I'm sorry to not have updated sooner. Truthfully, I forgot about it. I hope you enjoy the new chapter, and I promise to update more often from now on.

"But Daddy, I don't understand." Kiana was taking this remarkably well; there wasn't even a trace of whine in her voice.

Jareth sighed. "Your mother had a life before this one, you know. It happened to include the young man she's currently in tears over."

Kiana peered at her father, looking for the sympathetic man she'd grown up with. All she could see was the worried husband. "I understand that," she said a little impatiently. "What I don't understand is how come you two didn't tell me."

Jareth momentarily closed his eyes. This was the last thing he'd anticipated doing when he met his daughter's first boyfriend. "I think your mother should be here for this telling, it is her tale after all." He took her hand and transported them both to the kitchen where the other two had been talking.

Sarah looked up from red-rimmed eyes and visibly quailed when she saw the look in her husband's eyes. Nodding, she held out her hand to him and pulled him near. She wrapped an arm around his waist, and began talking softly.

"Toby," she nodded to the young man who was a stranger to her now, "I don't know how much of this you remember, so I'll start from the beginning." She sighed. "Kiana, I hope you'll understand why I never told you about it by the time I'm finished." Taking a deep breath, she looked at Jareth, and finding the reassurance she so needed, she continued.

"When I was a teenager, my step-mother always made me watch my little brother. One night, when I couldn't make him stop crying, I called on Jareth; thinking him nothing more than a character from the play I was performing that summer. " She grinned humorlessly. "Needless to say: he wasn't. He took Toby to the castle, just like I'd asked him to, and offered me a crystal in return for the child." Her eyes closed, and she tightened her grip on Jareth as she remembered the imposing king who'd stood in her window and held out a beautiful bauble in return for her little brother. "When I refused, and asked for Toby back, he told me I could have my brother if I solved the Labyrinth in thirteen hours. Only because I had help from my friends, whom you've met, Kiana, did I manage to do as he'd ordered. But when I had fought my way to the castle, he offered me this life" she waved her hand to encompass all that she now had "if I'd forget about Toby." She remembered how horribly tempting it had been, how seductive he'd been. "I refused again, and he returned us to the house he'd taken us from."

Jareth pulled out a chair and sat beside his wife. "Now Sarah," he said, a trace of his normal teasing in his voice, "You came willingly. It's not fair to say I took you. I only took him."

Turning to look at him for the first time, Toby blanched. "I remember! I had dreams about you for a long time afterward." He looked at Sarah. "I thought it was just a fantasy."

This time Kiana spoke. "If mom refused this life so she could save Toby, then how did you two end up together?"

Jareth smiled and gently caressed Sarah's cheek. "When your mother was a little older, she realized what I'd actually offered her." He looked at Toby. "She too, thought it was a dream. One day she called to me, thinking she was foolish up until I appeared in her window again." He grinned. "I believe she almost fainted, though from attraction or surprise, I couldn't tell you."

Sarah playfully smacked his thigh. "You'll never know either." She stood, and walked over to where her little brother was sitting. "I'm sorry, but when I returned as his wife, I couldn't go see you. I didn't want you to grow up believing in something no one else believed in. It would have been horrible for you."

Quietly, he replied, "It was horrible anyway."

Suddenly, he looked up at them, hope suffusing his face. "Can I stay here? Like Sarah did?"

Sarah looked pleadingly up at Jareth, who was suddenly every inch the king.

He nodded briefly. "You could. You would have to take an oath swearing allegiance to me, and you must realize you could never be with Kiana." There was no doubt in anyone's mind what he meant by "be with".

Kiana's eyes flashed red, and she rounded on her father. "Why not!" she demanded. "You brought mom, and you two lived happily ever after."

Sarah placed a calming hand on the back of Jareth's neck. "Kiana, has it not occurred to you that he is your uncle?"

From the look on her face, it was abundantly apparent that it had not.

"I'm sorry, Kiana, truly. I'm sorry that you had to find out this way. You must understand that it defies statistics that you ever met him in the first place."

Tears shining in her eyes, Kiana looked from her mother to her father. She spoke quietly, and aimed at their hearts. "I can't believe that you two of all people would hide this from me. And I can't believe that you're telling me that I can't be with the only man I've ever met who took me for who I am…no questions asked." She calmly walked over to Toby and offered him her hand.

Looking up at her with regret more than plain in his eyes, Toby shook his head. "I'm sorry Kiana. They're right, and I can't go with you."

With an angry exclamation, she transported out of the castle and away from them all.