Once Upon a Childhood
I do not own any Labyrinth Characters. All Labyrinth Characters belong to Jim Henson. King Haajume, Queen Haether, and Danielle are mine.
DragonShifter: please tell me what you think about this chapter. I hope you like the story so far.
Chapter Eleven:
****** Sixteen years later in The Aboveground ******
"I need all of you." Did Jareth not understand that 'all of you' meant him to. Now that she thought about what he was saying before she was sent home via that bubble, she realized that he was saying he loved her. Her mom and her dad where away at a party. That left her with Toby. She was brushing her hair at her vanity thinking about her run in The Labyrinth when she saw Jareth in his owl form perch on her bed in her mirror. " you came"
"Of course I came" He said as he poofed into his human form. " I love you."
"Do you mean that?"
"Of course I do. Why would I lie to you."
"I don't know. Rough life I guess."
" Hey Sarah, May I court you?"
"I dunno. My mom and dad may not like that idea."
"maybe if you lived with your grandpa."
" maybe. I will talk to my parents about it."
"okay. Until then." Jareth disappeared. The next day Sarah was feeding Toby his food when Linda and James came in. " Hey Mom, Dad, may I go live with grandpa Hamish (Haajume)?"
"why do you want to go live with him Sarah?"
"well, I thought that it might help you with me gone. I know that you like to go hang out with your friends on the weekends, but I thought that since, I am sixteen today, and I need time to grow up and need more grown up experiences, I thought it would be nice to live with grandpa Hamish."
"Okay. We will allow you to go get your experiences. But, If we feel that Grandpa Hamish is getting over his head with you, we have the right to bring you home."
"Okay. Thank you, I will go pack."
"Okay, we will call your grandpa to make the arrangements."
"Thank you. I love you guys" Sarah gave them both a hug. She ran upstairs to pack. She found Jareth in her room. They packed her stuff into her suitcases. A week later, Sarah was on a plane to Ireland. When she landed, she saw her grandpa. She had only seen pictures of him. He looked sort of like a older Jareth. Sarah walked up to him and gave him a hug. Jareth had explained that Hamish was his dad and wasn't really her biological grandpa. She didn't care that he wasn't biologically realated to her. He had sent her things that helped or entertained her. Jareth also told her that Hamish wasn't his real name. It was Haajume. Haajume talked to her about her life and told her interesting stories as they drove to his home. Sarah felt the magic before they reached the Victorian house. She began to feel nauseous and told Haajume. He told her walk slowly to the house. She did and only went a few steps. She collapsed, Haajume rushed to her and carried her into the house. He set her down on her new bed and called Haether. Haether made sure Sarah was in comfortable sleep clothing and put a blanket over Sarah. A few hours later Sarah awoke with a start. "Calm down child." Said Haether. "why did I collapse."
"You collapsed because your Fae blood was introduced to magic for the first time."
"Fae blood"
" yes dear. Fae blood." Sarah looked at her hands. She didn't know what to say. "I am still tired. If Jareth comes by, please tell him that I am okay with him courting me if you and Grandpa say it is okay." Sarah then went back to sleep. Sarah had been asleep for an hour when Jareth appeared next to her bed. He noticed his mother knitting in her chair. "Mother, Is she well?"
"yes. She says it is okay if you court her if your father and I are agreeable with it. We are fine with it, provided that you don't overdo it." When Jareth heard what his mom had said he had to go outside to whoop. When Sarah woke up, they had dinner and started her training in the magical arts and Fae society. It took five aboveground years for her to learn. Finally the day came for Sarah to take her test. In her test, she saw that all she had to do to join the above and the underground, was to accept Jareth's hand in marriage. She also had to reawaken her mother and father to their trueselves. That would be hard, but she would do it. On her nineteenth birthday, she flew back to her hometown. Jareth flew back with her. There, at the gate were her parents and a very hyper Toby. They went to the house to drop of the luggage and then went out to eat. Sarah and Jareth had figured that they needed to combine their magic to alert Sarah's parents to their trueselves. They joined hands and made a green brown crystal and put it in the parent's room. The next morning Linda came out of her room and knocked on Sarah's door. Sarah answered it. "Oh my, You are even more beautiful than I thought." She said as she hugged Sarah. "Mom. Sarah…"
"oh don't call me that. That is your name now. Jareth came up the stairs and saw Mother and daughter. "there you are Jareth. Are you ready to go home?"
" Yes I am Linda."
