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"Thank you for accepting my apology."

"Thank you for accepting mine."

He smiled. "See you in a few hours."

"Jareth?"

"Yeah."

She looked over, wincing. "Uh… I may have been a bit reckless while on my rampage so I apologize in advance."

"… apologize for what?"

"And so Kara said that she wouldn't go out with me and I cried – I CRIED!"

Jareth rubbed his forehead. "Jason. We already apologized to each other. You don't need to make me miserable."

"I know. So then she got all embarrassed and yelled at me! WHY WOULD SHE DO THAT? I love her so! J'adore les lamas!"

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Chapter 31 (May 5th)

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"Jareth! Random question. W-"

"Which was named orange first, the color or the fruit?"

Sarah froze, halfway to where Jareth was sitting in the library. "Uhhh… well… I'd guess the color?"

"You'd know better than I would." Jareth shrugged, turning a page in the book he was reading as Kira laughed at them from the other couch, playing Go Fish with Bellezza.

She rolled her eyes and sat on the armchair of the recliner he sat in. "What are you reading?" He lifted the book and she scowled. "I don't know that language."

"Good."

"Jare-reth!"

"He's reading some old Latin text, Sarah," Kara chimed from the floor, drawing with Emily and Katrina.

"It says 'Bonds, Barriers and Bogus Spells: A Caster's Guide to Protecting the Homelands.'" Hotaru spoke up, startling Sarah for she'd thought the older woman was asleep, eyes closed and body reclined across one of the couches. Sarah cast a suspicious look towards Alan who was in another recliner, mouth parted and softly snoring, Edmund out cold on his chest and drooling.

Kara spotted the look and chuckled. "He is asleep, Sarah. He can't fake sleep because he starts giggling like a high schooler." Sarah laughed loud enough the dark haired man gave a snort and stirred before zonking back out. Kara and Kira rolled their eyes in unison.

"So what was your question?" Jareth asked, finally looking away from the book to give her his full attention.

She frowned in confusion. "Huh?"

"Your random question?" He lifted a brow when she shrugged. "You announced you had a random question as you were walking in?"

"Oh… oh! Oh yeah!"

He waited a moment then poked her ribcage sending her falling to the ground. "Well?"

"Patience is key darling."

"Mine drains quickly whenever you're in the room with me." She smirked victoriously. "So what's your question before I refuse to answer it forever?"

Her eyes flickered to the golden brown haired little girl on the couch. "What ever happened to that guy I tied up who was trying to kill… uh… a little girl we both know?"

Jareth scowled, turning his attention back to his book. "He's locked up."

"And on another note, where's Glory?" Sarah asked, looking around the room.

Kira scowled. "Probably interrogating the baa-uhh-bandit!" she chimed happily as Bellezza blinked innocently. "Why?"

"I've some steam to blow off."

"Sarah," Jareth warned.

"I won't kill 'im, just scare him." He grunted. "So… where was he again?"

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A young soldier was standing in front of the door to the room the enemy soldier was in. Sarah lifted an eyebrow and regarded him slowly. He sent her a cool look. "What?"

"Nothing… just not used to seeing soldiers in Goblin Castle."

He grunted and shifted lightly. "What do you want?"

"I want in."

"The High King is currently questioning the suspect."

"Oh, he's not a suspect, I assure you. He's guilty. But that's not really a response to my request. Let me in."

"No. I cannot open the door for you."

She folded her arms under her chest and stared. He stared back. Neither moved. She was proud she lasted an entire three minutes before snarling and (victoriously) startling the guard. "Let me in!"

"No. The High King said not to open the door for anyone."

"I don't give a damn! This is Jareth's castle-"

"And Glorificus is High King of the entire underground, including this castle."

She scowled. "Please let me in."

"No. I cannot open the door for you."

She opened her mouth to curse him out then froze staring at him. The man's lips twitched faintly. Her jaw set. "Did you have to run the Labyrinth?"

