Okay Here is Chapter three.

Now this is where the good parts come in.

I hope you like it. I really do.

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-Love Annie

Change For The Better

Chapter Three

Andy

It wasn't an hour since they left the High King's office that they had to walk to the castle through the Labyrinth, because Jareth refused to come and get Andromeda.

They walked in silence going straight through the walls like Sandra should have done in the first place. Andromeda was seething in silent rage at her grandmother. Why she had never told her that the Labyrinth was real, that Jareth was real. That she abruptly tricked her into saying those words. To tricking her to come here all because Sandra was...dying.

Andromeda looked at the woman that she called friend. Her long black hair was speckled with gray and white. She had huge bags under her eyes, and her wrinkles were deep. Her hands shook constantly and she walked on a cane in orthepedic shoes.

Andromeda wanted to take in the surrondings around her, she wanted to take in the talking walls the vines, the Labyrinth, but she just couldn't fit her brain around the fact that the fairytale she had loved so dearly since childhood was real. She sighed. She would have time to observe.

"I'm sorry." Sandra mumbled, Andromeda looked at her as they both stopped walking. She hugged her close to her body. "I really think you'll like it here though, I really do." Andromeda smiled, at her grandmother's idiocy.

She was really old, and didn't think rationally most of the time, but in this case she was glad she was so delusional.

"Thank you." Sandra nodded. "I'm going to miss you, Grandmama."

"I'll always be with you, remember that." Andromeda nodded.

She nodded, as a tear slid down her face.

She would always remember.

Jareth

How could that old coot do this to him? He was pacing back and forth along the hall outside his room, he couldn't sleep. He had changed from his normal black drab to white cotton sleep shirt and long cotton pants.

His own father!

Sara and Andromeda still hadn't arrived at the castle. He could tell they were close. He sighed and thought back to what Sara had said.

She was dying. It made his heart wretch with unsaid things. He wanted to scream, let it all out, but he couldn't. He felt cheated out of something. He didn't know what exactly.

And then there was Andromeda she was, so amazingly, strange. She said words, that Jareth had never heard before, like bull shit. Who would curse the fesis of a cow? And all that metal sticking out of her ears and the one in her lip! It was mesmerizing watching her play with it. He wondered what kind of growth it was.

And what Sara had said about her not being human.

He would be able to tell if she was goblin.

She was not.

What was she?

"Your Highness, Ms. Williams is here with her Grandmother." A stubby goblin with green hair waddled up to him.

"Fine." He vanished and was at the front door of the castle.

There they stood. Andromeda had a bag slung over her shoulder, she was looking around the entry hall, licking her lipring thoughtfully.

"Well it was pleasent seeing you again Jareth, please take care of her." Sandra said, surprising Jareth greatly by hugging him around the shoulders.

His heart broke. It was so loud he could have swore she heard it. When Sandra let go he told them to say goodbye and he turned around to give them privacy.

"We did on the way here." Andromeda answered. She kissed Sandra lightly on the cheek.

With a wave of his hand Sandra was gone.

Silence.

Now it was just them.

Jareth and Andromeda.

"Your room's this way," He headed off down one hallway and she fallowed.

"I'm sorry for this, by the way, I don't mean to inconveinince you." She offered. He felt something tingle inside him as he looked over his shoulder at her.

"It's not you who is inconveinincing me, It's my father." He answered back with a scowl. She nodded and licked her lipring again.

"My father was like that."

"Was?"

"They are both gone, that's why I was living with San-Sara." She corrected herself.

"You look like her you know, Sara," Awkward Silence.

"So it's, Andromeda, right?" He said breaking the awkward silence. He didn't know why he felt so desperate to make her feel comfortable he just needed to know she would be fine.

"Yeah, that's what my Mom and Dad called me, so did Grandma, but since I'm new to this whole The Labyrinth is real thing, I'm going to try something new. So call me Andy." They stopped at a door. He turned to look at her. They looked at eachother for a long time. And he did something he didn't think he would do for the next three months.

He smiled.

Andy

Andy woke up in the softest bed ever. She stretched her arms above her head and remembered back to what had happened the day before. She felt self consious when she realized that there was someone in the room with her.

"'Morning Miss the highness has invited you to breakfast in his room this morning." It was an orange goblin. She smiled.

"Thank you, uh, what's your name?"

"Rudsuck, Miss."

"Thank you, Rudsuck." Andy had a plan to learn every Goblin's name in the castle.

"When am I to meet him?"

"8:00 o' clock, Miss."

"Thank you, um, you can leave now."

The Goblin exited and Andy sighed. She had a good hour before she had to meet Jareth. She took a shower got dressed in a Avenged Sevenfold t shirt, and a black poofy skirt. She was surprised this fit in her duffle bag. She threw her hair up showing off her 20-some peircings. She put on her shoes and took her notebook from her bag.

She set off out her room and began down the hall. She fallowed a trail of bubbles floating in the air. She found Jareth sitting on the window sill next to his door staring out the window thinking intensly. Crystal after crystal fell out of his hands and floated away. She caught one before it fell to far from his hand.

He looked up in shock. She smiled at him.

"Morning. I think we got off on a wrong start, can we start all over again.?" She said holding the crystal out for him. He took it and smirked.

