Authors note: this is a birthday gift for the amazing and beautiful (and faux french) Alexandra! HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOVE!
also I own nothing... except the plot
"Give me the child."
"Sarah, beware. I have been generous up til now. But I can be cruel"
"Generous? What have you done that's generous?"
"Everything! Everything that you wanted I have done. You asked for the child to be taken, I took him. You cowered before me, I was frightening. I have reordered time. I have turned the world upside down, and I have done it all for you! I'm exhausted from living up to your expectations of me. Isn't that generous?"
"Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City. For my will is as strong as yours, and my kingdom…"
"Stop! Wait, look Sarah. Look what I am offering you. Your dreams."
"And my kingdom is great."
"I ask for so little. Just let me rule you, and you can have everything that you want."
"And my kingdom is great… damn! I can never remember that line."
"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave"
"My kingdom is great… my kingdom…. You have no power over me!"
Jareth woke in a cold sweat. It had been months since he had that dream.
Getting up he walked into his bathroom and looked in the mirror. Staring into his own grey eyes he wondered if Sarah Williams would forever be embedded in his subconscious. He knew the answer of course. Yes. She would always been on his mind, because Sarah was special. Not because she had decided to run the Labyrinth in search of her brother. Many regretted wishes after making them, and over the hundreds of years, many had chosen to run. She was also not the first person to beat his Labyrinth. In the beginning everyone would make it through in time, if only by seconds. Then as the centuries went on, people became lazy not willing to work for what they wanted. But people still beat his Labyrinth
Sarah Williams was different, because she was the girl he had given his heart to. Not in a grand romantic gesture, but in his own way. Jareth was not the sort of person to get down on one knee and promise a woman his heart. He admired is many outfits too much to risk soiling them. Nonetheless, the offer he had given her was genuine.
Never before had he put himself in that vulnerable of a position. He had offered her the world, his world, and she refused him.
"Sire? I hate to disturb you… but we have a girl and she is getting close to the volens puncti. And I just thought you might like to be prepared." The little goblins name was Zufa. A pathetic looking thing that was no more than three feet tall. Her ears flopped down below her waist and her feet were almost as long as she. The small black hat she wore had various holes in it in which her red hair stuck through. She was constantly trembling; no matter how many times Jareth had told her that she had nothing to fear from him.
Jareth nodded, he had more important issues to dwell on than his subconscious longing for Sarah.
"Yes thank you, Zufa."
Jareth conjured a crystal and vanished on the spot.
"Deep breath… okay now count to ten. 1…2…"
"AUNTY SARAH!" in an instant Sarah found her arms full of five year old.
"Well hello Miss Alex."
"Sorry to come barging in like this… but she insisted on coming to see you before you went out there and rocked the show. " Alex's mom Rebecca came walking into the room carrying baby Elizabeth, or as Alex liked to call her baby sister, Stinky Liz. Sarah could relate at least in part, Alex was the product of a failed high school romance during Rebecca and Sarah's freshman year of college. Two years later Rebecca had met Bill. And so the story went. Now they were married and three months ago had Liz. Sadly Alex had kind of been pushed out of the limelight at home, a feeling Sarah understood all too well.
Rebecca had been Sarah's roommate in the dorms on campus and the girls had remained close over the years, but mostly because Alex absolutely adored Sarah, a feeling that was most definitely mutual.
"Don't worry about it Rebecca. Alex knows she is my good luck charm. Right Pumpkin Lips?"
"The rine in spine sties minely in the pline" Alex said with a smile.
Sarah laughed "Precisely"
Baby Liz chose that moment to become unhappy with her current situation in her mother's arms. And began screaming. "Well I think that is our cue to go... break a leg Sarah, come on Alex"
Sarah continued her preparation for the show, trying to clear her mind. Unfortunately her kinship with Alex's feelings was threatening to drudge up memories that Sarah had practiced keeping out of her mind for years, even if a flash of blond hair and glitter would flash through her mind.
"I couldn't sleep tonight. Not for all the jewels in the crown!" Sarah glanced to the audience
"I could have danced all night! I could have danced all night!" Little Alex was bouncing up and down in the third row waving.
"And still have begged for more. I could have spread my wings" The man sitting next to her looked vaguely familiar.
"And done a thousand things I've never done before." Wait, was he wearing eye make-up. Shiny silver eye-make up?
"I'll never know What made it so exciting" It couldn't be…
"Why all at once My heart took flight" was it?
"I only know when he began to dance with me I could have danced, danced, danced all night!"
And then they were gone.