Note: Sorry this took so long to get up, but between the expo and homework and me being to sick to move (and I am still sick) it was hard to get this done, even if it was my number one priority. The end is near, and almost finished being typed up, so I'll have the next two or three chapters (I don't even know how many there are) up before you know it, well at least quicker then this one I promise you that much my friends. I hope the wait didn't put to many people off, I know I hate waiting and I'm really sorry about it forgive me…
Darien led the group down a dark hallway "Why do I feel like I'm in a bad horror movie?" Darien asked as he walked through a door that led to a larger room.
The sound of something hitting the floor and footsteps echoed through the room.
"I wonder?" Bobby declared as the group looked around the room.
Claire took a few steps back and bumped into Darien "Okay guys, we're never going to find him like this."
"Yeah, she's right." Darien turned towards them "Split up?"
"Split up!" Hobbes answered. "Alex and I'll go this way you two go that way." Bobby pointed out.
Alex joined Bobby and they disappeared into the dark.
"Definitely a bad horror movie." Darien muttered following Claire through a door on the opposite side of the room.
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Bobby ran into a room, gun held up in front of him. He looked around the room and waved Alex in.
She walked in looking around the room. "Where are we?"
"I don't know…" Bobby said looking through the open door at the other end of the room.
Alex shook her head as a spark caught her eye. She turned towards the far wall and stared at it until another spark flew out. She quickly crossed the room to see where the sparks were originating. A rather large metal box had been slashed open and the wires inside had been crudely ripped to shreds.
"What is that?" Bobby asked looking over her shoulder.
"I think it's the main power…" Alex studied the box for a moment. "I can't fix it."
"Yeah well, if that's the main power, the back up shouldn't be too far away."
"Right, lets go find it."
Hobbes turned and began leading Alex out of the room as he smashed into a trashcan that had stood next to the door. "Oww…there's something there."
"Do you want me to go first?" Alex mocked following him.
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Darien opened the door just enough to see through it. He looked around the large dark room before opening the door a little more, enough to stick his head inside. He pushed the door completely open and unquicksilvered his eyes.
"C'mon." He said stepping inside the room Claire following him closely.
"He's not here?"
"Nope…Where the heck could he have gone?" Claire shook her head as Darien took another look around the room "Um… do you know where we are Keep?"
"Probably a lab." Claire looked around the room.
Darien nodded and took a step forward kicking something; he looked down trying to figure out what it was.
Claire walked over next to him. "What is it?"
"I don't know."
Something fell behind them causing them both to jump. They stared behind them, Claire holding onto Darien's arm. The lights burst to life making them both jump. Darien laughed at their joint reaction.
"I guess Hobbes and Monroe found the power." He smiled at Claire as she let go of his arm. Darien turned back around and froze. "Oh…crap."
Claire turned around to find what Darien had kicked. "Dr. Brooks…" She said a little disgusted. She looked further ahead and gasped slightly.
"The guards…" Darien turned the other way and swallowed hard. He looked over at Claire "I think we should leave…" She nodded and followed him out of the room.
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Jareth smashed into a locked door, leaving pieces of wood and metal laying about the floor. He looked up, the florescent lights seeming to bother his sensitive eyesight, the ceiling of the room was well over twenty feet above his head and the same boring gray as the walls in every other room. The room had four other adjoining doorways placed on two of the three other walls. A few desks were placed in the room, two on the far wall where no door lie, another along the wall Jareth stood next to, and the last one was in the middle of the room. He glared about him, the walls the smells the colors even the people were like every other lab he had ever been to, including the one that had made him the way he was. It made him furious at everyone that had anything to do with science or his capture. The sound of footsteps further away caused Jareth to snap back into his search and destroy mindset. He smiled to him self as voices barely audible to regular hearing came closer.
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Darien pushed the door open, looking side to side as it shut again. He then slowly turned the knob and guided the door to a resting position near the wall.
"All clear…" He walked inside the room glancing at the one door at the end of the hallway. "I guess we're going that way…" He shuffled along the small passageway, Claire by his side, and stopped in front of the door. "Here we go…again…" This time he just gently pushed the door open and walked inside. "Hey, what do you know? He's not here…" Darien sighed as he scanned the room.
"But he was…" Claire pointed towards the wood and metal lying across the floor. She glanced at Darien who quickly walked over the pile of rubble lying on the cold cement floor.
"Well he's not here now…" Darien knelt down next to the mess as if he could somehow find a clue as to where Jareth had gone.
Claire nodded as she picked up a piece of the wood. "Well now, here's something…"
"What?" Darien stared at the wood.
Claire turned the piece around so Darien could see what she had noticed "Blood…Jareth's blood to be exact."
Darien took the piece of wood from her "How can you tell?"
"Well, the color's off, it's darker then normal blood."
They both stared at the piece of wood. "We're never going to find him are we?" Darien asked as a dark figure walked silently up behind the two.
TBC, yeah like you couldn't tell from the ending… it'll be up soon trust me…Sorry again about the wait, you guys are so great…