I wish…

A lot of people wish for things like cars, boys, or everyday items. What they don't understand is that none of those wishes can come true unless they actually mean them. People always say to be careful what you wish for.

If only Sarah had listened to that warning.

Wishing someone away with so much hatred should be a sin. But the human race has figured out a place to redeem themselves. This place is known only to a privileged few, and the only way to get there is to be a wished away, or to have wished someone away. Here, in this strange land that has twenty-six hours instead of twenty-four, people can redeem themselves for the wildest of things. Here a wished away is put into a castle in the center of a labyrinth, while the wisher is forced to run the Labyrinth in thirteen hours or less. The only person to ever complete this Labyrinth in the allotted time, was a young girl by the name of Sarah Williams. This is where everything started.

Sarah was sitting in her room, it has been exactly three years since she had first run the labyrinth. Ever since then the memories kept her awake at night. The thought of falling into an oubliette kept her dodging footsteps anywhere she walked. Her eyes were bloodshot and she was constantly so tired she didn't know what to do.

Everywhere she looked, she saw his face. After her friends had left onthat dreaded night, she didn't dare call them-it was too hard for her. Always glancing over her shoulders when she was alone in her room never helped, because she always saw glitter flying in the air. Only her mother really understood her when it came to the nightmares. Eventually she thought it best to live with her.

It was only two years after she moved in that Linda was killed. She was so depressed that her life as an actress was over and that her second husband had left her. She decided to go to a bar and have a drink and ended up getting hit by a car. Sarah was distraught. She had to move back in with Karen and her father.

Sarah was never the same after that. She blamed it all on herself. Toby tried to help her, but he made everything worse. He served as a constant reminder of the life that she could've had but didn't.

All of the nightmares were back, but the bad thing was,she wasn't having just one at a time. They were coming all at once. Now she never got to sleep, she couldn't.

Every day her mind got the best of her. She kept seeing goblins where there weren't any and owls sitting outside her window.

The sad thing was that Jareth was trying to help her. He didn't know that it was his fault that all of this happened to Sarah. There was no way he could know that he did anything to her.

Finally Sarah had enough. "I wish the Goblin King would come here right now!" she screamed.

"Sarah, whatever do you want?" Jareth asked when he got there in a sea of glitter.

"Why are you doing this to me? What did I do to receive this torment?" Sarah asked, tears were staining her face as she spoke.

"What do you mean, my dear? I haven't done a thing to you," Jareth said honestly, but Sarah didn't care.

"You know what, I hate you! I have always hated you. You have tormented my dreams since I got home from your little game. You don't understand how much I hate you!" Sarah snarled with so much venom in her voice that Jareth flinched when he heard the words.

"Sarah you know as much as I do that you don't hate me as much as you think you do," Jareth tried to convince her.

"I can't stand you," she repeated, "and to show you how much I am fed up with you, you will love this," She laughed hysterically as she pulled out the knife. The sleepless nights finally caught up with her as she finally lost all threads of sanity.

"Sarah! don't," Jareth cried and lunged for the knife, but it was too late. Sadly, he watched as the knife plunged into her chest, just missing her heart. Jareth caught her before she hit the ground.

"F…F…Funny isn't i…i… it…" she choked out. "Th….this is h…h….h…how I al…" she coughed, "always wan….wanted to end up…" she was panting heavily now. "I….I'm sorry." She closed her eyesbut kept breathing heavily.

"You are not dead yet, I will not let that happen," Jareth swore,quickly teleporting to his castle and calling a goblin. "Fix a room for a lady. She will be staying with us for some time." He told it and then he teleported them to the heart of the Labyrinth.

"Lady of the Labyrinth please come to me," Jareth called.

A swirling white cloud came up and a voice spoke out. "My son, what is it that ails you?"

"My only love has been fatally wounded-please will you help me?" he was almost crying and the voice was moved to pity.

"My ruler has fallen for a mortal - the only way for you to be with her is to have her fall in love with you and for your love to match in passion." The voice said. "She also has to speak of her love of you with her whole heart. Place her here," The voice commanded and a beam of light appeared.

Jareth hesitated for only a second as he placed Sarah in the center of the light. Slowly,before his eyes,Sarah was healed.

"You have two weeks for her to admit her love for you," the voice warned before Sarah's body was brought back to him.