Title: Chances Born
Part One: Perpetual Surprises
Author: Fire Fairy (at least until I change it)
Disclaimer: If I owned the movie, this disclaimer wouldn't be here, would it? Neither would the story for that matter.
Summary: Jareth, Sarah, and a girl named Riley are pretty much thrown together, this is just starting the story, helping bring the threads together.
A/N: Hi. This is my second Labyrinth story but I think I like this one better. More pages in this one chapter, more words too, than in the other story. I hope everyone reviews, like it or not. You should hear me when I find that I got another review. It really makes my day. And if you're really bored, you can either check out my other Labyrinth story or another of my stories posted on this wonderful, wonderful website. Enjoy and don't forget to 'pwease leave a donation in the wittle box', to quote a bird/hat.
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Ruffling through the markers in a broken plastic pencil case the girl never heard the man appear in her room. After a few moments of silence, the girl found what she was looking for and, before turning, spoke, addressing the man standing on the opposite side of her door.
" Hello. And how are we this evening?" A pleasant tone held sway in her normally neutral voice.
" How are you? I haven't heard from you in over a year." He hadn't moved from his position, leaning with his arms crossed across his chest, he leaned lightly on the doorframe to her closet.
" Tired, actually. You? It has been a year." She refused to look anywhere near the man who had appeared without warning.
It took him a few minutes to speak, " Why are you doing this?" His voice spoke of curiosity and impatience, but he looked as if there was nothing bugging his mind and as if he had all the time in the world. Considering the man was fae, it wasn't a surprise.
" I want my childhood. I want my adolescence. We didn't have much of a chance at that when it was our time. I also wanted to get closer to the girl who could make you act as you have."
He bristled at her answer, which had also taken its sweet time in surfacing.
" What do you mean 'act as I have'?" She closed her eyes, blocking out the sight of the math problems that filled her vision, trying to regain her composure before answering his rather complicated question. Unfortunately, her answer never came.
" Honey?" A knock followed the inquiry. Putting a finger to her lips in a show for silence, she stood up quickly, placing papers and books on the floor and out of her way as she did.
" Just a minute."
" Hi daddy." She smiled, nice and sweet, trying to make sure he didn't come in her room and see the intruder.
" Bedtime soon." She smiled and bowed her head a little.
" Okay. Night daddy." The girl gave the man a hug and kiss before gently shutting the door.
" Daddy?" Quiet laughter was heard from around the closet.
" Shut up Jareth." She was angry, her eyes flashing. He had taken the liberty of making himself comfortable. " It's been almost a year since you've started pining for Sarah. Go back to your goblins and finish that year and leave me be." The words made him angry as well. Standing up stiffly he made a slight bow.
" As you wish, Riley." The coldness had settled back in his eyes and Riley could tell that more than one goblin was going to get hurt. Without any thing to mark where he had been Jareth was gone once more.
" Arrgh! Jareth." She went back to her homework, a single crystalline tear streaking down her face.
*****
" Sarah?" The drama director was trying to get the attention of her best actress. As usual, her head was in the clouds.
" Huh? Oh, yes Ms Johnson?"
" If you could just pay attention, you would have gotten the lead role. It's your turn on stage dear. Go say your lines and you're free to go."
Ms Johnson was tired and it showed. Not even thirty years old and her face was lined and tired. Sarah smiled apologetically at her favorite teacher and went up on stage with three other people, two girls and a guy. Sarah said her lines, having memorized the paragraph she had to say.
" Okay, very good everyone. Now that lunch is ending, you'll have to go back to your classes." The people on and around the stage moaned. Ms Johnson smiled, remembering why she did this every year. " I know. I know, but you have to get an education." People gravitated towards the exits after grabbing their backpacks and finding their friends.
" Sarah? Hey Sarah wait up!" The girl who had to listen to Sarah's paragraph ran up.
" Hi, uh-"
" It's Riley. I have two questions for you." Sarah smiled and shifted her backpack.
" Okay, shoot."
" One, do you know anything about math?" When Sarah shook her head no, Riley continued. " Two, what was the English homework?"
" You had to write a poem. It could be about anything as long as it was school appropriate and over five lines long." Sarah smiled as Riley nodded her head.
" I thought that's what it was. I still have to do it though. Hey listen, I know we both have limited lines but I was wondering if you might like to come over some time and work on them."
