DISCLAIMER: I do not own Jareth (wish I did sometimes), Sarah, or any of the characters from Labyrinth. They belong to Jim Henson and those responsible for the making of the wonderful masterpiece that is Labyrinth. I also do not own Jack, Sally and the characters from Nightmare before Christmas. They belong to Tim Burton and those responsible for that classic film as well. This was written for fun and I make no profit from it.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: This story is a crossover, but mainly follows Sarah and Jareth and while it was meant to be a stand alone short story, as with most of my writing it has taken on a life of its on. This is the first of a series and the only part of the series that I intend to use characters other than those from the Labyrinth or of my own creation. I was writing this as a wedding gift for a friend (who graciously gave her consent to let me share this with the world) and as I was close to finishing it the world lost a great man. With the loss of my hero David Bowie, this story became more than a wedding gift, it turned into a tribute and writing it has been wonderful therapy for me. I apologize if Jareth and Sarah seem a little out of character. I unintentionally wrote myself in as Sarah and Jareth took a life of his own. I hope you all enjoy it and I'll post the rest of the chapters as I get them edited.

Chapter 1

It was the day before Halloween and Sarah Williams was anything but excited. Ever since her adventure in the Underground three years ago, Sarah's life was filled with more magic and mischief than she could handle at times; and she knew it always got worse the closer they got to Halloween. She learned quickly the first year after her time in the Labyrinth, that at Halloween, or Samhain as it was originally called and still called by the citizens of the Underground, the veil between worlds was at its thinnest and crossing between them was extremely easy.

Sarah used to love the holiday. Getting to dress up in costumes always made her happy. After beating the Goblin King's Labyrinth, she found most of her favorite things seemed childish and in her mind her quest to save Toby had helped her grow up. She had packed away most of her toys or given then to Toby. Sarah no longer spent her time in the park playacting, instead she had become a loving big sister that spoiled her baby brother with games of hide and seek or tag.

Toby, now almost 5, somehow managed to remember bits and pieces of his time in the Underground, but then considering whom his best friends were it was hard for him to forget it. A couple months after rescuing her baby brother from the castle beyond the Goblin City, Sarah realized that several of its citizens had accompanied them aboveground. She occasionally had visits from her friends Hoggle, Ludo, Sir Didymus and his loyal steed Ambrosius, but more and more often she heard noises in Toby's room and then he would giggle and babble. At first Sarah would open the door to find Toby dancing around in his crib and no one else in the room. Finally one night, she pulled the door partially closed and waited. When Toby started giggling, she opened the door slowly and was shocked by what she saw. There was her little brother, dancing around with five goblins.

Her first instinct was to get rid of them. Sarah didn't trust goblin, after all they did work for Jareth and she feared they might try to take Toby back to the Underground with them. She called Hoggle, who assured her that both she and Toby were safe. According to him, when Sarah defeated the Goblin King, she made it so he couldn't do anything to her or Toby. He also informed her that as Champion of the Labyrinth, she had some power over the goblins. Deciding to test this, Sarah waited for her parents to leave one evening and then stood in Toby's room and tried summoning the Goblins. "Alright you little miscreants, I know you're there. I command you to come out now goblins."

Once they realized they'd been caught, the goblins stopped hiding from Sarah. They told her all they wanted was to play with Toby, because they had had so much fun with him at the castle. The five promised to behave and listen to Sarah if they could continue to visit their friend. She didn't see the harm in it after all her friends still came to see her, so why shouldn't Toby get to see his friends too.

As time went by, the five goblins, whom came to be known as Patch, Grunt, Flower, Dusty, and Cam, started calling Sarah "Lady" and spent almost as much time with her as they did with Toby. They promised to keep their visits a secret from the Goblin King, or as they called him "Kingy". According to them the worst he would do if he found out was kick them or bog them, which oddly none of them seemed too bothered by the idea. After about the first year, the goblins became an almost permanent part of the Williams household, even if Sarah and Toby were the only ones that knew it.

