Hi guys! Oh my gosh, so basically right after I posted the first chapter I kept checking back literally every five seconds to see how many people viewed it and started to follow it and what not and I was SO HAPPY. Like I literally just kept smiling, and when I woke up in the morning and found that four or five people had already followed it/favorited it, that I got two reviews, AND almost 100 people viewed it I literally died. I know it's not a lot to some people but, that seriously made my day. I'll be responding to reviews at the end of every chapter so I don't continuously make these beginning authors notes very long. Okay so here is chapter two, and like I said any story similar to mine is pure coincidence as I loathe plagiarism.

DISCLAIMER: Again, I do not own Labyrinth in any shape, way, manner, or form. All rights go to Jim Henson, Lucasfilms and any other person who had say in making the film.

Love Without Your Heartbeat

Chapter 2: Always Watching.

Sarah sat at her vanity combing through her long black locks. It had been almost three years since Sarah ran the Labyrinth in the Underground, almost three years since she made a deal to give up her entire life and live in the castle beyond the Goblin City for all of eternity once the clock struck midnight on her eighteenth birthday. Which was in fact tomorrow.

Her clock was ticking and soon Jareth would be here to collect her and bring her to his world before she knows it. Life since the Labyrinth was nothing special just as she expected. Her father continued to ignore her, she felt she reminded him too much of what life had been like with her mother- his ex wife who decided to leave Sarah and her father for a much younger man who had quite a lot of money. So he created a new family; remarried and had another child and just cut her out of the picture. Sarah was just background noise, a burden. Her stepmother, Karen treated her practically the same way but worse. She just assumed that since she wasn't blood related to her, that she didn't have to treat her with any respect.

But there was one person in the family near and dear to her heart, and that was Toby. After running the Labyrinth she realized his real worth. It wasn't his fault that her parents had pushed her aside, it wasn't his fault he got the attention. That's just how it was and she learned to accept it. As she grew older she avoided her parents as much as possible and moved out the day after she graduated. It wasn't like Robert or Karen cared. Sometimes though, she was angry that Toby was another reason her father continued to push her out of his life, but then she remembers he's just a little boy. He didn't choose to hurt her.

He was almost four now, and he adored Sarah. She was more of a mother to him than Karen was.

When her parents would go out, which was practically every night, Sarah was asked to babysit. So she would drive over to her old childhood house to spend the evening with her little brother. She would build a fort in Toby's room with blankets and pillows and lay with the young boy, telling him stories, having tickle fights until he shut his little eyes and fell into a deep sleep and then she would tuck him in and put him to bed. She would sometimes tell him stories of her adventures in the Labyrinth but not very frequently, she didn't want Toby to remember that time. She was trying to spend as much time with him as possible because in a few days, she would be gone.

There was one other person Sarah thought about a lot, and that was Jareth. The time was close and she wasn't quite sure how she would react to him and his presence. She was practically a woman now, a legal adult in the mortal world. She grew up and blossomed into a woman. She was taller, and had a developed figure that attracted many boys in high school. She got the occasional whistle walking down the street, and got more attention than a teenager should. Her long black hair still cascaded down her back, it grew so long it was to her bum. Her eyes were still bright emerald, and a glow radiated from her skin.

Sarah had gone on a few dates with guys in high school and when she graduated, but she turned them down flat. No one was Jareth. She found herself constantly comparing everyone to him. In the short time she was there he captivated her. She remembered his eyes the most, whenever they looked at her she felt he knew her darkest secrets and deepest desires. She remembered the crystal ballroom, and how one look made her weak and caused her to spend a good ten minutes trying to find him in the crowd of people. His touch made her even weaker, and in the Escher room where his pure proximity had made her entire body shudder with excitement. She couldn't let that happen when he showed up. She couldn't show her weakness. For one, she didn't even know if he felt the same way, then or now.

Jareth was a king, and he could have whatever and whoever he wanted, and choosing a mortal girl who almost defeated him at his own game was definitely not going to happen.

