Hiya peeps! This is my first movie-fanfic, so please give me a little credit if it's not that great X_X This first chapter is kinda like an intro, so bear with me and wait till it gets better! Warning: Sappy. R&R PLEASE!

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"…beating so fast, in search of new dreams…"

Sarah gasped as she sat up in bed. Her heart beat fast as she looked over at the alarm clock. 3:34am, it read. It was the night after she had gotten home from Jareth's labyrinth, and the memories were painfully fresh in her mind. She could have sworn that the haunting melody had been playing somewhere in the confines of her bedroom.

"Sarah?" Her father's voice floated through her door. "Are you alright?"

"Fine, dad," she muttered, pressing a hand to her pounding chest. "Just a nightmare."

"Ok, if you're sure…" She heard his steps retreating down the hall.

Sarah collapsed backwards onto her mounds of pillows. I think I'm scarred for life, she thought remorsefully to herself. That retched Goblin King! He had to come and ruin my life…She turned over and tried to make sleep take her once again, but it wouldn't come. Jareth's face kept flashing through her tired mind, blasting it awake with his parting words. "Fear me, love me, and I shall be your slave!"

"GO AWAY!" She buried her head under her blankets.

Her scream wakened Toby from his uneasy sleep. She could hear his cries being quieted by her stepmother, Karen.

"This will NEVER stop…" She turned onto her back once again to stare at the ceiling.

Jareth watched her wistfully through a crystal ball that floated in front of him. He had been lounging on his bed for quite a while, leaving only when absolutely necessary. Some of his minions had been trying to persuade him to eat, but he wouldn't accept any of their offers, choosing instead to brood in front of the sparkling orb.

"Sweet Sarah, why do you suffer so?" His hand gently caressed the round surface. "You needed only ask me for the world, and I would gladly have put it into your hands. All I asked for in return was your affections…" He pulled his fingers away from her image as one of his goblins entered the room.

"Your majesty…?" It asked warily. King Jareth had been known to throw things and kill many a goblin.

"What do you want?!" Jareth asked, scoffing. "I'm rather preoccupied at the moment, if you haven't noticed."

His servant peered at the crystal ball before Jareth swept it away out of sight.

"If I may, your majesty," he started. "If you care for her so much, why not go to her realm instead of bringing her here? Maybe she'll be more prone to listening if she's on her own…how you say…turf."

"How do YOU think those idiot mortals would react to a GOBLIN in their midst, moron?!" The Goblin King picked at his nails irritably.

"Then why don't you become one of them? You certainly have the power."

"Of course I do! But should I really stoop that low?!" This last wasn't really meant as a question, but roared at the top of his lungs. "Get out, before I send you to join your brother in the Bog of Eternal Stench!"

This got the goblin's attention, and he hurried out of the room as fast as his little legs could carry him.

Jareth sighed and reclined on his bed once again. With a wave of his hand, the crystal zipped back into view, showing Sarah in an uneasy sleep.

"If I were to become one of you," he murmured, "would you consider me then?" With that, his tired eyes finally drifted closed and the king fell into an exhausted and much-needed sleep.

The alarm rang true at 6:00am. Sarah fumbled around with the buttons and switched it off. Not an wink of deep sleep, she thought wearily. She slid her feet into her slippers and padded down the stairs to the table.

Her father was reading the newspaper, her stepmother was setting the table, and Toby was crying from his playpen on the floor. Sarah passed him with a grimace, muttering "Oh shut up." She shot a glance at her parents to see if they'd overheard this unpleasant remark. When they showed no sign of response, she sighed and seated herself beside her father.

"Morning, dear. How'd you sleep?" Her stepmother bustled around the kitchen, stirring this and flipping that.

"Fine." Her usual response.

"That's good."

Sarah watched her for a few more minutes. She wouldn't care if I HADN'T slept well, anyway…She reached for the milk and sloshed some into her cereal.

"Oh, honey! I made pancakes!" Karen gave her an exasperated look.

"I'm not that hungry," Sarah stated, even though her stomach was rumbling with the hunger. She took a bite of her cereal and stared at the back of the Cocoa Puffs box.

Karen just shook her head and turned to Toby. Richard looked from one to the other before shrugging and going back to his newspaper.

Sarah finished her cereal and trudged to the door. "I'm leaving," she shouted back to her family. Without waiting for a response, she hefted her backpack onto her shoulder and walked out of the house.

On the way to school, she waved her friends away and walked alone. She needed the time to think. Everywhere she looked she saw something that reminded her of the Labyrinth…and the Goblin King. I wish I could just walk with my eyes closed, she thought with a sigh. She was on the verge of trying it when she realized she was at the school.

"What's with you today?" Her boyfriend, Bryan, trotted up to her. "You waved us away like we were a bunch of bugs."

"Sorry, Bryan," she said apologetically. "I needed time to think."

"Oh? Care to share?"

"Not particularly."

"Come on. We've got 15 minutes before class starts." He sat down on the stairs and looked at her expectantly.

"Bryan, I REALLY don't want to talk about it." How could she? The Labyrinth, Ludo, Sir Didymus, Hoggle…Jareth… Bryan would probably send her to the nurse with the complaint of temporary insanity.

He looked hurt. "My own girlfriend can't talk to me about things…" He shook his head.

Sarah took his hands in hers. "I'll tell you when I'm ready, ok?" Yeah right.

Bryan looked up at her and smiled. "Alright. But only on one condition."

She eyed him suspiciously. "And that would be…?"

He laughed. "Kiss me!"

Sarah rolled her eyes but leaned down to kiss him.

"Excuse me. Are you Sarah Williams?"

She whirled around and came face to face with a gorgeous blonde boy. He was light complected, almost looking like he'd never seen the sun at all. "Hello…?" Sarah looked him up and down. "Uh, have we met before?"

The boy smiled, revealing unnaturally pointed teeth. "Somewhere along the line…"

Bryan was getting annoyed with the interruption. "Who are you anyway? And don't you go hitting on my girlfriend, hear?"

The boy ignored him and advanced on Sarah. "You're just as beautiful as ever."

"Uh…Th...thank you…" She backed up, almost tripping over her own feet as his eyes held hers captive. Now she was sure she had seen him before. Those eyes…she thought. I remember them from somewhere…if only I could remember!

"Hey, HEY! What are you doing?!" Bryan grabbed the boy by the arms and pinned him against the wall. The boy barely blinked.

"I was looking upon unrivaled beauty, that's what." He shot an approving glance at Sarah, then pushed the shorter boy's arms away with little or no effort. "Sarah, my name is Jareth." Then he walked away, leaving her stunned behind him.