Hey everyone! This is my second fic! I worked really hard on it, and i plan on adding lots of chapters! :D

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Sarah woke to the screaming of a very angry woman. Karen was standing at the edge of her bed holding a crying Toby. No thanks to the person holding him. Sarah sat up rubbing her eyes, trying to get the sleep out of them. Once she got her bearings she looked up at Karen, who in fact was still screaming about something. Not that Sarah cared at the moment.

"What are you going on about?" Sarah asked, trying to stifle a yawn. As soon as Sarah let the words tumble from her mouth, her step-mother straightened up and slapped Sarah across her right cheek, leaving a red hand mark. Sarah yelped at the show of violence Karen had just shown. Sarah brought her hand up to her cheek, but quickly put it down as she touched it for it was still burning.

"Why'd you do that?" Sarah whispered, trying to blink back her tears. She kept her gaze locked on Karen, who just glared at Sarah.

"Do you have any idea what time it is?" Karen shot at her, Sarah blinked and slowly let her eyes fall to the alarm clock. It was only 7:48am. It wasn't even eight yet.

"It's about 7:50," Sarah informed Karen, who just narrowed her eyes and took a step toward Sarah, who automatically leaned back to put more distance between her and the angry woman in front of her. Karen smiled a tiny bit, letting a cold laugh ring out and echo throughout Sarah's room.

"Scared of me, huh?" Karen said as she took another step toward her step-daughter, thoroughly pleased at Sarah's reaction of leaning back a bit more. "I know what time it is, you stupid girl. But apparently you didn't." Karen dropped the crying Toby into Sarah's lap, who's arm wrapped around the boy and brought him closer to her.

"Your father and I are going out for the afternoon, we should be back around three. I'll deal with you then." Karen said with a mock smile as she turned and walked toward the door.

"Wait," Sarah called after her as she walked out the door and down the stairs, "Where are you guys going?"

"Wouldn't you like to know." Karen called back to her. Sarah sat silently, listening to the crying Toby, until she heard the front door open then close and the car start. Sarah closed her eyes as she heard the car pull out of the driveway. Soon her tears fell ruthlessly down upon Toby, who cried harder at the unknown wetness falling down upon him.

"I'm sorry Toby." Sarah whispered as she stood up and went to her parents room, to change him and get him some dryer clothes.

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Some time later after she had gotten Toby situated in the living room watching his favorite cartoon, did she finally walk into the kitchen to make herself some coffee. As she scooped the grounds into the machine and turn it on did she finally sit down.

Should you ever need us...

What was that? Sarah's head shot up and look around. No one was here except herself and Toby. And Toby couldn't talk...he was mute ever since he was three, so I couldn't be him. She relaxed and closed her eyes, she had heard that before...Hadn't she? Sarah thought for a while before it hit her.

"The labyrinth..." She muttered, standing up she went and poured herself a cup of the strong drink. Taking a small sip the memories hit her one after another. The night she wished Toby away to the Goblin Kingdom. Jareth, who took him away, and made her run the damned labyrinth. Hoggle, Ludo, Sir Didymus...her friends...they had told her if she ever needed them...

Just call...

Was it that simple? Did she only need to call upon them to get them to come here? Sarah decided it was worth it, for what did she have to lose? Her dignity, maybe...Sarah shook her head and taking one last look at Toby, she ran up the stairs and into her room. She took a look around. All of her fairytale things littered her room. She hadn't ever had the heart to put them in storage. Not that Karen didn't harass her every time she came in here and saw them. She walked over to her bookshelf. There it was. The book 'The Labyrinth'. She kept the book as a reminder that words have power and never to forget it. She sat the book down with a sigh and walked over to the vanity table.

She sat down in the chair and glanced around at the things on the it. Makeup lay unorganized, the music box with the princess in the insane dress stood proud and still, and a picture of her mother was in the middle of the table. She smiled at the picture and put it to the side. Taking a deep breathe she positioned herself in front of her mirror.

"Hoggle? Ludo? Sir Didymus? Anyone there?" She called at the mirror. She saw a tuft of orange fur behind her and she turned.

"Ludo!" She called as she saw the others there also, "Hoggle! Sir Didymus! You guys came!" Sarah ran over and hugged Ludo, and proceeded to hug the other too after.

"Sarah, we havn' seen you in years! How ya be'n?" Hoggle said trying to escape her rib breaking hug. Once he got away, he took a good look at her. "Fo'r years done you good, me see."

