Don't own the Labyrinth or any of the characters.

Chapter 1 - The Bargain

I wish the goblins would take you away.

Jareth sat in his throne room, his legs flung over the arms of his chair, surrounded by chaos as goblins ran around the room, tripping over furniture, each other and themselves, the odd chicken getting ran into or stepped on in the process.

Then he felt it, that familiar tug in his mind as someone, somewhere wished away a child.

It has been sometime since he had attended on such an occasion personally and he was bored so he allowed himself to be pulled by the familiar tugging on his body and travelled from his castle to his destination, where ever that may be...

He blew into the room standing as tall as he could over the cowering form of a blonde human girl.

It was so easy to strike terror into these silly mortals, strike a pose and stare until they plucked up the nerve to speak. He of course new that with the magic that clung to him like a second skin he repelled humans anyway, who tended to shy away from anything that they could not explain or recognise, but it still amused him.

He waited patiently until the girl in front of him stood straight no longer covering her face with her arms.

Jareth recognised a purely selfish being when he saw one and this was one such creature standing before him now, despite her fear she would act in her own best interests he knew that much.

She was about eighteen, definitely no older than that. Her tight face and cold eyes marking her as the type to not give in easily if she wanted something, definitely a manipulator. Her long straggly hair hung limp over her shoulders.

"Did you take away my brother?" she asked her voice high and shrill.

"I only took what was offered to me." he answered coldly as he circled her his cloak billowing about his body with his movements as he paced.

Her chin rose haughtily at his comment and he could see her mind working as she thought of her next words. He grew tired of waiting.

"You win him back by running my labyrinth." he told her stiffly gesturing to the window.

The night sky no longer filled the view and the garden was no where to be seen.

Instead a dry, yellow landscape was in its place showing an intricate maze in the distance.

The girl walked to the window and looked out leaning against the white frame gripping the window firmly with claw like fingers. She turned to face him her cold eyes glittering calculatedly at him a saucy smile playing across her thin lips.

"And if I don't want to play your little game?"

Jareth had had enough and decided that this girl before him need to be taught a lesson.

"Then false memories are planted in the memories of everyone who knew the child and you will be arrested for murder."

Every word he spoke was a lie as both her memory of him and the child would be wiped clean. The same applying to those involved with the boy. It would be as though he had never existed. But the girl in front of him did not know the rules of the game that she was playing and he did not like her careless attitude.

"Is there anything else that I can do that does not involve running through that?" she gestures behind her the smile no longer on her face and worry starting to cloud into her eyes.

About time, thought Jareth angrily, she had just wished her brother away and she was still only thinking of herself but he felt some satisfaction at causing her panic.

She was trying to bargain with him. He fought back the desire to laugh. She was crazy, trying to get out of running the labyrinth.

The worry left her eyes suddenly and they turned flinty once more he was sure she was working

"My first born child."

What on earth was she doing? She was offering him her own child in exchange for her brother.

He stared deeply into the eyes of the young woman in front of him and saw only cruelty and hardness. Such a person did not deserve a child.

"Deal."

Bit random I know but it just popped into my head a while ago and I though I might as well give it a bash.

May or may not continue with it. I am a Sarah/Jareth fan so if I do it will end happily.

Anyway feedback would be great.

Thanks for even looking :-)