A/n: I do not own Labyrinth or any original labyrinth Characters.

Prologue

The Human year was 1985, April 13th and Sarah was 15 when she entered the Labyrinth and had her adventure.When she arrived safe in her home she was not a radically changed person, but she had learned lessons that would stay with her for a life time. These lessons would also help her through the many challenges that lay ahead. She won her brother back, and she felt she had won the war but she would soon find that she had only won one battle among many more to come. Six months Later, to the Day October 13th Sarah celebrated her Sweet Sixteenth Birthday and it was the last day she would enjoy for quite some time.She was suprised that her father really took the time to throw her a party that she would love.They had been wealthy for some time now but this was the first time her father lavished any of those earnings on her. Renting out a hall and throwing a mascarade ball, with a real ochestra, ice carvings and the whole nine yards. Sarah even recieved a letter from her real mother, not just the usual card that was only signed 'mom' and she felt that just maybe her mother would become a real part of her life again. The real party began when she came home, her parents gone on a weekend getaway that they felt they deserved after throwing Sarah such an elaborate affair. She called her three friends from the Labyrinth and they had a wonderful party of their own. Toby joined them as well and Sarah felt there was no harm, he was so young he was sure to not remember. She spoke with Hoggle almost nightly and conversed with Ludo and Didymus at least a few times a week. The trio would come through the portal whenever her parents were out of town. Life was great she could hardly believe it was real, and sometimes feared she would wake up and the whole six months would be all a hazy dream. She would be reminded what goes up must also come back down and that forever is not long at all.

Mr. Williams had spent the last three years as a workaholic for an up and coming company, spending whatever free time he had taking his wife out on expensive dates.His hard work had paid off and he was quickly promoted within the company, a fortunate thing for Mr. Williams since his new wife had very expensive tastes. Karen was a disagreeable woman, and while Sarah tried to make the best of things after her return from the Labyrinth she still had the occasional screaming match with her step mother. She'd often think 'dealing with his royal pain in the butt is better than putting up with you.' Sarah had made it her agenda to save Toby from the evil influences of his own mother. She had grown so found of Toby since her return and she spent a great deal of time with him, filling his head with 'nonsense' as Karen called it. All in all, life was good dispite her stepmother and the lack of time her father spent with them.

Then it happend, her world started falling down for the second time in her life. Only a mere 5 months after her birthday, the company her father was working successfully suddenly went belly up. There was a massive layoff, Mr. Williams was fortunate enough to still have a job but the pay was reduced greatly. Her father did not have any college degrees, he was very fortunate to get the position he did and worked his way up through had work and lots of hours. He wouldnt be able to get a job else where that would pay nearly what he had been making. The lifestyle they had been living fell away, and while this didn't bother Sarah or Toby it had a great effect on Karen. It didnt take long at all for Karen to start complaining and the fighting between her father and stepmother followed. On her 17th birthday her father signed the divorse papers and Karen was gone, and she had abandoned Toby the same way Sarah's mother had abandoned her. This made her love and attachment to her brother grown more fierce. Sarah had not heard from her own mother since her 16th birthday and there was no card or letter on her 17th;Nor her 18th or 19th. The College fund that her father had for her was gone, she worked part time and went to school part time. The rest of her time she spent taking care of Toby and her father. Mr. Williams had become a broken man after the failure of his career and two marriages, but he finally figured out that the most important things in life were his children and he devoted himself to spending more time with them. This made Sarah very happy dispite their situation and she even managed to keep her dreams and beliefs alive which allowed her to still communicate with her old friends, even if it was only seldomly. After all the change in her life gave her little time for fantasy and alternate realities.