Author's Note: The following are 100 word drabbles for the Bowie Drabbles Challenge on the yahoo group Jareth/ David Bowie Fan Girl Harem. The challenge is based on the song title by Bowie that is posted every Monday, and a drabble relating the song to the Labyrinth is required. So here's mine. Hope it's enjoyable even if it's short.
Summary: Sarah has left Jareth after several years together in the Underground. Now she has gone, and Jareth has left his immortal world for the mortal one to wonder aimlessly, in search of answers. (Some drabbles may not be from Jareth's point of view, but most probably will be.
Disclaimer: Don't own it. Duh.
~Golden Years~
"I can't stay."
"Why?"
"Something is missing. I wanted to do more with my life than I can do here. It's better this way."
But it wasn't. His castle grew dark. Great thorns began to grow outside it's gates, and slowly suffocate it's pathways. When they reached the castle, he tested their beastly thorns with his fingers, feeling nothing as the blood pooled in his palm.
When the last inhabitant had fled the city's walls, he too left. Their golden years together had passed. He would go to her mortal world. He would discover what it offered that his did not.