Disclaimer: I only own Firefly (who is me) and Derek! On wit' da fic! And it'll be Firefly's POV then throughout the fic, unless I say different ^^; oh and Firefly's name will be explained later on..probably chapter 3...well anyway, go on and read my nice fic! ^-^


Crystalline Tears

Chap. 2
By:
FireflyOfDeath




We quickly moved everything out of the way and swung open the door. Sarah stopped so I did too, though I felt like running far, far away from there. I looked at the two people who were in front of us, and over to Sarah. Sarah's eyes were…filled with hatred… and she was glaring at a blonde guy in front of us…I thought he was pretty cute! So was the other one! The blonde one (Jareth) had one deep fiery brown eye, and an ice-cold sky blue eye. The other one who also had blonde hair (Derek) had one green eye that reminded her a lot of her own, and one gray eye…which reminded me of the sky after a storm…they were both really hot!!

I looked over to Sarah puzzled about who these strange people were.

She wasn't looking at me though. So I turned back to the two who were in front of us. "Jeez! Stop looking at me! You're freaking me out!!" I shouted to Derek (they don't know the names but I just do that so you know who they're talking to)

The guy smirked and calmly stated "I may look at whomever I please…"

I blinked and raised an eyebrow.

"Well Jareth…funny meeting you here…what do you want?" I heard Sarah say…I guess she knew one of them.

The one who was Jareth threw his head back and laughed. "Dear child…"

"Child?? I don't see any children here…" I stated looking around "Or are you talking to Sarah??" I asked sarcastically.

Jareth glared at me and I couldn't help but shrink back a little. Sarah didn't seem intimidated. "As I was saying before I was rudely interrupted…"

"You wanna see rudely interrupted? Here it goes… I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, and this is how it goes…" I continued until Jareth lost his temper, which was after the second round.

"Enough!!" Shouted Jareth so that I could almost feel the whole house shake. The next second I was lifted at least seven inches off the ground by my neck.

I pretended to look unafraid…but inside my heart was pounding faster then a stopwatch. And I kept repeating in my mind 'please don't kill me…please don't kill me…' Sarah ran up to him hitting the arm he was holding me with but…it looked like he could barely even feel it. I grimaced as I noted that I was running fatally low on oxygen. So I clawed at his hands with my nails, and repeatedly kicked him. He finally let go and I slid to the ground gasping for air.

Sarah ran up to me "Firefly, you ok?" She asked worriedly.

I nodded slightly "I've been better…you know you should've ran…"

"I wouldn't have made it very far…" She replied helping me to my feet.

I nodded. "Oh, um what was he saying?" I asked pointing to Jareth.

"What? You're actually letting him speak?" asked Derek pretending to look shocked. I just smiled slightly and replied, "Hey, what can I say? I like toying with people's minds…"

"Well, the reason we are here, is because one of you wished both of you guys away…" Derek said.

Sarah looked at me glaring a bit.

"How was I supposed to know? No one told me that she had been in the Labyrinth before! Jeez…how was I supposed to know?" I cried folding my arms.

"And so we're here to take you to the Underground…" Jareth said simply.

"Wait, by Underground to you mean like Hell or something?" I asked confused.

"No, Firefly Underground is his kingdom, you know that Goblin place that's in the book?"

"Ohhhhhhhhh…I see…" I nodded furrowing my eyebrows. "So we are to go to this Underground place…and??…What then? Just stay there and wither away? What's the point in that?" I asked skeptically.

"You speak as if you aren't afraid of what the answer might be…" Derek said with a hint of amusement in his voice. "Why is that?"

I scratched the back of my head and shrugged a bit. "Well, Sarah beat it, and she's not exactly the strongest, fastest, smartest--"

"Firefly!" Sarah looked at me harshly and I could tell Derek was holding back a laugh…and Jareth looked…well…annoyed.

"Sorry…well, to get to my point she's not the best in…anything really, except acting!" I said after another glare from Sarah though that part was true…she was the best actress ever! She was going to make it big! I continued on. "Well, if she could beat it…I guess I could too…" I said smiling a bit.

"Oh yeah? Firefly…no offence but you aren't exactly the best at…well anything…" I heard Sarah say.

"That's not true!! I ran eight hundred yards in half a minute! So I beat the record by a minute and a half!! And I took Boxing, Tai Kwon Do, and this Karate class that taught like 6 different things!" I said triumphantly. "And I also got top five on my S.A.T. scores!"

"Well so did I! On the S.A.T you had 3rd place! I was the one who was in first!!" Sarah replied shouting.

I blinked. "Well…but that was after you beat the Labyrinth!" I responded.

"What's the difference??" Sarah asked.

"…Uh…erm…I don't know…" I responded twiddling my fingers "It uhh…could've done something to your mind to make you smarter?"

Sarah looked exasperated. Jareth and Derek looked…amused. Well Derek looked amused. Jareth…I don't know, great poker face.

"Firefly I've ha--"

"Well, where will we be staying? Can we pack?" I asked cutting her off.

Derek looked about ready to laugh. "You'll be staying in my castle, no you have no need to pack, everything will be given to you at the palace…clothes, whatever you need."

My eyes lit up. "Castle!?! Really!!?" I asked jumping up excitedly. "Sarah did you hear! A castle!" I said shaking her a bit.

"Is this one a castle like Jareth's? Ugly, unkempt, and crawling with goblins?" Sarah asked not paying attention to me.

My spirits altered. "Darn…and I was expecting a huge castle that was perfect! Just like in the fairy-tales!" I sighed.

Jareth scowled at Sarah at the 'perfect' description of his castle. And Sarah scowled right back.

I could tell there was 'something' between the two. Even though both were not entirely sure of it yet. Then an idea struck my mind…time to play matchmaker! I'll need help. Perhaps Derek would be of assistance?

"Oh well Sarah, that was in the past!! I want to see this castle! Even if it's dirty and stuff it's still in a magical realm!!" I said and before Sarah had time to answer we were teleported into Derek's castle.


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Firefly: It sucked? It was good?

Sarah: You want to read more?

Firefly: You love me? And only me?

Sarah: You find Firefly annoying?

Firefly: …hey!

Sarah: Well read and--

Firefly: review!