Disclaimer...I own nothing except for the characters that had never been
seen before. Okay basically the only ones who are in here that I don't own
are Jareth, Sarah, and Hoggle...I might add some of the others soon.
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Alex yawned and stretched opening her eyes as she slowly woke up. 'What
the?' Looking at the ceiling she noticed that it definitely wasn't a white
stucco. Nor was it as close as it should be, looking over she blinked.
Sitting up she through her legs over the bed looking around the strange
room. Looking down at her form she felt the soft nightgown she was in.
"Where?"

"In my castle and in your room of the castle." Jareth's amused voice came
from behind her.

Spinning around she looked more then a little dis-pleased. "I slept over
didn't I?"

"No but after you packed that little backpack of yours I took it upon
myself to speed things up."

"So what time is it?"

"Almost Eight. Also almost time for breakfast." Pointing over to a couple
of doors he smiled, "I also had some outfits be made for you, wear one of
the pant outfits today, the door on the right leads to the bathroom."

Alex nodded slowly. "How long do I have until Breakfast?"

"Breakfast is served at Nine, a goblin will be up to lead you to the
dinning hall at ten to. Try not to be late."

"Okay." Alex only blinked a couple times when Jareth disappeared. Looking
about the room she hummed, 'Might as well take a bath or a shower...or
something.' Opening the door she gawked at the size of the bathroom. A
large bathtub was full of warm sweet smelling water. Mirrors hung all over
the walls as one wall was completely a wash basin with all type of
toiletries. 'He did think of everything.' A large closet took her attention
next, as she opened it she was surprised at the size of the towels and how
soft they felt. Pulling out a couple Alex proceeded to take a bath, smiling
at the clock next to the door that had a hook coming down holding a large
pale blue robe.

Hearing a knock on the door Alex looked up. "Um, yes?"

The door opened slowly, Sarah popped her head in, looking over at Alex.
"Hi. Wanted to see if you were up."

"Oh you mean you didn't hear about my early morning visitor?" Alex glanced
at the clock and moved up a bit more in the water, "Uh, I gotta get
dressed."

Sarah nodded, "I'll see you at breakfast." Sarah pulled back and started
to close the door. "Oh, by the way, Jareth and the others left a present
for you on your vanity table."

Alex just looked towards the wall where a rose wine was crawling up it.
She waited until she heard the door to her room click closed before getting
out of the tub and start to dry off. A glance at the clock told her she had
about twenty minuets to get dressed and her hair brushed out. Slipping on
the robe she wrapped the towel about her hair, trying to get it to dry
faster.

As she looked into her room, really for the first time she felt like
fainting. The room was made for someone who obviously had a position
of...well higher then what she was. 'Am I anything?' Walking slowly about
the room she barely noticed the soft white rug under her bare feet. A large
bay window let the light in along with a lovely scent of wild flowers.
Stepping over to the window she looked out her jaw nearly hitting the
floor. There placed was a large green garden, the wall showed the barest
hint of the city and then beyond that, the Labyrinth itself. "Wow."

"Impressive isn't it?"

"Doesn't anyone ever knock?"

Corsair smiled lightly stepping up to her side. "I would have thought that
by now you would have been dressed and ready."

"I have at least 15 minuets to get dressed and brush out my hair."

Corsair chuckled lightly reaching up he pulled off the towel, letting
dried and brushed out hair fall down from the towel's hold. "There, now you
just need to get dressed."

"Yeah," reaching up Alex lightly touched her hair, "and I'm more then sure
that I can do that by myself."

Corsair laughed, sounding more like someone would picture Santa. "So have
you looked at your gift yet?"

Alex shook her head, "No I was waiting until after I was dressed."

Corsair nodded and lightly pat her shoulder, "I remember one time you ran
to me when you were covered with mud. And now here you are fully grown up
and not covered with mud." Looking down at her his smile faded when he saw
the look in her face. "What's wrong?"

"I don't remember that. I don't remember a lot of things from when I was
little...only the..." Alex stopped talking as tears started to fall down
her face. Closing her eyes her arms crossed over her chest, her entire body
shivering.

Corsair just watched her, it was as if he was once again looking at the
small child who had just found a dead bird. Bending a bit he lifted her
into his arms and carried her over to the chair that sat by the fire place.
He softly started to hum, his deep baritone voice vibrating as he tried to
settle her down. "It's alright little one. Your safe now."

Alex just buried her face into Corsair's neck, barely feeling his hand
stroking her hair. "I'm sorry."

"It's alright little one." Corsair softly stroked her cheek when she
looked up.

"It just hurts so much to find out something like that when all I can
remember is painful things."

"I know." Corsair stroked her cheek again before softly kissing her
forehead like he had done when she was younger. "Finish getting dressed and
I'll see what I can do about bringing your breakfast up here." Slowly
standing up he deposited her into the chair, before striding over to the
door pushing back some of the goblins who had been standing at the door
listening.

Alex didn't move until the door closed again, when it did she slowly went
to the task of getting dressed and cleaning up her face.