Okay, This is Chapter TWO!
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Annie
Change For The Better
Chapter Two
Jareth
The Throne room had grown bored with nothing to do. The goblins were completely bored out of there minds. There hadn't been a Labyrinth runner in months. Most of the Goblins spent there time sleeping or doing Jareth's bidding in the fairie patches near the begining of the Labyrinth.
The throne at the head of the room was bear. Where was the Goblin King? He was in his room of stairs. Pacing up and down constantly, out of sheer boredom and heartbreak. Sara had been gone 78 years but it felt like only months to Jareth. It left a wide gaping hole in his tender heart, and he knew that it was not going to go away anytime soon.
He sat down on a stair case that was rather long and pondered the same feelings that were always going on inside him.
On one hand he loved Sara, and wanted her to be happy, even if that meant with another man in another world.
On the other hand, he hated himself for letting her ever enchant him. It was her eyes, he had decided. The deepest emerald he had ever seen as clean cut as diamonds.
He summoned a crystal in his fist and looked into it.
It was a cemetary. A young girl sat cross legged on the cold grass watching the sky. And then she came to stand next her.
His heart ached with unwanted joy and pain.
She was old. For a human. He looked down at his still young body of a man in his 20's. She changed everyday and he hadn't changed since.
The girl on the ground looked exactly as Sara had once, young, beautiful...but she wasn't her.
In a fit of pure rage, Jareth pivoted his arm and threw the crystal as hard as he could it bounced off a wall and fell up to the way gravity pulled it.
He watched it fall to the ground as he looked up.
It had been two days since he last checked in on her.
He was in his Throne scolding a goblin when he felt it. He heard it.
"I wish the goblins would come and take you away...right...now." The most beautiful voice he heard.
With a triumphant smile he vanished.
Andy
"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't kill you right now." Jareth hissed into Sandra's face. She smiled.
"Because you wouldn't do that." Jareth's angry scowl slackened and he glared at her knowing she was right.
"Sara, what are you doing here?" He said in a much calmer voice.
"I'm here to make a propostition." Sandra said.
"Grandmama? What the fuck is going on?" Andromeda rarely ever swore, but she thought it was an appropriate time.
Sandra and Jareth turned to look at her as if they forgot she was there. Andromeda stood awkwardly and closed the book. Jareth's mix matched eyes flickered over her. Then to the book. She looked him over as well and licked her lips in irritation. He was so familiar. Jareth... Jareth...Jareth...
...The Goblin King.
"Who are you?" He smirked.
"Andy." She answered with out offering a hand. Sandra watched them smiling.
"How do you know Sara?" He said stepping closer to her and glaring down at her. Even though the relation was more then obvious he had to be sure.
"Sara? I don't know a Sara." Jareth looked at Sandra.
"My full name is Sandra." She said as if it was enough information. "And she is my grandaughter." Sandra pulled Andromeda into side in a one armed hug.
Jareth's eyes grew wide.
"What are you doing here? Leave! LEAVE NOW!" He began to stalk off.
"Jareth, You know we can't leave until you let us." Sandra said slyly.
Shouting loudly at the door, he was obviously irritated. He turned back to face them.
"What do you want?"
"I want Andromeda to stay in your castle till she is legally an adult."
"What?" Andromeda and Jareth shouted together.
"Grandmama, no offense, but you are completely off your rocker, this entire place is nutso, this more insane then Michael Jackson! And I LIKE Michael Jackson!" When Andromeda was stressed out she talked randomness.
"Do you not no where you are, precious?" Jareth said a charming smile on his face as he stood directly in front of Andromeda. Sandra smirked at her old nickname.
Andromeda glared sourly.
"No."
"You're in Underground. " Silence.
"Bull shit." Andromeda looked at Sandra who shrugged.
"And let me guess, you must be Jareth, the Goblin King." Andromeda said filled with doubt.
Jareth bowed deeply. "At your service."
Andromeda sighed and sat on the ground.
"I'm screwed."
"She is NOT staying here! NOT IN MY KINGDOM!"
"Oh, come on Jareth! She needs a place to stay, and I'm not going to be here in the next few months, she's going to need some kind of guidance."
"Do I look like I can give good guidance?"
...
"No! But your the only person I can think of!"
"I WILL NOT HAVE IT!" Andromeda sat off to the side sinking it all in as she watched the two fight.
"LET'S TAKE THIS TO THE COUNCIL!" Sandra screamed back. Jareth stumbled back and gone pale.
"No, anything but that."
"What's wrong Jareth, are you scared of Daddy?"
"No!"
"Of course he is." Jareth jumped and turned around to come face to face with Andromeda. Her eyes were even more mesmerizing then Sara's. "It's in the book." She said waving it in his face.
Jareth growled lowly in her face.
Jareth abruptly grabbed both girl's upper arms and vanished in a cloud of dust and glitter.
Andromeda immediatly broke away from Jareth and her grandmother, once they reached there destination. She ran to the trash bin by the desk and emptied her stomache, into it, over and over.
Jareth stared in wonder.
"What's wrong with her?"
"Motion sickness."
They didn't notice the High King sitting at his desk looking at them in shock.
"Jareth, what is this?" Jareth's face wen't even whiter if that was possible.
"F-father."
Andromeda stopped heaving wildly and breathed deeply over the trash bin. She was getting a headache, and things were happening so fast her vision blurred.
"I am Sandra Williams, a former runner of Jareth's Labyrinth, I am going to die with in the month and my grandaughter has no where else to go. If She could stay in the Goblin Castle for just three months, I would die a very happy women." Sandra smiled kindly at the man, her hands started to shake from paulsy again.
"I'm sorry Mrs.-"
"I know what you are going to say that a human should not be aloud to live here in Underground, but she is not fully human, otherwise she wouldn't be here,"
Andromeda went into another round of vomiting at that last part. Not human.
"Well, I don't see a posing problem in any of this." The High King said.
"But Father!"
"Jareth, this young women is in trouble! Stop acting like a child and help her!" Jareth's face went red and he stalked out of the room leaving glitter trailing behind.
"Thank you so much, Your highness, thank you so much."
"I think it will be good for my son to learn respect. Now if you please leave, I have work to do."
"Of Course."
Andromeda walked out after her grandmother taking the garbage can with her.
She had a feeling that this was going to be a hell of a three months.
Okay so this kind of sucked, I'm sorry, that it's totally lame, I just have a lot of propping for the actual story to come into place.
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