The Music Box
Sorry it's taken me so long to update, I don't really have a very good excuse. I'm sat watching the last episode in series 4 of 'Doctor Who', the spinning Darleks are just genius! I've been watching 'Labyrinth' a lot recently and I noticed that I put the red door instead of the blue one as leading to the oubliette, sorry :-S.
So, I have a recommendation for you, it's a fantastic story called 'The Goblin Market' by Viciously Witty, it's so clever! J
This is going to be the last chapter of this story because I don't have any more ideas but I will do an epilogue and there will be a sequel. Basically it's just what happens to Karen in the Labyrinth so it's going to be fairly short.
I don't own 'Labyrinth' or any of it's characters (however, I do own a copy of the movie) and I've just adopted this story from kittycat-popko. I also don't own any of the other movies, books ect that I've referenced.
Karen
It took me 3 bloody hours to get into the Labyrinth! And then there were no turns. There was just a filthy and dilapidated corridor. I ran down it as best and as fast as my tight white pencil skirt and pink heels would allow me. I must have ran for 2 hours at least before I finally managed to get find a turn, it lead to this strange forest. It was silent and was like any other forest, full of dirt and bugs.
"First chance I get I'll burn this place to the ground, maybe that will encourage him to not kidnap people!" I huffed.
My heels caused me to stumble through a bramble patch, tearing my clothes.
"Hey lady! Where you goin' dressed like that?" A shrill but silly voice said behind me. I turned around and came face to face with a rather silly looking furry creature. In fact it was the splitting image of a toy that Sarah had had and had passed onto Tobias before she vanished to marry her beloved 'King' without a spare thought for me! She just upped and left meaning that Robert and I could never go out again, or at least we couldn't until Tobias was taken away. How selfish of the little bitch!
"What do you want?" I snarled rudely, I was in no mood to deal with silly creatures.
"We want you to play with us!" Said another of the creatures, appearing suddenly behind me again.
"I don't have time to play! I need to get Tobias." I said haughtily before attempting to walk away but they wouldn't take 'no' for an answer. A group of about 5 of them jumped me and knocked me to the ground where they proceeded to attempt to remove my head which ruined my hair!
By the time I'd gotten away from them I'd already used 8 of my 13 hours. I wandered for another 2 before I fell through a trapdoor which lead me to a stinking bog! I desperately clung to a ledge which destroyed my fingernails but soon I began slipping. After several minutes I couldn't hold on any longer and I landed in it with a resounding splash. It smelled even worse close up I wasn't sure how long I had left but I knew that it wasn't as long as I probably needed. At this thought despair set in. It wasn't fair! Magic shouldn't exist! It's silly!
At the end of my 13 hours he came back.
"You failed to complete the Labyrinth so Toby will be staying here. Because you wished him away, you will remember him while others do not. But as an added punishment, your husband will also remember just what you did. And as you seem to have fallen into the Bog of Eternal Stench, you will never be able to wash the smell off." He smirked before sending me home.
Robert rushed out the room as soon as I appeared back into it. After that he would spend as little time in the same room as me as possible. I never left the house again after that, let alone going out to dinner with Robert. He was right about several things, I never could get the smell off and Robert did remember, he never could forgive me. We didn't have anymore children and about 4 months after we lost Tobias he left me for another woman.
AN: lol! I think that gives Karen her just desserts!