Sarah blinked twice, hoping, wishing that what she saw was just a trick of her eyes.
"Sarah, are you o.k.?  It looks as if you've seen a ghost or something."  Sarah shook her head.
"Oh, no, I'm fine.  I just have to wake up, that's all."
"We could go home if you want."
"No, Jeremy, I'm...fine."
    Jeremy pulled Sarah in closer, she rested her head on his shoulder and hugged him as they danced, shutting her eyes, she shuttered, still seeing that handsom face that had appeared not more than what seemed like a minuet ago.  She almost screamed when she opened her eyes, for what she saw had startled her.  Instead of the ball room filled with high-school dancers and music, she was now in a white room.  The room was filled with happy-go-lucky dancers that had masks on that only covered their eyes, some had full masks that they had to hold up themselvs.  Their dress was so fancy and beautiful.  Please, oh please God, please, don't let it be...No, no, please, no.  Sarah begged in her mind, hoping that she was still in Jeremy's arms and not that certain person that haunted her.  Slowly, she turned her head and almost screamed.  Those too familiar eyes were burning right into hers.
"Sarah."  The eyes spoke, Sarah couldn't speak.
"Sarah!" The voice changed from deep and haunting to teen-age like.
"Sar-" Returning into her familiar sights, she pulled away from Jeremy's arms and ran into the bathroom.
"Hogg-" She stopped, no, not in here, she couldn't let the secrets of the underground out in a public restroom, it was too risky, she thought.  She splashed water onto her cheeks and prepaired to face reality again and went out the door.  She'd at least try to finish her dance before chickening out and going home.  She greeted the concerned crowd with a forced smile.
"Are you sure you're o.k.?"
"Yes, I'm pretty sure I'm fine, let's just go get a drink."
    The last of the night went by slowly, she spent the rest of her prom dance sitting by an open window, sipping water and nibbiling on brownies.  After the dance had ended, Jeremy dropped Sarah off and kissed her good night.  Sarah stood on her porch and watched him drive away.
"Sarah?  Are you home?"  Why does he always greet me like that?  She wondered, and replied with the all to familiar,
"Yes, yes, I'm home."  She marched straight up the stairs and into her room, she noticed that her dad and step-mom had pushed Toby's cradle into her room.  she walked over to the smiling toddler that was inside the cradle and picked him up.
"How's my big brother doing?  Hmmm?"
She asked, giving him a hug, smiling herself, she took a deep breath and called,
"Hoggle?"
"Yes, Sarah?"
    The friendly voice sounded from behind her, Sarah turned around, Toby laughed, noticing the short, wrinkly fellow.
"Watch Toby for a second will you?  I'm going to go change out of this dress."
Sarah handed the baby to Hoggle, he accepted and laughed.
"There we go, then."  He said as Toby squeezed his nose.
"Hoggle?"
"Hmm?"
    Sarah opened her chest drwar, ataking out some sweats and a t-shirt.
"Could you possibly try talking to Jareth for me?"  Hoggle sighed.
"Oh Sarah, you know that him and I don't get along."
"Fine then, I'll get Sir Didymus to do it."  Hoggle sighed again and kicked the floor.
"No, you don't have to, I'll do it."
"I know it's hard for you, but you have got to learn to stand up to him sometime, he's really getting on my nerves popping up all the time when he knows very well that I don't want to see him."
"Oh alright, I'm not promising nothing, but I'll do if for you."
Sarah walked over to Hoggle and kissed his forehead, Hoggle braced himself, just incase the floor gave out under him and sent him to the Bog of Eternal Stench.
"Thankyou." Sarah said, laughing from Hoggles reaction.  Hoggle nodded and looked at Toby.
Sarah walked out of the room into the bathroom.  Hoggle put Toby back in his crib, Toby answered with another squeeze of the nose.
"Ha Ha, I know my nose is big, you don't have to point it out."  He looked out the window, a moving van was pulling out of the across the street neighbors driveway.  
"Well Toby, I'm going to go home, take care of Sarah will you?  She really cares about you."
Toby laughed, Hoggle waved and Toby mocked the movement as best as he could.

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Gaizing into his a crystal at Sarah's soft features, he let out a heavy sigh.  If she wasn't taken by his magic, then he'd just have to go in himself, but how?  Then it struck him, didn't her old neighbors just move out?
"Well." he said aloud,
"We'll just have to move in!"  He started to laugh, and a chorus of goblin laughter echoed after him.

