Where Are You? Chapter 4: I Need You, a labyrinth fanfic

Im so sorry I havent updated in so long, but I had loads of work to finish for college and then I got stuck on this chapter, and then to top it all off my Dad went into hospital :[ so Im not very happy at the moment. Like I said, I kinda got stuck on this chapter and then started it again because it was awful! Ive made it a long one so hopefully that makes up for it a bit.

Im also adding my characters from my other stories:

Wyatt, Jareth's older brother.

Marianna, Jareth's twin sister.

Amy, Wyatt's wife.

I like adding these characters, and I have been told by a few of my friends that have read my other stories that Amy is basically me with magic XD So I like adding Amy!

This was a really hard chapter to write but I hope its good anyway! Enjoy!

"Save me Jareth." She whispered against his neck, her voice already heavy with sleep. "Find me."

Before Jareth could reply, Sarah had disappeared. He started searching for her straight away, calling his brother and sister to help him. They would find her. They had to find her.

They had been searching for days, no part of the underground was to be left. But so far we had not found Sarah. Jareth was beginning to give up hope when they came to a halt by a large crumbling building. There didn't seem to be that many rooms still intact, so it wouldn't take long to search. Wyatt goes ahead of the group with Amy and Marianna closely following. Jareth is left outside on his own.

Something doesn't feel right. I can sense that Sarah is nearby…but something definitely isn't right.

I walk up the path and into the house. Its so dark. As I walk in and out of the first two rooms I realise why: there are no windows. it's a simple enough spell, but why would someone do that? I walk further into the house and find two more rooms with no windows.

"Jareth." I hear Amy shout from…somewhere. Where are they? I try to call out to them but nothing comes out. What the hell is going on? "Jareth." They are behind me somewhere. I walk back towards the door and see a set of stairs that wasn't there before. "Jareth." I run up the stairs, following Amy's voice but I still cant find them, there are so many rooms. Most of them are shut, but there is one right at the end that is open. I walk towards it and hear someone crying. "Jareth!" Amy shouts again, her voice coming from that room. I speed up but don't get any closer. Something is wrong. I finally reach the room where Marianna stands, crying against the door.

"Marianna? What's wrong?" She looks up at me, her eyes shining with tears as she takes hold of my hand and pulls me back out of the room.

"Don't go in. Please don't go in." Marianna sobs against my shoulder.

"Why?" I try to look through the open door but Amy blocks my way. She looks as if she is about to cry too, I don't think I can handle both of them.

"Jareth…" Amy starts, taking a big breath before she carries on. "Im sorry. We're too late." Though she tries hard to stop them, tears start to flow down her cheeks. "She's not breathing."

"No!" Everything stops as I rush into the room. There she is. My beautiful Sarah, laying across the bed like she was sleeping. Wyatt looks over at me, trying to think of something to say probably. There's nothing he can say, unless he tells me its not true.

I walk over to the bed, kneeling by the side and looking at her. Her head is leaning towards me, her eyes closed, her hair fanned out across the pillow. Im having a hard time believing them. She's just asleep, she'll open her eyes in a moment and they'll all see what fools they are.

"Sarah." I take her hand in mine. Its cold and lifeless. "Sarah wake up."

Marianna steps behind me and put her hand on mine but I shake her off. "Jareth I think…"

"Sarah wake up!"

"That wont help Jareth. There's nothing we can do now." Wyatt says, trying to take control of the situation. I stay silent, theres nothing I want to say to him, to them. Wyatt looks at Amy, then at Mariana and they leave the room.

"Sarah." I take her hand in mine once more. "Sarah you have to wake up. I found you." I pull myself up and sit on the edge of the bed, looking down at her. A nasty cut runs along her neck, and I cant help wondering how she got that. There are more cuts across her face and along the top of her dress, but that's as far as I can see.

Maybe they were right.

Im about to leave the room when her hand tightens around mine. I turn to look at her, only to find her brown eyes wide and staring at me.

"Sarah!?"

"Jareth!" Sarah smiles at me and in spite of everything that has happened I find myself smiling back. I found her. I finally found her. She tries to sit up, I can feel her pulling against my hand, but she doesn't move. Her smile fades and a look of panic flashes across her face. "Why cant I move?" She tries to sit up again with the same result.

"I don't know." Suddenly everything is swirling around us. Sarah looks at me, her eyes boring into mine.

"Where are you?" She whispers, her hand slipping out of mine. "I need you."

"Sarah?" My voice echoes around me. "Sarah?!" I reach out to her, but my hand goes straight through.

