Disclaimer: I, unfortunately, do not own Labyrinth or any of its characters or places. I do, however, own Lumini and the Castle of Shifting Shadows. Don't steal them!
Castle Beyond the Goblin City
Jareth paced restlessly around his throne room, snapping at the goblins that dared enter his presence. He could hear them party in the lower chambers of the castle. The noise infuriated him. He wanted to stomp downstairs and wring every one of their necks for daring to have their revelry. He didn't, though. He was locked in Sarah's mind, unable to leave it. He had heard her call to him. Lumini's interference with her call had sent him into a frenzy of rage.
"There were only a few more words!" He continued to fume. Looking back into the crystal, he watched as Lumini tried to convince her she loved him. He smirked. This would be interesting.
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The man returned to her. She felt more than saw him smirk and groaned inwardly. Her muscles ached from his tortures. At least he hadn't tried to have sex with her again. She hated to think of the punishment that would come when she refused him. He came closer and pulled her onto his lap. She felt his heat- and the fact that he was hard. He was naked. She squirmed, instantly on her guard. He pressed his face to her neck, nibbling and pressing kisses. She jerked away, but his grip on her tightened. She felt his hands move up from where he gripped her at her waist. She released a growl and elbowed him in the face.
"How dare you!" He snarled, slapping her across one cheek. She flinched, and he took the opportunity to enter her mind.
"My name is Lumini, my love. I am Overlord of this castle, and King of Darkness. And you, my love, will soon be my Lady." Sarah began to shake her head. He shuddered beneath her and his hold on her mind slipped.
"No." She muttered. He frowned.
"What was that?"
"Lumini, I am not going to be yours." She felt him tense beneath her. That was the only warning before he spun her around to face him. He forced her legs apart so she was straddling him. She jerked backward, but it only served to raise her hips higher. He took the opening and sank his erection into her. She cried out and tried to force him back out of her frantically, but every movement caused a shaft of pleasure through her. He moaned- it was obvious he felt the same.
"No…." She groaned. He smirked.
"I don't think that's what you want." He began pushing and pulling, and she lost her hold on everything.
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Jareth slammed both fists into a wall. The stone beneath his fists was jarred. He was angry beyond words at this point. He dared to force her? He dared to continue after she refused him? He dared to touch her at all?
"Just say the words, Sarah! Say the words, and I can take you away!" He screamed at the picture in his mind.
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Sarah tensed as words exploded into her mind, as they had done back in the tattoo parlor. Just say the words, Sarah! Say the words, and I can take you away! Sarah blinked and began to fight the passion-induced stupor and numbing effects Lumini was forcing on her mind.
"Hush, darlin', and everything will be okay. Shush, my Queen, and I will take you away." Sarah snarled and managed to force him completely off of and out of her.
"I wish the Goblin King would come and take me away right now!" Lumini snarled. Sarah screamed as she felt the heat slam into her body. She felt her skin burn and blister, peel and heal all at once. Something sliced right through both of her arms, and she felt blood trickle down. Sobbing and screaming at the same time from the intense pain, she tried to crawl away, to escape the pain. A searing pain entered her mind, so agonizing she couldn't find the breath to scream.
Castle Beyond the Goblin City
Jareth was stunned by the amount of pain he felt coming from her. She would lose her mind at this rate. She'd said the words- but he couldn't go to her. Something blocked him from transporting to her side and taking her away. Frenzied anger and panic drove him to throw himself at anything and everything, trying to get to her.
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The tremendous pain drove all need of Jareth from Sarah's mind. Her mouth was open, lips shaped in a ghastly vision of the sheer agony that bolted through her. It felt like her entire body was being torn in two, one cell at a time. A new intense pain touched her breast just over her heart. She finally found the breath to scream- a sound that would tear at the heartstrings of any who heard it. The pain finally lifted, and Sarah collapsed. Her breast throbbed with hurt. Her entire body was afire with the ebbing agony.
"Now," Lumini growled, "you are marked as mine more clearly than his. He will not want you now." Sarah sobbed herself into blackness.
