DISCLAIMER: Labyrinth and its characters do not belong to me

Sarah moaned as she turned over in bed. Her eyes opened to the familiar room of her apartment. She released a sigh of relief. "Thank god it was only just a dream." She picked up the phone laying on her night stand besides the bed. She placed the receiver to her ear and waited. No dial tone. "I guess I can always use a payphone to call Dr. Glicengrer."

She hadn't seen her psychiatrist in seven years after she was forced to take those little green pills that made her forget the story she had told her parents. A story involving Toby, a Labyrinth, and the mystical Goblin King. After her very vivid nightmare, that was very real to her, she was going to need more of her prescription. Rubbing her head she got out of bed and slide behind the curtain of her shower.

After washing, and allowing the heated tap smooth away her tension, Sarah hopped from the little square platform. She brushed her hair back and through it into a messy bun in the back of her head. Stepping to her closet she slipped on a pair of her black sweats, pulling the bottom up to her knees she allowed the access to fall forward to her mid-calf. After tugging her white bra over her damp skin, she applied her deodorant before throwing a think white wife beater shirt on.

Next she slid her feet into her black thinned ankle socks before sticking her feet into her black and white Coach tennis shoes. Stepping up to her dresser, she placed her diamond studs into the top holes of her double pierced ears, than her silver hoops followed in the bottom holes. Last but not least, she placed a black and silver cross necklace around her neck, allowing it to fall to its place between her breasts on the out side of her shirt. Looking at her reflection she nodded before walking to her door to leave. Upon opening the white painted door she stopped.

The hall way, of white walls and teal carpeting, that she was so used too was gone. Instead she starred at tan stone floors and walls. Stone pillars supported the dome like ceiling. Torches were bolted to the wall every fiver feet or so. Lighting the long hallway.

Sarah's breath slightly quickened as she made her way down the long corridor to the stairs. The stairs opened into a giant room of nearly a thousand stairs. Straight stairs, sideways, upside down, diagonal. Every possible direction you could think of, a stair case was facing that way. Sarah slowly felt as if she was losing her mind as she conquered one set of stairs to find herself at the beginning of another. As she continued she couldn't help but replay words in her head.

'How you turn my world, You precious thing. You starve and near exhaust me.

Everything I've done, I've done for you. I move the stars for no one. You've run so long. You've run so far. Your eyes can be so cruel, Just as I can be so cruel, Oh I do believe in you. Yes I do.

Live without your sunlight. Love without your heartbeat. I... I... Can't.. live.. within.. you... I can't live within you. I...I can't live within you...'

Sarah started taking the stairs two at a time and instantly found her self in a long hallway that lead to two giant wooden doors. Looking at the floor to ceiling doors, Sarah braced her hands on the door to the left. Pushing with all of her might, the door swung open, reviling a large dining room with a long table that could possibly fit fifty people. On top the table were bowls filled with fruit.

Sarah's stomach growled as she reached out for a soft, fuzzy peach. She bite urgently into it as its sweet juice ran down from her mouth to the side of her chin. She smiled as she wiped her mouth and chin with the back of her hand. It was then that she heard the soft music coming from down the hall. Sarah followed the music. As it grew louder with every corner she turned. She soon found herself back in the large gathering room she had first arrived in. Only this time it was empty, and exceptionally clean from roof to the circular ditch in the center of the room.

Sarah noticed a large window that elaborated the sparkling night sky. She rested her elbows on the sill as she felt to cool breeze splash against her face. She continued to eat her peach, biting chunks out of it. When she had eaten it down to the pit, she gazed at the seed her held in her hand. Instantly, it disappeared.

"So the famous Sarah has returned. The only one to solve my Labyrinth." Came a voice from behind her.

Sarah turned to see the King of the Goblins sitting sideways in his thrown. His right leg placed lazily over the arm of the curved back chair, while the other was planted firmly on the floor. He was wearing his shiny black boots that reached his knees. Black tights held in place at his hips by a black belt. A white poet's shirt was opened to his gold buckle on his belt. Revealing a hint of his muscular chest. 'He hasn't aged a bit.'

She walked forward until their was nothing separating them except the giant circle in the center of the room. Better safe than sorry, she thought. "Tell me Jareth, has anyone else solved your precious Labyrinth?"

Jareth looked at her coldly. "There hasn't been anyone since you, Sarah." The way he said her name sent shivers down her spine. "How is your dear brother, Toby, these days?"

"You leave my brother alone." Sarah ordered.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk... You of all people should know better than to order me about." Jareth stated.

"What do you want from me, Jareth? Why am I here?" Sarah questioned.

Jareth shrugged. "You tell me, little Sarah. You brought yourself here this time."

"ME?" Sarah screeched. "I was doing nothing but reading a book."

"A book that looked so familiar to you, Sarah." Jareth said standing and moving closer to her. With each step he took Sarah took one backwards until she was pressed against the stone wall, with Jareth still advancing on her. "A red book with gold lettering?"

He was practically upon her. So close Sarah could feel his heat radiating from her body. She looked up into his eyes. Mismatched eyes that had haunted her dreams for years. One as blue as the summer sky, the other the softest pale green she had ever seen. "It was real wasn't it?" She whispered. "All that time ago. It was all real?"

Jareth, unable to stop himself, leaned as close to her lips as he could. "Yes, Sarah. It was all real." He whispered in reply, his warm breath fanning over her smooth skin. "You demanding that I take your brother. Me, allowing you to journey through my Labyrinth. Watching as you bewitched my mind. Watching myself become to your strange mortal powers of seduction."

As he spoke he ran his mouth close to her neck, allowing his breath to warm her cooled skin from the nightly air. His hands grabbed her wrist and raised them above her head, then slid his hands down her arms, her side, to her waist. "I... I..." She tried to speak but her thoughts were all jumbled with his closeness.

"You what?" he whispered in her ear.

"I only wanted my brother back." Came her reply.

Jareth stiffened and moved away from her. "And now that he was returned home, why have you returned?" He ordered.

Sarah was stunned at the sudden change in the Goblin King. "I don't know. But as soon as I can. I'm returning home."

She pushed off the wall and walked out of the chamber, leaving the same way she entered. When she once again arrived at the room with all the stairs. She sighed as she attacked the stairs. Once again hearing that song from so long ago.

'How you turn my world, You precious thing. You starve and near exhaust me.

Everything I've done, I've done for you. I move the stars for no one. You've run so long. You've run so far. Your eyes can be so cruel, Just as I can be so cruel, Oh I do believe in you. Yes I do.

Live without your sunlight. Love without your heartbeat. I... I... Can't.. live.. within.. you... I can't live within you. I...I can't live within you...'

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