AN: Hello readers! This is my first fan fiction ever. I'm open to suggestions and constructive criticism so please review. I'll give you your choice of flavor Sunday. Well, probably not but please review anyways. Thanks.

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Sarah groggily dragged herself to the bathroom for a hot shower. She pulled a towel out of the cabinet and set it on the sink. She slowly got undressed and turned the water on as hot as she could stand it. She just stood there in the shower, water beating down on her back, for a while. Sarah thought about her adventure. How she had saved Toby but torn her heart into millions of pieces. She heard a noise and didn't know what it was until she slumped down to the floor of the tub. The sound was her own sobs.

Sarah sat there in the floor of the bathtub until the water got freezing and a while after that. She sat there crying. When she had run out of tears, she just sat there, silently thinking. Finally she stood up and turned off the freezing water. She stepped out of the tub dripping water all over the floor. She pulled the towel off of the sink and dried off.

Sarah looked over at the mirror above the sink and almost had a heart attack. The reflection that she saw, her reflection, was pale, had dark circles under her eyes, and had red, puffy eyes. She looked terrible. Sarah didn't want her dad and stepmother to worry so she decided to wait to go downstairs until she had calmed down a bit.

Sarah went into her room and laid down on her bed. She laid there for a few minutes and decided to check on Toby. She wanted to make sure that he was still there and that Jareth hadn't tried to take him again even though she hadn't wished him away. Sarah slowly tiptoed to Toby's crib and saw him lying there fast asleep. She bent down and kissed him on the forehead causing him to wake up. When he opened his eyes and saw her, he raise his arms like he wanted to be picked up.

Sarah gently lifted him out of his crib. He giggled as she tickled him. Sarah brought him down- stairs to feed him breakfast after she had checked in the mirror to see that she still didn't look like she had just gotten done crying her eyes out. Her stepmother looked at her funnily an smiled when she walked into the kitchen.

"How was your date last night?" Sarah asked sticking Toby's bottle into his mouth. She watched as he greedily gulped the whole thing down within minutes.

"We didn't go anywhere last night. You were sick," Katherine said giving Sarah an odd look.

Sarah looked up and was about to say that they had because she had watched Toby. The confused look on her father's face made her change her mind. "Oh, yeah. I'm sorry. I got a little mixed up. I'm still half asleep," she said wondering what was going on. She smiled at her dad and looked back down at Toby. He had finished his breakfast and looked like he wanted more.

"Why don't you let me take him," Katherine said taking Toby from her, "and you get ready for school." Sarah nodded and went back upstairs to get ready for school.

Sarah felt weird as she walked into her room. She wondered what it was. More than anything she wondered why Katherine had said she had been sick the day before. She didn't remember being sick. In fact, she remembered 'watching' Toby, meeting Jareth, solving the Labyrinth, and denying her heart what it wanted so badly. Sarah stopped thinking when she remembered the end of her adventure. She didn't need to break down again.

Sarah pulled some clothes out of her dresser and put them on. She pulled her damp hair back into a ponytail. She went into the bathroom to brush her teeth. Sarah looked at her watch and almost screamed. She had twenty minutes to get to school and it was a twenty minute drive away. She ran down the stairs and into the living room. She flung the door to coat closet open, grabbed her shoes and jacket, and ran out the door, barely catching her father.

She waved at her father and he stopped the car half way down the driveway. He rolled the window down and looked at her. "Can you give me a ride to school. I'll be really late if I walk." He nodded and she got in and closed the door. She pulled her shoes on and buckled up.

Sarah looked over at her dad and said, "Thanks for taking me to school. I'm sorry you had to,"

"It's fine," he said not even looking over at her.

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine."

"You sure? You look distracted."

"I'm sure."

"Okay." Sarah turned the radio on and leaned back in her seat. She started singing along with the lyrics, which was weird because she was sure she had never heard the song before. Sarah wondered what was going on with her dad but didn't press it.

Fifteen minutes later they arrived at her school. Sarah got out and thanked her father again. She ran inside barely getting in class before the bell rang.

"I'm home," Sarah called out as she opened the front door. She had walked home from school and had stopped by the grocery like Katherine had asked. She was loosing her grip on the bag when she heard Toby crying upstairs. Immediately she knew something was wrong. She dropped the bag and ran upstairs calling for Katherine and her father.

Sarah ran into her brother's open door. She almost tripped over the teddy bear, Lancelot. She walked over to Toby's crib and picked him up. She cradled him in her arms trying to calm him down. "Shhhhhh." Sarah suddenly realized that Katherine and her father hadn't come upstairs yet. She had a bad feeling that this wasn't good at all.

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AN: Did you like? Was good, bad, or otherwise? Will you read the next chapter when I write it which should be soon. I'm not a mean author who makes you wait forever for new chapters unless I have a valid reason. Smiles:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)