Disclaimer: not mine any additional characters will be mine but no one from the original film is, unfortunately!
"SARAH!" Someone was running down the stairs calling her name. Quickly hiding the photograph Sarah got shakily to her feet, just as her father reached the bottom step.
"Are you okay? I heard you scream." Concern on his face.
"I'm fine, I was down here looking for empty boxes and I saw a rat."
"A rat?" He didn't seem too convinced, but what reason could she possibly have for lying?
"Yeah, I'm really sorry, I hope I didn't wake Toby. We should get an exterminator in. It was a really big one."
"I think he's out for the count. I'm just glad you're okay."
"Yeah, I'm fine. How was your night?"
"Fine, I had a terrible feeling that something was wrong, so we decided to come home early. Were you okay? I mean apart from the rat."
"Yeah things couldn't be better. I think I'm gonna turn in though, have an early night. Night dad."
"Night honey." As she slipped past him he kissed her forehead.
"You know what?" He called when she got to the top of the stairs.
"What?"
"I feel like I haven't seen you for weeks."
"I know, I feel like that too. Night."
Sarah ran up the stairs, locking her door behind her. how had her mother known the Goblin King? Things just didn't make sense her mother had known Jareth. Taking out the picture Sarah looked at it long and hard. He looked exactly the same then, as he did less than one hour ago. "How can that be?"
Sarah stared at the picture late into the night, thought and feelings coming back to her, ones that she had only experienced in the presence of two people, her mother…and Jareth. Confusion ran the deepest. She had to find out how they had known each other, she doubted her father would know, and her mother was dead, so that only left the Goblin king himself to ask! Having just escaped from him, Sarah wasn't hot on the idea of seeing him again. She put the picture inside her Labyrinth book, changed and went to bed. Lying in the darkness she couldn't get her mind off of the picture of them, they had looked happy. They looked like they were in love!
Finally, with the coming of the dawn, Sarah fell into a troubled sleep. A sleep filled with memories of the past few weeks. Each vision brought with an intense feeling. At first it was hard to distinguish but the more she dreamt the more she realised that she, Sarah, was in fact in love with Jareth. Not because of any spell or by force, she was in love with the Goblin King of her own free will.