Seeing how well they tended to listen to Sarah, Hoggle had joked that maybe Sarah should "return to the Underground and dethrone that rat who calls himself Jareth." Sarah simply laughed with the others, but she had no desire to dethrone Jareth. Over time her opinion of the Goblin King had changed. She realized what he told her in the castle was true; he had done everything she expected of him. Part of her wondered if his last words to her had been a confession or a last desperate attempt to win. According to the goblins, since his defeat, Jareth wasn't the same.

"Kingy no sing no more." The small goblin in a floral dress, named Flower, had told her with a sigh. It was obvious to Sarah from the way the only female member of the goblin five, as Sarah started calling them, had a tiny crush on the glittery King.

"Sometimes he turn into birdy and fly away for days." Patch, who as his name suggested wore an eyepatch, added.

"One day Kingy look so sad we offer to be kickeded." Cam, who earned his name due to his talent for camouflage, said shyly. "But he just sigh and leave room."

Asking her friends about Jareth wasn't very informative. Hoggle always got upset. "Why do you wanna know about that rat? Remember all he put you through."

"King sad," was Ludo's usual reply.

One day before leaving, Sir Didymus lingered behind the others to talk to Sarah. "My Lady, his Majesty visited me at the bridge the other day. All he asked was if you were safe and happy." Sarah had hugged him and thanked him for letting her know before sending him home.

While Sarah often found herself thinking of the Goblin King, she could never bring herself to call for him. She would just push the thoughts from her head and go about her day, but now, three years later and with Halloween only a day away, she found he was on her mind all day. She had been cleaning the kitchen after feeding dinner to Toby and his goblin friends, when Dusty, who no matter how often Sarah made him wash was always dirty, tugged on her pant leg. "Pretty song, Lady. Sometimes we hear Kingy hum it too."

Sarah was confused by his comment, and then it dawned on her that she was humming the song Jareth sang to her in the ballroom. She quickly turned to hide her face which was quickly turning red. "He does?" the words came out before she could stop them.

"Yea, he really sad when he hum though." Flower answered.

"I know!" Patch exclaimed. "Maybe if Lady sing it to Kingy he no be sad no more!"

"Yea!" agreed Dusty. Grunt, who was called that because it was the only sound he ever made, seemed to agree as well, though it was often hard to know what his grunts meant.

"Lady have pretty voice." Cam whispered as he hugged her leg.

"I don't know if that's a good idea guys. I haven't seen him in so long. He probably doesn't want to see me anyway." Sarah said with a sigh. "So Tobes," she quickly changed the subject, "we need to get your costume ready for tomorrow, unless you decided to just stay home instead."

"No way!" he protested. Sarah hated being out on Halloween, but with Toby demanding to go trick or treating she felt safer going with him just in case something happened.

"Well your mom bought you a pumpkin costume. I think you're going to be an adorable little orange ball." Sarah teased. Irene always bought horrible costumes for Toby. Sarah learned long ago to be prepared to improvise.

"No!" Toby shook his head. "I not a baby!"

"So what would you like to be this year?"

"Marty!"

Laughing, Sarah shook her head. Toby had watched Back to the Future a dozen times, and insisted Sarah take him to see the second one in theatres the day it came out, along with two other times since then. "I had a feeling you did." Sarah stepped out of the room and returned with a bag. "Good thing I got this at the store then." She pulled out a jacket almost identical to the one Michael J. Fox wore in the movie. She was almost positive Toby would want to be Marty for Halloween, but if he didn't she had planned on giving him the jacket for Christmas instead.

"Wow!" Toby jumped out of his chair and ran over to hug his sister. "Thanks Sarah!"

"You're welcome Tobes, but not a word to your mom about this. If she asks you went as a pumpkin." She told him.

"Okay." He smiled.

"Come on, let's go find the rest of your costume." Sarah led her brother and the goblins upstairs to fix his Marty McFly costume.