Power Over Me
"Crystals"
Part One
By: Lei
Sheng
A/N: OK, for this first part, he's mostly just reflecting back in the events occurring throughout the movie, adding in his perspective. More of a prologue then anything else… This is also a good way to start if you're not formiliar with the movie. Now I'm babbling. Sorry. On to the fanfic.
He could
see her face; hear her breath as she softly slept on her blue dinosaur-shaped
pillow amongst her stuffed animals. Her
brown hair covered her neck in a delicate, near-picturesque way. He could feel
her in his mind, mostly of his own hopes and dreams for the two of them,
brought upon by years of wishing for a companion that was his equal, not one of
the goblins that he ruled. If only…if
only she could ever see more in him, know him, love him…
He was
Jareth, the Goblin King, cruel and treacherous beyond imagination, so he
thought, completely bewitched by a mortal girl. The only thing that mattered now to him was the image of her in
the orb that rolled smoothly between his fingers. He was oblivious to the performance he was presenting to the
world of his castle, filled with winding pathways that he knew by heart, the
tricks that he held to find his way through each, and the memories each held.
For
so long… he
recalled, for so long I have lived within her heart, knowing her
better and better each time she read of me, and her the same… Jareth
sighed. Yet…yet here I am,
losing interest in all else, but finding her…
He had
lived within her, around her…the play he had first appeared to her in had inspired
her, she had reenacted to the verse, she had seemed to call upon him, and he
had come, long before she was even aware of it. Jareth watched her for month after month as an owl, switching
between realms every day to see her performance…
And now,
now he had fallen in love with her.
She had truly summoned him with spite for her brother, for him to take the baby away. He knew that with the babe, he would have power over her, for the only true power that was his was the power that the creatures themselves had given him and that was his perfect opportunity to show himself to his admired one.
The girl tested her power and proved to be even more powerful than Jareth had imagined, and she had won once…and seemed to spite him. But his feelings never changed.
He still stared, mystified by what seemed to be her growing beauty as his time of gazing into the crystal grew longer. He juggled the semitransparent ball from hand to hand, as a natural reaction, thinking of all that had happened between them.
"Oh, God…" Jareth muttered. "How could she ever love me? She thinks that I kidnapped her brother…like some heartless scoundrel!"
He stared sorrowfully into the crystal that rolled gracefully across his fingertips. Suddenly, he snatched it up.
"I shall see her tonight!" he decided, slipping the sphere into his robes as they melted away as he transformed himself into a great snowy owl and flapped between worlds as fast as night crept in through twilight.
Jareth's wings carried him silently through the skies, and into the bedroom of the sleeping girl. Now, he knew, she was more beautiful then the crystal in his pocket could ever tell him. He spread his great white-silvery wings and transformed into his true self.
The tingling he felt deep within his chest when he gazed at her face…it almost hurt, yet he enjoyed it so much that he wished that he should never leave her side to keep it. He began to think again.
A gift… he thought silently,
whispering in his mind, for too loud a thought may wake the sleeper. To remind you of me, my…
Words left him. So long he had feared
nothing, seemed to feel no compassion, yet here…now…he could find himself overwhelmed. Sarah…
Quickly he created a new orb, rolled it a few times around on his fingers so as to see the image held within it. Pleased, he placed it atop the girl's dresser, softly, so that it was only a soft chime atop the polished wood. Slowly, he leaned over her, smelling the air that seemed to dance about her.
"Sarah…" he whispered aloud into her ear.
Immediately, the sleeper stirred, and as fast as he had come, he was gone.
A/N: Ok, so it's a bit strange, but I haven't been myself lately. This is also my first Labyrinth fanfic. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated,
so Review. OK? Please? Thank you!
~Lei
Sheng