Disclaimer: I do not own The Labyrinth, Sarah, Toby, Jareth or any other Labyrinth characters and I sadly and unfortunately do not make any money from these writings.

Summary: Socially unaccepted by the people and world surrounding her family Eve is forced to hide in the shadow her parents have created. Her only friend Toby is the little brother of the girl that beat the Goblin King so many years ago. Sick of her parents corrupt world she wishes herself away to Jareth's Castle pleading to stay. (Takes place 24 years after the movie)

Chapter One: I Wish I Could Be Me

Dirty slender fingers smudged the pastel across the colorful drawing as the pale determined girl put the finishing touches on her new piece she planned on presenting in her art class later the next day. The light breeze in the courtyard made her brunette hair fall into her face and she huffed angrily at it. She hated her hair as long as it was and was tempted to go and cut it short just to watch her mother's face turn red with anger. The thought made her laugh. She set her freshly finished picture up on the table and propped it up with her back pack and examined it.

It was a colorful drawing of four small goblins in a stone archway. One was sitting on the floor looking rather frightened, and the other three defying gravity on either wall and one on the ceiling all poking their beady red eyes out from behind the wall looking rather curiously towards her. She smiled at it then sprayed it with a sealant so it wouldn't smudge and sat down on the not so comfortable metal chair beside her while she waited for it to dry. Just as she was about to put her head phones on she heard someone calling her name.

"Hey Eve!" The tall boy called. She was surprised that anyone would approach her. He ran up to her his short blonde hair was in its usual mess, he was her lab partner from chemistry class.

"Hi Toby." She said and he stopped in his tracks when he saw her drawing and a scared expression came to his face as a bad memory stirred in the back of his mind then he blinked and his face returned to its normal huge smile.

"Whoa what's that for?" He asked looking at it more closely.

"Art class, were on pastels now, its lots of fun. My parents hate how messy my hands are when I get home." She smiled.

"That's good. Always gotta find new ways to piss them off." He winked making her smile up at him. For some reason he was one of the few people that actually talked to her there at the college. Everyone else seemed to steer clear of her knowing how her family was. But then again Toby's mom was a lot like hers. But at least he didn't have to hide who he really was from everyone.

"Class starts soon. Want to walk with me to drop this off in the art studio?" She asked brushing her pastel covered hands off onto her black baggy pants.

"Sure." He smiled and they walked and talked about various things like the small red leather bound book she always carried with her titled The Labyrinth which had been inspiring all of her art work and writing for the past few months. Talking with him was nice, but she also hated it. He could never really know her. No one ever could unless she wanted to deal with her parents.

Sure she just turned twenty three but age didn't mean anything in her family. You were only considered an adult once you got married. Finding anyone that wanted her for who she really was would be impossible and there was no way she'd marry some idiot who only wanted her for her looks… her fake looks that is. Her brunette hair was a lie and so were her brown eyes. All fake so her mother wouldn't be ashamed to show her off in public. Her real hair color was light blonde, so blonde it was almost white, at least that's what she remembered. It had been so long since she last seen her original hair color, she was probably ten or so.

Her eyes… her mother hated them the most. Left eye was orange and the right was green, how she'll probably never know. She was sure the man her mother married and swore was her real father was a lie. They always dressed her up in elegant gowns and took her out with them and her prodigy younger sister. She was exactly what they wanted. A prim and proper girl who enjoyed going to things like beauty school and accompanying wealthy boys to plays and was only interested in sitting and looking pretty. That was not the life for her. She hated all those things. Going to plays was nice, but beyond that she loathed her mother and fathers lifestyle. She thought things would get better when they moved to America from Europe when she was thirteen, but they somehow found a neighborhood filled with people just like them and attended all of their social gatherings. She shuttered remembering that there was another one that night that her mother was forcing her to go to.

Ever since her sister had married and moved away they prodded her more and more to find a wealthy man to pursue and marry. At least they still let her go to college. The one freedom she had was she was being allowed to take any classes she chose so long as she didn't speak of them in front of their friends or bring any of her artwork or writings home with her. They liked to tell their friends that she was too advanced to go to any private school and that she had a special private teacher that taught her from home.

Toby waited for her outside the art studio while she added her drawing to her ever growing pile in the back corner of the room when the art teacher entered the room.

"Eve, is that your new piece?" She asked and looked at it with wonder and awe. "It's very good…" Eve blushed then noticed a worried look on the teachers face. "Eve can I ask you a question?" She nodded in response. "Why don't you ever take your art home with you? You really shouldn't leave it in here. I can't guarantee someone won't take them and the janitors have been complaining." She motioned to some of her small sculptures sitting on the floor.

