Dark
Sarah stepped away from her former companions, much to their dismay, and into the arms of her one-time enemy. Allowing him to sweep her back beneath the warmth of his cloak. "I'll be coming back," she promised them, her arms weaving with Jareth's as if they were dancers about to begin a great waltz. "Don't you worry about me."
"I wouldn't tell them that, pet." the Goblin King told her, his face dangerously close to hers. "You once again find yourself in the arms of a predator; they have every right to worry. I will destroy you just as thoroughly as you did me, should you not tread lightly."
Sarah just leaned up to press a kiss to the tip of his nose. "After everything we've seen tonight, you still try to convince me to turn back." there was dark amusement in her tone. "Come then. Take me to your next trial; show me what I should overcome so as to convince you that here is where I belong."
"No." he whispered harshly, fingers tightening around her own. "You are a fae-touched mortal. You are my victorious quest-er, but you are not of this world. You belong everywhere and no where all at once."
"I belong with you. I belong by your side; walking the thin line of the worlds with you and holding your hand as we pass though untold centuries." she told him, voice patient and kind, soothing the rough edges of his soul-wounds. And when she finally looked up, they where no long standing in the hedge maze she'd still never found the time to admire; they where standing wrapped in one another's embrace, a darkened windowpane before them.
"Look then, my eternal one. See what you would have to leave behind should you choose me."
Sleeping peacefully snuggled within his blankets beyond the thin barrier of glass, was Toby.
Note: Here. I'm updating this and Avian Affinity, and then I'm going to write more with the girls and pretend I didn't actually do what I did today. In the words of a good friend of mine: It was like eating at a bad restaurant.