Disclaimer: I don't own the Labyrinth or Jareth or Sarah. If I did, I'd be rich and have a wonderful state-of-the-art computer and not the stupid thing I'm typing on now...

Just so you guys know, there are quite a few POV changes... I don't tell when they're going to happen, but the lines should take care of that... I hope.

Chapter 3

JJ left Leanna's room not long after the small confrontation with Jareth. JJ wasn't sure whether or not he liked the girl. She didn't seem very polite, and it seemed to him as if she had some kind of wish to provoke everyone around her. Even Jareth, who was usually not hard to get along with after you knew him, had gotten rough with her. And he was her father! Then again, she was trapped here, just like they were all were, and she was bitter about it. JJ would give her some time to get used to things. Then he would decided whether or not this job was worth it. In the meantime, there was something JJ could do for Leanna, something Jareth hadn't prohibited, something Jareth acted like he wanted to do but was too afraid to do himself.

JJ walked into his room and got out one of his crystal balls. He spoke a few words to it, and several pictures of a bedroom appeared in the crystal; that meant the ball on the other side was broken. The magic words rolled off of JJ's tongue and the pictures slowly started to come together as the broken pieces started to come together and mend themselves. JJ hissed a command at the crystal ball. The picture started to moving as the crystal ball rolled out of the bedroom on the other side. It floated down a set of stairs and rolled past a couple of doors until the crystal ball came to and open doorway. Two people were inside. One was a woman in her early to mid-thirties. The other looked like a teenage boy about JJ's age. The ball rolled forward into the room, and JJ saw that the room was the ktichen.

Knowing the two crystals would act like walkie-talkies and his voice would be sent between the two crystals and out the other side, JJ said, "Hullo?"

Sarah and Toby stopped talking when the heard a voice, seemingly out of nowhere, say, "Hullo?" They looked around in confusion until Sarah finally saw the crystal on the ground. She picked it up.

"Careful.", Toby warned.

Sarah nodded, looked into the crystal, and asked, "Did you just say 'Hello'?"

"No, I 'Hullo', but that's close enough.", the voice answered. He sounded like a young boy, maybe Toby's age.

Sarah and Toby looked at each other, then back at the crystal. "Are you the worm?", Sarah asked.

There was a pause. " 'The worm'? What worm?"

"I guess that answers your question.", Toby said to Sarah.

"Look.", the voice in the crystal ball said, "I want to talk about Leanna. Are you her mother?"

"Of course, I'm not her mother, you twit!", Toby shouted.

"Not you! Her."

"Yes, I'm Leanna's mother. Is she alright?", Sarah said. She didn't know who this person was; the crystal ball wouldn't let her see them. But Sarah was up for trusting anyone who might have some information about her daughter.

"She'll be alright, after she gets over the shock.", the voice answered.

"She's in shock?"

"Well, she's very... snappy and sarcastic. With some people, it's a defense mechanism that helps them get over the shock of a scary situation or of a strange place. Being Jareth's daughter, she's probably got it twice as bad. She must take after him. Just once, I wish I could hear the thickhead scream like a girl."

Sarah giggled at the idea of Jareth screaming like a girl, then composed herself. Toby completely lost it, of course, rolling around on the floor, laughing like an idiot. Sarah finally got him to stop, even though he was still chuckling when he sat in his chair.

"But Leanna's always like that.", Toby said, "She thinks like she can't trust anyone but herself, even though she knows that isn't true."

"Since when did you have terrific insight?", Sarah asked her brother.

"Since my niece started treating me like an equal."

"Toby, you're only a year older."

"But I am older."

"Toby-"

A throat cleared itself from the crystal ball.

"Sorry."

"Yes, well.", the crystal ball said, "Is there anything you want me to tell Leanna?"

"We have to get over there.", Toby said, nearly shouting, "Can you do that?"

"I can't. The only way for someone from the above to come down here is to have someone wish you here, and vice versa. That's the way it's always been done. It's in the rules.", the voice answered.

"Are there any more rules we should know about?", Sarah asked.

"You should know that when Jareth gets a summons, he doesn't particularly want to go. Especially since what happened 17 years ago after a stubborn brunette with green eyes walked into his life and beat his labyrinth."

Sarah inhaled sharply. She knew who the brunette was. But she couldn't believe that the Goblin had held onto her for 17 years. Unless there were a few particular events keeping him going...

Oh, and one more thing.", the crystal ball said.

"What?", Toby asked.

"On an heir's sixteenth birthday he, or in this case, she, come into their full powers. If those heirs aren't taught to control their power, in a few days, people around them die, and they themselves not long after."

"Why?", Sarah asked.

"Because the power isn't in control and it just becomes too much for them to handle. I believe, though the stubborn idiot would never admit it, that that's the reason Jareth came to take her. He didn't want his daughter to die. He didn't want the love of his life to die."

Toby burst out laughing. "That bastard doesn't give a damn about-"

"Toby, shut up.", Sarah snapped at her brother, "Look, crystal ball... thingy. What are you talking about?"

Another voice suddenly started issuing from the crystal ball, a voice Sarah knew.

"JJ, who are you talking to?", Sarah heard Jareth's voice say.

"Why are you calling me JJ?", the other person asked.

"I was eavesdropping on your conversation with Leanna. That's what she called you. I like it. Now, who were talking to?"

"Did he say 'Leanna'?", Toby asked Sarah.

"What was that?", Jareth said.

"Umm, nothing.", the other voice replied nervously.

"What's this, then? Nothing? Boy, what did I say about using your magic when I'm not around to supervise? I guess you've forgotten what happened the last time! It was hard to keep the frogs from eating you before I could figure out what was wrong!"

"Oh, damn you, Jareth! You don't give a damn about anyone!", Sarah shouted.

