Disclaimer: Labyrinth is owned by Jim Henson. Return to Labyrinth is owned by Jake T. Forbes and Tokyopop. I do not own any of the original characters.
Hello everyone, Ember2010 here. ok. So I meant to post this chapter earlier, but some things came up. To thank you for your patience, i give you... ANOTHER CHAPTER! Also, I would like to thank MaidMarian17 for the review. ^_^ Enjoy the chapter.
"Hey Viki" Jareth greeted his daughter.
"Hey dad." Viki said with a smile.
Victoria Linda Williams was a 20 year old college student working on her drafting major and theater minor. Her long, dirty blonde hair was usually up in a ponytail and her green eyes sparkled like emeralds. Her friends called her Viki and her favorite past time was going to see musicals with her parents and singing karaoke with her friends. Her father, Jareth Williams, was the head of the drama department at her college while her mother, Sarah Williams, was a middle school English teacher. Viki didn't know very much about her family on her father's side nor had she ever met any of them. Her father said that they were 'unsupportive of his choice in career' and Viki usually left it at that. She saw her mom's family fairly often enough and that was good enough for her.
As a child, she would spend hours 'helping' her father with his plays. She became known to the drama department as 'Dr. William's assistant'. Her wild imagination was often incorporated into the plays scenery. When asked about it, Jareth would jokingly say that Viki's imagination was bigger than anyone else's he knew. She would see goblins everywhere and would often say that her best friend was a goblin named mas, whom she befriended when she gave him a cookie when she was three.
But Viki grew up, as all children do, and the visions of goblins became nothing more than characters in the scripts that would write and keep on her computer and characters in her favorite play, Labyrinth. She knew it by heart, and when she was little, her and her father would act out scenes from the play on the stage at the college for her mother with Viki being the princess and Jareth being the Goblin King. When she was little, she thought that her father really was the Goblin King, and would run around the house pretending she was a princess and ordering around her imaginary goblin court.
These memories were Jareth's favorites. His office had pictures of the little Princess Victoria as he called her. These photos were his inspiration for his fantasy plays. But now his little girl was a young woman and a junior in college and the only time she pretended to be a princess was during play practice.
"How were classes this week?" Jareth asked his daughter as she pulled her bags out of the trunk of her red bug.
"Good" Viki answered, hefting her backpack onto her back.
"That's good"
The two smiled at each other and Jareth put his arm around his daughter. "Come on, let's go inside."
The two went inside where Sarah was sitting on the couch reading a book. When she heard the door open she looked up to see her husband and daughter walk into the house. "Welcome home Viki" she said as she got up and hugged her daughter. Jareth stood back and smiled at the scene. At that moment, everything was perfect and he wouldn't trade this life for all the power he once wielded.
That evening, the family was finishing up dinner when the doorbell rang.
"I'll get it." Sarah said as she got up from the kitchen table and went to the living room and opened the front door. Before her was a young man that looked like what she guessed Jareth would have looked like in his twenties. Dressed in a long black cape, red tunic, and tight black leggings like those worn in the renaissance, she assumed the young man was one of Jareth's drama students. "Hello?" she asked the young man.
"Hello Sarah." The young man said with a cold smile.
"Do I know you?" Sarah asked, confused as to how someone she had never met could address her as if he had known her all his life.
The man laughed a cruel, cold laugh. "No," he said, "But your former king of a husband does."
At that moment, Sarah felt her blood run cold. No one on Earth knew Jareth was once a king, meaning that the man before her was not a human.
Impatient, the young man let out an irritated sigh. "I mean Jareth."
Sarah nodded and stepped back into the house and looked behind her. "Jareth." She called out.
"What is it?" Jareth called back.
"Someone is here to see you."
"Who is it?"
"I'm not sure."
Jareth walked into the front hall and footsteps could be heard from upstairs, probably from Victoria dancing around while she got ready to go out. When he saw who was standing in the doorway of his home his heart stopped.
"Zenith." He said slowly, as Sarah moved closer to him "what are you doing here?"
"I'm here for the heart," Zenith said, "and I know it is here."
"How?" Sarah asked in disbelief.
Zenith turned his attention to the woman clinging to Jareth. "You know the queen of the kingdom to the west?"
"Yes." Jareth said. He knew the woman all too well. They were engaged at one point before he, himself, took over the goblin city and created the labyrinth.
"Mizumi?" Sarah asked. She didn't know the woman personally, but her brother, Toby, had met her during his short lived reign as the Goblin King.
"Yes that's her name." Zenith said, "Well she told me about it and now I want it."
Sarah was about to say something when Viki walked down the stairs in a black skirt and a red top with black lace. Her contacts were in and the green eye shadow made her emerald eyes stand out. She walked over to her parents and kissed each of them. "I'm meeting some friends at the arcade. I'll be home later."
Zenith moved aside to let Viki pass then watched her leave, openly staring at her butt. "What a lovely daughter." He said, watching the young woman drive off.
"Leave her out of this." Sarah said angrily.
Zenith turned his attention back to Jareth and his wife. "Why?" he asked, amused at her anger.
"She has nothing to do with this." Sarah answered angrily.
"I see." Zenith said thoughtfully, looking in the direction where Viki had gone, already trying to think of how he could use her to his advantage.
Jareth cleared his throat and Zenith turned his attention back to his predecessor.
"Do you really thing I'm stupid enough to keep the heart here?" Jareth asked Zenith.
Zenith pretended to consider it. "That is true," he said, "you are many things, but stupid you are not." He turned his back to leave, the cape fluttering dramatically. Then he stopped and looked over his shoulder, shooting Jareth a cold glare. "I will be watching for when you slip up." He said darkly before turning around and laughing evilly as he walked off into nothingness.
When they were sure Zenith was gone, Sarah turned to Jareth. "Jareth?" she asked.
Jareth was still watching the spot where Zenith had disappeared with the look of a king waiting for an invading army to appear on the horizon before a battle. "What is it?" he asked, not looking at his wife.
"What does he want?" Sarah asked.
"The Heart of the Labyrinth." He said, moving to hold Sarah protectively.
"Where is it?"
Jareth looked at his wife, unsure of whether he should tell her or not. Finally, he decided he should and turned her to face him. "Don't react to what I am about to tell you, but." He leaned in close so that his lips were right by her ear. "It's inside Victoria." He whispered.
Sarah struggled not to react, but inside she was torn between being mad at Jareth and worried about her daughter. She pulled out of Jareth's arms and shut the door.
"You can't tell anyone." Jareth said. Placing his hands on her shoulders and turning her to face him again so he could get his point across. "And I mean anyone."
Sarah knew what he meant. Don't tell Victoria. "ok." She said, "Why though?"
"Zenith has spies everywhere." Jareth explained.
Sarah was silent, not looking at Jareth until he took her chin in his hand and tilted it up so he could look at her. "What is it?" he asked.
"Won't… it be in danger?" Sarah asked concern evident in her eyes.
Jareth smiled to reassure her. "It's fine," he said, "Trust me."
"Promise?"
"Promise."
Sarah hugged Jareth. Both hoping that he was right and that Zenith wouldn't attack Victoria.
Cleaver Jareth. But will Zenith find out? You will have to wait to find out :P
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