Switched At Birth
by
Kurami
Disclaimer: I do not own the Labyrinth characters but I do own the ones I have made up.
Notice: And just to make everything clear. I will be referring the real Sariye as Sarah and the real Sarah as Sariye. Just wanted to say this so it won't get too confusing.
" " Speaking
' ' Thinking
* * Dream Sequence
~ ~ POV
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Chapter 3: The Dream (Part 1)
*Sarah's Dream*
I hear voices whispering, becoming clearer every second. Darkness forever lasting around me, as time niether stops or goes. I continue running, getting nowhere. Endless space of nothing, all around me. I feel something behind me. It must be them again. Those red eyes, forever watching me so very closely. No signs of life in any direction or light of any kind. I now know I am in a place of evil and bitter cold. I am so very cold. I can't even feel my hands or feet anymore. What is happening to me? Wait. Where am I? Why am I here? Why am I in the place where horrifying mysteries are untold? I continue to run, wanting to outrun this bitter cold, evil and endless darkness.
Suddenly, I trip and begin to fall. I try to grab for something to hold on to, yet nothing is there. I continue to fall, not knowing where I will end up. Please. Someone help me. Save me. I don't know where I am going. Please. And with that last thought, I hit the ground.
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"Where am I?" A 7 year old Sarah looked around, her hazel brown eyes holding confusion and wonder. She was somewhere again, that had niether space or time like the last place. She found this place more comforting to her and a place where she actually wanted to stay for a while. She continued to look around, wishing there was some sorce of light in this place of endless darkness.
Slowly in the distance, a dim glow began to form. It became brighter with each passing second, not disturbing the darkness and endless abis. It began to set a pathway, leading to where Sarah stood. She just stared, not knowing what to do. So she started to walk in that direction, whispering to herself. "Where am I? Is this place real or not? Is it just something I imagined up in my dreams or is a place in reality where there is no time or space?" She shakes her head, picking up her pace towards the light. Her walking turns into a jog, as she feels she must reach the light as quickly as possible. The voices from before return, quite quickly. They begin to grow louder with each passing second and it begins to frighten her.
Suddenly, a gust of cold air surrounds her and she screams. She feels needles poking her in all directions and goosebumps show on her arms and legs. She hugs herself tightly, trying to shove off the cold and evil feeling she was experiencing. She starts to shiver and whimper as she backs away in the direction she came. As she did, she feels something touch her shoulder. She turns around and stares at the two menacing red eyes from before. This time, glittening dangerously in the little light a few paces away. She screams again and takes off in the direction she was heading, screaming. "SOMEONE HELP!!! HELP!!!" No one hears her or so she thought.
A soft and soothing voice answered her screams of terror and fear. "Child. Go towards the light. Run as fast as you can. Hurry child. Hurry!"
Sarah does what the voice says and takes off at a run towards the light. She feels the darkness and red eyes gaining on her. She runs even faster, not wanting to face them again. She has had enough. She just wants to get out of here. Go home and sleep in her nice and cozy bed. Thats all she wants. She just wants to be left alone. She just wants to be in the light. And her wish came true. Within seconds, she was in the light and the darkness could no longer touch her since the light's comforting and defending glow kept it at bay.
With a last growl from the darkness, the two menacing red eyes took one last look at her before fading away into the abis, leaving her alone in the light's glow.
Sarah sighs in relief and takes a deep breath, not believing she had actually made it. Thanks to that voice. It was the only reason why she had made it. Yet something still puzzled her. Who was that voice? Where did it come from? And how did it know that she needed its help? Again she shakes her head and sighs, knowing that the only way to find the answers to her many questions was to find the voice again or try calling to it. So slowly, clearing her throat that was dry like a desert, she spoke softly. "Whoever helped me before, please help me again. I need to know who my savior is from the bitter cold and abis. Who was the one that helped me and gave me hope? Who helped me to be in the light's comforting glow? Who is the voice that saved me?"
