Did y'all miss me? You better lie and say you did.

Man, I read my last chapter…I made so many friggin' mistakes. Oh well, it was early in the morning, and my keyboard is funky, so whatever.

Disclaimer: I don't care anymore. Fine. I don't own the friggin' movie.

Sarah groaned putting one hand to her head and the other against the wall of the hallway to stabilize her as a wave of pain and dizziness overtook her. Grunting after she was able to take control back she shook her head. She then continued to mumble to herself as she made her way to Jareth's 'public' study. She had gotten a message from him a little earlier asking her to join him in his study as he had something to tell her. She was hoping he was going to tell her that she could have some Anduilleaf tea to stop the headaches.

Reaching the door to his study she heard muffled voices within but paid them no mind as she opened the door without knocking. "What do you want, ya Klepto?" she asked as she walked in knowing that it still ruffled his proverbial feathers when she accused him of stealing Toby and other children. She froze though, her hand still on the doorknob, when she saw who was in the study.

"Sarah!"

"Ho-Hoggle?" she whispered her hand slipping off the handle to hang limply at her side. She scanned over eyes over the small dwarf taking in his appearances. He hadn't changed much, maybe a few more gray hairs and wrinkles but he was still pretty much the same. Sarah looked him over once more before turning to the smirking Goblin King. She opened he mouth to say something, but Hoggle beat her to it.

Turning around to glare angrily up at his monarch Hoggle pointed a finger at him accusingly. "What did you do? Why is she here?"

Sarah couldn't help but flinch a little at his words. They way he said them…it sounded like he didn't want her here. Not that she could blame them. But then her infamous angry defiance rose and she scowled at the little dwarf. "Jareth didn't do anything!" she exclaimed putting her hands on her hips. "He didn't kidnap me, if that's what you're thinking. I asked him to bring me here. He's never done anything I didn't ask him to!"

Hoggle looked at her aghast as if she had just grown another head. "'Jareth'?" he asked getting a little angry. Never in her time in the Labyrinth did she call him 'Jareth'.

"What's the matter Hogsbrain, can't you hear?" Jareth sneered. Whatever Sarah saw in that little pisser Jareth didn't know.

Growling Hoggle turned back to the king his face contorted in anger. "It's Hoggle!" he exclaimed loosing count of how many times he had to correct someone. "You called me here, so you had better call me by my right name!"

"Whatever Hogwart," he sniffed.

"Why you--"

"Hoggle!" Sarah cut him off. "Enough!"

"You watch your tone Hoggle, and remember who it is you're speaking to," Jareth warned forming a crystal at his fingertips. He sneered as he saw the little man visibly cringe.

"Jareth, stop it right this instant!" Sarah cried stepping between the two men and taking the crystal from Jareth's hand. "Stop acting like children! I can't talk to Hoggle if you're hear bothering him! You brought him here so we could, didn't you, so leave us alone and let us!"

"For you, Sarah, anything," he murmured taking her hand and placing a chaste kiss on her knuckles.

"Thank you," she sighed before turning back around to face Hoggle. She didn't see the tongue he stuck out to Hoggle, although the dwarf did (and he was thoroughly baffled as to why the King of the Goblins would do something as childish as sticking out his tongue). "Hoggle," she sighed once Jareth disappeared. She sank to her knees (thankful she wore britches and a shirt instead of a dress today) looking Hoggle squarely in the eye. "I suppose there's a lot to explain to you right now." The dwarf narrowed his eyes and crossed his arms but didn't say anything. "I…well, let's start with the basics and the already known, shall we?" Smiling minutely she looked down at her hands as she wrung them in her lap before looking back up into the weathered face of her old friend. "My name is Sarah Williams, Mortal of the Aboveground World. I was fifteen-years-old when I wished my younger half-brother away in a fit of rage. I then traveled the Labyrinth, and became the first to beat it in the history of its being, correct?"

Hoggle rolled his eyes. "Yeah, yeah, so?" he grumbled.

"Over a thousand years ago a lower Fae man fell in love with and married an Aboveground mortal woman. He brought her Under to live with the Fae in the Goblin Kingdom within the Labyrinth. After a few years they had a little girl. The little girl became fast friends with the Goblin Prince, who was only slightly older than her. Together they traversed the Labyrinth and got into much mischief together. The Labyrinth was particularly strong with the girl because her spirit and will were stronger than any other Fae, or so the Labyrinth told her (sometimes she felt it was just toying with her). She could converse with the Labyrinth as only the Goblin Royalty could, except she could do it far better than most. They formed an alliance, a friendship that nothing could sever. The Labyrinth, the Prince, and the girl formed a bond, and were hardly ever apart when could be helped. The girl and the Prince were so very close, but something forced them apart. The ultimate distance; Death. The young girl died, leaving the Prince alone. He was stripped of his memories of the girl, and the Labyrinth began to whither.

