Disclaimer: I don't own Jareth, Sarah, Toby, or anything associated with labyrinth. Though anything original is mine.

Chapter 5: Planning

Jareth watched Sarah carefully in the moments after his sister's departure, he hoped she wasn't too mad at him for not telling her all the details before but he wasn't sure how she would react just yet.

"Jareth?" Sarah asked after a moment. "Why didn't you just tell me?"

"What are you going to do if I give the same answer as before?"

She glared at him again before replying," You really don't want to find out."

"Alright, alright. Honestly love I had every intention of telling you but I suppose I was just caught up in everything else. Our whole wedding was rushed, not that I regret it of course, but you would have known most of this before we were wed if it had been possible. I'm sorry Sarah."

She sighed before breaching the space between them and embracing him. "I suppose it doesn't matter now but next time something like this is happening please try to remember to let me know?"

"I can try, but no promises," he smirked at her and narrowly avoided her playful slap. "Now, now Sarah love, none of that."

"And what are you gonna do about it, huh?"

Before Sarah had a chance to aim for him again Jareth pulled her into a tight embrace, lightly brushing his lips against hers, before pulling away. Then he simply said, "That."

Sarah rolled her eyes and then turned to leave, "I'm going to go have some breakfast and then find Toby. I'll come back later."

Jareth watched her go and then sighed in relief, knowing things could have turned out much worse.

XXX

Toby was sitting in her bedroom finishing off a nutritious breakfast of sugar-coated cereal when Sarah entered the room.

"Hey there Tob's, I'm guessing you slept late too from the looks of things."

Toby looked at his older sister and nodded, "Kinda." He paused a moment before continuing, "Hey Sarah?"

"Yeah kiddo, what's up?"

"Did you do magic yesterday?"

She smiled at him and nodded rather proudly, "You bet I did, my first try too. So what do you think of your big sister now Toby?"

The boy rolled his eyes at her before breaking out in a grin, "Can you show me something then?"

Sarah's face fell a little, she was still not confident enough in her powers and didn't want to accidentally mess up. "Maybe not right now Toby, soon though ok?"

"Ok I guess. Hey can we do something fun today?"

Sarah briefly thought about what they could do, she knew Jareth was busy and couldn't really take them anywhere and she didn't want to get them lost. Finally she spoke up, "What did you have in mind?"

"I wanna go into the Labyrinth."

She gave her brother a blank look before shaking her head, a small smile briefly crossing her lips, "Of course you do, unfortunately if we go in there we'll probably get lost…I've never been in it from this direction before." She realised she was trailing off into her own thoughts and stopped herself. "But you know, we've been living here for months now and haven't even explored much. So how's about you finish eating and I'll go put on something more comfortable to walk in and we try and find all the interesting things in this castle we don't know about yet? Sound good?"

Toby thought about it a moment and then nodded enthusiastically. "Cool, can we just go now Sarah?"

"Don't be so impatient mister. I'll be back before you know it. Now hurry up and eat."

"Aw alright. You better be back soon though or I'll go without you."

"I will, I promise," she ruffled his hair and then quickly left the room to change and tell Jareth what they were doing.

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Karen Williams had been enjoying her life as a childless woman for the past few months. She was able to enjoy the perks of going out when she wanted, without having to listen to screaming brats and irritating stepdaughters. She had been on a holiday with her husband, and was just enjoying life in general.

Well, she had been. That was until Richard got it into his head that they should try for a baby.

She had just dismissed it at first but now he was becoming more persistent that they discuss things.

She had just regained freedom after four years of looking after Toby and certainly did not wish to go through pregnancy another time. As she thought about this she also realised that is she were to bear her husband another, no not another, a child then she wouldn't have Sarah around to baby-sit for her.

In some small way she felt guilty each and every time her husband stated his wish for a son, but then another, larger part of her would laugh it off and remind her of how much better things are without the nuisances of children.

AN: I'll post the next chapter as soon as I can, also, to those readers who've reviewed the old version of this chapter I'd really appreciate feedback about how you like the fic so far now even if it's just an anonymous review or pm. I don't mean to sound like I'm begging for reviews here I'd just like to know if anyone's reading...don't want to have chased everyone off lol.