Disclaimer: Hello! Welcome to the next chapter in Watagashi's Labyrinth Fan Fic: Far From Real. Today, I'm going to use characters that don't belong to me, and no one is going to sue me for it! Yay! (applause, applause, applause)

Author: Yes, thank you. Now, you've all been waiting for the next chapter, and here it is! I hope you enjoy it, and I promise that the ending will come soon, you eager beaver, you! I also may be out for the fourth of July weekend, but I'll update as soon as I can! I promise! (starts to walk away )

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"Sarah."

That was all that was on Jareth's mind. He had to find her. Why did she keep running off like that? He had to find her before Jaelithe could intervene again.

Jareth looked down at himself. It would be easier to keep his head if he could go back to his own body. But he couldn't risk being exposed. He groaned at the inconvenience of it all, but did not slacken his pace. It was becoming harder and harder for him to remember that he was not Jason, he was Jareth disguising himself as Jason. If he forgot that fact, it was likely that he would never be Jareth again.

He turned down an alleyway and onto a side street. Sarah's car turned around the corner and out of sight.

Jareth took off at a run after the car. He nearly flew around the corner and saw that the car had stopped at a red light. His eyes glowed with triumph as he ran up to it. He was sure that this was the chance he had been waiting for.

But the light changed. The car turned right and drove along a busier road. Growling in frustration, Jareth dashed across the street, narrowly avoiding being hit by an SUV and almost giving an old lady a heart attack. He raced along the side of the road, spotting Sarah's car up ahead. There was a four-way intersection just up the road. But the light was green.

Jareth wished that he was in his own body, in which case, he could have caught up to her as an owl. But Jason had no such talents, and Jareth was forced to try and run forty-five miles an hour to catch up. Then, thankfully, the light turned yellow, and then red, stopping Sarah's car just before it could cross the intersection.

"Sarah!" Jareth shouted as he crossed the street again, nearly colliding with a school bus.

"Jason?" Sarah inquired. "What's up? What are you doing here?" Jareth leaned, panting, against the car. Gabriel sat in the passenger seat, surveying him with mild interest.

"I need to talk to you-" Jareth started, not caring whether the boy heard or not. "Right now!" Sarah leaned backward and opened the back door to the car. Jareth got in and closed the door behind him as the light changed. The car sped off again onto the on ramp and then the highway.

"Well, what is it, Jason?" Sarah asked after a while.

"I'm Jareth."

"WHAT????!!!!!"

The car swerved violently, causing several horns to blare loudly and causing the same old lady to nearly have a heart attack again. Sarah pulled over by the side of the road and turned, white-faced, to look at him. Gabriel cocked a very skeptical eyebrow.

"Didn't you used to be taller?" Gabriel asked. Jareth ignored him and turned his attention back to Sarah.

"I know this may seem hard to believe," he said before she could start talking. "But I am Jareth. I came to your world disguised as Jason so that I could get close to you without you knowing it. It worked out fine for the first couple of months, but when I started living with you, I ended up having to stay Jason all the time. I couldn't go back to my own body, and I couldn't return to the Labyrinth.

"There didn't seem to be that much of a problem, as I could turn back if I wanted to, but lately I've been forgetting who I am. I started to think that I actually was Jason who might at some time have thought that he could have been Jareth. I started to forget how to go back. And then Jaelithe showed up, and-"

"Jareth, shut up."

He blinked in surprise at being cut off. Sarah took a deep, calming breath. "If what you're saying is true," she said slowly. "You have got to go back to the Labyrinth. Right now."

"But Sarah-" Jareth started. Sarah cut him off again.

"You really have got to go back to the Labyrinth," she said. "It needs you. It's falling apart. It's fading away. You have got to go back to the Labyrinth before you forget and it disappears."

"But Sarah-"

"Don't argue with me, Jareth! You have to go back!" Sarah said firmly. "it's really sweet of you to be concerned for me and all, but-"

"I can't!" Jareth bellowed, shocking Sarah into silence. Gabriel's eyebrow remained cocked, this time in puzzlement.

"What do you mean, 'you can't'?" he asked. "Don't you have a spell or something? You got here, didn't you?" Jareth shot him a withering look, and Gabriel decided that it was time to mind his own business.

"I can't go back," Jareth explained. "Because the crystal orb is gone. As I turned more and more into Jason, it disappeared without my thought forms to maintain it. That was my only ticket out. There isn't another way to get back."

Sarah thought for a moment. "But Jaelithe." she started. She glanced at Gabriel for reassurance. "Jaelithe was able to transport me to the Labyrinth. He put a spell on a door or something, so that when I went through it, I appeared in the Labyrinth." She looked Jareth in the eye. "So there has to be another way back."

Jareth shook his head. "It would appear that only Jaelithe can open the portal," he said.

"Then," Gabriel said softly. "We'll have to ask him a favor."

The car started up again, this time with renewed purpose. Jaelithe sniffed as he watched them drive away. "Honestly, I've heard less corny lines in a Marvel comic book," he muttered. He turned into a black owl, and swooped down after them on silent wings.

Author: Well, here you go, and I hope you don't hate it! Until next time, Ja Ne!