She collapsed on her bed and began to fell asleep, the face of the Goblin King haunting her dreams.

oOo

Jareth watched the young girl from a crystal orb. He sat in the large chair in the throne room with his legs sprawled out over the sides. She was fast asleep on the large four poster bed in her apartment. Similar to the one she had as a child.

"How you turn my world you precious thing.." he sang softly in almost a whisper. The throne room was completely empty. All the goblins were in their own houses in the goblin city. Jareth was most likely the only one up in his entire kingdom, but lately it's been like that. He couldn't stop thinking about the black haired emerald eyed girl who stole his heart in thirteen short hours.

He continued to stare at the sleeping Sarah through the glass. The next day couldn't pass by quick enough. In just one short day in mortal time he would be able to go to her and bring her back to where she belonged. In the Underground, ruling beside him. The hard part was just convincing her to fall in love with him.

He felt her physical attraction to him when she ran the Labyrinth, the way she looked at him when he stared at her. The way the young girl would stutter when she talked. She felt intimidated by him but he knew she liked it. She liked the control he had over her.

Even now he could tell she was attracted to him by her dreams, but he didn't know if she really had an emotional attachment to him, or what her feelings were.

The Goblin King remembered the crystal ballroom very well, at that point he wasn't even trying to distract her from her brother anymore, even though that's what he was doing in the process. He just wanted an excuse to hold her close to him, to be the only man who would catch her eye. He had led her on a chase that night, and he enjoyed it more than he should of. That poor girl must of looked around that ballroom twenty times before I revealed myself to her. The king thought to himself chuckling. The way she looked that night will never leave his mind either. If she was that beautiful at age fifteen, he can't imagine what it's going to be like to see her in person as a woman.

When he finally did show himself that's when he knew that she was his one and only equal, his queen. The magic in her was evident to him, he could sense it from across the ballroom. When they touched it felt right, he knew she felt the sparks too.

The thoughts of the ball brought a feeling of excitement to Jareth's heart. The thought that tomorrow he would finally get to hold his beloved in his arms again was almost too much for him to handle.

"Oh Sarah mine.. I never wanted the baby..I only wanted you." the Goblin King said softly to himself. The orb he was watching Sarah through popped like a bubble and disappeared into thin air. It was time for the king to retire for the night himself. He made his way to his chambers and fell asleep with the thoughts of the mortal girl who captured his heart, and how she would soon be his forever.

oOo

The next morning. Sarah awoke with a start. Tonight was the night Jareth was coming, midnight on the dot he would come as an owl through her window and be ready to take her away. She was giddy yet nervous; for she didn't know how to react to this situation. She normally would have to go to work today, but since it was her birthday she decided to take today off. Not like it was going to matter after tonight anyway.

Sarah worked as a waitress in a small bar down the street for her apartment that she rented out just for the summer after graduation. She didn't care how much she spent because she knew once the summer was over she would be gone.

After contemplating going back to sleep for a good half an hour, Sarah got up out of bed and headed over to her closet. She started to shuffle through clothes to wear for this evening, and she also started to pack a bag; she didn't know if he would have any clothes or under garments for her. She searched for something flattering.

The young woman was ready to see him after three years, and let him take in how she's changed. Let his eyes soak in the woman that she's become, and let him know that she's ready to show him desire and passion. She was fond of him, very fond, and she wanted him to find her attractive.

But on the other hand, she was angry. Angry at the fact that he gave her an ultimatum, angry that at the end he'd actually won and she lost. No matter how many scenarios she made up in her head that's how it was. But mostly she was angry at the fact that she gave up so easily, she was mostly a stubborn girl who got what she wanted, when she wanted it. But his stares and his voice and his frightening yet intriguing demeanor made her go for an easy way out. She could of just ended it there, said the last line and be left alone forever.

But no, here she is packing a bag to leave the Aboveground forever. She never really knew what it entailed. Would she ever be able to leave the Underground to check on Toby? To see friends that she left behind, it wasn't really like she had any.

