KFG24: Don't skip over this one thinking it's just a rewritten chapter! It's new!

Dolls

Though it had happened many years ago, Rin remembered becoming a doll quite well.

Rin was a bit apprehensive about going into the small store, but she needed to get a gift for her sister's birthday and the dolls in the window were breath-takingly beautiful... She hoped she had enough money for one.

As soon as Rin stepped into the store she saw the perfect doll. It was a tiny female with long, dark brown hair and shiny green eyes. She wore a long, deep purple sleeveless dress, a matching pair of gloves, and blue heels, and a sparkling diamond necklace. Rin picked up the doll and trailed her finger down its porcelain arm. It felt warm. But that's not what made her drop it.

She dropped it because it blinked.

The blonde teen stumbled back with a cry as the doll fell to the ground with a loud crash.

After a while of staring at the broken porcelain shards on the ground she shook her head. "It's just a doll Rin," she told herself, "there's no way it blinked, that was just your imagination."

"Was it?" An unknown voice asked. Rin looked up at the source of the voice. It was a young boy about her age. He had short blond hair and angry blue eyes. In spite of his unbuttoned white shirt and torn jeans, she assumed that he was the shop's owner.

"U-uh... Hi. Um... Look, I'm really sorry I broke-"

"Prima." He interrupted harshly. Rin gave him a confused look. "Prima," he repeated, "her name was Prima."

"Oh. Well, um, I'm really sorry for breaking Prima... I don't have much cash on me, but I'm sure I have enough to pay for her..."

He shook his head. "You killed her. No amount of money can make up for that."

Rin glared at the strange boy. "What the hell are you talking about? She was a doll. They're not real! And if you think they are then you need to get a life!" The girl then turned and began making her way towards the door.

"Stop!" Suddenly she found herself paralyzed, completely unable to move.

'What the hell?!'

The boy smiled and snickered. "Since you killed Prima, you'll have to take her place."

"Wh-what…?!" Rin managed as a strange, almost painful feeling came over her. "St-stop it… Please…"

"My name is Len," the boy announced, "and you're now my doll." And then everything went black.

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When Rin awoke, everything was much bigger and her hands felt weird. She looked down at them and saw that they were covered by white gloves that almost reached her elbows. "Huh?!" In addition to the gloves, she wore a lovely green dress with puffy sleeves. Looking into the mirror she hadn't noticed earlier, she saw that the dress was about the same color as her eyes.

She also noticed that the room hadn't gotten bigger. She had gotten smaller.

"H-he turned me into a doll…" She murmured in shock.

'No! That's not true! Something like that is impossible!' The rational part of her mind exclaimed as it tried to make sense of the situation.

Suddenly Rin was picked up. She shrieked in surprise when she saw the giant holding her. "P-put me down!"

The boy - Len, she remembered was his name - looked shocked. "You can talk… And move." He murmured in surprise. "You're a very special doll, aren't you?"

Rin glared at him. "Who cares?! Put me down and make me normal!"

Len sighed and set her down. "Look, even if I wanted to make you human again - which I don't - I can't."

"Why not?!" The now tiny girl demanded to know.

He looked away with a sheepish look. "I… I uh…" He cleared his throat and quickly mumbled, "Idon'tknowhow."

Somehow, Rin understood him. "What?!"

He sighed again and repeated himself. "I don't know how. And… As time goes on, you're going to become a doll."

Rin suddenly felt terrible. Her stomach was twisting into knots, her throat was closing up, and something warm and wet was rolling down her cheeks as she made loud, pitiful noises and gasped for breath between sobs.

"Ah, no, don't! Please don't cry!" Of course, this just made Rin fall to her knees, cover her face with her hands, and cry harder. Len bit his lip. He hated being around crying people! He never knew what to say or do. He usually froze up until they were done. So he did just that.

When her loud sobbing died down, Rin looked up at Len. "You really can't turn me back?" He nodded solemnly. "What about my parents? My sister? My friends?"

Len didn't answer for a while. "I'm sorry."

The girl began to cry again.

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"I usually only use that spell on my enemies." He explained to her once after a few years.

"Enemies?" She repeated. "So… Was Prima an enemy?"

Len shook his head. "Prima was an attempt at making a doll like you." Seeing her confused face, he explained. "I was trying to make a doll that was practically human."

