FireShifter: I also despise Irene! And Jareth was her only friend, yes, but she did have friends before him (we just don't see it). As she doesn't have a job and doesn't go to school anymore, she kind of gets out of touch with them. I mean we all do during summer break for example and when we grow up. That was more of a clarification for everyone else but yes lol.

As for Anastasia, I'm not so sure, I haven't really made her seem any nicer than Drizella in this story and really only focused on either the animated or live action versions. I do like how she does redeem herself in those stories but for this story, it's more of a redemption story for Sarah and Jareth if that makes sense. Don't want to give too much away but it is cinderella so you guys do basically know what's next, lol. Don't worry this will end happy and I hope that you'll keep liking it even with these not so great chapters.

Margot Grayna: I'm glad you're taking this story a chance! Now this chapter, it's time to reintroduce labyrinth and to combine the two worlds. Hope you enjoy the writing of this one!

Guest: thank you thank you! Please continue to enjoy this and I will keep posting more or less daily! Keep reviewing so I know who you are and can know how you feel about it!

To everyone else: How was the scene when Sarah cries over Robert? I wanted to make it short but powerful. I got too sad trying to even write it as I lost my own father when I was four and now, 17 years later, it still gives me pain to remember when I realized that he's no longer with me and so I left a lot of that part out.


"You're him, aren't you? You're the Goblin King! I want my brother back, please, if it's all the same." Sarah breathed out.

Jareth tilted his head to the side in a smirk. Oh, so this is what she was up to lately? He did frown at the fact that she looked a little worse for wear. Unfortunately for Sarah, he didn't see the slap mark on her cheek but he did see how dirty she was.

He was annoyed. How dare she not tell him where she had been all these weeks? All she thought about was Toby, and he was safe!

"What's said is said." He folded his arms. Had he not told her that words held power? He wasn't sure if he knew her anymore. The fact that she just… wished her own brother away and acting like a brat said volumes to him.

Sarah was shocked to see Jareth as the goblin king. Now, it all made sense. It made perfect sense that he was busy, that he did all these things. But now he was mocking her. He wasn't being sweet and kind to her. She felt her heart start to break. Did she even really know him?

No matter. She needed to save Toby. She was the only one she trusted with Toby no matter how sweet the young man at the market had been.

"But... I didn't mean it." She told him. Though her words seemed flat and empty.

"Oh, you didn't?" Jareth was clearly mocking her again.

Sarah had been angry all day, but now she just felt resigned and desperate. She had nothing left, nothing. She thought she had Jareth by her side but it seemed that he wasn't. He promised he would be but look at him now. Scaring her, intimidating her.

"Please, where is he?"

"You know very well where he is." Jareth was adjusting his gloves.

"Please bring him back. Please!"

At her voice, Jareth almost broke out of his hard mask. But he wasn't going to let her get away with this. First she hadn't told him what was happening, and then she had the nerve to just demand the child back when he wasn't able to give him back. If she knew the story, then she knew what she would have to do.

"Sarah... go back to your room. Play with your toys and your costumes. Forget about the baby." He mocked her.

Sarah shook her head. "I can't."

Jareth flicked his wrist to create a crystal. "I've brought you... a gift."

Unable to resist, Sarah had to ask. "What is it?"

"It's a crystal. Nothing more. But if you turn it this way and look into it... it'll show you your dreams. But this is no gift for an ordinary girl, who takes care of a screaming baby." He turned it around in an elegant kind of trick. Then he held it to her eyes. "Do you want it?"

There was silence as Sarah stared into the sphere. Her dreams… What were her dreams? She had nothing in her home. Nothing for her live for. Of course she wanted her dreams!

"Then forget the baby!" Jareth said harshly.

Sarah snapped to her senses. Maybe she wanted dreams, and if she was by herself, she would. But not with Toby at stake. She couldn't just trust Jareth anymore. She looked into his eyes and knew that he would be giving her something priceless. "I can't. It isn't that I don't appreciate what you're trying to do for me, but I want my brother back. He must be so scared-"

"Sarah... " Jareth conjured a snake. He was sick of her babbling. If she really loved the child, she never, never would have sent him away in the first place! "Don't defy me!"

