Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN "LABYRINTH"

A/N: Hey, yeah I know it has been over two weeks since my last update and I am sorry for those who are reading my story. I was having a bit of personal trouble but I am sure you would rather me just start typing the chapter instead of this author's note huh. Okay here goes nothing.

CHAPTER FOUR

Jareth came to an abrupt awakening. He was in a cold sweat. The sweat on his bare chest shone in the moonlight coming in his chambers through the arched window.

"Oh my God! I hate that dream."

He has been taunted by this nightmare almost every night since Sarah had defeated him. Oh how he hated sending her back to the hell she calls home.

'They treat her as if she were a slave! Like that of a fairy tale I have heard about. Oh what was it called? Ah Cinderella. They treat her as if she was an escaped character from that instead of the beautiful princess she is.

Jareth knew he wouldn't get back to sleep with thoughts like these, So he decided he needed something to drink. He looked at the clock.

'Hum 2:30 am. I'll go get it myself.' He thought to himself. Knowing the goblins would have been asleep by now. He could have woken them if he had pleased but in actuality he needed something to do other then bombard himself with thoughts of the life Sarah is leading right now.

Lucky for him he knew where the sleep aids were so he could get some sleep. Here lately he has been taking them like candy.

"Okay so maybe I can get some Sarah less sleep, I can't rule my kingdom all groggy now can I?"

Jareth awoke the next morning wide eyed and refreshed, but his thoughts of Sarah had not subsided.

Towards the end of the day he decided this was the worst day of his life.

Just then his lead Guard, Gavin, came rushing in the throne room where Jareth had collapsed in his throne sprawled out, as usual.

"Sire there is an Intruder in the Labyrinth! He is hiding in the shadows on the eastern side of the Labyrinth. The guards alone cannot defeat it."

"Very well Gavin I am coming." With that Jareth jumped out of the window and transformed into a snow white owl and flew high above the land he had to protect. Being in his owl form had given him an advantage. Not only did he have the ability to see in the very shadows the intruder had taken up residence but he also spotted the over grown Hair ball before it even knew what was going on. To fight the thing Jareth had to go back to the form of a human. He landed as quietly as he could behind the beast and made the first shot but the beast was stronger then Jareth had figured. The beast nearly defeated the powerful Goblin King. Jareth's mind was somewhere else. However hard he tried his thoughts still drifted to Sarah. Even during a battle he was tormented with her presents in his mind.

His thoughts though still on Sarah, were now on how she was treated by her parents like the night before and they angered him and he found the strength to defeat the creature.

'Oh, time for sleep.' He thought tiredly.

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Sarah was just waking.

"Oh that was a nice night of sleep."

She yawned and put her cold feet in her big fuzzy purple slippers.

"I need to clean the house, I hate cleaning the house. I don't even think Karen knows how to vacuum."

Sarah walked out of her room to get Toby out who was standing in his crib crying quite loudly in protest of being in caged in the wooden bars any longer.

Her parents were gone, long gone by the looks of things. There were 2 cups of coffee, both half drank, cold, and a bagel w/ cream cheese, sitting attracting flies.

"Only 9:00 a.m. and already gone, at least they get a life right Toby? Who am I joking? You probably think I am your mother; I should be the one out now! It's not fair! Oh! I shouldn't say that all the time. Like Jareth said, I say it so often people may start to wonder what my basis of comparison is." Thinking back to her recent days in the labyrinth. "I miss him Toby, wait what did I say? I don't have a reason to miss him. What has he done for me to miss him?"

"I offered you your dreams." Jareth stated bluntly as his heart skipped a beat as he found out his love thought of him.

He had been watching her with one of his many crystals.

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A/N: Hey I think this chapter is a little longer than usual. I really am sorry about the delay. I hope it was worth the wait.

THANKS TO:

Mad Hatter8: Yeah my VHS is wearing out so I need to get the DVD. Tee hee thanks for the review.

Lady Water: True. I'll see what comes to mind.

Spider girl5: Yeah my family hid the movie from me once BUT I STILL FOUND IT!!!!! HA HA HA HA * laughs in the faces of the evil beings that tried to separate me from "my precious"* lol, okay I am no that bad but hey.