Prologue – Save me...
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Disclaimer - I do not own any of the characters from the movie ''Labyrinth'', I do not own Jim Henson, and sadly I do not own David Bowie.
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FYI - I'm going to be posting 2 chapters per page probably, because I'm not good at writing long chapters, and it bugs me to continuously hit "next chapter" all the time cuz mi computer's a slow little f, so I dont think yall should have to put up with it either. I feel for the people with slow computers/internet!
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This is sort of an alternate middle/ending to the movie. I do still love the movie, I just wanted to make something a little different from it to amuse myself. It begins as the cleaners are coming down the tunnel towards Sarah and Hoggle, after Jareth has just disappeared...
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Sarah screamed. Whatever this thing was, it was headed strait for her, and it did not look very friendly. She grabbed Hoggle by the hand and started to run at his suggestion. She heard him say something else, but was too scared to understand what it had been. The floor was slippery. Hoggle fell once, but Sarah just picked him back up, made sure he was alright, and kept running. They reached a gate, but it had been chained and locked up solid. There was an old wooden door just to the right. She tried to knock it down. ...It kept coming... They threw their fists against the door, but it would not fall.
Sarah had become desperate now, she was tired, cold, hungry, and scared. Scared for the life of herself and her friend. She wished that the door would just fall open, but it wouldn't budge. In a final act of desperation, she called out to the Goblin King...
"Jareth! Please! If you had any heart at all, you wouldn't do this!"
Nothing happened. They kept attacking the door with their weight, but it still would not give in. Sarah was crying now, crying harder than she ever thought she would again since the death of her mother. She had never thought that it would all come down to something like this...
"Jareth! Please! I beg of you! Don't do this! Can't we just talk this over or something! I'm sure we could work something out!"
The machine slowly began to come to a halt, but not quickly enough. They would still be hit, and this thing really did not look friendly. Sarah was frantically screaming now. She slammed her body up against the door, but it refused to move.
"JARETH!"
What happened next for Sarah was only a blur. Jareth appeared before her in the hall way. She saw him throw something, and she thought that she heard the sound of glass shattering. Then she saw that the machine hadn't stopped and actually was flying even faster – in reverse. She fell to the ground, exhausted and more scared than she had ever been in her life.
There was a long moment where no one said anything. Sarah sat on the floor, her back to the wooden door, in shock. Hoggle looked around with a blank face, wondering what had made the Great King change his mind – something that rarely happened. And Jareth stood there panting, amazed that he had almost let the woman he loved die at his own hands...
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Chapter One – Exploration and Agreement
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Disclaimer – I do not own any of the characters from the movie ''Labyrinth'', I do not own Jim Henson, and sadly I do not own David Bowie.
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"YOU COULD HAVE KILLED ME! YOU STUPID FUCKING ASSHOLE! YOU WEREN'T EVEN GOING TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT THOUGH, WERE YOU!" Sarah was screaming at Jareth with so much power that it even knocked Hoggle over. She flew forward and started pounding on his chest. She banged her fists against his chest, her frustration overflowing out of her.
"NOT ONLY ME, BUT HOGGLE TOO! YOU HORRIBLE MONSTER! Y- YOU you monster..! I... I..." and that was all she could say before she collapsed against him in a fit of tears...
Jareth stood there for a moment, not sure what to do. Finally he awkwardly let his arms fall around her, and rubbed her back to soothe her. He had never actually had a girlfriend or anything of the sort before, so he knew little on what to do to comfort a troubled girl. He decided it was safest to not do much.
Jareth signaled to Hoggle for him to go away that way he could deal with this.. incident himself. Hoggle looked worried, but was too scared to retaliate. With a sigh, he ran down the hallway to go back to his place outside the Labyrinth..
Jareth held her a little more tightly, but was afraid that his Fae strength might crush her if he wasn't careful. Being a Fae God King, he had immense strength and power in his physical and mental senses, but his emotions were (just as all the Gods before him) very sensitive, and he was known to snap in any direction at random.
She leaned into his arms slightly, welcoming the surprise gesture of kindness. She had never expected it from someone so cold. But he really wasn't all that bad right now was he? He did have the humanity to save Hoggle and herself at least...
Sarah began to calm down, so reluctantly Jareth dropped his arms. He turned around quickly, to avoid having Sarah see the pain in his face. "I am sorry... I didn't really mean to try to kill you... I just sort of snapped... No ones ever gotten this far in my Labyrinth before..." he said quietly.
"Maybe... maybe we could... work something out..." Sarah said tentatively, still upset about what had just happened a short while ago. "Maybe... come to my castle. We can work things out there. I shall have to carry you there however... I travel by spell."
"Fine.. it won't... hurt me or anything will it?" she asked, wondering what it was like to travel this way. Seeing as she had only found out about this world a few hours ago she hadn't had much time to do any learning about the place or any site seeing or anything. She still wondered about everything that happened around her. Every turn she took brought something new to her eyes...
"Of course not. Its just a traveling spell. You're not even the one casting it. It wont even tickle you." he said, conjuring a crystal to use for his spell. "Are you ready?" he said, his big eyes looking softly at her, trying not to be too obvious of his affection for her. She nodded, so he stepped forward again and picked her up.
He was shocked at how light she was, also at how good it felt to be holding her. She didn't even hesitate when he started to pick her up. She just jumped up and snaked her arm around his neck. He stood there for a minute, just enjoying it while trying to look like he was gathering his concentration or something, then he executed the quick spell with practiced precision and perfection. They arrived in front of the castle, just past the fountain in the North courtyard.
Jareth put Sarah down, and she was left in awe of the castle, the goblins, and the infamous goblin city...
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Well, I haven't written a fic in forever, but I've gotten better at writing according to my English teachers, so do me a favor and leave me some reviews. I wanna know whether or not to continue this.
Cryllin