It seems the journey back to the underground was overwhelming. Once Jareth and Sarah had entered the entrance.

Sarah lay on the ground and tried to remember the happenings of the hours before: the book had been returned and Jareth had come back. But why? She wondered as she lay almost lifeless. Why had he come back? Was it just her imagination? Had Alice given her some kind of psychodelic drug? Was she only dreaming?

Sarah was scared to open her eyes, she felt a cold chill upon her spine, and she then felt the ground… snow. Completely certain she was not in the underground she opened her eyes. There she was; the labyrinth but it was not the same one she had left all those years ago. Now Jareth's whole world was covered in ice and snow. Some of the bricks on the walls were rotting even more then before, and the greenery (the little that was planted) had all shriveled up and died from the frost.

Sarah stood outside the large labyrinth walls, gaping. She wondered what had happened to her friends. Had then been captured for helping her? Or perhaps even killed? Sarah shook her head at such a thought, if people were punished for they're wrong doings in the labyrinth everyone would be in jail.

She paced and tried to find the doors entering inside. With the walls cold and frozen she couldn't see the door as well as she could before. The sky was dark and gray,

thunder could be heard from a distance. Then she felt something, like cold metal. It was two door handles. She jerked on the handles again and again but the door barely shook as she used all he might. The hinges seemed to be frozen shut. The pond was frozen so there was no way she could poor water to melt the ice off the hinges.

"There must be a way inside." She thought.

After all the time she had spent in the Labyrinth before the only thought in her mind then was escaping; now her only thought was getting back inside. A rope hung from the top of the wall, Sarah tugged on it.

"Seems sturdy enough." She said as she began to climb up the rope. She now knew why her gym teacher made her climb the ropes. Sarah pulled herself up to the top of the wall and peered down. She hadn't noticed how incredibly high the walls actually were. Her knees started to give out. She breathed in, for a smoker in the winter this was not paradise. Sarah coughed and looked around at the wall for some resource to help her down… nothing. Just then she spotted two wood planks that were sued to hold the doors shut.

If I could only get one of those I could just walk across to the other wall. At the time her plan seemed flawless, that is until she set the unsteady board onto the other wall.

Sarah breathed out mist as she made her first step onto the wood, it shook from her weight. Sarah kept her arms out for balance.

"Piece of cake." She said. Just then the board cracked and down she went. Her body fell onto the hard ground with a loud thump.

"Shit!" she yelled as pain surged through her body.

"That's not very nice language for a little girl…" Jareth's voice echoed through the walls.

"Jareth!" she called. "Jareth! Where are you?"

The familiar snow owl flew down in front of her.

"What's going on?" Sarah asked.

Jareth stood. "Don't you see why I've brought you back Sarah? This frozen wasteland was once my Labyrinth."

"I'm no dull, I can see that much." Sarah snapped back, her nicotine cravings were kicking in.

"You've done all of this yourself Sarah." Jareth said cupping her face with his gloved hands.

Sarah stared at him blankly.

"When you left those years ago with Toby the Labyrinth started to dwindle. First some of the creatures started to die off. Including your little worm friend."

Sarah was unaware Jareth even knew of her helpful blue worm.

"Then the plants and the hedge maze started to frost, then the storms came, and the illness. All because of a silly girl."

"That's not physically possible."

Jareth laughed and turned his back to her. "Defeat is a powerful thing."

"Why did you bring me back here?"

"To fix my little problem." Jareth replied with a grin.

Sarah was confused, she had obviously gotten the wrong impression.

"What? Did you think we would fall in love Sarah? Eh? Then spend the rest of our lives together?"

Sarah looked away.

"Aw. Tsk tsk. Now I thought you would have known me better."

"But didn't you…?" Sarah asked.

"What? Didn't I love you? Yes, I suppose so at one time or another… years ago."

"And after I fix the problem?"

"You can do what ever you please."

Sarah nodded. "Tell me then."

Jareth took her hand. "Listen closely; all you have to do is complete my Labyrinth one more time."

