The Secrets within Chapter 1

Disclaimer ~ unfortunately to my dismay I do not own Labyrinth however much i want to. All the characters belong to Jim Henderson the only thing i own is the ruff plot I'm working with.

Anyway hope you enjoy so, on with the story!

The Dream and Party

Please note that this story (due to the original script) is set in England!

Sarah P.O.V.

It has been years since I've thought of the Labyrinth, since I thought of Hoggle, Sir Didymus, Ludo and years since I thought of him. Which makes me wonder, after five years why does everything start to come back now?

My life hasn't improved much, my relationship with Karen has gotten worse over the years and my relationship with my dad is strained. However, what surprises me most is that my relationship with Toby has strengthened, though I suspect that this is because they still go out constantly leaving me to look after Toby.

I'm still not so sure why Karen hates me so much; it could be the fact that I ignore her feeble attempts to be my mother, or her constantly trying to give me lectures about my bad choice in taking both Drama English Literature in university, following in the footsteps of my biological mother; another reason why she may hate me is because I try my hardest to get dad to love and care for me, though our relationship is strained, as he's more concerned about his 'loving' wife and making her happy than being a father to me and Toby.

It all started last night when I made sure Toby was asleep, I went to bed and slipped into a dream, but not just any dream, it was a memory; I was with a screaming one year old Toby and was telling some sort of story:

"Once upon a time, there was a beautiful girl whose step mother always made her stay home with the baby. And the baby was a spoilt child and wanted everything for himself and the young girl was practically a slave.

But what no one knew was that the king of the goblins had fallen in love with the girl and had given her certain powers.

So one night, when the baby had been practically cruel to her she called on the goblins for help. Say you're right words the goblin said, and we will take the baby to the goblin city and you will be free. But the girl knew that the king of the goblins would keep the baby in his castle forever and ever and ever... and turn it into a goblin. And so the girl suffered in silence, until one night, she was tired from the housework and she was hurt by the harsh words of her step mother and she could bare it no longer."

I then walked over to the screaming Toby in his red and white striped baby grow and picked him up.

"Alright, alright,

Knock it off.

Stop it, Stop it!

I'll say the words.

No I mustn't

I mustn't say

I wish, I wish

I can bare it no longer

Goblin King, Goblin King

Wherever you may be

Take this child of mine far away from me!"

It was then that awoke with a jump, due to the sound of the front door slamming. I calmed myself but still, all throughout the day, all I can think of is the dream and him – the one who gave me the ultimatum that I never understood, until now.

The next week went by quickly with university going well and with the same dream happening every night, but why?

I walked into the house once I returned from the bakers to pick up Toby's cake. With everything ready I waited for dad and Karen to return home from wherever they went with Toby. It was another 30 minutes before they all walked through the door.

"SA-WA!" Toby screamed while running towards me at full pelt. I hugged him back tightly and kissed his head and looked up at my dad who had a slight smile on his face. However when I looked at Karen she was scowling, probably because of the fact Toby called me mum when he was between the years of 2 and 3, so she forbid me from telling him stories every night and from being left alone with him. She even went as far as hiring a baby sitter when they went out, but what they didn't know was that the girl, Natalie was her name, sat in the living room while I looked after Toby and out him down for the night.

While I was zoned out, Toby had made himself comfortable on my lap and was showing me a picture he drew.

I took a close look at it and gasped slightly, luckily no one heard.

"Toby who have you drawn little man?" I asked, hoping what I thought was wrong.

He pointed to a small stick person with sandy blond hair and green eyes and said "me", then moved to the couple standing beside him "this one is you Sa-wa," he said, pointing to the tall stick person with brown hair and green eyes.

I thought for a second then asked: "who am I standing beside Tobes?"

He pointed to the stick man:"man" he replied. This man had blond hair with one eye green and the other brown. This drawing reminded me of him all over again.

I looked at the picture again.

"Who are all these Toby?" I asked.

He glanced down at the picture and said: "Goblins, got song in head Sa-wa"

I looked puzzled.

"What song little man?" I questioned him, frowning.

"You remind me of the babe"

Confusion clouded my face.

"What babe Toby?"

"The babe with the power"

"What?" I asked.

"Voodoo!

You do.

Do what?

Remind me of the babe!"

I looked at Toby and was shocked.

Karen, over hearing what had been said, looked at me and screamed in a high pitch voice at me.

"What have you been telling him Sarah? Look what you've done! First the continuous drawings of the 'man' and 'goblins'! Now the stupid song! And then the talking to the imaginary friends!"

Toby looked at his mum with an annoyed expression.

"Not imaginary friends, they are goblins! One is called Gorge and other called Mattie!" He huffed.

There was then a short silence, before there was suddenly a cold breeze and thunder struck, then the lights went out and the strong winds blew against the window.

I ran from the living room and into my room which hadn't changed much, I entered just in time to see the familiar barn owl transform into the one and only Jareth, The Goblin King.