The Underground Prologue

"You have no power over me!" The last words she said that destroyed my life. As I sat on her window sill watching the celebration she had with my subjects, I realized no I really don't. I didn't want to have any power over her in the first place I just wanted her. Sarah Williams. When she said those words they broke the world I'd created for her. Well let them celebrate. I will have her again. She was mine as I was hers. I flew off I could not stay here watching her bask in her triumph with those who for so long have been loyal to none but me, and now to her, their savior of sorts.

The Underground Chapter 1

It's been 2 years since I conquered him and fled the Labyrinth, Jareth, I'll never forget him. He was as he said generous and I do still wonder back then, did he let me win? I knew the answer, no he hadn't. I was 18 now and he'd probably forgotten me as time works differently in the Underground than on earth, it was probably so much longer than 2 years down there. I still saw Hoggle and some of the others all I have to do is call to them and they will appear. I'm in college now, yet it still feels like just yesterday sometimes that I last saw his face. I wonder if it was. I dream of him.

I still have the book, the play I used to be so fond of. I remember the lines; I've never forgotten them since I said the last ones, the ones I needed to say to conquer him. I couldn't forget them, and I couldn't forget him.

"But what no one knew was that the King of the Goblins had fallen in love with the girl." I replayed these words aloud to myself often, and wondered, were they true. Had Jareth fallen in love with me? I don't suppose that now I will ever know. I did know that I had fallen in love with him. My dreams were plagued with him; I knew that if I knew how to call him I would. He could give me my dreams make them real. I'd had boyfriends since that fateful night, but none of them were him, none of the relationships ever lasted long. They weren't who I needed and they weren't who I wanted. It would always be him. I was wrong he had a power over me; he'd stolen my heart and with him gone there was nothing for me.

There was nothing it was like a piece of me was gone. Jareth you've probably forgotten me but I need you I wish you would take me from this world, this awful place. There's no one and nowhere for me here anymore. It's just you and I'm sure it always has been. I sighed as I thought to myself. This wretched place. I let my mind wander to a better time. A dance hall masks surrounding me as I searched him out, the warmth of his arms as he held me when we danced and the sound of his voice as he sang. The time I realized as I traversed that labyrinth that I had fallen in love with the Goblin King. My love my sweet I wished he could save me.

The idea struck if I could wish he take my brother away, could I not wish he could take me as well. I replayed the last of his words to me. "Fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave." Oh I fear you Jareth, and I do love you, I will do as you say just take me back to you. Bring me back to the underground, I need you.

Later that night as I sat in my single dorm I thought about my revelations, I thought about where my heart truly lay and I knew I had to try. "I wish…I wish…" oh Jareth, "I wish you would come take me away. I wish the Goblins would come take me away, right now. To you to the Underground Jareth I need you." I turned off the light a moment later and crawled into the bed in my clothes from the day. I was probably just harboring a false hope that he or the goblins would come for me. I sighed again, it may be a false hope but it was a hope none the less, and it was all I had to hold onto anymore.

JPOV

I heard her plea from my castle. The Underground wanted her back this much I knew for certain. So did I, I could never forget her, all of these years she's been gone, it seems so long two years up there is like an eternity here. I would grant her wish not just for her but for me as well. I needed her. I would never admit it but I needed her, I loved her. And she wanted me, that much was certain from the wish she had made, and the Goblins must grant the wishes of those in the Above.

As I was consumed by the thoughts of her coming back here to me a Goblin rushed in, "My lord it's the girl," he said panting, that's how those who resided here still referred to her.

"Yes what of her," I replied as if I didn't already know, I heard all wishes that made there way to the Underground for the Goblins for I am the king.

"She's wished for us to take her to bring her back to you." he said his face still dealing with the shock of the request, most just wished their children away remembering the story read to them for centuries from their childhoods not knowing that it was real. And none until Sarah had ever challenged the claim I had when the child was taken they assumed runaways or kidnappers and not the fault of their own powerful wish to those under my rule.

I looked hard at the Goblin as though he were stupid a wish is a wish and must be granted no matter what it was if it was made to us. "Well then what are you waiting for, go get her, it's your job answer all wishes made to us, doesn't matter the wish it was made to the Goblins so the Goblins must carry it out. Or have you forgotten your duty so thoroughly Ragnock?"

"No Sir, of course my lord, and we bring her right here yes?" Ragnock asked to make sure. "Take her to my chambers and tell her I'll be in to see her shortly if she wakes on your mission to get her, she's fallen asleep at that place of hers."

