AN: Okay, well I'm writing again. I should truthfully be cleaning the spare room, but...I'll let that slide for now. Just for you guys.

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Sarah forced herself to keep walking, occasionally wiping the tears out of her eyes with the back of her hand. The tears had abated from a flood to a steady trickle, making her eyes sore and her nose runny, and she was hot and uncomfortable.

"It's not FAIR!" She screamed. Her throat was raw from crying, and it felt like she had just pretty much flayed what was left of her vocal chords, which wasn't good for an aspiring singer. She took a deep breath and counted to ten, just like the doctor had told her to. "Frigging anger management..." But it helped, and she was able to continue on without crying.

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Now she's crying? Over the...beast and my brother? Oh, this really must stop! Jareth paced his throne room, all his euphoria at forcing Hoggle to do his bidding drained as he stared at his Sarah in the crystal. Mortal fool!

"Your majesty?" A goblin whisipered from the doorframe. All the others had run when they had felt their ruler's cheery mood turning black. Only this one remained, a companion from childhood. She was Nilten, his old nurse, who cared for him when his father was out with his mother, which was more often than he liked to think about. Contrary to Hoggle's belief, his mother hadn't taken any interest in him until he turned 500. But that day...everything changed. He still remembered taking hold of his father's amulet, and remembered destroying that goblin child that had been annoying him. "Extra," it had called him, "spare." The taunting had been what had made him snap.

He closed his eyes. "Yes, Nilten? What is it?" Keep your temper in check, Jareth.

"Majesty, I brought you a meal. You haven't eaten since the girl entered the Labyrinth, and that was seven hours ago." Nilton brought in a tray laden with all sorts of his favorite things: good bread, dark red wine the color of blood, fiyet fruit seeds, a wedge of cheese and a small roasted lawtak. Jareth sighed and looked away.

"Thank you Nilton, but I do not feel hunger. If you would like some, please help yourself." Jareth had a special place in his heart for the old goblin.

"Thank you, sire, but I'll just leave it here for you. Please do try to eat." Nilton bobbed and left without another word, off to some corner of the kitchen to take a nap or gossip with the goblin maids. Jareth turned back to his crystal, but instead of showing him Sarah, it showed him that day. That day...

"Extra, extra extra!" The little goblin child shouted at Jareth. The child was the son of one of the higher ranking goblins in the King's court and as such was put in to play with the princeling. "Prince Hoggle will get the throne, and you'll get nothing. Do you know why? It's because your daddy doesn't love you. And your mommy won't stand up for you either. They both like Hoggle better!"

"Shut up!" Jareth bellowed. The angry fae boy turned to go to his father's chambers to escape the taunts of Pirili, and yet the jibes followed.

"Your just a spare. If Hoggle's arm gets hurt, you're only an extra arm. SPARE SPARE SPAREY SPARE!!!" Without thinking, Jareth grabbed the amulet and focused all his fury on Pirili. The young boy's muddy brown eyes grew wide, and he opened his mouth to cry out in pain-

Then he disappeared entirely, without a trace. Jareth breathed heavily, appalled at what he had done but enjoying the feeling of power that came with taking another life out of his own. A gasp came from behind him.

"Jareth!" He whirled to find the Queen, tall and stately in a long green dress, Her long blonde hair pulled back into a net. Her bright blue eyes were wide, but sparkling deviously.

"Mother! I-I-I didn't-" Jareth stammered. The Queen waved a hand dismissively.

"How long have you been practicing your magics?" She asked. Jareth shook his head. "You've NEVER practiced before and yet you attained this? Oh, my son! My son!" She threw her arms about the young Jareth. "Such things you will do! And Mother will help you. Oh, yes..." In the crystal, he could see her eyes narrow. "Mother will help you." Jareth knew only that he was finally seeing and feeling something he had never felt before: Acceptance. At that moment, he vowed to do anything that his Mother said.

"NOOOOOO!!!" He screamed and threw the crystal hard on the floor where it shattered. The pieces were sharp and still reflected bits of his memory-especially the cold hard eyes of the person he most loved. And most hated.

fiyet fruit is similar to the pomegranate

lawtak is a type of bird, similar to a chicken. Like a chicken mixed with a pigeon mixed with an eagle. Very common in the Underground.

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Sarah continued to walk for what seemed like hours until she reached a high stone wall, completely covered with moss. There she sat, and pondered what to do next, chewing on her lower lip to keep the tears from restarting. She had realized just how awful it was to be alone in a strange place and to know you have friends but not know if they are even all right. There was a tap on her shoulder and she looked up. A rope dangled from the top of the wall, and at the end was a person with long black hair and mismatched eyes-one purple, one dark brown, and a finely sculpted face.

"Hoggle!" she cried joyfully.

"Climb up, Sarah!" He called down to her. Sarah basked in the sound of his rough, gravelly voice as she took the other end of the rope and started to climb up the wall toward her friend.

AN: Ending on a happy note, a happy note, a happy note! I know that I didn't add the Fireys, but I really...I don't feel them for this version of Labyrinth. They don't quite fit. Oh well. Maybe I'll add them in later, in the Goblin City, perhaps. Within the next couple of chapters, this WILL GET DARKER and maybe slightly dirtier. I don't think I'll do any all-out sex, tho. I don't feel that happening in here either. But it will DEFINATELY be suggestive. To all you sensitive readers- you have been warned. Thank you and good night.