Chapter One: Wishes

Gildan's Note: Hey guys! This is my new Labyrinth fanfiction, in which Sarah wishes to return to the 'place she can't remember' - there she wakes up in a new castle outside the Goblin City, where a new king is waiting. Jareth senses Sarah's return and realizes he loves her, but this new king is nice and charming, and what is he? Jareth now must win Sarah's heart without being villainous, but how can he do this? And will Sarah fall in love with the new king? Dundundun - the title of the story is derived from the lyrics of As The World Falls Down (sobbing at that beautiful song) Haha anyways, enjoy!

It was finally here, Sarah Williams' 18th birthday; the day she'd be able to be free from the reign of her stepmother and father. Slowly she had forgotten about her adventures in the labyrinth when she was 15, and now it was muddled, as if a long ago dream.

"Sawah! Sawah!" it was her little baby half-brother Toby, who was now 4 and talking, he had no recollection of the adventure either anymore.

Sarah didn't open her eyes, "Mmm yes Toby?" she mumbled.

"Happy Birfday Sawah!" Toby laughed, poking her face. She pushed his hand away.

"Mmf stop." She opened her eyes and smiled, she had really learned to love him.

"Sarah? Are you awake yet?" it was her father.

Sarah climbed out of bed and walked over to her dresser. "Yes Dad."

"Well hurry up or we'll be late for our trip."

Sarah smiled, they were going to the shore for the day, and she had been counting down the days when she could finally go relax and enjoy being eighteen.

"I'm getting ready now!" she grabbed some clothes and headed to the bathroom. Out in the hall she noticed her stepmother coming up the stairs, and she could hear her mumbling to her father. 'What's she starting now?' Sarah thought.

But as soon as she was ready to enter the bathroom her father called her over.

"What is it?" she asked, feeling a little anxious.

"Honey, I don't know how to tell you this, but we can't go to the shore today." He fidgeted a little, sad to have to break the news to her.

"WHAT? Why not?" This wasn't fair! It had been planned over a month ago.

"Your stepmother needs the car for an important business trip." Of course she did.

"Business trip? Dad – there's two cars!" she shouted in protest, and then sighed, she didn't want to act like a brat, she knew she wasn't! Not anymore – but she truly felt like this day was special, it was hers.

"The other one needs to be checked out remember? Look, this is very important to your stepmother, if she misses this trip, it could cost her her job."

'As if I care.' But she knew she did, sort of – after all the luxuries of her life would be half gone if it wasn't for her stepmother. Either way, she still felt the tears well in her eyes.

"We can still do cake, and a small party, we can reschedule the trip."

"Dad – you had to go through so much trouble to get this day off as it is who knows when we can go that's convenient for all of us!" She could see Toby watching from her bedroom door, she was glad it wasn't him anymore that caused her trouble.

"Sarah I'm sorry but life isn't fair."

She laughed, as if recalling a joke or a memory, but she wasn't sure why she did it.

"Yeah Dad, I get it. Whatever."

"Can you hang out with any of your friends today?"

"Considering I told them all I was going away, they all have other plans. But thanks for the suggestion." She was pissed off, and she was going to show it.

"Don't take this out on me."

Sarah sighed in frustration and turned to go to her room.

"Sarah I'm sorry."

"Yeah, me too." She plopped down on her bed and hid her face under her pillows. There had to be a place better than this. There was, it was the shore and the beach and the ocean. No, even better than that. She wanted to be in that place from her dreams, with all the laughing and friends – friends whose faces she couldn't remember.

Not long after Toby and her father entered her room, she sat up in her bed. "Yes?"

"Toby made you something." her father said.

"What is it Toby?" she asked, smiling.

"Wupwake!" He was trying to say cupcake. It had one candle in it, and her father lit it when it was handed to her.

"Thank you Toby! Thanks Dad."

"Make a special eighteenth birthday wish, you only get one." Her father smiled.

"Wake a wish! Wake a wish!" Toby hopped up and down.

"I will in a second, I have to think." She smiled again and they left, leaving her to think of this wish on her own.

'Hmm, what do I wish for?' but she already knew.

She looked into the flame of the small candle and began to murmur her wish. "I wish to go back to the place I can't remember, I wish for it to be the greatest adventure of my life - I want to see those friends again, and I want it to go beyond my wildest expectations. I want to have the most magical adventure anyone's ever had!"

It was stupid she knew, she felt stupid saying it too. Wishes like that don't come true, but maybe she'd dream it again, have the greatest dream of her life. That would be ok, wouldn't it?

She blew out the candle and peeled away the wrapping, enjoying the tastes of the chocolate cupcake. Sprinkles fell on her blanket and she brushed them away.

"Ugh, well that was nice." She muttered, bored now that the cupcake was gone and she was back to thinking about how crappy her eighteenth birthday was actually going to be. She snuggled up under her blankets to take a nap, hoping to dream about that place and finally remember what it looked like…