His eyes widened and his jaw dropped faintly in shock. "Y-yes. How did you-"

"Damn word games," she grumbled, stomping past him. He snorted in amusement and let her pass.

Sarah opened the door and paused. The man who'd grabbed Bellezza was in a pile on the ground, blood dripping from his nose. Glorificus looked over, rage covering his features. Sarah's instincts told her to turn on her heel and run screaming in the other direction. Instead, she slid inside and shut the door behind her, leaning against it and crossing her arms.

"H-help me!" the man cried, reaching for her. Glory snarled at him then turned back to her carefully. "P-please!" the man continued. "He'll k-kill me!"

She shrugged. "That's fine by me." Both looked startled. "That's what I was gonna do so he's saving me the effort."

The man quivered. "I didn't go after you!" he shouted as he crawled backwards. "I went after them! Their family! You have nothing to do with them!"

Sarah advanced on him quickly, sure her hair was standing on end as green fire crackled around her fingers. "They ARE my family!" She grabbed the front of his shirt and pulled him up so they were nose to nose. "You dared to touch something that belonged to me! You think the Goblin King is possessive? You think the High King is dangerous? They are nothing compared to the hell I would put you through if you succeeded in touching my girls." She dropped him into a pile on the ground. "While I highly doubt you will ever breathe free air again, if you ever come near my family again… I will kill you and I will not make it pleasant." She turned on her heel, eyes on the ground to avoid Glorificus' look. She heard the man shift before she spotted the shadow and spun, fist colliding with the side of his face. He flew the side, letting out a shriek of pain and slid to the ground. Before she did something that would get her into trouble later, she spun around once more and stormed out of the room.

Great, she thought. I wanted to just give him a few nightmares but now I'm even more angry. She heard the door slam behind her and footsteps follow her. A hand on her shoulder made her turn and glance back to find Glorificus standing there.

He smiled faintly. "Thank you for that."

She frowned. "Huh?"

"For referring to them as your family." The frowned deepened. "I know you've called them so before but… I didn't know you before so I thought you were just saying it." He clasped a hand to her shoulder. "I thank you."

She smiled back humorlessly. "You think I'm being sweet? I wasn't lying. If someone touches one of them, they will die." He blinked. "I will kill them unless someone stops me."

With a nod he released her shoulder. "And that is what makes you the greatest aunt for them. I've no doubt you would kill for them."

"Before you kill someone," both turned sharply at the new voice and found Meta stalking towards her, "you need practice with a weapon. Come." Meta grabbed her arm and led her towards the dueling room. "You've not practiced in weeks!"

Sarah waited, reaching for Glorificus. "Glory! Get Jareth! Tell him Meta kidnapped me and he needs to rescue meeeeeeee! Hurryyyyyyyyyy!"

"Shut up Sarah." Meta ordered as they vanished around the corner.

Glorificus just blinked.

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Jareth had been lounging in the library, watching Kira and Alan (the latter having woken up violently when Edmund sneezed and smashed his own face against Alan's chest) as they played a card game with the Three Musketeers since Kara had been called away to assist some scholar. Hotaru had gladly taken Edmund and was currently lightly bouncing him on her knees.

When his father appeared beside him, he only moved his eyes, chin in his palm. "Yes?"

"Sarah wishes me to inform you that Meta has kidnapped her and that you must rescue her."

Jareth's eyebrows rose and he snorted, unfolding his legs and getting to his feet. "Then I suppose I should go check it out." Glorificus nodded and made to leave but Kira called him back.

"You'll wanna watch this, father," she chirped happily. "C'mon girls. Let's go see Aunt Sarah fall down a lot." Alan laughed, swinging Katrina up onto his shoulders, Emily and Bellezza racing out of the room with their mother. Hotaru stood and followed them, Jareth and Glorificus bringing up the rear.

"Fall down a lot?" Glorificus questioned.

