Labyrinth Fan Fiction ❯ Retold ❯ Chapter 4 ( Chapter 4 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Sarah screamed as she dropped with increasing speed, eyes closed she braced herself to hit the ground. It never came. She slowly opened her eyes, only to scream again. Hundreds of skeletal hands where holding onto her. Sarah blushed as she realised there were keeping her up by grasping her arms, legs, and ... more embarassing places. One hand started sliding up along her inner thigh, she yaulped. "Stop!" the hands al let go at once, Sarah plummeting to the bottom once more yelled out. " Please, please don't let me fall." She didn't know who she was praying to but the hands are who answered, grabbing on once again. She felt them every where. Softly tracing her collar bone, flittering over her chest. Suddenly one popped out right in front of her face, making her jump. pantomiming the directions up and down it seemed to be asking her a question.

" You want to know if I wish to go up or down?" Sarah guessed.

The hand made back and forth motions reminiscent of shaking ones head yes. Sarah tried to concentrate and make a logical decision but the hands on her leg started creeping up higher and higher until out of desperation she just told them to send her down. She was facing that direction anyway and it's easier then getting pulled up. The hands lowered her slowly untill about 5 feet then droped her abruptly. She landed painfully in a heap on the dusty floor. Standing up she felt her way through the dark. The curved walls offered no corners and more importantly, no door. Fighting back the tears she sat down pulling her knees to her chest and resting her forehead on them. She jerked up when she heard what sounded like tiny bells. The room was flooded with the wild smell of wind and earth and Sarah knew He had come. A soft glow began in the palm of his hand and radianted out illuminating his face, It became a crystal which levitated into the air and left there, casting his shadow over her ad he approached.

" So my dear Sarah, what a terrible mess you've made of things." Jareth's words oozed with false sympathy. "How ever will you save your precious brother while trapped here, doomed to fade away forgotted in an oubliette. Of course you don't have to be forgotten. I could drop by now and then to keep you company. Always here waiting for me to come.. alleviate the boredom. What delightful games we could play to while away the hours." As he spoke Jareth took Sarah's arm . Pulling her up he twisted it behind her back. Pushing into her, feeling himself stiffen at her face, twisted in such perfect pain too afraid to make a sound, he leaned in to lick at the soft skin at the base of her neck. Sarah's world shattered. Agony, sharp and intense shot up through her arm, yet at the same time his mouth licking and biting at her collar bone brought something altogether different. As his mouth moved lower trailing small open mouthed kisses towards her breast he pulled the arm harder and higher to the middle of her back. The thin line between pain and pleasure blurred in her mind melting into a slow honey thick warmth that settled at the pit of her stomach and radiated downwards. Her legs lost the battle and gave way forcing her weight onto the trapped arm.

"Nooo..." She whimpered. Sarah began struggling as the shame of what she was allowing to happen settled in. The king pulled his head back to look into her eyes. They were pleading with him to stop, and begging him to continue.

"Ask me nicely," He purred into her ear. " and I'll consider it." He knew she would beg and plead broken as she is at this moment, but at the intense longing she was trying so hard to conceal, he wasn't sure if stopping is what she had in mind.

"Puh.. puh ..please yyyour maj.."

"My name, I want to hear my name when you beg me" The broken words were like a rich wine, fear clung to her, the scent lingering in the air around them.

"I ...I don't k..know your name" She hated how weak she sounded.. stammering like a frightened child. Jareth jerked on the twisted arm savagely, a flash of anger in his eyes when she made her confession. " Jareth! From now on when you ask or beg anything of me you will call me Jareth." He ground out, his voice deepening with anger, among other things. Sarah forced her voice steady and began again.

"Please Jareth let me go."

"Never. But I will release you for now." Sarah was confused at his words but her mind was spread too thin, too many emotions warring inside of her for enough attention to be spared analizing his statement. "I'll be back to visit my dear. Don't miss me too much" Then as suddenly as he appeared he was gone, leaving her alone in the dark. Sarah collapsed, her whole body wracked with sobs, trying to convince herself that the bitter tears were about what had been done, and nothing to do with what hadn't.

