Okay....this is my first Labyrinth fanfic so please be nice! Heck, this is my first fanfic ever! Well, the story starts off 1 1/2 years after Sarah left the Labyrinth, but when Jareth comes back(cue the dramatic music)...da da dum!!! What will she do? Sorry, it is 4 AM, kinda hyper, and here I am writing fanfics......
Disclaimer: Sadly, I own none of these characters or any of the Labyrinth.....sniffles....:-(
Sarah Williams sat in her room, trying to concentrate on the rather boring algebra assignment that was due the next day. Ever since her escapade in the Labyrinth, life had just seemed dull. Her stepmother continued to gripe incessantly, her father was always away at work or business meetings, Toby, although she loved him, still cried and whined, and she still didn't get along well at school.
Sigh...life just stank, like it always had. Well, at least since her parents had gotten divorced. Before then, life had been great. She knew that her mom and dad had been fighting, and the divorce was for the best, but still... When her parents had announced the news, Sarah had at first been terribly upset, she even locked herself in her room and refused to eat or sleep. Sarah missed her mom, but she was an actress, and that meant she was very busy and always off somewhere making movies. So because of that, Sarah moved in with her dad. Things turned from bad to worse when her father married that witch-woman. Her father seemed to think a "woman around the house" would be a good thing. Not when the woman was Linda. Then came Toby, her half-baby brother. Sarah loved him, really she did, but he could just be so irritating at times. "It's sad, really", she thought to herself. "One of my best friends is a two-year, and half the time he annoys the heck out of me."
It was true that Toby was one of her only friends. At school, everyone saw her as an outsider, somewhat of a freak. It wasn't that she didn't try to make friends, at first she had gone out of her way to be friendly to people, they just seemed to have it in for her. So she decided to quit trying, what was the use anyway, to be nice to someone who hates you? She'd much rather keep to herself anyway. She enjoyed immersing herself in her own fantasy world. But she never would have dreamed that that fantasy world would become a reality.
It had been a year and a half ago, but she still remembered it very clearly. She had been having a perfectly beautiful day in the park practicing lines from her favorite book, The Labyrinth. Just when she had gotten to the climax, she realized she was late for babysitting Toby. As if being late weren't bad enough, she had been caught in a thunderstorm, and once she was finally home, Linda decided it would be fun to reprimand her harshly for being late. Ugh.... Why did her father marry that woman? After her parents had left to go out for dinner, Toby would not stop crying. So she had called on the goblins to take him away. Sarah never thought it would work. That there actually were such things as goblins and that they would come take her brother away. That had been so terrifying, standing there in the dark after she realized Toby was gone from his crib, hearing things scurrying around in the dark. Then he appeared.
She knew who he was the moment she saw him. He stood there in front of the open window in a black cape and breeches with an amused grin on his face. The Goblin King. She hadn't expected him to be that handsome, quite frankly, although she'd never let him know that. At that moment she was already regretting her hasty wish making, and definitely not above begging. And that was what she had done. The Goblin King had been generous, well at least according to himself, in giving her a second chance at getting Toby back. He gave her 13 hours in which to solve the Labyrinth. If she got through the Labyrinth, to the center of the castle, in that amount of time, Toby would be hers again. Otherwise, the Goblin King would keep him forever. And probably turn him into a goblin.
Sarah closed her eyes and called to mind all the challenges and hardships she encountered in the Labyrinth. More than she could remember. It had been much, much harder than she had expected. If it hadn't been for her friends she made in the Labyrinth, she never would have made it. Oh, Hoggle, Ludo, and Sir Didymus. They were such good friends. She'd never had any friends like that in this world. People here in the Aboveground had no loyalty. Those final moments in the castle with the Goblin King had been a blur. She recalled being in the Escher Room, where it was possible to walk on walls, upside-down, sideways, anyway you could think of. He had been there, the Goblin King.... Jareth.
All she could think of at that moment was getting Toby back. Jareth had seemed so desperate about something...what was it? She racked her brain for what it was that made him seem so worried. "He said something about...how I turned his world upside down.... Moving the stars for no one...Then when we finally came face to face, he had made me an offer...damn, what was it? I was so worried about getting Toby back, that I never even paid attention to what he was saying...I wish I could know what Jareth said to me. Damn." She suddenly noticed a slight chill in the air and got up to go close her window. As she stood near the window, chills ran down her spine as she felt a gloved hand on her shoulder, and heard the whisper in her ear, "Look, Sarah. Look what I am offering you. Your dreams. I ask for so little. Just let me rule you, and you can have everything that you want. Just fear me, love me, do as I say, and I will be your slave."
She gasped in shock as she realized what was happening. She had unknowingly opened a door for the Goblin King. And that door was the one to her room. Sarah whirled around and met Jareth face to face. He looked not a day older, although she had aged almost two years. One arm circled around her waist, bringing her closer to him, while the other hand swept around her back. He looked deeply into her eyes...she had never had anyone stare at her that intensely, why did he do that? "I made that offer to you over a year ago, and you declined," he continued. "Now, I am giving you another chance at happiness, what will it be?"
