The Awakening

Disclaimer: (I don't say anything, but just turn and walk away, refusing to believe that I wasn't the genius that created the characters.)

Summary: After Sarah wakes up, she spends her day trying to analyze her dreams and figure out what is going to happen now.

AAACCCKKK!!!! Where has all the time gone!! I can't believe a week has already passed us by. It took me almost the entire week to come up with this chapter, and I don't know if I am all too happy about it. Sadly, I suffered from a major case of writer's block, but hopefully I am out of it now. Please leave your reviews.

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Sarah didn't remember when she fell asleep. She had been up all night, trying to figure out what her dream meant. She also had been crying most of the night. She couldn't figure out why though.

She opened her eyes to see that she was still in her room. She looked at the clock to see that it was almost 10:00. She groaned at the fact that she had to get up and face her day. She wished that she could go to sleep and just never wake up. While she lay there, thinking, she heard a knock on her door.

"Sarah, honey. Are you awake?" she heard her stepmother, Karen, call out from behind the door. "Can I come in?"

"Yes, I'm awake. And you can come in" she replied as she sat up in bed.

Karen opened the door, looked at Sarah, and said, "You look like you didn't sleep at all last night. Are you feeling alright?" as she walked over and put her hand on Sarah's forehead, checking her temperature.

"I'm feeling fine, Karen. I just had a hard time sleeping last night." Sarah replied.

"You were thinking about him again, weren't you," Karen said as she pulled up a chair next to the bed and sat down. Sarah didn't reply, but instead looked down at her hands.

"Did you think about what I told you last night?" Karen asked her. Sarah nodded. " And what did you decide?"

"I thought that I made a decision last night, but now I don't know if it's the right decision or not.," Sarah said, not taking her eyes off of her hands.

"Well," Karen said as she stood up. "Why don't you get dressed, and come downstairs and have some breakfast. There should be some left, unless Toby got hungry again and raided my fridge."

"I will," Sarah said. "Thanks for everything, Karen." Her stepmother smiled at her, and left the room, closing the door behind her.

Sarah decided to take a shower first and headed of to the bathroom.

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Sarah again sat on the park bench, all alone. She had spent most of the day helping Karen clean up the house, and after their family ate dinner again, she said that she was going for a walk, so that her dad wouldn't worry.

It was now after dark, and Sarah was all alone on the bench. The park was nearly empty, with the few remaining people packing up their things and heading for home.

Sarah watched as the mothers tried to control their children, who weren't ready to go home for the night, and continued to analyze her dream from the previous night.

She couldn't understand. She had decided the previous night that she loved Jareth, but she didn't feel that she wouldn't be his best choice for a mother of his child. She was sure that it would've hurt him, but he would've gotten over it and moved on to other women. But that dream, it was giving her second thoughts.

"Maybe I should reconsider," she thought as the last few stranglers walked out of the park gates, leaving her alone once again for a second time in two days. "How bad could it be?"

Sarah got up off the bench and began walking around the park, not caring which direction she was heading. She wound up in front of the swings and sat down on one of them.

"Why did he have to come back into my life?" she thought. "I was moving into a new stage in my life, and was ready to move past all of that, now I learn that he wants an heir, and he wants me to produce it."

"It probably wouldn't be that bad. I might actually enjoy it." She smiled at that last thought, as she began to swing.

Sarah continued to swing and she began to feel something that she never felt before. It was like something deep inside of her was bursting and flowing through her blood. It was such a wonderful feeling. She began to laugh as she continued to swing. And she continued to laugh for a long time.

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She arrived home well after dark to see that her father and stepmother were curled up on the couch, asleep with the TV was turned on. Sarah turned it off and went upstairs towards her room. She stopped by Toby's room and peeked in. He was fast asleep with her copy of "Labyrinth" on his chest, the book open to a page near the end.

Sarah walked in the room and picked up the book. She read the part that Toby had left off at. "Just fear me, Love me, do as I say, and I will be your slave." she smirked as she put the book on his night stand, kissed his forehead, turned off his light, and walked to her room.

She sat down on her bed and looked around. She looked at all of the memories that she had collected in the objects in her room. Her eyes fell upon her music box. She remembered how she was that girl. How wonderful it felt to be in his arms as they danced. The more she thought of it, the more that feeling that she had in the park earlier came back to her.

She sat up as all the pieces finally clicked into place. That was what she wanted. She wanted to dance in his arms. She wanted to fall asleep and wake up with him every morning. She wanted to have his children. She just wanted to be with him.

Karen was right. She was in love. Only she didn't believe it when Karen was talking to her about it the previous night. But now that Sarah thought about it, she realized that the way that Karen saw her dad was the way that Sarah saw Jareth.

She decided that she couldn't wait a whole week to tell him. She needed to see him. She stood up, shut off the lights in her room, and moved to the middle of her room. She took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and said, "Jareth, I need to see you. I have made my decision."

She waited and waited. But he didn't respond. She repeated his name a few times, and waited some more. But he still didn't come to her. She began to lose hope, and sat down on the bed. She felt so helpless. The only thing she could do was call out his name every once in a while, but mostly she stared into the darkness, waiting for him to appear in front of her. But he never came.

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Well, What's goin' on in your mind? I was thinking for the next chapter that I would do a Jareth based story that is supposed to be going on at the same time that this was happening with Sarah. Please leave the reviews and comments on your way out.