Jareth snorted. "Yes. It's very amusing." Before he could ask his father anything, Bellezza caught the older fae's attention, describing in detail the game they'd played with Sarah, chasing after the brunette with neon colored pool noodles in a mock battle.

"I don't WANNA!" They heard her shout as they neared the room.

"You have to!" Meta shouted back. "Sarah! I mean it! Get back here!"

Sarah was running out of the room and slammed into Kira who yelped and was only just able to keep them both on their feet. Spotting the group, Sarah sighed. "Great. I take it I have to practice now?"

"Yup!" Kira chirped, spinning her around and marching her into the room.

Glorificus shot Jareth a confused look but the younger fae just snorted in amusement and followed after them. Sarah was placed ten feet from Meta with a sword in her hand. Meta nodded to Venus who held her hand up then sharply brought it down.

Sarah let out a shout, charging him only to trip and fall face first onto the ground. Everything froze, all eyes on the brunette who slowly sat up, stunned. She inhaled sharply and screamed "OWIE!"

Jareth groaned and smacked a hand to his face as everyone burst out laughing.

"Sarah," Meta sighed. "Have you seriously lost all of your skills?"

"Shuddup!" she snapped, climbing to her feet. "I just tripped!"

"Right." He shifted then turned. "Jareth. You fight her."

His eyebrows rose. "I beg your pardon?"

"She'll fight more seriously against you." The sword was tossed to him, Jareth automatically catching it. "You fight her." Sarah smirked wickedly as Jareth glared at Meta then walked over to face her.

"Let me guess," Jareth remarked, twirling the sword in his hand. "You were just acting horrible so Meta would force me to fight."

She grinned brightly. "Yup-" CLANG! She jerked in shock, staring at him as he smirked, only her quick reflexes keeping her head and neck attached. Scowling, she quickly defended herself. Jareth shied away out of reach. As she leapt for him, he vanished and reappeared behind her. The tap of his boot signaled his position and she spun around just in time to block it.

He vanished again, appearing behind her once more. Again, she just blocked it in time. When he vanished a third time, he appeared to her right, startling her out of the rhythm and forcing her back. She responded just as he'd assumed she would – violently. Bursting forward, he almost couldn't keep up with the frantic sweeps, focusing on the silver swing of the sword so intently he almost missed her surge of magic as she stole his technique and appeared behind him. He ducked the wide swing and swung a leg out, quickly taking her down. Before he could tap the sword to her neck, she rolled out of the way, leapt to her feet… and fell on her face.

He smacked a hand to his own face, slowly dragging it down as the room burst into laughter.

Climbing to her hands and knees, she panted heavily. He sighed and twirled the sword. Immediately, she swung a hand up. "Hold it… m'done… tired…" He cocked an eyebrow and she made a face. "I dunno… if you know… or not… but I… was in this… really big battle… just a few… days ago… m'still… recoverin'…"

Instantly his face shut down, a scowl growing. "Sarah."

"Jareth." she grunted and held out a hand. "Help me up." He did so and pointed towards Kira who motioned towards a chair.

Meta stepped out into the middle of the room and bowed lightly to Alan. "We rarely get to see your skills. Would you dance with me?"

Alan snorted and took the sword Venus offered. "I suppose I could dance just once."

"Daddy!" Katrina cried, Bellezza quickly echoing her.

Glorificus glanced from the battle between Meta and Alan to find Jareth leaning towards Sarah, the brunette looking unhappy. She waved towards Glorificus who stiffened when Jareth glanced at him curiously then turned back to Sarah. She patted his cheek to which he bit at her hand then straightened and walked back towards Glorificus.

"So what did you find out?" Jareth asked as he stepped up beside his father.

"Find out? About Sarah or the enemy?"

He looked confused. "… both?"

"Sarah obviously fights well she just needs proper motivation." He smirked. "You seem to be her motivation."

"Shuddup."

"Oh and she teaches you new vocabulary. It works out all around."

"Thanks."

"As for him." Glorificus grunted. "Not much. Interrogated him for an hour but he didn't say anything."