Sarah's eyes widened at the offer and slowly started to back up.
" I don't think I can."
" Oh it's okay. If you change your mind just tell me. I know I could use the help, my mom isn't much good when it comes to this stuff. Bye Sarah." Smiling, Riley waved and started back down the stairs towards the stage.
" Wait!" Riley turned and started back up the three stairs she'd descended.
" Yeah?" A smile that seemed permanent played along her lips.
" You can come over to my house tonight if that's okay?" Sarah bit her lip, wondering what could possess her to do this.
" I'd like that. I'll see you after school. Do you walk or ride the bus?"
" I walk." Riley nodded and looked back up smiling.
" Okay, I'll see you later." Waving goodbye once more, she started running down the wide stairs.
" Bye Riley." Sarah shook her head and then went about her day, forgetting until the end of it that Riley was coming over. Sarah had nothing against the girl, she just wasn't one to agree to coming or going to someone's house.
*****
" Hey Sarah." Remembrance came crashing back in on the brunette.
" Oh, hi Riley." A slight waver was held in her voice. Riley cringed at the tone.
" Listen, it's not too late to back out. Since the accident, everyone's backed out. It's okay."
But any idiot could tell that it wasn't okay. Sarah's resolve strengthened and she shook her head, hair flying around her shoulders.
" I'm not going to 'back out'. You are coming over whether you want to or not. You can't get out of it that easy."
A playful smile graced Sarah's full lips as Riley's eyes started to shine again. The two girls walked, chattering away about classes, the play, kids from school, and pretty much everything under the sun.
" Karen! I'm home!" Sarah yelled, pulling her key from the doorknob.
" Hi!" A voice yelled back, presumably from somewhere in the back of the Victorian-styled house.
" I have a friend over! We're gonna be in my room practicing lines. Come on." She whispered the command to Riley and motioned her towards the stairs. A blonde woman came running out of a door.
" Wait, stop, turn. Explain." Despite how she was acting, Karen didn't seem angry.
" Riley and I are in the play at school. She asked for some help practicing lines and I said that I'd help. It's not a problem is it?" Sarah seemed to cringe, hoping that her stepmother wouldn't say it was. Instead her face lit up, a bright smile emerging.
" Of course not. Is it alright with your parents, dear?" Riley swallowed and looked Karen in the eyes.
" My parents weren't going to be home until late tonight anyway so they don't mind."
Biting her lip, Riley started chanting, 'Let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go' in her head, willing Karen to let her continue up the stairs to Sarah's room.
" That's fine. If you want you can stay for dinner." Riley smiled at the offer, watching Sarah sneak up to her room out of the corner of her eye.
" That's okay, I need to be home before five thirty anyway. But thank you kindly for the offer." Doing a slight bow, Riley suddenly turned and stormed up the stairs.
" I see you managed to survive my wicked stepmother." Sarah joked lightly. Rolling her eyes, Riley noticed that Sarah was reading a red, leather-bound book. A strong sense of magic emanated from the artifact.
" Yeah, I guess I did." The magic was confusing Riley, giving her a headache in its familiarity and that she couldn't place it.
" Sometimes I wish-" Riley cut her off before she could say anything.
Practically lunging forward and holding her hands up, almost as if to latch onto Sarah, she spoke in an almost yell, " Don't wish. Never wish! You never know who might be listening or when it might come true." Falling back to her original position, she once more took notice of the book.
" Relax." Rolling her eyes behind closed lids, Sarah went to finish reading the page before settling down to work with Riley.
' I wonder if she even remembers her time in the Labyrinth? It hasn't been that long and even the complete dopes who didn't have an ounce of the power she does remembered *something*. I wonder what Jareth would say... Wait a minute.'
Cocking her head, Riley spoke just before Sarah could turn another page. " Can I see your book a minute?" Sarah blinked and looked up, having completely forgotten the girl was there.
" Sure, just don't lose my place." Flipping the book over, her finger effectively marking the page she was reading, Sarah looked at it almost as if it was the first time she had seen it. Shrugging, she handed it to Riley.
Marking the page number in her mind, Riley closed the book and rubbed her hands over the front and back covers. Then flipped through the pages, Riley noticed the urge to stop at a certain page. The page that had the wish written upon it. Sighing, she recognized that the tingling feeling in her fingers and arms was an aftereffect of Jareth's magic.
