"Precious."
The word caused her to freeze. It wasn't the word exactly, she had gotten over that word long ago but it was the baritone voice that uttered that word. She was carrying groceries from her car up the steps to her home when she heard it. She thought she had outgrown that voice and those childish games. The last time she heard the voice it had been fifteen years ago, she shook her head and continued up the steps. The front door opened by itself, she murmured about the wind being too strong today.
She refused to turn around as she lugged some of the groceries into the kitchen, the television had turned on by itself (from her position) and was changing channels rapidly. She heard someone sigh loudly from the living room.
It wasn't that she couldn't turn around because she would have to eventually (she had to pick Toby up from the airport, he was staying the summer with her and that would require using the front door. Damn!), but she was afraid of what she would see. Would it be him? Would he be there? Or would it just be another damn parlor trick.
"No trick I'm right here, precious." Sarah whipped her head around to find the person that the voice belonged to. He was sitting on her counter with his legs crossed going through her groceries. He found a ripe peach particularly interesting, he arched one odd owl like eyebrow at her and smirked.
"This isn't happening..." she chanted like a mantra.
"Oh, but it is." he sighed loudly, the same type of sigh she heard from the living room earlier. "Sarah, why are you ignoring me?" She tried to escape the kitchen but he appeared before her at every turn. He cornered her in the hall right as she was about to enter her room.
"I don't have time for this!" she shouted in his face, he appeared to be impassive at first, but laughter broke from underneath his cold surface. Jareth cupped her face and booped her nose.
"We have forever, it's not long at all." Sarah stared at the offensive finger that just
"... Sarah what the hell happened? I was just standing in the airport and now I'm here!" Toby yelled from the living room. He was tangled in with his luggage on the floor.
"See." Jareth released her chin but booped her nose again.
"You waited this long to show up, you're an odd man." she caught his finger just as it was about to land on her nose again. She placed his hand to his side as he moved closer, she was prepared to kiss him.
"Your odd is my normal." he said as he leaned in, Sarah closed her eyes waiting for his lips to touch hers. She only heard his laugh fading away as she opened her eyes to find Toby standing in the hallway with his luggage in his hands.
"What's wrong with you?" Toby asked as Sarah stormed into her room and slammed the door.
AN: I needed a Jareth and Sarah fix. And there was no booping fics that I could find and I was also very lazy. And no... there really wasn't a point but I needed Jareth and booping. Ugh. I am going down with ship, I will play "As the World Falls Down" as this ship hits the bottom of the ocean because yeah. I needed some booping and couldn't find Jareth booping any noses. Booping is a thing. *boops your nose* There.