Softly yet soothingly, the voice answered her question. "Do not worry child. It is no importance that you know my name. It is important that I show you something. So follow my voice into the light and through the door that leads to my home. There, I will show and tell what you need to know. And maybe then, and only then, I will tell you who I am. Now child, go and follow my voice."
Sarah obeyed, making her now stiff legs begin the action of walking again. And so she walked, following the voice as it kept saying. "Follow my voice child. Follow my voice." As she walked, she let her thoughts wander, trying to think of a reason of why following the light was so important to the voice that had only helped her moments before. Was it like the menacing red eyes that seemed to hate her and want to kill her? Or did it want to help her for the voice soothed her shaking and scared body? For now, those questions would have to be left unanswered.
The voice seemed to know what Sarah was thinking so it responded to her thoughts and questions. "Do not be scared of me child. I am here to help. It is your rite to know who you really are and I will not hurt you. I have no reason to hurt you or hate you. Yet those eyes did. They were evil to the core and wanted to harm you, unlike myself. Now child. Let me explain why you must be in the light. The light represents good and purity while the darkness represents hate and evil. We are like ying and yang. We cannot survive without the other because it is just how we keep a stable balance in our worlds. It is necessary for us to coexist together and because we are both the same thing. We share the same origin and parents or parent I should say. Sarah, you are of both the light and darkness. You are niether good nor evil. It is up to you to decide what you want. For now, this is all I can tell you. And please stay in the light. The eyes are still lurking and watching us. If you enter the darkness, I can no longer protect you. You would be on your own."
Sarah nodded her head stiffly, still not fully understanding. The voice was talking to her like if she were a grown-up and could understand these things. She was hardly even eight yet and she could hardly understand the reason for carrots and brocoli. She hated both of these vegetables with a passion. She sighed and continued walking on, coming nearer to the doorway that she just recently noticed. So the voice was leading her here? What laid behind this door that seemed to beckon to her as if it had been waiting for her all this time. Like that would really happen.
Softly and quite kindly the voice spoke. "You can stop walking now child. It is time for you now to approach the door. Do not be scared of what lies on the other side. Nothing will hurt you because there is nothing there that will hurt you. Now be brave child and open the door. I will be waiting for you on the other side."
Sarah nodded her head and stopped, staring at the door intently. The voice was right. She was afraid yet not what laid beyond that door. She was afraid of what would happen to her once she touched it. Would it make her good and pure and take away all the years of pain and torture? Or was is all a trick and the door was a trap that was to kill her and trap her inside it forever? There was only one way to find out. So with that last thought on her mind, she stepped forward and reached for the doorknob. Once her hand grasped it, she turned it and closed her eyes, as the door began to swing open, beckoning her to enter into the mysterious place that was hidden behind it.
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"I am sorry madam. There is nothing more we can do for Miss Williams. It seems she is in a semi-coma state and cannot be woken up unless she wishes to." replied a doctor who stared at the young woman intently.
The woman sighed and grasped the hand of the small sleeping child that was her beloved niece. She then looked up at the doctor and spoke. "How long will that be? Will she wake up anytime soon? I don't think I can wait much longer."
"I really don't know Mrs. Blaire. It is unknown when Miss Williams will wake up. It all depends on her and what she must be going through. I can give you a scientific guess though I know that won't be much help. We hope that she will wake up by the end of the week or there will be only the slimmest of a chance that she will ever wake up. I am sorry Mrs. Blaire, I wish I could more for you and little Sarah." said the doctor who looked at her with pity, sadness, and sympathy in his dark green eyes.
Mrs. Blaire smiled wearily and placing her other hand on the doctor's arm, she replied. "I thank you for your help Richard. I do not know what I would of done without you. And please, enough with the formalities and protocal. We are friends. So please call me Catherine or at least Cathy."
A smile graced Richard's lips and he nodded. "Alright, Catherine. I must be going now. I will check up on you and Sarah later. Promise." With that, he took her hand and gave it a gentle squeeze before turning and walking out of the room, list of patients at hand.
