Dancing with Danger
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I don't own the Labyrinth, it's characters, or real people and real events and such happening in this fic.
Sarah stepped off the dance floor and wiped some sweat off her brow. She took a long, satisfying gulp from her water bottle. She had been dancing various classes all day, at her dance school, Neisha's Dance Academy. She was finally able to sit down and have a breather from her hard exercises.
Some time after her journey through the Labyrinth, Sarah decided to take up dance classes. She found out that expressing her feelings and emotions through movement and dance were more beautiful then writing and acting combined. She searched for a dance studio that would live up to her expectations, when she finally came upon NDA. She came to adore the place, and its teachers, and took up all of the classes she was offered. Ballet, hip-hop, jazz, tap, creative modern, lyrical, turns, partnering, yoga and pilates. In fact, Karen was the one who payed her monthly tuition. She was so desperate for Sarah to get a REAL hobby, she was willing to pay anything...even 600$ a month.
Sarah honestly loved her life in dance. She could express all of her emotions...many of which she thought she left behind. She was told to be the most dramatic with her movements. Why, you ask? Almost every song they danced to reminded her of the Labyrinth. Of him.
Jareth... she thought to herself, hugging her knees to her chest. Tears welled in her eyes. She remembered him, all right. She thought of him every single day. It was like a disease that wouldn't go away. Did she love him? Of course...
She was broken from her train of thought when she heard a "BOO!" behind her and someone grabbing her shoulders. She didn't need to guess. She laughed, "Lily!" said Sarah, shoving her best friend playfully. Lily giggled, and tossed her long black hair behind her shoulders.
"So, Sarah, it's been a week or so since I've seen you. How exactly have you been? Swooning? Brooding? Romancing?", Lily gave a dramatic expression to each word. She was such a spazz sometimes. Sarah laughed at her.
"You know", Sarah started, while putting on her first toe shoe, "I have been romancing..."
"Oooohhh", she teased, "Sarah's got a crush! Sarah's got a crush!", Lily chanted.
"You could call it that...", Sarah said, half to Lily, half to herself. She smiled.
"All right, spill", she started, Sarah knew this was coming, "Who's the guy?". She was about to protest when she heard Mr. Vitaly's calls from upstairs, "Sarah!", called a tall blonde Russian with a crisp accent, "Get warm on pointe shoes!" Sarah took this opprotunity to leave as an excuse not to have to explain to Lily about her "crush", she finished tying her hair up into a neat bun, "Sorry, Lil, I need to go to partnering class. I'll see you in an hour or so, ok?" Lily hugged her and Sarah walked upstairs to begin yet another class.
In Jareth's Castle
Jareth was watching Sarah, like he did most often. Since that damned girl beat his Labyrinth, Jareth, oddly enough, couldn't keep his eyes off her.
I might as well admit it...I love her.
He needed a plan of some sort to see her again. He wanted to just pop in right now. But he couldn't, because 1, he wasn't sure how she'd react to him just popping in after all this time, 2, his ego was bruised badly enough as it is, he didn't want to just get screamed at the whole time. He needed a plan...
He watched her dance gracefully across the floor in her beautiful toe shoes. She was indeed a wonderful dancer. He began daydreaming of what it would be like, dancing with her again...
Suddenly, out of nowhere, as if a bolt of lightning struck him, he had a plan. And all it took was two little magic words he heard her say before walking up the stairs to the dance floor.
Partnering class.
Jareth put stage 1 into action and froze time, long enough to prepare himself, then he grinned into his crystal at Sarah's beautiful face, "My dear, I think you've been meddling with the heart of the wrong Goblin King." And he vanished.
All right! There you go! My new story! Hope you liked it...I really REALLY need to work on this. Wordpad keeps saying "Jareth" is a misspelled word...I have a huge case of writers block, but now that I've finally finished this chapter the gates have opened slightly and I'm actually getting somewhere, here. Stay tuned for installment two!
Stacy