"Give me back the child, Goblin King!" Ciel shouted, pointing at the bookshelf while Sebastian stood in front of him holding out the script for the boy to read.

"If I was so bold I would say that your performance needs more passion, my lord." Sebastian interrupted with a smile, and Ciel just glared at him from afar.

"Give me back the child, Goblin King!" Ciel shouted again, this time growling and stepping forward with the same look he usually gave Sebastian after it was suggested that he looked good in dresses and that is exactly why he should once again, star in another one of the Funtom Companies charity plays.

"For my will is stronger than yours, you have no control over me." He continued, his posture suddenly stopped being horrible and he actually looked fairly strong for once. Ciel's practiced concentration was once again, shattered.

"CIELY BEAR!" Lizzie shouted, launching herself at him with a hug. She should have been asleep, the lights went out hours ago. "You are so cute when you're serious!" Ciel was still pinned underneath her and it was embarrassing. He could not only see her ankles, but also her knees, and she wasn't even wearing stockings or a corset. Just a slightly sheer pink slip dress and the cameo choker has gave her this afternoon in the garden. Lizzie's hair wasn't even pulled back and it fell down to her mid back, the curls glittered in the low lights of his office.

"Get back to sleep." Ciel instructed her and Lizzie helped him stand up again. He sighed an lead her by the hand back down the hall way to the east wing of the mansion so she could get some sleep and so Ciel could get some goddamn peace.

"Here you are. Go to sleep." He opened the door for her but Lizzie just stood in the door way.

"Say please, Ciel." Ciel grinded his teeth.

"Don't start Elizabeth."

"Say it or I tell my mother that you're being mean to me again. Or maybe I'll just tell her about that time when I came over on your birthday and how you made me have premaritals with you." She threatened in retaliation. So it would be a lie to her mother, it wasn't like she had never been lied to before.

"I never forced you to do anything. It was your idea."

"And I won't be having any more ideas until you be nice." She crossed her arms, refusing to go anywhere and glaring at Ciel in a way that clearly said 'I really do mean it this time.' He was caught, really. Sure he had never been fond of her before but things have changed and grown recently and while he wasn't an adult quite yet, every human has certain needs.

"Please go to sleep, Lizzie." He changed his words but she wasn't satisfied and remained silent. Ciel stepped into the room and did what Sebastian normally did for him, but not that. He fluffed her pillow and smoothed down the sheets. Lizzie finally gave in and walked into the room and got under the covers. Ciel tucked in the blankets around her and blew out the candelabra.

"Good night Lizzie." He moved in to kiss her on the cheek but she turned away from him. Le sigh, such was the life around a woman. They were so much more demanding during that patented 'week of pure hormone-driven hell' and Lizzie just loved to play the victim card on him.

"Are you still awake enough to recite your lines, master?" Sebastian asked Ciel as he sat down in his comfy office chair, idly spinning around in it.

"Yes, just let me rest. She can be such a pain sometimes. I just wish the Goblin King would take her away right now!" he rested his head on the desk while Sebastian sighed and set a tea cup before him. As per usual this tea cup came out of nowhere but Ciel was used to that by now. Sebastian had recently been allowed his magic privileges back and was incorporating them into everything. It was pretty good though, tea always tasted better with super natural enhancements.

"There is no need to worry about her. Most women are that way."

Ciel sighed and drank his tea without his normal high dosage of sugar and set it down on the cover of the script book.

"See, this is why we need goblins." He explained.

"Oh, I do believe that they exist already. You did not assume I was the only mystical creature crawling about in your mansion this night, did you?"

"What do you mean by that?!" Ciel panicked. Truth be told, he was pretty much afraid of everything that was both powerful and not contracted to him.

"You did just summon Jareth. 'Goblin King take her away right now!' right?" Sebastian asked him and it suddenly dawned on Ciel that he just made a really stupid mistake.

"Why the bloody hell did you not tell me before I said it?" Sebastian shrugged.

"You better hurry up before you never see her or that bosom ever again." Though Ciel didn't hear the snarky remark about her breasts, as he was sprinting down the hall as fast as he could. Sebastian got there before he did and he was walking.

In the dark of the bedroom all Ciel could see was a tall man with wild blonde hair and boots that made Sebastian green with envy carrying his sleeping fiancé.

"Give her back!" Ciel commanded, and Jareth shook his head.

"I'm afraid not, young man. She's mine now and I will be taking her back with me. Where she'll live with me forever and ever and ever." Damn, his voice was seductive. Sebastian now had even more reason to envy this Goblin.

"Sebastian!" Ciel shouted, Sebastian just stood in the corner, smiling and watching the drama unfold.

"I am simply a demon; I do not interfere with the lowly goblins. Not to mention- you did just promise him Lizzie. I simply do not have the place or liberty to interfere in your business affairs."

Ciel had no idea what to do without his trusty demon. He depended on him for everything from buttoning his pants to saving his ass. There the Goblin King stood before him in all his leather clad godliness, ready to take away his only family left and Ciel was once again powerless to stop it.