Catherine sighed and shook her head turning back to little Sarah, who had begun sweating in her sleep. Shaking her head sadly, she turns and picks up the wet cloth in the basin by the side of the bed, gently placing it on the young girl's face repeatedly. She pitied the poor child. Sarah did not deserve the pain she has experienced from James all this time. 'And this all happened because of Linda's death. I know if my sister was still alive now, Sarah would not be laying her now, bruised, cut, and in a semi-coma state. She would be at home, sleeping peacefully in bed like my childern. Or at least they should be. They better not of given Lizzy trouble again. I know the old woman can take so much from those little pranksters.'
She laughed a little at this, imaging a poor old Lizzy tied up with rope with a gag in her mouth and her childern running wild around the house, stuffing their faces with ice cream and popcorn. She sure hoped that her son wouldn't find the chocolate. It was all Lizzy needed. A very hyper and sugar-high kid to watch along with 2 other wild ones. Sadly, she let the image fade and let her mind return to the situation at hand. She was going to be here for Sarah, since she was the only family the child had left. James was in jail and was waiting for sentencing after being found guilty of child abuse and possession of illegal drugs though not for attempted murder. 'Stupid jury. They don't even look at the eivdence. They just see a kid beaten and not even look more closely, to see a child of only seven almost killed by her father who was under the influence of drugs and alcohol.'
A voice interrupted her. "Mrs. Blaire. A Miss Elizabeth Parker is here to see you. Says she has your childern here and they wish to see you as well." spoke a very young nurse, whose head was peeking in through the door.
Catherine turned and smiled, nodding. "Tell them to come in. I am with Miss Williams and cannot leave her. And thank you."
The nurse nodded and her head disappeared, to be replaced by a smaller one, its face reflecting youth and innocence. A little boy about 9 with slightly spiked dark brown hair and dark blue eyes looks at Catherine, a grin of pure happiness on his youthful face. "Mommy!!"
Catherine laughed and turned to him, letting go of Sarah's hand. She opened her arms to the child, who ran right into them immediately. Catherine hugged him tightly, wrapping her arms around his small frame while the child just hugged her back. She kissed his forehead and asked. "Alex, where are your brother and sister?" Before the child could reply, two other small heads peeked in, showing the faces of a 7 year old girl and 7 year old boy. The girl's face showed youth and innocence and matched her look of shoulder-length wavy dark brown hair and hazel/dark brown eyes almost making her an exact duplicate of Sarah yet only her eyes had specks of gold in them while Sarah's had silver. The boy's face showed youth and michief instead of innocence that went well with his dark green eyes and dark brown hair that was slightly spiked like his older brother's. The two were twins and looked nothing alike.
Catherine motioned to her other two childern to come in, making them run to her side with a slightly very tired and worn Miss Parker as their heels. Catherine looked at Lizzy with pity, knowing the older woman was tired just like herself. Raising kids was not easy, especially when you had to do it alone.
Elizabeth sighed and looked at Catherine, who smiled at her. She smiled back and said. "Sorry for the interruption. These little devils couldn't wait to see their mother, especially little Alexander. He got into the chocolate again so he is kind of a little hyper. Matthew was fine though wore me out with all his little pranks and tricks. And your little angel of a daughter, Morgan, did nothing but stare at the wall while saying 'He's coming. He's coming. He is coming to get Sarah. He is coming.' Quite the little senser you got there. Maybe she descends from an ancient royal race that was able to see dreams or something?"
Catherine paled slightly at this comment yet quickly replied. "She is just being her normal little self. No worries. And thank you again. I never could of done without your help. I will watch them for now. You may go."
With that, Lizzy nodded and smiled, leaving the room to Cathy and her kids, never knowing that she had just guessed one of Catherine's family's very important secrets.
End of Part 1
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Hope you liked it. Part 2 will be up soon and more on Catherine's famiyl secret. Please review and till next chapter. See ya.
