ext_1642 ([identity profile] elke-tanzer.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] crack_van2006-09-29 11:03 pm
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I Would Be Your Slave by The Hooded Crow (PG)

Fandom: LABYRINTH
Pairing: Jareth/Sarah
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] the_hooded_crow
Author Website: http://www.xothique.com/ and http://www.fanfiction.net/u/80300/

Why this must be read:

Jareth really is a fearsome force of nature, and Sarah is just a schoolgirl. But as she's growing up, his interest isn't waning. It's one thing to have friends from another realm who visit you in your own room when you want them to visit, but it's another thing entirely to have an otherworldly king ready to defend you whether you will it or no, in public where intolerant, narrowminded classmates can see.

It wasn’t her fault, things just happened around her sometimes.

Unexplainable things. Frightening things.

Magical things.

This morning, for example. Tidying away the remains of some unfathomable experiment in the chemistry lab, she had lost concentration for a few seconds, and had reached out with bare hands to grasp the Bunsen burner that only seconds before had been spouting forth its distinctive dancing yellow flame. By rights she should have been horribly burned.

Sarah had felt Jodie’s cruel eyes watching her, had seen the vindictive smile as the girl waited for the inevitable scream. Had watched the perfect cheerleader features twist into an ugly expression of disbelief, and only then had she realised her error and glanced down at the burner in her hand.

It was stone cold.

I Would Be Your Slave