"Oh… So what's with the enemies?"

"My enemies are witch hunters. And rather than just persecuting the magic users who've done wrong, they hunt all who practice magic other than other with hunters."

She gasped. "That's terrible… Why do they-?"

The boy sighed. "Why are most genocides started? They're insane and see evil everywhere but in themselves."

Rin frowned. "Stupid…"

The doll maker surprised his doll by taking a piece of white ribbon and holding it against her hair. "Ah!" She pulled away and gave him a wary look. "What are you doing?"

"I'm just going to tie in this in your hair. It'll make you look cute."

"You're saying I'm not cute?"

"No! You're extremely cute it's just-" Len groaned as his face turned bright red. Rin laughed at him and he sighed. "Look Rin, I do think you're cute and I really li-" Rin stamped her tiny high-heeled foot down on Len's hand. The heel pierced through his skin and he pulled back the hand with a gasp of pain.

"Don't you dare say you love me! You only love me because we're forced to spend so much time together!" With that she kicked off her shoes and ran away unsure of who she was truly addressing, Len or her heart.

Len sighed when the doll disappeared. "Be careful Rin… If you're not careful you'll break."

Suddenly the wards surrounding Len's workshop began cracking and falling. He closed his eyes and concentrated, trying to find the cause of his breaking wards. He saw three glowing fires of magic. The pink one stuck out more than the blue and the purple.

"Ted…"

As if the utterance of his name had summoned him, the glasses wearing man appeared. "Hello Len. It's a bit late for you to escape." He straightened his tie a bit before continuing. "Unless you plan to go without her that is." Deruko came to stand next to Ted with a snow globe that held a frightened Rin inside it.

"Let her go!" Len tried to lunge forward and grab the glass prison but found that Leon, the third part of Ted's team, had caught him.

"I'm sorry Len, but you can either die here and now or be put on trial for your crimes."

"I haven't done anything wrong!"

Ted raised an eyebrow. "Then why is that girl so small? She doesn't look like a faery. Unless… Is her name Thumbelina?" He chuckled at his own joke.

The blond bowed his head in defeat. "Fine, just kill me here. I'd rather die with my dolls than rot in a jail cell before my public execution."

Ted nodded and brought out a gun. "Goodbye then." He said as he pressed the cool metal against Len's forehead and pulled the trigger. Rin screamed. Though Deruko had covered the glass with her hand, Rin still heard the shot and knew what had happened.

As Deruko and Leon took care of the body, Ted took Rin out of the globe to explain her fate. "With Len gone, his magic is no longer keeping you from becoming porcelain. So this globe will have to take his magic's place."

"So… I'll be stuck in that thing?"

"Until we find a way to make you human again."

"Oh…"

The pink haired man frowned. "Are you alright?" The blonde just nodded and let him put her back in the globe. Once he left help his teammates, Rin sat down and cried.

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It had been a few months since Len died and in spite of the magic in her globe that stalled her transformation into a doll, Rin could tell that it wouldn't be long until her joints were frozen in place and her mind was trapped in a motionless body. She had two options, either become a doll, or join Len.

Rin had always known what her choice would be.

The blonde had managed to sneak a rock into the globe last time she was let out and now was the time to use it. She lifted it above her head and threw it with as much force as she could muster.

The rock shattered the glass and made a hole big enough for her to get out. Though the sharp glass tore at her dress. She ran without any real destination. She had nowhere to go anyways.

"Oh Len," she whispered to herself, "I want to see you. I want to hear your voice... Len!" She fell with a sob and whimpered in pain when she tried to stand.

She looked over her shoulder and saw that her leg was cracked. The doll touched it and it broke completely. "I'm falling apart…" Tears made their ways down her cheeks as she watched her other leg start to crack.

Somehow Rin's sobs turned into laughter. "Len! I'll be seeing you soon! You better have waited for me!" Then, still laughing, she dragged herself along until she reached a ledge. She took a deep breath and allowed herself to fall to the ground.

KFG24: Rushed ending is rushed. X,x I really wanted to finish this before bed.
This chapter took a couple of months to write. I've been working on it since I went on hiatus. And it kinda sucks. TT,TT
There was an ending bit about Rin and Len in the afterlife talking about getting reborn again(thus implying they've been reborn many times and that they're soulmates), but I deleted it. It sucked. And now I'm going to bed.