Back to the labyrinth

Ch 3.

In a flash they are standing in the throne room, its clean and quiet, no goblins around or chickens, Sarah looks around she's only quickly passed through here before "I've had the whole place cleaned and this is no longer a place the goblins hang out, they only come here at set times to see me unless I call for them. I've built a hall for them across the city for them to spend time together in. It's much cleaner and I feel more rested in here" Sarah smiles "now Sarah where do you want to look?" she thinks "anywhere, show me the city" he nods his head "as you wish, may I keep hold of your hand?" this stuns Sarah "I'd like that" he smiles, and leads her outside.

At first glimpse it looks cleaner and it's busier, lots of goblins walking around and talking. "Let's walk this way" and he leads her, as they walk all the goblins say hello, and smile. They arrive at a hall and out walks hoggle "Sarah your here. I'm glad to see you, want to come in for a look?" she looks at Jareth who nods and leads her in. Once inside its beautiful, with pictures, full of tables and quiet music. "this is where I work from and its a place for the goblins to be together rather than the castle, they all like it" "its nice, not what I imagined a hall for goblins to look like" hoggle smiles proud "well we all appreciate what we've got and were glad of what Jareth does for us in return" Sarah squeezes his hand, and as he looks she smiles. "I'd like to see more of the city please, see you later hoggle" he nods and leads her out. After a complete walk around Jareth turns to Sarah "it's been almost an hour" "ok extend for another hour" he smiles "let's go to the castle".
Once back inside the throne room Sarah let's go of his hand and looks around "what you thinking Sarah?" he asks "I'm trying to imagine it full of goblins. Did Toby spend time in here?" he smiles "yes he was always in here bar a couple of times, once when I sent the bubbles when you ate the peach, and when I hid him when you arrived at the city" he sighs, "what's the sigh for?" "I was just thinking about Toby, he's the only child l ever spent time as a human and I miss him" how sweet...Sarah walks over to him and takes his hand "I'm sure he liked you or he would of been screaming non stop then you wouldn't of missed him" he looks down at their hands and smiles "he did seem to like me, I wanted to name him after me" "earlier did you say you sung to him?" he laughs "yes, sometimes little ones to settle him to sleep, but he liked the dancey songs best" "would you sing me one?" big ask... "You seriously want me to sing a song I sang for Toby?" "Yes I only heard you sing twice and they were slow" he nods, "I need a goblin, one minute" he walks to the door "fry, could you come help me please?" Sarah is surprised by the politeness "now fry this is Sarah, do you remember the Dance magic song we sang for Toby?" fry nods "I love that song" "good can we sing it for Sarah?" fry smiles "really? Oh yes I'd love to" "ready?" the goblin nods

"You remind me of the babe"

"What babe?"

"The Babe with the power"

"What power?"

"The power of voodoo"

"Who do?"

"You do"

"Do what?"

"Remind me of the babe"

Then he started singing and fry joined in where appropriate.

Once finished Sarah clapped and fry left bowing "I bet he liked that song" "he giggled as the goblins were around him then I danced with him, I did like your little brother" again he sighs and looks up "almost another hour gone", Sarah looks at the clock "is that over ground time too?" asks Sarah "yes, why?" "Just wondering, can we forget time for now? If I want to go back I trust you to let me" this is a big leap for her as she's still not sure of it's a trick "ok if that's what you want"

"I do, now would you show me how you sit at your throne?" he looks confused, let's go of her hand and goes towards his throne "what a strange request" she giggles "well I've never seen you sit on it, I've only ever imagined it" he turns and smiles, he gets on his throne and takes his usual pose legs across it "I sit like this, and I did with Toby on my lap too. Now I'm thinking would you like a tour of the castle? You've only seen this room and my topsey turvy room" this idea excites Sara "sounds good to me" he stands "right this way" and he goes go walk "uh uh" says Sara, he turns back and sees her hand extended, he sighs and takes her hand.

While walking they talk about the goblins, Toby and her uni studies, "Sarah can I ask something?" "yes of course" "was the only reason you rejected me because you were young and wanted Toby back?" she stops in her tracks and pulls him in front of her "yes, I was 15, over ground at that age your still a child and what you offered was too much for me to consider or comprehend. That's the only reason... Oww and yes I did need Toby back, why?" "Well I saw you reject Daniel and I wasn't sure why you seem to reject all men"... This hit Sarah; she'd been accused of being gay before, now she was getting it with him "well... No man compares to you, I rejected you as I said then all I wanted was you, don't you know that from my dreams of you?"

He felt it coming and it came, he blushed "yes... Uhh... I do but you may of only liked it as a fantasy, not as an actual thing" she noticed his blush "are you seriously blushing?" he smiled "yes" she laughed, "at your age my sexual dreams make you blush?" he looked away, and replied seriously "yes they do..." he paused "I was brought down here as a baby and made king, I now forever rule down here. I have never had...I can't say it... I'm ashamed to admit it" Sarah pulled him closer "you've never been with anyone before?" he nodded "oh, I'm sorry I jumped to the conclusion, have I offended you?" he looked back "no" Sarah felt awful and gently moved her hand to his cheek and stroked it "its fine, you know I've never been with anyone so if I stay we can work on it together" he smiled... "Ok, two places on our tour" and leads her off...