Labyrinth
Stages Within the
Labyrinth
By Faith Miller
Disclaimer: I don't own any original characters. But Eve is all mine. Enjoy. Faith
the
world is a giant book,
which they who never stir from
Home
only read a page.
Augustine of Hippox
Chapter1
Falling Downs as Common as the Rain
Sarah Williams was nursing her third Jack
Daniels at a small pub down the street from her apartment. The only
thing they where missing in the place that would have added that
extra class of elegance would have been chicken wire. She kept her
eyes focused on the rim of her shot glass. Only a few glances at the
walls, which had dreadful furniture memorabilia with the occasional
mint condition tire tool set. The daily drunks line the wall like
lemmings in repose and the festering booze assaulting their entrails
like time really suicide. The loud music and laughter and other
noises of the bar kept her way from anyone and anyone from her, her
bartender gave her, her drinks and didn't say a word to her. After
all she had the right to be depressed at the moment. Her father had
died just two hours earlier. Four years ago she had lost control with
drinking, but recovered when her father got cancer. It had been ten
years since Sarah solved the labyrinth and defeated the Goblin king.
Her body was older but she had a fine shape that had gotten out of
every traffic ticket she received. She took one last gulp of her
drink and leaves towards her home. The streets where a blur with
lights, white lines, and happy people walking them. Somewhere in the
distance a church bell was ringing, it was probably midnight with the
traffic becoming slower as she walked closer to her home. Looking a
ninety-degree angle up at her home that she had lived for her entire
life almost made her cry. The animals that she had acquired over the
years had come and gone, Merlin had passed about five years ago and
was in a plot in the back yard. Her younger brother Toby and her Step
Mother lived in there too but preferred to stay at the hospital with
all of their other family members. She struggled with the front door
and in frustration she goes to the back door and it opens. Entering
the house, she leaves all the lights off shaking off her shoes next
to the door she heads for the kitchen. In the refrigerator she grabs
a Miller and holding on the rail for balance and a guide she heads up
the stairs to her bedroom. Sarah's brown hair reached her thighs, the
color was dingy and it hadn't been washed in a few days. Her green
eyes were stained in red, as she climbed onto her bed and took a sip
of her beer. The lights were off and the only light came from the
small window and the moon that shown in through it. A few feelings
came to her in that moment of silence. She searched them and for the
first time in a while she thought of Jareth, the labyrinth, and
Hoggle. Joy didn't come from this feeling but a since that she
wasn't alone anymore did. Without glancing up for a second she then
turned looking straight on at him.
"
What are you doing here?" Sarah said with a flat tone of voice.
The figure was tall and fussy but after ten years she still knows who
it was. The goblin King. He always seemed to follow her when things
went bad.
"This
is not the way to deal with your pain." His voice was soft and
gentle. The voice shocked her she stood up in her bed sitting
cross-legged frowning at him.
"Excuse Me! You…" She said tiring to form words from anger. "You come in to my bedroom, you come into my life, today! And tell me how to deal with my pain! NO! No! You need to get the HELL OUT of MY ROOM, AND LIFE!" She yelled.
"Sarah,
please." He said, again sounding caring and tender. He tried to
take the bottle away from her but she turned away.
"You
really shouldn't be telling me anything. JARETH!" She said slurring
her words. "Leave me to deal with everything."
"
By yourself. Sarah please you can't deal with his death alone."
But she wasn't listening. She was half asleep and slumped down on her
headboard. He got close to her face.
"Sarah."
He whispered. Touching her face with his gloved hand.
"Yes!"
She said in a whisper with her eyes closed.
"
Do you want me to take you away?"
"That
would be nice." And with one move he took her in his arms and
they disappeared to the Underground.