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Chapter 28

'Konile, Come here into the forest'

'Where? In the forest! Are you out of your mind, Briegal?'

"Come on I need to show you something. Right behind our tent'

"Oh alright' Konile looked around to make sure everyone was occupied so that she could slip into the forest.

Just as she was about to step in she looked back to the bonfire and smiled at all the goblins dancing. She could see someone emerging from a tent off to the side.

It was Paralda with a very unpleasant look on his face. She was intrigued because she's never seen him look anything but serene.

She started toward her leader and then heard, 'Come on. Where are you?'

She turned into smoke and slowly glided into the forest where she quickly found her brother kneeling behind a thick bush.

She materialized behind him and whispered,"Well what is it?"

He put his finger to his mouth without a sound and pointed ahead through the bush.

Curiosity being herultimate weakness, stepped forward to look. Her eyes widened at the sight.

'Oh dear, we need to tell the others,' she sent to her brother.

'You go. I'm staying I want to keep an eyes on them.'

"DON'T DO ANYTHING UNTIL I GET BACK WITH THE OTHERS!'

Breigal turned to his sister and gave her his most charming smile. 'I wouldn't dream of it' he sent with a mischievous twinkle in his yellow eye.

'Great' she thought to herself before turning into a ribbon and going to get the others.

Her breath warmed his face. He could still smell her sweet scent on his clothes. The silky strands that fell between his fingers. Her arms encircled his neck with such force and longing.

She had to feel something for him or she wouldn't have kissed him back the way she did. He's been walking along the edge of the clearing trying to untangle the rush of emotions that were still surging through him. Only yesterday all he could think of was Sarah, the beautiful, strong, brave, Queen. Although, she had expressed her love for the Goblin King she had not rejected him. But according to Myra Sarah was all but lost to him. His long time friend Jareth had a way of turning women into mush. He often tired of these women and cast them off as if they were nothing more than a passing fancy. Despite his objections, Jareth continued this behavior until the day Sarah had stepped foot within the Labyrinth walls. He watched his friend change dramatically.

She was in many ways the end of the Labyrinth and its evil Goblin King.

He snapped out of his thoughts to look for his friend. There he was sitting on a fallen log rolling a crystal gracefully over the tops of his hands.

He sat next to him.

"Is everything alright, Jareth?"

The Goblin King seemed in a trance his face void of any emotion.

"You tell me, Old Friend." He said finally.

He turned to Paralda at his side.

"What are you on about? How would I know what is running through your evil mind," he laughed at him.

"How, indeed" Jareth stared at his friend. "Perhaps you can explain why Sarah felt the need to look for you as soon as she woke up from her nap."

"I'm sure I do not know what you are talking about. I admit that I do have certain feelings for her. However, as of late, I have found my interested being pulled in another direction."

A small knowing smile tugged at the Goblin King's lips.

"Myra is it? She is lovely but I'm afraid she does not hold a candle to my Sarah"

"Here I was thinking you were trying to steer me away from the lovely Sarah instead you try to place her directly at the front of my admiration. I fail to see how this will deflect me. Besides it was not me she was searching for but for the lovely Myra herself. I quickly excused myself as soon as she found us."

Jareth noticed his friend's disappointment and relaxed as realization struck.

"Tell me, Old friend, how did she find you?"

"We were having an intimate discussion about her past, which I feel the need to divulge being that you play a small role in it."

"Don't tell me I've taken a sibling of hers as well." Jareth asked sarcastically with a raised eyebrow.

"No. You do, however, know her parents. Her mother especially well, I might add."

A wicked grin spread across his handsome face, "I know a lot of women very well."

"Yes well. This one is quite special and while I denied any relation to you other than friendship I did not think it wise to explain the circumstances of your situation."

"Well then. Tell me who it is."

"Very well. She is the daughter of Josef, the mortal and Sanpra."

Jareth's face and mood dropped, "How is that possible? What have you told her?"

"Only that you helped her after she left little Myra up there. I would never take liberty of such a transgression. After all she is Sarah's bosom companion and will not hold secrets from her."

"Right, this may need a small amount of discretion."

"That may be more easily said than done."

"And why is that?"

"She kissed Jacob after I rescued her. Of her own free will, I must add. I'm afraid she has developed some affection towards him."

"That will be a problem. You don't suppose he's already told her do you?"

"Highly doubtful. He has not guessed at her parentage. That's not all I'm afraid. I think I may have accidentally caused Jacob to fall in love with her as well. Only now I think I may….love her myself."

