Sweet revenge

Chapter one: Nightmares

Her adventure in the labyrinth... it's been almost two years but she still can't move on. She's constantly thinking about her friends but also about Jareth. It's been a while since she saw Ludo, Didymus and Hoogle. For some reasons they didn't answer her calls when she wanted to see them. So she stopped calling them. Sarah fears that Jareth severely punished them and made sure that they would not be able to appear in her room upon request. She is sure that he's doing this to make her worry about her friends and make her think about him at the same time, even if it's not good and positive thoughts. As long as she was thinking about him, it was fine.

She often feels alone. She has no friends or no social life whatsoever because she has to baby-sit her baby brother every single weekend. Her stepmother's always after her, following her every move, to make sure that she will have her daily complaining-about-Sarah dose.

Many times Sarah wanted to call the goblins to take her brother away again. He's a spoiled brat who has everything he wants as soon as he starts to cry. Sarah was trying to ignore the fact that she would pronounce the words to calm the urge to see Jareth again. Every time that thought would emerge, she would try to convince herself to refute it. "Falling in love with my arch enemy? No way!"

The only thing that was quite annoying was that Sarah might have control over her mind during the day, but not during the night, in her dreams. Jareth is excellent in playing with other people's dream with his magic, especially with mortals. Sarah has dreams about him every night and they are far from being pleasant. She would wake up in the middle of the night with cold shivers running down her spine from these nightmares. In her dreams, she would see the labyrinth and the castle into ruins. The sad and heinous look Jareth had every time he would lay his eyes on her was very frightening. Sarah knows that something will happen soon. Her friends are not visiting her anymore and these dreams mean that something bad is going to occur. She started to worry about these dreams and her safety.

When the nightmares started, Sarah did a little investigation by analyzing them. Dream dictionaries were useless. These nightmares seemed to be utterly abnormal…

Then one night, without any apparent reasons the dreams stopped. Just like that. Maybe you'd think that's a relief for Sarah, but it's not. One night she was haunted by these horrible dreams and then she would finally be free. Something's wrong, definitely wrong. She knows that Jareth would not leave her alone like that. She knows that Jareth is planning to come and see her, and that little chat, is not going to be a happy reunion. The dreams were only a foretaste of all the hate Jareth has for Sarah. The idea of having the heinous Goblin King in her house was not very reassuring.

It's been two weeks since the nightmares stopped and no signs of Jareth. Sarah started to think that she was being paranoid because every little sound would make her jump to the ceiling. She couldn't stay alone in one room without being scared. Every time her stepmother wanted Sarah to baby-sit; Sarah would hesitate or make up phony excuses for not wanting to. She was trying to convince Karen to stay home instead of leaving her alone in this enormous house. Karen was the one to convince, because Sarah's father would never try to confront his new wife. Karen was sick and tired of Sarah's behavior. Instead of growing up, she thought that Sarah was acting more like a child who's afraid of monsters under the bed. She didn't know why Sarah was so afraid to be left alone... and she didn't know that Sarah had many reasons to be truly afraid...