He threw the snake at her neck and she struggled before it transformed to a scarf then to a goblin. Tears were still in her eyes as his goblins laughed at her.

Pathetic.

"You're no match for me, Sarah!"

"But I have to have my brother back!" She pleaded. Who was he? Who was the gentle Jareth who bantered with her and told her that she was special? Why was he so angry with her and so… dark?

Jareth rolled his eyes in annoyance and pointed out her window. "He's there... in my castle. Do you still want to look for him?"

Sarah looked beyond the twisting maze and at the castle. It looked just like her little book had described. "Is that... the castle beyond the Goblin City?"

In the wind, Jareth's hair flowed and he gave her one last warning. "Turn back, Sarah. Turn back before it's too late."

Sarah looked into his eyes, hoping to see the kindness he had once shown her. "I can't. Don't you understand that I can't?"

Jareth scoffed. Apparently he would not. "What a pity."

As much as he saddened her, she wasn't about to let him win. "It doesn't look that far."

She gasped she felt his long hair on her neck and he leaned into her ear like a predator. "It's further than you think... and time is short."

He pointed to a clock that appeared before her. "You have thirteen hours in which to solve the Labyrinth, before your baby brother becomes one of us... forever. Such a pity…"

Sarah wanted to sit down and cry. The man she loved didn't care for her. Didn't even give her the chance to explain why she hadn't seen him and went straight to being awful. Maybe he was just trying to bait her for something. Entertainment? Fae loved games. Even her father, who she had trusted, had married a horrible woman so how would she trust his judgment on Jareth?

She looked into the Labyrinth. "Come on feet."


Jareth burped Toby and gave him a little monster doll to entertain him. He still didn't understand Sarah. Why did she even wish Toby away? Was she such a horrible person?

His damn pride was too stubborn to talk to her directly. If she wasn't going to speak with him, why the hell would he speak to her?

He had a job to do. He was going to keep her safe, to scare her, to give her what she wanted. She wanted a villain. She wanted time to be reordered. She wanted to be a heroine. He would give it to her. Even now, he would give everything for her. But no matter what, he wasn't going to just let her defeat the labyrinth. That was the price of anyone who wished a child away. All she would get back were the lessons she learned here, and no one would remember Toby.

He visited her in the tunnels, he scared her, he got angry when she told him his labyrinth was a "piece of cake." She may hold his heart, but he wasn't going to let anyone insult their way through without consequences. Oh, the cleaners wouldn't hurt her. She never would've fallen into the bog. If he wanted her dead, it would be too easy to. But the point of the labyrinth was to learn and to grow.

He tried as hard as he could to keep his feelings away as much as he could, to pay attention to the task at hand. But every time he looked at her green eyes, he would feel a mixture of emotions. He wanted to hold her, to comfort her but her hero complex was just too strong. She slowly learned to accept help though, that was good. Sometimes, he wanted to just scream at her and tell her to go.

He watched with annoyance as the dwarf was able to befriend her and get her forgiveness even after leaving her once. Friends, she had called them. And what was he? HE was HER best friend before wasn't he? Was he not the king of goblins who gave her an owl necklace and teased her, took care of her, listened to her plight?

A little voice inside him tried to tell him that maybe he was being too harsh on her. After all, he HAD refused to speak up and just mocked her. But he wasn't going to show vulnerability. It wasn't in his nature as king. He had to toughen up at a very young age. Sarah kept telling everyone and everything that "it's not fair." Well, just as he said to her, she had NO basis for comparison! NONE AT ALL!


Sarah wanted to claw her eyes and ears out. She pushed all feelings of Jareth away. Clearly, he wasn't who she thought he was. Not just the fact that he was king, but how cruel he was. He was every bit the same kind of goblin king as in the book her father had bought her.

She wondered what Robert would say if she told him that Jareth was the goblin king from her fantasy book.

She made friends, saw crazy creatures like the fire gang and solved some riddles. But Jareth puzzled her greatly. Sometimes it seemed that he just hated her and other times it was as if, he was almost begging for her to stop being angry at him.

