10. Daddy, Daddy Get Me Out Of Here!
Star opened her eyes and shot bolt upright in the canopied four poster bed and saw her computer. With out giving herself tine for panic or thinking she impatiently dialled up, praying Red was on line.
Redaura sat straight up in her swivel office chair, banging her knees off the desk and fumbled to answer the instant message off Star.
Redaura25686: u made it?
Star tried to send 'no', but the computer froze until she deleted it. With a sigh she realised she'd have to try cryptic. Red looked in alarm and puzzlement as she read stars reply.
StarlitAngel64: Daddy get me out of here!
Redaura25686: then u still underground?
Again Star couldn't confirm with even a meagre smiley face. In frustration she growled. Red remembered how she had been forced to say the words.
Redaura25686: I assume u r. J = bastard
Star could have kissed her.
Redaura25686: G got an im?
StarlitAngel64: Prince_Van666
Redaura25686: hang on honey!
To entertain herself she started typing a story. For some reason she seemed to have gone off Labyrinth.
Redaura25686: hi
Prince_Van666: Red from yesterday?
Redaura25686: yup
Prince_Van666: WHERE IS SHE!
Redaura25686: Underground with J. I think...
Prince_Van666: we gotta get her back!
Redaura25686: *nods*
Prince_Van666: I'm gonna kill him!
Redaura25686: down tiger! Not good idea! He the only one who send her/us back!
Prince_Van666: well??
Redaura25686: me workin on it...han on, me idea!
Prince_Van666: thicko
Redaura25686:u still there?
StarlitAngel64: where elese!?
Redaura25686: Hoggle there?
StarlitAngel64: *shrugs*
Redaura25686: hang on in there...
StarlitAngel64: wot 2?
She sighed, Red was gone. She looked at what she was wearing.
"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS!!??"
***
Feeling ridiculous Red stood in front of her A4 mirror.
"Um, Hoggle? I need you..." She sighed in frustration. It hadn't worked, she turned to kick the wall, and she was all out of ideas. She gave a scream as she saw Hoggle glaring at her.
"Hoggle! You came!" that earned her a sarcastic look. "Is Star still there?" Hoggle nodded. "What can we do?"
"I have an idea, its not allowed to keep mortals in the Underground against their will!"
***
[Trent belongs to Star, but she said I could have him;)]
Red knocked on the door, wincing at the thought of what her parents would say at her going to Newcastle, alone, after she'd said she was going to the Metro with her friends. *Especially this area, and you don't even know that Hoggle's right!* The alarm she'd suppressed bubbled to the surface as an older Jareth look alike answered the door. Only he had modern, above ground clothes and his long hair was in a ponytail.
She didn't feel better, and swished the urge to run. "Are you Jareths older brother?"
The man leaned on the doorframe. "What's he done know?"
***
Jareth smiled predatorily as he slowly backed his prey into the corner.
"JARTETH! WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?"
Jareth sighed, "Trent."
"You know it's illegal to keep them here against their will..."
"And who is King? Me! Who was deemed unworthy to rule? You!"
Trent and Jareth where having a /real/ fight when to Stars relief Red sidled around the brothers to her.
"You came!"
"Course I came! I didn't have any one to talk to other wise!"
They hugged and looked to the fight. Trent had Jareth in a headlock, where Jareth was punching Trent's legs out. Jareths hair had definite crop circles and Trent's was a static haystack. Despite the seriousness of the matter they desolved into giggles.
"I," Trent said significantly could always chuck you in the fishpond when we where younger. I'm going to chuck you in The Bog now!"
"But I'm better than you!" Crystal balls and unexplained winds started to hack the throne room up. The two mortals shook their heads at the obviously nurtured childishness.
It ended with Trent kicking Jareth onto the floor, he pressed his advantage till Jareth was well and truly beat. The throne room was immediately devoid of any life except for the four humanoids. Jareths subjects knew who would be the ones to pay the price for his defeat.
A snowy white owl dragged the tatters of its pride and dignity out of the shattered windows as Trent took the mortals' home.
