Disclaimer: I do not own the Labyrinth nor any characters in the movie.
AN: This is something that I just needed to start after watching the movie. It may not be updated reliably but I will try to update at least once a week. Hope you enjoy.
Chapter 1
Sarah had been on Jareth's mind since she had won the Labyrinth. He was sure it had only been years in her world but here much less time had passed. By less it had be only a year and her face was imprinted in his mind. He was sure by now; she was getting a little too comfortable with her safety from him. He watched as Tobias had grown up. The little boy was quite the young man now. But things were not going as well for Tobias as they were for Sarah. Judging by the amount of trouble the young six year old received from those bullies in his class.
Jareth shifted in his throne propping both his feet onto the armrest and watched the mayhem ensue as the goblins tried to be helpful but failed. "QUIET." He pressed his fingers to his temple and went to ignoring his now cringing goblins, many of whom began to edge away from the throne he sat on. Had he given Sarah enough time to grow up? Or would this begin all over again as a disaster? One had to wonder if this relationship would ever really work. She was kind, and wore her heart on her sleeve. He could be as kind as he was cruel so long as she obeyed him. She had to have known the game she played when she fell too far into his path, or perhaps not. Perhaps she had never really known what she did when she had won. What was more was the fact that there was something behind her eyes that said she wasn't being completely honest at the last encounter they had had in the Labyrinth. When the world was being torn down around them, there was something she hid in the back of her mind, far away from him and even from herself.
He smirked coldly and looked into a crystal once again at young Toby. Perhaps it was time that he paid the boy a visit. After all Sarah really had neglected to teach him the consequences of her run through the Labyrinth. Toby would be her downfall. It had all began with him and it would end with him. Jareth just wondered if it would really be as simple as it sounded. Although, after all, the boy had to have just a little trepidation in his memory of Jareth and his goblins. But then it was all Sarah's fault for putting the little boy in his path. Laughing Jareth threw the crystal and as it shattered the underground fell away.
Sarah woke up in a cold sweat, her sheets twisted around her legs. It had been four years since she had run the labyrinth and this was her first nightmare of it in three years. She ran a hand through her now shoulder length straight hair. Pushing herself up, she looked to the nightstand for the time, 2:39am glowed in green letters. She flopped back down and stared at the ceiling of her bedroom unsure of what woke her. It wasn't like Jareth could reach through her dreams and twist them. Otherwise, she suspected he would have done so long before now had he had any power over them. With a long sigh she rolled out of bed and flicked on her bedroom light. She waited for her eyes to adjust to the sudden brightness, blinking a few times, before she moved over to her desk, hitting the power button on her computer. It flashed a few times before giving her the blue screen of death and powering off again. She stared at it for a moment and belatedly remembered that her best friend, Luke, had gotten a hold of it. He probably went onto one or two of those porn websites to have it doing that now.
She turned away and instead quietly left her room and poked her head inside Toby's room. She watched him for a moment making sure that he wasn't up. He sighed sleepily and rolled over. His longish blonde curly hair fell over his face a little. She let out a breath of relief and made her way over to the bathroom. All the while thinking that her imagination was completely out of control, there was no way that Jareth could come back here, unless someone wished a child away. And although Irene and her were not on the best of terms, Irene would never know to say the right words.
Jareth watched from the shadows as the door silently opened as sweet Sarah checked on her sleeping brother. He saw that she had grown up quite a bit since he had last seen her. Her curves were more pronounced and her face had lost some of its roundness. But those eyes were the same that green blue combination that he remembered. He saw her face soften as the boy rolled over in bed and too quickly she left leaving the door cracked open. Jareth moved silently out of the shadows and stared down on the boy. Conjuring a crystal he left it on young Toby's desk and just as quickly as he had appeared, he left.