Alex: Hiya all, sorry I've been away for so long, sadly I'm a little stumped on my Blood+ fic so I'm taking a break. I thought I'd write this since I just recently read the novel of the Labyrinth… it was awwwwwwsoooooomeeee. T.T

Sally: You're obsessed you know that!

Alex: Shut up your obsessed over watching Angel every day.

Sally: No need to bring that up!

Alex: Anyway, my favorite movie in the world is Labyrinth, I watched it for the first time when I was like six and fell in love with it, to this day I watch it at least once a week if not more. I finally found the book and read it and it was even better then the movie, hard to believe right, but it was also a lot sadder in the end, I nearly cried to tell the truth because of the reactions that were in it that weren't in the movie although the book was written after the movie. Anyway I decided to write this little piece because I felt that it just needed a bit more closure… this is not a light and fluffy piece people deal with it! Also anyone who wants to read the novel of the Labyrinth please e-mail me, the book is no longer in print but I've found a place online from which you can read it.

Sally: Alright enough rambling move it damn it!

Alex: I have kept some things from the movie, such as Jareth's accent and the such… especially his dual colored eyes.

Sally: Jareth's words/thoughts are in bold italics, Sarahs thoughts are in italics, and regular speaking is in "".

Dreams

By: Alex Lee

Sarah hugged each of her friends just before they left, they had stayed in her room for hours after she returned from her tiring journey from the Labyrinth. She waved one last little bit as Hoggle disappeared back to the Underground and let her smile fade to a passive look of sadness, she had gotten Toby back, defeated Jareth, completed her mission right? 'Why do I feel… so weird… empty..' she reached up touching the area on her breast just above her hear, 'Like something's missing…' she stood in the middle of her room for a long time just thinking. Finally she shook her head, 'Must be the wonder of it all wearing off, all that excitement then back to this boring place once more.'

She looked up from her carpet and peered around her room at all the toys and childish things, "I think it's time to make a change, no more self imposed prison!" she spoke out loud to herself taking comfort in her own voice before she moved to one side of the room and started pulling stuffed animals from the shelf, some she piled them into three piles, the first was ones she would give to Toby, the second ones she would later box up for her own children if she had any, and the last were ones that had special meaning to her and she would still keep them in her room, "I may be changing but some of my past is good to keep around." She nodded to herself a bit and moved on to another place. Childhood books joined the piles and she paused to cast a look at the drawer she had already closed, she shook her head and kept working.

Soon the piles on her bed were massive and the shelves and hooks of her room were nearly bare, she snuck out of her room to the closet where they kept old cardboard boxes for spring cleaning and drug two back into her room with her popping them back into shape before she neatly started stacking things into them, finally sealing them up she wrote what they were on them and stacked them near her door and went to putting the things she had kept back onto the shelves, she had kept her Escher poster and a few of the others, pausing she planted her hands on her hips and looked around the room, it looked a lot more bare but a lot more like she felt inside.

The caged feeling that had often been in the pit of her stomach lessened somewhat and she turned facing her closet, "You're next!" she flung the door open and froze, the empty feeling in her heart returned with a vengeance and she realized that it had never gone away she had just been masking it the entire time she had been cleaning. Her knees shook as did her hands as they fell free of the door. She stared wide eyed into her closet her breaths stalling in her throat, slowly a whimper came from her, she knew what that empty feeling was now. Her legs gave out from her and she fell to the floor with a thump landing on her rear, her eyes turned blurry with tears as she continued to stare up into the closet.

There hanging in front of all of her other clothes was the mother of pearl gown she had worn in the bubble ball room, her hands shook and her fingers shook as she reached out, just a mere touch on the fabric and the dress floated down lightly to land in her arms, it was soft and smooth, light as a feather in her arms as she stared at it. Tears streamed down her face, 'Why am I crying?' she clutched the dress to her, words rang in her ears, a deep English accented purr echoed in her mind.

'And when you've found your way in, stay in your dream, Sarah.' The memory of the way he said her name caused a shiver to run down her spine.