Sandwiching the book between both of her hands, she took away all of the allure that Jareth had placed on the book, making it so that Sarah would have *some* freewill when it came to reading it. Riley knew better than anyone did the pull a fantasy book could have on a person like Sarah, or her for that matter.
" Here you go. It looks interesting. 'The Labyrinth.' What's it about?" Sarah took a look at it and sat it down on the bedspread next to her legs.
" It's not important. Come on, we have to get on with the practicing." Riley sighed inwardly that her spell had worked.
Not using a lot of magic in over three years had made her doubt her abilities. Twenty minutes later, the half a dozen or so lines that she had in the play were firmly stuck in her mind along with Sarah's paragraph.
" Alright girls, that's enough practicing. Riley, you said you had to be home at five-thirty? You have about thirty minutes." Taking a look at the digital clock on Sarah's bedside table she sighed.
" Thanks ma'am. Sarah I'd better go. I don't want my parents mad at me this week, any and all groundings will have to wait until after the play's over." Smiling, Riley flung her heavy bag over her shoulder and went to walk out the door. Karen walked the girl to the front door and held it open for her.
" Come over anytime dear."
Sarah called down the stairs, head just peeking over the wall, " See you in English tomorrow Riley!"
" Bye Sarah." Riley stepped out into the mild afternoon, reveling in the warmth from the sun and, picking a nice steady pace, she started to walk back to the house she had called home for the past three years.
" Hello Riley." Once more lost in her own thoughts, she didn't detect the person that had such a silky voice come up behind her.
" Hey Jareth. And how are you this afternoon?"
" Horrible, you?" The Goblin King didn't mind the bantering. He and Riley were practically related, they had been so close growing up.
" Just peachy. And yes, it was me who destroyed your allusion spell."
" I figured it was. It had your feel. I miss your aftereffect."
" I don't miss yours." Riley smiled, thinking of all the times that he had told her that her aftereffect for spells was too girly. The reason Riley liked it was because it was almost undetectable unless you knew what you were looking for.
" I know you don't. I thought you might want to know, your brother is doing just fine."
Riley stopped smiling. " That's good." A neutral, even tone had entered her voice and she had picked up her pace.
" Riley, you'll have to face it soon. You can't hide from it forever." Jareth, despite the increase in pace, kept up quite easily.
" Well, I don't have to face it now. Jareth I'm only two centuries old. I can't handle this right now. Not only am I still going through some hormonal crap from being fae, but I'm also going through it as a human teenager. Leave me alone for another century and I'll be fine."
" You don't have a century." Riley stopped and turned to face a no longer smiling Goblin King.
" What do you mean?" A panicky feeling entered Riley's mind, her body preparing to run, her heart rate increasing and her muscles tensing.
" The council is thinking of letting him off early. For good behavior." Jareth winced as Riley's face turned pale.
" Go-good behavior? They're gonna let him out early for g-good behavior?"
" If you would just come back-"
She wasn't listening to a word Jareth said. She took off like a shot, dropping her backpack in the process. Sighing, Jareth bent down to pick it up. Almost dropping it again at the weight, he picked it up and, after checking to see if anyone was watching, jumped between to reappear in Riley's bedroom.
" I thought I'd beat you here." Riley jumped around at Jareth's voice. " Looks like I was right." He was trying to keep his voice quiet, not wanting to scare her more than she already was.
" You jumped. Of course you beat me." She was whispering right back at him.
Closing her eyes, she slumped to the ground by the door and started crying, trying to be quieter than a mouse. Not saying a word, Jareth sat next to her and pulled her into his arms, allowing her to cry all over his shoulder.
" It'll be okay." He whispered into her hair, trying not to cry himself. Jareth had still not gotten over what her own brother had tried to do to her. " It'll be okay."
*****
Riley eventually cried herself out and fell asleep in Jareth's arms. A crystal appeared as Jareth shifted Riley so she could lean more comfortably against his form.
" Milord." A deep voice came through the crystal, which had found it's way to Jareth's fingertips.
" Yes?"
" You asked to be informed if anything changed." He sat up quickly then leaned back down when Riley groaned.
" And?" The face that went with the voice brightened.
" You have another supporter." Jareth shook his head and made the crystal vanish before looking down at the girl he was trying to protect.
" It'll be okay." Picking up her light frame, Jareth carried Riley to her bed and laid her down upon it. Kissing her forehead, he made another jump back to his own kingdom.