"I'm Andromeda Rose Williams, I'm seventeen and it's a pleasure to meet you-" She held her hand our after curtseying.

He hesitated and stood. He took her hand in his gloved one and shook it firmly.

"Jareth, The Goblin King, I'm ten-thousand and seven next week and it's a pleasure to meet you also, Ms. Williams." He still held her hand, and as he held it he placed a small kiss on top of her fingers.

His lips were like ice, they were gentle and sweet. The sensation made Andy's spine tingle.

He looked up into her eyes, She sucked in a breath as she watched his mix matched eyes search her own.

"Shall we eat?" He dropped her hand and entered his room, the crystal still in his hand.

She fallowed him into a huge room, that looked nothing like a room. His bed was a window bed and had looked like it had not been slept in. In the center of the room was a table with two chairs and a silver tray filled with breakfast things.

There was no floor. Or so it looked. Jareth walked acrossed the air and took his seat in the floating chair.

Andromeda stood in the door way and watched him motion to her.

"Um...I highly doubt I'm going to be able to do that." She bit her lip thoughtfully.

"Try, I promise If you fall I'll catch you."

She took her eyes away from the black abiss and looked up at him again. He seemed so sure that she could do it.

"I'm going to die, I'm going to die, I'm going to die..."

She closed her eyes tightly and stepped forword. She felt solidness. She looked down quickly.

She was standing in mid air.

"Oh, shit, oh fuck, oh mother fucking hell." She murmered over and over as she looked into the nothingness. Jareth watched the strange words spew from her mouth and he smirked.

He stood grabbed her arm and guided her to her seat.

"Just watch your food and you'll be fine."

Andy bit into a biscuit lightly making sure her eyes did not leave the table.

They ate in quiet silence. It was peaceful, yet still slightly awkward.

"So, tell me about yourself."

Andy looked away from the table and up at him. He was reading a paper, and sipping something from a mug. His lips wrapped around the mug.

Those lips...

"I'm a Senior in highschool." He looked up at her.

"What's that?" She smirked.

"It's school. It means I only had one year left, but I didn't want to go back anyways." She picked up a mug in front of her and looked into it. The liquid was greenish blue.

"It's fairie tea, it's good." He said drinking his own.

Andy tentivally lifted it to her lips and swallowed. It tasted very similar to white wine.

"What's your favorite color?" She looked up at him in confusion.

"Why?"

"I want to know everything there is to know about you." He said in a hushed tone. Andy tried to force back a blush. He noticed and smirked.

"Why would you want to know that?"

He looked at her for a moment, folded his paper and put his mug down.

"Quite truthfully, you are very...strange." Andy's jaw dropped. She was strange? HER? What about him with his long blonde hair, different colored eyes and crystals?

He leaned forward on the table and rested his head in his hands, he watched her intently. She blushed deep red.

"Me? Strange?"

"Well, yes. You look very much like Sara, you have very enchanting eyes, you say the strangest thing like "Fuck" what ever that means, and you have a strange growth all over your ears."

Andy looked at him like a fish out of water. She tried to ignore the enchanting eyes comment.

"Growth all over my...do you mean my peircings?"

"Your what?"

She took out a couple of cartildge earrings and showed him the holes.

"It's not a growth I meant to do that. It's like...like...well, I put a needle through my ear and I hang jewelry from it."

He looked at her strange. Like he didn't see the point.

"Why?"

"Well...uh...um. You know I really don't know. I like it." She began putting them back in.

"So you stab your ears and your lip?"

"And my nose." She pointed to the stud in her nose.

"See! Exactly my point, very strange."

By this time Andy had forgotten about the black abiss just below her feet.

"Well, what about you?" She accused, suddenly feeling self consious of his staring.

"What about me?"

"What's with the crystals?"

"You read the book didn't you?"

She just looked at him in silence.

"I don't get that part."

"I don't know I just can do it. Here," He produced a crystal from his curled hand and handed it to her.

"It's supposed to enchant the on looker." He looked at her examine it. It was smooth and clear.

"I guess it's like your peircings, I like it." She tossed it in the air and it landed in her hand as a snake.

"Holy shit!" Her hand shot away from it knocking her forgotten notebook off the table and tumbling down into the abiss. Jareth took the snake away from her and dropped it in the abiss.

She watched after her notebook. She pouted.

"Aw, I had a lot of things in there." She mumbled.

With a wave of his hand the very same notebook apeared in his gloved fingers. She held out her hand for it but instead he thumbed through it.

"What are these?"

"Drawings." She crossed her arm clearly irritated he was going through her things.

"There really good."

"Thanks. Can I have it back now please?"

He looked up from the notebook and smiled at her charmingly, he held it out for her. She snatched it away.

"Thank you."

"Your highness! The feirys in the woods would like to talk do you." A goblin with redish skin, and orange hair had entered the room.

"Alright, thank you Riptaught."

Jareth began standing from his chair. He went over to his bed and picked up a long black cloak and slung it over his shoulders.

"It's blue by the way."

He looked back at Andy. She was smiling softly eating some fruit.

"What is?"

"My favorite color is blue."

He smiled.

"Mine's green."

And he vanished.

YAY!

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-Annie