Okay, that's just the first chapter! There will be more, hopefully, if I stay on my lazy butt and write more....
Disclaimer: Sadly, I own none of these characters or any of the Labyrinth.....sniffles....:-(
Sarah Williams sat in her room, trying to concentrate on the rather boring algebra assignment that was due the next day. Ever since her escapade in the Labyrinth, life had just seemed dull. Her stepmother continued to gripe incessantly, her father was always away at work or business meetings, Toby, although she loved him, still cried and whined, and she still didn't get along well at school.
Sigh...life just stank, like it always had. Well, at least since her parents had gotten divorced. Before then, life had been great. She knew that her mom and dad had been fighting, and the divorce was for the best, but still... When her parents had announced the news, Sarah had at first been terribly upset, she even locked herself in her room and refused to eat or sleep. Sarah missed her mom, but she was an actress, and that meant she was very busy and always off somewhere making movies. So because of that, Sarah moved in with her dad. Things turned from bad to worse when her father married that witch-woman. Her father seemed to think a "woman around the house" would be a good thing. Not when the woman was Linda. Then came Toby, her half-baby brother. Sarah loved him, really she did, but he could just be so irritating at times. "It's sad, really", she thought to herself. "One of my best friends is a two-year, and half the time he annoys the heck out of me."
It was true that Toby was one of her only friends. At school, everyone saw her as an outsider, somewhat of a freak. It wasn't that she didn't try to make friends, at first she had gone out of her way to be friendly to people, they just seemed to have it in for her. So she decided to quit trying, what was the use anyway, to be nice to someone who hates you? She'd much rather keep to herself anyway. She enjoyed immersing herself in her own fantasy world. But she never would have dreamed that that fantasy world would become a reality.
It had been a year and a half ago, but she still remembered it very clearly. She had been having a perfectly beautiful day in the park practicing lines from her favorite book, The Labyrinth. Just when she had gotten to the climax, she realized she was late for babysitting Toby. As if being late weren't bad enough, she had been caught in a thunderstorm, and once she was finally home, Linda decided it would be fun to reprimand her harshly for being late. Ugh.... Why did her father marry that woman? After her parents had left to go out for dinner, Toby would not stop crying. So she had called on the goblins to take him away. Sarah never thought it would work. That there actually were such things as goblins and that they would come take her brother away. That had been so terrifying, standing there in the dark after she realized Toby was gone from his crib, hearing things scurrying around in the dark. Then he appeared.
She knew who he was the moment she saw him. He stood there in front of the open window in a black cape and breeches with an amused grin on his face. The Goblin King. She hadn't expected him to be that handsome, quite frankly, although she'd never let him know that. At that moment she was already regretting her hasty wish making, and definitely not above begging. And that was what she had done. The Goblin King had been generous, well at least according to himself, in giving her a second chance at getting Toby back. He gave her 13 hours in which to solve the Labyrinth. If she got through the Labyrinth, to the center of the castle, in that amount of time, Toby would be hers again. Otherwise, the Goblin King would keep him forever. And probably turn him into a goblin.
Sarah closed her eyes and called to mind all the challenges and hardships she encountered in the Labyrinth. More than she could remember. It had been much, much harder than she had expected. If it hadn't been for her friends she made in the Labyrinth, she never would have made it. Oh, Hoggle, Ludo, and Sir Didymus. They were such good friends. She'd never had any friends like that in this world. People here in the Aboveground had no loyalty. Those final moments in the castle with the Goblin King had been a blur. She recalled being in the Escher Room, where it was possible to walk on walls, upside-down, sideways, anyway you could think of. He had been there, the Goblin King.... Jareth.
All she could think of at that moment was getting Toby back. Jareth had seemed so desperate about something...what was it? She racked her brain for what it was that made him seem so worried. "He said something about...how I turned his world upside down.... Moving the stars for no one...Then when we finally came face to face, he had made me an offer...damn, what was it? I was so worried about getting Toby back, that I never even paid attention to what he was saying...I wish I could know what Jareth said to me. Damn." She suddenly noticed a slight chill in the air and got up to go close her window. As she stood near the window, chills ran down her spine as she felt a gloved hand on her shoulder, and heard the whisper in her ear, "Look, Sarah. Look what I am offering you. Your dreams. I ask for so little. Just let me rule you, and you can have everything that you want. Just fear me, love me, do as I say, and I will be your slave."
She gasped in shock as she realized what was happening. She had unknowingly opened a door for the Goblin King. And that door was the one to her room. Sarah whirled around and met Jareth face to face. He looked not a day older, although she had aged almost two years. One arm circled around her waist, bringing her closer to him, while the other hand swept around her back. He looked deeply into her eyes...she had never had anyone stare at her that intensely, why did he do that? "I made that offer to you over a year ago, and you declined," he continued. "Now, I am giving you another chance at happiness, what will it be?"
Okay, that's just the first chapter! There will be more, hopefully, if I stay on my lazy butt and write more....
