The "OOMPH!" continued to bounce off the walls and ring in Sarah's ears but she was more worried about the thing she had landed on, she shut her eyes and from behind her eyelids moved her eyes down and then slowly opened one to reveal a very red face complete with two very angry and very mismatched eyes. Sarah shut her eye again and slowly stood up and backed away from him with her eyes closed, "It's not him, It's not him" she continually whispered to herself, trying to make herself believe this was true, Sarah also put her hands over her eyes to block him out more.
Jareth looked at her now with a puzzled look on his face that replaced the anger, he chuckled lightly, "My love", he moved her hands from her eyes and looked into them, he chuckled a bit more then finished "What are you doing ?" looking into her eyes still, he waited for her reply. Sarah's eyes looked back and forth between his there were no traces of the anger she had seen before, instead it was replaced with mild amusement that was aimed at her.
Sarah could feel her cheeks growing hot and soon her face was beaming from embarrassment from him laughing at her for the extremely childish thing she had just done. Slowly she put her arms down behind her back and intertwined her hands while slowly rubbing the dirt around with the toes of her left foot, she looked down and could feel his gaze upon her.
"Sarah" Jareth said calmly trying to banish the amusement from his voice, it was a losing battle but he tried anyway, she didn't answer but merely focused her attention on a small pebble beside her foot and kicked it lightly to the side of the corridor somewhere, it left behind it a feeble echo that soon faded away to nothing.
"Sarah" he tried again, this time there was a hint of annoyance in his voice but she still refused to acknowledge him. He sighed and slid his hand beneath her chin and wrapped his fingers around it before hastily lifting her head to look at him "WHAT?!" she all but screamed at him, he fell back slightly at her outburst as he did she pulled her head from his hand and looked at him with a fire burning brightly in her eyes, the fire he loved so much, the fire he had seen in her eyes the day she had run his Labyrinth and won back Toby and his heart at the same time.
Jareth regained his balance and composed himself sighing again as he did, "How do you expect me to be able to say anything to you when you get so defensive when I try to talk to you and you ignore me and put all your attention into something so insignificant as the pebble you kicked off to the side ?" Sarah stood there looking at him, furrowed her brow and answered his question with a question of her own,
"What exactly would you want to talk to me about, Jareth ?" she crossed her arms, a smirk played across her lips as she looked on at him, she could see the cogs that were turning in his head come to an abrupt halt as he thought of how he should go about answering her.
Jareth held his chin in his hand and rubbed it lightly before replying softly with a question of his own, "But my question to you is, do you want to know ?" the smirk that played across her lips disappeared and was replaced by a slightly open mouth accompanied by a confused and slightly worried expression, her arms went stiff by her sides and her legs started to tremble slightly, though the reason why they did escaped her.
Jareth could see her trembling slightly and decided to play a game with her, he took a step forward and although it was delayed, she mimicked his action but backwards, he then decided to take a couple of quick steps towards her, she mimicked him again and backed herself against a wall the cold stone bit harshly into the soft flesh of her shoulders, Jareth quickly closed the gap between them in two short strides.
Sarah turned her head so that her cheek was against the cold stone, she could feel his cool breath hit her cheek softly causing some stray hairs to tickle her ear, her breath shuddered lightly with the quiet moan of a laugh, Jareth stroked up and down her arm slowly with one leather clad finger, whilst his other hand tucked the stray hairs behind her ear gently he then let his hand fall down slightly and let it rest beneath her chin, he lay his thumb on her cheek and gently stroked the soft flesh beneath it as he slowly turned her head to look at him