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A Price: Chapter 1

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J/S-J/S-J/S-J/S-J/S

Chapter 1 – Haunted

Long lost words whisper slowly to me
Still can't find what keeps me here
When all this time I've been so hollow inside
I know you're still there

Watching me, wanting me
I can feel you pull me down
Fearing you, loving you
I won't let you pull me down

Hunting you, I can smell you - alive
Your heart pounding in my head

Watching me, wanting me
I can feel you pull me down
Saving me, raping me, watching me

Watching me, wanting me
I can feel you pull me down
Fearing you... loving you
I won't let you pull me down

~J/S ~ J/S ~ J/S ~ J/S ~ J/S~

She sat in perfect silence on the family room window seal overlooking the calming, stormy night, blissfully watching the raindrops fall horizontally hitting the window as she hears the pitter patter, like millions of little feet hitting her ear. Occasionally, a burst of lightning would shine the sky creating the illusion of day for a split second while soon after hearing the rumble of the not so friendly thunder and its anger. She leans up against the window pane as her body gives off enough heat to form an outline of a fog around her head as she looks out towards the water- filled streets.

While day-dreaming out of the foggy and damp window, she cannot help but continue to wonder on the curious and mysterious man that she saw at her graduation a week back. She continues to try and think of how she could have known him at all, rather he is an older friend of the families, a- a favorite teacher, or even a family member… She cannot recall him in any part of her life but knows him. She knows that familiar face and those outlandish features SOMEWHERE!

Who are you?

She stares at the surprising amount of vehicles that are out tonight, watching a small amount of cars wondering here and there in the rain. She hums the incredibly quiet whispers in her ear of another song on her player; the song Haunted, as she recalls it from one of her favorite artist's, Evanescence. She smiles as she hears the intriguing song and its creepy demeanor. She slowly slips the other earpiece inside as she starts to hear Karen shouting at Toby for something that he has done wrong in the kitchen for the umpteenth time tonight. And as she starts to turn up the volume, she closes her eyes in the silence of her family and into her song and sighs in satisfaction…

…until she hears the obnoxiously loud thunder roll that screams at her right through her music, causing her to leap in surprise…

She opens her eyes as she drops her music player onto the floor causing it to turn off in shock. Then as she starts to reach down to retrieve it, the power in the house gradually flickers, finally shutting off the power completely, leaving only the seemingly endless headlight disturbances outside for light. She falls to the floor as she reaches too far and falls instantly, picking herself up and quietly cursing with pain on her tailbone.

It would seem that the outburst of the thunder would trigger some kind of piece to the puzzle that would become of her horrendous imagination. A thunderstorm, truthfully is usually the perfect drug for Sarah in which she can easily loose herself in a good book, or go out onto the porch and loose her mind and its difficulties.

But a thunderstorm has recently been doing other things to her subconscious in which she would not realize until it was too late. It could casually take her from her warm thoughts and take her back to her home away from home. Yet, at the moment, Sarah thinks that, that… beautiful and epic dream would not be the best thing for her curious thoughts now. She needed to focus. But she sighs in defeat as she smiles to see her other home once more as she sits on the dusty ground, feeling the wind in her hair as it briskly flows it from her face, and faintly feeling the brush of another hand on hers. She gives a seductive smile as if knowing who it is, but before she can figure it out, she gets interrupted again and again…

Damn thunder!

She looks out of the window once more and sees a very big van gradually come across with its head lights shining in her eyes as she looked out. She shut her eyes to the surprising light of the godlike vehicle, but gradually her sight returns to her as she sees a person out in the rain… a distant person with the shape of a shadow; a silhouette of some kind; a silhouette of a man.

She questions herself as she double takes the faint man outside of her house… he stands there… in the rain, soaking wet, starring forward… at her. He looks at her, she not being able to see him clearly, but clear enough for it to clearly be the same man she thinks she saw at her graduation. She gasps quietly and curiously as she, without a second thought, heads for the door.

As she opens it, she sees him once more starring right at the door as if he knew that she was going to come outside. She takes in a heavy breath as she slowly but steadily walks out into the gradually raising storm, taking one little baby step at a time walking towards the strange man while the storm fights her every whim with threats of lightning and screams of the thunder in which bewilders her, but her senses refuse to tremble until she sees this man for real. She feels her body become drenched as she walks over to his deathly still body in the middle of the road. She questions herself. 'Why is he just standing there? Is he crazy? It's a target for the idiots that take over the road way with their monstrous machines, especially tonight in a storm. What is wrong with this guy?'