Kurami
by
Kurami
Disclaimer: I do not own the Labyrinth characters but I do own the ones I have made up.
Notice: And just to make everything clear. I will be referring the real Sariye as Sarah and the real Sarah as Sariye. Just wanted to say this so it won't get too confusing.
" " Speaking
' ' Thinking
* * Dream Sequence
~ ~ POV
**************************************************
Chapter 3: The Dream (Part 1)
*Sarah's Dream*
I hear voices whispering, becoming clearer every second. Darkness forever lasting around me, as time niether stops or goes. I continue running, getting nowhere. Endless space of nothing, all around me. I feel something behind me. It must be them again. Those red eyes, forever watching me so very closely. No signs of life in any direction or light of any kind. I now know I am in a place of evil and bitter cold. I am so very cold. I can't even feel my hands or feet anymore. What is happening to me? Wait. Where am I? Why am I here? Why am I in the place where horrifying mysteries are untold? I continue to run, wanting to outrun this bitter cold, evil and endless darkness.
Suddenly, I trip and begin to fall. I try to grab for something to hold on to, yet nothing is there. I continue to fall, not knowing where I will end up. Please. Someone help me. Save me. I don't know where I am going. Please. And with that last thought, I hit the ground.
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"Where am I?" A 7 year old Sarah looked around, her hazel brown eyes holding confusion and wonder. She was somewhere again, that had niether space or time like the last place. She found this place more comforting to her and a place where she actually wanted to stay for a while. She continued to look around, wishing there was some sorce of light in this place of endless darkness.
Slowly in the distance, a dim glow began to form. It became brighter with each passing second, not disturbing the darkness and endless abis. It began to set a pathway, leading to where Sarah stood. She just stared, not knowing what to do. So she started to walk in that direction, whispering to herself. "Where am I? Is this place real or not? Is it just something I imagined up in my dreams or is a place in reality where there is no time or space?" She shakes her head, picking up her pace towards the light. Her walking turns into a jog, as she feels she must reach the light as quickly as possible. The voices from before return, quite quickly. They begin to grow louder with each passing second and it begins to frighten her.
Suddenly, a gust of cold air surrounds her and she screams. She feels needles poking her in all directions and goosebumps show on her arms and legs. She hugs herself tightly, trying to shove off the cold and evil feeling she was experiencing. She starts to shiver and whimper as she backs away in the direction she came. As she did, she feels something touch her shoulder. She turns around and stares at the two menacing red eyes from before. This time, glittening dangerously in the little light a few paces away. She screams again and takes off in the direction she was heading, screaming. "SOMEONE HELP!!! HELP!!!" No one hears her or so she thought.
A soft and soothing voice answered her screams of terror and fear. "Child. Go towards the light. Run as fast as you can. Hurry child. Hurry!"
Sarah does what the voice says and takes off at a run towards the light. She feels the darkness and red eyes gaining on her. She runs even faster, not wanting to face them again. She has had enough. She just wants to get out of here. Go home and sleep in her nice and cozy bed. Thats all she wants. She just wants to be left alone. She just wants to be in the light. And her wish came true. Within seconds, she was in the light and the darkness could no longer touch her since the light's comforting and defending glow kept it at bay.
With a last growl from the darkness, the two menacing red eyes took one last look at her before fading away into the abis, leaving her alone in the light's glow.
Sarah sighs in relief and takes a deep breath, not believing she had actually made it. Thanks to that voice. It was the only reason why she had made it. Yet something still puzzled her. Who was that voice? Where did it come from? And how did it know that she needed its help? Again she shakes her head and sighs, knowing that the only way to find the answers to her many questions was to find the voice again or try calling to it. So slowly, clearing her throat that was dry like a desert, she spoke softly. "Whoever helped me before, please help me again. I need to know who my savior is from the bitter cold and abis. Who was the one that helped me and gave me hope? Who helped me to be in the light's comforting glow? Who is the voice that saved me?"
