Chapter Three:
He sat in one of the couch chairs in the family room while her parents were on the love seat. They sat waiting for an explanation from their daughter's doctor. Right when he was about to speak someone came through the front yelling out, "I'm home," and when he looked he saw it was young Toby carrying his book bags and throwing it on the floor.
"Toby," his mother warned, and he saw the boy sighed and pick up his bag and flung it over his shoulder and when he walked into the room his face brighten to see . He dropped his bag a second time and his mother sighed and went to pick it up and put it in his room while he ask him so many questions.
"Slow down young Tobieth," he chuckled, "I'll answer all questions when your mother returns," the young fifteen year old nodded and sat next to his father. The boy had grown over the pass years his short light blonde hair had darken and grew out while his blue eyes stayed the same while his height had change drastically from a small toddler to a fine young man. For over the years he had almost adopted this strange little crew as part of his family and they open heartily accepted him as theirs. When the mother had return he had started with his notes on the examination with Sarah. They all listen attentively on what the good doctor had found, "well seeing as she has enough strength to throw things around and how she seems she doesn't miss a beat of anything we say I'll say physically she's doing just fine for a new awoken coma patient, but."
"But?" question the father.
Jareth sighed this was going to be the hardest part of the conversation, "Sarah seems to have a psychotic disorder, in hope it might just be brief, but with what she has told me and how well she believes it I wouldn't assume."
"What do you mean a psychotic disorder?" Robert confusedly asked.
"Yes, and what does she believe," asked the step-mother.
"Well from what I gather she doesn't want to leave her dream state, she wants the fantasy she lived in while she was in a coma; therefore she can't accept the fact that it was a dream and will do anything to prove that what she went through in her dream was real," he paused to see if they gather the information he was handing out and continued, "I believe it was caused when she hit her head on the tub, but it could also be from the stress she believed she had in the first place and the hit just made it the last straw for her psyche to take."
"Then what does she believe then," was what the little brother asked.
Again the doctor sighed, this was the hardest part of his job seeing the reaction to the family, but he told them everything. How she believed she wished away Toby as a young babe and how she had to run through the labyrinth to get him back in thirteen hours and how he was the goblin king that stole the poor boy and how she made many friends along the way that helped her through the maze and obstacles the so called king handed her. After his speech about the poor girls dream he gave them time to have the information sink in, "tomorrow I'll start with helping Sarah walk again before I start with anything else."
"So my sister's crazy is what you're saying."
"Toby!" yelled his mother, and Jareth smirk.
"Well on the easy stand point I guess you can say that, but Toby you must remember your sister is fragile at this state so you have to keep an eye out for her anything can trigger her to lose her sanity even more, so we all have to be careful what ever say to her or she'll never get out of this."
They all nodded in agreement to Jareth and he packed his things up and was heading out the door that is until Mrs. Williams ask him to stay for dinner. He smiled this family was too good to people, but since he didn't want to seem rude he accepted and join the small family for the meal and while sitting down the weight of their sorrows seem to lifted a bit just knowing that Sarah was wake.
Now that dinner was over he went back up stairs to check on the sleeping beauty. He walked in the girl's room to find her sitting up and staring out towards the window with a calm expression over her face. He knocked on the open door and when she turned to look at him her expression changed in a heartbeat, "what do you want?"
He walked in and closed the door and stood in front of her bed, "I'm here to make sure you're okay, meaning I have to give you a complete physical to make sure there is no permit damaged."
She frowned, "well I'm perfectly fine see," and she started to wave her arms in the arm a bit.
He smirked and laughed a bit, "Yes I can see that your arms in great condition since you did throw half your room at me," she smiled a bit at her accomplishment, "but can you move your legs?" and when she tried and it failed she looked the other way in defeat. He chuckled, "guess that proves my point," he walked over to the side of her bed and placed his bag down and grabbed his stethoscope ready to do the exam.
A smile cracked over his lips when she was just glaring at him, "isn't there a nurse that can do this."
"Don't worry Ms. Williams, you can keep your clothes on, and besides I've seen more than my fair share of women naked," he placed the medical instrument under her shirt and over her chest and listen to her heartbeat and it seemed fine.
"Is that on the professional or personal experience," she said smugly.
He laughed and placed the cold metal on her bare back, "Sadly it's only professionally and believe me when I say I wish I didn't have too," she gave him a query look, "they're mostly much older women who hit on me, now can you cough for me?" All she did was laugh and he sighed why did he share such personal experiences with this family, but at least she found that her breathing was okay from all of this. He put away the device and grab something else out of his bag and help her move her legs so they were hanging off the bed, "Now all I want you to do is tell me if you can feel anything okay?" She nodded and he lightly hit her knee and in a relief her leg made a small twitch from it. He did it to the other one and again it was a good sign, "well that's good, it seems if you go into recovery we can bring your leg strength back and you can walk again."
Her eyes became at least two times bigger than normal as she said, "you mean there was a good chance of me not walking again."
"It happens to a lot of coma patients that stay asleep for years, but mostly with therapy and exercise they can walk again, usually patients who lost all connection to their legs don't and rarely that happens." She nodded again and he packed away his medical supply and then handed her some pills and explain that they were only there to help build her strength back up quicker and should only be taken after every meal and only one pill should be taken. He told her that he'll send her mother up to get her ready for a bath and that he'll be back tomorrow to start her therapy. With that he left the twenty- eight year old in her room. She reached over to the dresser and grabbed one thing from it, a novel with a red cover with gold lettering spelling out one word, Labyrinth. She ran her hand over the letters and said one thing to herself, "I know what happen to me was real, I just know it," and her step-mother came in and she stashed the book under her mattress as she got prepared for a bath.
A/N: hey another chapter up and running. I feel bad for Sarah and Jareth for the fact of well….he hasn't gotten any… and yea it's kind of a funny sad for him. Well Read and Review and enjoy. Until then see ya.