Part One: Perpetual Surprises
Author: Fire Fairy (at least until I change it)
Disclaimer: If I owned the movie, this disclaimer wouldn't be here, would it? Neither would the story for that matter.
Summary: Jareth, Sarah, and a girl named Riley are pretty much thrown together, this is just starting the story, helping bring the threads together.
A/N: Hi. This is my second Labyrinth story but I think I like this one better. More pages in this one chapter, more words too, than in the other story. I hope everyone reviews, like it or not. You should hear me when I find that I got another review. It really makes my day. And if you're really bored, you can either check out my other Labyrinth story or another of my stories posted on this wonderful, wonderful website. Enjoy and don't forget to 'pwease leave a donation in the wittle box', to quote a bird/hat.
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Ruffling through the markers in a broken plastic pencil case the girl never heard the man appear in her room. After a few moments of silence, the girl found what she was looking for and, before turning, spoke, addressing the man standing on the opposite side of her door.
" Hello. And how are we this evening?" A pleasant tone held sway in her normally neutral voice.
" How are you? I haven't heard from you in over a year." He hadn't moved from his position, leaning with his arms crossed across his chest, he leaned lightly on the doorframe to her closet.
" Tired, actually. You? It has been a year." She refused to look anywhere near the man who had appeared without warning.
It took him a few minutes to speak, " Why are you doing this?" His voice spoke of curiosity and impatience, but he looked as if there was nothing bugging his mind and as if he had all the time in the world. Considering the man was fae, it wasn't a surprise.
" I want my childhood. I want my adolescence. We didn't have much of a chance at that when it was our time. I also wanted to get closer to the girl who could make you act as you have."
He bristled at her answer, which had also taken its sweet time in surfacing.
" What do you mean 'act as I have'?" She closed her eyes, blocking out the sight of the math problems that filled her vision, trying to regain her composure before answering his rather complicated question. Unfortunately, her answer never came.
" Honey?" A knock followed the inquiry. Putting a finger to her lips in a show for silence, she stood up quickly, placing papers and books on the floor and out of her way as she did.
" Just a minute."
" Hi daddy." She smiled, nice and sweet, trying to make sure he didn't come in her room and see the intruder.
" Bedtime soon." She smiled and bowed her head a little.
" Okay. Night daddy." The girl gave the man a hug and kiss before gently shutting the door.
" Daddy?" Quiet laughter was heard from around the closet.
" Shut up Jareth." She was angry, her eyes flashing. He had taken the liberty of making himself comfortable. " It's been almost a year since you've started pining for Sarah. Go back to your goblins and finish that year and leave me be." The words made him angry as well. Standing up stiffly he made a slight bow.
" As you wish, Riley." The coldness had settled back in his eyes and Riley could tell that more than one goblin was going to get hurt. Without any thing to mark where he had been Jareth was gone once more.
" Arrgh! Jareth." She went back to her homework, a single crystalline tear streaking down her face.
*****
" Sarah?" The drama director was trying to get the attention of her best actress. As usual, her head was in the clouds.
" Huh? Oh, yes Ms Johnson?"
" If you could just pay attention, you would have gotten the lead role. It's your turn on stage dear. Go say your lines and you're free to go."
Ms Johnson was tired and it showed. Not even thirty years old and her face was lined and tired. Sarah smiled apologetically at her favorite teacher and went up on stage with three other people, two girls and a guy. Sarah said her lines, having memorized the paragraph she had to say.
" Okay, very good everyone. Now that lunch is ending, you'll have to go back to your classes." The people on and around the stage moaned. Ms Johnson smiled, remembering why she did this every year. " I know. I know, but you have to get an education." People gravitated towards the exits after grabbing their backpacks and finding their friends.
" Sarah? Hey Sarah wait up!" The girl who had to listen to Sarah's paragraph ran up.
" Hi, uh-"
" It's Riley. I have two questions for you." Sarah smiled and shifted her backpack.
" Okay, shoot."
" One, do you know anything about math?" When Sarah shook her head no, Riley continued. " Two, what was the English homework?"
" You had to write a poem. It could be about anything as long as it was school appropriate and over five lines long." Sarah smiled as Riley nodded her head.
" I thought that's what it was. I still have to do it though. Hey listen, I know we both have limited lines but I was wondering if you might like to come over some time and work on them."
Sarah's eyes widened at the offer and slowly started to back up.
