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Makes No Sense At All (Labyrinth) - Ch 16
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Makes No Sense At All (Labyrinth) - Ch 16 Chapter 16 - I'm so strung out on the static in my veins Sarah woke up on a soft surface, to dim flickering lights. She slowly turned her head to the side as her vision cleared. All she could see were shades of red and black. Definitely not her room, but also not where she collapsed in the Labyrinth. As her brow furrowed in thought and concentration, the slightly swimming images of the room made her close her eyes. She sighed in relief at the respite. She must've dozed off as when she became aware again, she heard low male voices. "Have patience Jareth, she will be ok." "But she has been out for hours. Maybe I didn't get to her before too much blood was taken." She could hear the frustration in his voice. "No, her heartbeat is strong, Brother. Her body is just repairing. Between the loss of blood and the expense of energy with the magic, she has overexerted herself. Her body isn't used to magic and releasing it in such a way, while not truly harmful, has its price. Have<b> faith.</font></b>" The voice she now recognized as Cerin, replied. She felt the bed dip with weight; but before she could reply, she was swept under into the inky black once again. ----- She was in an almost pitch dark area with flashes of lightening in the sky. It was extremely disconcerting going from nothing to brightness and back again. Suddenly she heard laughing coming from everywhere and nowhere. Surrounding her, feeling constrained even though she wasn't bound physically. "Little mouse, you may have escaped my grasp once, but it will not happen again," she recognized the voice. She gasped as she spun around frantically, trying to locate the source. She felt the wind that had stirred with the voice, lifting her hair around her face. She was tense, waiting for his arms to wrap around her, to trap her. The electric current in the air was so thick, she could imagine reaching out and touching it. She started to walk quickly, the flashes of light her guide. "Where do you think you are going?" The tone had turned irritated. "You have become a very big problem. If you would've only cooperated you could've had everything." She rolled her eyes and scoffed. "Yeah, everything but Jareth," she blurted without thought. Hmm, where did that come from? Sure he wasn't the villain she had painted him to be half her lifetime ago, but it's not like she wanted to be with him. Right? "HE IS NOTHING!" The voice roared. "HE STOLE MY THRONE. HE IS THE ENEMY, GIRL!" "Whatever helps you sleep at night," she muttered, as she continued walking. "YOU KNOW NOTHING OF HIM! HE WILL DESTROY YOU ONCE HE OWNS YOU BODY AND SOUL! At least I am am honest about my intentions from the beginning." The voice had continued screaming, reverberating off of invisible walls, but the last sentence had been whispered in her ear. She spun around, ready to fight. But she was alone, except for the evil laughter echoing once again. This was absolutely ridiculous. She didn't know what made her so courageous, but she impulsively baited him. "You are a coward! Hiding! Can't even face me!" The lightening bolts started striking closer to her, causing her to jump back. Then the darkness formed into the shadowed vampire, radiating menace. He stalked toward her and grabbed her by the throat, cutting off her airway. "I am no such thing," he hissed,"Need I remind you of our last encounter?" Then he flung her to the ground, or what she assumed was the ground, made of more blackness. "So eager to be caught by the predator hunting you?" he continued as she coughed, then glared at him. "Oh you mean where I blasted your pansy ass?" She was back on her feet, hands on her hips. She felt reckless, the lightening goading her on. He growled and lunged for her. Only to be flung back by a flash in the atmosphere. Sarah gasped, somehow she knew she had done that. She subconsciously has reached for the lightening and had channeled it to strike. She backed away, not knowing if she had hurt him. The man shaped shadows were still for a moment, then they moved and she could tell he was looking at her. He was in front of her between one breath and the next, once again lifting her by her throat. The shadows started to extend to wrap around her, until she would be nothing but a part of the endless nothingness. "You have far outlived your usefulness. It is time for me to dispose of you. I will take your new powers to increase mine and you will cease to exist." This time she had no protection. Since she didn't know how she had managed to manipulate magic, she couldn't even begin to know how to focus it to defend herself. She weakly tried prying at his hands. She could feel her energy dwindling. "Sarah!" she heard from a distance. "Precious, wake up!" "Jareth?" she thought, she had no breath to reply verbally. "Love, you are in a very powerful dream made real. You must wake up!" Then she felt a jolt and she came awake, shooting up; gasping for the oxygen she had been deprived. ----- Jareth's arms encircled her when she bolted to a sitting position. The tears came after her lungs had been filled and expelled a few times. "Shh Sweetling, you are safe." He had found her in the false alarms tunnel; unconscious, bleeding, but breathing. He had transported her to his room in the Castle Beyond the Goblin City and had been keeping vigil over her. Cerin assured him she was not irrevocably harmed, but still he watched for any sign of distress. After hours of her stillness, she started to whimper in her sleep. Then to thrash. He had tried to slip into the dream, but the same signature as the previous spell, was sealing it against him. He could watch from a distance, but not interfere - at first. He gave a grim smile at the memory. No one could out magic him for more than a short time, when at all. He hadn't been able to come to her aid completely, yet again. However he was able to break through to wake her from the dangerous sleep she had been snared in. One where if she would've died in it, she would also pass to the beyond physically. Once she quieted, he realized how close he had come to losing her. His arms tightened around her and he kissed the softness of her hair. ----- When Sarah has recovered enough from the dream and had settled against his chest, she instinctively nuzzled between the open V of his shirt to the slightly cold skin beneath. She laid her ear there and listened to the reassuring beat of his immortal heart. But soon that wasn't enough and she started to kiss the exposed area, tentatively at first. Jareth sucked in a sharp breath of surprise and pleasure. He had dreamt of this for so long. Always unfulfilled. His hands started to wander across her back, finding the bottom of her shirt and slipping underneath. He kept them by her waist to see how she would react to his movements. She had stilled, her head not moving from against his skin, so he couldn't see her face. She had stopped her gentle kisses, but he took it as a good sign that she hadn't pulled away. He slid one of his gloved hands out from under her shirt and tilted her chin up to look at him. She averted her eyes. "Precious? What is wrong?" his other limb was still slowly stroking her back. "I.." her brow furrowed in frustration."I'm sorry Jareth. It's been a long time and I never was much good at closeness. I shouldn't have started something I can't finish." She looked down as her shoulders sagged in sadness. ------ Copyright 2017 A/N - Yes I am evil. I purposely ended it there. Suffer my pretties.  *Lyric is from "Lightening in the Sky" - Devour the Day I sent an Angel to watch over you last night, it returned in a hurry. I asked why, it said "Angels can't watch porn." Thanks for fucking traumatizing my fucking Angel! Don't bother trying to figure me out. Not even the little voices in my head understand me. It's pointless! |
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