Jareth remembered the first time he saw Sarah. It was at a park when she was practicing lines from a play. Unknowingly she had summoned him there, but she never saw him. He came as an owl and perched himself on a tree. Jareth knew the play she was performing. It was a legend from his world, written about his great great grandfather. He had seen it acted out many times but never with such life and spirit.
He made it a habit of coming back there when ever he could spare the time to see her. Every time he would get a little more daring. He would move closer and closer to where she was practicing until the day he was so close that he could almost touch her. That was the day she wished her baby brother away.
When he first came to her in his more human like form it seemed as if she was trying to wound him with her eyes, her perfect eyes. He hated having to make her go through the labyrinth, but that was the rules. Before then Jareth thought he was all powerful. He put so much faith into his labyrinth. But when Sarah told him she thought it was a peace of cake, he began to believe her. For she only showed him a brave face, unlike everyone else who coward before him.
"Her face," he said with a sigh as he sat in his empty thrown room, "Her face is what did it in for me. That is what made me loose to her. In the end I offered her the world but she left. I told her the truth but she couldn't believe me. I tried to give her so much. I tried to give her her dreams. But at that time she wasn't ready. She was still a child, but still even then she was always a woman to me."
Jareth looked in on her from time to time. He was not happy with what he saw. He always knew Sarah deserved more than what she was receiving. But he knew he could not intervene. She would not think nicely of that and she was truly not ready to have him back in her life. "Besides Sarah always pulled through any rough spots," Jareth thought.
He couldn't say that he always stayed on the sidelines. One time he pulled up a crystal and saw her boyfriend beating her after she was knocked out. He knew he couldn't go to her, as much as he wanted to. Instead he made her boyfriend come to him. Than was still chained in the dungeon. Jareth could not bring himself to look at him. By mixing some things around in Sarah's apartment he made it look as if Than simply left.
Jareth knew the life she was leading was not good for her, but he could see her character was not completely gone. She was more caring than before. Jareth always saw her giving away spare change to homeless people even though she desperately needed it. But still, on the same token, he had also seen her tell a street peddler exactly what he could do with his stolen purses.
Jareth smiled at that thought. He knew they were meant to be together, he just didn't know when and also knew now wasn't the best time. Although she was a woman he didn't think she was ready.