I don't own the labyrinth, only the members of Sarah's new family.
Chapter One: "A foolish wish made".
A small light is seen under a light blue door within a seemingly quiet 2-floor house, Stepping inside the doorway on the second floor at the end of the hall, a skinny but feminine form can be seen sitting in a large oak rocking chair. Long wavy brown-black and mysterious slightly orange-brown eyes stared towards the doorway. A soft sigh escaping the teen's shadowed but pink lips as she listened to her parents fighting down stairs in the kitchen, across from her in two twin sized beds laying her younger 10 year old twin siblings Falen and James. She gets up and smiles walking over and running a finger along her little sister Falen's cheek as she turns to see James hugging his favorite dinosaur toy tight. 'Such innocence…If only it would stay that way, never knowing…' She slowly begins to return to the rocker before pausing and stopping standing in front of the vanity table that within the top long middle drawer held all the manuscripts her mother, Sarah, wrote as a child. Staring into the mirror as she heard the shatter of dishware down stairs. Ever since her mother had gotten remarried when her father died things had gone horribly wrong two years after the twins birth. She swallowed thickly as she turned the lock on the twins' door quickly before scooting back to sit between the twins' beds with the big red leather bound book called "The Labyrinth" in her hands. It was her mother's favorite book, she use to read it to Crow when she was little, a smile came to her lips when she thought of the nickname her mother gave her.
"You know Melody," Began a soft voice from a young 25-year-old Sarah said to 7-year-old Melody as they sat upon a large bed with orange canopy curtains hanging down. Big orange-brown eyes turned up towards her mother from such a sweet innocent face, "Yes mommy?" Melody tilted her head to the side as she held the big red book in her little hands leaning against her mother's pregnant stomach.
"You have the eyes of a Crow sometimes, cold and shiny, glowing in the night like an Owl as well" Melody raised a brow at her mother, Sarah smiled at her, "You should have a nickname my child, Crow should do it, Be free like a bird and someday you'll fly away from our home all grown up". Melody pouted a bit at her mother then smiled some; her hair was almost black as a crow's feathers so it made sense.
A softer sigh on her lips as she leaned her head back against the twins' night stand that held two little alarm clocks, one with fairies on it and the other with cowboys and Indian figures. A light laugh came to her lips as she gingerly brought a hand up to her cheek, a soft red handprint on her face that still sorely stung. Earlier that evening her stepfather had come home drunk off his own bottom and had been screaming at her mother. Crow had come downstairs to see what was going on since she was helping Falen braid her long red hair when she had seen Mitchell raise a hand to Sarah in his anger. Yelling at him to stop as she stood in front of her mother taking the slap instead, Mitchell got even more ticked off and had hit her a couple more times on the same cheek. Sarah sent Crow back upstairs as she had shooed Mitchell to the living room with his tv dinner and beer, handing her daughter an ice bit her lip softly wishing her father Jeremy was still alive… He'd never allow his wife to be treated like that or his daughter, She knew Mitchell didn't care for her since she was not of his blood. A smile came to her lips, as she knew Mitchell favored the twins and were spoiled by him but they still loved their mother and sister best. Placing the book on her lap, she slowly flipped open the book and read through the story humming softly to herself. Pausing on the page where the princess first meets the goblin king, She sighed softly placing her fingers along the page. "If only I could go to this place…be away from that horrible man…if it weren't for the twins mother would have left him…" She looked up jumping a bit when thunder clapped outside, looking around as the nightlights in the twins' room flickered.
She made a face a bit and got up fleeing to the rocking chair sitting with her feet tucked under her, "That was a bit creepy…" She trailed off as she thought she saw something move in the corner of the room. Swallowing a bit as she stared her eyes glowing in the dark now that the nightlights had gone out, "eheheh… m-must just be my eyes playing tricks on me." She breathed out softly shaking off the feeling that someone was watching her as she brought a hand up to lightly touch the little trinket around her neck dangling on a white ribbon that was stained black in little rose designs. She took the pendent in hand and looked down at it, a large onyx crystal being held up by the talons of an owl on the left and the talons of a crow on the right.
Smoothing a thumb over the crystal thinking idly, -scratch scratch scratch- She jumped somewhat looking around before seeing the window jiggling. A twitch of her left eye as she eased one foot down only to step on something that made a squeaking growl noise before it skittered off. She jerked her foot up letting out a scream of surprise moving to stand up on the rocking chair and shove the book into her sweater; the huge inside pocket would keep it safe. Pants softly as she looks around her eyes wide with surprise, "w-what was that!" exclaimed Crow with a bit of a shaky tone. She swallowed hard with a soft whimper as she stared at the floor lightening flashing across the sky lighting up the room, she eeked seeing something on the floor and scrabbled off the chair and onto the big window seat, in her hands was one of Falen's large hard plastic baby dolls held defensively as if she was going to hit something with it.
She breathed softly and slowly as she pulled a flashlight out of the drawer underneath her and clicked it on running it across the floor. Her eyes narrowing on the skinny rat like tail peeking out from under James's bed, easing down onto the floor she slowly walked over to it before snatching it up and pulling out a rat-like creature. It screamed and cackled grabbing at her and she let out a terrified scream and slung it away from her running to the window seat. It had grown quiet downstairs and she shivered hearing the chorus of cackles and laughter, Swallowing hard as she heard heavy footsteps on the stairs. She knew the heavy footfall of those boots on the stairs.
Fear welled up in her throat as she clicked off the flashlight and closed the curtains around herself, Peeking out slightly unknowing that a white creature sat in the trees behind the window watching the on goings of the house. She held her breath as she heard her bedroom door open across the hall, holding in a soft whimper as she heard the door shut firmly and the handle knob to the twins' jiggle about. Biting her lip roughly as she heard the cursing and angry mumbling on the other side along with the jingle of keys. "I wish the goblins in the story book were real and that they would come take me away from this horrible place right now!" She muttered holding tightly to the flashlight in hand, thunder cracked the sky and the window blew open behind her as she was sucked out of it and the world spun in front of her eyes causing her to faint as the cackling laughter rang in her ears.