Disclaimer: I do not own Labyrinth in any way. The only character that is mine is Archimedes.
Author's Note: The next few chapters will be set during the movie. There will only be a few changes and a few clarifications about what was going through Sarah's and Jareth's minds.
Chapter Ten- During the Events of Labyrinth
Sarah was playing in the park when that fateful day started. She was acting out the events of her favorite book, The Labyrinth. She had been given the book when she was three. Her mother had given it to her the day she bought Archimedes, the bird that was with her throughout her childhood.
She remembered that the bird sang at every hour. It was a strange bird. Her mother would have full conversations with it. Her father used to think that she was crazy but gave up because it would make her so happy.
Sarah was eight when he mother became ill. Her mother had contracted a rare disease. The doctors didn't know what it was. One day she was fine and the next she confined to her bed. When the disease was first staring that was a normal week in the Williams household. One day Linda would be fine and the next she would be very, very sick. Then the disease started to spread farther into her body and Linda couldn't get out of bed.
Soon she was completely bedridden, she was given a full time nurse. Sarah and Robert would visit Linda every day and talk with her. It had been eleven months since Linda had first received the disease. While Linda was sick she was visited by another man. Jareth would watch her through one of his crystal balls.
Every day he would watch her. Even though she had defeated him at his own game and took his true love he still liked the woman. It saddened him to know that Sarah would have to live without a mother for the rest of her childhood. He knew that Linda had picked up the disease from the Labyrinth. There are many things that could harm a mortal in there. Jareth hadn't planned on her receiving the sickness.
Jareth also saw that the spell he had put on Archimedes was taking effect. As Linda was getting sicker so was he. Sarah and Robert thought that if Linda passed they would still have her beloved bird. The two watched as their wife and mother got sicker so did the bird.
They took him to the vet and hoped that they could help him. No matter what the doctors did they couldn't figure out what was happening to him. Just like Linda. Jareth watched Sarah and Robert become more and more depressed. They knew deep down that they were going to lose two loved ones. Every day Jareth would use another crystal ball on the Williams. After a few months of watching them there was crystals littering the floor. Goblins would try to talk to him and wishes were made every day. No one could bring Jareth out of his mood.
His personal maid would bring him food and water and he had an elf like fae work with the wishers. No one won after Linda because Jareth wouldn't let them. He allowed each child a new family and he never held another. He missed the girl that stole his heart and her mother who faced him against all odds. He sighed and dropped another crystal ball.
Sarah and Robert watched helplessly as two loved ones passed. It had been a year since they had gotten sick. They buried Archimedes in the back yard under their willow tree. They put Linda in the family grave yard, she was with her loved ones now. Robert and Sarah were on their own now. Sarah's friends became more and more distant towards her. Robert quit his job with the newspaper and instead worked at a bank.
Sarah found comfort in her father and in her book, The Labyrinth. As she grew so did her love for books. Her father thought that her imagination came from her mother. Sarah would read about a book a day. Although she read The Labyrinth the most. She would read it to bed and at school. Soon the book started to look worn and faded but neither Robert or Sarah really minded. Sometimes they would read the book together.
Then when Sarah was thirteen Robert remarried. He married a woman named Karen. Sarah and Karen didn't see eye to eye. Both would argue with each other and sometimes bring Robert into it. When Karen came into the family Sarah became more and more distant with her family. She would trap herself in her room or go to the park with the family dog named Merlin.
Her father didn't understand the rift that was forming between him and his daughter. She became more resentful when she was fourteen. This was the time that Karen had a baby boy named Toby. Toby would keep everyone up at night and Sarah was jealous of the attention he was getting. When Toby was nine months old Sarah was given the job to watch him every weekend. It didn't take long for her to resent Robert and Karen for this.
She wanted to do her own things, she wanted to act out plays in the park or dress up in her room. When Toby entered the family she lost the chance to do these things when she wanted. She felt like she lost her freedom as a teenager. This feeling lasted until Sarah was fifteen and Toby was a year old. It was this fateful night that would change both of their lives forever.