"I can't… if my parents see them… they'll…" She looked down and didn't want to remember what happened last time. "Last time I showed them my art and my stories they had me committed… again." She admitted sadly trying to shake the memories from all the times it had happened. Once when she was ten, then when she was fourteen, then again when she was eighteen. She could still feel the doctor's hands around her arms dragging her down the long hallway of the psychiatric hospital. She wiped away a tear and her teacher looked at her solemnly.

"What? That's blasphemy! There is nothing wrong with you!" Her teacher was suddenly angry then she thought for a moment. "Well I'll tell you what then I'll see if I can have a locker arranged just for your things." Eve smiled and gave her teacher a hug thanking her before returning to Toby. At least there were a few people out there that thought what her parents were doing was wrong. "Fucking rich asshole parents! What's wrong with them!" She heard her teacher say to herself before leaving the room.

"Hey are you ok?" Toby asked his looking concerned.

"I'm fine." She lied. "Just annoyed I have to go to this stupid hoity toity rich asshole gathering tonight with my parents." She groaned and Toby's blue eyes lit up.

"Really! Ha ha I know how you feel. My sister used to make me go to those kinds of things with her until she had her baby. Now instead she goes and I watch the kid for her. But man is that little girl a nightmare! I honestly think she saves up all her energy and evil babyness until I have to watch her." He explained. "In fact I have to watch her tonight! I bet my sister is going to that thing too."

"Who knows, I don't really pay attention at those things. Besides I'm usually too busy concentrating on not breaking my ankle in those awful shoes they make me wear." Eve made a face.

"Maybe I'll send Lillian away to the Labyrinth King or whatever you call it that you're always talking about. I could see her as a goblin. Definitely is loud enough to be one." He laughed and Eve laughed with him. They had made it to their class early and leaned on the wall outside the chemistry lab. "But you should talk to my sister if you see her there. She's pretty cool. She's not like all the other people at those kinds of things. She actually has a brain."

"I'll look for her. It'll be better than listening to my mom tell me which guy I should be marrying. What's her name?" She asked pulling a loose string from her purple long sleeved v neck shirt.

"Sarah Hurst. Her husband's name is Richard." He said as more students began to file into class and they followed suite sat at their usual lab table in the back corner. Today was the day they began experimenting with different chemicals on different elements.

"Now class before we begin anyone wearing contacts has to take them out. I don't want to hear any griping it's for your own safety and I don't want to be responsible for the idiot who accidentally gets their contact lens melted to their eye. I have lens holders and solution so come and take them out now, and please label them so you don't get the wrong ones when you go to put them back on." He demanded and a few students lazy moseyed over to the table where the teacher was waiting for them. Eve hesitantly made her way over to the table with the other students. She knew she had to take them out there was no getting around it. Besides she had always wanted to take them out at school to see what reactions she'd get since no one besides her mother and the man that always dyed her hair for her every two weeks had seen what they really looked like. She purposely waited until everyone else was done and took them out and labeled them with a piece of tape.

She made sure to keep her eyes on the floor the whole way back to her table. The only thing she was afraid of was word getting back to her mother about it. For all she knew she had a spy at the school watching her. When she sat down Toby had a look of shock on his face when his eyes set on hers and she quickly looked away and put her safety goggles on.

"Whoa." Was all he said and scooted closer to her as the teacher began passing all the supplies for the lab out to each table. "Eve your eyes." He whispered.

"I know…" Was her only response fearing that he thought she was a freak.

"That's so cool…" He said and she turned back to face him. "As weird as this sounds… they kind of look familiar, like I've seen them before." She smiled at him and they started their lab. The whole time Toby kept looking up at her eyes and it was hard for her not to blush. It was something she wasn't used to, getting attention from someone that she could possibly see herself with. They both finished their lab before anyone else and Eve put her contacts back in.

"Wow that's such a drastic change. Why do you wear them in the first place?" He asked curiously.

"Because of my mom. She's ashamed of me… This isn't my real hair color either." She smiled.

"What color is it then?" He looked intrigued.

"It's hard to remember exactly, it's been so long, but it's really light blonde." She said feeling like she was telling a deep dark secret.

"I wish I could see it." He eyed her up and down. "It would definitely fit you better." She blushed and pulled out her Labyrinth book reading the part about how you have to say your right words to get a child taken away.

"I wish I could wish myself away to the Labyrinth." She admitted putting the book down.

"I don't blame you. I never realized how much your parents suck until now. They make you hide who you really are that's just wrong." He said as the teacher dismissed class. "Well I guess I'll see you next week then." Toby shrugged. "Have fun tonight. I know I won't!" He yelled after her as they parted ways. Eve sighed and slowly made her way to her car dreading going home.

