Through dangers untold

By ocean fairy

Summary: Jareth and Sarah face their biggest challenge - yet each others hearts. Labyrinth spirits interfere along the way and Toby's been missing for five years. Sarah requests Jareth's help to find her brother, leading her into an adventure of a life time. A tale of romance, supernatural, and adventure.

Disclaimer: I've seen all the others do it so I guess I'll have to, not that it's worth suing me anyway. The Labyrinth does not belong to me or any of its characters. Any new ones do belong to me though.

Please review: I love getting reviews and I want to know whether to carry on this story so please tell me what you think.

Chapter 1

The smell of disinfectant is one that often gets associated with a hospital; the overpowering smell makes you sick as you sit in a room waiting for news of a friend or relative. It was no different today.

Two women sat in a hospital waiting room, one young with dark chocolate brown hair and the other much older with short blonde hair. They sat at opposite ends of the room, not daring to look at each other; occasionally one would get up and start pacing the room wearing a hole in the floor.

Sarah's father Robert had suffered another heart attack and had to be rushed off in an ambulance early this morning, this was the second time it had happened. Sarah had heard all the details from her family's next door neighbour; of course, Karen did not think to inform her. She heard most of her news from Mrs. Windsor these days for she did not live with her father and stepmother anymore, not since Toby disappeared.

Toby was Sarah's younger brother, a happy child with blonde hair and blue eyes. Many years ago she had wished him away to the King Jareth an act that she regretted every day of her life. Toby had a love for fantasy like his sister, everyone lived reasonably happy even her and Karen were arguing much less.

But one night 5 years ago Sarah had woken up and had a really bad feeling, something told her to go check on her little brother. She went in to his room and found, to her horror, a man standing over his crib, lifting Toby into his arms. A woman waited for him by the window, staring straight at her she had red eyes like burning embers glowing in the darkness. Then they both disappeared. She assumed it was something to do with Jareth but soon found out she was wrong.

The police had searched and found no trace of him but Sarah knew they would never find him; he was in the Underground she knew it and she intended to get him back. He was still missing now, everyone assumed he was dead. Sarah alone knew that he wasn't. Robert's health deteriorated from that day, he spent nights searching for Toby and any mention of the little boy's name in the house would surely start a row. Karen had blamed Sarah for his disappearance even though she had no reason to accept her dislike for her step-daughter. Sarah was thrown out of her family home and left to find her own place, thanks to Karen having her father wrapped around her little finger.

The door opened causing Sarah to jump. "Mrs. Williams, your husband is stable. You and your daughter may come in to see him now. He has still not come around from the operation but he will be able to hear you," a young male doctor informed the two women, who glared at each other when the doctor had said daughter.

They followed the doctor out of the room and into another much smaller room. It was all white and in the centre of it laid Sarah's father covered in tubes. The two women each took one of his hands. Sarah was close to tears. "Oh, Dad," she whispered hoping that she wouldn't break down in front of Karen.

She looked up at Karen and saw the look of anguish on her face. She was surprised to discover she felt sorry for her. She realised it was not just her father on this bed but Karen's husband and the man she loved as well. Karen felt Sarah's gaze on her and she looked up, anger appeared on her face

"What are you looking at, hmm?" she snapped.

"Nothing." replied Sarah.

"You know, it's your fault he's in this state." Karen spat.

"WHAT!" Sarah shot up, hate flashing through her green eyes. "What do you mean?" she demanded, trying to keep herself calm.

"You - causing trouble all the time, insisting Toby's still alive, stressing the poor man out. I persuaded him to get you to move out and yet he still worries about you, though why anyone should worry about a brat like you is anybody's guess." Karen paused like she was going to say something else. She just looked at Sarah.

"Go on, say it," Sarah hissed. "You know you've always wanted to."

"Alright." Karen stood up and looked at Sarah. "All I want to know is why did Toby get taken away from us? We've done nothing wrong and then worse, we get left with a sulky spoilt child whose head is always with the fairies and goblins. Why couldn't it have been you instead of him?" Karen looked satisfied by the flash of pain that passed over Sarah's face. Sarah turned away then looked back.

"You bitch!" she shouted and looked ready to strike her, when a noise startled her. The monitor her father was attached to was emitting short fast beeps. Something was happening. The doctors and nurses were already surrounding Robert; another nurse took Sarah's hand and led her and Karen out of the room. They were doing things to Robert, trying to keep him alive but it was to late. Everything passed in a flash.

Sarah ran out of the hospital. Her father had died, he wasn't even fifty yet. She kept running. She knew where she was going - her favourite childhood place. She needed to get away from there. Anger was all she felt at Karen for her father's death and Toby's disappearance all those years ago.

In a castle beyond a goblin city, the king of the goblins woke up in a sweat. "Sarah!" he shouted.