Disclaimer: I do not own Jareth, the Labyrinth, or any of its inhabitants. I do own anything/ anyone/ anyplace that I created in this fanfic… which I also own… XP nah!
I also do not own Aminta or Mikel. They were both created by Eriks leadinglady and belong to her.
Summary: It's been ten years since Sarah's trip to the Underworld to save her baby brother from an accidental wish. She thinks she's finally rid of the Goblin King when he suddenly shows up, revealing that she's been wished away. But something's different about her and he intends to figure out what it is. Can he help heal her past or will they continue to hurt each other?
Warning: Jareth is totally out of character. So is Sarah.
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Last Time:
"Pretty song," he commented.
"Thanks. My mom used to sing it to me when we watched the stars." He glanced at her. "Before she died." He raised an eyebrow and she laughed. "I know. Me offering information without a price? It doesn't bother me to talk about it. It happened so long ago. She was wonderful though. We always went outside before bed, even if was raining, just to hang out." She yawned. "I supposed she passed that trait… on… to me…" Her head lolled to the side and Jareth smiled, looking back up at the sky.
Tomorrow, tomorrow…
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Heal Me, Hurt Me
By: Kadasa Mori
Chapter 25 (August 19th)
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"Wait… so the knights go diagonal?"
Rolling his eyes, Jareth sighed. "No Sarah. Bishops go diagonal."
"Oh… so what do the knights do?"
"The knights make the "L" shape."
"Ah… so can I put this one here?"
"Yes. That's a pawn, but if you do that-"
Alan smirked. "Checkmate."
"Damn it!" Sarah cursed, getting to her feet and stomping to the recliner, seating herself into it heavily. "I hate this game!!!"
Alan grinned in her direction then turned to Jareth. "Shall we restart?"
Jareth frowned, looking at the board before he smirked and moved one of his pieces. "No more checkmate."
"You…" Alan scowled at him and the game resumed, Sarah watching in annoyance.
"Tomorrow's Katrina's party," Kira announced as she stepped into the room. "Everyone needs to make sure they have something for her to open, even if it's just an empty box." She glanced at her first target.
"Jareth?" Jareth waved his hand as though swatting at an annoying fly, focusing hard on the chessboard. "Alan?"
Alan sent her a dull look. "I'm your husband. We buy her things together."
"Oh yeah…" She laughed nervously then turned to Sarah. "Sarah?"
Sarah twitched. "I don't exactly walk about with cash in my pockets."
"Oh… well… who can take you out real fast? Jareth?"
He grunted, ignoring them both then grinning and moving a piece. "Checkmate."
"WHAT?! HOW THE HELL?!"
Sarah and Kira sighed. "I'll find someone," Sarah said, as Kira held out a crystal, it forming a credit card. Sarah stuffed it into her pocket and hurried out of the room.
Wandering down the halls she sighed heavily. "Now… I need to get aboveground. That means I need someone who has magic. But out of them I need to find someone who has been aboveground shopping and someone who isn't Kira." She tapped her chin then grinned. "Ah ha!"
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Carefully balancing on a high stool, arms shaking as she tried to reach the book above her head, she bit her lip, fingertips brushing the novel's spine. A grin lit up her face as she carefully eased it out and pulled it off the shelf, clutching it to her chest as she climbed back down the stool, feet on solid ground.
"Evie!"
The librarian yelped and spun before slamming a hand over her heart. "Sarah… damn it! I thought you were Kira!" She walked back out the aisle to a table she'd claimed as her own, a pile of books already there.
Sarah grinned. "Hey! You feel like going aboveground?"
Evie's eyes narrowed. "Why?"
"Shopping."
She dropped the book in horror. "No! Not you too!"
Sarah laughed. "For a present for Katrina's birthday."
"Oh… phew."
"Come on Evie! Let's go!" Sarah grabbed her wrist tugging her out the door.
"Why the rush? We have all day."
"I know but if we hurry we can get to Dieter's Heaven before the lunch special ends."
Evie rolled her eyes. "Sarah… you just want to go aboveground because you want lunch… right?"
"Of course! I got Katrina's present last week."
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Leaning back against the couch after his seventeenth win, Jareth turned to Kara who'd taken over Sarah's spot, kicking her feet as she read a discarded book. "Kara?"
"Hm?"
"Where'd Sarah go?"
