AN: I thank pasty face, RoseQueen2424, elliotxalicexlover and Fate Pwns You. Here's your chocolate-chip cookie! :D

I'd also like to thank a couple of others who actually read this story and favorited, alerted it, etc. etc. Do you wish to remain anonymous? ;)

I noticed that there is also another HnKnA fanfic with the same concept of 'shrinking' the protagonist, rest assured I will do my best to make the ideas separate. I apologize to the author of it.

Gosh, WHY am i talking being so formal? xD Ok, on with the story. If you've watched the movie, you know it's:

Chapter 2: A Cake that can Make you Grow

Alice brushed through a well-build spiderweb. She cringed, wondering where the web-spinner was.

She escaped the Tweedles, that didn't guarantee she'd be safe from anything else in here. The hole resembled the inside of a rocky cave, difference was it was clearly of cement and it appeared to be digged by some unknown critter.

ACHOO! Dust. Big dust. It sprinkled from the top, floated momentarily and played with her weak nasal cavity. Plus, it coated her throat in a thick layer, it took several coughs until the layer thinned. Her lips were awfully chapped, AGAIN thanks to the dust. She was afraid that if she licked her lips, she might take in some extra dust bunnies. Yum!

After what seemed like an eternity of a walk with her shoes tapping the ground each second, she caught a glimpse of light and almost leaped in joy. She didn't take any more chances with this hole and ran for it, slipping out in the open into a tall grassy landspread.

The luminous sun was like a living heaven to her. The fresh air, the leaves tinked with excess morning dew, the alluring smell of roses coming from afar, everything seemed to appeal to her.

"great!" she remarked, trudging across the muddy ground. "maybe Elliot will be gardening today"

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"what are you kids doing?"

Dee and Dum looked at the man once with complete disinterest before resuming their monstorous devour of the deep mouse chocolate delight as if he never came in.

"Oi! At least listen to me, you stupid kids!" Elliot smacked them on the back of their heads, causing them to grunt at the same time.

"were just having a little snack, what's wrong with that?" Dee held his aching head, his sibling glaring at the child-abuser.

"nothing, unless it was that chocolate pastry in the fridge that had a 'DO NOT TOUCH!' sign on it"

Dum gulped down half his glass of milk before finally turning to the impatient man.

"rules were meant to be broken, newbie-hare"

"datz riyd" Dee agreed with a mouth-full of smushed dark brown cake.

Elliot grumbled "whatever, it ain't my problem if you kids get in trouble" he wrenched the fridge open and stole a ham and cheese sandwich. His sharp eyes loomed over the kitchen with curiousity.

"hey, have you guys seen Alice around?"

"why do you ask?" Dee inquired in an 'I-don't-care' tone yet somewhere in his voice could've almost proven that he wanted to know the same thing.

"well, I just wanted to...make her breakfast that's all" Elliot flushed slightly, steering his gaze away from the twins.

Dum frowned "well, too bad, she's already eaten"

"how do you know that, brother?"

"didn't we...see her this morning?" Dum pondered for a moment.

"I can't remember"

"neither can I"

"you kids are hopeless" Elliot tore off his snack with his teeth.

"better than what you are, stupid newbie-hare!" they countered.

The three comrades shot lightning at eachother in the form of difficult glares. Two against one, it was obvious of the outcome. The older male sighed, in defeat or in grief, the twins couldn't tell.

He swallowed with difficulty "I just hope she's alright, last night, she didn't look too well"

"what happened last night?"

"uh, I...don't know, I don't remember"

One thing you should know about the March Hare is that he has absolutely no talent in lying but the twins bought his words easily, being the younger ones amongst the Mafia group.

Silence befell inside the house, the only sound was the familiar echo of ticking. It increased its volume each second but there was definitely no clock in the kitchen. It was their three hearts, ticking in confusion and anxiety. What happened last night, really?

"ahh, this is too much drama" Dum kicked his feet onto the counter and yawned.

