Title: Wisdom of the Fortune Cookie

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Summary: Those fortune cookies rarely contain fortunes. The worst one Sarah got said, "Wow! A secret message from your teeth!" But not tonight…not the night after the Labyrinth. Tonight, those silly fortune cookies help Sarah correct the worst mistake of her life.

Genre: Humor/Romance

Couple: Jareth/Sarah

Author's Note: The three fortunes mentioned in the summary and text are ones that I received within the past two days. And for some reason, Microsoft Word doesn't recognize half the words in that sentence. This isn't my usual style. Usually, I treat description as a luxury like my readers are extremely rich. :P But this is only supposed to be a light, quick, amusing oneshot.

Enjoy!

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It was the night after Sarah escaped from the Labyrinth. The sense of reality in her memories was slipping away, but traces still clung to the edges of her conscious. Those traces hit her with a vengeance in the depth of the night, or early morning, rendering her teary-eyed with sudden poignancy.

But now the lights were on—what shadows existed around the kitchen table were faint and empty. The pleasant aromas of various Asian dishes tickled her. Her father and stepmother didn't mention Sarah's lateness again; they were happily swapping with her: such dumpling for that roll for that delicious-looking piece of wok-fried…something.

But to the dreamy Sarah, the fortune cookies were the best part. At the end of the meal, everyone took one from the dish in the center of the table and cracked them open. Sarah's stepmother was charmed by hers, Sarah's father chuckled softly at his, but Sarah blanched, her stomach disappeared, and she nearly cried at hers.

Tucked inside the oddly shaped cookie were two fortunes.

"Don't be over confident with your first impression of others."

The second fortune was even more astounding.

"You missed the ferry, but you can still catch the boat. Don't hesitate: jump!"

Sarah tried to hide her disturbing reaction from her parent and parent-substitute. She left the table early and dashed into her room at the earliest convenience.

She still had the fortunes clutched desperately in her hand. Sarah took very little account in fortunes from fortune cookies, especially after receiving one that read, "Wow! A secret message from your teeth!" But after last night, after glimpsing a way, a world, in which her dreams were obtainable and the mundane symbolic, she wanted to believe again. And TWO in one cookie! AND they weren't both ridiculous!

"Hoggle! Ludo—Sir Didymus!" Sarah cried as she scrambled to her vanity mirror. "I just realized I've really, truly made a mistake!"

Her friends from the Labyrinth appeared dutifully, all ears and sympathy.

"I've changed my mind. Do you think he'll let me…come back?"

Far away in a certain Labyrinth, a man with the best looking mullet ever seen was looking intently into a little crystal ball. He snapped up from his slump of desperation and screamed, "Yes! Thank you, GOD!"

His victory dance involved a lot of hip-thrusting.

The End

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