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Last Time:

Jade felt the icy and black eyes of the King on her and knew he was examining her like she was a doll or animal on display, and she hated it as she starred at the doors not daring to look at the man that now walked to her side.

"This is sooo going to hell" she thought reluctantly taking the arm that was held out of her to take hold of as she and Jareth the Goblin King strode to the doors as they swung wide of their own accord. "Yep, this is not going to turn out well…"

This Time On:

Daughter of the Labyrinth

Chapter 4-Like She Said: It All Goes to Hell

Jade walked in, her arm intertwined with Jareth's; the man drove shivers up her spine but not the frightening kin. No; the great Goblin King created a new kind of shiver that was bursting with his magical presence and power he gave off like an intoxicating cloud. Jade couldn't help admiring him even with his superior attitude. Yet her mother had met him; gave him Uncle Toby only to run the Labyrinth to get him back. Jareth had loved her; done everything for her only to be rejected.

"I can't help but feel sorry for him" she thought starring at the midnight blue carpet floor.

"If you look up you might have something more interesting to look at then the carpet my dear Lady Jaden" sounded out the silky yet slightly mocking voice of the king.

Jade's eyebrow twitched in frustration. "Jade; just Jade" she seethed under her breath.

Jareth chuckled arrogantly flashing a smiled that showed off his white razor fangs. "Well then just Jade, shall we sit?"

Jade kept herself calm and under control ignoring the obvious disrespect directed at her. So she raised her bright emerald eyes to the dinning hall to find it not as eerie or dark as she assumed, but it still held that darker feel, just not as overwhelming.

The edging was painted silver while the walls themselves were white to fade up to the ceiling into a midnight blue to turn to deep ebony. The table in the center of the room was all black and well polished to the point you could see your reflection in it. Yet to Jade it seemed too small for the hall, so she assumed this was the smaller one for less important occasions. Jade didn't voice it of course as Jareth led her to her chair at the head of the table's right when he of course took his place at the head.

Jade starred into her emerald lap waiting for him to speak.

The Goblin King kept his mismatched icy-black stare on the young girl by his side for a time. Knowing his stare made her uncomfortable averted his eyes to the ceiling so his head lay against the back of his chair while in one hand twirled a trio of crystals in his ebony gloved hand.

The young girl watched the twirling orbs intrigued. Jade knew she'd never be able to spin them in her hand as skillfully; she was reluctantly envious of the male fae by her side. Jade turned her eyes on the king for the first time since they met for dinner. He wore black leather best with a white poet shiver underneath and the strange necklace as well. Jade assumed his pants were jet black and wearing those black riding boots. His silver-blonde hiar was untidy and in a wild spiky disarray, but still sexy to say the least.

Jade mentally smirked. "Mother said he was attractive…boy was that an understatement" were the girl's line of thoughts still starring between the king and his flowingly active hand; she sighed looking to her hands resting in her lap. "Your majesty-"

"Jareth please, but if your choose to address me with my title, I will address you with yours" he said cutting her off but still with his eyes trained on the ceiling above and its black iron chandelier.

"Ok Jareth…" repeated Jade suppressing her snarl. "I'd like to apologize for my earlier behavior. I was under stress and you sudden appearance was…to say the least…startling."

Jareth laughed and it ground on Jade's already frayed nerves. "Now how painful was that?"

Jade averted her eyes away from the arrogant king to place her chin in her hand after resting her elbow on the table. "Excruciating" she mumbled earning her a chuckled from the fae. "But with that out of the way, down to the reason why I'm here."

He finally looked away from the painted arched ceiling to look at the young girl by his side; to him she was breathtaking. "You are safest with me; Aboveground is no longer safe for you."

"Why not!? Better yet, why did that guy attack me!? Who is he!!?" she all but yelled.

"Because," Jareth said slowly slightly irritated now, "that man is my elder twin brother and the banished son of my father; he is now Lord of Darkness, a title most do not like to keep. I'm not sure of his motivation behind his attack, but while you are in my walls and under my protection, you will be safe."

Jade's breath was taken from her in a silent whoosh by the male fae's declaration to protect her when they had barely just met. Then there was her mother; he could have been doing it to get back at her mother, or to ask a favor. Jade had a feeling there was something the Goblin King was after being a King, let alone a Goblin King.

"So when can I go back?"

Jareth seemed to ponder for a moment spinning a crystal in his hand. Time droned on silently and Jade was about to ask again when he held up a hand for silence. She glared at the gloved hand wishing it would burst into a raging inferno.

"You will remain here till I deem it safe to return."

The eighteen year old was struck dumb by the news so it took a few moments for her to answer to come out while Jareth mentally counted to three waiting for her outburst he knew was going to come no matter what he did. "What!!? Are you kidding!!!? I CAN'T STAY HERE!!!!!"

Jareth looked at the girl unfazed with cold harsh eyes. "You can and will."

The raven haired girl was livid and it in her eyes there was a defiant fire as she glared at the king. "Who are you to say what I can and can't do!? I politely apologized for my earlier behavior but your pushy it buddy!!! I didn't ask for your pompous ass to save me! Maybe I should have stayed with your brother; beat his company is better then yours!!!"

