Bringing together what should have always been
AN: Please note I do not have a Labyrinth Beta. All mistakes are mine. This is for my friend Jessa Lynn, since like me, she like fics on the Labyrinth XD, and thanks to everyone who loves this story too. To everyone who had given me the support to keep this fic going, thank you!
Rated M
Chapter 22
Soon enough, the day of the wake had finally arrived. After making final preparations, Sarah gave the 'number' of the 'uncle' her and Toby would be staying with. After explaining the family was still concerned for their safety, the police officer called the 'number 'to talk to a very abrupt Hoggle. Soon after, the police accepted the excuse and said they would contact them if they learned anything. Sarah agreed and had the goblins clean out the rest of the house after the wake.
The funeral was a beautiful affair, even if the papers were reporting the death of a local lawyer laid to rest after being a victim of murder, his killer hi sown wife. Pictures of Sarah and Toby covered the papers as people started to open their eyes and see why Sarah always had Toby with her. Some even speculated that was her child to begin with, and not even her fathers or step mother's child.
It caused quite a stir when Christopher showed up to the funeral, even more when he claimed that Christina's children were his children. It was a big deal to have such a small lawyer being remembered by such a big actor.
When the burial was finally complete, Sarah and the rest attended a special ceremony for her father in the underground. As the goblins had cleaned out the furniture, other items were found in the house and Sarah decided to wait to sell the house intil later. She wanted to be able to walk through it when she wanted to.
Jareth insisted when they got back that she see the healer. Sarah didn't understand why intil the examination was completed. She wasn't just tired and light headed, she was pregnant. The first time they had made love and she had lost her innocence to Jareth, he had made her a mother.
She was scared at first to tell Toby, but Jareth took it out of her hands and told him for her. To her surprise, Toby got excited about having a little brother or sister. He even insisted on helping his new 'Daddy' in fixing up him and Sarah's room for the upcoming child.
Two weeks after returning back to the underground, Karen finally passed away from her infection. Jackson watched Toby as Sarah and Jareth said goodbye at the burial pyre they had for her in the Troll Kingdom. Not many people came, but Sarah still wanted to show her respects. She had turned into her animal the night before, and her animal was one of great beauty and respect. Although King Arthur found it quite hilarious to see his daughter in law turning into a mighty Phoenix right in front of them.
When Toby's birthday came around, it was quite the affair. Everyone from all around came to see the little Goblin Prince turn two. Sarah had a cake made for everyone else, but for Toby and his small Fae friends, a 'How to train your dragon' cake was made. All the children watched the movie via a crystal projection screen and the children had loved it. Before long, all the Fae parents asked where Sarah had found the delightful movie. Soon Sarah had installed a movie room in the castle with thousands of DVD's and a large TV screen. It was quite a hit.
Christmas was a first in the Goblin Castle, but Sarah had brought the Christmas spirit with her. She put up the seven foot tree up and decorated as she saw fit. She decorated the great hall and throne room. The goblins even got involved and help place the tinsel and mistletoe up high when Sarah couldn't. They made presents for each other, and for once the throne room was not over flowing with drunk and crazy goblins, which pleased Jareth greatly.
When on Christmas morning Toby woke them up excited, Sarah and Jareth just smiled at their son as he ripped apart the paper form his gifts and laughed when he squealed with joy at each one. Sarah had got him a tricycle, a riding horse, several boxes of Legos, a remote control car, a new toy chest, a radio controlled airplane, all the 'How to train your dragon' action figures, and even some Naruto action figures, as Jareth's niece Daphna had got the small boy into it.
Jareth had got him a glittery cape that matched his own, a small fire truck with sounds, chutes and ladders, memory, candy land, a small DVD player, and a bean bah chair. He boy loved the gifts from Jareth and hugged him for it before seeing what Santa had brought him.
Santa, had brought him a talking teddy bear, a dress up knight set, a small easel and paints, a book of fairytales, a small fake crown, a cowboy dress up set complete with fake guns, a dress up policemen set, a doctor set and a sports ball set.