"right brother, too much TACKY drama" Dee followed his brother, boots on the table and all. An act of rebellion to show who's boss when their real boss was absent.

"so where's boss, newbie-hare?"

"oh, Blood?" Elliot bit onto his cold sandwich "he's out at the rose garden"

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The rose garden. Alice was aware that the trail ahead led to it, that explained the redolent scent of roses. She didn't know what led her to it but since nothing else was familiar from where she was standing, she decided to visit the little garden. It held millions and millions of bushes sprouting of red thorny flowers bigger than the size of her head, probably because of her current height. She roamed freely, viewing roses of all sizes, colors and some of unique breeds.

At one point, she found a small scarlet bud, sympathy washing over her a bit. Everything else had bloomed, why hadn't this? She reached out a hand to touch it.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you" she gasped like a child in trouble and averted her gaze to a- shoe?

"it's just a bud, you'd be wasting your time" she grumbled, not a shoe. The owner of these leather boots she knew too well.

"Blood"

"Alice"

Her neck had to be craned all the way back just to face him however behind his head was the ever-so-bright sun, making his face difficult to see. It stood out like a rectangular shadow (plus the hat). Alice squinted both at the strong light and at the peculiar moment.

"you don't seem suprised"

Blood smirked "I expected something" he slowly bent to her level "but not this" the Mafia boss fingered her small blonde locks curiously before the girl swatted his pointer finger away in irritation.

"you really do look like a doll, young lady" he teased

"so I've been told" she replied bluntly, waiting for an answer to her unsaid question.

"you expect me to explain this?" she nodded once. Frankly, she wasn't really favorable with the Hatter, there were some foul memories of him. If it had been Elliot, he wouldve helped right away. No pointless questions, no obnoxious teasings.

"might we have some tea?"

"no thank you, I'm not thirsty" Alice stated distastefully, unaware of the irrational reason of her sudden dislike of it.

"at least, let us take a stroll in the garden, it is quite an explanation" she gave into this, the conditions weren't so bad. That was her idea of it, until he rested his hand onto the ground, indicating she go on it.

"I wouldn't want to be held back by your slow walking" Alice scowled but stepped onto the white platform formally called his palm. As it lifted back up, she managed a minor headache and her ears popped at pressure but after so, everything went on smoothly.

"why can't I remember anything from last night?" she straightened her tossled hair, an effect of the open take off. They began to walk around, our heroine didn't know where exactly was the main destination but she didn't concern herself to ask.

"you collapsed onto the table after you drank the Black tea"

Black tea... It had an echoing effect. She knew that phrase from somewhere yet somehow she couldn't remember anything about it.

"did you mindsweep me or something?" she glared hard at the gentleman who she knew wasn't one at all.

"no, that too was the Black tea's doing"

"well, go on" the round of his hat shadowed his eyes mysteriously even if Alice had a good view up at it, she looked away for his privacy.

"only role holders can drink that tea, it has side-effects for foreigners like you" he said grimly

"why didn't you warn me then before I did that stupid game of yours?"

"I found it rather amusing" typical, Blood's always out for his own interest.

"ok, how about an antidote?" she asked sternly, more interested on HOW to grow back than to find out things-that-interest-Blood-Dupre.

"as far as I'm concerned, there isn't any"

"WHAT?" Alice wobbled up, her chocolate brown eyes rejecting all emotions but anger.

"so I'm stuck like this?" she questioned, absolutely enraged.

"I wouldn't mind you being like this" he eyed her suggestively. "I'd like to play with you this size"

"Dont. You. Dare." the foreigner blushed, grabbing her skirt in prepatorial defense.

"my, my, I wasn't aware of your dirty mind, young lady"

"perverted bastard..." Alice murmered, silently hoping he'd overhear. She had known that the Hatter was just playing with her and that she shouldn't take everything he says literally but she just couldn't help it.

"so, what are those...side-effects you mentioned earlier?" Blood had this annoying amused look in his eye since the 'young lady' has changed the subject so suddenly.