But how could she? She was betrayed by him. The first thing he said when he came to her house was to mock her. She wanted to tell him that she was frustrated, that her stepmother had hurt her and she felt so sorry that she had wished Toby away. Toby, the only person alive in her life now that loved her unconditionally. She had wondered if Jareth maybe had feelings for her but even if he did, they didn't seem to be good feelings now.

She stumbled, feeling hungry. Hoggle had given her a peach. She sunk her teeth into it and instantly felt sleepy. All she could see were bubbles flowing around her.

Jareth saw that she had eaten the peach and sent bubbles of crystals after her. In those crystals were ingredients to make her live in her dream world. He was curious to see what she would dream up, what would be there. In his runners, sometimes he'd see riches or illusions of grandeur. Sometimes they were humble, a family with a good food on their tables.

He looked into a crystal and his eyes widened in surprise. Sarah was dressed in a beautiful, gorgeous silver gown that looked like it was made of clouds. Her hair had silver ribbons and leaves woven in. Her make up was simple and lovely, elegant and befitting of her.

In that dress, she looked like an innocent in a ballroom full of adults. So that's what she wanted, to be taken seriously as an adult. And then there was, him?

Jareth gaped as he saw himself in her dream. He decided to do something he hadn't ever done before: enter her dream.


The king kept going around, watching her as she was searching for something. Or someone. Sarah looked like she was very intensely searching for something, like it was important. He also noted the song that was playing.

It was his song.

He had composed it for Sarah one day when she said that she felt her world had fallen when her mother had died. Jareth hated the idea of someone being alone when their world fell and he took to writing As the World Falls Down. His mother gave him strange looks when he sang a love song but he wasn't going to let that stop him.

Sarah was searching and searching, unsure of what she was looking for. People all around her were rude, were staring. She didn't like that one bit but it didn't deter her. They were dancing and having the time of their lives. She was looking for someone to share a dance with. But not just anyone.

Jareth saw with a frown, that the people that were leering at her. It was a product of her insecurities that her mind made up. He decided to change something, his attire. Sarah had dressed him in his usual outfits in seeing her but he wanted to look regal for her. He had on a dark blue jacket that glittered and a high, ruffled collar. His make up was done and his hair had blue-dyed tips in.

He wasn't sure what made him do it, but he ended up dancing with some of the people in the dream though they were fake. He did it mostly to just closer to her. Maybe this was how she saw him now that she knew he was a king, someone to be desired so all the dancers wanted a piece of him.

He wondered what she would do if he were dancing with two women.

And he did just that.

To his pleasure, she looked thoroughly upset at him. Her eyes flashed with jealousy just as his did whenever a boy tried to woo her or even when Hoggle was closer friends with her than he was. Deciding to not egg her on, Jareth left the two women to hold her in his arms.

As they danced, she looked at him with awe. Jareth sang to her, giving her all his heart. It was what she wanted and for the first time that day, he wanted to give it back to her. He wanted her to feel special, to feel like he was there and ready to hold her.

Then, the clock rang twelve times.

As if out of a trance, Sarah looked up at him. Jareth gave her one smirk, hoping that she'd just give up and decide to stay in his arms forever.

But that wouldn't be his Sarah.

Sarah ran from him and he looked at her, rejected. But he didn't go after her. He let her do what she needed to do.

And with a chair, she smashed the crystal.

Jareth was ejected out and back on his throne. "DAMN IT!" He screamed. He put a hand to his head, disappointed. So, she wanted him. Maybe he still had another chance to win her.

He looked at the crystal into the junkyard. "Ah, well, she won't remember anything. And she won't be done in an hour."

He went to find Toby. Maybe he would keep the baby and adopt him. He was always good with children but Toby took a special liking to him through their previous bond. "He does have my eyes."


Jareth couldn't believe it. She ruined goblin city! What were his goblins doing? He wanted to just distract her and they ALMOST KILLED HER! And she almost killed them too! What in the world?

And her three friends… OH! They were HIS subjects but somehow she was able to gather loyalty from nearly everyone. It was ridiculous. He was the king! What kind of powers did she have anyway? She was just a teenage human, even if she was the age of adulthood.

