So the last chapter was kinda crap, but I had to get it out, though I wish that there had been some plot progression and not just emotional progression. sigh So here is the next chapter, I hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything associated with the movie the Labyrinth.

Her own moan woke Sarah up. Jareth's hands were all over her, exploring her body as his mouth devoured her own. She shoved him off; the king fell to the floor.

"What's wrong?" He asked, sincerely confused.

"I was asleep you ass. I never gave you permission to do that! We are also nowhere near that stage in a relationship. And I didn't give you permission!" There was a pause after her statement.

"Do I have permission now?" He looked over the top of the bed at her, looking like a child whose candy had been taken away.

"No!" Sarah dropped down to the mattress. They sat in silence for a moment; Sarah was almost asleep again when his voice reached her ears another time.

"How about now?"

"Argh!" Sarah sat up and glared at him. "No, believe me; you will know when you have permission." They sat in silence for a moment before something from the night before occurred to her. "Um…Ake said that Clingham was going to talk to me after lunch, and that I would be changed right after that, but she also said that it would be too late by then. How does that work?"

"Oh, that is a bit of problem, isn't it?"

"Wait, how can you be so damn observant and so fucking stupid at the same time?" He took a deep breath, she was scared and frustrated, and there was no need to yell at her.

"We'll just have Ake change his mind about when he was going to approach you." The king stood from the floor and offered Sarah a hand up. Sighing, the teen gave up on sleeping and accepted the hand, getting to her feet.

"She can really do that? Change other people's thoughts?"

"She can, though she doesn't like to, and this would be more of a nudged then a change. Just a suggestion that he speak to you earlier."

"Oh." Sarah thought for a moment. "Does, I mean can she, influence emotions?" Something inside was holding its breath against the answer, part of her hoped that the Queen could and had played with her emotions, but another part, a larger part jumped in glee when the king answered.

"No, her powers lie in thought alone. Why do you ask?" They were standing next to the bed, just standing there, her hand still in his. Sarah turned her head away, blushing slightly at the thoughts running through her head.

"No reason. What time is it? We should be heading to breakfast soon."

As Jareth had said, Ake was reluctant to meddle with the man's mind, but eventually gave in as she realized that they had, in fact, messed up the times. Sarah had just returned to her room after breakfast when Clingham knocked on her door.

"Ms. Sarah, I wondered if I might speak with you in private?" Sarah gave a nod and let him into the room, certain that Jareth was watching through the mirror that he had converted to a one way mirror for this occasion. "Have you come to a decision?" She did not gesture for him to sit down and he did not make any move to.

"I have considered your proposition, and have decided that I need more information. I am a resident of this kingdom and as such, I wish to know about its future. What will happen if I do this?"

"If you testify as I wish you to, then the Court will have no choice, but to remove him from his throne. In reward for revealing this, I will take the throne of this kingdom." Clingham smiled then and raised his hand to her hair. "And there is always room in my house for another mistress, especially one as pretty as yourself."

Sarah slapped his hand away. "I don't want your body, I want your money, and my king's time. I'm only going to work with you, because it will get me both. I'm also raising my price to three-thousand gold pieces. As he won't be king any longer we'll need something to live on." Clingham nodded.

"Of course, of course. Now we will have to get your transportation to the opening Masquerade..." Sarah interrupted him.

"There is no need. His Majesty is attending this Court session."

"He is? This is even better than I had anticipated. There won't even have to be a second hearing." Sarah was scared for a moment that he would start to dance, but he managed to control his enthusiasm. "I shall see you there then, Ms. Sarah. I will ensure that you are paid as soon as you have testified. Good day." He started whistling as he exited the room and Sarah shuttered as the door closed. That man couldn't have carried a tune in a bucket.

"Well done, Sarah. Very good improvisation, saying that you wished to have more of my time." He leaned against the door to her room, then he was behind her, whispering into her ear. "If you were my queen, you would never want for my attention. We would have all the time in the world."

"Well, you two don't have anytime right now, come on Sarah, we have to get this done quickly." Ake gestured Sarah to the bed and shooed Jareth out of the room. "Get undressed and lay down." Sarah obeyed, feeling extremely self-conscious in front of the other girl. "On your stomach Sarah, here, stick this pillow under your chest, we need you to be able to breath, but there needs to be space for your wings to grow." Sarah followed the instructions, feeling much less exposed once she was turned over. "I'm going to warn you Sarah, this will hurt, a lot, the wings always will a little on the way out, it's a side effect of them being retractable, but the first time is the worst. You'll also want your eyes closed at the beginning." Sarah gave a nod that she had heard and did as she was told. She felt the bed dip slightly as Ake climbed onto it, and blushed as Ake straddled her waist. She soon realized, that Ake was fully clothed and was able to relax.

