Is this it? After all I've been through? And what thanks do I get? I mean of course I love Jareth, how could I not? And of course I would do anything to stay with him. But I'm 18 years old! How could i possibly explain all of this... this madness! How can he expect me to raise a child?

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It had been three long years since Sarah had last visited the labyrinth, and over a year since she had stopped getting visits from Hoggle, Ludo and Sir Diddymus. Of course she didn't want to stop calling them, but what choice did she have? As much as she loved them, she couldn't help feeling the stab of pain she recieved when realised that Jareth once again not followed them on their visits. Sarah knew that rejecting him was an unthinkable thing to do, and she knew how unlikely it was that Jareth would ever forgive her for it, but what else could she have done? She could never have lived with herself if she had let her younger brother, Toby, be taken. But as she got older, and thought over her time in the goblin city more and more, she realised something. He had only been trying to give her what she wanted. She had asked him to take Toby away. All he ever asked of her was for her to love him, and to fear him. And in return for this, he was willing to be her slave forever. It killed her to turn him down, but what other option did she have? She still wished, even know, that he knew how much she wanted to stay, in the city, with her friends, and with him. As Sarah sat in her bedroom and thought of these times, she could not help but to cry.

Back in the goblin city, Jareth looked on in despair. He had spent the majority of the day staring into one of his many glass orbs watching the girl that had beaten him so many years before. Now as he saw her break down in tears, it was all he could do to hold back and stop himself visiting her and comforting her. But he was sure that he would be the last person she would want to see any time soon, not after the kidknapping of her brother, whether she asked him to or not.

It was now, after so long, that he finally heard the words he had been praying for, the words she had refrained from saying for three years now.

"Why did you never come? When all the others visited, why never you? Don't you see how much i need you Jareth? Don't you see that i love you?"

Now he knew. He finally knew that she didn't want to leave him. He finally knew that she felt the same. He could resist no longer, he had to see her.