Disclaimer: You all know which characters are not mine. Just loved the movie and wanted to take it somewhere I wanted it to go. My first published work, be gentle! Enjoy!

PROLOGUE

Looking back on it now, everything made sense. Hindsight was always 20/20, but she felt moronic not to have seen it earlier. Yet, how could she have? She had been made to forget, the truth hidden from her so well that even the worlds best psychiatrists would have never found it with years of hypnosis. Magic was like that. It had a way of keeping itself out of the way if it needed to be.

Sarah leaned in closer to the window seat she was currently occupying and took a deep breath of the sweet fragrant air coming in through the open window. Everything was green again, making the view from her window look more like a painting than reality. It all made sense to her now that she could see clearly again and she knew in her heart that she was finally and truly home.

Chapter 1 – The Beginning

She was in love. For the first time in her life it had actually happened. For so many years she had asked all her Married friends, "How do you know? I've thought that I was in love so many times, how do you really know?" The answer had always been the same. "You just know!" "Yes, but HOW?" she would always ask in return. No one could tell her exactly what to look for, or how she was supposed to feel, so she continued from guy to guy, hoping that she would find what she was looking for. Then one day, it happened, and now she knew she was in love with the man who would make her happy for the rest of her life.

It was strange how they met, it had been in the same park she always used to practice her play lines in. She had been siting quietly on a stone bench, reading, when her dog Merlin jumped up and started running towards this handsome man walking in her general direction. She had tried to reach the insane mutt before he knocked the poor man over, but she had been too late.

"Oh, no! I am so sorry!" she said worriedly, running up to the prostate man. "Merlin!" she exclaimed to the dog. "I'm really, sorry. He's usually afraid of people he doesn't know!"

The man was lying calmly on the ground, a smile on his face, looking almost like he was having some sort of mental conversation with the old dog. He finally looked up at her and his smile got wider. "It's not a problem." he told her.

Sarah was blushing by the time he got to his feet, Merlin finally agreeing to let him up off the ground. It was at that moment, when their eyes finally met that she felt shocked to her core. It was like looking into the eyes of an old friend, someone she had made countless memories with all ready, in another life maybe? She couldn't decide, all she knew was in that moment her heart was lost to him and she knew they would be together for an eternity.

"Really, don't look so shocked! I'm fine, he was just happy to see me, I suppose." the man told her, smiling again. Her legs felt like jello when he did that.

"I'm glad you're alright! I've never seen him do that before, he's practically ancient in dog years." she looked down at her companion wagging his tail steadily beside her, then up at the man in front of her. "Do I know you from somewhere?" she asked, suddenly.

"Not likely," he said looking into her eyes. "I'm new in town. Just arrived yesterday actually. Not too sure of my way around yet. But this park crossed my path and I thought I'd take a stroll. Obviously, I made the right choice." he smiled at her again, making her blush even more.

"Oh, well I guess so, if you don't mind being knocked over by a fifty pound ball of fur!" Sarah laughed.

"It was well worth the trip." he told her honestly.

They exchanged names, heading down to the nearest coffee shop and chatted about life and themselves for a bit. After that was history, as it is so often put. They fell in love, Married and were inseparable. Jareth had never had the mortal nerve to tell Sarah about how he had come to be in the park that day, or what he had given up to spend the rest of his, now mortal life to be with her. She loved him for who he was now and he really didn't feel like ruining it. For either of them.

Truth be told, he had decided to give up all he had gained as Goblin King in order to come to her world and be with her. It had not been an easy decision, as some might have thought it would be. He was a King, after all. He ruled countless, well goblins and had the power of magic at his beckon call. And after all, he HAD decided to give it all up in the end anyway, so no harm done there either. But now, after three years of being human and Married to the woman he loved, something in the back of his mind kept bothering him. It wasn't Sarah, or their life together. They had a beautiful home he had helped her acquire with his human job, a boring and rather uninteresting thing he only did because it seemed like magic to him, the only piece of his old life he really had enjoyed. Type in a bunch of nonsense words into a machine and images and sounds popped up. He was actually quite good at it, and had become a supervisor in no time. So, no, it was not his life with Sarah that was niggering at him in the back of his head.

He was sitting on the windowsill in their bedroom, staring up at the midnight sky. In his hands was a crystal he had snuck away with him when he had been sent here. Usually it showed rainbow colors to him, a sign that everything back 'home' was all right. For the past few days, however, it was dark, cloudy as if there was no light shining in the underground anymore. Like something was covering up the images he wished to see. Sarah turned in bed then, her brow furrowed at whatever dream she was having. He watched her for a moment, wishing he could take the discomfort of her dream away from her. But that was all behind him now. He was as mortal as she, except that he had his memories of the Labyrinth and the underground intact. And as much as he wished to give those back to her, he could not. That magic was more powerful than he, and only she could bring them forth, when she wished to.