Mar 15, 2020
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Sarah x Jareth-The Dance
Labyrinth Fanfic-Sarah’s Realization
"Sarah!" Jareth had reached her easily. After all, one step from him was about three steps for her, but seeing as Sarah had rushed forward with anger expecting to be "decently" farther away, it did not make her one bit happy that he had no problem reaching her. She crossed her arms. Now Jareth was trying to read her face. His expression was solemn, but she knew he was analyzing her because his green and brown irises were tracing her face. As a result, Sarah tried her very best to control her facial gestures, putting on her own solemn mask and looking at his face the same way. But a part of her was afraid of what could be written on her face. Sarah hadn't perfected being able to remain stone-faced; actually, she was even more afraid of never being able to control her nervous gestures. They made her feel like she was reverting back into a child, and herself as a child had been the little girl who always seemed to say or do the wrong thing, the one who often felt a fool in comparison with everyone. Damn, she thought. Jareth stepped forward in her path, signaling with his palm up for her stop. Her brow wrinkled, but she stopped. "Sarah, you are running away. This exhausts me, so just stay put now for a moment." Sarah had had it. If she didn't want to listen, she didn't want to listen. How hard was it to understand! He couldn't make her! Jareth himself was astonished at his words. These were words that he had kept quiet for a long time, and now he had thrown them out. But now that he had said something, he felt the impulse to say everything. Sarah answered him," I am not forcing you to do anything. It is you... I, I have no power over anyone, except for myself." She gulped down her saliva, biting her lips but still standing firm. This was the truth, at least she wanted it to believe the second part, that she did have power over herself at the very least. The goblin king shook his head, walking closer to Sarah. He had never look tenser in her presence. His chest rose up and down sharply, his eyes wide looking nowhere, his mouth dry and frowning. "No Sarah, I have no power over myself, nor this kingdom nor anyone. I've dreaded to say this since the very start, but it is much, much worse to live in a lie." He breathed in, "Everything here just might be a product of your thoughts, desires. As soon as you finish playing with this thought created for your self-interest, we will all be gone. We will cease to exist." What? What was this he had revealed to her? A cold force was seeping through, and the surroundings disappeared, leaving only her thoughts. He was afraid... of disappearing? But how, the goblin kingdom, this world, wasn't hers. It was his, wasn't it? She didn't understand. But...he was telling her she controlled it, not only that but that she had created it?! These words that seemed to come out of the blue, brought a strange atmosphere into the air. Sarah had never once thought about the Labyrinth having been created from her mind like a dream; as in; a figment of imagination. Because she had been there she had just taken it as real even if it could sometimes still appall her. Now a new thought had formed: What if... she had created the labyrinth from her imagination? Or what...if it was all a dream... No! No, this was not true! She knew it couldn't, it was too real, too fresh in her mind. No, she knew she was spiraling out of reason, and railed herself back in. This wasn't true. If Sarah controlled the labyrinth then she would have gone through the labyrinth in less than a minute, or just dissolved it all. Her imagination could not create this world, it didn't matter how strong it was. Besides, she was a human being, not a God. This conversation didn't even make sense! His random assumption had thrown her off balance from her thoughts. Now she was silently going over it when it held no actual logic, even if the labyrinth itself was unfathomable, she only believed what she had seen so far. Why was the goblin king thinking this? It didn't make any sense when he was the one who took her into the labyrinth, who used magic to place obstacles in front of her like the cleaners. He had tricked her with the help of his goblins as she had tried to save her brother. Why was he saying this now? Was it a trick? But to what purpose? Images of the Labyrinth spun through her mind, as she remembered how her own realizations of the labyrinth had allowed her to cross through the labyrinth. For a moment Sarah decided to entertain his idea. She had taken everything for granted. The changing pathways had stopped her, but she had questioned it, and a path she hadn't seen was revealed to her. She had solved the two guard's riddle herself, and each time she changed her mind after getting frustrated, it seemed like everything became clearer, the pathways seemed to open up like they were following her mind. Sarah's decision to grow brave for her brother, maybe it was she who allowed herself to find Toby and defeat King Jareth. Sarah had solved the labyrinth once she changed the way she was thinking, and learned that things were not as they seemed. In a heartbeat, everything could change as long as someone had the desire to make the effort, (she could change), and most importantly, what resonated with her heart and mind were the words she came to understand at the final moment against the goblin king: you have no power over me This realization hit her hard, and Sarah felt her body pull down in weakness. She stood back up firmly. Could it be-She had controlled this world! Maybe it wasn't a mysterious force of the labyrinth itself having tested her, but maybe she was the one who had created it, and changed it so that once she learned what she knew all along she would allow herself to cross through the labyrinth and find her brother! Her eyes were wide, looking at the goblin king in front of her who was gazing at her running expressions. Was this true? Would they all disappear, her friends, the whole kingdom itself with just the power of her mind. No, Sarah couldn't possibly. Again, Sarah railed herself back in from her sudden frenzy. This far-fetched idea, (because that's what it must be?), was becoming scarier by the second, but a thought railed her back in. A memory flashed. Sarah remembered an important detail of when she had reached the end of the labyrinth, and it was a special energy she felt at having uttered her words that gave her a feeling of power over herself. She had felt part of the world itself, as she became a different person from herself. The world around