It had been a while since Sarah had defeated him and taken Toby back to the real world. Even so, he still couldn't get her out of his mind. It made no sense whatsoever for him to even have any feeling for her at all, love or otherwise. Frankly, he wasn't quite sure what was going on with him.

Jareth looked at the goblins at his disposal, some lounging about and others drinking out of barrels, laughing and carrying on and he remembered when they used to be children: the children of those who wished them away. Some of them would never be missed and some will never know how much their siblings tried to fight for them to get back home. It was all his job as the Goblin King: dutifully take the children away from those who asked, trial those who challenged, and make those who failed forget what they lost and who they once were.

It was all very enjoyable usually and Jareth never had a second thought about the goings on of who lost whom. That is until Sarah Williams came into the picture. She seemed most distraught, much like the other siblings that had asked the children to be taken, but she was different. She had a strong will that kept her smart and she defeated the labyrinth with horrid ease. Almost too easy for her…

"Sarah…" he said, looking into one of his many crystal spy balls. "What have you done to me?"

Sarah's face showed up in the small ball and showed her smiling as she played with Toby, a large dog with her in the yard. She looked happy and carefree… It sickened him to no end.

"Hey, Bossa, sir?" a goblin said, walking up to him.

"What is it?"

"We gots another potenty. We 'trieves?" a goblin said, holding up a scroll.

Jareth snatched the scroll away and looked at it, reading the simple profile of the next child he would send the goblins to abduct and the person he would need to interact with.

Wisher: Jarrica, older sister by 10 years

Child: Kesler, age 5

"Oh my, he's a little older than expected. This will interesting... Go and wait for the right words. If she begs, let me come to her. I'll see if she can pass my labyrinth. I'll make it much harder this time…"

The goblin scooted off as Jareth settled back into his seat, swirling the crystal balls in his hand. Sarah had done something to him and he wanted to know what it could be. How had he gotten here, where he was now, pining after a girl just because she outwitted him? Why did she effect him so?

"A goblin said we may have another child coming?"

Jareth turned, seeing Hoggle looking at him. He made a face.

"What of it? It is my job, you know… Leave my sight before I throw you back into the Bog of Eternal Stench."

Hoggle rolled his eyes. "What else could it do to me?"

Jareth ignored his comment, remembering how he had gotten here. Samantha... he thought, closing his eyes. How could I forget?

oh my, who is samantha? and i'm basing the goblins a little off of a comic on dA called Girls Next Door. and the scroll thing is just my interpretation of how he knows when to send the goblins out and then when to go himself.