Anger returned back to him. He met her at the staircase and sang to her words of anger, of disappointment. She turned his world, made him feel starved, he did everything for her and he moved the stars for no one! But through it all, he loved her.

He wanted her. He may have been stubborn, but the whole time, her cruel eyes didn't even care to look at his. She was concerned for her brother and if she had just thought for two seconds, she would realize that he was safe and sound.

Sarah didn't understand. He said he did everything for her? What the hell? But the look in his eyes, the sadness in the world… No. She wasn't going to fall for that! Not again! And besides, he sent a freaking army after her that tried to kill her with explosives. She had left her three friends behind to face him alone. Hoggle, the cowardly dwarf who came back to take care of her. Sir Didymus, the brave knight who fought off the goblins who tried to hurt her. And Ludo, the gentle beast who gave her the biggest hugs of all.

Sarah saw Toby. Taking one last leap, she went for him.


Jareth was desperate. She had won the child by leaping off. But now he was angry. Angry that she had defied him.

Jareth came to her, in a lavender attire, pants as tight as ever and his cape flowing around him like the wings of an owl. His gaze at her was hard and intense.

Sarah was no longer scared but looked at him with the deepest disdain. "Give me the child."

Jareth walked towards her. "Sarah, beware. I have been generous, up until now. But I can be cruel."

She looked at him with disbelief. "Generous? What have you done that's generous?"

Oh boy. "Everything! Everything that you wanted, I have done! You asked that the child be taken - I took him. You cowered before me - I was frightening. I have reordered time, I have turned the world upside down, and I have done it all for you! I am exhausted from living up to your expectations of me. Isn't that generous?"

Why couldn't she understand that he did this all for her? No matter how angry he was, he made this the adventure that SHE wanted in her heart.

Sarah stopped focusing on him. It wouldn't do now. Now she had to think of Toby. "Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered ... I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the goblin city ... for my will is as strong as yours... and my kin-"

Jareth had started to walk backwards but he held a hand out to her. "Stop! Wait. Look, Sarah, look what I'm offering." He held out a crystal. "Your dreams!"

He broke out of his cruel actions and became more vulnerable now. She had won her brother, but he wanted her. He wanted her to stay, to love him. He was willing to give so much to her. And the more she spoke, the more she was hurting his heart.

Sarah was undeterred. He was just tricking her again. "And my kingdom as great…"

Jareth was begging her now. "I ask for so little. Just let me rule you, and you can have everything that you want."

He cursed at himself. Even now, he wasn't wiling to give up control. He would do nearly anything and everything for her but that. She was his everything… she would be the perfect queen for his kingdom of misfits. She got along well with his subjects and could win anyone over. She was powerful to even WIN. No one won his labyrinth. She won Toby the moment she leap off the ledge.

He was now just stalling, begging for her to be with him.

He handed the crystal over to her, his heart in it.

Sarah bit her bottom lip, not looking at him. "Kingdom as great ... damn! I can never remember that line…"

Why was that line so hard to remember anyway? Her mother said to her on her death bed. She had acted it out many times alone but that stinking last line!

"Just fear me - love me - do as I say, and I will be your slave!" To him, he meant it to show how vulnerable he was. He had no idea that she would see it differently or that everyone else would too.

"My kingdom as great ... my kingdom as great ... You have no power over me!"

And just like that, Jareth threw the crystal up in the air and fell. Just before they could get hurt, he transported them back to her house, him flying out in his owl form.

In great anger, he watched her dance and party with his subjects, even the ones that had tried to hurt her. Telling them that she needed all of them

Except for him.

He flew into the starless sky and back to his castle. Crying, he flew into a violent rage that he had never experienced before. He threw all of the things on his vanity on the ground and flipped the table over. Tempers were normal, but destruction wasn't for him.

He created numerous crystals and made them explode in the fireplace in his chambers, over and over. His blue eyes were blood shot, red. He even accidentally cut himself with a shard but didn't care.

She had ripped out his heart and tore it to pieces in front of his face. He would have given her anything and everything, and she still threw it back in his face.

"WHY! WHY?"