had broken up and Sarah had fallen back to her world, but she had felt protected by something, and it wasn't herself. It was something else, but Sarah could not understand it even now. Like the whole world there was alive, somehow... Sarah shook her head, as the thought disintegrated, and her head began to hurt. But she knew: this world was not dependent on her. It thrived on itself, its mystery belonged to itself. "Did you-do you, control the labyrinth?" She knew the answer, but she asked anyway, sitting down on a flat boulder. Jareth was confused, not knowing where her train of thought had gone through her train of thought and where it was heading now. "Why do you ask me that?" He leaned towards her. "Tell me so that I can answer you." He moved back, teeth sneering evilly, and he brought his head back into a laugh. "I used my magic and goblins to trick you back to the beginning. You were this close to falling into my spell, " He signaled to her with one hand, "But you resisted me at the very end of every test. " The atmosphere turned to one of uncomfortable silence, as Jareth's voice faltered, and he appeared more bothered. He sat down on a boulder near her. "No." He peered at her, " I can use my magic, my subjects to lead you away from a pathway but I cannot change the labyrinth itself." He had stopped talking for a bit, and they were still for a minute before Jareth continued his speech, "I had thought that it controlled itself and that it changes depending on who enters it(if they dare.) Only the inhabitants of this kingdom, my subjects can find their way here, most of the time anyway, and myself of course, without the labyrinth changing up. But I don't need to cross through the labyrinth, as you yourself have seen from the very beginning, my powers allow me to cross this labyrinth swiftly, and without delay." He was referring to his shape-shifting powers. King Jareth had also disappeared in the beginning when he had given her the rules of the labyrinth. Maybe he could also transport himself. How else would he have passed through the labyrinth to his castle so quickly? Sarah remembered that when he had thrown the crystal ball into the cleaner he had also mysteriously disappeared. Her lips were filling up with numerous questions that were impatient to burst out, but she bit her mouth in caution. "But you knew the way inside Sarah. Perhaps you don't realize yourself that you could." ... " What are you thinking about Sarah? I see so many strange expressions on your face but I cannot understand with just those expressions, tell me. " Sarah sighed as a drop of rain touched her forehead. "No one will disappear from here. I don't have that power. You're the goblin king, so you are the leader here. I would never destroy this world, and I couldn't anyway. You must know this." He was coming closer, eyes on hers, and hers on his. Had he understood? " I don't think you realize what is you have done." He turned away, and swiveled back again, now sneering again. Sarah had seen many multiple different sides of him; she hardly knew which was which. "I said that your strength and imagination was an admirable quality, Sarah, but you should also know that they have resulted in the curse that only I suffer. No one..." He almost seemed choked up now, "No one in my kingdom or this world for that matter is suffering. Only me. Do you understand the reason?" Jareth knew that there was no way Sarah could know why he was losing his head; his mind at least was his own, but his wrath was building up from being so long restrained. He was tired, tired of having questions, of being a pawn for the girl, of everything! Sarah felt that he had fallen into his own bubble of thought. She was almost frightened as his sudden actions. He was speaking for himself, pacing around, and she could not keep up. "No, of course not. You are Sarah, after all. You only appeared after all these years of wait. I was created, Sarah. I'm a shadow of a man," He scoffed mockingly, raising his hands in the air, "King of the Goblins! Hah! I have no true power here. I want...-!" His eyes widened, before swiveling his face towards hers. A realization, but she didn't have enough information to know what it was. " I must go now. " He made a sharp breath in but composed himself fairly quickly. Jareth picked up his staff lying on a few hairs of grass. "You've flustered these thoughts, Sarah. We will no doubt cross paths again, but I am not sure that there will be no dire consequences next time." He stopped in front of her once more and hesitated. But he didn't say anymore and left. She sat for a couple of minutes, feeling the wind pass by, and the sprinkling of the rain vanish before it even began. ... "Sarah! Sarah!" "My lady, where art thou?!" "Sarahhhh! My friend, my friend Saraaahhhh!" It was Hoggle, Sir Didymus, and Ludo. Sarah felt a tender feeling wrap itself around her heart. Her friends were worried about her, searching for her. She stood up immediately. "I'm over here!" Sarah yelled, but her eyes looked to the side where Jareth had left. When her friends arrived, they expressed their eased worries, and Ludo carried her back with the others to her world. Sarah's nerves relaxed, and she let her shoulders and feet fall down onto the ground before they took her away in Ludo's arms. They placed her onto her bed back home, lifting the warm covers over her body. They stayed for a bit, talking with her without knowing that Jareth had crossed paths with her, and she herself didn't say anything; she simply wanted to talk about normal things, well, normal as they could be with goblins. Sarah waved goodbye to them when they left back into their world. Sarah was grateful, even though her mind melted back into a faraway place inside of her, and a faraway goblin king was also pondering in his own lost world. What was going through the goblin king's mind, why had he had said what he had said? More importantly, what was bothering him so much to point that he had gotten so frustrated? "I don't think you realize what you've done." ... ...
It’s All Junk
Screenshot from Labyrinth movie, where Sarah realizes that the material possessions she owned were really just junk, as the real value was the people she cared about, or more precisely, baby Toby. This was the baby she saw as a nuisance, but in reality he was one of the few people who who really going to be present in her life as her only stepbrother. Right then in her youth she would take the role of helping to guide him (he depended on her too); later on when both would reach adulthood, they would be more on equal ground as close siblings and hopefully friends for life. A beautiful scene.