"Yes Sir right away Sir." and he ran off to do what was bid of him. I'd have her back now and once I did there would be no going back for her not this time.

SPOV

I was woken from my sleep by a crash somewhere in my room. I scrambled out of my bed and tried the light switch and nothing happened, I tried clicking it over and over again. Nothing worked the lights had blown I was guessing, but the situation seemed all too familiar, like something 2 years ago that had changed my life forever. I was holding onto the hope that it was true. "If you've come to get me, it sure took you long enough, now please if you're here, take me, take me to him, I've been waiting so long."

I heard a giggle in the corner of the room. "Oh the girl's gotten snarky since she left has she, well it's lucky we did come for you girl, or your plea's would fall on nothing but deaf ears." the voice that spoke was by my side now, there must be more than one of them.

"Come on Ragnock we haven't got all day." came the voice from the corner again.

I felt my arm being grabbed by the one next to me I assumed this was Ragnock. "Well come on girl to the castle we go."

In the blink of an eye I was in a darkened room with enough light for me to see around now because of the light shining through the window. "You're to wait here the King will meet with you shortly." Ragnock let go of my hand and left the room followed by his companion, I assumed it was a female but at this point I couldn't be sure, all I knew is that they were a couple of the Goblins living in this city.

I was left alone in the room it looked to be a bedroom and all I could do was wonder who's it was, was it his? Is that why he had me brought here? What were his plans? Would he just banish me away from this place to my life of isolation and desolation Above again because of what I put him through those two long years ago? Or would he even remember me, the wishes are granted but that doesn't count anything for remembrance.

There was a slight knock on the door I jumped slightly at the sound and muttered a shaky "Yes?" in question facing the now partially opened door.

JPOV

"Back again I see, it took you long enough to call for me Sarah. So what is it you came here for?" I asked a bit a a scathing tone in my calm dimmed voice. "Did you come to challenge me again, only to break everything I know and run off to the safety the Above provides for you?" I aimed to make her feel bad for the folly she'd made that eternity ago.

She looked into my eyes and must have seen the pain masked there because she looked humbled. "No Jareth I didn't come for any of that. I wonder if you recall, though you probably don't, a certain sentence you once said to me so long ago now, could you tell me Jareth what those 14 words you spoke then were. Do you remember?" she spoke softly mind where mine had been all these long years, the day she took it all and left with barely a trace just the memories of that fateful summer night.

I studied her as she stood before me thinking about a day long since passed in clothes that meant nothing to me I'm sure they'd only be found in the Above, there was nothing like them here in the Underground. "Sarah I remember as much as you that night has always stayed fresh in my mind." I stepped forward closer to her and leaned down until my mouth was right by her ear. "Fear me, Sarah, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave." I straightened and looked at her face her eyes were closed and her supple mouth parted as she took in the words i repeated meant for her and her alone both when I said them then and as we stood here in my chambers now.

She took a deep breath and opened her eyes and looked at me. "Jareth I realized Something when I left the city and the Labyrinth two years ago. I do fear you and I do love you, I'll do as you say. But I realized something else too, I don't want you to be my slave."

I looked at her as confusion took control of me, women wanted their men to be their eternal slaves and dote upon them didn't they what else could she possibly want if that wasn't it. "And what is it you want Sarah?" I said my voice breaking, did she not really want me then though her wish was to be brought here to me, she said the words? Did she not mean them?

"Jareth, I don't want you to be my slave, I want you to let me stay here, with you. I want you to fear me, love me as well. I need you Jareth, I love you. All I want is you. Grant me my wish give me my dreams, all I dream anymore is of you, being with you. I belong here and I know in my heart that I belong to and with you." she was just inches from me now gazing up at me with her doe like eyes.

I could see the truth of her words there and I knew it was right I could see the love the fear and the passion she held for me and I couldn't help myself anymore. I closed the space between us and took her lips with my own, filling her with promises. I'd make her wishes come true, for her, I loved her she just didn't know and I needed her she would never know.

Her lips were sweet like the rain after and endless drought. She was youth and life and beauty and now sealed with a kiss she was mine, forever.

A/N: Yeah I know it's not my normal work but I wanted to work on something new for a while so here it is. I'm not abandoning MRB for all the fans of the story out there who are reading this and I'll update it as soon as I'm done with the next chapter. But I hope you like this story. Please be kind and leave a review tell me what you think!

With all my Love,

Your Southern Belle