"memory disorientation, size-fixation and obsession"

"come again?"

"obsession, after every twenty minutes of staying with one person, that person would want to HAVE you forever. Similar to when a child wants a toy and would obsess over it"

That certainly explained Dee and Dum. The crimson in their childish orbs still frightened her, she HOPED to at least get a decent sleep tonight. Suddenly, a thought struck her and she frantically peeked at her carrier.

"Blood, put me down! Put me down NOW!" she cried. What was suprising was his motion to do the exact opposite. He grabbed her by the waist violently, barely squeezing the life out of her.

"I've always wanted to know what the 'obsession' felt like" he smiled malovently at the girl whose eyes widened in suprise.

"no Blood, you don't want to do this" she pushed at his wrist, her pleads for freedom being rendered fruitless.

His other hand slithered around the one caging her diaphragm. "it would be interesting, I'll tell you that, so how about trying it?" his teeth shone like pearls, beautiful and yet camouflaged with evil greed. He clutched harder, she gasped at the lost necessity.

His eyes, they weren't blood-red yet. She guessed she had ten seconds to convince him. She pretended to peer shockingly behind him.

"Look, Vivaldi came early today!"

"I know her whole schedule, she's at a meeting now"

Seven seconds.

"hey, let's have some of that tea you mentioned earlier"

"no thanks, I'm not thirsty" he mimicked her earlier retort, charming.

Four seconds.

"oh my gosh, it's Justin Beiber!"

"who the hell is he?"

Two seconds.

"...your hat"

"nice try, young lady but-"

"no seriously, your hat" she pointed at the ebonic magician-like hat, flying against the wind and floating out of the rose garden. Blood cursed, dropped her and ran after his hat.

Good news is she escaped, bad news is she was falling down to something else painful.

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She was lucky someone caught her. Two inches from ground level.

"Woah, what's this on my shoe?" okay, not necassarily caught.

A large rubber boot came out of no where and was provided as a landing spot for her. Unfortunately, the person wearing this boot, upraised it and shook it up and down, thinking that some random animal had dropped on it.

"come on boy, get off now" she recognized that voice. Alice clung onto the big boot for safety, either that or she'll end up flying out of the Mafia territory all together. She felt like an amateur cowgirl on a rodeo bull.

"A-A-A-Ac-c-ce!" she stammered; careful not to bite her own tongue, the man still wagging his shoe around.

"oh Alice, is that you?" he stopped at last, peering curiously at the dizzy Alice whose head was literally spinning.

"I think...I see pink bushes" she randomly commented as the Red Knight gently put her down. Our heroine's vision disoriented in a mix of colors, she currently stared at the seemingly green-haired man in a sky blue overcoat. She pressed the balls of her fists to her sensitive orbs and the colors seem to return gradually.

"Ace, what on earth are you doing here?"

he shrugged "I was just heading to the clock tower...and since your here, I must be at the right place" he simpered in satisfaction at his little success as Alice palmed her face.

Ace was just being Ace, the directionally-challanged knight of hearts as always. The knight then glanced at her doubtfully, gave her a once over and put a hand to his hairless chin.

"hm, there's something different about you..." he muttered, pondering hard as if her new size wasn't obvious to him. Which it probably wasn't.

"did you gain weight?" the mentioned girl rolled her eyes.

"no Ace, I've shrunk! I've shrunk to the size of a Barbie doll"

"really? I've couldve sworn-"

"oh forget it"

"ok!"

The foreigner began in the opposite direction, aware that if she remained any longer, he'd be under the effect of the 'obsession'. That word was getting on her nerves all of a sudden.

"hey, where you going, tiny Alice?" he laughed as if he just made the greatest joke in the world; following her in an easy pace, much to her dismay.

"I'm going to find a nice little hole to crawl up in. I might be stuck like this forever so maybe a make-shift bedroom will do me some good" she said as she met the cemented walls of the Mafia mansion. She patted them for some trick trap door or an abandoned hole hidden within it.