"Sarah said you broke his nose."

"About three seconds before Sarah walked in. He said something… nasty about Kira."

"I'd have broken his nose too."

"I did not wish Sarah to see me so angry. Had she arrived but a minute earlier, I'd have still been calm."

"At least she'll keep your fury in mind when she decides to have a waterfood fight again."

Instantly Glorificus' face shut down into a stoic mask. "If she ever starts that in my castle, she won't have to worry about seeing me angry because she won't live long enough to see it."

"Waaa! Meta! You couldn't have just let me win in front of my girls?"

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After watching Sarah's (and Alan's) horrible practice, the family retired to the library once more, this time joined by Evie and Ryuu who'd stopped by to let Ashley and Mira play together. Jason had suddenly appeared and startled Kira and Kara when he'd leapt up from behind the couch and grabbed them in a hug. He was quickly beaten with pillows and forced to sit in the corner, tracing unseen patterns on the rug as he pouted.

Jareth had just sunk into a state of comfortable oblivion when a scream suddenly pierced the quiet.

"Was that Sarah?" Kira asked quickly, Jareth leaping to his feet. Before anyone could do anything further, the brunette was running into the room screaming something incoherently.

"Sarah!" Jareth shouted, grabbing her arms. "Calm down! What's wrong?"

"IT'S A HORCRUX!" They all blinked in confusion. "EVIE GAVE ME A HORCRUX FOR CHRISTMAS!"

Evie burst into hysterical laughter, falling off her chair as everyone looked between the two. Sarah turned bright red. "It's not funny Evie!" she shouted. "He's gonna use my life force and send a basilisk after everyone!"

This only made Evie laugh even harder. Jareth nodded slowly. "Riiiiight… what happened?"

She scowled and vanished, reappearing with a thin black book, the same book she'd gotten for Christmas. "Evie gave me this for Christmas. I just found it again today," she waved a hand, "it got mixed up with other books, but it was still blank so I wrote 'my name is Sarah' in it and the writing VANISHED then writing appeared saying 'hello Sarah. My name is Tom Riddle.'" She was blinked at again. "Tom Riddle? Tom M. Riddle, a.k.a. Lord Voldemort?"

"Who?" Kira asked after a long pause.

"The most evil wizard on the planet? Harry Potter's arch-nemesis?"

"Ah," Alan said. "I know that book... wait, what?"

Evie's giggles were finally ending, the bookwork wiping her eyes and hiccupping. "I'm sorry Sarah. It was too good to pass up."

"What was?" she asked in confusion.
"It's a prank book." Sarah jerked then glared at her. "You can program words to appear on the pages." She giggled again. "Oh goddess. That was too funny."

"Evie?"

"Yes dearest?" Evie nearly purred.

"I will kill you now."

Evie shrugged then stood, brushed herself off and plopped herself in Ryuu's lap. "Try," she said cheekily, grinning at her. When Sarah took a step forward, Ryuu's arms lifted to encircle Evie's waist.

Sighing, the brunette stepped back. "Fine. I'll kill you when the giant lizard's not around." Both scowled at her but she ignored it and turned to Jareth. "I'm sorry for scaring you Jay-Jay."

He twitched violently and spun to glare at Jason who was hiding behind Kara who stiffened nervously.

"Jason!" he snapped. "I'm gonna kill you for real this time!"

"But I didn't mean it!" Jason wailed.

"I told you to stop calling me that!"

"I didn't call you that! Sarah did!"

"Only because you keep calling me that!"

"Hey," Sarah turned from battle as Evie tugged on her sleeve. "Let's go outside and chat while we have the chance."

Sarah smiled and hooked an arm around the bookworm's, leading her to the door. "Sounds good."

"I'm gonna kill you Jason!"

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Sitting on the hill overlooking the pond, Evie glanced towards Sarah, wondering what the other girl was thinking as her expression was so intent.

