Hey! So i suddenly created this story at night, so sorry if there's problems in it. It's quiet hard to write a story when your mom is yelling at you to go to bed.

Enjoy :) ~Penguin

Oh, and I don't Labyrinth nor any of the characters from the movie.

Chapter One: Time had Past

"Huh… Sarah"

"Hmh?" She answered back, looking up from the paper she was working on and into the face of her secretary, Delores.

"What are you doing?" She asked, her aged face scrunched up in curiosity as she tried to look at her project upside down.

"I'm working on a design for a hay maze, you like it?" Sarah asked, flipping the paper around to show Delores the complex labyrinth she was sketching.

"It looks… pretty complex." Delores answered, biting her lip and trying to complete the maze with her finger, "Do you honestly think that any child could complete this coarse?"

"Of course not." Sarah laughed, flipping the hay maze back to face her, "This is just for fun. I'm not seriously going to build this."

"Thank god, imagine how many rescue teams would have to go in and out to save the children that would get lost. " Delores laughed back but stopped as soon as something popped into her head.

Probably something that she forgot she had to tell me, Sarah thought.

And sure enough, it was, "That reminds me, I was suppose to tell you that the meeting has been moved to 3:15."

"That's in ten minutes…" Sarah stated turning her clock to look at the red glowing numbers that said 3:05.

"Yes… er… well, I got the message an hour ago, but I forgot to tell you…" Delores muttered, looking down at her hands as they rubbed together nervously.

"That's alright Delores, everything is already ready anyway. Thanks for telling me." Sarah told the secretary with a kind smile.

Delores smiled back and with a little wish of luck, retreated out the door of Sarah's office.

Sarah looked back at her hay maze, and with a large sigh, put the paper back into the folder that was labeled Labyrinths. Swinging her chair around, Sarah looked out into the city that surrounded her office and thought deeply about the time that had past since her time in the maze she had once went through that had changed her life forever.

Sarah was now twenty-eight and had a big time job as an architect, which she excelled at. She assumed that it was because of the Labyrinth that she had once solved that caused her to be so into buildings plus with her parent's disagreement with acting and her writing skills not being the best, architecture was the best next thing. And it would be a lie if Sarah said she hated it.

Toby was doing pretty good too. Sarah thought with a smile as she turned her head to look at the smiling picture of Toby in his baseball uniform. He was sixteen now, doing much better in school then Sarah ever did and shared Sarah's love for books. But he had a bad case of bullying and was ten times shyer then Sarah ever had been. But I suppose that doesn't matter since he has Tara, Sarah thought with a small smile as she looked at the smiling face of Tara who had her arm on his shoulder. Tara was Toby's best friend; Sarah had little to worry about Toby's well being if Tara was around for she always watched his back.

Though, things could be better… Sarah thought with a lazy yawn.

She could be married. But Sarah couldn't really complain, after all, it was her fault, as Tara says, and Tara was almost always right. Sarah was the one who always ended up dumping the perfectly great guys who she dated, but what could she do? When the spark's gone, it's gone. So why keep trying, right? Too bad they don't think the same way, Sarah thought with a sigh as she heard her phone go off and looked to see that her newly ex-boyfriend, Jeff, was calling her for the tenth time since they broke up yesterday. She hated this part so much; there is nothing you could do to change I just didn't feel it anymore, so please quit calling me so I don't feel like the bad guy anymore. Sarah thought, squeezing her eyes shut and guilt weighing her heart down.

She went to grab her phone but as she did, her hand knocked her coffee cup off the table. Making a quick dive for it, the world strangely seemed slow down as Sarah reached for it. But as she grabbed, everything suddenly seemed snap back to normal rate.

Damn, why does that keep happening? Sarah wondered, placing her hand on her forehead. Ever since Sarah had gotten back from the Labyrinth things like this happened to her at any giving moment. It was strange, it was like the entire world had slowed down but Sarah stayed the same. But then before Sarah could do anything about it, time sudden started working again, just like what happened now.
Whatever, I don't have time to wonder about this. Sarah thought shortly throwing the coffee cup away and getting up from the floor. Looking at the red glowing numbers Sarah saw that it was 3:09 and with a sigh, decided that it was time to go.

Straighten out her desk a little; she then looked up at the mirror that hung on the wall to her left.

Sarah had blossomed from when she was fifteen; still a beauty, her shiny raven black hair was up in an elegant business like bun. She wore a faded mint green blouse and black business suit pants with black boot like high heels. Her eyes, a bright emerald green, shone out at her and they were highlighted from the emerald studded earrings. Smiling at her reflection, Sarah looked down at the charm bracelet and a sudden pain in her chest, equivalent to homesickness, appeared.

On her eighteenth birthday, her best friends from the Labyrinth, Sir Didymus, Ludo, and Hoggle, had given her this. A sad smile appeared on Sarah's lips as she flipped through the charms, each one representing a memory she and friends had gone through.

But that was all in the past. She hadn't seen them for ten years.

Fighting the sadness that shook her heart, Sarah took her business jacket and swung it on. As her eyes traveled to gaze at herself in the mirror, they flashed upon something that made her heart leap up in hope. Whipping her head to look back at the windows, her heart plummeted back down when she realized that it wasn't there. The tawny barn owl wasn't there.

Turning to face herself in the mirror to fix herself up a bit, Sarah's mind traveled back to the conversation she had with the owl in his true form. The Goblin King.

He was the one who told her that she couldn't go back to the Labyrinth any more. He wouldn't explain why, but he told her she just wasn't allowed back. Sarah, after much arguing with him, finally got him to promise that once she was able to come back, that she could. But so far, not a single word from him.

Tugging her jacket down, Sarah turned to face the window and whispered, "I'm still keeping your word, Goblin King. Please tell me that you're keeping it to."

And with that, Sarah left her office, trying to bring her mind out of the Labyrinth and back onto Earth.