I am looking for a beta. Anyone interested, send me a message please!

This will eventually be a Sarah/Jareth romance, but there will be an ACTUAL PLOT before it all. I am not one who just jumps Sarah into it. I'm hoping to have actual character development.

Disclaimer: I own nothing of the Labyrinth. Sue me...or rather the point of this is so you don't.

"Sarah! Sarah, could you come down here?"

Hearing Karen, her step mother call for her, Sarah sighed before giving her own response.

"Yes, in just a minute. After I finish this last page," she promised, shouting down the stair case.

Sarah knew what they wanted. They had spent the whole month talking about how they had made arrangements for a foreign exchange student to live in their home. Most likely they had just picked whoever it was up and were expecting her to race down and give a greeting. She couldn't deny that she was excited. After all, it wasn't every day someone got to live with someone from a different country!

Finishing up page 87 in her book, she marked it with a leather string and set it on her pillow before pulling on a pair of her slippers. Pushing her hair over her shoulders she bolted down the stairs, hand gliding along the smooth wood. Had she been a few years younger, she just might have slid down the railing like she had when her parents had lived together.

Turning around the last banister, Sarah found herself sliding on her slippers through the hall. She could hear her father talking in their den, and she quickly hurried in. It was going to be so great, having another sibling-like person in her house.

"Sarah," her dad grinned, looking up at her from the chair she sat in. "Come in and meet our guest."

Looking towards what she now noted was a boy, she couldn't help but find his hair oddly familiar. Clearing her throat, she took a step towards one. No, it couldn't be him. After all, she had defeated him.

Pushing any thoughts of memory coming to her, she brough a smile to her lips. "Hi, I'm Sarah," she grinned. Watching as he turned around, she suddenly felt like throwing up. Standing still, she looked towards her parents, then around the room. She had to be in some sort of nightmare. This was all happening so fast. Quickly digging her nails into her palm, she hoped it would wake her up.

Nope. She was definitely awake. And it was him. The Goblin King.

"Umm..." she stammered slightly, trying to regain her composure that she had lost. This was too much like a horror movie. "Er, what's your name?" Holding out her hand for him to shake, she hoped he didn't notice how much he had caught her by surprise. She wouldn't give him that satisfaction.

"Hello, Sarah, I'm Jareth."

He grinned his cruel smile before taking her hand before gently kissing her knuckles. Glancing in her direction, he seemed to mock her. That, or just wait and see what her reaction would be.

The moment Jareth's lips reached her hand, she mentally shuddered yet managed to keep her face straight. Her eyes couldn't be stopped, however, as she glared at him darkly. Then she couldn't halt her sudden snap.

"Aren't you too old to be in high school?"

"Sarah!" her father interrupted, taken aback by her sudden rudeness.

"It's alright, Mr. Williams," Jareth assured him before turning to face Sarah once more. "I assure you that I am 18, a senior as you call it in this high school."

"Yeah, Senior citizen," she muttered to herself.

Once again shocked by his daughter's words, Mr. Williams interjected. "Sarah, what did I tell you? I'm really sorry, Jareth. It seems my daughter has forgotten her manners."

"Oh, not at all. It's very understandable. In our country we all appear much older."

"And which country would that be?" Sarah would not stop her interrogation. She knew if she tried to explain anything to her parents they would just push her off at crazy. Maybe, however, she could catch him in a slip up. After all, how much could he know about the Aboveground?

Smirking, realizing what Sarah was trying to do, Jareth quickly rose to the occasion. "Ah, I'm from sweet Czechoslovakia."

"Really? Czechoslovakia. Funny, seeing as how it's on the verge of being completely split up. I find it interesting that they would send students to America when they should be more worried abou their country itself."

"Sending out students gives hopes for allies," was the only response Jareth confirmed to her.

"Oh really? Then explain to me why you also don't sound Czechoslovakian."

"How would you know? Have you ever been there?"

"No but my mother's an actress and I happen to know a thing or too about accents. Yours sounds barely Czech."

Before Jareth could come up with another retort to fling back, her father had cut in once more.

"Sarah, that's enough! He's only been here for five minutes, he doesn't need to listen to this! If you don't apologize right now you can go straight to your room! We will not live with this for the rest of the year!"

Sarah was completely stunner. Her apologize to him? If they only knew that he had taken Toby. Oh gosh, Toby! How could she stand Jareth being in the house with her little brother?

"Fine," she sighed, looking between her parents and Jareth as if she was giving in before she turned on her heal, stomping up the stairs. Oh yes, she was going to figure out something to do about this. She wasn't sure what, but whatever it was Jareth had best stay out of her way.

No Goblin King was going to stop her.

Next Chapter: Sarah talks to Hoggle in the mirror and Jareth messes inside her dream world.

I really hope you like this, seeing as it's my first Labyrinth fanfiction and I have wanted to write this for a while. Remember, beta wanted! R/R!