Notes/Disclaimer

I don't own any rights or characters from Labyrinth, Inkheart, or any movies/books used in my story. The only rights/ characters I own are Moirai and Pyixnee.

Cue the music: High Heeled Low Life by Blue Stahli

Italics= Thought

/ /= Silvertongue magic at work.

{Squiggly Brackets}= Jareth mind speak

More indications will be added or changed as needed.


Ch. 9

There's Not A Word Yet, For Old Friends Who've Just Met.

Pt. 1

Underground

Eating faerie food imprisoned you in the faerie world with an interminable craving for faerie food. Linda knew this, she wonder if it even counted if the faerie food was from a book. Nonetheless she tried not to let her worry show. "Might I get your name, and actually..." Linda was about to change her mind about eating, if it wasn't too late.

"Pyixnee, Yours Ladyship. Yous ain't goin' to eats?" Pyixnee was a little amused, as not all humans were so hesitant. They either knew and wouldn't eat faerie food or were easily tricked like Sarah with the peach. "How I sees it, is yous any less detained."

Linda could see Pyixnee's point. "You're right." Besides if the Goblin King was really in love with my daughter... No... No... No. She mentally shook the thought away, what was she getting worked up about? He was fictitious, and Sarah was only fifteen. Perhaps fictitious wasn't the right word; there was a fine line between fantasy and reality, and an age difference. She grimaced; she was doing it again. "Still, I am not hungry anymore."

Linda would just have to take a step back; Sarah can handle herself now. Right? She did beat the Gobling King and his labyrinth after all.

"Is yous sure?"

"Yes, I'm sure." Linda's stomach growled.

Pyixnee raised an eyebrow."Of course yous is hungry. Did yous think we's only has faerie food." She laughed; she had been letting Linda think there was only faerie food to eat, which wasn't true. Call it a prank, and it had been fun to pull.

"What!? You mean you let me think... You're horrible."

"No's I's ain't, I's is Pyixnee. I's may not be exactly like other goblins, but I's is one." Pyixnee proclaimed proudly.

Linda tried not to laugh. "You're right, again."

"Alright thens, offs to the dining hall nows then." Pyixnee led the way to the dining hall.

Linda followed, smiling and shaking her head. It seemed she always found something that made part of her want to root for Jareth and Sarah. Or was it that she subconsciously, and secretly wanted to see them together.


Aboveground

Mo and Maggie didn't have to go much further, they were close.

"Umm... Mo." Maggie tried to get Mo's attention.

"To the right, right."

They were almost there.

"R-right... actually I was wondering if you've seen a dinosaur?" Maggie laughed nervously.

"Not with skin on it." Mo replied, that question was out of the blue. "Why do you ask?"

A velocirapto cawed, surprised and a little disoriented by its new surroundings. Then it saw Mo and Maggie.

"S-stole is such a harsh word." Moirai tried to act brave. "I think cadged is more appropriate." She knew the act was weak.

"Don't look at me like that." Dustfinger tried, unsuccessfully, to shove Jim off of himself. He was only trying to help; the quickest way possible, too, he might add. All the faster to get home.

"Everybody stop." Cornelia came down with Toby. "It's bad enough Toby was woken up a little early, but this is... is... ridiculous."

"Agreed," Sarah said with minute apprehension. "Believe it or not. My run through the Labyrinth and facing its King," she was less shambolic than she had been, now that she accepted she had developed feelings for Jareth; "has taught me that sometimes things are easier with help. I couldn't have done it without the help of my friends." Sarah said with confidence as she commended her friends. "Now we have two problems to deal with, and we aren't going to solve them bickering about subtleties."

Jim's jaw dropped. Who was this girl? What had she done with his daughter? Don't get him wrong, he liked that Sarah had matured. It is just... he would miss his little girl, it seemed he blinked, and suddenly she was this... older and wiser woman before him.

Cornelia did a double take; this was a new Sarah to her. She had never seen this side of her step-daughter before; it was a bit refreshing.

Jareth couldn't have been more proud of his future Queen.

Moi!? Her, Moirai bickering, she didn't quite see it that way. But she felt somewhat guilty.

Dustfinger seemed to feel a little as Moirai did. This was what he got for trying to help, in what sense did they think he wasn't helping.

Everyone knew Sarah was right. Before they could come to terms though, they heard an animal, not one they've heard before.

Merlin barked from the window.

Jim let go of Dustfinger; he ran outside to look.

Cornelia stayed inside with Toby, while the others followed Jim.

"Mags, what do you call a blind dinosaur?" Mo tried to keep the mood light while he looked around for more raptors; they were pack hunters, according to Dr. Grant's first book. It had been a better read than Ian Malcolm's book, which was preachy and chaotic, and he seemed high on himself. But what else did you expect from the self-proclaimed chaotician.

Luckily it was just the one raptor. But how was it there, and what exactly was going on?

"I don't know, what do you call a blind dinosaur?"

The raptor screeched and charged Mo and Maggie.

They took off running down the trail through some trees and shrubs.

"Everybody get back inside!" Jim saw a man and a girl burst from the trail Sarah took when she went to the park; they were being chased, he could barely believe it, by a dinosaur. "This way! Must go faster!"

"Don't stop, Maggie!" Mo turned around to face the raptor and slow it down anyway he could.

The raptor stopped and purred.


Notes

Cue music: Razorface By Celldweller

Big, big thank you to tmwilson3 for being my beta. And for so much more.