Sorry for not updating in so long... but everything's been kind of hectic around here... just a little though.
INNOCENT INTENTIONS
CHAPTER THREE
BY:
Thor, Vince, Vale, Tomoe, Fantasy Girl (Saturn Angels)
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Christina sighed, "I really would have helped you but Andrew was talking about me to his friends saying that I was annoying and ugly."
"Yeah right, admit it we just didn't want to change Toby's diapers," Breanne said with a long sigh.
"Well you might not have wanted to, as I didn't, but I would've stayed. And if you want proof that Andrew called me those things then go and see for yourself."
"No need to come and look, Jareth said it was our turn to take care of the kid," Andrew said as he walked in, his arms folded across his chest, with a beautiful blue bruise forming on his jaw. Christina only smirked and stuck her tongue out.
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So they passed the day along like that, taking turns with Toby, making sure not to be seen by Sarah Williams, getting Diana to form crystals in order to watch the boy's brother.
"Ugh," Christina said, rolling her eyes heavenward as they watched her in the crystal as she entered the junkyard, "I hate girls like her. Look at all the fantasy stuff she has in her room-- not one plushie of us I should mention."
Miranda shook her head, "People don't know what the Goblin King really does with the children..."
"You mean mortals-- well, normal people actually think he'd turn us into goblins?" Cori asked, blinking at Miranda, "How stupid."
Miranda shrugged, "Who's going to tell them differently?"
Christina put her hands on her hips, "I would!"
"If you get ever make it to Aboveground..." Diana teased with a small smile.
Christina pouted, sticking out her lower lip, "Tease me all you want but you'll see, I'll be the best magic student in this whole Underground! Except for perhaps Jarey..."
Miranda shook her head, not really paying attention to her ranting friend but rather looking into the crystal and observing Jareth and Sarah as they danced.
"Has he made this illusion before?" she asked curiously since everyone else was preoccupied with Christina's claims to watch them anymore.
Breanne looked into the orb, Breanne's black hair falling in front of her face before she pushed it back behind her ear, "I haven't seen it before..."
"He has different tactics for each person..." Diana explained, "since Sarah Williams claimed that the Goblin King was in love with her... then he must of course, play the part."
"That's very good acting..." Miranda noted, watching the expression shown in Jareth's eyes very carefully, "Very good..."
Christina looked at the orb, 'hmph'ing to herself, "Hah. No way, you can tell it's just an act... perhaps you can't see through it because you've spent your whole life Aboveground just like Sarah Williams, but I can see it as clear as day."
"Protective, much?" Cori commented rolling her eyes in the blonde's direction, "You know, Jareth doesn't like you. He's just like your father or something."
Diana twitched slightly, she herself had fallen under Jareth's spell once... had fallen in love with him before realizing that he viewed her as nothing but a child, a sibling perhaps... but nothing more than that.
Christina stuck out her tongue, "Whatever."
Breanne shook her head, "At any rate... I think there is something developing between these two.. think she'll stay?"
"Nah.." Christina answered shaking her head.
"Think she'll win?"
Everyone scoffed at Cori's suggestion.
"Impossible.."
They watched in disbelief, as if it were some sort of soap opera. As they entered the Escher room... she was in the same castle as them... probably not even 100 feet away. Toby had been taken from the girls just a few hours earlier... he was to be used as the pawn.
Did Jareth... want Sarah to win?
No, it was... impossible. Improbable at the most...
And the girls had cried when Toby was taken from them, Christina constantly assuring them that he would be back.. that he would return.
But... he didn't. And that struck them all, perhaps not as much as it did Jareth though. The look of pain in his eyes caused Diana to shatter the crystal-- she couldn't take it any longer.
The air in the Labyrinth became heavy that day. All because of Sarah Williams... because she had defeated it, she had done the impossible. And everyone stared blankly in disbelief, all of them feeling suddenly betrayed...
She made it look so easy, so simple...
...then why hadn't their brothers, sister, mothers, fathers... why hadn't they been able to do it?
Why had some of them not even wanted to?
So, along with the Labyrinth dying many people began becoming depressed, and this did not bode well with Jareth who needed the support-- needed a way to find strength within something else and begin restoring things.
So naturally it would take much longer to fix... because the hearts of everyone were heavy, all except Miranda's... because she was in the Labyrinth with different circumstances.
"I know what we have to do." she announced, her hands balled into fists as it became clear to her, "We have to bring Sarah back here. She had the strength to defeat the Labyrinth-- she can restore it!"
Everyone stared at her as if she had gone mad, "Are you insane?" they had asked her.
