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Shattered	By : TarnishedArmour Category: G through L > Labyrinth Views: 7713 -:- Recommendations : 2 -:- Currently Reading : 2
Disclaimer: Based upon the work of Jim Henson; specifically Labyrinth, copyright 1986 by Jim Henson & associated parties. I do not own or have legal rights to Labyrinth, etc., or make any profit from them. *Individual disclaimers for other works in

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Jareth waited in his hall, slouched in his throne. The cats had brought the news to him of Sarah breaking. Finally, after days of memories, he could sit in his throne and wait.
No courtiers would dare enter the room. Only the cats would be safe. The cats, and Sarah.
As he slouched in his throne, fingers steepled before him, he could not control the memories that plagued him still.
Seven years. Before he had finally broken completely, he had endured seven years with the priests.
Then came the darkness.
He could not stop the shift from Jareth, King of Goblins to Janrecht, Prince of Cats. Only the cats still called to him by his birth name; the rest of the realm and his own mind knew him as Jareth, youngest of King Kolbrecht and Queen Janna.
Surrounded by his furred companions, the Prince of Cats waited in darkness.
=-+=-+=-+
Sarah woke to darkness. Her body ached, bled. Something was different. The air. The light. Something else.
Slowly, she became aware that she was in a cell. She was not bound. Crumpled in a heap in the middle of the cell, she could see the flickering square of light from the door. That one bit of light showed her the utter darkness of her cell.
Jareth had not come. She had called, begged him to come to her, but he had not responded.
She had been alone throughout the torment. Softly, she rasped his name. Her throat was sore, her voice pained. She had screamed so much her throat had bled.
"Jareth," she begged, feeling the tears come to her again. She could do nothing but lay where she had been tossed and weep for her love's abandonment.
She was alone. The darkness overwhelmed her, brought her no solace. Not even a cat was within this cell. Nothing was.
Brick and stone and dirt and cold and blood and Sarah, but only Sarah knew the company of the others didn't count.
Weeping softly, almost hurt too badly to weep, Sarah let the loneliness consume her.
=-+=-+=-+
Jareth waited as thoughts passed over him, his form altered again and again from Jareth to Janrecht. Shift and again and shift once more, the tightness of his jaw was all that spoke of his tension. He spoke to none of the cats, and the cats did not purr.
She called, but he did not reply.
Silently, they waited, the Prince-King and his most understanding subjects.
=-+=-+=-+
Sarah could only weep for so long. She needed water, food to keep crying. Pain rattled through her with every heave of her chest, every choked whimper. Even the feel of tears on her face hurt her. She was too weak to crawl to where they waited for her. The tray was just out of reach, and she was too broken to reach it. Even her magic seemed to have deserted her to this prison of flesh and pain and darkness.
She lay in the darkness, lamenting her solitude.
I am alone. Alone. Jareth is not here. My world has fallen, and he is not here. Only I am here. Hours passed by, the litany running through her mind with no variations. She slept, she woke, and still the only thought remained the same: I am alone.
=-+=-+=-+
Jareth waited. Nervous tension racked his body now, sending uncontrollable shudders through his slender frame. He had not slept, had not eaten.
King or Prince, his only duty now was to wait.
The very kingdom held its breath, all knowing the seclusion of the King meant they would have a consort or Queen.
Breathless hope hung quivering in the air.
Still, the king did nothing but wait, eyes fixed on the floor before him, cats standing silent watch as the King experienced his deepest truths again.
Alone.
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I am alone. I am alone, as I have always been alone, Sarah thought. She saw the difference in her litany and, after repeating the original strain several times, returned to this new fugue. I am alone, as I have always been alone. My life has been my own, alone. I bear my own faults. I bear my own burdens of fear and pain. I am alone. I am alone, as I have always been alone. I will always be alone.
Slowly, through repetition and careful steps, Sarah wound her way through to the realization at the end of this thought.
I am alone, as I have always been and always will be. I may walk in faith, but my steps are my own. I may walk beside others for a time, but none may know the experience of my life except for me. There is no shared experience. All things are experienced by the ones involved, but all involved have different memories and thoughts. We are alone, all of us. None may know the life of another.
I am alone. I walk alone. Beside Jareth or behind him, I walk alone, as he walks alone. As all walk alone. We choose to walk in faith, we choose to walk with another, but the times of our lives are shared with none, for words are not experiences and no experience can become mere words. We are all alone.
I am alone…
As she thought, as she followed this path, the pain had begun to fade. Her mind had overwhelmed her, the body was little more than an afterthought. With a gasp, Sarah slowly began to sit up. The pain was behind her now--the depth of truth she saw before her made the body irrelevant.
She understood.
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