Sarah fades away, along with the room around me. Im left floating in darkness knowing now that it was only a dream.

I hear voices calling to me, shouting my name as I fall deeper into this nightmare.

"Jareth!" Marianna stands beside her brother, trying to shake him awake. She knows something is wrong, she sensed it the moment he drifted to sleep. "Jareth wake up!" Finally his eyes open and he stands up fast. "What's wrong? What happened?"

"It was Sarah." Jareth stands rigid for a moment, staring into the distance before slowing looking down to his sister. "We found her. She was dead, or so it seemed at first. But then she opened her eyes, she spoke to me." Something sparked in his eyes. Hope? "She's alive Marianna. I know she is."

"But where is she Jareth?" Marianna drops herself down into the chair next to Jareth, never taking her eyes off him.

"Im not sure." His forehead creases as he tries to remember the dream, but all that he can see is that look on Sarah's face. So lost and alone.

"We're missing something, something important. But what?"

"You don't believe its Hoggle either do you?" Jareth remarks, breaking through his sisters concentration for a moment.

"Come on Jareth, you and I know this is far beyond him." Marianna sits back next to Jareth, only to jump back up seconds later. "Sarah trusts Hoggle doesn't she?"

"Well I wouldn't think so now. But yes, she did." Jareth knew that look on his sisters face. She was working it all out, piecing everything together.

"Whoever is doing this needed Sarah. They must have known that she trusted Hoggle, which is why they used him." She stops for a moment, her brow furrowing. "No, they didn't use him at all."

"I don't see what your trying to say."

"They want us to believe it was Hoggle."

Now it was Jareth's turn to look confused. "But why?"

"So we wont find her. If we're looking for Hoggle then we're looking in all the wrong places."

Marianna stopped in front of the window, looking out across the Labyrinth before looking back to Jareth. "There's something about dreams, something that we're not quite understanding." She says, more to herself than Jareth. "Whoever has her I using her dreams, but why?"

Suddenly. Jareth had an idea. "Marianna. If she is able to reach me through a dream, perhaps I can do the same."

"Its possible, but it would take a lot of power. I don't think you'd be able to do it on your own."

"Then help me." Jareth takes hold of his sisters hands. "You can do it, you and Wyatt."

There was a silence as they tried to decide if it really would work. "Ok." Marianna said at last. "I think we can make it work. You go get Wyatt, meet me in the throne room. Ill explain everything to both of you there." She rushes out of the room before Jareth can say anything else, leaving him to obey her last command.

Marianna walks into the throne room where Jareth and Wyatt are already waiting for her.

"What's going on Marianna?" Wyatt asks, looking and sounding confused. Marianna ignores his for the moment, walking straight over to Jareth.

"I don't think we'll be able to keep it up for long, so there's a few things you need to ask her straight away."

"Well that's obvious…"

"You wont be able to see where you are, you'll only see what you want to see so you'll have to get her to look and describe everything. Get details, even the smallest things can make the biggest difference." She stops for a moment, her brow furrowing. "Maybe I should go, no offence Jareth but your more likely to get distracted."

"Marianna she doesn't know you, I don't think you would get much out of her. I wont get distracted, I promise."

She looked like she was about to argue back but then gave up, knowing he was right.

Wyatt was getting tired of being ignored. "What the hell is going on?!" He shouted, gaining both his siblings attention.

"Sarah was able to find Jareth in a dream." Marianna explained. "So we figured he can find her too, but its gonna take a lot of power. That's why we needed you."

"No way." Wyatt looked at his sister for a while, honestly not believing she had just said that. "Its too dangerous, we'll find her the normal way."

"There may not be time for that Wyatt. Jareth saw something." Marianna stopped, looking over at Jareth. He visibly tensed but nodded his approval. "Sarah was dead. If we don't find her quick, I fear that might be true."

There was silence as Wyatt tried to think of something else, but he could think of nothing. Their idea was good, brilliant in fact. But would it work? He turned towards his sister and took her hand. "Ok, Ill help. But if you sense anything wrong, anything at all, then we stop. Are we clear?"

Marianna nodded, having just thought the same thing herself. "Crystal."

Jareth shifted in his throne, trying to make himself more comfortable. Once he stopped moving, Marianna and Wyatt each placed one hand on his temple and joined their remaining hand. They started chanting a Fea sleeping spell quietly in unison making Jareth's eyes slowly drop shut.

Now all they had to do was watch and wait.

Ok so this is a weird place to end it I know, but I don't know what else to add. Hopefully the next chapter will be better, I know this one is kinda rubbish but I wanted to get something posted so no one would kill me XD