Jareth sat on his throne in his dirty throne room filled with squabbling goblins. He hadn't aged a day. His blonde hair hung at his shoulders and his ruffled shirt was low enough to expose his chest to see the large silver and gold pendant that he wore. His grey tights were tucked into his high black leather boots. He tapped his fingers on his armrest bored out of his mind. It had been so long since someone wished anyone away. Five years maybe? And even then they gave up halfway through running his Labyrinth and let him keep the child, Mortimer, he was a good goblin thus far. Kept the other goblins entertained for the most part. He rose from his throne and made his way up to his room to do the only thing he ever really did when he was bored of watching the goblins run about, spy on Sarah.

It had been twenty four years since she ran his labyrinth and defeated and denied him. He never got over it. He still longed for her to return to him to stay, yet another part of him wanted revenge. Never before in his life had anyone refused him. Even back a thousand years when children were wished away at least two a week the women would crumble at his feet. Sarah befriended so many in his labyrinth and defeated him. For the longest time after she ran she would still contact her friends she had there, but once her innocence was gone she was never heard from again. He was pretty sure that she no longer had any memory of the place.

She had given away her book and it recently found its way to someone who was reading its words every day. He figured he'd check on her first to prolong tormenting himself with watching Sarah. A crystal appeared in his hand and he balanced it atop his index finger. Eve was the girls name and she sat in a chair getting her hair cut looking rather satisfied. He couldn't understand why he was so compelled to watch this girl from time to time over the last few months. There was nothing extraordinary about her. A girl who hated her parents and was a rather good artist, at least from what he had seen. Suddenly he noticed it seemed like she was looking right at him for a moment then looked away.

Jareth sighed and ran his free hand through his hair. It had been maybe a month since he last watched Sarah, he tried not to as much as he used to. Each time was more and more painful, having everyone around him even the goblins telling him he needed to find someone new wasn't helping. He threw his crystal out the nearby window in frustration to keep himself from watching her. Grabbing his cloak he decided to take a walk to clear his head.

Eve quickly made her way to her room and luckily didn't run into her mother or father on the way. She laughed triumphantly as she spread out on her bed and ran her hands through her hair. On her way home she decided to cut her hair, she didn't care what her mother said, it was her hair and she had to deal with it all day not her. She had three inches cut off and it was so much nicer, she did wish she was brave enough to cut it even shorter though, perhaps next time. She lay on her stomach in bed reading her book over again wishing she could find any clue to the words she needed to say.

Once she had realized that there was no mention of anyone ever wishing themselves away she sighed and there was a knock on her door. She sat up and quickly stuffed her book into her large back pocket. "Come in." She called and her door creaked open. It was Leon the man that always dyed her hair and made sure she looked according to her mother's wishes for the annoying things she dragged her to. He was dressed in his usual black vest and red long sleeved button down shirt with pinstriped pants with his short white hair spiked up in small spikes.

"My dear Evelyn, what have you done to your hair? Your mother will be furious." He whispered. "Hurry come with me unless you want to deal with your mother! She is in quite a mood today." She quickly followed him down the hall to the dressing room where he always worked on her. "Quickly get out of those and put this on." He handed her a box. She went behind the curtain changing room and opened to find a blue glittery dress, another new dress why didn't that surprise her. Pulling it out of the box she soon realized how incredibly low but the dress was. It was also sleeveless and backless, Eve rolled her eyes.

"Leon if I'm going to wear this I need a proper…" She was cut short when a bra was thrown over the curtain to her. "…Thanks." Once she put the bra on she realized that it was a push up bra and rolled her eyes as she slid the dress on and walked out holding it up and Leon knew the drill so well he was there ready to zip her up and she sat in his stylist chair.

"Now since you decided to be crazy and cut your hair I'll do you the favor of putting your hair up so she won't notice until after the party." He said before getting to work. Not even ten minutes later did her mom walk in. Both Leon and Eve's eyes went wide. She stood a few feet away from the chair with a look of disgust on her face. Her brunette hair was all clipped up and a large diamond necklace hung from her neck that connected to her red velvet dress that was trimmed in gold and her chest was covered in matching sequins.

"Evelyn Paige Sweldon! What have you done to your hair!" She tapped her foot angrily.

"What does it look like I did I cut it! You don't have to deal with it all day like I do it was too long." Eve explained crossing her arms. Leon stopped his work.

