Chapter 20

The Stars Of The Labyrinth

Sarah's POV

I was lying in bed looking up at my roof. I had gotten sick of the earth's constellations, so I had asked The Castle to put up Labyrinth ones. It felt a little weird talking to a building but, Jareth said, if I put my hand on one of the walls and talk to it, it will talk back to me in my head, which it did. It had been telling me about its history and the history of the Labyrinth, apparently if I did the same thing with a wall in the Labyrinth it would answer me too. But I had to keep contact with the wall.

I had sat, leant against the my bedroom wall for hours earlier just chatting with The Castle. It told me that I was the only other person, aside from Jareth, to talk to it. And that, because he was king, Jareth could talk to The Castle and Labyrinth when he was in other kingdoms. Apparently it came in handy if they were under attack.

I had left The Castle wall a few hours ago to sleep because it sleeps at night too, which I thought was a little strange. But, I suppose, if it talks, it sleeps too.

So now I was laid in bed, bored.

I couldn't sleep, no matter how hard I tried. I had lost count of the jumping sheep somewhere around 350, and the stars weren't helping, which surprised me.

I left The Castle to sleep so, I had no one to talk to, or did I?

Jareth? I asked in my head, hoping he was awake.

Sarah? He replied. What are you still doing awake?

I can't sleep.

Oh... and now the castle is asleep, you have no one to talk to.

How did you know?

Because I was thinking the same thing. I didn't want to call out to you in case you were asleep, and I believe you thought the same thing about me.

Yeah. Where are you?

Sat in the Labyrinth.

Want some company?

Sure. Wrap a cardigan around yourself then give me a shout and I'll teleport you out here.

I did as he said. I wrapped a light cardigan around me, it's warm here in the day so I shouldn't need anything thicker.

Ok Jareth.

I closed my eyes and when I opened them, I was no longer in the castle, I was stood behind Jareth, who was sitting on some steps that looked out over the labyrinth. Judging by the distance between us and the castle, and us and the edge of the labyrinth we were somewhere in the middle, but I hadn't seen this place when I had run the labyrinth.

"No, you won't have. This place, like the gardens, is hidden. The only way in or out is with The Castle's magic."

I sat beside him on the steps, and lent my head on his shoulder. He wrapped his arm around my waist.

I felt his nose rub the top of my head and I turned to look up at him. I stared deep into his mismatched eyes. I really and going to have to ask him about that someday.

I reached up and kissed him, and he kissed me back.

After we pulled away, we sat looking out over the Labyrinth.

Jareth stood, and I stood following him. He reached into the inside pocket in the long coat he was wearing and pulled out a crystal. He rolled it from his hand and on to the floor. A blanket appeared where the crystal had dropped and he sat on it, tapping beside him for me to follow. I sat down and he pulled me down to lay with him.

Looking up at the stars I realised they were more relaxing when they were real rather than projected.

My hand slipped off my stomach and hit his on the floor. He took it and held it to his mouth, kissing my knuckles before returning it to the floor, our fingers still laced together.

Jareth pointed to a cluster of stars in the sky.

"That is Pegasus. Named after the immortal horse." He waved his hand and the stars got brighter, as well as some smaller stars around it creating the shape of a Pegasus.

"It's mainly made up of the stars, Matar, Scheat, Salm, Algenib, Markab, Homam, Baham and Enif." As he said their names, each of the stars lit brighter, then dulled back for the next one.

"And that," He said, pointing at another cluster. "Is Cygnus. The swan of the skies." Another set of stars lit up, next to Pegasus, forming the shape of a swan. "That's made up of Deneb, Rukh, Sadr, Gienah and Albireo."

I looked at the stars, fascinated by the new constellations to learn.

He smiled. "That is Aquila, The eagle. Made up of Tarazed, Altair, Alshain, Delta and Eta." An eagle appeared in the sky.

They were beautiful.

"Would you like to see something amazing?"

I nodded.

What was he talking about?

He waved both his arms in front of him. When I looked up the star shapes were moving, Pegasus was running across the skies, Flapping his wings occasionally with the swan Cygnus and the eagle Aquila chasseing after him. I shuffled over, leaning my head against Jareth's shoulder. He wrapped his arm around me.

"Thank you"

He kissed the top of my head in reply. Watching the stars play for a while, we laid in silence.

"Come with me." He said, moving so we could get up.

"Where are we going?" I asked. Upset he had disturbed our star gazing.

"Nowhere really, just come over here." He walked away from the blanket.

I stood beside him.

"You might want to cover your ears."

I looked at him confused but did as he said. He used his fingers and made a proper, New York, cab whistle. I uncovered my ears and followed his gaze to the sky.

The constellation Pegasus had turned away from his friends and was flying towards us. He landed on the floor in front of and, in a burst of glitter and stars and turned into a real horse, with wings.

He was white, and I know technically that is not possible, but he actually was, and his wings were white feathers, but the tips of the feathers were black. He turned and walked over to us, His head low and his long mane was flowing in front of his face.

He nudged my hand with his muzzle, and I stroked his nose. "Hi." I said, earning a neigh and a Hello Miss. In my head.

"How strange."

"What is?" I asked.

"Pegasus has, to knowledge, only ever let two people even near him. The god/demi god Hercules..."

And him. I heard Pegasus say in my head.

"Oh? Why don't you let people near you?" I asked Pegasus.

Because, if any harm should come to me, All of my descendants would feel it too.

"Oh.. I see." I said, stroking his nose and behind his ears. He nickered in approval.

Jareth laughed lightly to the side of me and held his hand out. "May I?" He asked Pegasus, and the horse nodded his neck as Jareth began to stroke him too.

Would you like to see the stars closer Miss? Pegasus asked.

"Yes please." I answers and Pegasus turned to the side, inviting me and Jareth to mount him.

I sat on the front with Jareth behind me so I felt safer, and with that, we took off to the skies.

Hi guys, I wanted to give these guys a bit more time together in sweetness, so, enter this chapter. I used real constellations and stars from our skies, but if we could all please pretend they were Labyrinth only, I would wildly appreciate it. I had only planned this chapter up until them laying on the blanket, Everything from Jareth naming stars was improvised, but, I like it.

I have also, having opened it on my phone for the first time, realised that you cnat see my chapter titles. So any blipps you get of me saying i've edited, I will be adding all the titles into the storys. Sorry about the inconvenience.

Also, a big thanks to Pixies56 for voting. (Will someone please explain to me what votes are?) and AmanahFarooq For adding this story to their reading list. Its people like you that keep people like me writing xxx Thanks xxxxx

Thanks so much for reading, See you in the next chapter.

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