"Aboveground."
He jerked. "What?!"
Alan looked up from his wailing about losing. "You're kidding right? Kira and Sarah told us that they were going aboveground."
Jareth blinked then scowled at him. "Shut up. I beat you seventeen times already." Alan pouted angrily and Jareth turned back to Kara. "So Kira went with her?"
"No… I believe Evelyn did."
He raised an eyebrow. "Who?"
She rolled her eyes and got to her feet, tossing the book on the table. "Evie." She headed for the door only for it to fling open.
"Kara!" Jason cried. "What a surprise! We must be destined to meet each other!"
She rolled her eyes again and shoved his face out of hers. "Go away Jason."
He waved after her as she left before sitting beside Jareth. "Hey!"
Jareth glanced at him as Alan reset the board. "Hey…"
"I heard about Toroku." Jareth nodded. Alan glancing at the two of them. "You think this is gonna come back to haunt us?"
Jareth shrugged and Alan's eyes narrowed. "What are you two talking about?"
"Alan?" Kira called, stepping into the room. "Will you watch Kat and Bella for me?"
He turned smiling as they leapt at him. "Hey you two. Staying out of trouble?"
Kira snorted. "I'm gonna go put Edmund down for a nap. Come on Emmy." Emily waved to them and hurried after her mother, Riley on her heels.
Alan sighed and glanced at Jareth and Jason who were grinning at him. "We'll talk later." They nodded. "Now, who's going to help Daddy beat Uncle Jareth?"
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Sarah laughed as Evie yet again turned bright red, Reishka commenting about how cute she was and how guys would absolutely adore her. She turned to looked out the window, watching cars go by as everyday life continued on. She remembered that store down the way. Toby used to love hiding in the middle of the clothes racks and jump out, making her scream in fright and get a dirty look from everyone. She used to hate it and drag him out, beat red and flustered.
She jerked quickly as she realized what she'd just recalled and ended up knocking her cup over. She jumped and turned quickly, grabbing it as it hit the table, luckily nothing coming out since it was empty.
"Sarah?" Evie asked. "You all right?"
Sarah grinned brilliantly. "Yeah. Sorry bout that." She poked her elbow. "My elbow suddenly decided it didn't want to stay still."
"REISHKA!" The woman turned towards the front desk as her daughter-in-law called her. "You've had over an hour to chat! Get back to work you old woman!"
Reishka scowled and shouted something back in thick heavy Russian, Sarah gauging by the darkening look on the woman's face as something nasty, before she turned back to Sarah and Evie, Sarah looking amused. "Getting yelled at Reishka? Tsk, tsk. You should know better."
"Shut it. I give you free ice cream." Sarah just grinned. "Well. It was wonderful chatting with you two. Make sure you come and visit soon."
The word held a veiled threat behind it. Sarah just waved it off. "Catch ya later Reishka." Evie bowed slightly to the woman and hurried after her friend.
Once they were out of the store and headed towards the mall, Evie grasped her elbow tightly. "You ever bring me in there again and I will tell Jareth about your high school experiences."
Sarah winced. "You wouldn't."
Evie just grinned wickedly. "Try me."
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"Come on Evie. We'll just be a minute Evie. Please Evie." Evie shot a dark look at the brunette who was squealing over another toy. "Minute my a-"
"Evie!" Sarah scolded. "We're in a toy store. Behave yourself." Evie gave her a look that if ever placed into words would make anyone's jaw dropped. Sarah just grinned. "Come on. Before you burst a blood vessel. How can you not like this store? They have everything! Water guns, video games, candy, party supplies-they even have a bouncy bounce!"
"Which of course you're getting for 'Katrina' and you'll just happen to want to bounce on it."
Sarah grinned. "Well it's big enough for quite a few people. Unfortunately, I don't think that having a huge grinning stupidly clown bouncy bounce in their backyard is a way for Kira and Alan to rise in the food chain."
Evie just rolled her eyes. Something shiny caught her attention and she peered closer to the beads hanging from the wall. "Oooo… pretty…"
"Oh… my… god."
Evie frowned as she heard the muttered words, dreading the worst. "Sarah?" Her eyes caught what the girl was looking at and widened. "No, no and hell no."