Softly yet soothingly, the voice answered her question. "Do not worry child. It is no importance that you know my name. It is important that I show you something. So follow my voice into the light and through the door that leads to my home. There, I will show and tell what you need to know. And maybe then, and only then, I will tell you who I am. Now child, go and follow my voice."
Sarah obeyed, making her now stiff legs begin the action of walking again. And so she walked, following the voice as it kept saying. "Follow my voice child. Follow my voice." As she walked, she let her thoughts wander, trying to think of a reason of why following the light was so important to the voice that had only helped her moments before. Was it like the menacing red eyes that seemed to hate her and want to kill her? Or did it want to help her for the voice soothed her shaking and scared body? For now, those questions would have to be left unanswered.
The voice seemed to know what Sarah was thinking so it responded to her thoughts and questions. "Do not be scared of me child. I am here to help. It is your rite to know who you really are and I will not hurt you. I have no reason to hurt you or hate you. Yet those eyes did. They were evil to the core and wanted to harm you, unlike myself. Now child. Let me explain why you must be in the light. The light represents good and purity while the darkness represents hate and evil. We are like ying and yang. We cannot survive without the other because it is just how we keep a stable balance in our worlds. It is necessary for us to coexist together and because we are both the same thing. We share the same origin and parents or parent I should say. Sarah, you are of both the light and darkness. You are niether good nor evil. It is up to you to decide what you want. For now, this is all I can tell you. And please stay in the light. The eyes are still lurking and watching us. If you enter the darkness, I can no longer protect you. You would be on your own."
Sarah nodded her head stiffly, still not fully understanding. The voice was talking to her like if she were a grown-up and could understand these things. She was hardly even eight yet and she could hardly understand the reason for carrots and brocoli. She hated both of these vegetables with a passion. She sighed and continued walking on, coming nearer to the doorway that she just recently noticed. So the voice was leading her here? What laid behind this door that seemed to beckon to her as if it had been waiting for her all this time. Like that would really happen.
Softly and quite kindly the voice spoke. "You can stop walking now child. It is time for you now to approach the door. Do not be scared of what lies on the other side. Nothing will hurt you because there is nothing there that will hurt you. Now be brave child and open the door. I will be waiting for you on the other side."
Sarah nodded her head and stopped, staring at the door intently. The voice was right. She was afraid yet not what laid beyond that door. She was afraid of what would happen to her once she touched it. Would it make her good and pure and take away all the years of pain and torture? Or was is all a trick and the door was a trap that was to kill her and trap her inside it forever? There was only one way to find out. So with that last thought on her mind, she stepped forward and reached for the doorknob. Once her hand grasped it, she turned it and closed her eyes, as the door began to swing open, beckoning her to enter into the mysterious place that was hidden behind it.
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"I am sorry madam. There is nothing more we can do for Miss Williams. It seems she is in a semi-coma state and cannot be woken up unless she wishes to." replied a doctor who stared at the young woman intently.
The woman sighed and grasped the hand of the small sleeping child that was her beloved niece. She then looked up at the doctor and spoke. "How long will that be? Will she wake up anytime soon? I don't think I can wait much longer."
"I really don't know Mrs. Blaire. It is unknown when Miss Williams will wake up. It all depends on her and what she must be going through. I can give you a scientific guess though I know that won't be much help. We hope that she will wake up by the end of the week or there will be only the slimmest of a chance that she will ever wake up. I am sorry Mrs. Blaire, I wish I could more for you and little Sarah." said the doctor who looked at her with pity, sadness, and sympathy in his dark green eyes.
Mrs. Blaire smiled wearily and placing her other hand on the doctor's arm, she replied. "I thank you for your help Richard. I do not know what I would of done without you. And please, enough with the formalities and protocal. We are friends. So please call me Catherine or at least Cathy."
A smile graced Richard's lips and he nodded. "Alright, Catherine. I must be going now. I will check up on you and Sarah later. Promise." With that, he took her hand and gave it a gentle squeeze before turning and walking out of the room, list of patients at hand.
