Sarah stood, shocked brain trying to figure out what had just happened. He gave me his
amulet. No, wait. That's not right. Let me see. I told him I didn't want to talk to him, so he
told me I didn't know what I wanted. So I told him some of what I wanted, and asked if he could
give me that. When he said he could I told him to prove it. So then he, King of the Goblins, gave
me, a mire mortal, all of his powers! But wait, if he gave me his powers, doesn't that mean he's-
Suddenly realizing what had happened, Sarah fainted dead away in shock.
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Hearing a loud noise Jareth ran back into the room he had vacated. He had left only when the
silence had grown too much. Now when he re-entered the room and found Sarah on the ground,
all he could do was curse himself for leaving her alone. You knew it would be hard on her body,
and yet you left. Can you get any stupider? And think of what a shock it must have been!
Why did you even give them to me in the first place? A small voice asked.
Because she asked for proof, and that was the first thing that came to mind. He replied,
taking Sarah in his arms, and transporting them both into her room, where he lightly set her down
on her bed. Sitting down in a near by chair, tried to lightly probe her to discover what was
wrong, only to find that his lack of powers prevented him from being able. Growling in
frustration, he took her hand and waited, just like any other mortal would.
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Sarah stood looking out at a familiar orange landscape. Confused, she fallowed the
pathway in front of her down until it ended at a very dead looking garden, with a very cracked
and fallen wall behind. It was a moment before she realized she was standing at the entrance to
where this entire nightmare had begun. Laughing at the irony of it all, she walked over to the
small pond where she had first met Hoggle, and sat on a rock to think.
I must be dreaming. I haven't been here since, well, since I first wished Toby away. You
know, I half expect for Hoggle to show up at any second. And almost as if summoned by her
thoughts, she saw the dwarf hobble around the corner, spray bottle in hand. When he saw Sarah,
he grinned.
"Sarah! How are you my dear?" A female voice asked sweetly.
Startled at not hearing Hoggle's gravelly tones, Sarah looked up in surprise. "Um, good.
How do you know my name?" she asked in a worried tone.
"Why Hoggle has told me so much about you, and you're all the goblins and his highness talk
about. Between the three of them, how could I not?"
"Oh. So, um, how do you know Hoggle?" Sarah asked, trying to figure out a way to
wake herself up from what she perceived to be a very strange dream.
"I'm his wife, Balega of course!!! Oh, and I must thank you dear for my bracelet. It's very
beautiful." The little dwarf woman said, holding her wrist out to display a bracelet of cheap
plastic beads.
"Oh! I gave that to him when I first came through in exchange for his help."
"Speaking of help, what would you like to do?" Balega asked, looking up expectantly.
"Well, I'd like to go home." Sarah said, looking around her with a anxious look.
"But my dear, you are home!" Balega said with a laugh
"What do you mean? I live aboveground." Sarah asked, now very worried.
"No dear, not if you're ruler. You live here." Balega said as if this was obvious.
"Ruler!" she said, startled, then realized. "When Jareth gave me his powers, the title of
Ruler of the Goblins must have been passed on to me."
"Gave you his powers? What do you mean my dear?"
"Well to make a long story short, Jareth gave me his powers to prove something to me."
Sarah said sighing.
"And what was that dearie?"
"I don't know." Sarah replied, putting her face in her hands in exasperation. "I just don't
know."
"I think I do. He loves you." Startled, Sarah's head shot up to look at the female dwarf
in front of her.
"He what!!!"
"He loves you. He has since the first day he laid eyes on you. If you've said you wanted
anything, he's given it to you. When that young man in fifth grade made you cry, it took all
Hoggle's effort to convince him into not killing him right on the spot. When you asked for you
brother to be taken away, he did so very willingly. And only for you."
Blinking a few times in wonder, Sarah finally asked in a misty voice "H- how do I get
home?"
"Well, you just kind of will yourself there." Balega replied, a triumphant smile on her face.
