They talked for hours cuddled on the couch, when they heard the car in the driveway Sarah was surprised to see that it was half passed midnight. They got up and met Robert and Karen at the door, they were soaked.

Karen immediately started apologizing. "Sorry we're so late, the meeting went super well and we lost track of time and then the drive home was terrible."

"Yeah, we should get going." She went to grab her jacket.

Her dad frowned with worry. "Are you sure you want to drive tonight...?"

Sarah shrugged. "We drove here in the rain, we should be fine..."

Karen shook her head. "Visibility is really bad and the radio said that the wind has knocked down trees." She glanced at Robert and back at Sarah. "We would feel better if you waited til morning. You already have some things in the guest room and Jareth could sleep on the couch."

"I..." Sarah looked from one to the other, she couldn't reassure them without sounding crazy. She glanced back at Jareth, who nodded. "Okay."

Karen headed towards the linen closet, rubbing her temples. Sarah caught up to her. "You can go to bed, I know where everything is."

Karen smiled gratefully and went upstairs.

Sarah got some sheets and blankets and Jareth set up the couch while she went to get some stuff from the spare room. She came down holding some folded fabric and a brand new toothbrush. "These are the extra things that Karen keeps on hand, hopefully the pajamas aren't too baggy." She indicated the bathroom in the hallway. "You can change there, I'll go upstairs."

Sarah brushed her teeth, put on her spare pajamas and looked herself over in the mirror. The bottoms were covered with rainbow stars and the bright pink T-shirt had a large shooting star on it. She peeked out of the bathroom and noticed that her dad had left his door open a crack. Tiptoeing down the stairs she went to check on Jareth.

The King of the goblins was lounging on the couch, barefoot in stripped pajama bottoms and a baggy T-shirt with Snoopy and Woodstock on the front, leafing through a coffeetable book on gardening. Sarah blinked at the odd image and then smirked. "You know, it's too bad that you don't have your goblin king hairdo right now, it would look cute with Woodstock."

Jareth glanced down at the spikey haired bird on the t-shirt and raised an eyebrow archly. "I could arrange that you know."

She smothered a smile. "On second thought it would be kinda hard to explain away if someone wakes up."

Sarah noticed him look her up and down. "Yes, I know I look like a rainbow collided with a kaleidoscope."

"I was only admiring Love." He winked at her.

Sarah blushed. "I'd suggest lights out, everyone will be getting up early tomorrow."

Jareth put the book down and settled into the makeshift bed, he looked mischievous. "What, no goodnight kiss?"

She leaned over and adjusted the comforter before kissing him gently. "Goodnight Jareth."

As she went to straighten up he pulled her into his arms, his kiss knocking the breath out of her. As he let her go, he whispered. "Sweet dreams Precious." She swatted at him gently before making her way back upstairs and quickly falling asleep.

...

Sarah found herself sitting on a bench in a garden, surrounded by hedges. She was wearing an empire style dress in layers of diaphanous pale pink with sheer slit sleeves that trailed almost to the floor. She smiled when she noticed the delicate embroidery on the bodice and edge of the sleeves of shimmering pastel stars. The garden was full of lilac and rose trees and irises and many others she could not name.

"Hello Sarah."

She turned to see Jareth, in a casual Underground look of a brown leather jacket over a ruffled cream poet shirt and snug brown breaches tucked into brown heeled boots. He looked very byronic.

She smirked at him. "So, was your kiss the invitation, or your parting words?"

"Both" He chuckled low. "How did you guess?"

She held out a sleeve. "My attire was a big hint. Figured it was your handiwork."

He strolled up to her and pulled her against him. "And does it please you?"

She looked around again. "Everything is beautiful... " her eyes turned back to him, worried. "I hope that you're not exhausting yourself again on my behalf."

He smiled at her. "Do not fret love, a shared dream is not much more energy intensive that a regular dream, or a daydream."

"And from what I can gather from my experience the invitation doesn't have to be explicit, intent being a large part of it."

"Correct." He seemed pleased by her deduction.

