Reviewer shout outs-
Innogen- Thanx, it is a peacefull place, most a' the time!
ItsACrystalNothingMore- Tez, Thanx hun (n thanx for aussie day, waves flag!) OOOoo a snape moment! Are u gonna send me a lil evil blonde magician if I don't update? hehe, that may be fun… aww ok ill update for ya anyway, thanx!
Theshadowcat- Oh Im so happy people like my change of scenery thing. Thanx!
Rosakara13- Glad ya liked it, Thanxya hun
Lyn- will do
Sightlessmuse- Im so happy people are liking my change of scenery for Sarah. I was a lil worried reviewers would be all "Australia?" Well thankyou for liking it! And reading it!
Enchanted- Yay another person who likes the change of scenery idea! Now with the Northern Star…..lets just say it's a definite key to Sarah and Jareth. It's going to play a huge part in Sarah's return to the Underground. And yes, she will go back to him.
Loungingpixie- aww thanx. I know ive put a bit of longing in this chapter, but its not all roses and chocolates, so I hope u don't mind it! You know what, this is gonna sound so dumb, but I don't even know what a muse is (hangs head in shame for being a fanfic writer and not knowing that) And I don't have one if it's an actual person! Thanx for ur review!
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Imagine yourself as a being that's pure existence was neither real nor fictional. You did not belong to the earth as we know it, nor any place in the physical Universe.
You belonged to a place of dreams. A place where its sole dreamer, or creator as it would be better known, created everything around you and everything you knew.
Imagine your sole purpose in life was to play a villain to a young woman, a heroine. You were supposed to manipulate her, be cruel not kind, and of course, hate her…………..
Well, hate and love are two emotions that are so consuming, so passionate, that they can in some circumstances, be hard to decipher which one is which. Some say that you can hate someone so much, with such a passion, that it can turn into love.
You fell in love with her.
Not knowing how, when or why, all you knew was her. You knew her thoughts as they included you, controlled you. You knew her life, her will and her way as yours. And you fell.
Whether it was right or not didn't matter. But she, the creator, was young, naïve and did not know of the damage she would cause. Nor later on regret. And now ….
Now, you were forced to rule a desolate land all by yourself as creatures of this place had long gone, with her departure. You were forced to live without knowing of her existence and thinking of her every single moment of the day and night, forced to live with the feeling you could never tell her that you loved her …… forced to spend eternity alone, without her.
Alone.
The Labyrinth was Sarah's dream. However unlike most dreams, it became real and as both sides now knew, went wrong. A certain King, had become what he was today as a result. Broken.
The wind blew sharply through the air into his face, blonde whisps swirling around him in a frenzy. Questions, questions were the only thing that kept him sane this night……
It wasn't supposed to be this way…
Sitting against the windowsill in the drafty castle, staring out into the dark, star less sky, he grasped the crumbling brick wall with a black, leather clad fist.
Why did you make me who I am Sarah?
His face was drawn, paler than it usually was, its luminance had long gone. He was now also a lot thinner than he used to be.
Why did you create all this, then leave?
Energy drained from him, magic was slowly evaporating from him. A once proud man, was now threatening to tears.
Why did you leave me here, all alone……
A single tear rolled down his cheek as he shakily stood. His heart, growing weak.
I cannot be who you want me to be anymore. As it kills me to do so…..
I have to love you. As hard as this could be, Sarah, I must love you
Jareth was dying
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As day light broke through Sarah's white opaque curtains, the radio automatically switched on playing 'Everything, Abi Tucker' another Australian singer not known by the world yet. The young woman lying on the beech wood, queen size bed stretched upwards.
Letting out a soft yawn she flopped over onto her side to switch the annoying racket off.
But suddenly paused, hand hovering over the snooze button.
As hard as this could be,
I would give you everything,
And if space if what you need,
Well there's room inside of me,
So run as fast as you will
Baby I will be here waiting………….
There. That pain in her heart. There went that longing again, deep inside her.
Shutting her eyes for fear of crying again, she slammed her hand on the snooze button.
She had not gotten a good sleep the previous night, thinking of him. All these signs, these visions, these feelings, were starting to overwhelm her. She had a business to run, she had a life here to live now.
And consider the source: If Jareth can't, or just plain wont get to me, how am I supposed to ever get to him
Sarah shook her head, determined. She had to be at work in an hour and a half, she had normal, earthly things to consume her time.
But its not what you really want
"It may not be, but that's the way it is" Sarah sighed getting out of bed to face a new day.
"You always want the things you can't have"
She couldn't be more wrong, however.
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Jareth awoke in bed at the same time. But he wasn't awoken from daylight.
A strange shudder had just shook through the Labyrinth, it felt like an earth quake, but the visual effect it gave was what perplexed him the most. It looked like ripples in water were consuming the land. That's what it looked like to Jareth anyway.
To an earthling however, there was no mistaking what it looked like. The ocean.
He got out of bed as quickly as his body willed him, and he stared out into the vastness that was now dimmed with the dull orange day light. The labyrinth was still intact, everything was still intact.
How strange…
He then felt the ripple all around him again, and as he saw it flow through the Labyrinth once more he couldn't help but think, is this something of Sarah's doing..
After 16 years, could she finally be contacting the Labyrinth again……..
Contacting him again?
Feeling weak he grasped onto the wall nearest to him, finally deciding he had to go back to bed.
What was going on, he didn't know. He just hoped it was something good.
But hope? What is hope Jareth a part of him couldn't help but think.
He had given up hope ever since he had to play a part he didn't want. That he had to hate the only woman he would ever love.
The King had fooled himself once again. She would not return. She could not love…..
me
Sarah may not have known a lot of things when she created this place, but he was beginning to think one thing she had said all along was right.
It's not fair.
Perhaps this was how he was to die. Perhaps some unknown force was here to take his life for him. He did not know a thing, except it didn't matter anymore.
He slowly pulled back his tattering sheets but saw the world before him spin a little. So squeezing his eyes shut, he crawled in, not knowing or caring anymore of what was going to become of him.
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Now to clear some things up that you might wanting to know about..
Sarah- has no idea she is the 'creator' she believes that the Underground/Labyrinth is its own entity. She knows it exists now, but not of her own doing. She hasn't got the faintest that she made it all in her head.
Yes, I guess in some circumstances you could call her a god in this!
Im sorry about the creatures of Labyrinth if you are wanting to off me now ive said they aren't there anymore. They aren't dead, but they are gone, when I said left with her departure, I meant the night of her party, is when every creature from the Labyrinth left with her…..doesnt mean though I wont bring them back ;)
As for the Labyrinth itself. It exists in her mind and in 'her' physical world….you will just have to keep reading to find out more!
Jareth- he is very real like the Labyrinth, as above. Don't freak about his dying either, he isn't dead yet, its J/S! I need him like I need water to live right now. I hope you liked his POV at the beginning……I really tried to put myself in his place, and that's hard when one is female and never been a Goblin King before…
I haven't decided yet whether to make him a fae or not. Seeming its all Sarah's creation, I could be real predictive and make him fae, or I could be real challenging and make him a human, or I may make him no being just as he is…… ideas?
Well, RR please, and if u got anymore questions just feel free to ask away!
Jaz
