A/N: Well Here it is...

Chapter 10. I know. I can hardly believe it myself. A new chapter just for you Fandom!

*Pats Elizabeth's head* she glares.

Such a good little muse. Well here it is. Chapter 10.

I don't own the labyrinth or any of its characters. Oh and please don't hate me for this chapter.

Chapter 10: The Heart Beat

Ba-bum... Ba-bum...

Ba-bum... Ba-bum...

Toby watched as Karen ran from his goblins and frowned. He should just send her home...but he just couldn't bring himself to do it. Because of her, he had lost the one person that loved him more than life itself, literally. She had two hours to go and he was going to make the most of it. He had his goblins waiting in the oubliette waiting for his word. Time for the finally, he snapped his fingers and teleported her in to it.

Changing with a shimmer of glitter, he smirked internally as he took off toward the sky. He had found that magic was really as simple as Rin had told him. Whatever he wanted to do, he could as long as he could imagine it. Toby had a very active imagination.

He flew into the throne room and circled before changing back into himself. As he did, he looked around the room he saw that Malachite was talking with Titiana and her husband. He turned from them and slumped carelessly on the throne. Creating a crystal, he watched as Karen was tormented by the goblins. He grinned darkly, having that oubliette set up just for her. It was pitch black and had some of his fuzzlins in it. They looked like tribbles from a Star Trek episode he once saw, only they were more mischievous and didn't have the appetite or the spawning speed (a pity too). He smirked as she screamed again.

Oberon watched the child with morbid fascination. The child bordered on sadism. "Don't you think she has had enough, Tobias?"

"Toby."

Oberon blinked, "What?"

"Call me Toby, and no, I don't think she has had enough. She has one hour left and has not given up yet." Toby growled, his eyes flashing with anger at the fae's presumption.

Oberon was shocked at the boy's tone. He growled in frustration at the boy's stubbornness. "Mercy is the crown of a true king," he stated softly, trying to get the boy to ease up on the mortal.

Toby's eyes flashed black with pure rage before he rose high into the air and then slammed down into the floor. His cry echoed through the three adult's hearts as they were forced to see what he had been through. The violence that he had suffered at the hands the woman he now tormented. They were forced to feel every beating and then they heard the words and emotions behind them.

"You stupid little brat!" *Slap* "You are nothing without me!"

"Sarah doesn't love you! How could she love such a worthless nasty little boy?"

" You are MINE! My SON!"

"You were a mistake!"

"You are worthless!"

"Brat!"

"Horrid child!"

"I never wanted you!"

"I love you, Toby."

"Soon... just wait... Soon you will be my beloved son for real."

"Then we will live happily ever after."

"My beloved little boy."

"My Toby."

"Little one."

"My heart."

"Toby, feel that?" Toby nods as he feels the heartbeat in her chest.

Ba-bum... Ba-bum... Ba-bum... Ba-bum...

"That's you."

"You are my heart."

All three adults cried out at the pain and the memories that flashed through their minds. The child was hurting so bad. The guilt that the child was carrying was enormous. The pain at finally being with the mother he had always wanted... only to be ripped away from her in just a few short moments... the fact that he finally had a family, only to have it gone in the next second. All thanks to the woman in the oubliette.

Toby pushed away from the ground, glaring at them with ice in his eyes, "Still think that she has had enough? Still think she deserves the mercy you speak of now that you know the truth?"

The three adults had fallen to their knees from the force of his pain. They shook their heads trying to catch their breath. It was obvious that the woman was lucky that the child didn't torture her as well as torment her. The clock's chime echoed through the throne room. Not a dry eye in the place.

Toby blinked out of sight giving everyone time with their own thoughts. Teleporting Karen back to the house, he transformed into a falcon and flew down low before changing in front of the woman, then she coward in front of him. He grinned. His revenge was done.

"You failed, Karen, but I will show mercy on you where you didn't on me. You will live the rest of your life knowing that you lost the only child you will ever have. He waved his hand at Karen causing her to double over in excruciating pain. Walking over to the phone, he called 911 then disappeared as the operator picked up on the other end.

Oberon, Titiana and Malachite watched as the woman was rushed to the hospital and into surgery. Toby popped back into the throne room.

"That was cruel, Toby," Titiana whispered. Toby sighed. It was finally over. Glancing up at the High Queen he shook his head.

"No... I was kind."

The three adults stared in shock at the child.

He sighed again, "I may have stolen her ability to have children but I manipulated time and events. She will still be found as an unfit parent but it will show that my Mama, Aunt Maya, Malachite and I died in a car accident, leaving her the house. The money will be given to charity to help abused children. She will have no memory of her time here. That is what I would call mercy. Tormenting her was for my benefit. Taking her ability to have children was for the sake of the children. With no memory of this she would have no reason to change. It is a kindness to the children she will never have."

Titiana gasped at the thoughtfulness of the child. He was right. He did show mercy. The woman Karen wouldn't go to jail and she wouldn't be able to hurt another child. She would have a place to stay and he got his revenge at the same time. After everything the child was put through...

He still had a heart.

A/N: Don't shoot me please, I know Toby was a little dark in this chapter but I hope you can look at it from his point of view. He was abused, told that he was unwanted and then he has this wonderful person who loves him... who wants him and not just an object of control but truly loved him. Then in the blink of an eye she is taken away by the person who didn't really want him in the first place. He is going to be a little dark. As for his magic remember that Rin was training him in his dreams.

With that said I blame my muse for this!

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