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Jareth cried the first tears he had shed in several millennia. Lumini had reversed her blood flow and set a mix of fire and ice along her veins. It was a simple double spell- and he could do far worse to her. He had, in fact done worse. Lumini had branded Sarah. His coat of arms- two intertwined snakes eating each other and being eaten by a dragon- was now burned it into her very flesh. No amount of healing could take that away. She would carry his mark forever, like it or not. Jareth could not take it from her, no matter how he wanted to. Worse yet, Lumini's branding of her had cancelled Jareth's own. He had blazoned it onto her flesh, but Jareth had woven his into her very soul.
Flashback
Jareth watched as Sarah, dressed in the white gown sewn with pearls and diamonds, searched in vain. She did not quite know it was he she sought, but that was how he wanted it. The goblins he had made human for the crystal spell were performing perfectly. He had threatened their lives if they didn't. They heard a different tune- similar in beat and cadence to the one he sang to Sarah. She heard his gift to her: his unending love intertwined into her soul, her heart, her memory. While he sang, he wove his mark onto her soul.
There's such a sad love
Deep in your eyes
A kind of pale jewel
Open and closed
Within your eyes
I'll place the sky
Within your eyes
She searched for something she did not understand. As much as it killed him, he refused to go to her. Not yet.
There's such a fooled heart
Beating so fast
In search of new dreams
A love that will last
Within your heart
I'll place the moon
Within your heart
Sarah saw him out of the corner of her eye. He let her, amused at how well his game was being played. But something was different this time. He had marked the others, but never with such an extravagant show. Sarah was different, and he meant to show that to her. In any way he could.
As the pain sweeps through
Makes no sense for you
Every thrill has gone
Wasn't too much fun at all
But I'll be there for you
As the world falls down
This was such a strange predicament. He hadn't written songs for the others, he hadn't performed such great tricks, he hadn't tried to get their attention in any other way than to get them to hand over the child.
Falling
Why did he go to such great lengths for this one? Why try to impress her? Why work so hard to try and keep the brat?
Falling
What was so special about Sarah that he had to keep her in the Underground? What was this pressing insistence that she stay with him, by his side forever? Sarah finally met his eyes across the dance floor, and Jareth knew. The realization struck him like a bolt of lightning.
Falling in love
The Goblin King had finally fallen in love. She had wished her baby away. He had taken him. She persevered through his Labyrinth and even faced him down as an equal, rather than cower and quiver and beg. She was the One he had longed for millennia to have. He finally had her in his arms, spinning her on the floor in gentle circles.
I'll paint you mornings of gold
I'll spin you valentine evenings
Though we're strangers till now
We're choosing the path
Between the stars
I'll lay my love
Between the stars
He dripped true promises into her ears. He wanted her with him. He would give her anything she asked for, so long as he could keep her. So long as she never left him, she would grant her every request.
As the pain sweeps through
Makes no sense for you
Every thrill has gone
Wasn't too much fun at all
But I'll be there for you
As the world falls down
Jareth knew he had been hard on her at the beginning of her thirteen-hour stint in the Labyrinth. He had to have been. Then, she had been not more than another girl to outsmart and get rid of, adding two creatures rather than one to his domain. He would send the brat….Toby, had she called him?...back home, so long as he could have her. He burned for her- needed her more than he had ever needed anything. He would have her. He would protect her from the perils of the Underground, and help her to live forever. She would serve by his side as the Goblin Queen. She was marked now, his forever- when suddenly, she broke away from him. Her eyes, glazed over by the magic he'd been spinning, suddenly cleared.
"Toby…." She whispered. Then she broke the barrier keeping her in the spell.
End Flashback
Jareth had not expected her to be so strong. He had not wanted her to leave him. He had wanted to dance in her arms, lost in her gaze, for all eternity. But now, she was in the hands of the enemy. He connected once more to her mind. Surprise registered quickly.
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Sarah awoke on a bright stone path. Confusion touched her frayed nerves. What was going on? She heard the fluttering of wings close by, then the sharp bite of a fairy. She flinched and shied away, only to hear the thing's amused giggle as it fluttered away. Hedges rose before her, and an elaborately carved wooden door stood in the hedges close by. A frown brushed her features. This all looked familiar, but she couldn't place it. A voice behind her made her jump.
"Welcome back, Sarah."