"But some unknown magick brought the girl back to life, but more than a thousand years later. She had been reborn as a mortal girl with no memory of her past life; the only soft-spoken reminder was her love for Fantasy. She grew up spoiled, selfish, and ill-mannered.

"But deep within, hidden within the uttermost part of her heart, the old Fae child lay dormant. It rested, laying in waiting 'til it could be freed. It knew that not even Death itself could keep her away from those she truly loved. And the Labyrinth was ever searching for her.

"Until one day, it found her.

"Now a young mortal girl, scarcely at fifteen years of age, the Labyrinth was able to use its influence to bring the girl back to its land, its world, and its King. The King, thought to be the cruelest and coldest Goblin King ever to set foot or wing in the Underground, was in actuality the forlorn little Prince who had lost his only true friend. Robbed of his memories the Prince grew spiteful, and when he took over as King he banished all those within the castle grounds, leaving only his Goblins and monsters within the Labyrinth walls.

"The King gazed upon the mortal girl, and felt a stirring within him that was both foreign and familiar. Who was this little sprite of a girl, a mere waif compared to the buxom Fae women that inhabited the world, who could so entrance him? This girl in her innocence, but an innocence tainted by black wickedness unknown and intangible? The girl, too, felt something irregular at the sight of the Goblin King, and was stricken by a sudden pang of her heart. Something tugged beneath her breast, but what it was she did not know.

"The girl had unknowingly called upon the magick of the Goblin Royalty, wishing her brother away to the goblins, and was forced to solve the Labyrinth for his freedom, or loose him for eternity. The girl, unbeknownst why, knew that not only her brother's freedom was at stake, and charged on without a thought of the consequences. Even in her selfish and arrogant heart beat the truth, honor and nobility of the Fae she once was. It was on this rainy night that her life was changed forever.

"The Labyrinth recognized her immediately, but could not tamper with her journey for fear of the Old Magick placed upon her. It knew the true danger she was in, and would never hurt one so close to it. The girl, unknowingly, used what talents she had left from her past life and did what no one else could; befriended the beasts within the Labyrinth's walls and tamed the wild magick surrounding it. The Fae heart within her beat wildly, and the latent magick in her veins began to course anew. Because of her former ties with the magickal entity, the girl was the first and only individual who had ever been able to find her way through the confounding maze and make it to the Castle beyond the Goblin City at the very heart of the Labyrinth. It was there she won her brother's freedom, and her own."

Sarah closed her eyes ad took in a shaking breath before continuing her tale. She opened now moist eyes and stared at Hoggle, but did not see him.

"When it seems that the girl would now be able to be reunited with her lost loves, something terrible happened. She grew up. She forgot the world she once knew, and resolved never to let childish fancy lead her way again. She forced herself to forget everything, but even in that she was not alone.

"The terrible magick placed upon her and the Prince, now the King, as mere youths began to wreak havoc in her life. Suddenly plagued by headaches of an unknown origin the girl turned to young adulthood, knowing that something was wrong but refusing to acknowledge it. She wouldn't know until seven years later that when she entered the Labyrinth again for the first time in her new life the covert spell placed on her reawakened to keep her past hidden from her. The headaches were of magickal origin, to keep her from remembering, but at the same time to help her along. She would not know until she was of twenty-two years of age that if she did not remember her past completely, including the reason for her untimely death and why she must forget, she would die.

"Now she races against an unseen clock of a different kind, for a different time, for freedom once again. But this freedom is not something she can win back from some imagined foe. The threat of death is all too real, and the cold tendrils of eternal sleep have already begun to wisp around her. And she and her Prince," she swallowed at her unintentional wording, "must beat this threat and win, for only their victory will save their lives."

Sarah blinked and focused on Hoggle for the first time in many minutes. He was staring at her with mouth agape. She felt the Labyrinth stirring in her mind, and could almost swear that through the Labyrinth she felt Jareth shudder. Did he suddenly feel cold as well, even without having heard the story Sarah mostly only knew was true because of feelings? She shook herself mentally and stared hard at Hoggle.

"The Prince's, King's name was, is Jareth. And the girl…" she trailed off eye contact wavering.

"Sarah."

That one word meant so much. It was the rest of her sentence, it was Hoggle calling her to him, it was Hoggle…forgiving her.

"Oh, Hoggle!" Sarah cried wrapping her arms around his neck and pulling him closer until her head rested between his neck and shoulder as she let tears fall from her eyes. "Hoggle, I've missed you. I've missed all of you," she sobbed.

Awkwardly patting her on the back Hoggle murmured consoling words to her until she had herself composed. Smiling kindly at her as she pulled away and wiped her eyes the old twinkle in his eyes whenever she was around came back. "It's good to see ya Sarah."