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Jareth frowned, staring at the ceiling while Edmund played with his necklace. Jason had fallen asleep due to his running around trying to convince Kara to go on a date, Kara and Kira were playing 'Sorry' with the girls, Bellezza was out cold in her father's lap, her father not faring any better.
"When are they gonna get back?" he asked.
Kara snorted and pointed to a black checker, Emily skipping over a red one. Katrina pouted and looked at her mother who pointed to one of the red ones, a black one quickly snatched away. "She'll be back soon Jareth," Kira said, watching the game.
Jareth sighed and looked at Edmund who met his gaze. The baby blinked then gurgled happily and resumed gnawing on the spelled to be soft necklace. Jareth sighed again and looked back up at the ceiling.
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Evie stirred her milkshake, her leftover McDonalds from dinner, and turned to Sarah who walked up with her soda. "So, how long will it take us to get to the park?"
Sarah blinked. "The park? About fifteen minutes, walking of course."
Evie hook an arm around the brunette's. "Let's go then!"
"Why the park?"
"Because that was the only place you and I ever really hung out. I've missed it."
Sarah giggled. "All right then." They chattered about random things all the way to the park, seating themselves on a hill overlooking a small bridge over a quiet river. They sat in silence, just staring at kids they didn't know, running around and playing.
"Do you miss it here Sarah?" Evie suddenly asked.
Sarah didn't reply at first, cupping her hands around her soda and staring into the distance. She stared at the last spot in the park she'd played with Toby. He'd wanted to play hide and seek, but she'd been exhausted from school and work and somehow convinced him to show her all of Riley's tricks before the show… probably by bribing him with that ice cream. A faint smile adorned her lips as she could almost see him crying out in frustration when Riley refused to move, too comfortable in the summer sun.
"Sarah?"
"No…" Sarah replied, hiding a shudder as all she saw was dead eyes and felt the blood running down her arms, the rain pelting her back. "Not at all…"
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Jareth looked towards the front door as it opened. He smiled slightly spotting Sarah and Evie walking in through the door. Evie looked like she was trying to smile and Sarah was smiling widely. "I'm gonna go put my things away okay?" Evie nodded, watching as the brunette hurried away.
A hand touched her shoulder and she spun. "Goblin King… I… I think you need to see Sarah."
He frowned. "Why?"
"Something… I…" She sighed heavily. "All I know is that I asked her if she missed the aboveground and… she turned into 'I'm happy but really not…'"
Jareth sighed then nodded. "Thanks Evie." She nodded back then yelped as Kira grabbed her arm.
"Evelyn Snow! Just the person I needed to see!"
Jareth smirked after them, leaving Evie to her doom, then turned, disappearing and reappearing in front of Sarah's room. He stepped up to the door and lightly rapped his knuckles on the door.
"Who is it?" Sarah called.
"Me."
"Come on in." He opened the door and stepped inside. Frowning, not spotting her, he took another step forward.
"Sarah?"
"Balcony."
He leaned over slightly and spotted her figure sitting there. "You okay?" She didn't reply. "Sarah?" He stepped up behind her and knelt down. "Sara-"
She lunged at him, wrapped her arms around his torso. He fell backwards, startled, only instincts keeping his head from meeting the floor as he grabbed her. Her shoulders twitched as she cried silently.
"Sa…Sarah?" he asked in confusion. "Why… why are you crying?"
"I… I miss him…"
"Him?" He winced. "Toby?"
She nodded, shivering. "I miss him so much."
Jareth frowned at her then pulled her away slightly. "Sarah. I told you that if at any time you needed to visit the aboveground… I'd bring you there."
She blinked then smiled slightly and nodded. "Not tomorrow… the day after."
He smiled back and nodded. "All right. Now, you need to go to sleep. It's nearly ten."
She pouted and stuffed her face into his shirt. "M'not tired."
"You will be if you don't sleep." She didn't move. He sighed as though extremely troubled and, stood, picking her up at the same time and flinging her over his shoulder.
She squealed. "Jareth!!!"
He tossed her onto the bed and watched her bounce a few times before shooting him a scowl, but not really angry. He just pulled back the covers. She pouted, crossing her arms irritably and flopping against her pillows. "I'm not tired."
He allowed a smile to cross his lips. "You're being childish Sarah."
She stuck her tongue out. "I'm allowed to!" He snorted, pulling up the covers. She curled up. "Night Jareth."
