Title: Change

Author: Emi-chan3192
Pairings: Sarah/Jareth
Rating: Mature for later chapters

Takes place once Sarah has gone to college, once night as she drives back to campus after visiting Toby & co…but while driving though a particularly quiet town she is taken from her car by a stranger cloaked in night.

I don't own the Labyrinth or it's characters, I'm just a huge fan of Brian Froud's artwork and projects!

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"Forever, precious." He whispered as he carried her to the bed, changed them both and arranged them both so that they could spend the 'night' in each other's arms. He flicked his hand lazily at the window and the sky darkened. A great sigh of relief echoed from outside as the goblins who had been ordered to stay still all day long went back to their homes.

Rather than freeze time and use too much his magic, Jareth had simply created an artificial sun and ordered his subjects to pretend they were frozen all day (threatened with the bog of stench.)

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Sarah woke without opening her eyes, her arms curled around something solid and warm. She could feel sunlight warming her cheek but didn't bother to move, after a while she felt a slight shift in whatever she was laying on and noticed that it was rising and falling slowly. She snuggled into it, too comfortable to even contemplate any ideas about leaving this cosy sanctuary. So she lay there for what felt like hours, dimly registering the heavy objects that were wrapped around her. "What are they?" Sarah mused, "Vines? Arms?" She finally dragged her eyelids back and realised where she was and who she was with.

Upon opening her eyes, she shapes she saw didn't quite make sense, a pale triangle of skin met with strands of blonde hair and the thing she was laying on was someone's chest. "Goblin King!" Sarah tried to push her way out of the arms surrounding her but only succeeded in sitting up and bringing him with her. She lowered herself back into his embrace and tried to think of what to do, but annoying little thoughts kept getting in her way.

"what the HELL am I doing in his bed, and with him!...too strong…what were we doing last night, I only remember talking…oh please don't say I ate a peach or something…" Sarah tried to wriggle her way out but was pulled back. Hopelessly, Sarah turned her head in order to see if any one else was in the room but she could only turn her head to the ceiling or into Jareth's chest.

"Sarah." She froze, thinking he had woken up, but when she peered at his face she saw that his eyes were still closed and his mouth slightly open. A loud rumbling snore escaped his mouth and Sarah couldn't help laughing, "I'd never have expected the Goblin King to snore, he's much too regal for that. But Jareth seems to be quite normal." Unable to leave the bed, and glad of a time to study the only flaw she'd ever seen from him, Sarah stared at his face for a long time. "It's not a flaw, it's endearing." Sarah thought, "Damn, so he is perfect. *sigh* Except when he's sulking or angry because he got beaten by a girl."

The pair laid there for a long time after that, neither making a sound. A thought popped into Sarah's head and she blushed, she had the strangest urge to kiss him. "Where the hell did that come from?" Suddenly, two goblins poked out from behind the headboard.

"Us! Albert and Boot at your service." Sarah would have jumped if she could have moved, as the two ugly little goblins appeared.

"Why did you do that?"

"Well, it's obvious, silly girl. You spent the night with the king, so you've kissed him before, right? We just wanted to see what a kiss looked like." The goblin she supposed was Albert blinked at her from behind a huge pair of glasses. "Show us?"

"I can't. I'm sorry," Sarah paled as Boot turned red and looked very angry and Albert paled and went a rather interesting shade of grey. "It's just that…well…kisses are special, and well…I can't kiss Jareth."

"But you wanted to." Chimed Albert, while Boot muttered darkly.

"Only because you made me!" Sarah shouted, and all three quickly turned to look at Jareth, but he hadn't woken up. "Go away, maybe one day I'll show you what a kiss looks like, or why don't you ask your king when he wakes up, or one of your other friends."

"We want to know now! Us goblins won't remember to ask." Boot whined. Albert dragged Boot with him off the bed and they scuttled out through a gap underneath Jareth's door. Sarah turned back to Jareth. His hair was a mess, still wearing the clothes he had worn last night and Sarah noticed that she was also fully clad. She breathed a sigh of relief and laid her head back on Jareth's chest.

"Sarah." He whispered, pulling her still tighter to him. "If he hugs me like this again I'm going to be squashed!" She thought and then tried to think of other ways to make him let her go. She squeezed him back, pinched him, gave him a quick punch on the arm and struggled for a long time. Sarah's shoulders and neck were worn out from pushing away from him but eventually she wound about so his arms were now around her waist rather than completely trapping her to him.

Throwing caution to the winds she bent down and gave him a quick peck on the cheek, but he still didn't let go. "Through dangers untold, and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here…" Jareth's eyes snapped open and he grabbed her to him.

"Stop! Stop now!" He roared. Sarah hid her face in his neck so she wouldn't have to look at him.

"What? You wouldn't let me go."

"That's right."

"You're hurting me." He loosened his arms a fraction but didn't completely let go.

"Can I go home yet?" Sarah asked and sighed when she heard the answer.

"No, you have two hours and thirty seven minuets left…so I can stretch that to another whole day if I feel like it."

"Goblin King, I feel weird." Sarah closed her eyes but felt Jareth pull her around so she could be inspected, her skin was pale and she looked tired even though she had slept for the best part of two days.

