Labyrinth: The Entanglement Of Fates

Chapter 10: Riddles

Jareth Everild's POV

I caught Roselea before she could hit the floor and carried her to her room. Jareth Eden following close behind me.We reached Roselea's room. Jareth opening the door, I carried Roselea in and placed her down on the bed.

"Roselea? Roselea! Please wake up!" The other me was freaking out, shaking Roselea lightly, yet forcefully on the bed.

I walked around the bed and placed my hand on his shoulder, pulling him back into a seat near the bed.

"It's ok Jareth. She'll be fine. I've only known her a day and even I can tell she's a strong one. We'll help all we can, we just need to figure out what has happened."He nodded slowly, his eyes never leaving Roselea. I picked the notes up that I had placed down on the bedside table, opening them up. A series of liked up dots were written on the paper. The paper also had a strange smell to it.I lifted the paper up to my nose to smell it better.

"No, surely not."The other Jareth looked up at me, confusion written all over his face.I would probably regret this later, and it wasn't really something I often did, but I needed to know if I was right.I touched the paper to the tip of my tongue.A foul taste entered my mouth and I spat it out of the window next to me.I looked up to Jareth and saw more confusion on his face.

"Faeavane."

He looked towards his daughter, but before he could start freaking out again, I stopped him.

"Not much, she should wake soon. She just needs to get it out of her system."He nodded and looked back to his daughter. I sat in the seat on the opposite side of the bed, staring at the notes in my hand. They were identical, right down to the calligraphy 'V' in the bottom right corner. The same 'V' that was drawn on the note that was attached to the mirror that brought me and Sarah to this world.

Sarah...

I had to find her. I couldn't help but blame myself. If I had been there, I might have been able to stop her from being taken. I soon pushed those thoughts aside. If I kept thinking about how this was all my fault, I would never find her. I would never figure out the notes. The notes that, somehow, some way, would lead me back to her. They would help me find and save my love and her look alike from this world.

"I'm sorry." I looked up to see Jareth Eden staring back at me. "About your Sarah. I'm sorry she was taken."I sighed and sat straighter in my seat. I had no desire to lounge across them like normal, it just seemed...

Wrong.

"What about you? You're Sarah?"He cocked his head slightly and looked back to Roselea."What do you mean?" He said flatly. He knew exactly what I meant."Come on Jareth. You and I are so alike that it scares me. Right down to the part where we both tried to create a daughter of magic, only difference being you succeeded. My Sarah is the love of my life. She is my eternity. And it is tearing me apart, her being... Taken. So you are not telling me, that you don't care if your Sarah is missing-"

"Of course I care!" He snapped, cutting me off from my sentence.He took a deep breath and answered again. "I do care she is missing yes, I'm just worried about my daughter now." He said, in a calmer and more even, yet blank tone.I nodded my agreement.

"I know you are. She will be weak when she wakes, but she will wake. Of that I am certain."He nodded and looked down, placing his head in his hands. It was strange seeing myself, in a way, do that. Sure I had seen Gareth do that, many times. But this was different. He was actually me.

"You love her too. Don't you." I stated. It was more of a fact than a question."It doesn't matter."I stood and walked over to him.

"Of course it matters. It matters a lot. More than you would think. Love is thee most powerful kind of magic there is. And it may just be the key to finding the Sarah's. If you are going to keep lying about such things as this, then you are of no use to me." I barked the ending at him.