"Good night Sarah." He waited until she'd fallen asleep before heading for the door, blowing out the candle and shutting her door. With a heavy sigh, he started for his room, needing his own sleep.
Life is far too complicated…
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Katrina giggled as yet another person wished her a happy birthday. All of her friends and their families from the town had come and there was a huge party in the backyard. Sarah smiled, sitting on a chair with Edmund, the baby laughing every time someone spoke to him. Bellezza and Emily were following her sister around dutifully, Riley acting as their bodyguard.
Jason had been given present duty, collecting and arranging all of the brightly wrapped gifts. Kara was hiding from him. Kira and Alan were presently talking with a family, all of them laughing warmly. Sarah smiled and looked down at Edmund who looked up and grinned a toothless grin. Sarah giggled and turned back to the party.
"So who are you?" She turned to the newcomer who smiled and held out a hand. "Ryoko Sannin. I'm Kat's best friend's father."
Sarah blinked at the hand them took it quickly and shook. "Sarah Williams… Kat's uncle's wished away."
He blinked then let out a laugh. "So you're the Sarah Williams then?"
"Yes." She sighed. "I should just hang a sign around my neck." He grinned at her. He had short spiky maroon hair, gray eyes and fangs.
"Ryoko!" He turned and blinked then grinned widely, shaking the dark haired man's hand warmly.
"Hey! Haven't seen you in forever!"
"You too! How's the family?"
Sarah smiled to herself watching the two converse. She loved family 'get together's. Her smile fell as she recalled she didn't really have a family anymore.
"Sarah?" She shook herself and looked up at Ryoko who grinned at her. "Come on. I'll bet ol' Goblin Face hasn't showed you about yet huh?"
She grinned, standing and shifting Edmund to her hip. "I don't believe he'd be quite happy to hear you call him that." The other man grinned.
Ryoko shrugged. "Well as long as you don't tell on me, I think I'm safe."
She smirked. "Ah. As long as I don't tell huh?"
He frowned slightly. "You're not… going to… are you?"
She tapped her chin then shrugged. "I'll think about it." The other man burst into hysterics as Ryoko just stared.
The dark haired man chuckled. "Just because she's a mortal Ryoko, doesn't mean she hasn't got the trickery of a fae." He held out his hand. "Kozan Yugeshiki."
She shook the hand. "Sarah Williams."
Kozan blinked. "The Sarah Williams?"
She scowled. "That's it. Where's my sign?" Ryoko laughed while Kozan merely blinked Sarah muttering to herself in search of some paper.
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Jareth frowned, looking all over for Sarah. He heard laughter and turned to find her standing in front of a group of people, hands waving furiously, a sign taped to her shirt. He walked up behind her, the dozen people there turning to him, but she didn't notice.
"And so I got Turtle and everyone was angry because they thought it was a stupid name!"
"It is a stupid name."
She yelped and spun then scowled and put her hands on her hips. "It is not!"
"It is too." He looked at the sign.
"It is no-"
"Why are you wearing a sign?"
She blinked then looked down at it and sighed. It read 'yes I'm the Sarah Williams.' "I'm sick of people asking me if I'm the Sarah Williams. How many Sarah Williams could there be?!"
"Twenty-six." She turned and sent a glare to Ryoko. "Including one in Poland."
"Thanks for that helpful tidbit of informa-"
"Present time!"
Everyone hurried over towards the table of presents. Sarah waited patiently as Katrina and her sisters tore open the boxes. Bellezza would take out what was inside and hand it to her sister who would squeal over it then tear open another box. Sarah bounced lightly until she spotted her gift as one of the last ones there. She grinned widely and waited until it was the last one before darting forward.
"And now for my present!" Sarah cried. "Well… actually it's for all three of you technically. I have Kat's special gift right here." She held it out to the girl who blinked then took the box, quickly tearing it open. She squealed as she pulled out a stuffed black cat. Hugging it tightly, she grinned at Sarah.
"Do you like it?" Sarah asked.
She nodded quickly and giggled. "His name is…" Her eyes flashed about before she grinned widely once more. "His name is Tree!"
Sarah giggled. "Yay Tree!" She pat the stuffed cat on the head before turning to Jareth. "Would you do the honors?" He rolled his eyes and waved a hand. A crystal formed and he tossed it to Sarah who yelped, bouncing it from hand to hand to keep it from shattering. Sending a scowl his way, she handed it to Katrina. "I want you to throw it over there." She pointed to an empty space a few yards away.
