LINKDING

<blockquote>Strange things happened around Sarah Williams. A lot of it (she would argue as she was forcibly escorted from the room) could be chalked up to coincidence. After all, you couldn't really argue whose fault it was that the girls who spray-painted SLUT on her locker door senior year all came down with the same, really gross eye disease two days later. It wasn't like she had petrie dishes of virulent bacteria stashed in there, and the guy from the CDC had backed her up on that one.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The morning after Sarah Williams defeats the Goblin King, she gets up and makes toast.</blockquote>

<blockquote>"How much do you know about legends?" the man asked abruptly. Brian shrugged. "There's lots. They involve magic." "No, they involve fear."</blockquote> ➤ In which Sarah's university classmate is taken by the Goblin King so she goes back to the Labyrinth to save him. ➤ I felt like this was a fic that properly understood the appeal of the movie, and captured the right feel. Which is tragically rare for Labyrinth fic as I'm finding! ➤ I'm not super convinced by the ending, but I'm not sure that there's an ending that would have felt totally right to me so it's good enough.

<blockquote>What's said is said, and Sarah said, "My Will is as Strong as Yours and my Kingdom as Great." And then, of course, she lied.</blockquote> ➤ the one where Sarah becomes ruler of a new neighbouring kingdom. In usual MarbleGlove style, although the strength of the writing is not all it could be there's enough else going on that's really excellent to make up for that

<blockquote>He still finds her beautiful, as aged and frail and grey as she is. His Sarah. She's still as beautiful and cruel as she ever was.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Three times Sarah invites Jareth in.</blockquote> ➤ Note in 2015: DANG. This fic works a lot better after having seen the movie. ➤ Series consists of: The First Time The Second Time The Third Time