Like Mother, Like Daughter

By: Kryptonite

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" She'll be fine, majesty, with a little rest." A voice spoke softly just above Jamie's head, bringing her back to the consciousness. Surprisingly enough she was in no pain. It took her mind a few minutes to register the title that had been added in the sentence.

" Thank you. Leave us." Jamie kept her eyes shut and her breathing even as sounds of a body shuffling out the door was followed by a large wooden door shutting thickly behind him. " You can open your eyes now." Jareth's voice was amused.

Jamie opened her eyes to see Jareth standing over her, his hair back to it's usual golden color and his outfits returned to his usual kingly attire. When Jamie's eyes met Jareth's she looked away, unable to think of anything but the pain that she had been put in.

" Jamie…" He started, sitting down next to her on the bed. Jamie just rolled over, turning her entire body away from him. It hurt to move. " Jamie please… I'm sorry." He whispered, unable to say two little words loud enough for others to hear him.

Tears dripped silently down Jamie's face as she lay there in the painful silence, holding her ribs. She listened as Jareth stood up and then slowly made his way to the door.

" When you're ready to talk, I'll be here." The tone of Jareth's voice, sad and subservient, cut Jamie to the bone and hurt worse than all the broken bones she'd suffered in the past. The door shut behind the Goblin King and Jamie cried for every ache and pain she had suffered since she was born, and for all the aches and pains that had shown through in Jareth's voice.

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" What do you mean?! The Goblin King isn't real!" Richard screamed at Sarah, moving to hit her once more.

" I am very real Mr. Smith. And I am right here."

" Jareth." Sarah called, moving to reach for the man of her childhood dreams. Jareth coldly stepped back, a look of hatred on his face as he stared impassively at her. She quailed under his look returning to Richard.

" Listen, I don't know who you are or where the hell we are but you are going to take us home this moment." Jareth raised an eyebrow as he noticed the lack of mention of Jamie.

" What about your daughter, Mr. Smith? Do you want her back as well?"

" Yes. This instant! I don't care what you promised the brat or what she's been doing for you I want her back now." Jareth's impassiveness disappeared as he turned a mischievous grin on Richard Smith.

" I'll make you a deal. If both of you make it to the center of my Labyrinth in thirteen hours I'll let you go home."

" With our daughter."

" With your daughter." Jareth graciously agreed, letting Richard think he had won. Sarah knew better than that.

" What if one of us doesn't make it?" She asked, ignoring the look of loath that Richard turned on her.

" That, my dear, is a circumstance you had better hope to avoid."

" What does that mean?" Richard questioned, getting into Jareth's personal space. Jareth looked down his nose two inches to Richard before using one finger to push Richard a foot away.

" It means, that if both of you do not make it to the middle you will not make it anywhere, ever again."

" Are you threatening us?" Richard stepped back into Jareth's space bubble.

" In a word, Mr. Smith, yes." Jareth disappeared as silently as he had come causing Richard to stumble forward a few inches.

" Come on, we'll have a hard enough time to finish this. Even if Jareth decides not to take time off of us." Sarah started past Richard as he grabbed her arm.

" Jareth? Since when is it Jareth?" Sarah shrugged her arm out of his grip, walking moodily past him. Richard followed his face a storm cloud of anger.

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A/N: Hiya. It's been a while, I know. I got the idea and I figured this would be a good way to get what happened to Sarah after the movie out. So, is this the beginning of the end for Sarah and Richard? Will they make it to the end of the Labyrinth before the end of those thirteen hours? Will it really only be thirteen hours or will Jareth stretch time again? And what exactly will happen if they don't make it together, or at all? The answer to all these questions and more later in the story, keep reading to find out.

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