The doll women froze before the gigantic child. Sara took two booming steps forward, finally noticing the knocked over fire truck and Katy's position on the chair.

"Ooo! Did you climb up there aww by yourself?" She said, reaching out. Katy screamed as Sara lifted her up, watching as her hard-earned progress evaporated. Sara laughed as she patted Katy with her other hand.

"Good job Mommy! You made it so high!"

Katy saw Elisa trying to make a break for it. Sara noticed as well and in a moment she was off. Katy screamed and clutched at Katy's gigantic hand as the world rushed by. Sara scooped up Elisa in her other hand and raised the tiny, squeaking nanny into the air.

"No dolly! No running, you could get hurt!"

Elisa squirmed in Sara's hand, glaring at Katy. Sara giggled as she looked around the room.

"Ooo! I wanna paint!"

Katy's eyes went wide.

"Sara...no...Sara please…."

"Come dollies!" Sara shouted as she bounded to the corner of the room. She dropped the two tiny women onto her small, plastic crafting table and went to get the paints. Elisa turned to Katy, a look of fear on her face.

"What's the plan?" the smaller woman asked.

Katy took a deep breath.

"I'm trying to think of one...I'm trying…."

Sara returned, plopping down her paint. She popped open the blue and dipped a finger in before starting to paint on the paper.

"Sara, no...what have I said? You're too big for finger painting! Where are you brushes?" Katy said, anticipating the potential disaster looming ahead.

Sara looked at Katy, her expression unsure for a moment. "But I LIKE finger painting!" Sara finally whined in response, popping open another container of paint. Any authority that the doll-sized mom may have held over her daughter had dissolved away. Sara was the one calling the shots now. Katy swallowed a lump in her throat.

Elisa pointed a finger at the giant.

"N-now, Sara... you listen to your mother, do you hear?"

Sara pouted a moment before her face lit up.

"I'm sorry...you're right! I forgot to share. You can paint too!"

Before Elisa could respond, Sara reached over and began to pull her tiny nanny toward the paints, leaving a smear of blue on Elisa's dress and arms.

"Sara!" Elisa squeaked. "You're making a mess!"

Sara blinked and then frowned.

"Sowwee," she said. Elisa sighed...but then Sara reached out and grabbed her. She screamed as the titanic girl undid the Velcro on her back and took off the doll dress, leaving the tiny woman naked with blue paint streaks across parts of her body.

"There you go! Now you won't get your dress dirty!"

Elisa shivered and whimpered as Sara continued to push her forward toward the paints. Standing before the huge container, she froze, looking up.

"Come on! Let's paint!" Sara giggled, reaching her other finger into the orange and swirling it on the page.

Elisa shook her head. Sara frowned again and yelled, "PAINT!" The booming voice hurt both the little doll women's ears as Elisa nervously reached an arm into the blue. Walking to the paper, she knelt down and began to place tiny handprints on the paper.

Sara giggled. "Aww! So small! You so cute Elisa!"

Elisa's cheeks flushed red as she attempted to stand. Her foot slipped, and she landed chest first on what she had just painted, messing up the pattern. Sara watched as the tiny woman scrambled to her feet, blue paint smeared across her front.

"Oh! Dolly prints!"

Elisa looked at her with confusion, then her eyes widened in fear.

"Sara….no….please n…."

Sara did not even hear her as she poured some of the blue paint on the page. She reached out and grabbed Elisa, holding her over the paint. Elisa squeaked and screamed as she was lowered into the pigment. Sara rubbed her around and Katy watched with horror as she then raised the tiny Elisa into the air, the nanny sputtering and completely covered in paint. Sara got a fresh piece of paper and began 'stamping' tiny body prints of the terrified woman. Again and again she stamped her down, returning to the paint periodically as she continued. Elisa squeaked for help, looking at Katy in a panic as her legs kicked in the air before being pressed to the paper and peeled off again and again.

Finally, Katy couldn't take it anymore. She ran up and shouted as loudly as she could.

"Sara STOP! This isn't how you treat people! You put Elisa down right now young lady!"

Sara stopped, a shocked look on her face. She released her grip on the doll nanny, who scrambled away, leaving tiny blue footprints. Katy stared down her gigantic daughter, exerting her will as strongly as she could.

Sara seemed unsure of what to do. Katy could feel her own fear rising as she continued attempting to assert her authority. After a few moments though, Sara began to reach for her mom.

"Sara...don't…." Katy said again, her voice squeaking. It must have been the combination of her minute stature and ridiculously high voice, but the spell was breaking. As Sara's hand swooped in, Katy's resolve broke and she turned to run, only to be scooped into the air by an orange and blue painted hand.

"Mommy paint too!" Sara squealed with excitement. Katy felt the Velcro at the back of her own dress being opened up and squirmed and fought to keep the doll clothing on, but to no avail as Sara peeled it off. She giggled and Katy found herself being lowered toward the orange paint. Her mind went into overdrive.

"Sara, s-stop!" She wailed as she was being lowered. As terror washed through her, she suddenly had one final idea pop into her mind.

"Sara, I have...i have a surprise!"

Suddenly, her descent stopped. Katy felt herself being lifted back up into the air. Turning, she found herself confronted by the gigantic face of her daughter. She looked at Katy, wide-eyed and inquisitive.

"Supwize?" She asked.

Katy nodded her head.

"A treasure hunt!" She squeaked.