Ake placed her hands on Sarah's head gently and began to speak in a language that Sarah did not understand. Without warning, sounds rushed into her head, voice, many voices rumbling louder and louder until Sarah was sure that she was going to go deaf. "QUIET!" The word sounded over the noise and in a moment it was indeed quieter, the voices were still there, but they were hushed and all of them were saying similar things, things like 'queen' and 'new one'. "That's better, poor Sarah could have gone mad from that racket. I'd like you all to meet the newest addition to kingdom and the new ambassador to the Labyrinth, Lady Sarah Williams, soon to be Dragoness Sarah Wil'am." How voices could have eyes, Sarah had no idea but it felt as though hundreds of eyes were on her, then it felt as though a thousand breezes were running across her mind as each dragon touched her mind. As the breezes drifted away, Sarah realized that she was left with information, the names of each dragon, and their appearance, information on their families and occupations as well.

"Welcome Sarah Wil'am." The voices said as one, no longer overwhelming in their intensity.

"Excellent, back to whatever you were doing." Slowly, the voices faded out and Sarah became aware of the world again.

"What was that?" Sarah asked as Ake climbed off of her.

"That was the Collection of Minds all dragons are linked to it, and now you are as well. Once you are a full-fledged Dragoness you will know how to access it without my help. Now for the pledge." Again, Ake spoke in a language that Sarah did not understand, and to her surprise, she began to reply in the same language. Once they were done speaking, Sarah found her mind starting to drift and her stomach did a flip.

"What's going on, what did I say?" She tried to push herself up, but had no strength.

"It's alright, this is normal, that was the language of the heart. It was your heart that bound itself and your heart that spoke it allegiance. Just relax now, your body is going to go through some changes it will be over soon." Just as Ake spoke, pain shot down Sarah's back and fire coursed through her veins. She felt something inside shift suddenly and she was left with a falling sensation. Without warning, the pain in her back flared and she screamed. Thankfully, dark soon pulled her down and away from the pain.

"She should be up by now, you said that she would be up by now." Sarah's consciousness slowly faded in and she was left bewildered.

"I said that she may be up by now. I didn't promise anything. We still have six hours until we will be expected to appear at Court, and another three until the Masquerade. She will be up by then." Sarah's memory slowly came back to her.

"Did it..." Her voice cracked and her throat hurt terribly, but she had to get the question out. "Did it work?" The pair had turned to her at the first word and had rushed to the bed.

"Shh, you shouldn't be talking Sarah. Yes, it worked. You are a Dragoness now." Jareth smoothed her hair out of her face, Sarah tried to turn unto her back, but pain shot through her at the attempt. Ake helped her to sit up, then offered her a cup.

"You won't be able to lay on your back for another few hours. The wings always do a number new Dragonesses. Finish the whole glass, it will heal your throat right up and should help with your back." Sarah nodded and downed the glass in one go. She felt better almost instantly and smiled up at Ake.

"Thanks, that's much better." A yawn followed the statement. "I'm awfully sleepy though." Ake took the cup back and smiled back.

"Rest is a good idea, you do need to be up for another five hours or so. You may want to reassure my brother that you are alright before you do, though. He was near to killing me, for real this time."Ake got up and left the room, taking the cup with her.

"You shouldn't try to get rid of your siblings, look what happened to me." He smirked at her and sat on the edge of the bed.

"I happen to like what happened to you, don't you?" He raised his hand to her face again, this time not even hiding behind the pretense of brushing her hair away.

"I...I do like it. I can't imagine where my life would have gone without it. I would like to believe that I would become a great actress and live the Hollywood life, but I think I'm a tad to anti-social for that." They sat in silence for a few moments, Sarah fighting sleep, and Jareth fighting with himself. "What will happen when this is over? What will I become? What will my life be like?" She looked up at him, her eyes open windows.

"You'll come back here to live, though you may visit the Cliffs before that. You will act as the ambassador between our kingdoms, not that is strictly necessary, but it does keep up appearances. It will sooth the minds of the Court that we are not dealing directly with each other. You will stay in my castle, this room if you like. You will attend my court sessions and visit different parts of my kingdom. Though, to be perfectly honest, you won't have all that much to do." He took his hand away and stood, then paced a few steps away. "Also, if you will allow it, I would like to woo you. You see, I do love you Sarah. I'm not sure if I've told you that yet, but I do. I know that I haven't done a good job of expressing it, but I'd like the chance now, to show you that I love you." He had kept his back to her as he admitted his feelings, but he turned back now. Sarah's eyes were wet with unshed tears, but she didn't reply. "Sarah?"

"Yes. Yes, you may woo me, but I want you to remember that our paces are entirely different, I need far more time then you have been giving me." Jareth met her eyes and nodded once.

"If you give me this chance then we have all the time in the world." They held each other's gaze for a long moment, the moment perfect.

"Well, if you two are done with all this sap then we should get Sarah settled into bed. I do hope you both remember of course, that this isn't a love story and that you will fight, a lot. Both of you are two stubborn not to, and secretly you both love to fight, but that is beside the point. I'm sure your make-up sessions will turn out many babies, one of which I hope the dragons will accept as my heir. Sarah, bed now." They both glared at Ake, but Sarah rolled onto her front, and then realized that she had been nude the whole time.

"Ake?"

"Yes, Sarah?"

"Pulverize him for me would you?"

"No problem."

There you have it, chapter 14. I'm going to guess that there will be one or two more chapters to this story, hopefully I will get it done this year. Don't act surprised, this fic has taken me three to get this far, procrastinate much?

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