Like Mother, Like Daughter

By: Kryptonite

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"Jamie?" Jareth entered the room quickly to see the glaring girl and the unperturbed doctor. "Jamie?"

Jamie turned to look at Jareth. She was sitting and rubbing her arm. "That hurt." Jareth breathed a sigh of relief. He'd been afraid that Jamie had actually been hurt or was having nightmares again.

"Who's he?" Jamie asked just as Jareth was about to step into the room. Turning he saw his brother grinning stupidly into the room. Jareth assumed he was trying to be suave.

"No one," he answered. With a flick of his hand the door shut, leaving Malek in the hall by himself. "Are you alright?"

Jamie nodded, feeling foolish for having screamed now but it had hurt almost as bad as any beating she'd ever taken. Of course the feeling was long gone. Come to think of it, so were all of the bruises, cuts, scrapes and general pain spots.

"You're welcome." The doctor commented before he left through the door, leaving Jareth and Jamie alone together. Jamie smiled a tired little smile up at Jareth before he sat on the edge of the bed.

Jamie broke the silence. "How are my parents doing?" Jareth sighed, standing and walking a few paces away before turning back to Jamie.

"Can you ask something else?" Jamie laughed and nodded, raising her hand and reaching for Jareth. He obliged and came back over, taking her hand in his.

"Who was standing outside my door looking remarkably like you but completely dorky? And why did you shut him out?"

"Next question," Jareth responded, ducking Jamie's weak attempt to bop him gently on the head. The two laughed, Jareth's forehead coming to rest against Jamie's.

"Seriously, what are the chances they'll finish the Labyrinth?" Jamie's eyes lost their mirth and became haunted as she forced Jareth to answer her.

"Without any help? Fifty-fifty."

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A/N: Cookies go to Moonjava, Luna, Twilight Shaharazad, ItsACrystalNothingMore, Lady Fae, and AK14.

Talk about RL tossing you a hundred miles away. I have an even better excuse this time, honest! I moved back to MI with my mom and all my files were left at my dad's. In fact all of my files are still at my dad's but I've been in a posting frenzy lately so I'm updating, yay.

Hope y'all enjoyed this latest installment and I hope I still have a few reviewers out there.