Katrina nodded and tossed it into the air. It flew, flew, fell, fell and shattered against the ground. In a heartbeat, a huge trampoline stood there, already assembled. Everyone blinked and Sarah laughed. "Yay! Come on!" She hurried over to the trampoline and turned to the girls. "All right! Rules are you have to be careful and not jump too high alright?"
Everyone blinked again. She sighed and helped the girls up then climbed up herself. "You three sit down." They plopped down, looking nervous. "Ready?" She bounced lightly and they squealed as they bounced into the air, landing back onto the trampoline.
"Again! Again!" Bellezza and Katrina cried, Emily giggling. Sarah laughed and jumped up. All three girls burst into squeals and giggles.
Jareth sighed and shook his head. What is wrong with mortals? he thought but couldn't help the grin on his face.
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To all Heal Me, Hurt Me Readers and Reviewers,
HAPPY ONE-DAY-LATE EASTER!!!!!!!!!!
You have no idea how long it took me to write this! I was about ready to trash this chapter but finally managed to pull throtwpahoirz… whoops. Almost fell off my chair (laughs nervously) What was I saying… ah. Yeah. I finally managed to pull through.
And to everyone who never got a reply back to their review (bows) I am deeply sorry and humbly wish for your acceptance of my apology. (scratches head) I've been busy. Doing what I have no idea but it seems like I have no free time anymore… weird because I played Zelda: Twilight Princess for like five hours last night…
So, to any of you Naruto fans out there, wasn't the Gaara-Naruto battle SO COOL!!! Gwaugh!!! I've already read it in the manga but the entire time I was chanting "Go Gaara! Go Gaara! You're so cool!!! Rip his head off!!!!" Of course I'm a Naruto fan as well, though he says "Believe it!" far too often… but… GAARA'S SO COOOOOL!!!! Squee! (goes into fangirl mode) And yes I know that the episode was on quite a few weeks ago but I hadn't seen it till recently.
And so I was kinda tired and my stomach hurt (that's what happens when you eat ice cream and you're lactose intolerant!!!) so I was in a bad mood so part of the next chapter's kinda… depressing… just a warning… But then today I was in a good mood so the ending will be funny!
Oh! I have a deviantART account and will begin posting characters as soon as possible! You can find the link on my homepage. My name is "KelFreck."
Ryoko Sannin
(I didn't make up the names but I have no idea what they mean. Ryoko's a common name in mangas right? And Sannin is from Naruto, the three legendary Sannin. Hopefully I spelled both right!)
Hair: short spiky maroon
Eyes: gray
Species: fae
Father to Katrina's best friend. He's a fae as well and extremely mischievous. He is related to Jason, a distant cousin I believe. I do like his character so he'll pop up every so often. (.)
Kozan Yugeshiki
Japanese(river/mountains/landscape … evening scene/landscape)
Hair: short dark blue black, bangs falling in his eyes
Eyes: purple
Species: fae
One of Ryoko's good friends. He's more diplomatic of the two, standing back until he gets to know a person before revealing any blackmail worth material.
AND SPRING IS COMING!!! YAY! NO MORE SNOW! NO MORE COLD! NO MORE ICKYNESS! ... but there will be thunderstorms… and I don't like lightning… but… NO MORE SNOW!!!
Wow this was a long author's note! Catch ya later!
Kadasa Mori
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Jareth downed his glass and held it towards Jason. "Sarah wasn't smiling today."
Jason rolled his eyes, refilling the glass. "She was visiting her younger brother's grave Jareth. She's allowed some moments of frowning."
"But you said that you need to always make sure they're smiling," Jareth said in confusion, also downing that glass.
"No… I… wait…" Jason shook his head, automatically filling the glass in front of him. "You're getting confused. That fact that you like someone means you want to see them smile. If you like them more than that, you'd do anything to make them smile even at the cost of your own smile…. Jareth? Are you listening?"
"Hm?" He downed his glass. "Not really…" He had a goofy smile on. "I miss Sarah."
Jason blinked then glanced at the bottle which was almost empty. He rolled his eyes. "Wonderful. The Goblin King hasn't had a drink in a century and when he does, I stupidly give him the entire thing… Hotaru is gonna kill me."