Thank you all for being patient with me. This chapter should be fun to read, considering it takes Sarah back and reminds her a lot of her past trip to the Labyrinth.

All characters belong to Jim Henson

Sarah could feel her heart pounding in her head as she looked at the walls around her and immeditately she felt claustraphobic. She remembered these walls all too well. "Jareth, come on." She whispered softly up at the sky, trying to see if she could reason with him. "Jareth, I was only angry because you were. Come on, please. You know that I didn't mean anything by it." No answer. Just the wind. She sighed and whispered, "You're going to make me go through this again, aren't you?" Again, no reply. "Right. I guess that'll be a yes." She sighed and began to walk ever so slowly through the Labyrinth.

She kept walking, memories of this place returning to her as if she was supposed to remember them. She remembered meeting Hoggle. She remembered running. So much running. And then...

She looked around and she couldn't see any corners or turns anywhere. It was maddening. She was growing more and more frustrated by the minute. How could a Labyrinth not have any turns? This was nothing like it was supposed to be! How was she supposed to figure out a Labyrinth that wasn't one? Damn, Jareth!

She stopped and leaned against a wall, trying to recollect what she could've done better and what this could mean. "What do they mean 'Labyrinth'. There aren't any turn or corners or anything. It just goes on and on." And then she got a flash of insight. Her mind began to think on over drive as if someone was fueling her thoughts. "Maybe it doesn't. Maybe I'm just taking it for granted that it does."

And she began to run.

And she did. She ran. She ran as fast as she could until she reached the spot that she remembered the worm used to live. "Hello? Worm? Are you here?" No reply. She sighed as she leaned against the wall and then sat against it. "I guess he was right. No one is here anymore. They all left." She sighed and contomplated the time when she met the worm. He was such a fun creature. He had shown her that nothing was as it seems.

Nothing was as it seems...

That's right! The wall. She got up and began to go right and then stopped as Jareths' voice rang in her head.

You'll have to find your own way through my Labyrinth once again.

She closed her eyes as she remembered Jareth's words. "What do you mean, find my own way?" Then she realized what he meant. She'd have to go a different way. "But the worm told me to go the other way." She sighed and looked down the path to the left. "Alright. I'll trust you on this one, Jareth." And she began to run down the path to the left.

Jareth sat in his throne room once again and sighed softly as he looked at Sarah through the crystal ball in his hand. "Whatever am I going to do with you Sarah? Should I let you into my own personal Labyrinth, or should I let you figure it out on your own? No matter. You'll figure it out and leave me again. Just like last time." He threw the ball away, watching it dissolve before ever touching the wall.

He stood slowly and looked around. "This won't do." He snapped his fingers and the place was livened up again. He smiled and looked outside. "Goblins! Come back to me!" He cried but received no reply. He sighed. He had hoped that that would work. He went back to his throne and sat upon it. What was he going to do if Sarah figured out the Labyrinth again? Was there any way to convince her to stay with him. Of course not his mind reminded him, She'll stay as long as she can get through the Labyrinth and then leave you again to suffer for a nother five years. You'll be alone again. All alone.

You'll be all alone...

"And I'll die if she leaves..."

Sarah found herself at the two doors with the one knocker with the knocker in it's mouth and the other with it in his ears. They were unmoving when she came up. "Hello?" She whispered but with no reply. It was as if they were really knockers and didn't talk at all. There was no sight of Ludo or anyone else she knew either. She sighed and sat down on the ground. "There has to be a way to waken up the Labyrinth again. That must be it." She sighed more and looked up at the knockers, "I guess you two aren't going to tell me anything?"

"Huh?" She heard from the knocker with knocker in it's ears.

She jumped about two feet into the air and then stood up and ran to the door. "Hello? Can you hear me?"

"Huh? What? Oh! It's you again! What are you doing back here?"

"MMMM-MMMMMMM!" She heard from the other side. She turned and the other was trying to take the thing out of it's mouth. She immediately ran over to it and took it out of it's mouth. "Sarah! What are you doing here? We thought you had solved the Labyrinth?"

"And I thought that you weren't alive at all." She smiled at her old friends. "What happened here?"

"Everyone just vanished! It was if they just didn't have any will left in them."

Sarah stopped to think about this for a moment and sighed. "So everyone really is gone. I thought that if you two were still around there might be some hope."

"Are you going to go through the door again?"

She looked at the two of them and then looked at the one she was talking to, "I'm going to go through his door, not yours. The last time I went through your door, I had to run for my life from the Wild Gang." She placed the knocker on the ground and looked at him, "And I'm letting you rest your mouth from holding that thing any longer. I know I forced you the last time."

He smiled more, "Thank you kindly!"

She moved over to the other door and grabbed a hold of the knocker and knocked loudly. The door slowly opened and she looked inside to see only darkness. "Now I'm scared... Maybe I should've gone through the other door." She sighed, "No matter.. I have to go through it. Might as well go now." Slowly, she entered the dark place. When she was fully inside, a light came on and she gasped.

She was back inside the castle and she was standing on a familiar pair of stairs.