"Jesse, are you okay? Vanessa panted through pain. Jesse stood in silent tears contrary to his screaming tears.
He rubbed his eyes and murmured "Mommy..." Blake walked past his sister and picked up his brother. Jesse nested his head into Blake's shoulder and Blake gently patted the back of his brother's hair, smoothing the thick brown curls.
"Here Vanessa, let me help you." Serena pulled off her bag and dug to the bottom till her pulled out a tensor and hand wraps for boxing. "This should do it, or at least make it bearable. Don't want it to do more damage."
"There wouldn't be any damage-" Vanessa winced in her speech, "If the jerk off Blake didn't pissed off the fashion reject! We don't know where we are, even how we got here. Now mom's missing and her group of freaks can't even help us. THANK YOU BLAKE!" she shouted and whipped her head away as if disgusted to even look at him.
"If you didn't notice, I ACTULLY DID SOMETHING! I didn't stand back and cry like a baby." Blake put Jesse down. "What did you think you could even do anyways, besides give him fashion and make-up advice." He walked past them to view the massive wall and the maze of walls beyond.
"Alright enough you guys, you'll find any situation to bitch at each other." Serena fastened the last of the bandages on Vanessa's arm.
"Well what do you suggest then if you think you always have the answers?" Vanessa said as roughly as she snatched her hand back from Serena. "Think of Jesse you guys? How are we going to make sure he's safe? If that, uh what did he call himself?"
"The Goblin King," Jesse answered with a tearful sniff, as he wiped the last of his tears away. "His name is Jareth." All three of his siblings stared at their little brother.
"What did you say?" Blake snarled. "How do you know, Jesse?" He crouched in front of him and shook his brother by the shoulders.
"What the hell, Blake!" Serena jumped up and brought her fist down on the top of her twin brother's head. Blake howled and fell back rubbing his head.
"Jesse is there something you know that we don't" Serena talked sweetly to her brother.
"Mommy- Hiccup! Mommy read me the story of the Labyrinth."
"Do you remember what she told you?" Vanessa came to Jesse's side as well, making sure to stop down on Blake's crotch sending him into another fit of howls, although done with a higher pitch.
"I remember Hoggle, Ludo and Sir Diddyums. They helped mommy get through the Labyrinth."
"What book was this?" Serena's forehead puckered in bewilderment.
"It was a book she was making me. She never finished it with me. But she told me as much as she could remember."
"Well before today I would tell you that she was just making up that story, but I don't think so anymore." Vanessa looked to her sister.
"I remember her telling us that story." Blake's voice was still pitchy.
"Aww look his balls finally dropped, he's hitting puberty." Vanessa mocked him.
"Well I know I can count on you for advice, you can tell me all about when your balls dropped." Vanessa swung out and hit him, with the wrong hand.
"OW! Blake you did that on purpose!"
"What are you talking about? You're the dumb skank that hit me!"
"SHUT UP!" Serena shouted, causing Vanessa to fall back on her butt and sat next to her brother. Serena picked up her back pack and Jesse.
"Wha-! What? Where are you going you idiot!" Blake said as he picked up a handful of dirt and threw it at Vanessa as he stood up. She screamed at him punching his legs.
"I'm not sitting here with you two fuck ups, and try to actually do something as you like to point fingers at. Mom's gone and we have to save her and Jesse too. And clearly Jesse knows more than you two right now!" Serena looked from side to side at the massive wall, completely unsure where it opened.
"Serena, wait!" Blake jogged up to his siblings, while Vanessa struggled to get up as gracefully as she could. "I wasn't lying when I said that I remember mom telling this story to me and you when we were little." He turned his sister to face him and his lowered his eyes to look straight into hers. Serena always knew by the look of Blake's eyes what he was trying to say.
To her they read he was scared and didn't want her to leave him. Sometimes they made jokes to their friends and coaches that they could read each other's minds. When they were younger and could play on cooed teams, one seemed to be exactly where they needed the other. It wasn't always in sports. There were times when the popular and catty girls at school liked to trap her and make fun of her. Once they began to taunt her that she had to be a boy to be in the girls bathroom and shoved her into the boy's. They pelted her with tampons and wades of soap and paper, holding her down in a dirty urinal. Just when she was about to cry her brother burst in and pulled them off of her. They didn't want to seem to let up so Blake decided to pee on them and they ran out of the bathroom screaming. Serena couldn't tell if they ran out from the pee or the sight of his penis, or so she joked with him after.
"That's nice that you remember, but how do we get in!" She turned away and screamed at the walls.
"If you are trying to get in," An unknown voice spoke up, hooded figure that was leaning against the wall stood up and limped towards them, "But I have to wonder why you would want to do such a thing?" Serena didn't like how forced of a cartoony old man's voice he spoke with. Serena backed into Blake.
"Who are you? If you show us your face and why it concerns you, maybe I'll tell." Serena called to him, which was unnecessary since he was becoming dangerously close.
The man laughed he was truly enjoying her fear. "Well it was worth the effort in finally getting to meet you all." His voice changed to a pleasant, younger and deeper voice. He stood taller than even Blake. "I heard that some outsiders were giving the King some trouble." And with that he flipped his cloak off. Underneath held a man of his early twenties. He was fair in complexion, lean and tall build with white, mid length, blonde hair that was styled up in a messy style. His eyes were a dark, deep blue that contrasted to his other features. No doubt he was very good looking and as if on cue:
"Hi, I'm Vanessa. What's your name?"