Nodding to show she heard, Sarah closed her eyes, wanting to be home more than ever.
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"Please, Sarah, open your eyes!" Jareth pleaded yet again to the lifeless body that was
laying on the bed in front of him. "You've been asleep for three days already! Please?" When
there was no reply from the her, he stood up with a sigh and started to pace the room.
Restless, he sat back down again, and picked up Sarah's cold hand, kissing it lightly. Looking
up, he sighed in frustration. Closing his eyes, he took a couple of deep breaths and started to talk,
even though there was no one in the room.
"I know it's been a while since I last talked to you, and I wouldn't be surprise if you just
ignore me. I'm sure your suprised to hear from me. Heck, I'm suprised I'm talking to you. I guess
I just must be that scared for her. I don't know if it was the smartest thing for me to do, giving her
my powers, but it was the first thing I thougt of. But I don't think her body is ajusting quite that
well, because she's been out of it for three days, and I'm really starting to get worried. You see,
I, well... Alright, I'll admit it, I love her!!!!! I don't know how for how long, but I know how long
I've known. I first realized it back in the park when unknowingly asked me for a child I didn't take,
having changed Selavia's words to suite her own purpose. I realized then I had haunted her not becuase
of any of the reasons I had thought, but rather because I loved her, and wanted to make her happy. And
I still do! But I can't, if she's..." Jareth's voice caught in his througt as his mind finished his
thought. If she's dead.
Glancing down once more at the hand he was holding, he closed his eyes, tears sliding gracefully
down his face.
"I didn't know you could cry. I just thought you were crule and heartless."
Jumping slightly, Jareth opened his eyes to meet a pare of green ones.
"How long have you been awake?!" He demanded harsly, droping her hand to wipe the tears from his
eyes.
"Long enough to know that you do have a heart, and aren't as mean as you are forever acting."
Sarah said, smiling sweetly. Then with a worried look on her face she asked, "What do you mean
I've been asleep for three days? I've only been at the entrance to the Labyrinth for an hour!"
"Time flows diffrently between the two realms. Sometimes faster, sometimes slower, and on the
rare occation they flow equally. So while you were at the Labyrinth for only an hour, three days
passed in your realm." Jareth exsplained with a sigh, trying to remember when he had said such a
thing. "Although I'm suprised the Labyrinth didn't transport you to directly to my- I mean your-
castle."
It's so weird to say that. Her castle. I had always hoped I would be saying that along
with calling her my wife, not my ledge. But if it makes her happy, I would do it over again.
His thoughts were once agian intrupted when he felt Sarah's hand reach up and grab his neck,
pulling him down into a kiss. When they seprated, she whispered quietly, "I realized it three days
after you left. I hated myself for letting you go. I also grew to hate the story, because it
reminded me of you, and what I had lost. After a while I forced myself to forget."
"I- you- we-" Jareth stuttered, trying to understand what Sarah had just reviled to him.
Smiling at his confusion, she grabed his necklace from around her neck and held it out to him,
saying, "I believe this is yours?"
"I can't accept that." He said gentally pushing it back towards her. "It belongs to the ruler
of the Labyrinth. It belongs to you know."
"But, isn't there any way you could have it? I mean, you had given it to me." Sarah asked,
confused.
"I forgot that you don't know the customs of the underground. When I gave you my necklace, I
was admitting to you that I had feelings for you. You could even go as far as to say I was proposing
to you. But now that you are the ruler, it is yours." Jareth said, getting up and walking to look
out her bedroom window. Getting up, Sarah went over and wrapped her arm around his waist, and
whispered in his ear, "Well than, I accept."
Startled, Jareth turned around to look at Sarah, trying not to look suprised. "You what?"
"I accept. And Jareth, I can't have a king who doesn't have powers. So you had better figure
out some way of getting yours back, and letting me have my own."
"Accually my lady, he's always had his own." Came a small voice from behind them. Turning,
Sarah was startled to see Didymus behind her. Laughing, she bent down to give him a hug.
