Here it is as promised, my update and it's longer, as promised. This one contains a familiar theme but again with a slight twist. Hope you all like it, don't be put off by the fact that I killed Jareth, and remember to R&R

Karen:

Toby ran down the stairs, the red book clutched tightly in his hand as he grabbed his school bag from the chair at the bottom of the stairs. He started to shove it in before his mother saw it, knowing how much she hated that type of book but was too late, she saw the book and took it from him.

"What's this?" She asked looking at the cover.

"Nothing," he said a little too quickly, "just a book that Sarah gave me."

"About?"

"Goblins," Karen rolled her eyes. "But, Mom, it's so cool! It would be so cool to go to the Labyrinth."

"And just how does one get to go to this Labyrinth?" She decided to humour him.

"You wish someone away and then you have to run the Labyrinth to get them back."

"Do you say something special or just make it up?"

"No, you have to say that you want the Goblin king to take them away." Her face told him that he had gone too far. "Mom!"

"I don't think that you should read that book anymore," she took it from him, "it isn't healthy." She saw the face of her eleven year old son crumble.

"I hate you!" He shouted, a cry that he had probably learnt from Sarah. "I wish the book were real, then I could get him to take you away!"

"You know, Toby, sometimes I wish that the goblins would take you away, right now, but I don't come out and say it. Now stop this nonsense and wait here whilst I put this in the bin." As Karen left the room a sudden storm blew up. She sighed angrily, now why did she have this feeling that the day was going to go badly?

Sarah was in her study, going over all the paper work that was involved with running the kingdom. She had gotten over her anger with Jor'yl and the Dragon had continued to advise her for the last three weeks. She dropped the owl feather pen onto the desk top and stared into the fire moodily.

"Your Majesty, the First Lady is here to see you," Jor'yl looked through the door. Sarah nodded and the Dragon stepped aside to let the Dragon lady into the room. She smiled at Sarah and the two women embraced, they had become close over Sarah's time as queen and Alyana had told Sarah many stories about hers and Jareth's childhood. As it turned out, Jareth had only ruled over the Labyrinth for six hundred years and had been little more than an adolescent, by Underground terms, when he had taken the throne at the age of three hundred and fifty. Sarah had known that he was older than her, but the real age difference had shocked her.

"Alyana," she tried to laugh and failed.

"Sarah, how are..."

"I wish that the goblins would take you away, right now," the words floated through the room and Sarah brought a crystal to her hand to see who had said those words and was shocked when she saw Karen and Toby. Alyana noticed her expression.

"Family?" Sarah nodded her reply. "You know that you have to take him."

"She didn't mean it, Karen doesn't say things like that, she doesn't believe it."

"You can't have one rule for them and another for everyone else. I'm sorry, Sarah."

"I know. Can you do me a favour? Toby's eleven now and the goblins won't be able to take him on their own, can you do it for me? I don't want him to see me until I know what Karen is going to do." Alyana nodded and vanished as she went to collect Sarah's brother. Sarah swallowed the urge to vomit, blinked back her tears and left the Underground.

The power in the house had gone and the storm clouds outside had completely obscured the sun. Karen left the kitchen and went into the hall, it was empty with no sign of her son.

"Toby!" She shouted up the stairs. "Toby get down here, don't make me come up there." She waited. "Toby!"

"He isn't here, Karen," she heard a woman's voice behind her. Karen turned and saw her stepdaughter. Sarah was different, taller, she was wearing tight leather trousers with a black poets shirt and a long cloak that flapped in the wind that blew through the open door.

"Sarah! What are you doing here?" Karen demanded, unconsciously taking a step back, away from her suddenly terrifying stepdaughter.

"You wished Toby away, Karen, I just granted that wish," Sarah kept her voice neutral.

"You're insane!" Sarah began to walk away.

"You said the words, Karen, I only did what you asked."

"Don't walk away from me, Sarah, you give him back!" Sarah stopped.

"I can't," for the first time she let the tears show in her eyes. "I'm bound by sacred law, Karen. If you want Toby back you'll have to earn him back and I can't let you win, Karen. If I let you win, I will be killed and you will suffer for it."

"What are you talking about?"

"The Labyrinth, Karen, my Labyrinth. You wished that the goblins would take him away. They have done that and I'm here to make you an offer, I can give you your dreams."

"Give him back, I was angry, I never meant it."

"You said it, I have to act on it. I'm sorry, Karen, I really am." They were no longer in the house and Karen seemed to suddenly realise it. "This is my Labyrinth, Karen, and Toby is at the centre, you have thirteen hours." With those final words she faded from the landscape.

Despite her belief that Sarah had finally taken leave of her senses, Karen was forced to admit that she had some how appeared outside a very convincing looking Labyrinth. She wondered if this was some sort of trick that Sarah and Toby had come up with to get back at her for stopping Toby reading the kind of books that he loved. Whatever the reason, Sarah had changed since she had last seen her, the innocence that had always floated around her was gone, it had even been there when she was living with Cam, living in sin. She had grown too, and Sarah was long past the age where she would suddenly shoot up a couple of inches without warning, not only that, her eyes, too, had changed. Before they had been an unremarkable emerald green, now they shone with a power and ferocity that had never been there before, they seemed to have gain a hundred years of wisdom and sorrow. Karen was disturbed to admit that Sarah now terrified her, her presence and her unwavering belief in what she was saying now made Karen wonder if what she had been told was really true, and if it was, would she ever get Toby back again?

So I couldn't write a Labyrinth fic without bringing Toby back to the Labyrinth. As always, I'll only update if I get a couple of reviews, I only want to update if I know that people are reading the chapters after all. Thanks to all of you who already have and I hope you'll continue. Until next time.

Artemis