Sarah was conflicted but it was too late to think about it. The time to have thought about it was three years ago before she made her proposition. It was going to happen, and nothing was stopping it. If it was one thing she learned during her time in the Labyrinth, was that words were as promising as a signed contract and once Jareth made the deal, it was set in stone.

She went with a form fitting crop top and skin tight leggings to accentuate her curves, and finished packing the rest of her bag. Shoving in underwear, bras, different pants and shirts. Sarah wasn't exactly sure how she would fit in in the Underground. With the way Jareth dressed she didn't think what she had would cut it in his world. But she didn't have anything else, so what she had would have to do.

After getting her bag together, she wasn't really sure what to do with her day. She decided to stop by her father and Karen's house so she could spend a little while with Toby and maybe take him out to the park. It was possibly the last time she would ever see him and she wanted it to be memorable.

She grabbed her purse, sunglasses and keys and got in the car. She drove only twenty minutes to the house. She decided to live close enough that if Toby ever needed her she wouldn't be far, but far enough that she was away from her parents by some sort of distance.

She unlocked the door with the spare key she was given when she moved out, and was greeted by a toddler running towards her and engulfing her legs into a giant hug.

"Hey Tobes!" Sarah said in a gentle voice, kneeling down so the small boy could give her a proper hug.

She heard someone coming down the stairs, it sounded like heels. She looked up and saw Karen with a dirty look on her face. Sarah still wasn't sure if that's how she always looked or only when she was around.

"Oh Sarah, what a nice surprise." Karen said, the sarcasm dripping off of every word.

"Hello Karen." Sarah replied in an equally nasty tone.

"What are you doing here?" The middle age woman asked stopping in front of her stepdaughter and her son.

"Well, I didn't have any plans today and since it's my BIRTHDAY," Sarah said with emphasis, "I decided to stop by and take Toby out to the park."

"Oh, well have him back within the hour." Karen said dryly and turned to walk in the kitchen.

Sarah picked the small boy up into her hands and held him on her hip.

"So how is my little monster." She said to him in a playful voice.

oOo

Today was a long day, after picking Toby up she drove them to the park, the same park Sarah used to playact at. Everything was still the same, except the owl that sat on the wooden pole the last time she'd been here was absent. But she'd see him soon enough.

They sat on the bench and stared at the ducks and the swans in the small pond, they even played tag a few times. Before she dropped him off home she stopped and bought them both an ice cream; vanilla and chocolate swirl covered in rainbow sprinkles.

Although she didn't get a single present, or a 'Happy Birthday' from anybody, spending the day with the youngster was a better day than she had hoped.

After all that she went home and took a nap knowing that she'd need all the sleep she could get. Because after tonight she wasn't sure when the next time she'd get a good sleep would be. When she woke up the clock on her wall said 9:00. She had three hours. Three single hours of freedom left.

What should she do with her-

Her thoughts were interupted. She felt another presence in her small apartment, like someone was watching her closely.

"Who, who is there!?" Sarah shouted jumping out of her bed and picking up the item closest to her, which happened to be a pair of scissors from her desk.

She headed into the kitchen where she heard a noise, "Come out! I know someone's here!" She shouted acting fearless, while inside she was scared for her life.

"Well hello Sarah."

XOXO

Well that was the second chapter and I'm quite happy with it! I made it on the longer side since I'm not going to be updating tomorrow. I'm going to the city, so unless I come home tomorrow night and have a surge of ideas the next chapter probably won't be up until Friday night or Saturday morning.

So it would be great if you left me a review telling me what you think of the story so far. And if you see any grammar/spelling errors please feel free to let me know.

Now here are the reviews I'm going to respond to:

Jetredgirl: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LEAVING SUCH A LONG REVIEW THAT MADE ME SO HAPPY. (Composes herself) Thank you so much for saying you liked it and giving me advice! I most definitely taking it into consideration when I write Sarah's parts. I'm trying to balance her character out. And that spelling error in 'knuckles' was totally because I was on a roll and typing too fast. I thought I caught all of the little errors I had but I must of missed one haha. I've been trying to find that darn book but I heard they're really rare to find. I'm trying to track one down. But thank you so much I hope you like it so far!

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