Disclaimer: I don't own Labyrinth or the characters therein, but I do own the ones I made up.

Author's Note: Happy St. Patrick's Day all! I know it's been forever since I last updated and I am soooo sorry about that! Stupid writer's block! Anyway, it may be a while before you get another chapter because I've decided to finish writing this here story before I update again. I hope this chapter makes up for it (and not updating sooner), though. I would like to thank my reviewers (I hope you didn't think I'd forgotten about this story, or that I was dead, 'cause I'm not.). Your reviews make me feel all happy:) Anywho, please read on and enjoy!

Halloween: Chapter Three

Goblins. Usually they are bumbling, stupid little creatures. However, they do have their uses. They can scurry through the shadows, unseen by all. Watching through the windows, listening through the wallsthey hear everything, see everything. Nothing escapes them. Nobody ever knows they're there until its too late, until they've said something they regret and can't take back. They can never take it back.

What's said is said.

Those were the first words he had ever said to her, and she was not too soon to forget. They echoed in her dreams and wouldn't go away. She tossed and turned as she lay on the floor of Alice's back room, images of the past floating through her head.

She was standing in the ballroom once more, but something was horribly wrong. Nobody else was there, it was as silent as the dead.

"Hello?" Sarah's voice echoed throughout the room. "Is anybody here?"

No one answered, but she could sense somebody watching her. As she turned around to take in her surroundings, soft music began to play. She knew it was special music, the kind you only hear in your dreams. Closing her eyes slowly, she listened. She knew this music by heart.

"There's such a sad love

Deep in your eyes"

She felt herself swaying back and forth, dancing with an invisible partner. Her eyes still closed, she spun herself around the room to the music.

"There's such a fooled heart

Beating so fast

In search of new dreams"

Suddenly, she felt some one gently take her hands. Opening her eyes, she saw him standing there. Softly, he sang to her.

"A love that will last

Within your heart"

"Jareth..." Sarah whispered softly as he swept her across the floor, gracefully.

Leaning close, he breathed in her ear, "I'll place the moon within your heart, Sarah, if you'll let me."

Pulling away slightly, she looked up into his mismatched eyes, her heart beating faster than it ever had before. "I don't know if I can."

He said nothing, but pulled away from her. The music stopped abruptly, and Sarah looked questioningly at Jareth as he backed away, slowly. He was fading.

"Jareth!" Sarah cried, but he was gone. Looking around, she could now see that everything was gone, nothing was left but an empty darkness. She felt more cold and alone now than she could ever remember feeling before. "Jareth! Come back!"

Falling to her knees, tears fell from her eyes.

"Sarah!" she heard Alice's voice call her, "Sarah, wake up! Please wake up!"

Sarah looked around in the dark. She felt very strange, like she was falling and couldn't catch herself.

"Sarah, please!" Alice's voice sounded worried. Why was her friend worried about her?

Slowly, Sarah opened her eyes to see the concerned, and slightly panicked, face of Alice.

"Sarah!" Alice suddenly hugged her tightly, "I thought you'd never wake up! I've been trying for about two hours now."

After the initial relief that Sarah was okay, Alice pulled back from her friend and slapped her on the arm...hard.

"Alice!" Sarah rubbed her arm, as she turned shocked eyes on the other girl, "What was that for!"

"For scaring me! I almost called the paramedics on you!" Alice said, angrily, "That really must have been some dream you were having."

Sarah, brushing the sweat soaked hair out of her face, nodded slightly, "Yeah, it was."

"Well, you can tell me about it later. Are you okay?"

Getting up, Sarah reassured, "I'll be fine."

"Good." Alice took a deep breath, then teased, "For a minute, I thought we weren't going to be able to go shopping!"

"Thanks for the concern!" Sarah picked up a pillow and hit Alice with it.

Shrinking from a second swing of the pillow, Alice cried, "You're welcome!"

