His Queen

Chapter 1-Old Sarah

Pairing: Jareth/Sarah

Raiting: T(M)

Fandom: Labyrinth

It happened all so fast, Sarah hadn't even graduated high school yet and she went off to New York City to pursue her dreams of becoming an actress. She went to audition after audition to find she was never accepted. She could barely afford her decrepit apartment. She was loosing it.

"Oh Sarah, what are you doing living like that?" Jareth said gazing into his crystal. "Poor dear, you deserve so much more!" He thought to himself. "Maybe I should help her."

Sarah walked into her home after another failed audition. She threw her bag down and made her way to the bathroom, she opened the cabinet. She scrambled to find the painkillers. She opened the bottle and swallowed five. "God I can't live like this." She fell onto her mattress on the floor, she drifted to sleep.

There was a pounding on the door, she dizzily got up and looked at the clock, it was two o'clock in the morning. She opened the door. "What the hell, its two in the morning!" She yelled not even knowing who it was. It was the landlady. "That's it Miss Williams! You better be out by this Friday!" She shouted. "No please! I swear I'll pay the bills don't kick me out! I'm begging you!" She said on her knees crying. "Friday!" the landlady said slamming the door.

"It's not fair! It's not fair!" She cried going to the bathroom. She was just about to open the cabinet again when she saw in the reflection a familiar face. She gasped jumping back. "Still whining are we Sarah?" Jareth mocked. "What are you doing here?" She said backing out of the small room. "Sarah, your miserable, I know my Goblin Queen doesn't deserve this." He said stroking her cheek. She swatted him away. "I'm not your Goblin Queen, you f***ing crazy maniac!" She fell back on the floor. "Sarah, now when did you get such a nasty mouth? Tsk, tsk, only I can talk like that." He crouched down to her level. "Remember when you were young, so innocent, nothing in your head but toys and costumes, now this!" He said picking up the pill bottle and tossing it across the room. "Where's my old Sarah?" He leaned in over her.

"Get off of me!" she said flailing her arms and legs. "What's this?" Jareth said, plucking the red book out of her bag. "Don't touch it! Don't you dare!" She tried to get to her feet. He held the small book in his hand "Labyrinth, ah yes. You haven't forgotten." He said holding it in his hand. "The Goblin King had fallen in love with the girl…yes, I love this book." he walked over to Sarah and picked her on her feet. "Now lets get rid of these" He picked up the pills and walked into the bathroom. He dumped them in the toilet. "I'm not really sure how to use this Sarah, you fix that." She walked over and flushed. Jareth opened the cabinet and took the hairspray. He flipped his hair setting it. Sarah giggled.

"Ah there's what I miss. That smile those eyes, your brother has the same." He walked over to her bedside picking up a bottle of nail polish. "Love this color, purple is good on you." Sarah erupted with anger "Stay away from Toby!" Jareth laughed to himself "I haven't gone near him, just seen him through my crystal and I've seen you. You're a fantastic actress Sarah, I saw you with one director, he looked restless, but then…people are cruel." He said with a sympathetic look. "I'm not going to screw myself to fame, let alone let that disgusting pervert touch me!" She plopped down on her bed and shed a tear, and fell into a bawl. "Good God Sarah, stop!" he knelt in front of her.

"I can't stand to see your like this." He stroked her cheek. "Get out Jareth! Go! I don't want anything to do with you!" She pushed him away, he grabbed her wrist. "Sarah, you insolent little girl!" He gave a fierce gaze. "It's not fair!" Sarah wailed over and over. "Get out Jareth! Leave! Your not even real! I made you up!" She yelled in his face. "God Sarah, your so unbearably stubborn! No one tells the Goblin King what do to. I've been patient and all you've done is put up a fuss!" He said standing annoyed and loosing his patients.

Sarah turned on his bed and clutched her stuffed bear. "Make him go away Lancelot." She cried to herself. "Sarah, I'm still here and I refuse to leave until you let me take you away from here!" He said getting more and more frustrated. "Sarah? Sarah! Are you listening you foolish girl?" He went close to her face and found her sleeping. "Sarah, your going to make such a marvelous queen, I could just watch you sleep forever." He stroked her hair. He stood up and leaned back and Sarah's music box fell to the ground, it started to play the tune from that masquerade Jareth made just for her. He started to sing softly to her.

"There's such a sad love ,deep in your eyes. A kind of pale jewel, open and close within your

eyes. I'll place the sky, within your eyes…"

He caressed her cheek, singing, bringing her back to his domain. He was ready to have his Goblin Queen forever. He took her in his arms.

"Falling. Falling, falling in love, as the world falls down."….TO BE CONTINUED…