How He Watched

by Leki

Labyrinth. Sarah/Jareth. Rated K. Genre - Romance/Fantasy.

Even kings fall in love. [set after the movie

aanderson, hazlegrnLizzy, yodeladyhoo, Nimue-x0, comedychik84 - thank you all for the reviews, and for those who favorited this story. They definately give me heart to keep writing. I'm just sorry that this took such a long time to come out! But now it's here, so enjoy.

Part II: The Lady and Her Knight

"SawAH!" A high pitched, squealing little voice, hyped up by happiness that only small children seem to have, "SAAAWWAAAAAH!" Again, the piercing yell as he did not find who he wanted.

High up now, in the old Victorian house, into a high ceilinged room. The intended target finished pulling her long brown hair back with a celtic patterned clip, before counting down by putting her fingers out, and curling them down one by one. She sighed with a small smile not able to keep from curling on her lips. Her ears picked up the swift pitter patterings of small feet com rushing up the winding stairs at the side of the house. She turned in time for a small boy to collide with her legs, hugging her fiercly. So fierce was it that she had to hold ontop of the bureau to keep from toppling over. She laughed, crouching down to wrap him up in her arms in an equally fierce hug.

"What's Sir Toby doing in my castle?" The boy gave her a sloppy kiss on the cheek, one arm around her, the other around his tattered teddy bear.

"Momma said I had to stay here, cuz they gonna go on a cwooze." He tilted his head at her as she gave a deep sigh, "Sawah don't wan Toby?" He stuck out his lip at her, giving her the infamous puppy dog eyes. Sarah put on a smile for the young one, and shook her head.

"No, no, Toby. Sarah wants you veeeery much." She kissed his head, and pushed him to go play. As he ran off giggling, she went to her wide window, and peeped out. There was her step-mother, waving from inside her car. As soon as she saw Sarah looking at her, she pulled her arm back into the car, and she, probably along with Sarah's own father, drove off in a rush. Sarah's face darkened slightly, her lips tighting into a line. It annoyed her that her father and step-mom didn't even care, but they did this so often, it didn't bother her as badly as it once did. With a sigh, Sarah turned, smiling, "So what does Toby want to play..." She turned, and the smile froze slightly.

"Grrrr!" A goblin face stared up at her, it's face grotesquelly in a grin with narrowed eyes peeping out above. He tilted his head as Sarah stared a moment, the pulled at the rubbery mask to better see her, "Wuz wrong Sarah?" Sarah blinked, then smiled naturally again.

"Nothing, Toby my prince! But why does such a strong prince like such nasty goblins?" Toby grinned and pulled the mask down to cover his face once again.

"'Cause their cool, dat's why! They so tricky an' sneeeeaky! And they don't gotta take no baths!" Sarah shook her head, and swooped him up, tickling him till he could barely breath. For hours they played Lady and the Goblin Knight, and still Toby didn't want to quit. Eventually, Sarah ushered him off to bed, promising him a new goblin mask if he was a good little goblin, and went to sleep. He rushed off squealing, and waited for Sarah to tell him a story. He picked the Labyrinth, as he usually did.
"Toby... why don't we read something else? Like about the Seven Dwarfs, or maybe... King Arthur?" Toby shook his head, sucking on his thumb, and spoke around it.

"No dwurfs er Awthwer. Goblins!" Sarah sighed, and picked up the small red book, thumbing through it.

"Well, which part do you want to read?" Toby quite sucking on his thumb long enough to answer, and pull his blanket up to his chin.

"I wantcha to read 'bout the Goblin Village! An the Golbin King! He's so cool!"

Once the story was read, and Toby had his fill of goblins, Sarah stood her wide bedroom window, which overlooked the park she loved to go and walk through. What was it was Toby and Goblins? Ever since he had grown big enough to speak, that's all he could talk about. He had started to talk that he had seen the goblins, and they had played with him, a long time ago. Of course, his parents didn't believe him. But Sarah... she knew what had happened when he was barely old enough to stand up. He had been stolen by those sneaky goblins, and that Jared- how dare Toby say that the Goblin King was cool! He was nothing but a sneaking thief.

Sarah sighed deeply. All this talk of goblins had made her uneasy. The last time he had visited, he had even begged her to come with him to the park, and search for the goblins. He had always wanted to meet them. Sarah sourly wished that they would never meet again. If there ever was another time, she might night be able to win back what was hers again. So she would have to get his attention away from the goblins, and the Labyrinth. She didn't want that book giving him ideas, and him to accidentaly stumble upon a way to that place. She shook her head. No, that wasn't right. He would probably try to find a way, not stumble upon it. All the more reason to get rid of that blasted book.

She leaned her elbows tiredly on the sill of the window, and sighed deeply. Slowly she leaned her head against the side of the window, and closed her eyes. This breeze felt so good. Her mind wandered over Jared. She wondered what he was doing now, what he was doing now that he had only those goblins to entertain him. Hopefully he hadn't found any new victims. Her mind wandered farther, onto that dance they had shared. She had been under a spell, or drugged, whichever... but that dance had still been nice. And she guessed she could see why Toby missed the place. It was so full of wonderful, fantastical things. A place of fairies, monsters, and yes, goblins. And one big maze, all with a mind of it's own. She knew she should be thinking of a way to get Toby's mind from goblins and the Labyrinth... but for now, she would just let herself dream.

Yes... dreaming sounded nice.

I really hate putting a space between my paragraphs... I usually use TAB, but it doesn't work here... wipes away tear But at least with the spaces, it's easier to read! Hope you enjoyed, and again, thank you for reviews and favorites.