Sarah drew away. "Is that all?"

Jareth nodded. "Well of course we do have to change the ending of your little adventure. When I offer you my slavery and love forever you must accept."

Sarah look astonished. "Accept? And live here with you… forever? But never fall in love?"

"I suppose so. I'm not speaking of marriage my dear, if you don't complete my labyrinth you'll be sent to the oubliette and we can forget all about you."

"What about my friends and family back home?"

"They've already forgotten my dear. It's as if you had never existed." Jareth lowered a crystal ball Sarah glanced in and saw her family at Thanksgiving all laughing and carrying on as usual… they had obviously forgotten.

Sarah stared at Jareth with her cruel eyes. "I accept."

"Thirteen hours…." Jareth whispered and then vanished into the mist.

"Well now that I know my way around there's no problem." Sarah walked down the endless hallway feeling the walls for a clear spot where she could walk through. But there was nothing. The entrance to the maze of the labyrinth had been blocked off with ice. Sarah tried to stay clam but couldn't. She kicked the walls with her feet and tried to make it give way.

"Damnit!" she yelled reaching for her cigarettes.

She opened her pack and found nothing they're, only a lighter and a piece of wrapper.

She wanted to cry, she threw her pack down on the ground, her lighter slid across the ground until it landed right at her feet.

Sarah smiled as she grabbed her lighter and started to melt the ice that blocked her way. The blockade was only half an inch thick so it was simple enough to melt through. She kicked the rest of her ice out of her way. She laughed to herself as she turned right; she hadn't picked that way before so she figured it had to land hr closer to the labyrinth. The door led her to the hedge maze, where Hoggle and she had escaped from the cleaners.

Jareth was right the entire Hedge maze had been destroyed; in fact only little twigs lay where the great bushed once were. The wise man was still sitting on his post, frozen in his place. He looked as though he hadn't moved for ages. Sarah shook in her sneakers as she passed his lifeless body. Since the hedges had practically been erased they're was no maze in this portion of the labyrinth, so she sailed briskly through the hedges, over the junkyard pile, and up to the Goblin City entrance.

Upon the door lay a sign, it read "Ringer out of Order. Knock or die!"

So she did, she knocked twice. There as no answer, she knocked again, no answer.

"You dumb goblins…" Sarah knocked again.

This time the door opened, but no the one she had expected. A trap door had opened beneath her feet and was sending her whirling down through the tunnel of talking hands. Except something was different. The hands weren't holding onto her. They lay lifeless and cold against the wall. Sarah fell faster and faster as her clean clothes dragged against the rotting hands.

She grabbed onto a pair and tried to climb back up. But the hands were so rotted they broke off the walls and came tumbling down right with her. She drifted down deeper and deeper until she hit the ground with a splash.

The tunnel landed her in the sewage line.

"Oh, damnit! This is so disgusting.."

The sewage smell nearly knocked her out but instead she plugged her nose and looked around. She found that the tunnel led to a grate right next to the goblin castle. The walk through all the goblin waste was not a pleasant one, but she bared until she reached a ladder which led up to the street. She lifted the heavy bars out of the way and climbed her filthy body up the steps which led to the castle.

This time she didn't have to knock, the doors opened right in front of her. And there was Jareth waiting for her. He led out his hand for her and he helped her up.

"Just say it…" Jareth whispered. "I will be your slave…"

Sarah hesitated; she remembered everything she would be leaving behind. Her family, Toby whom she had gotten so close to in these past years, Alice and her so-so job.

"Okay." She barely spoke as her voice cracked. "I'll stay with you."

"Excellent." Jareth said as if it meant nothing to him. These goblins will lead you to your chambers. Dinner will be served in 2 hours, you may walk around the grounds and get more familiar with the castle. I will be in my room, do not disturb me."

Sarah nodded her head and that was that, she was to live in the Underground forever.

CHAPTER 3 COMING VERY SOOON! CHECK BACK IN A FEW DAYS!