A/N: So yeah you know the drill. I DO NOT OWN LABYRINTH or any of the principal characters or storylines. Oh boy do I wish I did however. And this is my first fanfic so bear with me and please review and let me know of anything I can improve on. Thanks! Enjoy J

Prologue

She was standing in the remnants of what used to be the impressive Escher room. Now the ceilings, stairs, even the walls themselves had crumbled around her. This isn't right she thought, I won where is Toby, where is he? Much to her displeasure the absence of Him troubled her more than she would've liked for reasons she wasn't quite sure of. As if answering her thoughts she saw him step from the shadows. He was dressed in all white. The usual light colored poets shirt opened almost to the naval, the suggestively tight breeches, a flowing whit cape that looked remarkably like owl feathers, knee high white boots, and, as always, his shining gold pendant. She noted that while he still looked menacing, the white ensemble also made him look tired and translucent. He looks damn sexy is how he looks. Oh my god I did not just think that! Oh god why does he have to look like that! She had to break the horrid silence as he stared her down.

"Give me the child," she said with as much gumption as she could muster. Which wasn't much considering how weak her knees felt.

"Sarah beware. I have been generous up until now, but I can be cruel." He said it so matter of factly and Sarah was torn between the pleasure she got from the way he said her name and anger that he could be so arrogant. Anger won out.

"Generous," she almost flat out demanded of him, "what have you done that's generous?"

"Everything," he shouted at her almost making her jump on the spot. He terrifies me so bad sometimes but… Sensing her fear possibly his voice was more gentle when he next spoke. "Everything that you have wanted I have done," he started to walk around her, circle her. "You asked that the child be taken, I took him. You cowered before me, I was frightening." With a wave of his hand a giant thirteen hour clock appeared out of no where. "I have re ordered time, I have turned the world upside down, and I have done it all for you!" His eyes seemed to bore into hers as if trying to tell her something. "I am exhausted from living up to your expectations of me. Isn't that generous?" She was shocked. He seemed purely genuine and he looked older and tired. Why is he being so nice? He is so dark but this side… No, he is just trying to distract me! I have to think of Toby! Time to end this nightmare. She took a step forward.

"Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the goblin city," as she spoke her so well rehearsed words she continued to step towards him while he mimicked her steps in reverse down a small staircase. "For my will is as strong as yours, and my kingdom is…"

"Stop," he pleaded as he held out his hand to stop her, "wait. Look Sarah, look what I am offering you." He summoned a crystal from thin air once again offering her dreams. "Your dreams." She had to keep going before her will broke and she lost her mind.

" And my kingdom is as great."

"I ask for so little, just let me rule you and you can have everything that you want!" No one rules me mister.

"My kingdom as great… Damn!" Why can I never remember that line? Why does he look so grave?

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave!" His eyes shown with the smallest amount of some emotion Sarah couldn't pin point. This was her moment and she knew what came next. She stared straight into his eyes…

"You have no power over me," she breathed. In a split second she saw his face fall and he looked forlorn and saddened. He threw up the crystal and disappeared into the night. The last thing Sarah heard before she reappeared in her own house was a single word that carried on the wind. When it brushed her cheek she distinctly heard, but barely a whisper, Sarah.