"Give her back right now!" Ciel shrieked, though he wasn't shrieking that loud as Lizzie seemed to not even be awoken by the noise that was going on around her.

"Al right, laddie. I'll strike you up a deal. If you can make it to my castle by midnight- she'll be all yours. If you cannot complete my task then you shall witness our marriage and forever be trapped in my labyrinth with all the beauty of a common housefly." The king offered him, Ciel gulped and stepped forward. His stomach was doing back flips like a trapeze artist.

"I accept your challenge. I shall see you at midnight, and you better not have touched her."

"Oh, I would not even dream of it. I shall save it all for the honey moon!" and with those last words Jareth leaped out of the third floor window with the blonde girl, leaving Sebastian and Ciel staring out at the now changed landscape around them.

Gone was the plush Victorian room around them, or even England itself. The area was barren, with nothing but a never ending brick wall in front of them. It seemed to span endlessly in both direction with a tall door in the center- a message engraved on a plaque attached to the knob.

Enter the Labyrinth

Take up my task

And if you do not

I shall have her ass.

Also your demons too.

He's adorable.

I normally do not write warnings, I am a musician.

-Jareth.

"Well it is obvious that this place is not anywhere on earth" Sebastian said calmly. Ciel looked at him and raised a brow, startled at his change in dress.

"I can only manifest in that form whilst in your dimension. If a dimension is incompatible with my camouflage then I get defaulted back to my normal self. My apologies, Young Master." Sebastian admitted to one of his very few and often meaningless weaknesses. Ciel didn't even give a flying fuck. Sure, it was entirely inappropriate for him to wear that kind of outfit in his mansion. (Because when he did Maylene was so distracted by it she could do nothing but stare at him all day and almost dehydrated herself from drooling too much. It also scared the oh-so-innocent Finny. ) However, if Sebastian wanted to dress like a prostitute in his spare time, Ciel didn't mind. He actually found the outfit quite inspiring, even if he didn't like the idea of Sebastian being even taller than he already was.

"I don't mind. Now get me through this silly little game so I can go to sleep."

"You forgot to say please." Sebastian reminded him.

"What the hell is with everyone and that word lately?! Take me through that damned Labyrinth right now, Sebastian. Or so help me I will whip you senseless. Please."

"Well it's not my fault that you have all the same manners as a chainsaw wielding shemale." Sebastian retorted as he opened the door way for his little master. He wasn't even supposed to be in this dimension much less actually help the kid regardless of whatever that contract said. It was only valid in the dimension most commonly known as earth but Sebastian played along anyways. It wasn't like he had anything better to do.

Ciel peaked around the corner before he walked into the narrow passage, Sebastian trailing behind him. The door to the maze slammed shut, and surely they were probably locked in there now. They turned left, walking down the path. There was no curve in any direction; there were no turns or anything. Sebastian was growing bored and a bored demon is a very angry demon.

"Let me see if there isn't any way for us to get a new look on things." Sebastian put both his hands on one side of the path- then extended his feet forward so that his heels dug into the other side. He slowly crawled upwards so that he could just barely look over the walls. Sadly, the brick work was lined with slime, mold and various plants. Sebastian slipped and fell to the ground hitting his head on one side of the bricks. He stood back up, holding his hand in front of his face to reveal a little bit of blood.

"That was stupid." Ciel commented.

"Stand on my shoulders." Sebastian instructed.

"No. You are going to drop me." Ciel said.

"I would never drop you, young master. I would only drop kick you." He clarified. Ciel sighed and stood in front of Sebastian , holding his arms out to the side so the demon could grab better. He was promptly lifted so he was sitting on the demon's shoulders.

"Stand up." He was told and Ciel sorta' froze- he didn't have the balance for that.

"I can't. I would fall over."

"Then I would catch you. The clock is ticking away." Ciel sighed then rose to his knees and anchored the blunt heels of his riding boots into Sebastian's shoulders. He could just see above the wall. The castle was miles away- there was no way they'd ever be able to get there without finding some way to get further into the labyrinth.

"What is out there?" Sebastian asked.

"Well, the castle is really far away and there pretty much no way we're getting out of here unless we somehow manage to fly out of here." Ciel said, sleep deprivation took a toll on his wit.

"Then sit on the edge of the wall and drag me up." Sebastian suggested, forgetting for a split second how weak that little brat really was. Ciel forgot completely, he pulled himself onto the wall so he was sitting on the narrow edge of it. Sebastian looked up at him and raised his hands.

"Pull me up, young master." Ciel took hold of his hands and tugged as hard as he could. The demon wasn't lifted a bit- not even a millimeter. It was time for a new plan, Sebastian backed up a little bit and jumped up-landing on the ledge. To him, it was a perfectly standable width but Ciel was shaking out of fear from just the idea of sitting securely on it. He wasn't a brave child, he just had the best butler that existed within earth, hell and wherever this place was.

"Oh, this is quite simple after all. All I have to o is jump across these while carrying you and we shall be at the castle far before the clock even thinks to strike twelve."