Chapter four

'I need to get out of this room' Sarah thought to herself as she sat up and pulled at the top of her dress releasing any wrinkles. She made her way out of the room into the hallway.

Jareth was leaning against the wall next to the door. "You certainly took your time getting changed".

Sarah looked ready to bite his head off, when she calmed herself down, "Jareth, what are you doing?"

"Why sneaking around outside your chambers of course" he smiled wickedly, "Now, lunch is ready I'll escort you to the dining room".

"And if I don't want to go?" she asked turning her back on him.

Jareth sighed and snapped his fingers, Sarah was now sitting in the dining room at a large table opposite Jareth. Sarah crossed her arms and slouched back in the chair.

"Now, now Sarah I'm only trying to be nice" he grinned and lifted his wine glass.

"Nice, you call bringing me here by magic against my will nice?" she asked, anger clear in her voice.

"It was for your own good, you have to eat" he paused for a little while and looked away from her. "And Sarah if you don't eat with me, then you don't eat at all".

"Fine then I guess I'll be off" she started to get up but was held down by a force and had to relax back into the chair again.

"Don't defy me Sarah, what happened to the Sarah in the ballroom?" he asked sipping his wine.

"She was left there, with all the other tricks you tried on me" Sarah answered pushing her food around the plate with her fork.

Jareth slowly swallowed the wine and put the glass down. "I assure you she wasn't a trick". Jareth tried to look in her eyes to find out what she was thinking.

Sarah was just about to reply to him but was stopped when a goblin ran in.

"Sire, she's here the girl is at the castle" The goblin told the king.

"show her in" Jareth ordered the goblin.

"Yes Sire" the goblin ran out of the room back into the city.

"It seems lunch is to be cut short" he grabbed Sarah's arm and escorted her back to her chambers "Stay here" he ordered and left.

"When did I ever start taking orders from you" she grinned and started to walk back through the halls to the throne room.

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Jareth looked at the clock in his throne room, the girl was extremely late, he would have just sent her back but found more pleasure in watching her suffer.

The girl slowly opened the door a little afraid at what was behind it.

"No need to be afraid, come child" Jareth motioned his hand for her to come closer. "You should be happy, I'm sending you home".

"And....my sister?" she asked though when she saw the clock hanging behind her she already knew his answer.

Sarah watched from behind the door, she remember her own confrontation with the goblin king so clearly.

Jareth motioned for the goblins to bring in the little girl, "The child stays" he threw a crystal up in the air and the child had disappeared.

"You monster!" Sarah shouted from the door and ran away out into the goblin city.

"Stop her" Jareth ordered his goblins, then sent the girl home. He ran out of the throne room into the city and watched Sarah run off he created a crystal and watched where she was heading. His eyes widened in shock as she entered a dark, deep forest. "The Endless Forest" he whispered and transported himself to Sarah.

Sarah stopped as she saw the Goblin King standing in front of her, "Keep away from me" she started backing away.

"Sarah wait" he cautioned and grabbed her hand.

"I said keep away from me!"

She ran off deeper into the forest the branches tearing at her dress and flesh still she ran, she ran until her foot hit a jutting root and she came tumbling to the floor.

"Damn" she cursed looking at her foot.

She started to make her way up again when she heard a near growl.

Her head shot up looking around her trying to pinpoint where the sound was coming from.

The growling started getting louder and was echoed in different directions, the bushes started to sway from all around her, she leaned up against a tree hoping her imagination was just getting the better of her again. "Jareth" she called "Where are you?".

Slowly three creatures made there way out of the bushes, they reminded her of wolves, well big psychopathic wolves. Grandma's house was so out of sight too.

"Jareth" she called one last time before the wolves growled and started moving quickly towards their prey.