"I'll get you something to eat." Jareth left the bed and fetched a piece of fruit from a drawer, "Here you go, it's all I've got right now." Sarah turned to see what he was holding out to her, a peach with a bite taken out of it. The peach.

"No! I'm not going to have another of those weird dreams." She uncurled herself and sat up, staring at the offending object in his hand.

"Do or die, my friend." Sarah looked at him, confused and he began to advance towards her. "You've begun the change, you ate part of the fruit of the labyrinth and have spent a moon cycle here," He got up onto the bed and sat beside her, "You must eat the rest of the fruit, else you will die."

"No!" She yelled and made to get out of the bed, but he took her arm and straddled her, tore a piece of the peach off with his teeth and forced his way into her mouth. The moment their lips met Sarah knew it would be hopeless, she struggled but he wrapped her arms arm her shoulders and head, invading her mouth with his tongue and force the sliver of fruit into her mouth.

The juice was sweet and sticky, Sarah felt dizzy as she fought for air, she struggled but could taste the peach and Jareth's tongue…and swallowed. As she no longer fought against him, Jareth drew back and tore the rest of the peach up with his fingers, "The easy way or the hard way?" Part of Sarah wanted to scream 'neither' and another 'the hard way' as it had been so delicious but she took the peach slices from him and ate them one by one.

"Happy?" She threw him a black look and pushed him off. He just smirked, "Did you get a visit from my goblins this morning Sarah?"

"You planned that?"

"It would have been nice to wake up from a kiss by the girl in my arms."

"Tough luck."

"You're so stubborn, I hope that doesn't change. It was nice to feel you writhing on top of we this morning, Sarah. You're very energetic."

"Why you…" Sarah turned red and hurried to the window, "Selfish, evil…"

"King? Sarah, I like getting my own way."

"Really, so you kidnap me, force me to stay here and expect me to stay? What do you mean change anyway?"

"You'll become what you've always dreamed of, one of the fae." Sarah let her tears fall silently down her face as she remembered all the books she had read on fairies, their higher races and their bloodlines.

"For what purpose?" She asked, speaking slowly and clearly so he wouldn't hear her crying. "Find someone else to fill your boredom, Goblin King, this girl's had enough."

Never had Sarah's voice sounded so cold to him, even when she had fought him over her brother. It chilled him and he felt goose bumps erupt over his limbs. "Sarah…I…"

"You what? Thought about some one else's feelings, stopped to see if their dreams had changed? Did you remember that you have no power over me?" Jareth had been struggling to reach her at the window, but he felt like he was wading through some sort of thick goo. As she spoke the last few words his heart pounded violently in his chest and he doubled over, then fell. Sarah whipped around, all tension shattered and rushed to his side.

"You said the words, Sarah, you have to stay. Please." Jareth closed his eyes as cold flooded through him, the strength of her words overpowering him. Sarah pulled him up onto the bed, his skin was icy and frost coated his features, she tried to warm him up and wrapped him in all the blankets she could find but as he went blue she decided it wasn't working. She knelt over him and whispered, "You'd better wake up Jareth," before she kissed him carefully and drew back. The cold left Jareth in a rush of blue air, but before Sarah could even smile in this small victory it passed through her before it left through the glass of the great window.

The Goblin King's body felt like fire against hers as she recovered from the cold, she clasped him to her and waited for him to move. "I know you're awake." His lip twitched, but apart from that he stayed completely still. "Well, maybe that didn't work." Sarah thought aloud, "I could try again I guess." She let her lips hover above his for a moment and breathed hot air against them, his eye lids quivered and Sarah ran I line of kisses from one corner of his mouth down his neck and settled over his pulse. She kissed it, feeling it beat hurriedly and he gasped softly and began to move. But Sarah wasn't going to just let him kiss her, after all he'd put her through she was definitely going to tease him. She held his shoulders down a little, "Still not awake?" She licked along his neck slowly, nibbling a little here and there before sitting up and looking into his eyes. "Don't freak me out again, it's not funny."

Jareth looked back tiredly, "You started it." Sarah punched him playfully, "really, then who brought me here in the first place? Anyway, I'm going home for a while." Jareth's eyes widened and he forced his arms out of the trapping fabric of the blankets and caught hold of her. "I'll come back."

"You'd better." He growled, "Or I'll come and find you again."

"Right." Sarah said lazily looking around the room, "An exit might me nice, or some food. Right now I'm not fussy." Jareth only laughed at this.

"Sarah Williams, the spoilt child it's fussy anymore. So does that mean you've grown up?" Sarah nodded before she caught sight of herself in a mirror. Her skin was slightly paler, her hair darker, straighter and small strands were beginning to defy gravity. "What's happening to me?"

"Don't worry, love, you're doing well." Sarah looked back at Jareth, her emotions rocketed. She felt a violent feeling to kiss him again, and another to slap him. Unable to decide she kept staring at him, her eyesight seemed sharper and she picked up on details of his skin she'd never noticed before.

"Goblin King, what have you done to me?"

"Sarah, let's start again, and this time…call me Jareth."

Sarah's mind was tipped into an abyss and both of them clung to each other, "Stay with me, don't leave me, please, oh please, stay…i…Jareth."

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