The Owl

A short fic that jumped in to my head when I really should have been studying for my exam next Saturday. This is not beata-ed so I apologise for the bad grammar in advance. I just felt like updating something since it was about half a year since last time.

I think I will continue this but it will most probably take some time cause of said exam.

(But enough revives may change my mind and make me write fanfics instead of getting my self an education…hint…hint)

Until then I think this works quite well as a one shot.

Enjoy and tell me what you think.

(Have a cookie if you get the Narnia ref.)

The first day after Sarah's trip to the Labyrinth she slept in and then Karen gave her a lot of tasks to do (and for once she didn't complain about it and answered Karen when she talked to her, Karen wondered if she was sick) anyway she didn't have much time for her self and she never saw the owl in the big three out side her house.

The second day was a school day and she did notice the owl as she walked to school but she convinced herself that it was a coincident. She thought the same as she got back and saw the owl still sitting in the tree.

After a week Karen mention that she thought an owl was nesting in the old oak, Sarah had to put on her best poker face so she wouldn't show her uneasiness.

After a month of her ignoring the owl it started to follow her around. It sat outside the window and watched her in class, it followed her around on silent wings when she was out shopping and of course it watched her practising and playing in the park. Her classmates which usually didn't speak that much whit her, except for when they needed to for assignments and things like that, asked her the second day about the owl. Sarah didn't know what to say so she went for semi truth and said that she didn't know but she thought it lived in the tree outside her house.

The third day the owl shadowed her, the 'cool' gang at her school made fun of her after the last class, they called her 'owl girl' and asked if she cold make it deliver a letter to Harry Potter for them.

Sarah soon had enough of it and said "fine bring me the letter."

That made the gang unbalanced.

"Can you really get it to do things for you?" Kelly a girl one year older than Sarah asked.

Sarah wasn't sure herself but she'd rather run the Labyrinth again then admit it to Kelly.

Bringing forth her best acting skills and remembering when she visited her mother on the set of a fantasy movie she was staring in and got to hold the trained falcon that was in the movie, Sarah raised her hand and pulled her jackets arm over her hand for some protection from the claws and looked straight at the owl for once. She usually looked as little as possible at it cause maybe 'if she ignored it, it would go away' not that it had helped so far.

"Jareth" she said calmly but felt her hart beating hard, and prepared herself for total humiliation if he didn't come to her. But he did, majestically he lifted and soared down to her arm. He landed so carefully so she barely felt the sharp claws griping her hand. As the owl settled on her hand she felt a feeling of rightness coming over her and the owl gave her a very meaningful wink whit his mismatched eyes. She almost forgot about her audience till she herd an impressed "Wow" coming from there direction.

"Can we pet him?" asked a guy Sarah vaguely remembered as Frank.

"If you have a finger to spare." Sarah answer thinking that the goblin king surely wouldn't like these people touching him.

The answer made the boy nervously back a step. The owl started to clean his feathers and Sarah suspected he was silently laughing.

"How did you get him?" asked Shelly, Kelly's best friend.

"I won him" Sarah answered feeling that she was getting better at this almost truths.

"Where? In some kind of B-celebrity family show?" Kelly asked in a taunting voice trying to get back in control.

"No, in a race, 'thru dangers untold and hardships unnumbered'." Sarah said thoughtfully looking at the owl who looked straight back at her whit serious eyes. The words 'every thing I've done I've done for you' ran thru her head as if some one had whispered them in her ear. Sarah slowly nodded to show she got the message then the owl lifted and flew away.

Sarah followed it whit her eyes as it flew up in the sky till it disappeared behind a roof.

"I'm sorry it seems like he's not willing to bear any messages for you." She said to the gang in front of her softly.

"What do you mean? Is it not trained to do as you say?" Calvin, a tall guy two years older then her asked confused.

"Of coarse not." Sarah said and turned and started to walk home. "After all, he's not a tame owl."