I know I've wondered about this before, Sarah thought, staring at the ground. But… what does grass taste like? I mean… animals have taste buds, right? So it's gotta taste good… right?

"So… you've calmed down a lot since you came down here," Evie said slowly as though expecting an explosion.

"Muh?" Sarah drew herself from her thoughts and shrugged, pulling at the grass. "I just realized that you guys aren't gonna leave so I might as well stop attracting attention."

"What?"

"Well… I was never able to keep relationships aboveground so I figured if I was loud and obnoxious down here, I'd have friends but no one really close therefore I wouldn't be hurt if you left later. Once I realized you guys are like annoying glue people-" Evie scowled. "-I calmed down."

"You're obnoxious."

"I know." She grinned cheekily. Evie just rolled her eyes and looked back out over the landscape. Sarah cocked her head as a stray thought drifted to the surface. "Evie?"

"Hmm?"

"You're pregnant."

The woman turned and regarded Sarah with her 'you're an idiot' look.' "Really? Wow. Thanks for letting me know."

Sarah made a face at her. "I just meant that I'd forgotten. Congratulations!"

Evie smiled tiredly. "Thanks."

Cocking her head, Sarah lifted a hand to her shoulder. "You okay?"

"Yeah… I just… Ryuu is a dragon – the prince of dragons – and I just… I'm not royalty." She wrung her hands together. "I'm not sure if the family will accept a half dragon."

"Yeah someone told me that the underground doesn't like half-and-half's… Jason I think… but they'd better! Or else I'll have to come give them a talking to!" Evie laughed. "How's Ryuu been about it?"

"I'm not sure. We haven't really discussed it."

"What?"

"It's only been a few days since he found out." Her eyes narrowed. "Speaking of finding out, how did you find out?"

Sarah laughed nervously. "Uhhhh, a certain raven figured that because we were friends I knew and he told me to forward his congratulatory wishes to you without knowing I didn't?"

"Hn. Remind me to kill 'im."

"Certainly!" Laughing, Sarah got to her feet. "As long as you tell Samra that it was your fault her husband's dead and not mine."

Evie took her hands when Sarah offered them and was tugged to her feet. "Only if you tell Ryuu that it was his fault that I had to kill him and will now be in prison."

"Ergh… never mind. I'll take responsibility for the kill."

"That's what I thought."

As they walked back towards the castle, Sarah glanced at her. "You gonna tell him you need to talk about it?"

"I don't know… soon we'll have to." She rubbed a hand over her stomach. "I mean… dragonets usually take about a year to be born and humans take about nine months so I'm figuring ten is a good speculation and… well I'm only like two months along so-"

"Good goddess," Sarah grumbled. "Math. Look, just talk to him, okay?"

Evie laughed softly, hooking her arm around Sarah's. "Yeah, yeah." She kicked at the ground as they walked back towards the castle. Her soft smile turned wicked. "So… you and Jareth thinking about having kids?"

The reaction was instant – Sarah's face gained the ability to boil eggs on her cheeks. "EVIE!"

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Sitting on her balcony, Sarah hummed to herself, staring up at the skies. She could now pick out the constellations Cleo had taught her, mind floating in stories of brave centaurs defeating horrible monsters.

"Oi."

Jumping, she twisted to find Jareth leaning against the doorframe. She grinned. "Hello!"

He scowled. "Were you the one that turned my bedroom pink in my absence?"

Instant innocent look. "What? Why would I ever do that?"

"Because you're obnoxious."

She laughed, getting to her feet to walk over. "That's not nice, considering I'm the one that told Jason that light pink was better than neon orange with neon green polka dots."

He winced. "Ah. I suppose I should thank you then, for rescuing my corneas."

"You should."

Shaking his head, he glanced over her. "How are you feeling? Still tired?"

"I feel much better, thanks."

He hummed. "That doesn't tell me if you're still tired."

"I know." She grinned. "Did the guard tell you about the word puzzle I worked out?"

"He did. Very good job."

"Thanks. I had a good teacher though."

