Author's Note: A short chapter. I assume Labyrinth fans will be far more familiar with Sarah then Phantom fans will be with Evey, which is why there's so much less of the chapter two than of chapter one.

Chapter Two: Life after the Labyrinth

2001 Garrison, New York U.S.A.

Sarah Williams's party was over. Sarah had just conquered the Labyrinth, a huge maze that wound its way through a small part of an alternate world called the Underground. Obsessed with a play called the Labyrinth, Sarah unintentional wished her half-brother Toby away to goblins after her father and step-mother left her home babysitting Toby again. The goblin King then arrived and gave Sarah a choice; a crystal which would show Sarah her dreams, or a thirteen hour trek through the King's Labyrinth. Sarah chose the later. Sarah, however succeeded in defeating the King's Labyrinth, and returned home triumphantly, Toby in tow. Sarah's Labyrinth friend's then gathered in her room where a huge party took place, then later, when it was over, Sarah ran to find her parents, who'd returned home, to tell them of her great adventure.

Sarah always had her head in the clouds, but when Paul and Karen Williams returned home after an evening out to stories of their son's supposed kidnapping compliments of a goblin King and his minions, they believed, and with good reason, Sarah had crossed the border of fantasy world into the realm of insanity. Sarah, however, was insistent. Sarah spoke of goblins, dwarfs, fairies, eye lichens, talking worms, elves, guardians, helping hands, false alarms, a wise man with a talking bird on his head, snappers, a huge hairy beast, door knockers, creatures called fireys, a talking dog who road another dog, a lady with junk on her back, and many other strange things. Paul and Karen did what any other logical persons would do it their situation; Paul and Karen put Sarah in a psychiatric ward.

Sarah had never felt more betrayed in her life. Sarah hadn't even felt as angry and hurt when her mother Linda had left her father, or when Paul had remarried, dashing any hope Sarah had held of Linda realizing her mistake and coming home so Linda, Paul, and Sarah could be a family again. Being sentenced by her father and step-mother to a mental asylum couldn't have come at worse time for Sarah. Not that there is a good time to be placed in an insanity ward, but none worse than puberty.

When Sarah's fourteen year old body began to change, so did her emotions. Sarah found herself getting angry for no real reason constantly. Sarah began to scream at Paul and Karen when they would come to see her during visitation hours, throwing things at them, whatever Sarah could get her hands on. After a particularly violent episode on Sarah's part Paul and Karen told her they would no longer be bringing Toby to the visitations. Sarah had never hurt, or attempted to hurt Toby, and so she raged at Paul and Karen. After they left Sarah sat in her room and cried for an hour. Then Sarah requested to use the restroom where she tried to summon her friends from the Labyrinth. None came. Not even a glimmer of a reflection in the mirror.

"Maybe I am crazy." Sarah whispered to the empty bathroom. After many failed attempts to call her Labyrinth friends to her, Sarah gave up. Sarah had been at the mental hospital for nine months before she decided she'd dreamed the entire Labyrinth episode. Well, her brain told her the only way she'd ever get out of the mental hospital was to give up her Labyrinth adventure. However in the deepest part of her heart Sarah still believed that she had walked the goblin King's Labyrinth, and faced the King himself in a final challenge for her younger sibling. After all, Sarah dreamed of her dance with Jareth in the crystal ballroom every night. The dream was always the same. Surely no one could have a reoccurring dream every night for nine months without fail?

What Sarah couldn't know was that the king of the goblin's who had indeed fallen in love with a girl, had forbidden Sarah's friends from seeing her, knowing the danger that would await Jareth's subjects should they be exposed to modern day mortals.

'It's what has to happen.' Jareth told himself. 'Sarah is too immature to realize what she wants yet. When Sarah's older I'll have her run the maze again, without a child. Then perhaps she will see what it truly is she desires.'

So, after nine months of being in a mental ward, Sarah suddenly began to show a huge amount of mental stubilaty. Sarah no longer insisted that the Labyrinth, and its King, were real. Sarah admitted that she was sure now that she had dreamt the Labyrinth to life, but the Labyrinth was only that; a dream. Sarah apologized to Paul and Karen for violent, raging behavior. Paul and Karen began to bring Toby at visitation sessions again. Sarah was soon released from the hospital. Sarah entered her freshmen year of high school a year late, but made straight A's in all her classes. Though the memories began to fade, and she never spoke of them again, Sarah would never truly forget her trek through the amazing Labyrinth.

As for the Labyrinth's king, Jareth bided his time, waiting until Sarah would truly be ready to take what she wanted in life.