Jareth always took pride in his control over his temper and other emotions but the young girl of barely eighteen was pushy his patience by disrespecting him and the mere mentioning his elder brother, Zaynon made his blood boil. How a mere slip of a girl could trigger his temper so sudden was beyond Jareth's understanding.

"Woman" growled the fae abandoning the relaxed position he was in for a more demanding stature to intimidate the defiant girl. "You will show me more respect or consciences for your actions will not go unpunished. And you did in fact ask me to save you; so I obliged to your request. But if you wish to try my brother's patience, be my guest! He'll be glad to take you as a trophy to place on his mantel…AND I WON'T STOP HIM!!!"

"MAYBE I WILL!!!!"

Jareth humped lining back into his chair knowing very well Jade would do no thing. "Just like your mother." He said under his breath but still loud enough to keep Jade clued in. "A stubborn, ignorant, and annoying bitch to the very end."

The swiftly standing girl did not go unnoticed, or the toppled chair that followed, but what came next utterly shocked the Goblin King to the core. The ringing sound of a slap rang through the hollowed hall like a gun shot. It echoed loudly as the high pitched ring sounded in Jareth's ears. The stinging sensation in his left cheek was surprisingly painful being he was just struck by what he had assumed was a weak girl. Yet here he was, the mighty and cruel Jareth, Goblin King struck by a twig of a girl; it was then that his scorching rage set in.

"How dare you!?" Jade seethed her right hand still shacking in the finished slapping motion. "How dare you say that, when you forced my mother into a 2 year depression after she met your sorry excuse of a hide! She was forced to grow up in a single night to right a wrong she took willing responsibility over when she could have turned her back on it; weather or not she did it doesn't matter! No; she choose to face you alone and all your pathetic treachery!!! NO WONDER SHE DIDT' RETURN YOUR LOVE YOU CRUEL AND DISGUSTING ANIMAL!!!!!!"

"THAT'S ENOUGH!!!!!!" roared the Goblin King as rage burned in his icy and ebony eyes as they crashed down at the girl who had stumbled back in surprise to fall backwards over her hem as a ripping sound filled the room as Jade fell to the floor at Jareth's feet.

Jade was surprised that Jareth's became so furious so quickly "So much for a leashed temper; I guess I pushed some buttons" she thought as she stumbled to reclaim her feet, but that was the least of her problems as she watched the furious figure step toward her.

The faster she stepped back the faster he pursued her. Soon Jade's retreat from Jareth's form came to an abrupt stop by the wall that she now had her back against. Jade's emerald eyes searched for an escape rout finding just one and it being behind the towering form of the Goblin King, which stood uncomfortably close starring down at her with his scorching fury burning in his mismatched cruel gaze.

As the burning gaze intensified Jade let out a soft gasp as her eyes met Jareth's and she planted her back against the wall as hard as she could to get away from the burning inferno in the male fae's eyes.

Suddenly Jareth's gloved hand shot out and around Jade's slender pale neck in a painfully but not to the point where her air supply was cut off. "You want a taste for what my dear brother is capable of" Jareth said deadly soft. He lined closer as Jade tried to cringe away. The fae's lips lightly slide across her cheek as he stopped by her ear. "Then let me show you."

"Huh" came her shallow gasp as Jade shivered for the first time in fear. The sound of his malevolent whisper into her ear caused dread to overwhelm her core as her mother's words of warning of the King's brutality came back to her.

Jade blinked twice to fight away the tears of fear and dread that were swelling up in her emotional emerald eyes. Yet once again before her very eyes the scenery change without her knowledge of it ever happening. So now she found herself pinned against a rough stone wall with a pair of wide iron doors that were slightly rusted with age over what were most likely centuries.

"Whe-"crocked Jade but drew short as she looked back at Jareth and took a quick intake of breath from shock as she shivered once again.

There on his handsome face was a bone chilling evil smirk that distorted his face from its former glory. It was this look that silenced her tongue in an instant. Jade grew incredibly nervous for she couldn't look away no matter how much she wanted to.

"Welcome Lady Jade," said the king sliding his hand slowly from her neck in a possibly seductive gesture if there hadn't been any evilness in Jareth's face as he gestured toward the rusted and foreboding double doors, "to my dungeons."

A/N: sry is taken me so long to update this story. With school starting and work I haven't had time to update even this short ass chapter…sry it was so short but I thought it got us going. Jareth I know may appear a little out of character but I mean come on...he got rejected bye sarah like none other and then the daughter of said woman just threw it back into his face id be furious too if I was him. But yea enjoy this very short chapter…the prolog was longer then this XD

the one and only BLAZE!!!

BLAZE: the crowd goes wild!!!

Jareth: shut up and sit…more like do ur homework (pushes a math book under her nose)

BLAZE: yuck! Math…I HATE IT!!!

Jareth: work before pleasure my dear

BLAZE: (lifts an eyebrow at the fare king) PERVERT GET OUT OF MY ROOM!!!!

Jareth: you like and you know it!

BLAZE: (slams bedroom door shut in goblin's face) well that was entertaining and all so remember to review…cause you know u want to!

Jareth: I know u do (from other side of door laughing)

BLAZE: SHUT IT PERV!!!!

PUSH THAT PURPLE BUTTON FOR MY SANITY'S SACK!!!