A/N: This is the chapter where everything begins...What will happen?

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Once more, chapter title is from a Bowie song- Loving The Alien :) Thought it was relevant as Sarah has been almost tortured emotionally (That's how she feels) by thinking she would never see Jareth again and now it's gone as quickly as it came and there is a possibilty...

TORTURE COMES AND TORTURE GOES

That night Sarah lay in bed, looking out at the effervescent moon that shone through the window beside her bed. She had been lieing motionless for a long time, her aunt had long since gone to bed- the house was dead quiet.

"Don't worry." She muttered, so quietly she could barely hear herself. The night was still, like the calm before a storm.

She knew what she was going to do, she didn't really like the idea, but it was something she had to do. She just hoped it would go the way she planned.

When she had been in the park earlier that afternoon, laying under the tree dozing, she had remembered how she had stood in her parents room, only weeks ago and called the goblins to take Toby away. She knew that it was almost an unspoken rule- if a child was wished away to the goblins, they would have to take the child. It was that simple.

It was the way things were.

Sarah knew what she needed to do now, she had to wish Toby away again. The realization of what she would need to do dawned on her. She would never have dreamt of it in her entire life- wishing him away a SECOND time, making that mistake again. Yet, it wouldn't be a mistake this time- it would be something completely intended and even her first run in the Labyrinth had turned out to be no mistake. It was the best thing that had ever happened to her.

A pang of guilt ran through her. Was this really the right thing to do, to put an innocent baby at risk for a second time? She was using him to get what only she wanted, she knew, but her need to see Jareth again was so strong, she was unable to resist any opportunity.

She shook her head, her heart beginning to beat faster at the possibility of seeing him again. If it's just for one more time,I need to talk to him...Sarah thought. She had so much to understand, yet she knew she probably never would.

She would wish Toby away, she would say the right words and the goblins would come... and their ruler would come. He would have to come, he had no choice if a child was wished away. Sarah knew it was a sworn duty the goblin King had to uphold. The only rule he had to follow.

Sarah couldn't wait to get her plan into action. She had spent so much time, so many sleepless nights thinking- racking her brains for a solution and finally she had found it. It was so simple, she couldn't believe it had taken her so long to realise it. She couldn't spend one more night, one more sleepless, overwrought night sitting around and waiting. Knowing, she had found a way.

The need to see Jareth and be in his presence was so strong, she longed for his domineering gaze to be upon her, his unreadable eyes. To see his sharp teeth as his lips curved up and parted slightly in a mocking smile- she longed for everything about him. And she couldn't wait a moment longer.

Without any further thought, without thinking of any consequences should her aunt discover her not in her room, Sarah got up and stood at the window. A shiver of unexplained excitement took hold of her body as she drew in a deep breathe and slid the window up.

She slipped out, onto the cool, dew tainted grass just as the grandfather clock in the hallway chimed midnight.

She had to get to Toby.