"I'll help you then" the knight chuckled. He crouched behind her and started tapping for some hollow parts on the area on top of her.

"although this really isn't necassary"

"what isn't necessary?" Alice's hand traveled to the right in concentrated search.

"finding a hole"

"you got any better ideas?" she gave up and returned to her left. Huge wall, small palms.

"two actually" she didn't really mind what he was saying but she kept conversation, allowing her to be free of boredom's hold on her.

"and they are?"

"one is you camp out with me for the rest of your life" her hand abrupt in instinct at what he said and she whirled around fearfully. She heaved in relief as his eyes were close to red but not unnaturally crimson. She expected it to be, the 'obsession' could get to him any minute now and his suggestion was kind of suspicious. She smiled as genuinely as she could in the drastic situation she was in.

"thanks but no thanks, I've got a lot on my hands as it is" her head returned to the pale wall.

"and I warn you to stay back if you know what's good for you"

"aw, tiny Alice wants me to go away even after I offered my help" his tone reminded her of the Tweedle's childish ones yet she knew it was feigned for mockery. She restarted her search, pounding on the left wall.

"you know I didn't mean it that way"

"ok, I'll leave because I trust Alice, her heart is pure" her cheeks heated up and it had nothing to do with the sun gifting a free tan on her bare skin.

"just go already!" she covered the fuschia portion of her face using the back of her hand.

Ace laughed "alright I will" she could hear his footsteps crashing over grass and pavement, moving farther and farther away. She tried to ignore it but a puzzling feeling left her to contemplate like she was missing an important detail. It surely had nothing to do with the hole she intended to find. It had something to do with Ace.

"Ace!" she called, almost frantically.

Fortunately, he still was at the Hatter grounds. She could faintly see him grinning at her like he was expecting her to exclaim his name.

"er, your second idea, what was it?" Alice inquired quickly. He swiveled around, resulting his cape to fly out dramatically.

"oh nothing really" he shrugged "just that I know of a cake at the palace that was rumored to make people grow, thought you might want to know that"

Alice gaped at him and didn't care once her palm landed on a hollow area. There was her hole. And before her, there was the first sighting of hope. My, did she love convenient choices like these.

"Ace, will you please take me to the Castle of Hearts?" she asked with an optimistic twinkle in her eye.

"well, I was suppose to do some work for Julius but I guess I can spare some time" Ace pressed his clean white mask onto his sweaty face, ready for the clock master's job. He then approached the little doll figure and hooched her onto his shoulder.

"I can wait, do whatever you need to do" at that moment, she remembered the twenty-minute consequence of her new size. She peeked hesitantly at Ace's beaming face.

'Well, Blood didn't really get affected earlier and ten minutes estimated have passed when he was with me so...maybe that rule was a mistake.' she assured herself. But no sooner had she thought of it, that the twins' eager faces popped into her head, the memory haunted her to disagree with her own theory.

'I'll be careful' she promised 'after all, this is Ace, he won't be as violent as Blood'. If only she knew how terribly wrong she was.

"shall we go?" he smiled kindly.

"sure" and then behind his 'work' mask, his bright orbs transformed into a darker, deeper color of maroon and Alice was completely unaware of it.

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"Alice?" Blood called out to the empty garden, his hand gripping his long-lost hat.

"how rude of her to leave without saying goodbye" he flicked his cane and it shape-shifted into a large hunter gun.

"oh well, time to search for my pretty little doll"

AN: I seriously hope this didn't turn you off. The 'obsession' was just to prove that Alice has somewhat become like a 'doll' and what happens to dolls with us, girls? Haha, fine! maybe not ALL of us but hey, we have our obsession's sometimes. ;) What's yours? :D

Thanks for reaching this far. IF I feel like it and IF asked REAL nicely, I'll update this weekend; haha, probably won't happen but hey, I can dream, can't I? :") Review pls. This is White M. signing out!