She continues to walk forward as his being becomes more clearly now. She sees his face, his hair, his coat, his teeth, and…

Those eyes…

"It's him…" she says to herself as she suddenly hears another vehicle come closer and closer to her at this… man. She looks to the vehicle and then to the mysterious blonde, and once more before screaming. "Watch out!" before starting to run to him. But before she can catch him, the vehicle hit's him without a second thought, rudely and continuously driving away without a conscience. It makes her heart tremble in fear as she realized that the time around her had slowed once more, watching him with a smile, as he forcefully gets hit with a truck driver that seemed blinded of the man in the road. She sees that the man in street dissipates right as the vehicle hit his body causing him to disappear. Her eyes grow wide as she sees the horrific magic trick that she has ever seen, witnessed before her very eyes out of the blue. "W-wh-what?" she gulps as she drops to her bare knees.

But before she can even think twice, she hears a distant honk in the roadway next to her, seeing a large van running to her, full speed. He honks once more before he swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a lunatic girl sitting on her knees in the middle of the street. The driver just misses a power line pole as he fishtails himself back on track and stops to get out.

"Sarah!" she heard a distant cry from a woman behind her. She bows her head in shame. "Sarah, what on earth is wrong with you?" her step mother asks as she throws a sudden coat over her step daughter and tries to pick her up. "Are you crazy?" Another bolt of lightning along with thunder suddenly woke her from her thoughts. She looks around terrified.

"What the fuck is wrong with that crazy bitch?" the driver screams as he gets out of the car. Sarah's father then runs out to tend to Sarah and then to talk to the man to personally apologize.

"What's going on?" she yells over the heavy rain as she starts to tear up in terror. She sees herself on her knees in the middle of the street; in the middle of a storm. "What the hell am I doing here?" Her step mother gives her severely confused look as Sarah finally stood, and they ran inside together.

"Sarah what in God's name is wrong with you?" Karen asked as she rushed her inside the, now lit house and up to her room and into the master bathroom. "What was that?"

"I-I I don't… know…" she stuttered as she wondered the same thing. What was that? She starts to cry.

Karen wrapped Sarah hair in a freshly dry towel and got her drenched clothing and took them out of sight. Sarah got dressed into a simple oversized "Kiss" shirt and gray sweats.

"Whatever is going on with that brain of yours is solely up you and your worries, but don't scare the living daylights out of us by walking out into a crowded street during a thunderstorm! I mean… What was that about?" Karen yelled at the top of her lungs trying to calm, thinking of some rational way of thinking of this.

"Trust me; I don't know what that was! I-I thought…" she paused as she starts bawling. "I thought that I saw someone out there… and I don't know! I panicked or something!" she said the first thing that popped out of her mind.

"And pray tell who you thought it was," Karen said as she looked down at her daughter.

"I…" she stayed silent… How was he? Sarah didn't even know the answer herself; in fact that is what she was just trying to find out… She slowly and bluntly shook her head 'no'. "I… I'm sorry,"

Karen gulped, "Sarah, I want you to be honest with me," she paused as she kneeled to meet Sarah as she combed her hair. "Was… was that an attempt to…" she couldn't finish her sentence as she motioned a beheading.

Sarah's eyes grew wide open. "Oh hell no, Karen, why would I commit-"

"Then what was that?-"

"Sarah," a small and timid voice asks as she spots her innocent little brother looking to her with big and bubbly eyes as if he were an anime character with a tear or two about the fall from each.

"Toby," she says as she rushed to him for a hug.

"Sarah, are y-you okay?" he asked with a worried disposition.

"Yes I'm fine," she reassured as she kissed his cheek. "I'm sorry for startling you, I don't know what came over me, but it will not happen again, okay?" she said as she looked to him and his innocent eyes, remembering that he is only a child. She wiped the threatening tears in his eyes and smiled.

"Sarah,"

"You want me to read you a story?"

His eyes lit up the room he smiled in such a way only he can and grasped her hand and tugged her away.

"Yay," he yelped as he pulled her into his room next door. Sarah looks back at her worried stepmother with wide eyes of wanting to finish this conversation later.

"Oh alright," she said as she shook that horrid incident away to the side, she will worry about it later. But now it's Toby's time. He jumps in; she tucks him in tightly and gives him his Lancelot. She then goes to his wide range of story books and shows them off. "Which one, which one… which one will prince Toby choose?"

He looked at the wide range all in alphabetical order, but ignores the stack of books as he starts to turn around.

"This one," he said as he slowly started to pull out an all too familiar book from under his pillow. Sarah immediately saw it and sat next to his bed.

