The Beginning of the End
Sarah Williams is a 15-year-old dreamer who wants nothing more than to be taken away from her mundane, normal life. In her need to escape reality, she dreams of becoming a famous actress just like her real mother, and loses herself in the fantasy of a play called "Labyrinth". Practicing the lines over and over, she imagines that she is the heroine of the play in which the villain, the mysterious Goblin King, falls in love with her, and grants her special powers.

One stormy night, when she is forced to babysit her little brother, Toby, in a fit of teenage angst she cries out "I wish the goblins would come and take you away...right now!" Imagine her surprise when the wish comes true, and she discovers that the Goblin King is, indeed, a real villain...and that he has come to challenge her to the greatest test of her life. To traverse the Labyrinth in thirteen hours, before Toby is turned into a goblin forever.

So begins her journey of self-discovery, where she learns that that life is, indeed, not fair, and that not everything is as it appears to be...


What I See in This Story
All the while Sarah is traveling in the Labyrinth, Jareth is there, teasing and taunting and pushing her on, occasionally breaking into song and dance in the process. He has something to teach her, and she learns it well, in the final confrontation when she realizes that sometimes the right choices aren't always the easiest to make.

Some people believe that Sarah was merely a game to Jareth, and some believe that he was giving her what she wished because he is fascinated by her spirit.

I believe that he granted her request and gave her her dreams, in a way, because he truly loved her, even though it was rather an obsessive love on his part. In his own words, "Fear me, love me, do as I say, and I will be your slave." Although, he also said, "I have turned the world upside down, and I have done it all for YOU." Now, how could that not be love? ^_~

These are the stories of the could-have-beens, the possible sequels that were never written, although they were just begging to be. But hey, what else are fanfic writers like myself for? ^_~

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