"Kristy!" Jaime yelled from her top bunk. Jaime was a 6-year-old brunette with her mothers stunning green eyes and her fathers, well, she wasn't really sure. Her father had died when her mother, Ms. Sarah Lyn Williams, was 3 months pregnant with her in a motorcycle accident.
"What?" Kristy answered from the bottom bunk, her voice muffled by a pillow. Kristy was 15 but would be 16 in only one week. Her natural hair color was and forever would be forgotten. At this point in time, the punk teenager had light brown hair with blonde, black, and pink highlights and lowlights running through her hair, which reached down to the small of her back. She had the most beautiful pair of soft blue eyes.
"Tell me a story." Jaime called.
"I'm tired, tell yourself a damn story." Kristy said turning over and facing the wall.
"Aw! You swore!" Jaime complained.
"Shut up." Kristy called, getting more and more irate.
"I'm telling mommy!" Jaime said with amusement in her voice.
"Your mother, not mine." Kristy said pulling the blanket over her head.
"I'm still telling her."
"You know what you little brat! I'll tell you a story! One that I wish was true!" Kristy said throwing the blankets off the bed and jumping out so she could look into Jaime's eyes as she told her the story. "One day there was an annoying little girl who wouldn't let her cousin go to sleep. The cousin couldn't take it anymore and thought back to a story that her cousins mother had told her."
"Wouldn't that make your cousins mother your aunt?" Jaime asked.
"I don't consider her anything but a prison guard. Anyway, the girl looked at her annoying cousin and said," Before Kristy could finish there was a banging coming from outside their bedroom window. "Shit." Kristy said a little louder than she meant to.
"Aw, you swore again. What did the girl do?" Jaime asked as if she never heard the loud screaming banging from outside.
"Who gives a shit? I'm going out with again Matt tonight." Kristy said walking over to the window.
"You swore again! Tell me the ending or I'm telling mommy!" Jaime yelled.
"Okay! The girl wished that the goblins would come and take the cousin away and they did and the cousin was never seen again! The end! Bye now!" Kristy said climbing out the window.
"She's so cool." Jaime said as she lay back down and went to sleep.
A few hours later Jaime heard the sound of a woman's screaming coming from outside her bedroom door. Jaime got up, climbed down from her bunk, and went to see what was going on as any curious child would.
The scene she saw before her was one that no child would want to see.
Scott, Sarah's boyfriend, was smashing Sarah's head against the door. When Sarah could stand no longer, Scott threw her to the ground and reached to take Sarah's skirt off. It was obvious what he was planning to do.
"Mommy!" Jaime cried. Scott looked over at her and smiled evilly. He then got off of Sarah and began walking towards Jaime. Sarah tried to get back up but couldn't put any weight on her leg. She tried the army crawl, but she was so weak from fighting she couldn't move all of her weight. All Sarah could do was sit there.
He reached out for Jaime's hair so suddenly that she didn't even see it coming. He pulled her up by her hair the distance between her face and his.
"Be a good little girl and go back to bed." He said sickeningly sweet.
"What are you doing to my mommy?" She asked.
"Did I say you could ask any questions?" Scott yelled and threw her small body across the room. She hit the wall and fell to the ground. Too afraid to get up, Jaime crawled under the end table a few feet away.
Scott went back over to Sarah but before he could do anything more Jaime whispered, "I wish the goblins would come and take Scott away."
Sarah, hearing what her daughter had said looked at her shocked.
"Right now!" Jaime cried.
"Jaime! No!" Sarah yelled as she tried to grab for Scott, it was too late, he was gone. Jaime would have gotten up and ran to her mother but before she could a man appeared between the two of them.
"Well, well, well." Jareth said looking down at the bleeding and bruised Sarah. "Looks like we've gotten in a bit of a bad spot, now don't we?"
"Please Jareth, bring him back." Sarah said threw her tears.
"What's said is said. Why would you want him back anyway?" Jareth asked with a smirk. "Look at all the good he did you."
"I need him, he's a good man and has a good job. He pays the rent for me and feeds the kids and me." Sarah said still on the floor and still not believing this could be happening.
"First off, your friend Higgle,"
"Hoggle."
"Yes, could probably pay the rent of this, place." Jareth said looking around.
The couch was a disgusting floral print with a fold out bed that was used by Sarah. They had one navy blue table with a broken leg and a wooden end table with a missing drawer. The ceiling had a leak that was being caught in a large bucket and the walls had cracks in them. He wasn't sure if he wanted to see the rest of the small apartment.