"Where did you get this?" she asked half scarred and half curious as she lightly took the piece of art from his hands. I was a small, red velvet, pocket storybook with a black twine décor and golden letters that boldly say the word "Labyrinth" on the cover. She starts to flip through it and get's immediate flash backs.

"Mommy gave it to me thinking that it was one of mine, but I knew that it was yours so-" he babbled on as Sarah heard only half of the explanation when she reached a page that was dog-eared. She saw very few lines that were highlighted and read through them carefully.

"Through Dangers untold and heart ships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the Castle beyond the Goblin city to bring back the child that you have stolen. For my will is as strong as yours and my Kingdom as great…"

"You have no power over me," she whispers deeply within herself to try and catch their meaning.

"What?" Toby asks as he stops his rambling. Sarah comes out of her thoughts to fully pay attention to her little brother as the little story in her hands started to come back to her by heart. She starts as she stands with big and dramatic hands and started with the words "Once upon a time…"

~J/S ~ J/S ~ J/S ~ J/S ~ J/S~

What on earth has gone over me? What was that out there? Surely I wasn't trying to kill myself! I really wasn't! It was like something hypnotized me or something. It was so strange and utterly terrible. Who is trying to kill me? What did I do to deserve that? She starts to cry as these questions start to overwhelm her. She bows her head in shame as she flipped through her book once more.

Sarah stares at the lovely book that fit's practically into the palm of her hands. She goes over the whole complete story in her head just as she told Toby before he fell asleep to the first friend that the girl meets in this fantastical adventure. She really remembers the story back and front, recalling her memories roll playing the girl from this book as if she were the Raven haired beauty that the King of the Goblins fell for. She remembers too well the long days in park with her dog Merlin and acting as if he were the antagonist himself. She lightly rubs the top of the book with her palm as she re- lives her childhood, remembering the obsessive person she was.

Listening to the song Haunted once more onto her, now fixed player and listened to it intently. She closes her eyes as she hears the 2nd chorus and envisions that memorable man. She comes up with classic questions, who was he? Why is he here? And why does he want me? She can't remember the last time that she has obsessed over somebody since… the characters in the Labyrinth all those years ago. If only this book were real, the thought, and then I could just escape.

But that is what it always resolves to; she is always running away from her problems and never truly facing them until it's too late. She had, once or twice come through with things such as having a decent relationship with Karen, not being a brat, or even being kind to her brother. But those problems seem so small compared to these... allusions. The one in the crowd was easily understandable, but in the rain? She could not comprehend if he is even real, let alone what he would want with her.

"But what if he is real?" she thought to herself as she only starred at the window 6 feet from where she was sitting. It was like a bad plot in a horror movie in which there was something in the rain that kills people. "What if he's trying to kill me?" she swallows deeply and forces her eyes on her book once more, as she listens to the song over and over again, starting to understand their meaning.

But Sarah frankly remembers that "friendly conversation" with her stepmother about seeing a therapist earlier tonight after Toby fell asleep. It rang in her ears causing to rebel against the whole charade that happened tonight! NO way is she going crazy, is she going to see yet another therapist! She looks to the book as if it was her friend.

"That's nonsense," she said as she stood, kissing the book. She then went to her bed and plopped on it to insure its comfort, still with the book at hand. "All I need is a good night's sleep." She says insolently as she held her childish treasure close to her heart, hoping to have dreams about her Labyrinth.

Hmm…

But another scream came from the horrendous weather outside, forcing her to sit up in her bed with wide eyes and a pissed off expression. She murmurs a death threat to this storm as she sits up straight.

She stares at the lonely pocket book, on a rampage, wishing that her worries would be taken away and she could go to her "la la land" once more. But she fears that it is too dangerous as of late, and must stay fully focused or else she can do something even more stupid and dangerous.

Suddenly as another cry came from another thunder roll; the lights flickered once more, startling Sarah out of her deep thoughts, yet again. Keeping away from the window, she slips on her panda slippers and quickly runs downstairs and into the kitchen to retrieve a candle and a box of matches to keep some kind of light in her room as she could not get to sleep in this weather, not tonight.

She starts to walk back up the barren hallway once more in the quiet household. The family was asleep, as was the sheep dog on the sofa. She looks around the empty house as if suspicious of something; something she feels is not right.

