Both Sides Of The Mirror (Labyrinth One-Shot)

Redsonga

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I just realized that Labyrinth fanfic counts here, and that some of my older Laby fic I wrote back when I first saw the movie in my late teens (even though I am a year older than Toby) might be welcomed here. This one is short, but I think it is some of my better work....
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Are dreams meerly reflections of reality? What is real anyway? A thoughtful mini fic. (Written in 2001)
Sarah didn't know herself, or that she was slowly fading.
The goblin kings' arm was outstretched with a single crystal orb alight in his hand.

She had studied his face for a million moments in her mind, yet now, for all her trying, Jareths' pale worn face showed only grief and love. That, and nothing more.

But it's only a dream, right? She recited to herself for the hundredth time. A dream I will wake up from. He is evil, he took Toby, he took me away from my world. If I cast him out I will be free..I will be normal..no one will laugh at me..I won't be yelled at...I WON'T BE HIS SLAVE!

Jareth's face, glistening in the light like pale show, was the last sight she ever saw...before she had no true eyes to see...

"You have no power over me!" Sarah screamed.

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Sarah didn't know herself, or that she had died.

The young girls' figure was frozen...unmoving..unseeing..unfeeling..

To the king, her eyes spoke cruelly in his mind.

"You could not save me..you gave me everything..but you could not save me."

Jareth rose Sarah's unfeeling hand to his lips and kissed it. A single tear glittered like a pale jewel down his cheek.

"I'm so sorry..if you had only known.."

Hoggle bursted into the room just then and sighed.

" Your majesty told me to clean up around 'ere."

Hoggle eyed the unmoving form of Sarah.

"Did this old thing finally give up for ghost? You and your spells Jareth.."

Jareth turned to the dwarf in fury.

"Don't you speak of Sarah that way! She was a person, not an "it"!"

Hoggle sighed again and proceeded to pull down on one of Sarah's arms. In a flash of glitter and light the girl’s body began to get smaller and smaller yet..until there stood a tiny two inch figure in her place.

"See, only a music box dancer..."

Jareths' mind was far away however, as he gazed out the window, wishful.

"She could have been real...she could have lived outside the mirror world I made for her..if only she had known I was offering her life..."

Hoggle said nothing to the saddened king, but sat the tiny music box down on the windowsill beside him.

Jareth glanced down at the tiny whirling figure and smiled as the song from the only ball Sarah had ever gone to in life, rang though thee air... like crystal...
 

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:/ *Suppressing tears*

Red, this is so beautiful.
I feel the sorrow in this...
oh so much...

*Hugs*

Jareth <3.

I love how he's trying his hardest to adjust to Sarah's increasing changes in personality.
Her imagination withering from life's hardships.

<3

Thank you!
 

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Gah! Ran out of Kleenexes!

The Sixth Sense guy has NOTHING on this twist. Great job!
 

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*sniff* So sad, poor Sarah. Poor Jareth!
 

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I was really surprised this twist was never used before...
 

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It's awe-inspiring, really. No joke. I've never thought of this twist either.
 
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