She fell off the fourth floor landing."

"Just like Alice fell down the rabbit hole." White Rabbit pointed out.

Officer Carton frowned. "What are you talking about?"

White Rabbit smiled innocently. "Why, sir, didn't you listen to your bed time stories? Or did your parents just never read you 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'? The heroin fell down a rabbit hole and into a very strange and unnatural world. If the laws of physics applied there, that little girl would have died, falling such a long way and cracking her skull at the bottom."

~~~~~~(X~~~~~~

At that moment, somewhere in the bronx, an english teacher was being drowned in his bathtub. The murderer grinned wide as he held the struggling man under the water until the bubbles and the thrashing stopped. He released the man and the body floated to the surface of the water. The murderer slipped his knife out of his poket and leaned over, carving 'Mr. Mouse' into the man's forehead.

He decided he would leave a message for the police force. More particularly, The detective he was sure would be called in.

'To my dear White Rabbit,

You know me far better than you think, but I remember you even if you do not remember me. I know your hunting me and I wish you the best of luck, and I assure you that I'll give you your most challenging case yet. But no matter what you do, Rabbit, Alice will never wake up and the Red Queen will lose her head. We are all murderers in our minds.

From Mad Hatter with love.'

AN: as for the note...yeah, hatter's just kind of a creep. Also, Mr. Mouse was in the book. Alice met him right past the 'eat/ drink me' part. when she gets washed through the door by her tears. She sees him swimming on the other side and follows him then they have a caucus(sp?) race.