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Jareth was furious. He had almost lost control. The catch in her voice as she pleaded with him, the whimpers of pain, the look in her eyes when they darkened with lust, he had almost lost sight of the game and submited to his own needs. He would let the Summerlands turn to waste before he allowed her that power over him. Cursing under his breath he pulled a crystal out of the air and saw Hoggle wandering aimlessly through the maze searching for the girl. With a flick of his wrist the malformed dwarf materialized before the king prostrating himself Jareth's feet.

"I have a task for you Hoggle." The dwarf looked up even more frightened, when Jareth used his real name things were never pleasant. "Fetch the girl and lead her back to the beginning. I want to see her face when she realizes she has to start all over again. Oubliette, go to her. One way or another she will not win" With an angry growl he faded leaving Hoggle alone.

"Well child you sure got his attention now. Having His Majesty's interest is never a good thing."

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Hoggle stepped out of the shadows holding passing a torch over the room untill his eyes dropped to the broken down girl huddled in the filth. He noticed her arm hanging uselessly to her side, shoulder blade jutting out in an odd angle. taking a strangely shaped flask out from inside his vest, he offered it up to her mouth.

"Take a sip, dun take much to fix yer arm."

"What is it?" Sarah was cautious, she remembered the odd little man from the gate but she couldn'tthink of why he would be here helping her. Better not to trust him.. "Nothing is as it seems" or so they keep telling me.

"Magic," Hoggle rolled his eyes at her. " What in the bloody hell did you think? I use it on me pixie bites."

"If this kills me I hope it goes about it quick." Sarah took a swift gulp. It tastes like.. spring and warm summer rain. A tranquil feeling spread through her whole body, her spirits lifted. Standing up she realized her arm was completely healed. She through her arms around the dwarf in a grateful hug. "Oh thank you, thank you."

Hoggle was embarrassed. His face went red and he couldn't think straight. The only time ANYONE ever touched him was to kick up out of the way or push him down. Even the king didn't lay a hand on him, preferring to poke him with that god aweful riding crop instead. In an atempt to hide his reasction he turned his face down searching the floor for.."Ah hah!"

He grabbed an old fallen door and pulled itup propping it against the wall. " Come on girl lets go. I''l get you out of the damned labyrinth."

"Out? But I need to get in... I have to get to the center to save Toby! I can't give up .. this is all my fault. I can't let that baby pay the price for my moment of weakness."

"Do you have any idea what the king would do to me if I helped you? Every path , every riddle, every living creature in this entire land has one sole purpouse.. and that to STOP you! King Jareth is not a nice or forgiving man. Just talking to you like this could get me dead.. or worse." Snorted at her confused look. "Trust me little one there are plenty things in this world that can make you wish you were dead." He took another look at the girl, so innocent, yet you could see the haunted look where Jareth's mark had alread been made on her soul. An overwhelming pity took hold of him, pity for the one being in any world that ever showed him a kindness his whole pathetic life. ' I'll take ya as far as I can.. and that ain't far you hear me?" Sarah practically beamed at him, she jsut wished there was some small concession she could give him for his danger. Wringing her hands infront of her a flicker of torch light caught on the cheap quarter machine bracelet she was wearing.. taking it off she knelt down next to the dwarf and fastened it around his wrist. "For your trouble kind sir."

"Hmmph whats it made of?"

Sarah blushed, "It's just plastic.. I know its not much.."

"Plastic." Hoggle stared at the bits of color in awe. Not only had this girl been kind but its the first bit of anything he didn't have to cheat or steal out of any one, not only that but the fabled plastic from the mortal realm, diamonds fell from the sky and rubies from the drops of dew fresh off a red rose.. but plastic? That was special.

He reached over and pulled open the makeshift door revealing a tunnel. Sarah stood mouth gaped at the sight. Quicky recovering they started on their merry way.

The tunnel was dark and musty. Chattering noises echoes through out the walls. Sarah could swear if she looked out of the corner of her eye glowing orbs peered from the think shadows.

Beware! The path you take will be your death! Turn back!

Hoggle noticed her stumble as a loud foreboding voice boomed in her head. "Don't pay no heed. False alarms .. always get them when your going the right way." Just then a faint tinkling sound came from behind them.. growng louder by the minute. Turning they saw a small crystal ball bouce past them and into the waiting darkness ahead. They both knew who was waiting on the path ahead. Sarah never prayed to be some where else so hard in her life

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