Chapter Ten - The Door

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A/N - I'm planning a Labyrinth/Young Ones crossover should be out in a few months.
e-mail me for info. If this story doesn't make any sense then please read the previous
ones. Whether it will help or not is up for scrutiny but please leave a review anyway.
Shorty again, sorry. Exams in three weeks and counting!!!!!!

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Sarah arrived home a few hours later than she had expected. She had thought it was a
good idea to phone her family but instantly regretted it when she discovered the sheer
enormousness of Interstellar Contact Inc. not mention its highly escalating prices.
Anyway, after trying to make sense of Zea's highly erratic economy she quickly gave
up and returned to Hilarity's apartment.

Thomas looked up as the door slid open. Finally salvation! It wasn't easy looking after
thousands of Goblins and a maniac Goblin Prince. He now felt a deep admiration for
his friends and for the first time was not too fussed that he and Hilarity belonged to
different species.

"Hi." said Sarah. "Where is everyone?"

"Oh! They left to find some pirates." said Thomas nonchalantly.

"What? And they didn't tell me!" cried Sarah "Great! I have to miss out on a second
adventure."

"You didn't miss much. Except Jareth getting a hangover, that was priceless." said
Thomas. "Oh! And we found your friends but they kind of got killed again."

"You know, Tom. We've never really talked."

"Yes, but remember until last year I didn't talk at all."

And so the human and the alien opened a bottle of non-alcoholic gin substitute
(Thomas was still recovering from his thirty-five year long drinking problem) and
chatted the evening away.

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Inside the Rat and Parrot, things were getting a little bit raucous as the beer started
flowing and hoards of drunken sailors began playing deadly games of cards and darts
and the like. The juke box blared out various old punk rock songs followed (strangely)
by Let's Dance by David Bowie.

"Christ! I hate this song." said Trin.

"What's wrong with it!?" said Jareth defensively.

Trin was about to make a long list of what was wrong with it when Hilarity grabbed
his arm and pointed to a menacing looking door in the corner.

"Have you noticed something about that door?" she whispered secretively.

"No. Not really."

"There have been pirates coming in and out of it since we got here." she said.

"Perhaps its the men's room." suggested Trin.

"You don't knock and tell some guys a password through a slit in the door when you
go to the men's room."

"Perhaps it's staff only."

"Will you shut up about toilets!" his cousin snapped "That is obviously the entrance to
a secret headquarters. The secret headquarters of whoever is in charge around here and
that, me hearties, is just the person we need to talk to..."