Chapter Thirteen

The Doctor walked in front of Rose and Nol when he took the sonic screwdriver out and pointed it at Mirror.

"Do you think that will stop me?" Mirror asked.

"Yes!" the Doctor said and Mirror laughed.

"You have too high of an opinion of yourself, Doctor!"

The Doctor growled when Mirror walked closer and stood face to face with him. The Doctor saw the crazy light in Mirror's eyes and Mirror smiled.

"I scare you, don't I?"

"No, though I am curious to why there's two Nols instead of one," the Doctor said and Mirror snickered.

"I'm not telling," Mirror said while wiggling a finger at him when Nol blinked and held his head in his hands.

"I remember," Nol whispered and Rose looked at him. He paced back and forth while holding onto his head and Rose followed him.

"What do you remember?" Rose whispered and he raised his head to look at her. He seemed totally sane as he stood straighter and blinked his eyes a few times.

"I remember everything," he said then looked at the Doctor.

"You do?" the Doctor asked while walking toward them and Nol nodded.

"Look around, Doctor, do you see any mirrors in here?" he asked, waving his hands in a wide arch.

"Shut up!" Mirror shouted.

"I did notice that," the Doctor said with a nod.

"The reason why there aren't any is because I don't have a reflection," Nol said and Mirror walked to him.

"Shut up!" Mirror shouted when he slapped Nol in the face and Nol fell to the floor.

"Nol!", Zeeni shouted when she ran to him and he sat up. Blood dribbled from his nose when he wiped it off on the sleeve of the robe then stood up. He swallowed hard, but he wasn't afraid anymore. He seemed more confident as he placed Zeeni behind her and she peeked out to look at Mirror.

"The reason I do not have a reflection is because of something stupid I did as a child," Nol said, locking eyes with Mirror. "You see, I am an only child, but I was also very lonely. All I wanted was someone to play with."

"Didn't you have any servants to play with?" Zeeni asked. "My daddy's servants play with me."

"No, my parents wouldn't allow that,"

"I would have played with you," she said, hugging his left leg and he looked down at her with tears in his eyes.

"So what happened?" the Doctor asked and he looked at him.

"Well, one day, I looked in the mirror and studied my reflection. It was perfect! It was me, wasn't it!?" Nol asked.

"In a way, yes," the Doctor said with a nod.

"That was when I cast a spell to make it real. Thing was I was only three and didn't know magic that well. The spell wasn't perfect and something bad happened. My reflection vanished from the mirror then appeared next to me. I was thrilled. It was me, but not me. It was when he only did all the bad things while I did all the good things that I knew something was wrong."

"No offense, but I bet your parents weren't that thrilled when they found out."

"No, they weren't. It took some doing, but they were able to stop him and he was locked away."

"Then what happened?" Rose asked and he walked to her. She noticed the sweet look in his eyes when he reached over and gently stroked her hair. He gave her a small smile then turned and looked at Mirror.

"I went to school. That's where I met Nari and Gobby," Nol said and the Doctor gave him a puzzled look.

"Who's Gobby?" the Doctor asked.

"Jareth," Rose said with a smile.

"Oh!" he said with wide eyes and Zeeni giggled.

"As I grew older, I learned magic, but what I didn't know was he was learning magic as well. In the end, it turned out his magic was stronger than mine," Nol said.

"That's because I am STRONGER than you are!" Mirror shouted,

"You be quiet!" the Doctor said, wagging a finger at him.

"When the war broke out, Father told me that I had to marry Nari even though I knew she was in love with Gobby," Nol said with a sigh. "I never wanted to hurt either of them, but I had no choice. We got married, but I never touched her. Not that I didn't find her attractive. I did. Then Father died. Mother had died in the war. And I became king."

"Jareth told us this," the Doctor said.

"Did he tell you it was a golden age for our kingdoms? No one wanted for anything. Trade was fair and equal. Even my creatures in The Golden Forest were happy," Nol said when he looked at Zeeni and smiled a sweet smile at her. "Oh, Zeeni, you would have loved it! There were unicorns, winged horses, zigzees and wildies. All sorts of creatures! Then, one day, HE got out!"

"It wasn't so hard," Mirror said with a smug look on his face."

"We fought, but he got away and I thought he was gone. Then, years later, he came back with an army."

"Didn't you have one of your own?" Rose asked.

"I didn't need one," Nol said with a sigh then looked at Zeeni. "I sent Nari to Gobby and he promised to take care of her."

"Then what happened?" the Doctor asked.

"I won," Mirror said with a smile.

"Yes, he did. That's when he placed me in the dungeon and took great pleasure in hurting me," Nol said, lowering his head.

"Why didn't he just kill you?" the Doctor asked.

"He can't," Nol said, looking at him.

"Why?"

"If I die, if he dies, then we both do."

"That makes sense," the Doctor said with a nod. "He is, after all, your reflection and, in a way, you're his."

"Enough!" Mirror shouted when a black light wrapped itself around his right hand and he launched it at the Doctor.