She took his hand and they walked among the flowers, which were all in full bloom in defiance of any seasonal schedule. Jareth plucked one and handed it to her. It was purple with faint blue and fuchsia veins, star shaped with a raised center similar to a daffodil, but tightly closed, an orange glow emanating from it's core. He tapped the bloom and it opened and Sarah gasped in wonder as a shower of tiny golden stars swirled around them before falling into the surrounding flowers. Each opened in turn and soon she was dazzled by thousands of stars dancing around them.

Jareth watched the stars reflected in her eyes wide with wonder and felt his heart ready to burst, he pulled her into his arms. She smiled, leaning up, meeting his lips halfway and they shared a long languid embrace.

When they opened their eyes the stars were gone.

The garden began to ripple. Jareth kissed her again just as the garden faded from view.

Sarah awoke to the ceiling in the spare bedroom. She smiled and went back to sleep.

...

An excited knocking on the door woke Sarah from a deep sleep. Groggily she blinked at the bedside clock, it read 6:02

The door burst open and Toby jumped onto the bed and attacked her with a bear hug. "Sarah! You didn't tell me you were staying."

She squinted and held the pillow over her eyes. "It was a last minute decision because of bad weather."

He tugged on the pillow. "Mom said to wake you up so that you can get to work."

"Thanks, but my vacation started already."

He pouted. "No fair! Mine only starts tomorrow!"

"So let me get up and get changed and maybe I can drive you to school. Okay?"

"Cool!" He ran out.

Once dressed Sarah glanced into her old room. It was Toby's now, the furniture was the same but all of her posters and decorations were gone. Only Lancelot still kept guard in the shelf, now accompanied with action figures. The walls were covered in posters of tigers and dragons. The bookcase was full of comic books and fantasy, mystery, adventure stories. She paused when she recognized a familiar red binding. She entered and pulled it out. Opening the cover she traced her finger over the inscription. "To my little Princess, Love, Mom."

When had he taken it? She frowned but put it back for now, she'd ask him later.

...

She walked into the kitchen. "Morning everyone."

Robert didn't even look up from his newspaper "Morning Sweetie."

Toby waved, his mouth was full of cereal.

Karen looked up from preparing the lunches. "Morning. Toby told me that you don't work today."

"Yeah." Sarah poured herself a mug of coffee and joined Jareth by the kitchen window. The sky had cleared and it looked like it would be a beautiful day. "I was thinking that I could drive Toby to school and then show Jareth around a bit."

Robert grumbled from behind his newspaper.

Karen tried to sound casual as she asked. "Have you thought about my question yesterday?"

"Mm.. yeah. I wanted to talk to you about that." Sarah had discussed this with Jareth the evening before but she knew it wasn't going to be easy. She cleared her throat. "We are going to a private Renfaire event hosted by a friend of Jareth's. It is a multi day event, the guests are staying in chalets on site."

Karen's eyebrows raised, Robert's formed a frown. Sarah took a deep breath and continued. "We had already RSVP'd but I checked with the organizers last night, there would be no problem with Toby coming with us."

Toby's eyes grew wide. "Really? Cool!"

Robert sputtered. "You haven't been dating a week and you're letting him sweep you off to a cabin in the woods!"

"Daddy!" Sarah was shocked that her dad would talk like that in front of her boyfriend. She glanced at Jareth, his jaw was was set but otherwise calm.

Robert looked at her and he sighed, resigned. "Look Sarah, I am sorry but all of my instincts are telling me that there is something fishy about this. If you are determined to go I can't stop you... but I won't let you take Toby with you!"

Toby had poked at his cereal while the adults argued. At his dad's words his eyes shot up. "No! I'm not gonna to Texas with you!"

Robert thumped the newspaper on the table. "You will do as we say young man!"

"No!" Toby jumped to his feet, his eyes were full of tears. He glared at his parents and shouted. "I wish the Goblin King would take you away! Right now!"

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Author's note

Thank you to Guest 2020 and Mae-E for the reviews and to all who have faved and followed! Your feedback is always welcome :)

Yeah... Toby has hijacked my story.

I don't own Labyrinth or its characters. Or Snoopy or Woodstock.