Toby was so excited; he didn't even notice Christina and Christopher enter with their kids along with King Lance and The Fae High King and Queen. They all opened presents and thanked had a wonderful dinner before everyone went home. It had been an exhausting day.
The Troll kingdom was coming around nicely. Lance had been officially crowned King the day after Karen's burial. He had already helped the farmers in the area to grow crops and even had Sarah help in ways to make the soil richer so they would grow better. Sarah had no problem using her magic to form irrigation systems.
In the Elfin kingdom, preparations were at hand for the Queen's wedding. Sarah helped out with it intil it was time. Jareth, Lance and Christopher's twin brothers were the groomsmen for the ceremony. Sarah, Jessica, Daphna and Amber where Christina's bridesmaids for the wedding. With Amber being part of the wedding, as came with a new treaty between the Elfin and Vampirian kingdoms, curtsey of Sarah being mediator within the Goblin Kingdom.
The wedding was beautiful in silver and blue, and everyone approved of the new husband of the queen. Soon after the ceremony, with the help of her parents and brothers, Christina made Christopher her King. Of course his family had to tease him about it. But then they took the news of their new family member in stride. It defiantly changed the Fae High King's mind about mortals.
Soon enough it was time for the Goblin Kingdom wedding. Sarah dug out her wedding dress she had bought and smiled at the women who were her bridesmaids. Christina, and Jessica were stunning in their blue strapless dresses with black ribbons, and Amber and Daphna were stunning in their black strapless dresses with blue ribbons around the waist. Sarah's dress was white with blue and black embroidered added to the train.
As Sarah was walked down the isle, she was escorted by King Arthur on one side and Hoggle on the other. The wedding was long and tedious, just as Christina's had been, but with one exception. When the wedding was finished and Arthur and Jareth crowned her Queen of the Goblins, the whole church filled with excited Goblins and parties commenced outside the castle. Apparently now that it was official, their wedding date also became 'Queen Sarah Day' for the goblins, which was fine with Jareth.
Sarah eventually sold the house where she had grown up after having the goblins clean out the basement, finding many of her mothers's missing items. After she had the house professionally cleaned, she ended up selling it to a very unlikely person. Her own mother Linda Williams had bought it. The two had finally started talking again and Jareth hoped for a reunion of hearts, but knew it would be a while before Karen's old spell wore off completely.
Soon the family was gathered in the Elfin Kingdom once more. Christina was in labor and Sarah was there by her just as Christopher was. The baby turned out to be two babies. The girl was named Sarah Marie and the second child, a boy, was named Christopher Jareth. Both screamed as loud as their mother, or so it was said by Christina's father.
Sarah started to show soon after the wedding. At first all was well; Sarah did just as much work as Jareth. She would help with diplomatic problems between kingdoms, while Jareth held court, signed documents and of course, dealt with those who were wished away. When there was a runner in the Labyrinth, Sarah tried to stay in the gardens.
Sarah and Jareth had bought a large play area from the aboveground that was all wood and steel nails, no iron. Sarah enjoyed watching Toby play while she sat in the gardens looking over her paperwork. She had helped a lot of the surrounding kingdoms put aside trivial fights and helped them all sign everlasting peace treaties. But she had one task left to do. The Goblin Kingdom itself.
When there was no runner, Sarah would walk thru the Labyrinth, and just place her hands on its walls. Soon enough, the changes were starting to show. The walls became brighter; the ground was no longer covered with tree limbs and sticks. The vines stayed attached to the walls, flowers blooming from them. The helping hands were gentler, and the pond Hoggle always used was cleaned up. Sarah went as far to provide bathrooms inside the walls at certain places so Hoggle wouldn't use the fountain pond anymore.
The hedge maze gained a new stone pathway throughout it. The orchard had fresh new grass growing and Sarah even rebuilt the crystal ballroom she had once destroyed. She helped the Labyrinth add new sections, new obstacles and new traps.
She even added a new special garden to the maze. She filled it with all different kinds of Roses and brought in several dolls houses from above to install inside of it. The doll houses served a purpose. To was a relocation of the small fairies from the front gates. As long as they served their purpose of protecting the gardens and warning the runners of the dangers ahead if they continued, they could stay there.