"You're lucky I already told my friends you were coming with. But when we get back you're in deep trouble. Perhaps before I leave I'll call the college and cancel all of your classes. We've obviously given you too much freedom and you've abused it. You will be confined to the house and I will be taking your car as well." She said with a glare before turning on her heels. "Leon put extensions in her hair and keep her hair down." She waved her hand at him. "Just wait till your father hears about this." She muttered and disappeared out the door.

Eve wanted to die. Not school, they could take anything away from her but school. It was the one place she could be free of her parents and their ridiculous rules and regulations. She fought with herself until she calmed down knowing that crying would only make it difficult for Leon to work on her. She took on a deep breath and slowly exhaled.

"Will you be alright my dear?" Leon asked.

"No." Eve shook her head. "But what else can I do?" Leon looked at her sadly.

"You know you could always run away." He suggested. "Your mom may pay me well but she is the most awful witch of a mother I have ever seen in my life. If you were my daughter I'd show off your beautiful eyes and let you do as you pleased with your hair and clothes. You're too beautiful to hide behind these hideous bland colors they try to cover you up with." He explained with the upmost sincerity in his voice making Eve blush a little.

"Thanks Leon, but if it was as easy as running away I would. I've tried before. They found me and had me committed for two months… it was awful…" Her voice got lower.

"Well I would never…" He looked astonished. "Well I suppose I should get to work then. Please remove those damn things from your eyes." He said holding a contact case out to her and she removed them closing the little vials shut. "That's much better." He smiled and began his work on her hair.

After a few moments Eve had that strange feeling again like someone was watching her and she looked up at the large brightly lit vanity mirror in front of her to see a small transparent bubble sitting there. After staring at it for a moment it popped and disappeared. That was twice in one day it had happened to her. Usually it only happened once a week if not every other. What was it? It was really starting to bother her. The more she thought about it the more she remembered about other strange things she had seen. A few times at some of the annoying social gatherings she thought she saw a tiny little goblin watching a woman sitting up in a chandelier or hiding behind the tapestries and under tables. Of course she never said anything about them to anyone, who would believe her anyways?

When Leon was finished with her she had white eye shadow on and extensions had been put in her hair making her hair long enough to frame her cleavage which was greatly enhanced by her push up bra with a diamond necklace that luckily covered most of her chest and long white gloves that went past her elbows.

"Alright you're all done and just in time. Just need your hideous fake eyes." He said holding the vials out to her and she put her contacts back in. "Good luck Evelyn." Leon said after her as she left the dressing room with her small purse over her shoulder and her shoes in her hand not wanting to put them on until she absolutely had to.

Luckily her mother was already in the car with her father and the driver had the passenger front seat door open for her meaning her mother wasn't ready to deal with her yet. She was incredibly thankful and hopped in the limo and once they took off she pulled her iPod out of her purse and listened to it the whole way there. If they did cancel her classes at least she still had music. She would definitely have to find Toby's sister and talk to her so she could at least let Toby know what happened. There was no way her parents would let her just go and see him unless they had previously met him at a place like the social gatherings they seem to have every weekend and approved of him first.

She groaned when they got there making the driver laugh as she put her iPod away in her tiny purse next to her book and slid her horrid white heels onto her feet before stepping out of the limo. Her mom took in a deep breath before approaching her with her stern faced father wearing a tuxedo with a red undershirt, and the three of them walked into the large entry way of the mansion together. It was filled with different colored copies of her parents and girls that were even more dolled up than her. The younger men were all dressed in white suits with red roses sticking out of their pocket standing around scanning the crowd for possible prey for their incessant prattle about how successful they were and how they were going to take over daddy's company one day.

The first thirty minutes Eve was dragged around by her mother and introduced to boys she didn't meet the last time they brought her along and a few of them began to talk to her while stealing glances at her breasts while they did so. One of them even offered to take her out to dinner. She quickly declined thankful her mother was out of earshot. She played her stupid little part and nodded and laughed when she was supposed to. An hour had gone by and she noticed another little bubble floating just below one of the chandeliers and it seemed to be following someone through the room and she soon noticed it was the same lady she had seen the little goblin watching before.

Eve made her way over to the woman still keeping an eye on the bubble expecting it to disappear at any moment but it didn't for once and kept after the woman in the green dress.

"Hello I'm Evelyn. I see you here every time I come I've just never introduced myself." She said in her most polite voice she could muster in her confusion.

"Oh Evelyn. You must be Eve. I'm Sarah Toby's sister he told me to look for you." She smiled and looked Eve straight in the eyes.

"Oh, I'm glad to finally meet you. How is your daughter doing, Lillian right?" Eve asked making small talk as she kept sight of the bubble and it suddenly got bigger then popped and disappeared.