'What was that?' her eyes widened.

'Trust to me, can you do that?' his dual colored eyes raided her minds eye so intense, yet warm at that moment, sincere. She had told him she would trust him. She gasped softly nearly dropping the gown, she had broken her trust to him! Even if the ball was all a dream she had said she trusted him.

'Was I out of my mind!?' most likely. She clutched the dress tighter now feeling her tears running down her cheeks, her minds eye drew up the last image of him that she had seen, the castle destroyed, him destroyed, her heart ached sharply and she whimpered. She had done that to him, she now knew that her actions held consequences.

"Oh nooooo…" she moaned the words aloud and stood the dress still clutched to her as she stumbled to her window staring at the lowering moon, the flutter of paper drew her attention as a note fell from the dress, she picked it up with a trembling hand and read the elegant masculine script.

'Sarah,

Don't abandon your dreams, be wholly yourself, be free. Trust to your dreams.

Jareth'

A sob ripped past her lips, 'What have I done?!' she clutched the dress to her chest and sat on the window seat pulling her legs up close as a crying child would have, "I destroyed it all…" she went back and forth from speaking in her mind to speaking out loud, she turned her tear streaked face towards the moon and sniffled trying to calm her thoughts.

'Why do I feel this way? I feel… lost… adrift..' she touched her chest again the ach there not dulling in the slightest, 'What's wrong with me?' she shifted a bit and stared out the window, she sat there unmoving for a long time her mind going over every event of her journey through the Labyrinth finally slowing on the end of it. She really had understood nothing, she hadn't unriddled anything until this moment, finally her thoughts slowed on the very end of her trip. Jareth retreating from her in his tread bare cloak so unlike their previous encounters. His words echoed in her head, he had been generous, giving her all that she wanted, doing everything she had expected of him and in return she had taken everything from him. He had looked so tired and forlorn as he faced her that last time, his magic had been hollow to her ears, his eyes haunted as he looked at her during his retreating steps as he pleaded with her to love him… her thoughts trailed off.

"But what no one knew…." She spoke the words softly. His scream of denial in her mind made her jerk, 'No!' the one word had been torn from his very being as she uttered those last words. His eyes had shown his shattered heart but she hadn't cared, she had won right? His deep accented voice moaning her name as he faded away ran through her being and she dropped her head to rest on the dress the ache in her heart becoming worse, "Oh no… I…I fell… in love with him…" she whispered the words, "But what no one knew was that the King of the Goblins had fallen in love with the girl…" she sobbed the sentence, 'I destroyed the man I love…'

She squeezed her eyes shut whimpering, "I'm so sorry Jareth…. I love you…." Outside her window his talons curled around the branch of the tree just out side her window a snowy white owl watched her. He ruffled his feathers letting out a forlorn hoot as he watched her cry rocking slightly on the window seat, there was nothing he could do for her except watch. He blinked his large dark dual colored eyes and let out a twittering sound, if only she could hear the sounds he was making trying to comfort her. Finally the bird turned his head away, he shouldn't have come back again, there was nothing he could do now, he couldn't keep her. With a spring of his legs he took flight large velvet wings brushing at the air to lift him higher and higher, her last words would have to comfort him now as he tried to rebuild his destroyed kingdom.

In her room Sarah lifted her head to watch the snowy owl take flight, her fingers reached out to touch the glass, oh how she longed for just one last touch now that she knew why she had felt so strange, so empty. She smiled, she had her dream now, she had found it and would never ever let it go, her dream was the Labyrinth. One day she would return there and nothing would ever tare her away from it again. She stood slowly and made her way to the dressing table and slid the drawer open taking the small red leather book from it before closing it again, she opened it to the last page and sat it down picking up a pen from the dresser, in her own scrawl she wrote.

'And one day the girl would return to her king able and willing to fear him, love him, and do as he said for she had fallen in love with him and that gave him all power over her.'

A/N: So review and tell me what you think, if I get enough reviews I just might continue it. ^^ Thanks tons guys!