A/N: In this chapter I start off at Sarah's rendezvous point with her lover, Tehran who is patiently waiting for her after receiving a letter from her. Then the chapter skips to Jareth in disarray after discovering his wife's death and adultery. Well with that said, I hope you'll enjoy this addition to my story.

Disclaimer: I don't own Jim Henson's Labyrinth or any of his characters. Also, the poem consists of Julie Andrew's lyrics from I Loved you Once in Silence. I lay claim to only my original creations.

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Chapter Three

Fly Away With Me

There stood next to decaying walls and wild roses the center of Sarah's world standing 6 foot tall with the darkest of hair and the softest of brown eyes. Clenched in his hand upon the russet paper a scribbled invitation to freedom was written and so lovingly signed, Sarah.

My Dearest love,

I loved you once in silence and misery was all I knew

Trying so to keep my love from showing

All the while not knowing you loved me too

Yes, loved me in lonesome silence

Your heart filled with dark despair

Knowing love would flame in you forever

And I would never know the flame was there

Then one day we cast away our secret longing

The raging tide we held inside would hold no more

The silence was at last broken

We flung wide our prison door

Every joyous word of love was spoken

And now there is twice as much grief

Twice the strain for us

Twice the despair

And twice the pain for us as we had known before.

I cannot be with out you for you are the reason I rise in the morning and sleep at night. If you are to be sent away then you take with you my very reason for living. I'll be waiting for you at our spot at the 13th hour.

With all my heart,

Sarah

Tehran's stance nervously shifted at the sight of an all too familiar white owl in flight. There was only one who possessed that form and he quickly feared the worst. Both Sarah and him would surely be found out or had that already happened? He anguished in worry waiting for his beloved Sarah's arrival that would never come.

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The screech of an owl pierced the air and was carried on the wind through out the Labyrinth's walls. Flying through the moonlit sky over his kingdom in despair, Jareth dropped into a tailspin for a clearing he had often visited as a youth.

Shedding his milky feathers the elegant bird exchanged wings for arms and claws for feet.

The noble figure still wore his fine garments and carelessly dropped to his knees in ruin,  "Dorian! Why is it I held my Sarah, cold and lifeless? Her breath I cannot bring back! How has it come to this? Should I not have loved her?" 

Raising to his feet his cries filled the woods. Even though his demands still went unanswered Jareth shouted on,  "Then I should not have been born! Oh Dorian, how did it happen? I haven't got much time; a thin inch of sunlight till my kingdom awakes. If I am to live with out my queen do not let me do so bemused. "

            In a moment of desperation the king lowered himself back to his knees on humility to his childish pain. His tears were sobered by guidance that radiated from the very trees.

"Think Jareth, think back." The wise voice belonged to the very forest that surrounded him; the shadows of night that cloaked his pain, and mother moon that beamed her rays upon him. Mismatched eyes clarified in the comforting tone that wrapped around him like a warm blanket.  "Think back?"

The strained voice whirled on the night's breeze to its student's ears. "Back to one of the most important days of your life."

Stifling his weak whimpers of pain Jareth shakily managed, "The day she came back to the Labyrinth." 

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I hope I'm not jumping around too much. Well, if I am I'm sure you'll tell me ^-^ in your REVIEW *cough*. Speaking of REVIEWS I'd like to thank those of you who have been kind enough to leave a comment or two for little old me…*big puppy dog eyes*. It's very important for me to hear your thoughts so I can gage what to write in the next chapter.

~Clover