By the time Sarah had five months of pregnancy, she was driving Jareth up a wall. The baby's room was already decorated in a mortal theme; Precious Moments. Jareth thought it was too girly, but Sarah had a feeling it was a girl anyway. She finally agreed to change it if it turned out to be a boy. She was constantly going aboveground and buying cleaning supplies. She had, just as Christina had predicted, changed the cleaning schedule for the female goblins.
She made it to where the goblins washed the dishes every night, took out the trash and mad ea room adjacent to the throne room a keg room for the Goblin's ale. She made a rule no drunken goblins after ten pm and they had to now take bathes. She made a cleaning schedule for the goblins to clean each room of the castle daily, even if it meant just running a broom over the floors and dusting.
Sarah had taken the harder cleaning to herself, not trusting the goblins with the equipment she had bought. Jareth had at first laughed when she brought a cart full of stuff home one night intil he found out what they did.
She had bought a shark steam cleaner, seven cases of Clorox cleanup, a vacuum, a steam cleaner for the floors, ten washer and dryers considering she had seen how the castle did their laundry, glass cleaner and window wands to reach up on the high windows. She purchased a high power buffer for the floors after they were cleaned.
It took her a month, but after she was done, the castle looked better than ever. Jareth was worried sick every time he caught her cleaning. He was always saying she was a queen and she didn't have to clean anymore, but she didn't listen. She wanted to have her new growing family live in a clean and beautiful castle. It wasn't like she was forced to clean like before. This time she did it because she wanted to.
Sarah's birthday was as large an event as Toby's had been. Jareth planned not only a family dinner, but a royal ball to celebrate the Queen's 17th Birthday. Sarah felt like a true princess as she and Jareth were announced and had the time of her life, swollen ankles and all. Jareth presented her with a beautiful emerald and jade necklace. Her in-laws gave her a new throne, as Jareth had yet to have one made for her. Christina and Christopher gave her a new fountain for her rose garden, as the children all gave Sarah a new Rose bush.
Lance presented her with an elegant sword made by his Trolls. He had made the troll kingdom the place to go for armory these days. It was encrusted with opals and emeralds, emeralds to match her eyes, and opals to match her soul. Toby had made her a large picture he made himself and Sarah told Jareth she wanted it framed, witch made him laugh. Jackson and Maria had given her a large, yet light weight bed tray to help Sarah do her work once she had the baby. They both knew she wouldn't stop working, even in mother hood. She received many more gifts and Sarah accepted them all gracefully.
She finally retired to her room around 10 o'clock, as she needed to be up early the next morning with Toby to get him ready for his schooling the next day and for to be ready for her own meeting with the Moon Kingdom and the Undersea Kingdom. Apparently their children had been seeing each other secretly and were recently caught. It was her job to convince the Kings to let their children marry and form a formal treaty between the two.
Before Sarah knew it, she was surprised with a Baby Shower in the Elfin Kingdom. She received so many gifts that Jareth had to send out two carts to take them all back. She had a wonderful time though and enjoyed playing with the twins. While there, she helped Christopher get used to becoming a Fae, as Christina had recently turned Christopher and he was trying to get used to his new animal form, a dragon. Since she had gone through a similar thing, she was able to help more than anyone. She was only eight months pregnant, but she was already ready to have the baby.
A month passed, and no change happened. Her due date came and went like the sands of an hour glass. After two weeks, she started to become concerned. Jareth had placed her on full bed rest and the healers agreed. Didn't stop her from working though, as she had the table trey made given to her by Jackson and Maris as a birthday gift. She smiled thinking about how well Jackson knew her by now as he was now her permanent assistant. So it didn't surprise her when he came in to check on her to find her in the middle of a Crystal Conference with the Vampire Kingdom.
"No Sakura, you can not be upset with Lance. I understand it is upsetting that your daughter Lily has a crush on him, but do you really think he meant to capture her heart?"
"He gave her a peach"
"She was hungry and lost. He gave her food and then had her escorted back home with a guarded escort. He was being a gentleman."