Jareth smiled and leaned forward, resting his forehead against hers. "You, Sarah Williams, are amazing."

Her lips curled into a smile. "Flattery will get you nowhere." He chuckled, eyes shutting but he didn't move away. "What's wrong?"

His eyes opened again. "Why does something have to be wrong?"

"Because you normally don't enjoy this touchy-feely crap." She frowned in concern. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah… I just… I have this feeling that something's going to happen soon." He pulled away. "I'm sorry."

She leaned forward, wrapping her arms around his neck and hugged him tightly. "Don't worry. Everything will work out for the better." He hugged her back just as tight.

With a soft sigh, he released her. "Get some sleep. I'll see you for breakfast." He turned away.

"Jareth?" She frowned. "If you need anything…"

He smiled and kissed her briefly. "I'll let you know. Good night, Sarah."

"Good night." He vanished and she sighed, rubbing her face, wondering what the hell that was about. As she pulled her hands from her face, she twitched violently, eyes weeping at the bright colors.

"JARETH! COME BACK HERE AND FIX MY ROOM!"

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To all Heal Me, Hurt Me Readers and Reviewers,

I know, I know. It's been awhile. But a lot's happened in that time.

I went on a dog walk for cancer, I passed all my finals, I graduated college, I worked a lot, some MORON rear ended my car and totaled it, I cried violently, I've spent hours trying to find a new car, I saw Harry Potter pt 2 three times already, I worked some more, I got hooked on "Viva la Vida" and tried to write a Labyrinth one shot but am unhappy with it, and now I've finally got around to actually writing.

Really. I just wanted a nice, quiet summer to relax after graduating, finish writing HMHM, earn some money for master's school – but no. I hafta find a new car because some idiot decided to drive without a license and rear end me, shoving the back of my beautiful car off its frame therefore killing it after getting brand new tires and spending all day in the shop. God. Damn. It.

Okay, so really none of this actually has to do with HMHM. Sorry.

SO! This chapter includes so much random crap it was really difficult to piece together. But it foreshadows! Haha I love that word. Foreshadows. The next chapter's gonna be muchos better.

Kadasa Mori

P.s. I know. Sarah gets mad a lot, but it makes me feel better to write rants and it seems like a thing Sarah would do often :D

P.s.s. Thanks to... someone who told me I spelled horcrux wrong D: I am a horrible Harry Potter fan. You know who you are and I'm very lazy to figure out who it was so THANK YOUUUUUUUU!

P.s.s. Thanks to EVERYONE for reviewing, favoriting, story-alert-ing my fanfics T.T I love you.

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Hotaru suddenly let out a soft noise of surprise from behind them but neither turned to address it, thinking she was going to try and stop their argument. Jareth opened his mouth to answer with a furious reply but it was cut off when Sarah flinched as something warm and wet hit her cheek. His eyes widened as did hers when her fingers rubbed at the thick maroon sludge.

Turning quickly, they both froze at the sight before them. Hotaru blinked in confusion, slowly looking down at her stomach where a gaping wound was, blood pooling around her feet. With a soft gasp, she fell to her knees. Alan and Jason had been closest, both falling to the ground beside her, each grabbing a hand as she started convulsing.

"MOM!" Kira screamed in horror, dropping the book she'd been reading to the Musketeers and racing for her mother. Jareth and Kara seemed to apparate they got to her side so fast, the strawberry-blond muttering frantically under her breath as her hands flattened against Hotaru's bleeding stomach.

"Kira!" Alan snapped. "Get the kids out of here! Now! Jason, go with her!" Jason was instantly up and pushing Kira away, ushering the two eldest out while Kira snatched up the two youngest, stumbling from the tears clouding her vision.

"What do I do?" Sarah cried in horror.

"Go get help!" Kara said furiously, hands already glowing as she shoved them into the pooling blood. Jareth ripped off his gloves, putting his hands on Kara's forearms. "Anyone who can heal!"