1You Will Return...
Sarah wakes from her most recent dream with tears falling from her eyes.
"Why...? Why this again...?"
She rubs her eyes with the palm of her hand, then looks at her digital clock on her night stand, seeing that it's only 1 A.M. WIth a sigh, she pulls her light gray duvet up to her neck for more warmth as she stares up at her speckled ceiling, picking out the faces of her dear friends from her trip in the Labyrinth to save her baby brother within every sparkle and crack. She managed to even find the face of the Goblin King.
With a shake of her head, she turned onto her side in her soft, queen sized bed to look out the window only to find a perfectly white owl staring at her with its head cocked to the side. Upon being spotted, the owl took off. Sarah recognizes the eyes of the creature, and struggles out of bed to open up the window to stare after it.
"Jareth..." She whispers softly, almost unbelieving.
The tears trickle down her face again. Frustrated, she exits her room to go down a hallway, full of pictures from her sixteenth birthday to highschool graduation, and into the kitchen to pour herself a cup of coffee.
Lately, Sarah has been finding herself waking up around this time for the past few days to the same dream. Every time she wakes to Jareth's eyes engraved into her mind's eye.
Another sigh and she leans against her counter, gingerly sipping at her black coffee.
"Jareth... Why..?" She whispers out loud to no one in her empty home.
Setting her mug into the sink, she glances out the window overlooking her quiet neighborhood. A small smile graces her petal-pink lips as she imagines the labyrinth in place of the homes around her.
A hand falls lightly onto Sarah's shoulder, breaking her out of her memory and making her turn around abruptly with a small squeak of surprise. She was certain she had locked her doors, and the windows were locked and shut!
A startled looking man, dressed in tightly fitting pants and a lightly flowing shirt, appears in her visual field making Sarah gasp. The man lets a smug smile show on his face as he addresses her.
"Sarah..." He starts.
"What the hell are you doing in my home?" Sarah interrupts.
The man rolls his unusual eyes and tries again.
"Sarah, I need you."
Her eyes widen and a subtle blush floats to her cheekbones.
"You... What?" She asks, to confirm what her ears had told her.
"I. Need. You."
"J...Jareth..?"
Not saying anything more, he grabs her arm with a gloved hand, keeping a firm grip as he takes her towards a door that shouldn't have been in the house.
"Jareth, stop!"
The Goblin King proceeds to move the doorknob over to the other side and opens it, revealing a room Sarah has not seen before when she last visited the Goblin Castle beyond the Goblin City. Stepping through, the door disappears and they are left standing in a stone room with a large bed, larger than Sarah's own, with fluffy pelts for blankets and plush pillows, a large bed-side table with a vase of dead, unrecognizable, flowers, and a fairly sized wooden desk in a corner accompanied by a chair. On the stone floor are more pelts used as rugs.
"Jareth, what the hell? Take me back home!"
He turns to Sarah, still smiling.
"I told you, I need you. This is your home. And this," He gestures to the whole of the room. "Is our bedroom."
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Alright! This is my first Labyrinth fanfic. I hope to actually finish this someday... Hopefully soon! To get me to continue, though... Is 10 reviews minimum too much to ask? I'm asking for constructive criticism. If you're going to tell me off and flame, get the hell out of here and don't waste your time. Your own damn fault you read this, so don't go blaming me!
Everyone else, thank you for visiting and I hope you enjoyed! =)
~KSC