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    Sarah woke up in a huge room, not her own; the curtains on the windows were made of a dark turquoise satin material, so were her sheets .  Sighing, she wondered am I ever going to get rid of this guy?  Standing up to go talk to Jareth and let him know a few things, the floor turned to mush and Sarah closed her eyes as she began to fall through the floor.  Faster and faster she fell until she landed.  She opened her eyes only to find herself in her own room, her brother, fast asleep in his own world.  Sarah's clocked showed that it was 1:11 am, she opened her blinds and looked outside her window, a fresh blanket of snow covered the ground, the snow was much prettier than her old house.  About one and a half months ago, Sarah's dad's job moved him into the states, from England, at first she was reluctant to leave, but after comming to America, she began to love it.  Her door opened which made her jump, a goofy looking dog came into the room uninvited, but Sarah didn't mind.  
"Merlin!"  She whispered, the dog walked in the room and licked Sarah's hand.  Sarah shut her door and sat down on the carpeted floor letting Merlin snuggle beside her and keep her warm.  Looking at the clock again, she noticed a figgure of a person in her window, she looked to her right, where the reflection seemed to have come from, but saw nothing.  Looking over to her window again, she was startled by the male figgure she saw the reflection of was standing inside the windows.
"What are you doing here?"  The figgure smiled and spoke.
"Hello Sarah."
Merlin started to growl, Sarah patted the dogs head.
"It's o.k. Merlin, be quiet.  Jareth, I am really not in the mood to talk to you right now."
Jareth clicked his tongue.
"That's too bad, I was really looking forward to talking with you and catch up on times, I'm thinking of moving in across the street."  Jareth pointed out her window, Sarah shuddered at the last five words.
"That's not fair."  Sarah mumbled under her breath.
"So many words and that's all you can say?  No welcome, or I'll fix some tea and we'll talk more about the subject?"
"Get out Jareth."
"Ooooh, harsh words, Sarah."
"Fine,"  Sarah took in a deep breath.
"Please, get out!" Sarah tried not to raise her voice too much, she watched as Jareth turned into an owl and flew away, her eyes narrowed at the present he left behind, a crystal.  She picked up the crystal and was supprised on how light it was.  She opened her dresser dwar and placed the gift carefully inside, she didn't know why she was keeping it, she just didn't have the heart to throw it away.  After going back to bed, she laied there for a while letting the darkness suround her like a blanket, lulling her asleep by it's warmth and comfort.  She was also thinking about why he followed her all the way to Virgina, she wasn't mad that he did, infact, she was kind of glad he did.  She shook her head at the next thought, she actually was beginning to miss him.  She moved the thoughts out of her head and tried to sleep.

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"Go with her, follow her, don't let her out of your sight!"  Jareth commanded about three goblins bright and early that morning.
"Yes your majesty."  One goblin answered and with a wave of Jareth's hand, they left.  Jareth smiled, thinking about his visit last night, believing that he had made an impact on Sarah he started packing up his bags and was ready in no time to move into his new house he had planned to move into.

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Sarah stood infront of her mirror, her face in a worried expression.  She was remembering something about her pick of clothes she was wearing.  Her hands rubbed over her decorated vest that she was wearing.  Her white shirt hanging out over her jeans, too familiar, too many memories, even her brother who barely remembered that he had his pacifier in his hand wasn't too happy.  
"Oh Toby, smile, it'd make me feel a whole lot better."         
    She knew that Toby didn't understand her, but she didn't care.  Spotting a rubber band under her brush, she pulled her hair back into a ponytail.  Sastisfied with the change she had made, she kissed Toby goodbye, picked up her backpack and left her room unaware of a tiny creature that had snuck his way into the backpack.
"Good morning Sarah, sleep well?"  Her father hugged Sarah as she entered the kitchen, Sarah smiled and went over to the food cubbard, she reached for the breakfast bar box and screamed, a necklace was lying behind it.  Sarah quickly put the box back down infront of it, just as her dad came rushing over to her.
"Sarah, dear, are you alright?"
"Y-yeah, I'm fine, dad, I just saw a spider that's all."
"That was an awful big scream for a spider."  Sarah quickly thought up something.
"It was a big spider, it startled me, that's all."
"Well, o.k., Listen, I got to take your mom in to work, will you be o.k. if leaving by your self?"
"Yeah, I'll be fine, I'm going to be leaving pretty soon anyway."
"Well in that case, have a great day."
Sarah's step-mom came into the kitchen, Toby in arm and smiled.
"Bye, hun."
"Bye mom, bye dad."
   
    As soon as they left, Sarah grabbed the necklace, the too familiar triangular shape burned in her hands, she rubbed her thumb over the circle that sat in the middle of the triangle.  she never really noticed the catching design that sat in the middle of the circle.  The Celtic design made the necklace feel powerful, stong and protective.

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    Jareth watched Sarah in his crystal, sure that he had caught her attention now, he smiled.
"Your majesty!"  A goblin hobbled  into the Kings throne room.
"Yes?"  Jareth put his crystal down, keeping an eye on it long after his hand left it's smooth surface.
"There is a person to see you."
"Thankyou, send him in."  The goblin nodded and left to go get the visitor.  A few minuets later, he returned with a scaby looking fellow, Jareth knew right away who he was.
"Oh, it's you Hogwart."  Hoggle stomped a foot, Jareth laughed, in his head of course, he knew his real name was Hoggle, but he had fun teasing Hoggle over it.
"Hoggle."  The scab corrected Jareth.
"Whatever brings you to my humble home?"
    Trying not to show his fear, Hoggle spoke, concentrating on his words and Sarah, her courage gave him courage.
"Um, your m-majesty?"
"What?!?"  Jareth raised his voice, he hated it when people didn't get right to the point.
"Well, uh, S-Sarah wanted me to come ask you i-if y-you could not bug h-her anym-more."
"Why Hoggle, talk with courage, stuttering will do you no good."  Hoggle nodded and took in a breath.
"So, Sarah wants me to leave her alone, does she now?"
"Yes."  Jareth's eyes narrowed and he went down on one knee, level with Hoggle.
"And, did she tell you why she wants me to?"
"Yes sir, she said, because Your Majesty, she's tired of you b-bugging her."
"Oh?  Really? Well then, we'll just have to fix that now won't we?"
"Um...we? Your Majesty?"
"Please, call me Jareth, if we're going to work togeather, then you might as well call me by my name."
"You want me to h-help you?"
"Why sure Hoggle, why not?  Any friend of your's is a friend of mine, right?"  Hoggle didn't answer, afraid to.
"Oh come now Hogbrain, don't you want to?  There will be the rewards, and we'd be better friends."  Hoggle thought at the idea of being friends.
"You won't hurt Sarah, would you?"
"No, no, of course not."  Jareth smiled, Hoggle should have known that he liked Sarah, he wouldn't ever hurt Sarah, she was worth the world to him.  Hoggle nodded, not to sure about his deal with Jareth, but left, pleased that he was still alive and not as shooken up as he was before he came into the castle.