Title: Anything for You
Prompt by: Merfilly
Rating: PG/K+
Originally posted: 28th October 2022
Notes: for Seasons of Drabbles, Autumn 2022 at Dreamwidth and AO3.
They looked sad.
When visiting before, they were always so happy, but not today. They came bearing bad news, and Sarah half-knew it, before Hoggle and Didymus told her.
She had been feeling it off and on for days. The flu seemed imminent, but it never really came, not to her anyway.
"Take me to him, please."
"We can't." Hoggle shook his head sadly. "You'd have to say the words, complete the labyrinth again."
"I can do that."
"But, dear lady," Didymus quaked, "it is not as it was. The King's power wanes. Things are unravelling!"
He wasn't kidding.
Sarah thought the trials she faced at sixteen were bad enough, that it would be easier at twenty-one, but no. Jareth was losing control, making the battle ten times harder.
"My will is as strong as yours and my kingdom as great," she muttered, fighting back again and again, until finally, she reached the castle and the king.
Even pale and sick in bed, he seemed to radiate power and beauty. He still took Sarah's breath away.
"Jareth."
"Sarah? My Sarah?" He reached for her.
She took his hand. "I'm here."
Smiling softly, he instantly looked a little bit better. "Good."