Author's Note: Family story, Jareth is a single father, Sarah will not be his lover, but the child and heir, there is no Queen. The Spirit of the Labyrinth will look like Sarah's mother (aka Jareth's love) but will not be her. This story came about after seeing all the fan art of switching roles of Sarah and Jareth...and yet I thought of Sarah being the next heir to rule the Labyrinth and only heir under Jareth. I am proud to say I think I'm finally getting somewhere with this Universe of Sarah being Jareth's daughter and only heir to the throne so far, she will be going through some trials as Jareth mops around thinking of Linda. Sarah will be suffering with power flowing through her veins because of confusion and anger...flashbacks will happen of her life between, Jareth's meeting of Linda, Sarah's first jouney and the three years of living with Karen, Robert and Toby...In other news My other series with Sarah being the lover and Jareth having a half-brother may continue at a later date.
Prologue
Finding Home
Sarah the daughter of the beautiful Linda
Linda ran the Labyrinth and had sex with a young Goblin King…she got out of the Labyrinth and away from Jareth. She knew she could not live in the Underground but she wanted to have her dream of an actress. She married a young man named Robert Williams and gave birth to a daughter nine months later….soon died when her daughter was eight. Robert then remarried a woman named Karen and had a son. Believing Sarah was his child…he had her babysit her half brother. Sarah then does the deed and wishes away her 'half brother.'
Jareth returns to the home of the woman he made love with, and finds a young girl in her place.
She looks like his Linda, he thinks.
"I want my brother"
She sounds like Linda. She won like Linda.
Three years later.
Sarah is eighteen and magick is messing up her life.
"I can't stay" a woman in her early twenties sighs looking at the sleeping face of her first love. She slipped on her clothes quickly and slipped out of the castle like she had never entered. Leaving a young king to himself as she returned home. Linda had wished away her little brother, who would never remember even touching the underground. A few days later her ex boy friend and she started dating again and within a month they married.
Under a full moon, like her dreams she kissed him and became the woman known as Linda Williams.
Her heart and dreams were almost fulfilled on her own accord.
She gave birth nine months later to a baby girl that looked more like her then her husband.
Robert was waiting for her while she put her two year old daughter to bed.
"Sarah, I love you, may all your dreams come true someday." she said to the baby.
Seven years later on the night of her ninth birthday, Sarah waited for her mother to return home.
"Daddy?" she asked Robert with a pout before looking back out the window.
"What's wrong Sarah?" he asked her as he sat on their brown cotton couch with a notebook in his hand.
"Mommy's late"
"she'll be home soon, the practice must of gone over. You know your mom likes the theatre."
"oh okay. Read me a story before bed please?" she went over to him resting her hands on his leg.
"sure thing sweet heart." Robert walked his daughter up the stairs and helped her into bed. Sitting beside her he opened a book that had red leather backing. Outside her window sat a snow white owl. Watching over them before deciding to take a small flight.
The next morning Robert got a call that his wife died the night before. It had not only broke his heart but the owl that over heard disappeared, his own heart taking the pain of the one he had loved.
When Sarah was ten she learned her father started dating looking to find Sarah a motherly figure. She accepted it, hiding in her bedroom with her mother's precious items she left to her daughter. Things like movie clips, reviews signature from people she didn't know, twos and games about movies and fantasies. All things and more that dwelt with acting.
At eleven she found a little red book under piles of other books in a brown box. A book her father had stopped reading to her.
The day she pick it up, her life changed for the worse.
Robert remarried a beautiful woman by the name of Karen. She was nice to Sarah for a few months well that's what Sarah thought. As she attended school and hid in her room or went out to play in the park alone, her father had become busy.
When Sarah was fourteen she gained a baby brother.
The named him, Toby. Toby Williams.
She was stuck baby-sitting him while her stepmother and father went on weekly dates.
And that's where her story really begins.
Chapter 1 Age of Maturity
Sarah went to bed when her father and stepmother arrived home. Sitting in her room she looked out to the dark sky, the moon was bright and her mind wondered. There was something in the Goblin King's eyes she couldn't place when she looked at him through her adventure.
The next few days she had settled back into her natural routine. Waking up at seven, taking a five-minute shower, getting dressed for school gathering her books, getting breakfast and making sure to have her brother ready to go to the daycare center. She was fifteen going on sixteen and well even after her adventure and her regretful sorrows she still felt that something was off in her life. But she continued to live on. Just as she stepped outside of her home, she notice a floating feather. It gave her hope for a few days even some ideas as she was going to be attending those theater meetings.
