Chapter 2: A Talk with The Doctor
"I have re-ordered time. I have turned the world upside down, and I have done it all for you!"
"Love me do as I say, and I will be your slave."
The thick fog began to drift against Sarah's heavy eyelids. Hearing those words, she quickly opened her eyes. Before her stood the Goblin King. Just as she had remembered him all those years ago…somethings never changed.
The ballroom was just as she had remembered it. A sea of people in grand attire and mask of crystals, feathers and beads shielded the people's faces. All Sarah was faced with were sets of eyes. The only difference was Sarah was older and understood what this dream meant.
Feeling her pulse quicken, Sarah tried to calm down. Placing her hand against her chest to stop her heart from feeling as thought it was going to beat outside of her chest, she took a deep breath. "This is just a dream Sarah. Nothing more." She told herself. After all, what should she except to dream of after the doctor gave her that drug? Rainbows and unicorns?
"What do you want Jareth? I haven't seen you in years. Fine time for you to show up. With me behind—"
Jareth cut her off midsentence. "Precious, you have to get out of this hell hole you are in." In all the years of knowing Sarah, she had not changed. She grew into a lovely young woman and everything had developed nicely, but there was still that little girl hidden within the young woman.
"Why do you care? You never cared." Taking hold of her hands, he spun her around the ballroom. "All you ever cared about was making sure I lost time so you could keep Toby. Not to mention how you drugged me with that peach." Before Jareth had a chance to respond Sarah's eyes glassed over with tears and she spoke once more. "I have been all alone. A world full of craziness! "her tears turned from sadness to rage. As they stopped in the middle of the ballroom, Sarah balled up her hands into fist and beat his chest. "You never cared! You left me there to rot!" Sliding to her knees, Sarah buried her face into her hands.
"Precious, you have to free yourself. I can do no such thing."
"All it takes is one thing. One wish.."
"Wake up Sarah. It is only a dream. WAKE UP!" Opening her eyes, Sarah's pupils were dilated as a single tear rolled down her cheek.
….
"Do you think that worked king?" a goblin asked jumping up and down with joy. "She wish?"
"I don't know." Jareth ran a hand through his hair. "I am not allowed to ask her to wish herself away. God knows I have done too much already…Only Sarah can make that wish and no one else." Sighing he conjured up a crystal. "I just hope my overall plan works. If not, Sarah's health will be hanging in the balance. Mentally and physically."
Feeling a deep breathless pain hit is heart, Jareth tried to forget he pain and rage that filled Sarah's eyes. She was broken and lost. Only he could fix her, but first she had to wish herself away. Wish herself back to him.
…..
"How are we feeling today Sarah? Did you get enough sleep?" Dr. Corwin asked the following morning after breakfast.
"Yes, I slept fine, but it was full of dreaming."
"Oh really? Why don't you tell me about it? Did you have nightmares? Goblins crawling from the darkness?"
"No, not yet anyways." Sarah mumbled as she sat across from the doctor on the black sofa.
"What was that?" doctoring up his coffee, the doctor took a drink. Nice and strong just the way he liked it.
"I thought we were going to talk about my dad?" Sarah raised an eyebrow.
The doctor shrugged. "We will get to that in time. For now, tell me about your dreams."
"I have a question before we start."
"By all means please ask." Dr. Corwin motioned with his hand for Sarah to continue.
"You called me precious last night and you told me that you called your patience names. Like code names. I have only been called precious by one person."
"Yes, you mentioned that a certain king used to call you that." Flipping back through her files over the past six years, the doctor saw several times where this nickname was used. "You said that he used it often and that he only used your real name a time or two."
"If it is all the same to you, I would rather that you not call me that." That name was reserved for one person and one person only.
"Alright. Sarah. Now shall we get down to what your dreams were about?"
"There was a ballroom. It was full of people dressed in elegant attire and with masked that hide everything's faces. Music played as I walked through the large room. Before I knew it, I was dancing with the Goblin King."
"Was this time different? From before I mean?" the doctor looked over his glasses with curiosity as he rested the pen against his cheek.
"Yes, I yelled at him telling him…" a single tear rolled from her eyes and down her cheek onto the old gown. "he didn't care about me. He didn't care what happened to me. I was going to go mad and he didn't care." Her lip quivered as she sucked air through her teeth.
Retrieving a tissue from a nearby holder, Dr. Corwin offered it to Sarah with an outreached hand in her direction.
"Thank you." Dabbing her eyes with it, she sucked up her tears and returned to the matter at hand. "I'm sorry, I don't know why I was carrying on like that. It's not like I—"
"Love him."
A/N: Hello readers! Sorry I have not updated in a while been very busy. So what do you think Sarah will say? Does she love the Goblin King? If so will it be enough to bring her back to him?