"He gave her a peach Sarah, in Jareth's eyes it would be seen as a proposal"
"Lance doesn't favor Peaches like Jareth does. Now if he gave her a pomegranate I could see the concern"
"Pomegranates"
"Pomegranates"
"Ok, but will you please have a talk with him for me. You handle that family much better than me"
"Sure of course. How are you and Sasuke?"
"Wonderful, although him and Itachi are fighting once again; Itachi wont marry and Sasuke is getting flak from their dad because of it. You would think Sasuke is first born instead of second born with the way he gets treated sometimes. Plus we found out we are pregnant with our 12th child. Sasuke is excited, but I'm exhausted. You have no clue how lucky you are to only be pregnant 9 months, we are pregnant two years"
"Ouch, I can see why you're exhausted. Congratulations by the way. If you need me for anything let me know, I'll be glad to help"
"Thanks Sarah I will. Talk to you later"
"Bye Sakura"
"Bye Sarah"
Sarah saw the look on Jackson's face when she realized he was in the room. She reached out her hand taking the reports from him and started looking over things. She was pleased with the results given.
"You work too hard"
"I'm queen, I'm suppose to"
"Your pregnant and due any day now"
"Still Queen just the same. Just be glad I'm not cleaning the castle and helping with court"
Jackson laughed at her comment. He was glad she was sticking to her bed rest orders. They were afraid she wouldn't. He watched as Sarah signed necessary paperwork for work in the Goblin City and looked over the reports of her other pet projects.
Since the war, Sarah's main focus had been bringing peace and prosperity to the Goblin Kingdom, and she had. Marble Trade was up. Crops and grains were up. The new stables were finished and they already had orders for the use of their stallion for mating purposes.
Other thing that had changed was the way the goblins lived. Sarah had helped rebuild the villages destroyed, planted new crops and dug up bad ones. She rebuilt farms, fixed roads and helped set up schools. She had looked after children and helped build parks since she had become Queen.
Still, it was concerning everyone that the child had yet to be born. It really didn't surprise Sarah though, she herself had been 3 weeks late, so the child she believed to be a daughter was only taking after her mother.
She had signed the last paper when she felt a pain shoot up her lower back. She waited a bit before feeling another one. Sarah calmly used her magic to bring forth a watch that was sitting on her desk on the other side of the room. When she had it, she waited again. She was seeing if they were evenly spaced out. She had been having Braxton Hicks contractions for a month now, and she wanted to make sure this time was the real deal. When another pain shoots up her back, 15 minutes after the last, she knew.
"Jackson, could you please fetch me a glass of ice chips and a cool wet rag please"
"Why?" asked Jackson concerned. Was she feeling sick again?
"Because this is going to take a while, I think labor has started, but I'm no where near delivering. What is Jareth's schedule for today?"
"He has a crystal conference with Avalon and the Centaur Kingdom today. He then needs to hold court"
"Ok, please inform Agatha and Ferocity to bring Toby to his room after his schooling has finished at two o'clock. If I am already in hard labor by then, take him to the movie room and watch movies so he doesn't hear what is happening. Give these papers to the advisors that are waiting for them and then send a goblin messenger to the midwife, Queen Christina and Queen Gwenivere. I don't want to alarm Jareth and the kingdom if I don't need to"
"But my Queen, Jareth should be here for the birth. What if it's a son?"
"Its not a boy, the baby is being too stubborn like me. This is a girl child and Jareth will be here, just when it gets harder on me, or else he will just worry himself sick for a long period of time. He doesn't need that kind of stress if he is dealing with his father. You know how they get sometimes"
"As you wish Sarah, I will notify them discretely"
"Thank you Jackson"
Jackson left to notify Agatha and Ferocity that they needed to take Toby to the movie room after school as a present for Toby and keep him there. They didn't understand why, but the look on Jackson's face said everything. He notified The High Queen and the Elfin Queen, stating Sarah's wish for them to come discreetly. He then called for the midwife stating again Queen Sarah's wishes. He didn't like not telling Jareth, but he had to admit, she had a point.