"What are you doing here?"
"He knows more about the protocal of the kingdom than anyone I know, so I asked for him to help
me." Jareth said sounding annoyed at being intupted.
"Yes My Lord. And as I said before, you still have your powers. The necklace of engagement
cannot tell wether a person is accepting the necklace as a gift or a proposal, but reacts the same
either way. That is to say that the recever gets powers of their own."
"So what your saying is that what I thought was me getting Jareth's powers was accually me getting
my own powers?"
"Yes My Lady."
"Oh."
"Yes, 'Oh' indeed." Jareth said, placing a hand on her sholder. "Well than in that case, Sarah,
would you like to come with me back to our castle?"
Rather than replying, Sarah stood, took his hand in her own and teleported them there herself.
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Well, there you go. I'm so sorry it took me so long to get this end to you. Our internet go
disconnected, then we had to re-format the hard drive, then I had to go to young womens camp, then...
But it's here now. I hope you've all enjoyed the ride. I'm planning on re-posting this some time in
the future. Don't worry, I'm going to finish Careless Whispers and Why Do I Love Thee So before I do.
I'm also working on a random Harry Potter fic, which I havn't figured out the title to yet, but it will
be one shot. Here's a sample of what to expect from it:
"We really shouldn't be here." Ginny said without turning around when she felt a presence enter the room.
"If we're caught we will both be shunned, maybe even expelled."
"I don't care, as long as I get to see you. I'll be graduating soon, and then I'll never see you again." A silky
voice replied from the darkness near the door. Turning, she didn't see his face, but she knew what she would
see if she could. She closed the few inches that separated them, wrapping her arms around his waist. Inhaling,
she closed her eyes as the smell of blood and wood flowed over her. Looking up, she met his own blue-green
eyes, and saw the love that was retained there.
So, ya'. Thank you all for the reviews, and the support. You can still e-mail me for a copy of
the book, even if you read this five years in the future. Just make sure you explain why you know
about it. I think that's all I have to say here. Thanks agian, and 'BYE!!!!!
amulet. No, wait. That's not right. Let me see. I told him I didn't want to talk to him, so he
told me I didn't know what I wanted. So I told him some of what I wanted, and asked if he could
give me that. When he said he could I told him to prove it. So then he, King of the Goblins, gave
me, a mire mortal, all of his powers! But wait, if he gave me his powers, doesn't that mean he's-
Suddenly realizing what had happened, Sarah fainted dead away in shock.
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Hearing a loud noise Jareth ran back into the room he had vacated. He had left only when the
silence had grown too much. Now when he re-entered the room and found Sarah on the ground,
all he could do was curse himself for leaving her alone. You knew it would be hard on her body,
and yet you left. Can you get any stupider? And think of what a shock it must have been!
Why did you even give them to me in the first place? A small voice asked.
Because she asked for proof, and that was the first thing that came to mind. He replied,
taking Sarah in his arms, and transporting them both into her room, where he lightly set her down
on her bed. Sitting down in a near by chair, tried to lightly probe her to discover what was
wrong, only to find that his lack of powers prevented him from being able. Growling in
frustration, he took her hand and waited, just like any other mortal would.
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Sarah stood looking out at a familiar orange landscape. Confused, she fallowed the
pathway in front of her down until it ended at a very dead looking garden, with a very cracked
and fallen wall behind. It was a moment before she realized she was standing at the entrance to
where this entire nightmare had begun. Laughing at the irony of it all, she walked over to the
small pond where she had first met Hoggle, and sat on a rock to think.
I must be dreaming. I haven't been here since, well, since I first wished Toby away. You
know, I half expect for Hoggle to show up at any second. And almost as if summoned by her
thoughts, she saw the dwarf hobble around the corner, spray bottle in hand. When he saw Sarah,
he grinned.
"Sarah! How are you my dear?" A female voice asked sweetly.
Startled at not hearing Hoggle's gravelly tones, Sarah looked up in surprise. "Um, good.
