A/N: So excited that I already have my first review! Thank you Kuroneko388! So here's the next installment, once again I do not own Labyrinth.

Chapter 3: Innocent Questions

December 10th: Noon on Saturday

Usually the ferns were wild along the trail, some growing as high as Tobey's shoulders. He loved dodging on and off the trail, ducking under the fern branches and jumping out at Sarah. But now there was a few inches of snow on the ground and nowhere to hide. The coverage was patchy in this part of the woods, with the trees being so thick, but Tobey still wore his heavy winter boots and grinned when his boots sank a bit in the thick covering of pine needles and moss.

He wandered, always within sight of Sarah and of the trail. Sarah sighed, because it wouldn't always be like this. He was getting older. He'd be ten soon. She shivered and rubbed her arms.

"Boo!" Tobey jumped out next to her, and Sarah didn't have to pretend to be startle. As he laughed she stuck her tongue out. "Yeah, yeah , yeah. You didn't scare me that much."

"But you did jump! I saw you!"

She smiled but kept walking. Pleased with himself Tobey followed. "Have you seen Hoggle lately?"

Sarah froze. Hoggle. Sir Didymus. Ludo. She hadn't seen them since her old mirror cracked. She hardly even thought of them, not since her dream last night. "No. Have you?"

"Not since you introduced us. But I've dreamed of them. They seem sad." Tobey looked up at Sarah and squinted his eyes tightly, wrinkling his nose. "I think you're growing up too fast Sarah. And they're missing you because of it."

"Maybe." She didn't want to talk about them anymore. What Tobey said hit too close to home. "C`mon. Let's run."

Tobey grasped her hand and shook his head. "I don't want to. I want to see Hoggle again. Can you help?" He tugged at her fingers lightly, one at a time.

"Oh, Tobey…" Sarah crouched down and brushed his hair aside. "I don't think I can. Like you said, I grew up."

"But I thought you liked Hoggle."

"I do. He's my friend. But grown ups can't…they don't-"

"Is it like Peter Pan?"

Sarah sighed. "Yes Tobey, just like Peter Pan."

He nodded, and then his eyes lit up, "Did you know peter too?"

She tipped back her head and laughed, really laughed for the first time in weeks. She poked her brother in the stomach. "Oh, I wish Tobey. I wish."