A/N: What will Sarah do to see Jareth again? Will she ever see him again?

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AS THE PAIN SWEEPS THROUGH

Sarah could barely think straight the rest of the night. She could not believe what had happened, she could not believe he had actually come to her...and this time it hadn't been a dream. He must care about me if he came, Sarah thought. But then why would he just leave me without hesitation? Thinking this just made her depressed. She had not eaten anything when she had gotton home- she had gone straight to her room- shivering from the wet, but she didn't care. She had sat down on her bed- dripping, and just thinking. She felt like crying again, she was so confused and so upset. He had caught my fall when I fainted, she thought, he must have. I woke up in his arms...I felt his breathing...I felt his arms around me...I heard his heartbeat...and then he had pushed me away like I was nothing and left. Left me crumpled and broken on the ground. How could he care?

A tear rolled down her cheek and she shivered again. "Best get changed or you will catch the death of cold!" She heard the ever so familiar voice of her mother say. She missed her mom, but she barely thought about her these days. She also just left me. Sarah thought, grabbing Lancelot from her bed and flinging him across the room angrily. Not a soul cares about me.

More tears flowed down her face as she stood up and crossed over to her cupboard where she brought out some dry clothes and changed. She saw the white shirt and waistcoat hanging at the back that she had worn the day she had run the Labyrinth to save her baby brother- the day her life had changed. The sight of it tore at her- all she wanted to do now was go back and she flung the doors closed.

That night, for once, Sarah had no dreams of the Underground or of Jareth. It was as if a spell had been lifted and her dreams had finally returned to normal. But Sarah did not feel relief. She knew exactly what was happening.

"He won't let me see the Labyrinth anymore, he won't come to me, because he regrets what he did." She said to herself in the morning when she woke up. "He wants to forget about me." Her heart fluttered in her chest and sank down, making her feel sick.

She got up and went to her vanity. Perhaps she could still see her friends and talk to them- it had been 3 days since she had last seen them. She realised now even more than she did before that they really were all she had.

She had no real friends at school, no one she could talk to about anything and each day she sat in class she realised more and more what a waste of time and what a bore school, and her life was. Until she had run the Labyrinth, until she had met all the amazing friends she had made in her short time there and until she had met Jareth. Shaking her head, she pushed the thought of school back to the back of her mind and turned her attention back to her mirror. Gone were her photos that framed it's edges and the Goblin King statue. On returning home Sarah had hastily put them all away, she had thought they were childish and had wanted to forget it all. Now, she opened her drawer and pulled out the purple statue of Jareth. She had never known he was real, how could she have? She had never known any of it was real. She had only thought of it all as her favorite fantasy. The statue had never had so meaning to it as it did now and she held it close to her chest. She would never be able to forget and she didn't really want to. Setting the statue back onto it's rightful place beside the mirror on the vanity Sarah took a deep, shuddering breathe. It was all gone now and she realised how much truth hurt.

"Hoggle, Sir Didymus, Ludo." She called quietly, looking dolefully into the mirror.

A long moment went by where nothing happened and Sarah held her breathe. Oh, please let it work! She thought desparately. She didn't know what she would do if it didn't. Seconds ticked by and still nothing happened- no reasuring answer from Hoggle, no warm face of Ludo or Didymus appeared.

"Hoggle?" Sarah tried again, this time with a nervous tremor in her voice and a dreading feeling in her stomach.

It's not working.

Sarah leaned closer in but all hope was lost- her forlorn reflection was all that looked back at her. She knew they weren't going to come- she knew what had happened, she had just hoped it would never have to come to this.

"Oh it's not fair!" She yelled jumping up, the chair toppling over. "None of this is fair, how could it be?" Her brows furrowed together in anguish. She recalled what she had once told Hoggle- the time she had snatched his precious jewels from him and he had cried out that it wasn't fair. "No it isn't, but that's the way it is." She had told him when she had realised life really wasn't fair and that it was just a tough mess. Still, now she couldn't help but feel as though the whole world was against her- and it really wasn't fair. Not at all.

She knew Jareth had stopped her from being able to see her friends and she knew it was because he wanted her to move on. Days ago, Sarah would have been glad about this- not about not being able to see her friends again, but glad that she would be allowed to forget about him. She had absolutely no idea what to do now.

"As the pain sweeps through- makes no sense for you, every thrill is gone, wasn't too much fun at all."

Sarah thought of how Jareth had sung to her, those words- did he know what would happen? Did he know this was going to happen? It had all seemed so magical- it was magical. She had experienced real, rare magic- and not just the kind of glitter and that made dreams come true. She had felt magic flow between Jareth and herself as she danced in his arms and when she looked up into his eyes she had felt something. Something so real it had been hard to deny. She was young and confused, her heart was a fooled heart and she hadn't fully understood any of it. No one had ever looked at her the way he had in those moments.

But if he knew what would happen, then did he mean it when he sung the next part? Sarah thought.

"But I'll be there for you as the world falls down."

Sarah suddenly collapsed to the floor, leaning her back against her bed. She realised now...how could she have been so foolish and blind? All she had needed to do was recall the lyrics he had sung to her to understand exactly how he felt.

"I'll place my love within the stars." " I'll place the sky within your eyes" ," I'll place the moon within your heart." And right at the end as she was running away to escape the ballroom she remembered- "Falling in love." His clear baritone voice had floated over to her as she was trying to desperately escape. She hadn't paid attention, she hadn't listened...

He had sung everything that he had felt, he had held her so tenderly and had looked at her with longing in his mismatched eyes. And Sarah had overlooked it all and had ignored him.

"Oh, what am I supposed to do?" She muttered, a sinking feeling in her stomach. He was playing games with her, or he was confused himself.

He doesn't want to be rejected a second time...it has to come from me this time.

She just didn't know what she would do. She thought about her family, her life. She felt utterly confused and in the biggest predicament she had ever been in. She was only 14, turning 15 soon, but she had never felt like this before.

The only thing she could think to do was let Jareth come to her when he was ready- if he ever wanted to see her again. She didn't think calling for him would work- she doubted it was that simple. Otherwise she would just have to accept things the way there were and try to move on. But Sarah knew she would never, ever be able to do that.