I closed my eyes as the blow came only to not feel the pain of it and open my eyes in shock. The gun pointed up, into Jareth's face, had jammed. My fear for him, always greater than it was for myself because I loved him and for the first time in a while was not afraid to admit it, flooded me like a rushing tide.
"Jareth! Don't do that! Point it at me, not you!" I yelled, running a few steps closer as tears streamed down my face.
"Oh please, like I would be stupid enough to shoot myself because of you. It's on safety moron." he chided me.
I stopped half-way to him, hurt by his words.
"Jareth...do you... do you hate me?" I cried.
"Of course I do. You're ugly, infuriating, insufferable and overbearing. I can't believe that at one time I ever liked you. Hogbrain was right about you." He responded.
Pain, greater than the beating I had just received, filled me. Pain because I had known Hoggle, the only one who he would call that because he was bad with his names. Pain because I had loved him, because I was hated by one of the most precious people in the world to me. I had to think fast, I couldn't let this be the end. Suddenly a song popped into my head. One that he might understand.
I closed my eyes and took a deep breathe "Jareth, you don't mean that. You don't hate me. So don't lie to me like that. It isn't right and you know it"
He sneered at me but I caught the flash of emotion in his eyes. Even if I couldn't catch what it was and hope began to fill me.
Slowly I started to sing:
"You're the first face that I see
And the last thing I think about.
You're the reason that I'm alive,
You're what I can't live without.
You're what I can't live without.
You never give up
When I'm falling apart
Your arms are always opened wide
And you're quick to forgive when I make a mistake
You love me in the blink of an eye.
I don't deserve your love
But you give it to me anyway.
Can't get enough
You're everything I need.
And when I walk away,
You take off running and come right after me.
It's what you do,
And I don't deserve you.
You're the light inside my eyes,
You give me reason to keep trying.
You give me more than I could dream,
And you bring me to my knees,
You bring me to my knees.
Your heart is gold,
And how am I the one,
that you've chosen to love?
I still can't believe that you're right next to me,
After all that I've done.
I don't deserve your love
But you give it to me anyway.
Can't get enough
You're everything I need.
And when I walk away,
You take off running and come right after me.
It's what you do,
And I don't deserve you."
I walked closer, hoping he understood but he pointed the gun at me again. So I took a deep breathe and sang the rest of the song:
"I don't deserve a chance like this,
I don't deserve a love that gives me everything,
You're everything I want.
I don't deserve your love
But you give it to me anyway.
Can't get enough
You're everything I need.
And when I walk away,
You take off running and come right after me.
It's what you do,
And I don't deserve you.
And I don't deserve you."
I was visibly pleading for him to listen to me now. He had to. It was killing me, this stranger that stood in his place with hatred in him, it had to stop.
Finally, I saw the understanding I knew so well and his finger slide off the trigger and he dropped the gun staring at me in shame.
BANG!
Pain filled me as shock and denial shown in his face.
"No! Sarah!" He yelled, catching me.
"I...I f-feel... dizzy... Jareth." I stuttered through the pain.
"I'm so sorry. I didn't mean it. I thought the safety was on. Please stop. Please. Please. Please. Dang it stop bleeding!" He panicked and rambled.
"J-Jar-ret-th... Shh." I tried to calm him.
Tears dropped from his face and onto mine, the world was getting hazy and dark around the edges but if I told him that he'd panic more.
"Sarah... I'm so sorry." he whispered again and again like a mantra.
Slowly I felt my eyes drift and my world went black. I only heard one last panicked cry from him.
"Sarah! Open your eyes! Sarah please! Sarah, I command you... as the Goblin King to open your eyes!" He yelled before all sound cut off for me as well.
I hardly felt the pain anymore. It mostly felt like I was floating. Slowly the pain faded.
(A/N: And there's a snippet of my new story. That's chapter 1)