"Secondly, children?" Jareth said raising a brow.
"Yes, my daughter, Jaime, the one that called you." Sarah explained, still on the floor.
Before she could go on Jareth turned around and looked at the small child hiding with fear under the wooden, drawer missing, end table. He gave her a small smile and began to talk to her.
"Hello there." The girl was still as stone. "My name is Jareth. There's nothing to be afraid of now. He's gone. Why don't you come on out of there so we can meet." Jareth said with a tone that made everything about him seem safe. Jaime slowly crawled out from underneath the table and over to him.
"You, you took Scott?" She asked, visibly shaking.
"Yes, he's gone now. Did he hurt you?" Jareth asked. Jaime nodded. "What did he do?"
"He, he, he, he, he pull, pulled my hair and, and made me come off the floor and, and, then, he, he, uh, he, he threw me and I, I, I hit the, um, wall." Jaime stuttered out.
Jareth smiled. "Well, he's gone now and he's never, ever, coming back." Jareth assured her. He then made a crystal and began twirling it on his hand.
"What, what's that?" Jaime asked.
"It's a crystal, nothing more, would you like it?" He asked. Jaime nodded and took the crystal. She tried to mimic his routine but failed miserably.
"Hey! How do you do that?" Jaime asked.
"I'll teach you." He promised. "Now let me get your mother off the floor." Jareth picked Sarah up and put her the couch before he went back to Jaime and tried to teach her the crystal trick.
Sarah had been watching the entire thing and noticed that Jareth knew exactly what to do with children.
Well, you ditz, he takes them! Sarah thought to herself. Her thoughts were broken when Kristy came back into the house.
Kristy looked at the guy standing over by her cousin and was obviously confused.
"Uh Sarah, who's that guy and why the hell is he dressed like that?" Kristy said staring at him. Jareth stood up and walked over to her. Kristy stood there with the confused look still on her face. "Sarah, who the hell is this freak?" Kristy said looking him over and laughing.
"Jareth, King of the Goblins." Sarah answered.
"Yeah right! This guys a king and you're a hot millionaire with tons of cash and lots of guys. Sorry Sarah, I'm not a little kid anymore."
"You sure? You act like it sometimes. And just what were you doing out so late?" Sarah yelled back.
"Oh shut up Sarah! You're the one still living in your dream land of far away."
"Actually, young lady, she's telling you the truth. Secondly, you should have more respect for your mother." Jareth said, hands on hips.
Kristy put her hands on her hips and made herself stand just like Jareth. Then imitating his accent said, "Firstly, my name is Kristy. Secondly, prove it. Thirdly, she'd not my mother."
Jareth looked at Sarah confused.
"She's Toby's daughter. I adopted her." Sarah explained. Jareth wanted to know more, but would wait until later.
"Well, I'm tired. I'm going to sleep. Got school tomorrow." Kristy said walking back to the room she shared with Jaime and flopping down into the pillows.
"I know someone else who should go to bed." Sarah said looking at her daughter.
"Aw! But I want to learn this!" Jaime complained.
"I'll teach you another time. You need your rest." Jareth said making the crystals disappear.
"Aw, alright. Night mommy, goodnight, uh,"
"Jareth."
"Goodnight Jareth." Jaime then went back to her room and went to sleep.
"She seems like such a precious little thing." The sound of the girls door slamming shut from Kristy throwing a pillow at it startled both Sarah and Jareth. "I'm not sure about the other one." Jareth commented.
"She's great once you get used to her." Sarah said attempting to get up. She cried out in pain when she tried to put any weight on her leg or arm. Jareth was at her side in a moment and was examining her arm.
"Your arm is out of it's socket." He then moved to her leg. "You've only twisted your ankle."
"You know that just from looking at them?" Sarah asked.
"My best friend's father was a doctor. He would teach me all about mortals since he figured I would some day need to take them." Jareth answered her. "I can fix your arm, but your ankle must heal itself." Jareth put his hand on her shoulder and the other at her elbow. "This is going to hurt for a minute." He told her.
She nodded and he began the treatment of popping the arm back in. Sarah buried her head into his chest and he could feel her tears from the pain. After about a minute he had her arm back in place.
"I'm sorry I had to do that." Jareth said sincerely.
"It needed to be done." Sarah said. After a few moments of silence Sarah began speaking. "What am I going to do? Scott paid for everything. The only job I have is as a teacher and we barely make anything. What am I going to do?" Sarah said starting to cry again.
Jareth enveloped her in his arms and began to rock her back and forth. "Everything will be okay. I promise. Everything will be okay."
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