How do you know my name?" she asked in a worried tone.
"Why Hoggle has told me so much about you, and you're all the goblins and his highness talk
about. Between the three of them, how could I not?"
"Oh. So, um, how do you know Hoggle?" Sarah asked, trying to figure out a way to
wake herself up from what she perceived to be a very strange dream.
"I'm his wife, Balega of course!!! Oh, and I must thank you dear for my bracelet. It's very
beautiful." The little dwarf woman said, holding her wrist out to display a bracelet of cheap
plastic beads.
"Oh! I gave that to him when I first came through in exchange for his help."
"Speaking of help, what would you like to do?" Balega asked, looking up expectantly.
"Well, I'd like to go home." Sarah said, looking around her with a anxious look.
"But my dear, you are home!" Balega said with a laugh
"What do you mean? I live aboveground." Sarah asked, now very worried.
"No dear, not if you're ruler. You live here." Balega said as if this was obvious.
"Ruler!" she said, startled, then realized. "When Jareth gave me his powers, the title of
Ruler of the Goblins must have been passed on to me."
"Gave you his powers? What do you mean my dear?"
"Well to make a long story short, Jareth gave me his powers to prove something to me."
Sarah said sighing.
"And what was that dearie?"
"I don't know." Sarah replied, putting her face in her hands in exasperation. "I just don't
know."
"I think I do. He loves you." Startled, Sarah's head shot up to look at the female dwarf
in front of her.
"He what!!!"
"He loves you. He has since the first day he laid eyes on you. If you've said you wanted
anything, he's given it to you. When that young man in fifth grade made you cry, it took all
Hoggle's effort to convince him into not killing him right on the spot. When you asked for you
brother to be taken away, he did so very willingly. And only for you."
Blinking a few times in wonder, Sarah finally asked in a misty voice "H- how do I get
home?"
"Well, you just kind of will yourself there." Balega replied, a triumphant smile on her face.
Nodding to show she heard, Sarah closed her eyes, wanting to be home more than ever.
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"Please, Sarah, open your eyes!" Jareth pleaded yet again to the lifeless body that was
laying on the bed in front of him. "You've been asleep for three days already! Please?" When
there was no reply from the her, he stood up with a sigh and started to pace the room.
Restless, he sat back down again, and picked up Sarah's cold hand, kissing it lightly. Looking
up, he sighed in frustration. Closing his eyes, he took a couple of deep breaths and started to talk,
even though there was no one in the room.
"I know it's been a while since I last talked to you, and I wouldn't be surprise if you just
ignore me. I'm sure your suprised to hear from me. Heck, I'm suprised I'm talking to you. I guess
I just must be that scared for her. I don't know if it was the smartest thing for me to do, giving her
my powers, but it was the first thing I thougt of. But I don't think her body is ajusting quite that
well, because she's been out of it for three days, and I'm really starting to get worried. You see,
I, well... Alright, I'll admit it, I love her!!!!! I don't know how for how long, but I know how long
I've known. I first realized it back in the park when unknowingly asked me for a child I didn't take,
having changed Selavia's words to suite her own purpose. I realized then I had haunted her not becuase
of any of the reasons I had thought, but rather because I loved her, and wanted to make her happy. And
I still do! But I can't, if she's..." Jareth's voice caught in his througt as his mind finished his
thought. If she's dead.
Glancing down once more at the hand he was holding, he closed his eyes, tears sliding gracefully
down his face.
"I didn't know you could cry. I just thought you were crule and heartless."
Jumping slightly, Jareth opened his eyes to meet a pare of green ones.
"How long have you been awake?!" He demanded harsly, droping her hand to wipe the tears from his
eyes.
"Long enough to know that you do have a heart, and aren't as mean as you are forever acting."
Sarah said, smiling sweetly. Then with a worried look on her face she asked, "What do you mean
I've been asleep for three days? I've only been at the entrance to the Labyrinth for an hour!"