After a few more attempts at hitting her friend, Sarah dropped the pillow and fell back into a chair next to Alice. "So, what makes shopping more important than a friend's health?"

"We have to find the perfect costumes for tonight, don't we?" Alice smiled, looking over at her, "I want to look amazing for Greg, after all. And you," Alice pointed a finger at Sarah, "Derek likes the color blue, just so you know."

"Derek?" Sarah questioned, but she already knew the answer. "So, your cousin's name is Derek."

"Yep," Alice nodded, "I decided it would be easier if you knew his name beforehand. I mean, he knows your's."

"He does?"

"Of course." Alice replied, then went on carefully, "And there's a few other things I think you need to know about him."

Sarah looked at her friend, suspiciously, "What?"

"He tends to step on your feet when dancing, so I think you need to wear steel-toed shoes."

"Ha, ha. Do you want me to pick the pillow back up?" Sarah threatened.

"No, please, anything but that!" Alice put her hands up mock-pleadingly.

"So there is nothing wrong with him, I take it?"

Alice shook her head, "No, nothing to my knowledge. I just wanted to mess with your mind a little."

"Thanks, but I get enough of that on my own." Sarah said, distantly. She could hear the music from her dream again, faintly.

I know you do, Sarah. I'm the reason.

Sarah snapped back to reality. She was shaking.

"You zoned out for a minute there. Are you sure you're okay?" Sarah heard the concern in her friend's voice.

Regaining her composure, Sarah nodded, "I'll be fine. Now, about our costumes..."

The two girls, once they had changed their clothes and eaten, took off to the local costume shop to look around, unsure of what they'd find.

"This one's cool." Alice stated, pulling out a silverish-black prom dress-like costume. Holding it up to herself, she asked Sarah, "How does it look? Do you think Greg would like it?"

"I'm sure he would, Alice." Sarah replied, "It's a beautiful dress, but what would you be going as?"

"A prom queen." Alice stated as she went to go try it on. "Duh."

"Oh." Sarah rolled her eyes, then went back to looking. As she went from rack to rack, she always seemed to come back to one particular dress. It was all white, with a full skirt and thick straps that came off the shoulder just slightly. It reminded her of an old wedding dress she had seen once, but she couldn't remember where. She knew, however, that she had to try it on. And try it on she did.

It looks beautiful on you.

Chills went up and down Sarah's spine as she gazed at herself in the mirror of the dressing room. She could feel him nearby, watching her, but she just stood there staring into the mirror as if in a trance.

But there is something missing, don't you think?

Her image in the mirror changed before her eyes. She was now wearing a veil and holding a bouquet of roses, the deepest red she had ever seen. Her lips were of the same rich color.

In the mirror behind her reflection, she could see people dancing, but she couldn't understand why.

Suddenly, the people in the mirror stopped dancing. They seemed to be seeing something in there that she couldn't. Following their gaze, her eyes came to rest on one man, and he only seemed to see her.

She could feel her heart slam against her chest as he approached her. He smiled genuinely at her, his mismatched eyes never leaving her's.

"Jareth." she said, slowly, staring into the eyes of the man now standing behind her.

"Much better." he whispered, leaning in. Turning her face up toward his, he raised the veil and leaned closer. She could feel his breath on her face and knew he was going to kiss her, "Much, much better."

Suddenly, Sarah heard a knock at the door. The spell was broken and she was alone again.

"Sarah, are you okay in there?" Alice's voice sounded muffled through the door.

"Um," Sarah tried to keep the disappointment out of her voice as she answered, "Yeah, I'm almost finished."

She smoothed out some wrinkles that had formed in the dress as she looked at herself in the mirror once more.

"How's it going in there?" Alice sounded almost ecstatic, "I hope you're having as much good luck as I had."

"I'm having the best luck, Alice." she tried to sound calm, when she really felt so shaken. Taking a deep breath, she whispered as she stared at her image in the mirror, "The best."