Testing Hearts

Disclaimer: No, I don't own the Labyrinth. Happy?

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Michelle looked at Theresa in something akin to shock, 'Is she actually concerned for Shellee?'

Theresa dragged Sarah with her as they looked around somewhat frantically. "Oh my God! We can't be losing more people!" Sarah moaned, frightend.

Theresa shook her head, "Screw that, what'll aunty do if we can't find Shellee! Shellee's the smartest one of us here! She has to help us find aunty and the kids!"

To Michelle's surprise Sarah looked unconcerned about the insinuation that she was the brightest thing on the planet. Michelle also found that she'd been thinking less, and less about boys and more about more mature things. 'This place is changing us all...' She mused. "A-hem," Sarah, Theresa and Michelle looked up to see the dwarf, Hoggid was it? "I can take you to find your friend, and lead you out of the Labyrinth as well."

Sarah and Theresa shared an undecipherable look, since when had they become such good friends anyway, and Sarah stepped up to talk to the ugly dwarf.

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"Okay," Shellee began, "So you're saying that even if we get to the center of the Labyrinth before our thirteen hours are up, my cousin is going to be a goblin fae for the rest of her goddamn life?"

Katherina shifted uneasily, her pyramid of light moving with her, "Well... Yes."

"Can she atleast return with us home?"

Katherina pondered on this a bit, "Yes, she should be able to... After all, he said he'd give them back if you won before your thirteen hours were up."

Leslie interupted before Shellee could say anything more. "I'm cool with that."

Shellee turnned to her cousin in shock. "WHAT? What are we going to tell your parents? Your sisters! Mom?"

Leslie shrugged, materializing a crystal, similar to Jareth's, in her hand and threw it down at her feet. Smoke encircled her and when it cleared her wings were gone, and so was that godforsaken pink dress. Instead she was wearing what she had on before the first time she slapped him. "Absolutely nothing, nada, zip, zilch, nichts, wu you, suihou!"

Katherina looked slightly shocked at the use of magic that took years to learn and Shellee leaned foreward a bit. "Cool!"

"Isn't it?"

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"Hey! Don't look at me like that! I don't even use your type of magic!"

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