"Yes she is doing wonderful. She's such a happy little thing." She said refusing to unlock eyes with her. "I'm sorry I'm staring at you so. Toby said I had to see your eyes. I don't know what he's talking about sometimes." She apologized.

"Oh." Eve blushed. "What did he say exactly?" She asked curiously.

"He said that you have pretty hidden eyes. What is he talking about?" She still continued to look into her.

"I would show you… but I can't here. If my parent's saw they'd… well I guess it doesn't really matter, what they'll do now, but I'd rather do it away from the crowd." She said a bit intrigued that someone else would even be the least bit interested in such things considering she was there amongst those dreadful people. Then she remembered that Toby said she wasn't like them.

"Oh well you've got me curious now. Follow me out to the garden no one ever goes out there." She said and led the way out of the crowd and down an empty hall and out onto a small balcony lit by small lamps that lead into a little garden. Sarah sat on the stone bench facing the flowers and patted the spot beside her and Eve joined her. Eve looked at her hesitantly as an owl flew above them out their sight and landed on a tall hedge above them gracefully not even making a sound. "Come on you can show me." She urged her.

Jareth watched them in complete confusion slowly piecing everything together. This girl Eve was friends with Toby the boy that got away from him and now Sarah the girl that beat him. The red corner of her book was visible sticking out of her purse at her side. How could all of this be? Who was this girl? He waited and watched as she took the contacts out of her eyes and heard Sarah gasp and stare in wonder. Jareth couldn't see what she was intrigued by and flew just above them and was about to land on a small pillar behind Sarah when Eve's mother came out into the garden and he flew back up to the high hedge to stay out of sight and saw Eve glance in his direction for a moment before she saw her mother making her way towards her.

Eve quickly stood and in doing so dropped her contacts and saw a look of horror on her mother's face when she saw her without her contacts in. "Damn it." Eve cursed at herself for dropping her contacts. Sarah looked completely confused.

"Don't use that kind of language here!" Her mother's face was red with anger. "What're you doing out here! You should be inside mingling with the nice boys. I heard you turned dinner down from Kevin, and now I find you out here throwing your contacts away! You hate me don't you? You just want me to look like a fool in front of all my friends!" She said furiously pointing at her accusingly.

"Excuse me. If you're this young lady's mother I suggest you hold your tongue. I've heard about you. You need to let her live her life and leave her alone! She's not a puppet for you to control so you can feel better about yourself!" Sarah yelled at the woman feeling compelled to protect the poor girl. There was just something about her, and her eyes made something deep stir inside of her but she couldn't place what it was, perhaps an old memory. From the few things that Toby had told her about Eve she knew that her parents were horrible people.

"Mom just go back inside and do whatever it is you do when you're here I'll just stay in the limo ok?" Eve said taking her shoes off as she made her way inside.

"Oh no you're not! I have spares! You're going to put them on and go back inside and tell Kevin that you accept his invite to dinner!" She commanded holding the vials out to her.

"Really? Are you that desperate for me to convert to your little fantasy world that you think I'll actually go in there and do that? Because I'm not. I hate your life style! But you won't let me out!" She waved her arms in the air and her book fell out of her purse. Her mom looked down at it.

"I thought I told you to get rid of that! It's not something a proper lady should be reading! Goblins and fairytale nonsense!" She went to pick it up but Jareth swooped down and picked it up in his talons and dropped it at Sarah's feet hoping it'd stir something inside of her, and make her remember him. Sarah stared at it in wonder. It looked oddly familiar and she picked it up and Eve ran to her and she handed it to her.

"Well it's all I have! A fairytale, a dream where I'm free of you and that man you say is my father!" Eve said and her mother's aggravated breathing went silent. She knew she hit a nerve. But she didn't say anything she was silent for once making Eve laugh. "I knew it! He isn't my father is he?!" Sarah watched the two of them completely bewildered and couldn't shake the familiarity in the air. Eve's eyes, the book, the owl, what was it?

"Of course he isn't! If he was you'd be a normal obedient girl like you should be!" Her mother bellowed and in that moment something hit Eve like a wall and her brain clicked together.

"I wish I could live in the Labyrinth. I wish I was away from this awful corrupt place." She said with meaning. "I wish the goblins would come and take me away right now!" Eve yelled and she felt a great power tug at her. Sarah and Eve's mother only saw her vanish in thin air, but Jareth and Eve saw a hole open up in the ground and several goblins grabbed her by the legs and pulled her into the earth and it closed up behind her. She was gone and Jareth could feel her presence in his castle.

Author's Note: Decided to finally repost this fic again. Yay! Please review. Enjoy. Hopefully I'll get some more done on it here soon along with my other fics.