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One last Wish	By : WhisperedWishes Category: G through L > Labyrinth Views: 2051 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
Disclaimer: I do not own Labyrinth, that right goes to Jim Henson. This is just for fun. I make no profit from this.

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When the door flew open, the nurse that had just left four hours ago, came in pushing the crash cart, followed by two doctors and three more nurses.

They worked for half an hour before the doctor finally called it.

"Time of death: 12:35 am. Poor girl. At least she's with her mom and dad, not suffering anymore. I will make the call. Karen?"

"Yes?"

"Did she have any other family we should notify?"

The nurse who had grown close to the girl, she leaned over, brushing a speck of glitter off her cheek, "No, no other family."

The nurses all sniffled, they had known the little girl laying there with the small smile on her face, and would miss her bright and cheery personality.

They left Nurse Williams to say her goodbyes; the girl was the same age as her little Toby, so they knew how painful it was for her.

"Oh you poor girl, I hope you are happily in heaven with your mommy and daddy now. Goodbye, Anna." Karen grabbed the little red bound book and tucked it into her hands and kissed her on the forehead.

A cold wind blew across her nose causing her to look up. That window wasn't open when I left before. How strange.

When she moved to close the window, she noticed something in Anna's other hand, a single beautiful feather of white. As she closed the window, a soft hoot caught her attention. There on one of the branches of the large oak outside the window was the most beautiful barn owl she had ever seen.

"So Mr. Owl, are you the one that left the little gift for her? The wind must have blown it through the window when you were cleaning up, huh? Well, thank you Mr. Owl." Come on, Karen! You're talking to an owl, like he can understand you.

Just then the owl tilted his head and hooted softly again before taking flight into the air.

"Keep safe tonight, Mr. Owl! Its going to storm bad tonight!" She yelled after him. Funny. It looked like he understood me. Ahh, it was probably nothing. I should get things arranged for Anna's funeral. She deserves a nice little service. I should see if Sarah could come to it. She always did enjoy visiting Anna.

Karen made her way to the door, and with one last goodbye, she turned off the light, and closed the door behind her.

The goblin king beat his wings, taking note of the woman's warning. Jareth could not believe what he had just seen. Or who. That woman who closed the window to Anna's room was Toby's mother and more importantly, Sarah's stepmother, his thoughts finished for him.

Lightening ripped through the sky much too close for comfort, as his owl form jerked to the left suddenly.

What could this mean? Did Anna's wish come true or is this just a cruel twist of fate? He mused to himself, I wish things were more clear to me.

A loud booming clap of thunder had broke the silence around him and he could feel drops of rain starting to soak into his feathers. Not good. If my top most layer get completely soaked, I won't be able to fly anymore, then I will have to walk the rest of the way. Very unaccommodating to someone with magic.

He flew farther and farther until he reached the outskirts of the town he had been called to twice now. How fickle fate can be. All he had to do was turn east and it would take him straight to the green-eyed chit-he cut his thoughts off before the pain settled in again. I need no distractions right now. The rain starting to fall harder as another memory, even more painful than the last, had taken hold of him.

I couldn't believe it at first when the guard had said she had reached the castle. She had made it to the city, after all I had done to stop her. I was livid, my anger spread like willdfire through me, but some small part of me was proud of her. For no runner had ever made as far as his precious Sarah did. Even removing three hours from her in the tunnel had not deterred her resolve. It had only been nine hours since they started this game and only a hour since the peach dream. That hard-headed, raven-haired, green-eyed wench.

When she stepped into the Escher room alone, something inside me started. I put a hand on my chest to still my racing heart. I had long since thought my heart could not feel, that it was nothing but a block of stone setting within my chest. But this little chit with the forest green eyes has slowly, step by step through this labyrinth, chipped the block to almost nothing.

Pained filled me yet again. This is nothing but a game, she had to see it to the end. They both had to. There was nothing between me and her. I will play the part she set me, no more, no less. I would be the villian, no matter how much I wanted it to be different.

As she made her way to the landing overlooking the Escher room, staring into the wide open space before her.

I made my decision.

"To hell with the game." I moved silently to where I was looking up at her from below, my hands on my hips. I decided to try a new song I had wrote especially for her, hoping the feeling in the song would persuade her to stay here in the Labyrinth with me.

"How you turned my world, you precious thing…" I jumped down, just to disappear and reappear across the room.

Striding towards her, I continued the song, "You starve and near exhaust me…"

Disappearing yet again just to appear walking around the corner behind her,

My voice deepened with the longing I felt,

"Everything I've done, I've done for you." She turned, startled by my voice. Looking at me with such shock.

I walked slowly towards her, and then walking straight through her. She had felt so divine, like warm rain on a cold day. Something inside me had broke and I was angry. Angry at her for toying with me and angry at myself for letting a little slip of a girl affect me like this. I turned towards her in my anger and let a new verse utter from my lips like venom.

"I move the stars for no one." I jumped from the landing and watched in secret how she looked around the room. Silently wishing that those green eyes were searching for me, but knowing deep inside that she was scanning the room for her brother. She turned and ran through the archway behind her, her steps taking her down a stairway as I followed below, my voice masking my steps.

"You've run so long, you've run so far." I jogged up the stairs to turn and step before her. My heart was racing and I could not stop as more venom fell from my lips. "Your eyes can be so cruel."

I held a crystal up as I moved closer to her, those green eyes staring up at me in curious shock. She had glanced briefly at the crystal and then locked eyes with me yet again. Those damned eyes of her.

"Just as I can be so cruel." I made a motion with my hand holding the crystal and turned away from those piercing eyes, to throw the crystal down in to the room.

We both watched as the crystal bounced off the wall and up the stairs to land in Toby's hands.

"Though I do believe in you, "

"Toby!" I heard her breathless voice call out. I closed my eyes, not thinking about the game anymore, just my precious Sarah. I watched from the doorway as she ran by me trying to get to the child.

"Yes I do.."

She looked towards me for a moment and I knew that I was not going going to stop her.

"Live without the sunlight…"

She kept chasing the boy through the room up and down stairs. Upside down and right side up, sideways and diagonally.

"Love without your heartbeat."

I looked down upon her looking and looking, watching her getting more lost as she moved deeper into the Escher room.

"I..I.I can't live within you."

She still did not pay attention to my words. Pain filled me and my chest tightened again. My vision swam and my voice caught in my throat. Why? Why can't she listen to my words, to my heart's song calling out to her.

"Toby!" I heard her call again.

She came upon a landing and looking down she noticed Toby sitting on the edge of a opening in the floor, looking up at her with a puzzled look on his face.

"Toby?" She said once more. Then she looked down and stilled. She looked up and locked eyes with me.

What was she up to? Why wasn't she going back down the stairs?

Then looking back down at Toby, she closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

I then knew what she was going to do. Brave little chit.

She jumped.

I knew and it still did not stop my heart from dropping into the pit of my stomach.

She jumped off the landing.

"Sarah!" The name flew out of my mouth before I had a chance to stop it. A crystal appeared in my hand and before I knew it the crystal was flying towards her, my magic flowing from me to her.

The crystal exploded, and the Escher room was torn apart in my effort to make sure that Sarah was safe. I collapsed in a heap of exhaustion. Sweat beaded on my forehead and I felt weak. What had just happened? I remember asking myself.

Then the magic had settled and an understanding filled me that wasn't my own. Tears stained my face and I refused to believe it one second. It was to cruel to even think that.

"No. my labyrinth…you didn't…she can't be….

Suddenly, losing the game was not as important.

Losing Sarah? It meant more to him than life and death.

It meant losing his future.
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