My first Labyrinth fanfiction. JarethxSarah.

Rated: T-M, rating changeable at any time

Summary: "Well I wish that'd I'd just disappear!" Sarah's words tip the first domino in the line - and it's much too late to stop them from falling.

Sarah sat in her bedroom, clutching the only stuffed bear she still treasured. After her time in the Underground she realized that all of her belongings didn't mean as much as she had thought before. What mattered was her brother, her father, her step mother. The Goblin King.

She shook her head and shifted to her back, staring up at the dark ceiling. After three years, the world she lived in was mind-numbing and tiresome. She missed the Underground. She missed the goblins. She missed Hoggle and Ludo. But most of all…she missed…him.

For the first couple months she was back at home she didn't admit it. She couldn't. He had kidnapped Toby; he had threatened her life with his Labyrinth. But she missed him. When he held her, during her dream, his warmth and smell caressed her. His laugh enticed her. All she wanted was to let his lips feel their way around every inch of her body…

But she would never think his name again; never wish to see him again. He didn't know what it was to love; to care; to feel. He took what he wanted and he did as he pleased; he was a king who ruled without a heart.

So no. As much as she wanted to give in to her mind's wishes, she would never allow herself to have it.

Her eyes teared and she curled into a ball on her side, holding the bear tight.

"Sarah," her step mother Karen called from outside her room. Sarah blinked her tears away and sat up, switching a light on, glancing at the clock: 7:00 pm.

She pushed herself out of bed and called, "Come in."

"Honey," Karen said, pushing through the door to stand in from of Sarah. "We're driving over to grandma's house, do you want to come?"

"I have homework."

"You were staring at the ceiling just now."

"Taking a nap doesn't mean I don't have homework."

Karen stared at her for a moment before shaking her head. "Alright. Do what you'd like. I'm taking Toby with me. Your father is going straight over after work. Why don't you call a friend to hang out with while we're gone?"

"I don't want to." I don't have any friends, Karen, Sarah thought angrily.

"It's Friday," Karen frowned, sitting on the bed beside Sarah. "Don't sit here like you do every night; hangout with people your age and have fun."

"Homework is fun."

Karen shook her head. "Sarah, what's wrong with you?"

"Goodbye, Karen," she said dismissively. The older woman took the hint and stood, turning down to her step daughter.

"Well then do as you'd like. We'll be sleeping at grandma's so you'll be home alone all night."

"Okay."

Shaking her head once more, Karen went to the door, but turned once more. "I only wish you'd have fun."

"Well I wish that I'd just disappear!"

Sarah threw her hands in the air and stood, going to her window, looking out at the night that was already out from the late time in the year. Karen slammed the door behind her.

Sarah put her hands to her mouth, her eyes wide as she stood at the window, realizing what she said. "I take it back, I take it back!"

She shook her head and turned away from the window, breathing in and out. Maybe he was gone. Maybe it wouldn't count. Downstairs she could hear Karen rounding up Toby and his toys, then the door open and close.

Slowly, she went downstairs to collect junk to eat; popcorn or chips, soda or juice. She grabbed randomly and went back up to her room, to find and finish her homework. As she opened her door there was a coldness that swept over her skin.

She dropped her goods to stare at her full sized window, wide open, the curtains waving in the cold breeze. She ran to pull the windows shut but was frozen by a voice.

"Sarah."

She didn't turn. "Jareth." It was the first time she'd said his name in three years.

"You made a wish, Sarah."

She turned to stare Jareth in the eye. "I didn't mean it."

"I believe we've been through this before, have we not?"

"I don't want to go with you, Jareth."

He smiled and her heart skipped a beat. "Of course you do, dear."

She didn't say anything as he stepped closer, holding a hand out to her. She closed her eyes for a moment, trying to catch her breath. His hand was on her face, at that moment, his thumb brushing the side of her eye.

"Can you not just give in to me?"

Sarah opened her eyes and slapped his hand away. "You tried to kill me, Jareth."

He frowned. "When was this?"

Sarah let out a frustrated cry and pushed him backwards. The mask on his face was confusion, but he was hurt. Quicker than he'd let her see, his face twisted to anger.

"Sarah you have no choice. You will come with me whether you like it or not -" As he spoke he stepped forward and embraced her.

Her eyes opened to an old, familiar world.

They were in his throne room, one she had only visited briefly as she ran to meet him at the top of the castle. She bit the inside of her mouth and pulled angrily out of his grasp, but he held onto her arm.

Sarah turned to stare the king in the eye, trying to shoot daggers into his brain. "Let me go, Jareth."

"If looks could kill I'd be dead ten times over," he responded with a satisfied smile. She pulled away from him and stepped forward, farther away. Silently, she observed her surroundings. It had been empty when she had encountered it, but she could tell it was a common place for the goblins of this realm.

"Just fear me…"

Sarah shook her head once and turned, "Turn me into a goblin then."

"Is that what you think I should do?"

"It's what you were going to do to Toby."

"…Love me…"

"But not what I shall do to you." And in a blink of an eye he had disappeared from her sight.

"Do as I say and I will be your slave."

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