Why couldn't she say yes? Why did she toss him aside like he was nothing? He wasn't sure what the implications were but as he tried to conjure a crystal, he couldn't see her. So the spell had taken place for her to forget him, forget his subjects.

He heard Hoggle though, promising that he would be there when she called. Why would that stupid gardener make that kind of promise when they all forgot? UGH!

Since she won, what did this mean? Would she remember him? Would she even care? Hell, why did HE care since she didn't?

Once again, he locked his heart tight and tried to throw the key away. Even after all this time, he would take care of her. To keep her safe. As much as he wanted to hate her, he couldn't. She had his heart. But he wasn't going to put himself on the line anymore. If she really wanted him, she'd come to him.


After all her friends had left, Sarah felt lonely. And sad. She thought about Jareth and how he had made his offer to her. She loved him, or she thought he did. But his offer at the end…

He did everything the book did, except for the peach dream. That wasn't mentioned in the book. Sarah wasn't sure why Jareth acted that way but was too scared and too distracted to care. She wanted to know why, of course, but with a time limit, she couldn't waste any of it.

She remembered her father saying that Jareth seemed quite arrogant at times. Did he seriously think that he could just control over her? No way. She already had Irene doing that to her. Even if she loved him, she wasn't going to deal with disrespect.

She clutched Lancelot, a toy bear her mother had given to her when she was a child. Toby had tossed him aside and she felt sorry that she had screamed at him for it.

He acted the same way as from the book, and so did she. Funnily enough though, she didn't even remember the book until the very end when she defeated him.

She was scared of Jareth. But for now, she was tired. She would get her few hours of sleep then think about him tomorrow. Lord knows that Irene and her stepsisters overworked her.


"SARAH!"

"WHERE IS BREAKFAST!"

"I NEED MY CLOTHES WASHED!"

"Ugh." Sarah moaned. "Coming!"

For some reason, she felt lighter, more appreciative of Toby. She felt stronger too, not as dark and moody as she had been. Even with her dreary existence, she wasn't going to let that down. She kissed Toby good morning and went on her way.

"I was going to do something." She thought to herself. "Make a plan about something. Or someone. But I can't remember."

She felt like she had some kind of adventure yesterday. But nothing came to mind.

"Maybe a dream." She shrugged.


Who wants to smack Jareth and Sarah? *raised hand* I know I do! All they had to do was to just talk it out BUT NOOOO.

But character development you guys, they've both hit rock bottom. Their actions are important because this mistake will only make them stronger in the chapters to come I promise! Sarah will be more brave and sure of herself, able to understand that she can not only stand up for herself and be independent, that way when she is with Jareth she will accept herself better than she had before (as his equal). And for Jareth, he will learn that he is arrogant and his pride is his downfall. He will learn to be vulnerable and humble. I think it's important to show them at their absolute worst. And I don't mean when they're the most sad but rather, the worst selves full of anger and pride and whatever so then they become jerks.

I'm really sorry for not adding more details to this story but I really didn't want to recap the entire movie. If I did I wanted all the details to be correct and that wouldn't be easy to do. And plus, I was more concerned with Jareth and Sarah's feelings towards one another. The beginning scene, ballroom, and ending scene were most important. I suppose that I could've added the tunnel scene but Eh, Idk. I feel like this sufficed to get the message across that I wanted to.

This was a frustrating chapter, I know. If only one of them had just spoken up in the beginning! But this is part of them learning and growing. It's important to me to have Jareth show his cruel side, to show redemption in him later. And as for Sarah, she learns that no matter how angry you are, even if you snap, serious consequences can occur if you do it to someone who has been there for you (Toby). Toby didn't do anything wrong, and she took it out on him and that would've continued the cycle that Irene struck on her.

You will see the "fear me love" reasoning for Jareth, he has a perfect explanation for it that's in chapter 14 I think.

Again sorry for the lack of Labyrinth characters building up their relationship with Sarah, but they will appear later. You all know what happens in the movie, and I'm more interested in building the world outside of what happened. Also, I'm lazy (lol). Not too long, Sarah and Jareth will find their ways back to each other and it'll get cute again!

As always, please leave a review! Do you want to smack them like I do? Hug them close? Let me know!