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Chapter 10: By Fae Law.

"And then what happened?"

Alice shrugged lightly, her shoulders hunching together as she leaned forward with her elbows planted on the counter. Her eyes focused in on the coffee mug between her hands, her feet swinging lightly above the ground on the kitchen barstool.

"Ran the Labyrinth, met some citizens of the Underground, including these three." She said the last part while gesturing towards Hoggle, Ludo, and Sir Didymus. "And then, well, I'm back!" The last part was said with a rather unconvincing grin towards the group, and Alice began to fiddle with her coffee before taking a large gulp of it.

"I think you missed a bit of the story," Sir Didymus began.

"Yeah, like the entire middle and ending," Hoggle quipped sharply.

Lightly smacking her friend on the back of the head, Sarah frowned at him. "Hoggle, be nice. She doesn't have to give details if she is not comfortable." Turning away from the grumbling dwarf, Sarah gave the young girl a sad smile. "However, we do need some questions answered."

"Oh?" Alice asked, trying to appear innocent and naïve while taking another huge gulp of coffee. Sarah vaguely thought about how allowing the girl to drink so much of the caffeinated beverage might have been a bad idea, given the slightly jittery nature that seemed to worsen the more she drank, but Sarah also knew it was a bit late to regret this.

Deciding to be blunt, Sarah asked, "Earlier you said you weren't sure if you won or not." Alice dropped her gaze, and Sarah knew that some prodding was going to be needed. "What exactly did you mean by that?"

Biting her lip, Alice fiddled with the hem of her shirt as she seemed to search for the right words to say. But before she could speak, another voice cut in.

"I believe I can better explain things."

Everyone freaked. Hoggle began to choke on his breakfast, Ludo shrieked and ducked down behind the counter, Sir Didymus began to shout about preparing to battle, and Sarah brandished an empty frying pan as if it were a weapon. Alice, however, shocked them all as she shouted, "You again?! What in the actual fuck does it take to get your leather clad ass to glitter poof far the hell away from me?!"

All the others froze and slowly turned their gazes to stare at the usually silent and polite girl who had just sworn like a sailor. She stared angrily at the smirking intruder in leaning against the doorframe of the kitchen, only for the anger to melt away as she processed her words. With a yelp, she slapped her hands over her mouth, eyes wide with shock as she muttered through her fingers something along the lines of, "Not again."

The intruder merely grinned at the girl who sat mortified over her outburst. "It seems that even in the human world you have a sharp tongue that you cannot control."

She dropped her hands from her face into her lap, turning to stare sullenly at her breakfast. "Its only around you that I get this angry."

"Glad to see that I spark a reaction from you."

"What do you want, Jareth?" Sarah demanded, still holding the frying pan. "You have no power over us, especially here."

"Now, you see Sarah, that's where you are wrong." Everyone tensed as he strode forward, looking over the expansive display of food before picking up an apple. "While its true I have no power over you…" He began tossing the apple up and down in the air as he walked around to where Alice stood, catching the apple while draping an arm across her shoulders. "She, however, is another situation, however." Extending his arm across the counter to Sarah, he held out the apple. Or what had once been an apple. "Would you like a peach, my dear?"

Sarah slapped the offending fruit from his hand, which promptly turned back into an apple and bounced harmlessly on the floor. "I don't know what kind of game you are playing, but get the hell away from her. You have no power over me, and you have no power over her, you egotistical—"

"Ah, ah! No need for swearing: besides, Alice here seems more than capable of doing so for the lot of us." At this point, he drops the smile while removing his arm from Alice's shoulders, looking more serious. "We do, however, have a problem on our hands."

"Stop taunting us and explain it then!" Hoggle snapped.

"Watch your tone, Hogwash."

"Its Hoggle, you miserable—"

"Please!" Once again the center of attention, Alice clutched her arms across her chest as she spoke. "Goblin King, please, just explain, because I don't even remember it all."

His gaze softened at this. "The last moments were rather… chaotic." With a sigh, he began. "Alice beat the Labyrinth fair and square, even with the usual level of difficulty set for her run. She made it to the center of the castle. Only… something happened." He glanced at her, looking for a flicker of recognition in her eyes, but found none, so he continued. "Long story short, she beat the Labyrinth, earned her wish of returning to this realm, only to give me her name."

Gasps could be heard around the table, even from Sarah who knew the consequences of Alice's actions. Alice's eyes went wide as she stared at him in shock. "What do you mean I gave it to you? Why would I do that?"

"I do not know. All I know is this: you gave me your name. And by Fae law, for all intents and purposes…" he glanced at her, his two toned eyes surprisingly apologetic. "You belong to me now."