Kiana sat on the wall over-looking the bog. She felt foolish for transporting out so quickly, but she didn't want to go back to them just yet. She cried – for the many long nights she'd spent praying that she'd find someone who'd love her, for the fae who never even looked twice even though she was the princess, and for Toby, who'd been the answer to all those earlier prayers. She railed at the injustice of it all, and cursed her parents for the whole underground to hear, that they never told her about it all.
Finally she just sat. She turned her mind inward and attempted to arm herself for the fact that she'd be forced to look at Toby for the rest of her life, and wouldn't be able to touch him.
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"Kiana!" Hand reaching blindly for the girl who was no longer there, Sarah cried her name.
"Sarah?" Jareth knelt in front of her chair and held her gaze with his. "She's sitting on the retaining wall that overlooks the bog. She's fine." He smiled at her, something of the wicked humor she was so used to in his eyes. "For now, why don't you let her sulk, and spend some time with the young man you haven't seen in twenty years.
Sarah gasped, having forgotten that Toby was right in front of her. She focused on her little brother; the one who wasn't so little anymore, and smiled a tremulous smile. "I am so glad you're here."
Toby rose from his chair and glared at the pair. "Well I'm not. You left me and never came back. You never even…he looked for an adequate adjective…'poofed' a note so I would know you were ok. I was five Sarah. I've spent the last twenty years trying to convince myself that neither of you existed." Tears formed in his eyes. "Because if you had, if you had loved me like I remember you telling me you did, you never would have left.
He angrily wiped the tears from his eyes. "And now, when I had finally made a life for myself, and found a girl I wanted to be with, you're telling me that she's my neice! I don't have a sister!" Pacing the floor he suddenly got very quiet. "I may not be able to go anywhere in the kingdom in the blink of an eye, but I can leave by more normal means."
He, very calmly, walked out the doorway.
Looking at Jareth, Sarah's face began to crumple when she saw his face go immobile in the hardest, most furious expression she'd ever seen. "What is it?"
In a deadly voice, he spoke. "Kiana has been taken from her perch. She is now blocked from me, and that is something only a powerful fae could accomplish." He turned to leave, and said over his shoulder "It seems that someone has decided to declare war on the goblin kingdom and its leader."