"Hoggle, I'm sorry for forgetting you. But…I had to. I had to grow up, I mean, I was going to become a lawyer!" At the slightly confused look on his face Sarah gave Hoggle a chaste hug before standing up. "Hoggle, I don't mean to say that your presence isn't enough, but I could really use a couple more friends right now," she grinned.

The dwarf's smile matched her own. "And I know just where to find them."

When Hoggle led her to a little private garden full of beautiful flowers she was not at all surprised to find that he cared for them himself. And in the centre of the garden were three figures she would never allow herself to forget again; a dog, a foxish thing, and a giant (but gentle) beast. As one their heads snapped up towards her from where they had been studying a rather peculiar flower when they all felt her enter.

"My lady!"

"Sawah!"

And a bark of a dog.

And suddenly Sarah found herself tackled to the ground in the arms of the beast, the fox on her chest, and her face being licked by the dog.

Laughing she hugged them to her. "Miss me?"

"My lady, how is it…"

Sarah shook her head softly smiling at her knight. "Sir Didymus, 'tis a tale full of complications, and were you any less of my friends I would refuse to tell you. But as my friends I must ask you to take in my story without interruptions, and that you do not worry too much." She led them to a few benches and sat down fingers curling around Ludo's furry arm. Once all was settled she cast a glance to Hoggle before beginning to tell her tale. She told them of what she had spoken to Hoggle, more or less, and had to raise her hand more than once to keep cries down.

"Now, for my sake and Jareth's, we must remember what happened. I can feel my self turning back to Fae, or at least half-Fae, but it will not be complete unless we remember. I know we had a few…skirmishes…before, with this certain Goblin King, but me and him go way back…it's almost like we're destined to be friends."

Hoggle watched her carefully as she ended her tale, and as she finished her last statement and looked off into the garden lost in her own thoughts he couldn't help but notice the light in her eyes or the smile on her lips.

More 'an that, I reckon, he thought wistfully. Jareth had never been kind and generous like Sarah had said he once was, and he just couldn't picture it. Things change, and Jareth could no longer be the sweet boy Sarah remembered. It seemed too impossible…

"Nothing is as it seems here," Sarah sighed softly standing up, almost as if she knew what he had been thinking. She turned around and smiled at them. "Laby wants to thank you guys for looking out for me while I was running it. It is glad I was able to make such admirable friends such as your selves." She tilted her head up into the sky, sniffing the air with eyes closed. She smiled. "Down that way, to the right, loop around, turn right, then turn left, and run through an imaginary wall," she indicating with her hand which way she was talking about. "Laby has issued a snow-goblin competition! Ready, set, go!" she shouted turning on her heels and running to the part of the Labyrinth that it told her was snowing right then.

Confused, her friends waited a moment not sure what was going on. As Sarah ran out of sight they yelled at her to slow down before running after her.

High up in his castle Jareth watched stonily.

Sure, he wanted Sarah to be happy, and he had called upon Hoggle so that he and Sarah, along with her other friends could get together. But that didn't mean he was entirely happy with the situation. Sighing he turned from the window and began walking through his halls trying his best to ignore the heavy thud within his mind. Sure, his headaches hurt like hell, but he was already Fae. Sarah, even though she was slowly opening back up to the magick, it was not enough. Whatever Jareth felt was amplified ten score in Sarah's mind. If she could push the pain aside, then so could she…but…she was developing a need for the 'Roofie' Tea, as she took to calling it. That could be a problem. It could be a very big problem indeed.

Rolling out of her snow-goblin Sarah beamed at her friends as they too straggled up. Each of their snow creations were varied, due to their shape and size, but they were all filled with the same joy Sarah felt. She had her friends back.

Sarah looked down at her snow-goblin beaming with pride. Jareth's was mutated even beyond that of a goblin. She snickered obviously enjoying her little victory.

"Haha, Faery Boy, I win!" she spoke with mockery pointing to her perfect creation, and then to his messed up one.

Scowling Jareth formed a crystal and tossed it on her goblin, where it exploded sending snow flurries everywhere.

"Cheater!" she yelled.

Moaning in pain Sarah rubbed her head with the heel of her palm eyes shut against the pain.

"Sarah!"

Blearily looking up she smiled weakly. "I'm fine Hoggle. I'm just…eurgh, I just have a headache. No big," she wheezed as her mind twitched in pain. "I'm…I'm gonna have to end out meeting sooner than I normally would. Maybe I can see you again, but I could really use a Roofie right now. Jareth seems to be experienced in them," she smirked wryly. "Goodbye," she whispered turning and walking slowly away head in hand.

Her friends watched after her a worried look on each of their faces.

"Sawah?"

"She'll be fine, brother," Didymus reassuringly pat Ludo on the knee. "She'll be fine…"

Hoggle could plainly hear the disbelief on the small fox-knight's tongue.

Sarah…

I can't make anymore! I wanted it to be longer, honest, but my brain is not functioning! I'm so sorry! (Breaks down and sobs)