" I don't think I can."
" Oh it's okay. If you change your mind just tell me. I know I could use the help, my mom isn't much good when it comes to this stuff. Bye Sarah." Smiling, Riley waved and started back down the stairs towards the stage.
" Wait!" Riley turned and started back up the three stairs she'd descended.
" Yeah?" A smile that seemed permanent played along her lips.
" You can come over to my house tonight if that's okay?" Sarah bit her lip, wondering what could possess her to do this.
" I'd like that. I'll see you after school. Do you walk or ride the bus?"
" I walk." Riley nodded and looked back up smiling.
" Okay, I'll see you later." Waving goodbye once more, she started running down the wide stairs.
" Bye Riley." Sarah shook her head and then went about her day, forgetting until the end of it that Riley was coming over. Sarah had nothing against the girl, she just wasn't one to agree to coming or going to someone's house.
*****
" Hey Sarah." Remembrance came crashing back in on the brunette.
" Oh, hi Riley." A slight waver was held in her voice. Riley cringed at the tone.
" Listen, it's not too late to back out. Since the accident, everyone's backed out. It's okay."
But any idiot could tell that it wasn't okay. Sarah's resolve strengthened and she shook her head, hair flying around her shoulders.
" I'm not going to 'back out'. You are coming over whether you want to or not. You can't get out of it that easy."
A playful smile graced Sarah's full lips as Riley's eyes started to shine again. The two girls walked, chattering away about classes, the play, kids from school, and pretty much everything under the sun.
" Karen! I'm home!" Sarah yelled, pulling her key from the doorknob.
" Hi!" A voice yelled back, presumably from somewhere in the back of the Victorian-styled house.
" I have a friend over! We're gonna be in my room practicing lines. Come on." She whispered the command to Riley and motioned her towards the stairs. A blonde woman came running out of a door.
" Wait, stop, turn. Explain." Despite how she was acting, Karen didn't seem angry.
" Riley and I are in the play at school. She asked for some help practicing lines and I said that I'd help. It's not a problem is it?" Sarah seemed to cringe, hoping that her stepmother wouldn't say it was. Instead her face lit up, a bright smile emerging.
" Of course not. Is it alright with your parents, dear?" Riley swallowed and looked Karen in the eyes.
" My parents weren't going to be home until late tonight anyway so they don't mind."
Biting her lip, Riley started chanting, 'Let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go' in her head, willing Karen to let her continue up the stairs to Sarah's room.
" That's fine. If you want you can stay for dinner." Riley smiled at the offer, watching Sarah sneak up to her room out of the corner of her eye.
" That's okay, I need to be home before five thirty anyway. But thank you kindly for the offer." Doing a slight bow, Riley suddenly turned and stormed up the stairs.
" I see you managed to survive my wicked stepmother." Sarah joked lightly. Rolling her eyes, Riley noticed that Sarah was reading a red, leather-bound book. A strong sense of magic emanated from the artifact.
" Yeah, I guess I did." The magic was confusing Riley, giving her a headache in its familiarity and that she couldn't place it.
" Sometimes I wish-" Riley cut her off before she could say anything.
Practically lunging forward and holding her hands up, almost as if to latch onto Sarah, she spoke in an almost yell, " Don't wish. Never wish! You never know who might be listening or when it might come true." Falling back to her original position, she once more took notice of the book.
" Relax." Rolling her eyes behind closed lids, Sarah went to finish reading the page before settling down to work with Riley.
' I wonder if she even remembers her time in the Labyrinth? It hasn't been that long and even the complete dopes who didn't have an ounce of the power she does remembered *something*. I wonder what Jareth would say... Wait a minute.'
Cocking her head, Riley spoke just before Sarah could turn another page. " Can I see your book a minute?" Sarah blinked and looked up, having completely forgotten the girl was there.
" Sure, just don't lose my place." Flipping the book over, her finger effectively marking the page she was reading, Sarah looked at it almost as if it was the first time she had seen it. Shrugging, she handed it to Riley.
Marking the page number in her mind, Riley closed the book and rubbed her hands over the front and back covers. Then flipped through the pages, Riley noticed the urge to stop at a certain page. The page that had the wish written upon it. Sighing, she recognized that the tingling feeling in her fingers and arms was an aftereffect of Jareth's magic.