"Sarah-", Jareth started, but Sarah screamed and threw the crystal ball at the wall. It shattered, and Sarah fell to her knees and cried.

Jareth rounded on his archmage trainee as the connection shattered. "What have you done?!", he roared at the boy.

JJ stood up straight. "What do you mean?", he asked.

"You've probably ruined everything for good!"

JJ shook his head. "I've given her a few things to think about."

"Yes, but what if she thinks too much and remembers what happened?"

"Jareth, if she remembers that you both drifted towards each other and that niether of you could control your emotions the night... Leanna was... concieved... I think only good could come of that."

"No. I want her to remember herself as innocent."

"She is innocent. Falling in love, even with someone who acted like a jerk towards her at first, isn't a sin, Jareth."

"She doesn't, didn't, love me. She was a teenager with raging hormones who happened to be somewhat attracted to me."

"Jareth, your insight sucks."

"Boy, do you know what it's like to love someone who doesn't love you back?"

"No, and nor should you, because that's not the way it is with your highschool sweetheart."

"Don't call her that. It makes me feel-"

"Like a perve?", JJ offered.

"I was going to say old."

"Jareth, your almost 1200. You are old."

"I don't look, feel, or act like I'm 1200."

"Of course not. If you did, you wouldn't be dancing and singing my ears off to your goblins every night like you do."

"How did we get on this subject?"

"I don't remember."

Jareth shook his head and stalked out of the room, headed for his daughter. They really needed to talk.

The second JJ had left the room, Leanna tore the bag off of her head and looked around. She was a very lovely, comfortable room. Along one wall was a large bookshelf full of books. Near the book shelf was a table and a couple of overstuffed armchairs. Across from that was a fireplace. Along another wall was a grand piano, and across from that was a large bed covered in a thick white comforter. The bed posts rose almost all the way to the ceiling and were painted white. There was what looked like a small crystal ball that topped each post.

"Do you like your room?", said a smooth voice behind Leanna.

Leanna whirled around to face Jareth. "What the hell do you want now?", she asked through gritted teeth.

Jareth sighed. "I feel that I should... explain myself.", he answered.

"You bloody well should. Let's start with why you kidnapped me." Leanna sat on a chair and glared daggers at him.

Jareth sighed. "First, about earlier... I didn't mean to act like a jerk. But you're very frustrating. I've been watching over you and your mother for the past 17 years, and that much I know."

"Yeah, well... whatever." Leanna was determined to give him a hard time.

Jareth sighed again and sat on the bed. "Despite what you think, I am your father.", he started.

" 'Father' is a title that is earned.", Leanna said coldly, "So far, you've done nothing to earn it."

Jareth nodded. "True enough. But I am your biological father. My royal blood runs in your veins, as does my magic."

Leanna mouthed the word "magic", then asked, "What are you the king of?"

"The Labyrinth. The Goblin Kingdom."

"The Labyrinth... You mean like the labyrinth where the Minotaur was at the center and Theseus slayed him?'

"Uh, no. We are at the center."

"Then I'm at least half right." Leanna grinned.

Jareth grinned too. "Anyway, like it or not, you are the heir to my throne, and though I don't like admitting it, heirs are usually stronger than their parents."

"Then I'm more powerful than you?"

"Yes. And if that power isn't harnessed soon after an heir's sixteenth birthday, they die, along with other people around them. I couldn't let that happen."

Leanna was silent for a moment. "You mean, you didn't want Mom to die."

Jareth shook his head. "No, I didn't want you mother to die. No matter what you, or Sarah, may think, I do love you mother. I always have."

Leanna sighed. "Well, at least now I know you didn't screw her just to get an heir."

"The worst part is, ", Jareth continued as if he hadn't heard her, "is that I'm in love with someone who doesn't love me back."

"I think she does love you.", Leanna said thoughtfully.

"No, she doesn't."

"Jareth... your insight sucks."

"So I've been told."

"No, no. Hear me out." Leanna went to sit at the piano. "She used to cry a lot. She used to cry herself to sleep. She used to sing me to sleep, and she'd get this misty look in her eyes like she was remembering something... magical. When I asked about the song... she would cry. After a while, she stopped singing, stopped crying, and I stopped asking. But she never stopped dreaming. Sometimes, I would watch her sleep, and she'd mutter things from the song." Leanna played a few chords on the piano from a song that Jareth recognized. He sat next to her and played the next few chords.

"That's the song Mom always sang. But how do you know it?", Leanna said in surprise.

Jareth smiled and said, "I sang it to her. In a dream. And though she doesn't know it, I've been singing it to her in her dreams for the past 17 years."

As Leanna started playing the song, Jareth started to sing:

"There's such a sad love

Deep in your eyes

A kind of pale jewel

Opened and closed

Within your eyes.

I'll place the sky

Within your eyes."

Leanna suddenly stopped playing. "You understand, of course, you've still got to pay for taking my mother's life away."

"Leanna, my life was taken away before you were born. The night your mother left, everything was taken away." With that he got up to leave. "Me and JJ will start giving you lessons tomorrow." And he left.

As the door closed, Leanna muttered, "Damned hopeless romantic.", and she started playing the rest of the song.

Father-Daughter moment! YAY!!! Hopefully, there will be more of those that don't end so sadly. I think there will be. Anyway, next chapter, JJ starts giving Leanna secret lessons and either the chapter after that, or the one after that, not sure yet, Leanna comes up with a very awesome way to put these lessons to use. Oooh, I can't wait. By the way, I should let you guys know, I've never been much of a romantic person, so there won't be too much of that. I'm best known for my wierd humor, and that's what most of this is really focused on: humor. Just thought I'd give you guys a heads-up.