She knew it was going to be a bad day when she opened her eyes and found a dwarf looking at her

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She knew it was going to be a bad day when she opened her eyes and found a dwarf looking at her.

With a startled yell, Sarah sat up quickly in bed, the dwarf jumping back, just as startled as she was.

"Why are yous doing that?" Hoggle asked indignantly, brushing off his clothes.

"I'm dreaming, I have to be still dreaming," Sarah moaned, lying down and covering her head with the pillow.

"Sarah?"

"Go away, I haven't had any of you people in my dreams for so long, why now?" Sarah muttered, peeking out from under the pillow to see if she had woken up yet.

Hoggle sighed angrily and limped over to the side of the bed.

"Sarah, yous didn't dream any of us. We's real and we's need your help."

"The Labyrinth was a dream! That's all, I've had quite a few highly recommended psychiatrists help me realize that it was a dream and it's not nice to prove them wrong. Will you please go away so I can wake up and continue living my nice boring and normal life?"

"No I will not. Not until you at least hear why I's here."

"Fine," Sarah mumbled, taking her head out from beneath the pillow and looking at Hoggle.

"Well, we's ain't a dream, we's never was. Anyway, as to why I's here, Jareth's left the kingdom and we's don't know where he's gone. He just got fed up with stealing kids one day and vanished. We's needs somebody who knows the Labyrinth to fill in until we's finds him. Will yous please help us?" Hoggle asked.

"Okay, I know it was all a dream, but for your sake, even if I did go with you, I haven't seen the Labyrinth in almost ten years and I have no magic powers," Sarah said, running a hand through her tangled hair.

"The Labyrinth don't change none since then. Please Sarah?"

"Why me?"

"Because, you befriended Didymus, Ludo, and me and so we's trusts ya. It won't be for too long, just until we's finds Jareth."

Sarah sat up and looked around the tiny bedroom of her apartment. It wouldn't hurt to go with him, her rent was paid and she was out of a job for the moment anyway. She looked back at Hoggle and reached out a hand, hesitantly touching him to make sure he was real.

"How will I be able to do magic?"

"We's'll show yous how."

"All right, I guess I might as well, but I'm not singing."

Hoggle thought for a moment, then shrugged. "Fine, we's desperate."

"Go wait in the living room while I change. Do I need to bring anything?"

"Nope, we's'll supply everything," Hoggle said, walking into the living room.

Once he was gone Sarah shook her head and pinched her arm, hoping it wouldn't hurt. It did, and she groaned, running a hand over her eyes.

"Oh well, I told him I'd help. I'll have a nervous breakdown when I get back," she muttered, standing and grabbing a T-shirt and jeans before walking into the bathroom.

A few minutes later, she walked into the living room and turned on her computer, grabbing a pop tart from a cupboard as she waited for the Windows screen to go on.

"What is yous doin?" Hoggle asked,

"I'm going to email my family and tell them I'm going on vacation. They might get a little worried if I all of a sudden disappeared," Sarah explained, taking a bite of the pop tart as she quickly typed out an email and sent it.

"Okay, I'm ready to go," Sarah said, shutting off her computer and finishing the pop tart. As she stood, she vaguely thought she would regret doing this, but she shrugged, it was a little late to say no now.

Hoggle fumbled in one of the pouches on his belt and pulled out a crystal. "Here we's goes," he said, throwing the crystal at their feet.