Chapter 1: A Dance in the Night

"Who are you and what do you want?" Sarah looked at her dark and eery surroundings. She spun around in circles, dizzy with confusion. Her big flowy dress, whirled around her. She eventually collapsed onto the cold grassy ground. With a shaky voice, Sarah managed to say once again, "Who...a..are...you?" Her eye slowly closed. She could hear someone coming closer towards her. She push her eyelids open ever so slightly to see a blond haired man bending down closer to her body. "Who are you"

Sarah sat up quickly in her bed. It was just another nightmare. It had been a few months since she returned from the Labyrinth that she had defeated. Night after night since then, she continued to have nightmares about Jareth and the Labyrinth in general. Now that she had woken up, she knew who this mysterious person in her dreams was. A chill ran down her spine when she had realized that he left her window. She thought that she had closed it before she went off to bed, but maybe she imagined it and left it open. She pulled the covers down to reveal her nightgown that she was sleeping in. Her legs swung over the bed and she placed her feet in her fuzzy panda slippers. Sarah tiredly walked over to the window. The curtains flew around wildly in the wind that blew in. She pulled the window shut and the curtains slowly fell back down to their stationary position.

Sarah stood there for a moment, admiring the starry blue sky, lit by the crescent moon that fell to the side of her view. A small smile appeared on her face. It would have been bigger if she wasn't so dazed from being so tired. She began to think about why she would be having so many of these nightmares and what they possibly might mean. It didn't make much sense to her because before this, she had always dreamed of being a princess in the castle beyond goblin city. Why she was getting terrified by this very same thing bewildered her.

She sighed and turned back around. She made her way back to her bed. She had down onto the mattress, but quick hopped back to her feet with a loud OUCH! She took her hand to her butt and rubbed it gently where she had felt something jab into her. Sarah turned towards her bed. With what light that entered her window, she could make out a flower shape, silhouetted on her bed. She reached forward and picked it up carefully. It was a white rose and it certainly wasn't there when she left her bed. This could only mean one simple thing. Someone else was here.

"I don't know who you are, but you better come out." Sarah now awake and alert, looked around the room for any sign of movement. They could not have gotten away so easily in such short time.

She placed the rose on her side table while not taking her eyes off the room. She slowly crept towards the light switch. If the intruder wasn't going to reveal themselves, then she would do the task herself. Placing a tight grip around the trigger, she took a big, deep breathe. She wasn't entirely sure if she was ready to find out the identity of this mysterious person. Without realizing it, she turned the switch on and the light above head brightened the entire room.

Sarah squinted and it took her a moment for her eyes readjust to the sudden change of light. When she was able to fully see again she looked back up to see the all too familiar golden hair and leather boots standing before her on the other side of the room. Jareth stood there a gave a cheeky smirk.

"Do get some sleep,my dear. We shall meet again. Don't you worry." He blew her a light kiss and with a slight chuckle, he vanished into a cloud of silver glitter.

In a bit of a daze from her shock, Sarah quietly said to herself, "Wait... Don't go... please."

The same words echoed in her head over and over again. We shall meet again. We shall meet again... This obviously wasn't the last time that they would see each other. It was a vague response because even though he said that they would meet again, the length of time between now and whenever that would be was not defined. It could be tomorrow or even years from now. She hoped it would be the sooner because she wanted to ask him questions. Questions that she wanted answered now.

Her heart fell into her stomach when the realization hit her that he was so close and she let him slip away. She limply turned the light switch to off and let her hand fall down to her side. She dragged herself towards her bed. This feeling that hit her felt strange and she was unsure of it. She picked up the rose and took in its sweet scent before placing it back down to were it was. She sat on the edge of her bed. Get some sleep... my dear. Yeah. I better get some sleep. Her panda slippers simply fell off her feet onto the floor and she tucked her legs under her blankets. She grabbed one of her two pillowed and hugged on tightly to it. She then slowly lay her head down on the other pillow before she pulled the blankets over herself.

It didn't take long before she fell asleep an started to dream. This time the dream was pleasant and it made her sleeping body parade a wide smile. She was in the ball with Jareth. The same one that she and Jareth were in when she was in the Labyrinth. She stared deep into his mismatched eyes in disarray as he lead them both twirled around the dance floor. It was a scene of utter grace. His lips moved gently along to the words that she had remembered. I'll be there for you, as the world falls down. I'm falling for you." She continued on dreaming about the romantic scene happily for the rest of the night.

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Thanks for reading my first ever fanfic! I can not wait to see where this one is going to go. To make the future chapters better, I would appreciate you leaving me suggestion on how to improve.