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Chapter 9: This Is Goodbye

Sarah and her three loyal friends stood in the Goblin King's throne room, which had been abandoned. They had been through so much together, but now Sarah felt like if they helped her face their King, they would all be hurt, if not killed! And so she said her goodbyes to them once they reluctantly agreed to let her go alone.

"I'll miss you," She smiled a sad little smile as she moved toward the doorway leading the only possible way he could have gone. The young astronaut turned around. "All of you."

"Just remember, fair maiden, that we are always at your service should you need us," Sir Didymus barked.

"Sawah fwiend..." Ludo the lion growled.

Hoggle was the last one to speak. "Yes, should you need us..."

"I'll call," Sarah smiled after taking one last long look at her friends. "Goodbye, and thank you!"

As she ran up the stairs, she thought the whole thing sounded very familiar, but she couldn't place how. Maybe she'd heard it somewhere before? No, no. That was impossible! They seemed to know that she would fine on her own, and that the Goblin King meant her no real harm. Was this all a game to them? How many girls had they helped over the years? or was she the only one? So many questions filled her mind that she nearly lost her footing when she reached the top step.

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Jareth was waiting for her, and so was Toby. Sarah found herself lost in a great big room full of mirrors. They reminded her of funhouse mirrors, only there was nothing fun about them. they looked so... sinister. The panes of glass turned this way and that, going upside down, even inside out, around corners and twists and turns. They made her adventure up until now seem like a piece of cake...

"Jareth, this isn't funny!" She was shouting at him now. "Give me back my brother! Toby! Toby, where are you? Where did you go?"

"It's no use looking for him, Sarah..." She watched him do the impossible. He stepped through a mirror to join her on the next level up. But then he was gone, his face reflecting in all the different mirrors. "He's becoming one of us, now."

"No!" She shouted, looking around at the room, whirling as she looked at the endless maze before her. It was too much to take. "No, you're lying!"

Everywhere Sarah looked she saw Jareth, or Toby, or sometimes both. The mirrors came in a rainbow of colors, which in turn reflected one another to make new colors, and sometimes reflect the old ones. It was maddening!

Finally, in her desperation, she thought she had the one containing the real Toby, so Sarah smashed her fist through it. Thousands of crystal shards descended around her, but none of them touched her. She looked around to find that all of the mirrors had shattered, revealing only a very serious looking Goblin King. He was dressed entirely in white, with a great long feathery cape, also done in white, flowing behind his lithe figure. Jareth stepped carefully around her, making slow sure circles to close in on her. The shards of glass and mirror remnants were floating in what looked like space.

He held out a shiny clear crystal for her to take, but she stayed where she was, glaring at him. "I can show you your dreams, Sarah."

"No. I just want my brother back." Her voice was so stern, and sure. He knew he had lost her once again. "Through dangers untold, and hardships unnumbered... I have fought my way here to the Castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child that you have stolen..." She spoke as if in a deep trance. She knew the words from somewhere. But where?

"Stop!" He held up a hand. "Love me, fear me, do as I say, and I will be your slave..."

"No!" Damn his hypnotic enchanting eyes! "I want Toby! You have to give him back!"

"Please, Sarah," His eyes were full of some deep long lost tragic sorrow. "You left me once, don't leave me again. I don't think that I could bear it..."

"But this isn't about us, it's about Toby," She was so quick to remind him. So it seemed they both knew that she did not harbor any feelings of hatred toward him. She only wanted to right the wrong that she herself had done.

"This has happened before," He exclaimed, understanding dawning in her emerald eyes. "You wished away your baby brother, but you denied me, Sarah. I cannot let that happen again. We could share such a beautiful life here together. Please, just let me show you..." Jareth put the crystal away this time, and extended his hand to her instead.

"Jareth..." Memories of long ago danced in the corners of her memory. "I remember. I do... But I still have to take Toby back to where he belongs. His mother will be so worried about him. I don't like Karen, but what I did was wrong. This is all wrong... All of it! There is nothing I can do, Jareth. I'm sorry... You have no power over me."

She said the words quickly, as if she wanted to get the deed overwith already. She winced as she pronounced each dreaded syllable, closing her eyes as she did so. When Sarah opened her eyes, the Goblin King was gone, and there sat Toby. When she ran over to him, and picked him up for a hug, they were transported back to her ship. She did not see any signs of the Underground, or the Catacobs anywhere. Perhaps it was meant to be that way.

Then she remembered that she had given her wrist computer to Hoggle. How was she supposed to get back to her planet? It didn't matter, she had always kept a spare in a hidden compartment on the spaceship. And since it was hidden, there was never any need to lock it. But when she approached her ship, her foot hit something small and hard along the way. After putting Toby down for a moment, she picked it up. It was her wrist computer! So the little Martian hadn't been so selfish after all, and he had returned it...

"Come on, Toby. Let's go home."

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A/N: I had planned this out a bit differently, but... It came out better than expected. I'd rate this story as about average, really. I could have done better, but... it's okay. I hope you enjoyed this. There is one more chapter to come, don't miss it! And as always, thank you for the previous reviews, my lovelies. Now Please R&R!

-Kaline Reine