Jareth was thoroughly aggravated when he left the crystal conference. His father could be such a pain in the arse at times, but he had to admit he had some strong pints to carry. The talk with the Centaur Kingdom had gone much better than expected, but still. When he entered the throne room, he noticed a noticeable calm like he had never experienced. He thought it strange but still continued on with his schedule. He started court thinking of nothing but Sarah. He had started feeling lower back pain some time ago, and as it had gotten worse, he decided a long hot bath after court would hi the spot.
Sarah was now having contractions five minutes apart. She knew it was time and told Jackson to inform Jareth that it was time. Nodding quickly, Jackson ran out of the room and down the castle corridors. He had to get his cousin; it was finally time for the birth.
Jareth had just finished half of his court when Jackson ran inside yelling at the goblins to go home and prepare for a celebration. Jareth was almost angered intil he saw the look on Jackson's face. It was then he realized the pain he had been feeling all morning was not his own but Sarah's pain.
"It's time?"
"Yes Jareth, go quickly"
Jareth rushed out of the Throne room as Jareth's advisors helped the other goblins set up a time to return to court. He took the stairs two at a time intil he reached him and Sarah's bed chambers. He threw open the door to see Sarah on the bed with his sister on one side, his mother on her other. Maria was currently gathering things in the corner of the room, preparing for the newborn to arrive. The Fae midwife was instructing Sarah to breathe with each contraction as she examined her. It didn't exactly take a genius to see the woman had been here for some time.
"Sarah how long have you been in labor?"
Sarah didn't respond though, she was a bit busy breathing through the pain of a contraction and listening to the midwife. Instead his sister Christina answered him.
"Since this morning; while you were preparing for the Conferences with our Father and the Centaurs Kingdom. It started off slow and Sarah didn't wish to worry you. She had Jackson notify us to arrive and help while you ran the Kingdom. She was still trying to read reports as we arrived and had to make her stop. I'm sorry you weren't told sooner Jareth, but we were only following Sarah's wishes"
Jareth knew Sarah's heart was in the right place. Since she had arrived she tried to be the best Queen she could be. He understood she was looking out for their kingdom, but she had to start looking out for herself. Not to mention it should have been him that was helping Sarah, no this family.
"Precious, I understand you didn't want to disturb the kingdom, but I love you and as my wife, you come first. Please let me know next time so I can help you"
"Sorry sweetheart" said Sarah in a breathy tone "I just didn't want you to worry when things were still going slow. We both still have jobs to do"
Jareth took his mother's place beside her and held her hand as another contraction hit. He could tell she was starting to get tired and was worried. He had left to prepare just after sunrise. He knew Jackson showed up about six each morning. It was late afternoon now. She had been doing this alone without him just because she thought the kingdom would suffer.
He wiped her forehead with a cool cloth his mother handed to him and cooed calming and helping words each time Sarah cringed in pain. The midwife looked up and talked to them both.
"Sarah, your at 9 cm, so your almost there, but you can't push yet. You are coming along nicely. Just continue to breathe ok"
"Ok" replied Sarah as she gripped Jareth's hand harder. Jareth looked at her with loving eyes as he silently wished he could take her pain away. It was then he felt the tremble of magic go up his spine. Apparently, so did Sarah.
"A Wished away now!"
Jareth was none too pleased with the development and tried to ignore it. He was not going to leave his wife when she needed him. Sarah had other plans though.
"You need to go Jareth, your still the Goblin King. Just return to me as soon as you get done with the act and sending the runner into the labyrinth"
"You can't possibly believe I would leave you now! Your having our child Sarah, I'm not straying from this bed, let alone this realm!"
The look Sarah gave him was telling him to go though. It was her next words though that convinced him.
"What if the child is an abused child? The sooner you go and help them the sooner you come be back at my side as I deliver our daughter. Please Jareth"
Jareth knew he had lost, and didn't even have the strength at the moment to argue over the Daughter comment. He simply kissed her and whispered he loves her before exiting the bed, changing his attire and disappearing form site. Someone was going to pay.
When he had left, Sarah was hit by another contraction that had her crying out. She soon regained control and remembered to breathe again. Christina and Gwenivere looked worried as they heard her next words.
"I can feel the pain of the wished away child and the wisher. Something bad is happening to them. I only hope Jareth gets there in time"