"Time flows diffrently between the two realms. Sometimes faster, sometimes slower, and on the
rare occation they flow equally. So while you were at the Labyrinth for only an hour, three days
passed in your realm." Jareth exsplained with a sigh, trying to remember when he had said such a
thing. "Although I'm suprised the Labyrinth didn't transport you to directly to my- I mean your-
castle."
It's so weird to say that. Her castle. I had always hoped I would be saying that along
with calling her my wife, not my ledge. But if it makes her happy, I would do it over again.
His thoughts were once agian intrupted when he felt Sarah's hand reach up and grab his neck,
pulling him down into a kiss. When they seprated, she whispered quietly, "I realized it three days
after you left. I hated myself for letting you go. I also grew to hate the story, because it
reminded me of you, and what I had lost. After a while I forced myself to forget."
"I- you- we-" Jareth stuttered, trying to understand what Sarah had just reviled to him.
Smiling at his confusion, she grabed his necklace from around her neck and held it out to him,
saying, "I believe this is yours?"
"I can't accept that." He said gentally pushing it back towards her. "It belongs to the ruler
of the Labyrinth. It belongs to you know."
"But, isn't there any way you could have it? I mean, you had given it to me." Sarah asked,
confused.
"I forgot that you don't know the customs of the underground. When I gave you my necklace, I
was admitting to you that I had feelings for you. You could even go as far as to say I was proposing
to you. But now that you are the ruler, it is yours." Jareth said, getting up and walking to look
out her bedroom window. Getting up, Sarah went over and wrapped her arm around his waist, and
whispered in his ear, "Well than, I accept."
Startled, Jareth turned around to look at Sarah, trying not to look suprised. "You what?"
"I accept. And Jareth, I can't have a king who doesn't have powers. So you had better figure
out some way of getting yours back, and letting me have my own."
"Accually my lady, he's always had his own." Came a small voice from behind them. Turning,
Sarah was startled to see Didymus behind her. Laughing, she bent down to give him a hug.
"What are you doing here?"
"He knows more about the protocal of the kingdom than anyone I know, so I asked for him to help
me." Jareth said sounding annoyed at being intupted.
"Yes My Lord. And as I said before, you still have your powers. The necklace of engagement
cannot tell wether a person is accepting the necklace as a gift or a proposal, but reacts the same
either way. That is to say that the recever gets powers of their own."
"So what your saying is that what I thought was me getting Jareth's powers was accually me getting
my own powers?"
"Yes My Lady."
"Oh."
"Yes, 'Oh' indeed." Jareth said, placing a hand on her sholder. "Well than in that case, Sarah,
would you like to come with me back to our castle?"
Rather than replying, Sarah stood, took his hand in her own and teleported them there herself.
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Well, there you go. I'm so sorry it took me so long to get this end to you. Our internet go
disconnected, then we had to re-format the hard drive, then I had to go to young womens camp, then...
But it's here now. I hope you've all enjoyed the ride. I'm planning on re-posting this some time in
the future. Don't worry, I'm going to finish Careless Whispers and Why Do I Love Thee So before I do.
I'm also working on a random Harry Potter fic, which I havn't figured out the title to yet, but it will
be one shot. Here's a sample of what to expect from it:
"We really shouldn't be here." Ginny said without turning around when she felt a presence enter the room.
"If we're caught we will both be shunned, maybe even expelled."
"I don't care, as long as I get to see you. I'll be graduating soon, and then I'll never see you again." A silky
voice replied from the darkness near the door. Turning, she didn't see his face, but she knew what she would
see if she could. She closed the few inches that separated them, wrapping her arms around his waist. Inhaling,
she closed her eyes as the smell of blood and wood flowed over her. Looking up, she met his own blue-green
eyes, and saw the love that was retained there.
So, ya'. Thank you all for the reviews, and the support. You can still e-mail me for a copy of
the book, even if you read this five years in the future. Just make sure you explain why you know
about it. I think that's all I have to say here. Thanks agian, and 'BYE!!!!!