That's how it went for a year, surviving school and her home life. Taking care of things as she was also trying to have some fun. She didn't talk about it to Karen cause she felt she didn't need to know. "I don't need a boyfriend cause I have school work" yeah that would go over so well. She kept feeling a comfortable presence when she was out of the house, sometimes it was even stronger when she sat in the old park.
It's the night of her eighteenth birthday. She's running late from school, having to stay and work on a few projects and then go over scenes with the school's theater director and she was his assistant. Taking one step further then she knew her mother's dreams lead. She wanted to in charge of the play not just in it.
Recently she thought she spotted things and animals that reminded her of the dream/adventure she had at fifteen when she couldn't stand taking care of her brother for selfish reasons. She made herself busy after that, not able to look him in the eye for more then a moment when caring for him.
But she still loved him, it was her mistake for trying to rid him from her miserable life, without him her life may have been worse.
Being alone. Even with little Toby sometimes it's all she's known for this world. It was her way of surviving.
"Sarah" he says across the way, hidden in the shadow of an alleyway. At first he thinks she doesn't hear him, he's hoping she will, and that she won't all at the same time. He misses her, he needs her...There she stood waiting for a bus, she's going somewhere for break, a change in pace, she wants out...
"Stop messing with me…" she mutters, thinking she's hearing things. She's tired and alone, ready to leave the house she called home for seventeen years of her life.
"Sarah I know what's going on with you." he says again wanting her to turn around. He knows now that she can hear him, but thinking it's just in her head. But he's here with her aboveground.
"It's your fault…ever since the peach…I can't even look at one without falling back into memory." she turns around talking thinking she's really just telling her mind to stop messing with what she has, not expecting to see his eyes staring at her.
"Sarah come here." he says to her reaching out an open palm to her.
"No…you're not having me or my brother." she says again blinking trying to rid him from her vision, but no avail it only makes him appear stronger, alive and there before her in the small town, just in front of an alley way. She won't let this man take control of her life again, no she can't let him do anything. She can't trust anyone or anything after they seen her weak.
"He isn't your brother Sarah…in fact you're an only child." he tells her, taking the chance and stepping forward into better light.
"I don't believe you." she tells him, she doesn't believe him for anything he's said before.
"Robert isn't your father" he says again, his voice not wavering, not changing it's pace or tone, acting as calm as he can.
"How do you know that. I lived with my family forever." Why does she even bother listening to him, like everything he says is important to her, when it shouldn't be?
"Yes…but your mother taught you about the Labyrinth, did she not?"
"Yes, she did…" Sarah pauses and listens to her enemy. Her mother wove tells relating to book she found again in her life. She believed in the book, in her mother so she listens to him in hope that something was true and not just a fantasy as her stepmother called it, as he weaves a tale of love and lost.
"I can see her in you and I see me in you." he gives her a small smile, telling her the truth right out.
"Wait are you saying I'm your daughter?" she gasps. "But you made moves on me!" she accuses him.
"How else would you have beaten me…and well I didn't see it until I lost you." the Labyrinth knew, his people knew before he felt it, before it almost destroyed them all.
"Pure luck and skill?" she shrugs avoiding his eyes, thinking about how she got through with only some trouble.
"Come with me and learn your magic"
"No" she wants to refuse him, but she's unsure now, he and her fairytale friends were the only things she trusted and believed in as strongly has she cared for the half brother.
"Sarah…you are my only heir."
"What about my brother?"
"He will be the son of Robert and Karen, I will not touch him."
"Jareth….why now?"
"You grew up. Sarah...and I can feel your distress…I've watched you without knowing it let me into your life."
"No more stepmothers?"
"I haven't married….and if it makes you happy I won't marry."
"I never liked Karen…it was like she hated me….I'm glad you're not married….I won't feel like a third wheel."
"If I was married, Sarah my precious…you are my heir…the first born is always the heir…she, whoever she would be would have to respect that."
"Okay I want to go home with you….Jareth" she said slowly not ready to call him father just yet. When she touches his hand, a spark went through her, her eyes closed.
"Welcome home." he said as he let go of his daughter. Sarah opened her eyes back in the center of the castle. She stood lost for a moment taking in all she remembered and all she now felt. This was her home; this was why three years back she felt safe in air of the underground.
She was a fae the daughter of the king.