"You have dug yourself into it, haven't you? It's not enough that you have developed an attachment to my Sarah but now you find yourself in love with Jacob's object of desire. How do you do it? Thousands of years of solitude and suddenly you want the two women you can not have."

Paralda narrowed his eyes in mock anger, "Who said I can not have them?" with a twinkle in his eye.

"Do not dare go after my Sarah. You will lose not only your friendship with her but mine as well." Jareth was completely and deadly serious.

"I am only joking with you, old friend. I would never dream of competing with you over a woman. Least of all the Queen. I know that she is yours."

"Good, now that this Sarah issue is settled. There is one thing I need your advice on. Jacob. Sarah told me that Jacob has found a way Aboveground with out being summoned. It seems that he was up there with the girls for a month their time. Right now we need to focus on how to put a stop to it before he figures out a way to send my uncle up there as well."

Shock clearly written on Paralda's face. "How?"

Jareth's shoulders slumped with defeat, "I wish I knew. I wish I knew."

"YOU WHAT! YOU KISSED WHO!" Sarah shrieked.

"Whom. Whom." Myra comically corrected. "Look Sarah he's not as bad as we thought. When I was tied up on the bed…"

"Ok. Listen to what you are saying. He had you tied to the bed. T.I.E.D. Hello?"

Myra thought for a moment, a small smile creeping onto her face before quickly tucking it to the back of her mind.

"I am listening. His father has him so snowed he feels he has no other choice but to follow him."

"Sure why not. He's following in his father's foot steps to destroy an entire world yet he's an angel. I'm sure he's just as angelic as Hitler!"

Myra looked confused at her friend's outburst, "Sarah? What's wrong? Why are you so angry? Did I do something? Wait. I know it is. It's the Queen thing isn't it? I almost died when…"

"No it's not that. But isn't that something? I'm still in shock."

"Wait. Wait. I haven't told you my news." she patted the pillows that Paralda had left.

"Paralda discovered that I am half Fae."

Sarah just stared at her friend for a second. Searching her eyes for signs of laughter.

"You...you can't be serious. Are you sure? Is he sure?"

"He put a hand on my cheek in the tunnels and we both saw flashes of my past. It's true. My mother was the reason the magical folk were sent to the Underground." Sarah stared at the floor trying to grasp this new revelation.

"This makes perfect sense. Do you remember when you said you liked Ronny Desmond in the 6th grade and the next day followed you all over the school? And that time we went to that club on the Lower East Side and the line to get in was a mile long but the bouncer took one look at you and he let us in ahead of everyone. I just assumed that all of that stuff happened because you are pretty." They laughed but Myra began to recall all those strange events that had indeed occurred through out her life.

"The only thing I don't get is how come I'm not older. I mean if this Sanpra is my mother that would mean I would be like thousands of years old. Right?"

Sarah seemed just as confused when suddenly her eyes opened to their fullest capacity. Time is different here. A day here is like a few years up there."

"If that were true Sarah, how would you explain your first trip? You weren't gone for years."

"Yeah. We need to ask Jareth."

A large smile spread across Myra's face. She pulled her legs underneath her, "I thought you'd never bring him up. So tell me everything."

"There's nothing to tell. I'm not sure he's into me. We've had two incidents but he always stops like I'm some sort of toy he can put away."

"God is he sexy. But I have to say Paralda is no slouch. He's so ….so… yummy. The first time I saw him I was speechless and you know me that has never happened before but he is so… there is no word for how gorgeous he is. You know right before you came in we were talking and he kissed me. No one has ever kissed me like that." Sarah stood up abruptly.

"What? You just told me a few moments ago that you kissed Jacob. Now it's Paralda too? What are you doing?"

"I don't know. But when he kissed me I felt like I couldn't breathe. Almost like the air left the room and he was my oxygen."

"When who kissed you? Which one?" Sarah scoffed and headed for the door. Myra went after her friend and grabbed her arm to hold her back for a second when she received a flash

Paralda and Sarah were in an empty room. She looked into his eyes and her head tilted upward toward him. He was slowly leaning toward her and her eyes fluttered closed.

Myra quickly wretched her hand away from Sarah as if it burned. She had not wanted to see anymore but she had seen enough to know what had come next. And Sarah knew without asking what Myra had seen by the look of horror on her face.

A/N:

Thanks to all who reviewed. I'll try my best to put up chapter 29 soon.

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