A big smile came across Sara's face.

"Yay! I love that!" She said excitedly.

Katy breathed a sigh of relief.

"First, you need to go and wash up."

Sara released her grip and went bounding to the kitchen to follow her mother's order. Katy stood, feeling splotches of wet, orange paint on her back. It didn't feel good, but she also knew it could have been so much worse. She ran over to Elisa who was quivering and choking back tears.

"Are you alright?" Katy asked the poor, smaller woman who was completely covered in blue paint. Elisa looked up at her.

"I'm a… *sniff*...I'm a mess Katy. I'm so sc..scared…."

Katy knelt down and hugged the woman close to her, feeling the paint as their skin touched.

"I'm sorry Elisa, you don't deserve to be put through this. But I think I know what to do. Will you be okay here for a while?

Elisa sniffed and nodded, squeezing Katy tightly. Moments later, the excited Sara returned.

"Ready for the tweasure!" she said excitedly.

Katy patted Elisa and stood. Turning, Sara giggled.

"Mommy, you're so messy!"

Katy laughed too. "I know, but let's worry about that later. Pirates have hidden something in the house, and if you help me find it and complete the mission, I will give you cookies AND ice cream, in addition to birthday cake later!"

Sara's eyes lit up like it was her birthday and Christmas rolled into one.

Katy laughed again. Sara may be huge, but she was still an adorable, excitable little girl.

"Okay Sara, we need to find a small orange bottle. It's somewhere in this room! Can you find it?"

Sara grinned and started peering around the room, trying to find an object that matched the description. After a few moments she looked back at the painting table and pointed at the orange paint container.

Katy smiled. "Yes, that’s an orange bottle, but not what we are looking for! Can you find another?"

Sara went back to looking. She peered around the room, squinting as she tried to find the object that Katy was describing. She only really looked around for about 45 seconds before giving up and looking back at Katy, frowning.

“I can’t find it!” she huffed.

Katy rolled her eyes. Sara was so bad at finding things and typically gave up this easily. But she knew this was no time to lose her patience.

“Aww, I know you can do it Sara! Take a slower look around. Maybe even look on top of things...like maybe the island?”

Sara’s face brightened up again at the hint and she turned immediately to the island and ran up to it, peering at the surface.

“I found it!” she said, pointing at the little orange bottle lying down next to the pitcher of shrinking solution that Katy had mixed up earlier in the day. Sara turned around, jumping up and down excitedly.

“I found it, I found it, I found it!”

Katy clapped her tiny hands together.

“Yay! Now Sara, do you think you can take me over there so I can help you with the next part of the hunt?”

Sara nodded and Katy lifted up her arms as Sara’s hand closed around her. The little girl carried her mother over and plopped her down onto the island.

“Thank you, sweetie!” Katy said as she ran across the island. She reached the container, examining it. She was overjoyed to see the antidote capsules inside. It was sealed by a clasp, though, which she knew she would never be able to get open at this size.

“Sara?” she called out to her daughter who had made her way around the island to watch.

“Sara, can you open this?”

Sara took the bottle and began to pick at it.

“Put your thumbs under the white part, and push! Push real hard!” Katy instructed.

Sara did as her mother asked and after a few moments the cap popped open. Katy clapped her hands excitedly.

“Good job honey! Can you give mommy one of the pills from inside please?”

Sara looked at her tiny mom.

“You said never ever EVER touch pills, mommy! They’re for grownups!”

Katy nodded her head. She was so close.

“Y...yes, I said that. But it’s okay to just reach in and give me one. That won’t hurt you.”

Sara nodded and reached inside, placing one of the giant pills in front of her diminutive mother. Katy realized even more so exactly how small she was when she observed how large the pill was next to her.

“Thank you sweetie. Now mommy will try and open this.”

Katy wrapped her legs around the bottom of the pill and pulled at the top. She grunted, pulling as hard as she could, feeling the top moving a tiny bit each time. By the time Sara returned, Katy had finally gotten the capsule open, panting from the effort she had been forced to apply.

Sara saw the powder inside.

“Is that the treasure?” she asked.

Katy shook her head.

“No honey, but, in a few minutes, assuming this works, I will help you find the real treasure for being such a good girl.”

Sara smiled as Katy reached her hand into the pill and took a handful of the powder. Bringing it to her mouth, she began to ingest the antidote.

Due to her stature, it didn’t take much to get an effect. She began getting larger in less than a minute. ‘You’re growing!’ Sara had exclaimed excitedly. Katy was worried that Sara would have been disappointed, but it appeared that the idea of her getting her mommy back was just as fun. When she was large enough, she swallowed the rest of the pill, and in less than 10 minutes she had achieved full height.

Katy knelt down and drew her daughter into a tight embrace, sniffling as the tears welled up in her eyes. Sara hugged her back.

“That was the best present ever, mommy,” she said, giggling. “When can you be a dolly again?”

Katy laughed. “We’ll see,” she said.

Standing and wiping her eyes, she walked over to the table where the miniscule, 5-inch high Elisa still sat. Katy laughed and reached down, scooping the tiny woman into her hand.

“So this is what it’s like to have a little, living doll in hand,” Katy laughed. “Hmm, a girl could get used to this….”

Elisa’s eyes went wide and she squirmed, squeaking with fear. Katy laughed.

“I’m just joking, Elisa. You’ve been through enough...we both have. Here, let’s get you back to normal size….”