Sandwiching the book between both of her hands, she took away all of the allure that Jareth had placed on the book, making it so that Sarah would have *some* freewill when it came to reading it. Riley knew better than anyone did the pull a fantasy book could have on a person like Sarah, or her for that matter.
" Here you go. It looks interesting. 'The Labyrinth.' What's it about?" Sarah took a look at it and sat it down on the bedspread next to her legs.
" It's not important. Come on, we have to get on with the practicing." Riley sighed inwardly that her spell had worked.
Not using a lot of magic in over three years had made her doubt her abilities. Twenty minutes later, the half a dozen or so lines that she had in the play were firmly stuck in her mind along with Sarah's paragraph.
" Alright girls, that's enough practicing. Riley, you said you had to be home at five-thirty? You have about thirty minutes." Taking a look at the digital clock on Sarah's bedside table she sighed.
" Thanks ma'am. Sarah I'd better go. I don't want my parents mad at me this week, any and all groundings will have to wait until after the play's over." Smiling, Riley flung her heavy bag over her shoulder and went to walk out the door. Karen walked the girl to the front door and held it open for her.
" Come over anytime dear."
Sarah called down the stairs, head just peeking over the wall, " See you in English tomorrow Riley!"
" Bye Sarah." Riley stepped out into the mild afternoon, reveling in the warmth from the sun and, picking a nice steady pace, she started to walk back to the house she had called home for the past three years.
" Hello Riley." Once more lost in her own thoughts, she didn't detect the person that had such a silky voice come up behind her.
" Hey Jareth. And how are you this afternoon?"
" Horrible, you?" The Goblin King didn't mind the bantering. He and Riley were practically related, they had been so close growing up.
" Just peachy. And yes, it was me who destroyed your allusion spell."
" I figured it was. It had your feel. I miss your aftereffect."
" I don't miss yours." Riley smiled, thinking of all the times that he had told her that her aftereffect for spells was too girly. The reason Riley liked it was because it was almost undetectable unless you knew what you were looking for.
" I know you don't. I thought you might want to know, your brother is doing just fine."
Riley stopped smiling. " That's good." A neutral, even tone had entered her voice and she had picked up her pace.
" Riley, you'll have to face it soon. You can't hide from it forever." Jareth, despite the increase in pace, kept up quite easily.
" Well, I don't have to face it now. Jareth I'm only two centuries old. I can't handle this right now. Not only am I still going through some hormonal crap from being fae, but I'm also going through it as a human teenager. Leave me alone for another century and I'll be fine."
" You don't have a century." Riley stopped and turned to face a no longer smiling Goblin King.
" What do you mean?" A panicky feeling entered Riley's mind, her body preparing to run, her heart rate increasing and her muscles tensing.
" The council is thinking of letting him off early. For good behavior." Jareth winced as Riley's face turned pale.
" Go-good behavior? They're gonna let him out early for g-good behavior?"
" If you would just come back-"
She wasn't listening to a word Jareth said. She took off like a shot, dropping her backpack in the process. Sighing, Jareth bent down to pick it up. Almost dropping it again at the weight, he picked it up and, after checking to see if anyone was watching, jumped between to reappear in Riley's bedroom.
" I thought I'd beat you here." Riley jumped around at Jareth's voice. " Looks like I was right." He was trying to keep his voice quiet, not wanting to scare her more than she already was.
" You jumped. Of course you beat me." She was whispering right back at him.
Closing her eyes, she slumped to the ground by the door and started crying, trying to be quieter than a mouse. Not saying a word, Jareth sat next to her and pulled her into his arms, allowing her to cry all over his shoulder.
" It'll be okay." He whispered into her hair, trying not to cry himself. Jareth had still not gotten over what her own brother had tried to do to her. " It'll be okay."
*****
Riley eventually cried herself out and fell asleep in Jareth's arms. A crystal appeared as Jareth shifted Riley so she could lean more comfortably against his form.
" Milord." A deep voice came through the crystal, which had found it's way to Jareth's fingertips.
" Yes?"
" You asked to be informed if anything changed." He sat up quickly then leaned back down when Riley groaned.
" And?" The face that went with the voice brightened.
" You have another supporter." Jareth shook his head and made the crystal vanish before looking down at the girl he was trying to protect.
" It'll be okay." Picking up her light frame, Jareth carried Riley to her bed and laid her down upon it. Kissing her forehead, he made another jump back to his own kingdom.