Title: Between Dreams and Reality

Author: Earth_Goddess

Email: earthgoddess@boxfrog.com

Chapters: 1

Status: not complete

Disclaimer: I don't own anyone in this story except for the new characters I've added.

Chapter 1: Depression

Sarah stared into her mirror a ghost of her former self stared back at her. Pale brown eyes, her dark brown hair now pail in the moonlight. Trails of tears ran down her pale skin, instead of looking eighteen she looked as if she had aged to be forty, her eyes shown the hardships and pain, shadowed with the long nights of crying.

It had been three years since she had traveled thought the labyrinth. The night that she returned from her victory, and she had invited every one from the labyrinth, yet he had not appeared, not from her recognition anyways. She had prayed everyday for three years that he would appear and let her apologize for her mistake, and cried every night, as he did not.

But he had been with her each night in her dreams and had relived the ballroom scene with her only she did not try to escape him. Each night was the same she would be in his arms dancing, he would sing to her and as the song ended she would awaken from her peaceful slumber to the cruel world of reality.

Upon returning from the labyrinth she no longer saw a reason to live a life that he wasn't in. Toby, her reason for turning away from her dreams, had grown and was far to smart for his age and always knew the best ways to get her in trouble. She wondered why she hadn't taken Jareth's offer and left Toby to become a goblin. Sarah sighed knowing that she couldn't have done it. No matter how much he bugged her, she couldn't have let anything happen to him.

But yet something had happened, a week after the party she had tried to call to her friends and yet they had not appeared. She had tried calling to everyone in the underground even the fieries yet none appeared and she knew that Jareth was behind it and was sure that that proved that he hated her.

"hoggle, Ludo, Sir Didymus." Nothing, tears welled up in her eyes for the second time that night. "Hoggle, I need you." Sarah cried slamming her fists into the mirror.

'Such a pity'

Sarah looked up in time to watch as an owl flew from her open window, leaving a feather behind. "Jareth." Her voice just above a whispher as she walked over picking up the feather, she sighed a ghost of a smile gracing her lips before quickly vanishing.

She quietly walked over to her bed placing the feather on her nightstand, before cuddling up into the soft quilt, and drifting off to sleep.