I'm gingerly sticking my toes back into the writing pool. This came to me, and seems to be the prequel to SS&IK. Odd that it would come now, but who am I to argue? Inspired by Bowie's version of "Wild is the Wind." In my head that song screams S&J and always will.
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The sand was warm between her toes as she ran. She loved the beach, always had.
The wind whipped her dark hair around. The feeling of pure unadulterated freedom burst from her.
Her skirt of pale blue cotton clung to her legs as the waves broke on the beach and splashed upon her.
Up ahead she could make out someone standing there, his back to her. His long blond hair also being caught up in the sea air.
A grin broke out across her face. Beloved.
She ran faster, splashing through the salty waves crashing on the sand.
As she got closer he turned. The angles of his beautiful face both familiar and alien.
His inhuman beauty still able to take her breath and cause her heart to dance and flutter in her breast like a butterfly trying to escape.
He smiled. His blue eyes, one permanently dilated, the outward sign of his inner magic that crackled and sparked around him making him glitter in the sun's waning light.
When she was a few steps from reaching him, his arms opened to her. She fell into them, then he picked her up by the waist and swung her around as they laughed together.
His laugh was rich and and melodic to her ears, hers sounded to him like the tinkling of windchimes touched by the power of the wind, the sweetest song he had ever heard.
He lay her in the sand, and their lips met, bodies intertwining hair dark and blond tangling together as they touched and kissed in the sand and surf, uncaring of who might see their passionate embrace.
As the sun set behind them, unnoticed as they were unable to to take their eyes from each other long enough to acknowledge it, they made love then and there, finding grace in each other's arms, needing nothing and no one but that moment in time.
Spent they lay there and lazily caressed each other as they gazed at the moon and stars that had risen as they had enjoyed each other.
"1000 years, my love." Jareth whispered. "You are as wild and beautiful as when we first came here so long ago."
Sarah snuggled closer into his body. "I think we are both as wild as the wind itself, my husband."
He tipped her face to his and kissed her again..stoking the fire that was always there between them. Rolling her under him and...
Sarah sat up suddenly. panting heavily. That dream..always that dream. She got up and made herself a cup of chamomile tea, sitting at the table and trying to make sense of it.
"Why..I always dream of him. He wasn't real though..none of it. It couldn't have been." She shook her head to clear it.
Once she was done with her tea, she washed out her cup and climbed back into bed. She got comfortable once again as she smirked at her own silliness. "Sarah you are such a dreamer. The Goblin King is just a figment of your imagination. Even if he wasn't..well it doesn't matter now, he's gone. Long gone. Still it was good dream though."
The tea had the desired effect, and soon she was lost once again in her dreams of her imaginary king.
On the window sill an owl watched over her lovingly. Once she was sound asleep, the owl flew off..crossing the horizon between worlds, gliding over the great Labyrinth, to The Castle Beyond The Goblin City. letting the wild underground winds carry him home to await for both their dreams to come true.
Thank you for all the recent reviews, follows, and favorites on all of my stories. I'm eternally grateful for all the support. They have all meant the world to me the past few months as real life crashed my writing kick and my muse took a loooong vacation. In the words of DB. "You're Wonderful!"
I promise I'm not giving up on In A Time Of Winter. It's coming slowly, sometimes one word or sentence at a time. It will be done.
Blessings, love and light to all!