"Who will help me? We... we have to go to her somehow, to tell her that we need her here."
"What makes you think she'll come back? She has Toby..." Cori said, shaking her head.
"Didn't you see the way she looked at him? When he practically proposed... she... she... I think she loved him. Loves him still maybe... and who are those who helped her?"
"Ludo, Hoggle, and Didymus." Christina said nodding slightly.
"Sir Didymus..." Breanne corrected.
Christina stuck her tongue out, "What about them Miranda?"
"Well... if we can get their help to convince her to return..."
"Why would they do that? They hate Jareth, as that blasted Hoggle has proven..." Cori said with a grimace.
"We'll convince them it's what's best for the Labyrinth-- because it is what's best for the Labyrinth."
So, with some more talking and whining Miranda was able to convince everyone that it was the right thing to do, the smart thing to do, the only thing to do.
And of course Jareth had no idea about it... which they didn't see as a problem at the time.
Initially Hoggle's first reply had been a definite no, with some strong words from Diana they were able to change his mind...
Meaning Ludo would be easy, and Didymus... with the right tempting would be just as simple.
Within the first day the girls had accomplished getting the three on their side, and the three had spoken with Sarah. As the three did this with use of mirrors and strange magics, the girls sat around anticipating what they should do as they ate dinner with the boys.
Jareth was absent from the dinner table.
"He must be very depressed if he's not eating with us..." Diana said worriedly.
Miranda shifted in her seat slightly, it felt different without Jareth sitting with them. It felt wrong... which made her want Sarah there even more. With Sarah there things would return to normal-- better than normal maybe.
She just wished that wasn't the hopeful thinking of a child... that Sarah would forive Jareth for doing what she ASKED him to do...
Later that night Christina and Miranda snuck out into the hedge maze to meet Hoggle and company as they brought word back of their conversation with Sarah.
"She said she wouldn't do it." Hoggle said with a shake of his dwarvish head, "she flat out refused."
"You're supposed to convince her." Christina replied glaring down at him.
"She left the room, wouldn't hear of it."
"Try again tomorrow." Miranda suggested before Christina interrupted her.
"No, try again tonight. She has to sleep in her room doesn't she? Catch her by surprise, force her to come with you back here if you must."
Hoggle nodded silently before Sir Didymus shook his head fervently.
"Milady should not have to return here in such circumstances, give her time and she shall return of her own free will."
So, Miranda refused to let Christina have the final decision and agreed with Didymus: to give her however much time she needed.
So time flew by as they waited; and even began forgetting that Sarah was to arrive someday. Jareth soon began growing out of his reclusive state, began frequenting himself around the castle, occasionally watching magic lessons, holding dances, restoring the Labyrinth, playing with the children, stealing children...
He was almost back to normal... and Miranda would have believed that he was if it wasn't for the strange far-off look in his eyes that he would get sometimes... or occassionally the sort of lackluster in them...
Years passed before Miranda was approached by Hoggle again, whom she had almost forgotten completely.
Miranda blinked, she was afterall 12 years old now, quite different then she had been when she had first arrived. "Sarah agreed?" Miranda asked, and had it not been for her pondering about Sarah Williams every now and then she even would have forgotten the girl.
"Tag!" Christina yelled, jumping on Miranda before looking down at the dwarf, "If it isn't Higgle."
"Hoggle."
"Whatever." she said, with a shrug. She rubbed her cheek against Miranda's back, "Come on Mira-- let's go beat up the boys. Why are you hanging out with Heggle?"
"Hoggle." he corrected, stomping his foot angrily.
"Whatever." she replied exasperated.
"He says Sarah finally agreed to come back to the Labyrinth."
"Finally!" Christina replied with a broad smile, "I was wondering when Diana's dreams would finally get to her-- it takes a while for them to lodge themselves in Aboveground people's minds... but it seems that they worked far better than Haggle's speaking to her."
Miranda nodded absently, "When is she arriving?"
"Tonight..." Hoggle replied, feeling it useless to correct Christina, "I'll bring her to the castle."
"Right-o!" Christina replied, "Now off with you," she said shooing him away, "now, come on Miranda, let's go."
Miranda nodded and ran along with her friend before halting in her steps, "What... do you think Jareth will do when he finds out?"
Christina stopped running as well as she realized the stupidity of their plan for the first time in years, "Well... ...let's hope it's nothing drastic."
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Tomoe: Yes, I know! You waited so long and Sarah doesn't even make a real appearance until the next chapter.
Vale: Which I apologize for xx
Fantasy Girl: We'll update within the month though.. I promise! Now our shout out list...
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