And before she knew it, the lights are out in the house once more, leaving the whole house pitch black and chilly all of the sudden. But without a second thought, she stripped a match and lit the candle in her hand to see her way through the darkness. But as the candle lit brighter, she saw not her hallway, but a thick brick passage way. Her heart faintly dropped as she gulped when she felt the thick and cold brownish- gold bricks that had a hue of green that stood beside her. It looked to be a secret walk way inside of the underground dungeon of the Phantom of the Opera or something, she mused as she apprehensively started to walk forwards. She looked around, seeing nothing beyond the dim hue of the lit candle, but as she kept walking up the stairs, she noticed things; things like cobwebs, grime in the walls, rats, spiders, puddles, something as if she were underground in some type of sewer.

She kept on going turning corner after endless corner, as a light from above started to shine. She looked to see a very bright full moon, as big as half the sky that met her view. She gradually blew out the candle as she saw plenty of light and kept going.

But something started to hum… a very dark and deep hum, from something dark and deep;

Someone dark and deep…

And he kept getting closer.

She started to walk a little faster to avoid any detection. Her walks into a steady jog, trying to find her way out of this maze of walls that she has gotten herself into…

Suddenly, without her minds permission, her body stops dead in its tracks. She hears someone as they creep closer and closer to her. She looks around, desperately trying to find some way out of this… But how?

She suddenly feels the lightest touch; a-a caress of a feather-like finger lining her spine as it tickles her nerves causing to cause her gooseflesh. She hears a dark hum of a man not two inches from right behind her neck. She closes her eyes, practically gluing them shut as she felt the essence of someone's warm breath travel down the back of her shirt. She gulps at the sudden closeness.

He hums once more.

"Precious," the man whispers, she not hearing his true voice as his hands find her shoulders and gently and lovingly travel down her body, eventually finding her hands as he pulls her off into the perfect darkness…

~J/S ~ J/S ~ J/S ~ J/S ~ J/S~

"OH GOD!" Sarah literally screams as the thunder rolled from outside of her window. She sat up in her bed feeling her body making sure that she is still intact with her clothing. She then notices her hand clutching her Labyrinth book as it hits her chest. She exhales roughly along with a tear falling from the confusion on if that was a nightmare or just a simple dream of desire. She looks to see the continuous pattern of rain outside her window as she stood, then looks suspiciously at her book. She stumbles from the jelly-like form of her legs, looking around her room in practical terror. "What in God's name was that, Sarah?" she asked herself as she put a hand to her head and rubs her face of the idiotic dream as she slipped on her panda slippers and strolled downstairs completely ignoring the Grandfather Clock and its chiming of the early hours.

She finds her way into her kitchen seeing Merlin sleeping on the couch completely oblivious of the stranger in the kitchen. She turns the light on and sleepwalks her way to the sink to get her a big glass of water. Once it filled half way to the top, she toasted to herself in the air.

"Great to be home," she sarcastically said as she gulped the whole thing down.

"Indeed,"

"What?" Sarah freaks as she hears that voice. She turns only to see another bolt of lightning and Merlin raising his head to the unexpected visitor in his house. Sarah inhaled clenching her chest to keep her heart from bursting out from her body. L- let… let it go Sarah, she kept reminding herself as she took another sip to swallow the upcoming hiccups. But as another bolt of lightning collided with the thunder, she turned back around to find a distinct shadow in which made her drop her glass in surprise.

She realizes that the shards of glass were heard from all over the house, as she heard footsteps come down and soon sees her father with an iron bat. He sees Sarah sitting at the dinner table in tears.

"Sarah, what on earth,"

"What's wrong with me?" she sobbed in endless tears as she hiccuped in her nerves.

But he stays silent as he rushed to her and hugged her tightly. He took her back upstairs with their dog following them. Her father tucked her in as if she was 8 years old herself, and gave her a heavy sleeping pill to drain out the thoughts and dreams as Merlin guarded her for the rest of the night.

J/S-J/S-J/S-J/S-J/S
Wow, I can't believe on how many people like this story. I thank you all so very much and hope not to disappoint in this next chapter. I know that it's a little weird, but hang in there :icondweebdanceplz:

Disclaimer: I do not own the Labyrinth, Jareth, Sarah, Robert, Karen, Toby, nor the band Evanescence (I… think that's it) :iconscaredplz:

Based on the fan-made stinkin awesome Labyrinth 2 TRAILER 2 video by: isabeauluv on you-tube... :iconbigeyesplz:



Gee I wonder who the hell she's having such… interesting dreams about. (teehee) Well, I am pretty satisfied with it; I hope that you are too. :iconjarethplz:

The song that I thought that would fit would be the song Haunted, By: Evanescence. I hope that you take the time to listen to it… :iconlalaplz:
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MidnightKat1's avatar
This is really good I want more please :D