Catherine sighed and shook her head turning back to little Sarah, who had begun sweating in her sleep. Shaking her head sadly, she turns and picks up the wet cloth in the basin by the side of the bed, gently placing it on the young girl's face repeatedly. She pitied the poor child. Sarah did not deserve the pain she has experienced from James all this time. 'And this all happened because of Linda's death. I know if my sister was still alive now, Sarah would not be laying her now, bruised, cut, and in a semi-coma state. She would be at home, sleeping peacefully in bed like my childern. Or at least they should be. They better not of given Lizzy trouble again. I know the old woman can take so much from those little pranksters.'
She laughed a little at this, imaging a poor old Lizzy tied up with rope with a gag in her mouth and her childern running wild around the house, stuffing their faces with ice cream and popcorn. She sure hoped that her son wouldn't find the chocolate. It was all Lizzy needed. A very hyper and sugar-high kid to watch along with 2 other wild ones. Sadly, she let the image fade and let her mind return to the situation at hand. She was going to be here for Sarah, since she was the only family the child had left. James was in jail and was waiting for sentencing after being found guilty of child abuse and possession of illegal drugs though not for attempted murder. 'Stupid jury. They don't even look at the eivdence. They just see a kid beaten and not even look more closely, to see a child of only seven almost killed by her father who was under the influence of drugs and alcohol.'
A voice interrupted her. "Mrs. Blaire. A Miss Elizabeth Parker is here to see you. Says she has your childern here and they wish to see you as well." spoke a very young nurse, whose head was peeking in through the door.
Catherine turned and smiled, nodding. "Tell them to come in. I am with Miss Williams and cannot leave her. And thank you."
The nurse nodded and her head disappeared, to be replaced by a smaller one, its face reflecting youth and innocence. A little boy about 9 with slightly spiked dark brown hair and dark blue eyes looks at Catherine, a grin of pure happiness on his youthful face. "Mommy!!"
Catherine laughed and turned to him, letting go of Sarah's hand. She opened her arms to the child, who ran right into them immediately. Catherine hugged him tightly, wrapping her arms around his small frame while the child just hugged her back. She kissed his forehead and asked. "Alex, where are your brother and sister?" Before the child could reply, two other small heads peeked in, showing the faces of a 7 year old girl and 7 year old boy. The girl's face showed youth and innocence and matched her look of shoulder-length wavy dark brown hair and hazel/dark brown eyes almost making her an exact duplicate of Sarah yet only her eyes had specks of gold in them while Sarah's had silver. The boy's face showed youth and michief instead of innocence that went well with his dark green eyes and dark brown hair that was slightly spiked like his older brother's. The two were twins and looked nothing alike.
Catherine motioned to her other two childern to come in, making them run to her side with a slightly very tired and worn Miss Parker as their heels. Catherine looked at Lizzy with pity, knowing the older woman was tired just like herself. Raising kids was not easy, especially when you had to do it alone.
Elizabeth sighed and looked at Catherine, who smiled at her. She smiled back and said. "Sorry for the interruption. These little devils couldn't wait to see their mother, especially little Alexander. He got into the chocolate again so he is kind of a little hyper. Matthew was fine though wore me out with all his little pranks and tricks. And your little angel of a daughter, Morgan, did nothing but stare at the wall while saying 'He's coming. He's coming. He is coming to get Sarah. He is coming.' Quite the little senser you got there. Maybe she descends from an ancient royal race that was able to see dreams or something?"
Catherine paled slightly at this comment yet quickly replied. "She is just being her normal little self. No worries. And thank you again. I never could of done without your help. I will watch them for now. You may go."
With that, Lizzy nodded and smiled, leaving the room to Cathy and her kids, never knowing that she had just guessed one of Catherine's family's very important secrets.
End of Part 1
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Hope you liked it. Part 2 will be up soon and more on Catherine's famiyl secret. Please review and till next chapter. See ya.
Kurami