Wishes
Prologue: The Dream
Sarah Williams rolled over in her warm bed, dreaming. "Stop it! Oh stop it!! Stop crying Toby." She said though over half her words were muffled by the blankets. She kicked her bed frame as she rolled over again.
"Stop it, I'll say the words! I'll say them Toby!" As the baby in her dream screamed louder Sarah rolled over again her sheets getting tangled in her legs. "I wish… I wish… that the Gobli—" the word was cut off by a yawn as she burrowed into her blankets as if she could hide from the piercing yellow eyes that watched her from her dream or was it a flashback in nightmare form?
"…--n King would come and take you away…" she buried her face in her pillow as if even her subconscious couldn't bear to speak the two words that would complete the wish. Then moments later garbled and barely audible much less remotely understandable she muttered the two life changing words in to her pillow.
"Right now." Dream Toby stopped crying as 15 year old dream Sarah walked out of the room and 28 year old Sarah woke up with a thud as she rolled out of bed taking her blankets with her.
"Owww…" she groaned as blindly her hand fumbled for the lamp switch. Finding it the bulb flared to life brighter then she expected she shut her eyes and dropped her head down so she was no longer looking straight at it.
"Note to self, don't look at the light, it's dangerous." Sarah's hand fumbled blindly again for her watch. Finding the cold metal she opened her eyes slowly blinking as she brought the watch down to where she could see it.
"Nearly 7, on a Saturday. Ugh in the middle of summer too." She whined as she slowly stood up and grabbed her robe from the floor at the foot of her bed.
"Check on Toby, make Coffee and then go back to bed for an hour." Sarah said walking to the kitchen first not realizing how much more she needed to check on Toby then make coffee. 15 minutes later she was sipping on coffee and drowsily making her way to Toby's room. She opened the door as quietly as possible, it had a tendency to squeak. Flipping the switch for the hall light it illuminated the room just enough to make her squint at the bed to see if she could see the small form curled under the covers.
It's the summer of 1999 and Sarah's Father, Robert and Stepmother, Karen had gone to Italy for 2 weeks. Sarah had offered to watch the little boy, after all he was her brother. When she was 15 Sarah had every hope of becoming an actress like her mother, Linda, but after encountering the Labyrinth She developed a new respect for kids with traumatic lives. She'd changed directions completely and joined Child Services when she got out of school, now 28 she lived a reasonably comfortable life in New York City.
Frowning slightly Sarah walked over to the bed and the closer she got to it the more sure she was that Toby wasn't in bed. She got to the bed and threw the covers away after setting down her coffee. "No, Oh No." She said running over to the light switch and flipping it on. She checked every possible place for her brother to be in that room before grabbing the coffee mug, hot coffee could be an excellent weapon, though she was pretty sure that who ever or what ever had stolen Toby, wasn't human. turning on the lights as she went Sarah searched every room in the small house, closets included, before going back into the kitchen and, her face turned towards the ceiling, she stamped her foot in frustrated anger mixed with hatred mixed with feelings she didn't know or denied having for the Goblin King, and yelled at the top of her lungs,
"JARETH!!!! YOU KIDNAPPING BASTARD!!!!" She drew a deep breath before grinding out, "Give. Him. Back. NOW!!!" A cool voice then spoke behind her,
"My, my, such a temper." Sarah spun around to face the man who spoke. "Hello Sarah." He said smirking.