Sarah smiled at him, "Thank you." She sighed and looked at everyone, and in turn they looked at her.

"Aye Lady Sarah, what need have thee to call upon us?" Sir Didymus ventured, looking up at her. Sarah smiled warmly and sighed. Her face falling.

"Life's been hard," Sarah managed to say, she forced a smile and continued, "I just wanted to see you guys again."

"Sawah saad?" Ludo said with a mournful face, and Sarah nodded.

"What ails thee poor maiden?" Sir Didymus asked and Hoggle nodded. Sarah looked at them and sighed. She motioned for them to sit and she did the same. Then she proceeded to tell them about her life. How she couldn't seen to find a job without having one of her male coworkers harass her; which Sir Didymus did not find decent and offered to avenge her, which she politely declined. She told them how she never could meet the right guy and how every time she met someone she always compared them to another guy; and by that time Hoggle ask who the guy was and she blushed...she couldn't tell them she compared the guys to the Goblin King, she let alone couldn't admit it to herself. She told them how Karen had become worse and now was getting violent with her, how her father pretended not to notice but once in a while when Karen wasn't looking he would give her a sympathetic look, but would never offer his voice to stand up for her. Then she told them of what happened today, and showed them where she had been slapped.

"Why don't thou leave this horrid abode then milady?" Sir Didymus asked mournfully, and Sarah just shook her head.

"Like I said, I can't get a solid income so I am totally broke, and I couldn't leave Toby. I lost him once and I refuse to let that happen again." Sarah said tearfully, she wiped them away with the back of her hand. She glanced at her bedside clock and saw it was nearly three. She groaned and looked at her friends. She had spent the entire time talking to them. That was nearly five hours...

"Karen and my father will be home soon," Sarah told them, "You had better go before she sees you guys.."

"Sarah, ya folks won' be able to sees us," Hoggle said, Sarah gave him a confused look and he continued, "We be magickal creatures' and normal folks can't sees us. You and Toby have comes in'o contact with them magicks of those there un'erground. That's hows you sees and hears us."

"Oh, well that's good I guess Hoggle." Sarah said with a sigh.

"Talking to yourself again Sarah?" Someone behind her said sarcastically, and Sarah, as she wasn't paying attention replied.

"No, I was talking to my friends." Sarah said confused that the person didn't find that obvious. Until she saw the shocked and worried looks on her friends faces did she slowly look to see who had spoken to her.

There behind her stood a smirking Karen holding a manila envelope. She casually dropped the package onto the bed and stepped up to Sarah, grabbing a fistful of her hair and yanking it to make Sarah look into her eyes.

"Sorry to tell you this," Karen said viciously, Sarah could feel the venom in her voice, "But no one would want to be friends with an ugly, bratty freak like you. Get a reality check, you little bitch, no one is here and no one cares. You are alone, just the way your whore of a mother left you."

Sarah could feel tears sliding down her face as Karen's grip on her hair got tighter. Laughing maniacally, Karen grabbed one of Sarah's hard back books by the bed and used it to beat Sarah across the face. Leaving Sarah with a bloody nose and several bruises. Karen then dragged Sarah over to her full length mirror and smashed her face into it. Sarah cried and groaned in pain as Karen grabbed her hair and flung her to the floor. Sarah looked up into the helpless and grief stricken faces of her friends who were still seated on her bed. She could clearly see the tears in their eyes. But soon closed them in agony as Karen grabbed on of the broken shards of mirror and slashed at Sarah's arms and face, leaving open gashes spilling blood down onto the wood floor. Laughing at Sarah's pain, Karen dragged her over to the door by the nape of her neck and slammed her face into the door frame before pushing her one final time into the cold floor.

"Clean up, you piece of shit, then take a look at the envelope." Karen said with a smirk and left Sarah bleeding on the floor. Slamming the door behind her.

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Well that's the first chapter! A bit of suspense huh? I had to have a way to get you to come back and read the next chapter! Please, please, please review! Thanks for reading! :)

edit/ Oh! And for those you ask or wonder what Toby was doing from 8am-3pm, he was watching TV for a while and being the smart 4 year old he is, he went to the kitchen and ate a sandwich his father had made and left in the fridge for him to eat. Then after he ate he went back to watching the TV. Some of you might think that TV is a boring for a four year old to do for multiple hours a day, but they have satellite so they have lots and lots of things to watch. :D