I'm sorry for the delay, but here's the 10th chapter. This is probably the second last chapter in this story. I'm not sure yet, but I think the end is coming for this story. I hope you will enjoy it and follow the stories I'm going to write in the future.

The Darnedest Thing

Abby had it as if someone had pounded her head into a wall and then showed it into a toilet. She could hardly get up in time for work. How come she had to go to the office every day when Ann only had come once a week. Had she seduced their boss or something? Abby being as negative as she always were when came to Ann figured that it had to be so.

She had taken the vial with her in order to keep it ready for when she would be transported "home". She couldn't forgive Jareth for rejecting her back when she still could come and go as she pleased. He had been blinded by that girl otherwise he would never have rejected her.

What was her name again? Sari, Sera...Sara! That impudent little brat just had to steal his heart and then through it away. I would never have done that, but Jareth just down-right refused me after that time and now he's in the claws of that snot-whelp Ann.

The more she thought of it the angrier she got. She was so engulfed in her thoughts that she came to work looking like a devil ready to take every single soul in the company. No one dared to approach her for the most of the day. Abby hardly got any work done.

The result was that she went home and took her rage out on a pillow an two vases.

She then grabbed her keys and walked out. When she stopped walking she noticed that she had arrived at the apartment building where Ann lived. Abby was a bit surprised by this, but it didn't faze her. She went in and walked up to her enemy's apartment.

She took out something she could draw with and started to write on the floor. She then took out the vial and as she opened it she started chanting in a language that sounded like something out of this would. As a drop of the sickly green liquid touched the floor a light stronger than day flashed.

Abby then followed the ball of light that had appeared. She followed it into the bedroom and it stopped right over the bed.

She took the bed apart and found a small book imbedded into the madras. She opened it and started reading. After some time she threw it against the wall being more furious than before. She wanted to destroy this puny world and leave to fend for itself if it survived.

As she was about to scorch the whole apartment a dark shadow swallowed her up. "Are you insane!" The voice spoke."I thought you liked me this way." She smiled an evil grin as she spoke. "Not when the plan is at jeopardy. You destroy this world and Jareth will cease to exist and you will never get what you desire! This world and yours is closely linked. You of all people should know this!" The anger in the voice was clear as day and it roared like thunder right next to ones ear. "I don't care anymore I just want her gone forever. She has constantly been a thorn in my eye and now she has the love of my brother. She has always had his love weather he wants to admit or not. Ever since I scared her with my goblin form and abducted her. He kept visiting that little brat even when he didn't have to. And when I brought her to run his labyrinth when she was 15 he wiped her memory and took most of my powers as "payment" for her return to this world so she wouldn't have to run his labyrinth. Now tell me why I shouldn't destroy them both!" She bellowed out into the pitch blackness and got only silence as an answer for several minutes.

After what seemed forever the voice spoke again."You got a point there, but I still cannot allow you to destroy them just yet. I still need to prepare some things and you are becoming more and more of an obstacle than an ally. Watch it my dear, you know as well as I that I have the power to tear you apart atom for atom in the most torturous way possible and strip you of your remaining powers. If you as much as try to destroy them before time is ripe I will not hesitate to kill you, is that clear?" As he spoke his voice got ever more cold and nearer to her as he spoke. When he said his last words his voice was so cold and so close that her blood almost froze in her veins. She could feel fear and horror rise and she couldn't speak. She only nodded slightly once again accepting the terms she once agreed to so many years ago.

Then without warning the shadow disappeared and she was left in bright sun light that almost blinded her. When she wanted to grab the small book she had found it was nowhere to be found. She tore everything apart in a fit of rage. How dare that old f***** take my only clue? I had just thought of going though it again...No way! He read my mind and then took it! If only I had all my powers...then he wouldn't be the one setting the rules, but for now I will go with his plan. I will force that brat to run the labyrinth and then get my powers back.

Over the next few days Abby quit her job, moved out of her apartment and slipped under the radar. She started to travel, but before she left the United States there was an unknown robbery in a bank in the area she had lived in. No one were able to figure out who or what did it and it was soon after forgotten since no one was hurt.

Abby learned all she could about computer hacking and erased herself from every record. She took a new name, but did not register anywhere. She started to live in remote places and always made sure to cover up all her tracks. She was searching for something. Something even she didn't know what was, but within short time she was known in the criminal realm as a ruthless, murdering, sicko b**** who let nothing stand in her way from getting what she wanted. No one could see themselves safe around her. She trusted no one.

But had she looked a little closer to home she would have found that the very thing she was searching for wasn't in the rest of the world, but in the very place she had lived in.

Back in the goblin kingdom Jareth had just arrived and looked more tired than ever. He still hadn't found out exactly it was that was corrupting his labyrinth, but now he figured it could have something to do with the time he had taken most of Enyie's powers, though he didn't remember doing so. She herself had gotten pretty corrupt in the years that had passed from she was 10 till now. He tried to figure out if something had happened in the time up till she had become 10, but seemed to always come up empty.

But what worried him more was that he seemed unable to remember when Ann had been in the labyrinth. Why had he erased her memory and taken Enyie's powers as "payment" for Ann's return to the above world? And since he couldn't remember that time had he also erased his own memory? He looked down on the little book. It had been cleverly hidden and the true content sealed by magic, elven magic to be precise. No wonder Enyie couldn't get any good info out of it. It had been covered with meaningless blabber that made no sense. Not unless one knew elven magic. I wish now that I had payed more attention in my elven magic classes. I never were very good with it and I've never had the need to use it before now. I better hold on to it for now and see if I can't find an elven mage.

Jareth tucked the book inside his jacket and left his study. He had to talk with Ann about her family, but he suspected that she knew very little.