Chapter 9

The late afternoon sun filtered into the room. Sitting in an arm chair near the opened French windows, Sarah looked at the offending book in her hands. Everything was true. Every damn word was true. He hadn't been lying to her. The Goblin King had not been lying to her. She had done as he suggested and asked Sir Didymus and Hoggle about this "law," and they both said the same thing. The same damn thing. By all the laws of the Underground, she was the Lady of the Labyrinth, Goblin Queen, and High Queen. She was his wife. SHE WAS HIS WIFE. And she had no say in any of it. Hell, it took a lot for her not to think about "what no one knew." She so didn't want to think about that. Just the thought that it might actually be true, no stop.

Sarah shook her head as tears began to fall. This could not be happening. There had to be a way out, but no, she had read the entire book. There was no way around it. The marriage had to be made official, which Sarah really worried over what exactly that meant. But what hurt her the most was that people were being put in danger because of her. This entire war was because she had to save Toby, no matter what he tired to tell her. It was her fault.

She closed the book and raised it to throw it against a wall, but what use would that be. The Law was still there. It wouldn't go away just because she threw the book.

A knock came at the door. Sarah stood up, wiped her eyes, and tossed the book into the chair and walked over to the door, but before she reached it, the door opened. She barely registered that it was Jareth before she started crying again.

Jareth quickly walked in and shut the door behind him. "Sarah, what's wrong?" Moving towards her slowly, he glanced around the room.

Sarah stepped back and tired to stop crying but only succeed in giving herself the hiccups. "It's all my fault." Of course, that wasn't what it came out as. It was more like "It's hic all hic my hic fault." (I'm not going to do this for all her lines so just imagine she's doing it after every word or in some words, what ever seems funnier to you.)

Jareth looked at the book in the chair then back at her. "Sarah, it's not your fault."

"If I hadn't wished Toby away, none of this would be happening."

Jareth sighed and smiled weakly at her. "Sarah, even if you hadn't wished him away, you would have still been made Queen."

"If I never wished him away, then you and I wouldn't be forced into this."

"Sarah, I'm not being forced."

"Oh, yes you are. That damn law says so."

"Sarah, answer me this. "What no one knew"?"

Sarah looked at the floor and mumbled, where he couldn't hear her.

"Sarah, I can't hear you." He almost smirked.

She raised her head and gave him that look. The look he wanted to see. He'd been waiting to see. The look that she gave him that showed just how determined she could be. "What no one knew was that the King of the Goblins had fallen in love with the girl and had given her certain powers."

He began to walk around her, very much like at the end of her run. "So how is this your fault, when it all started with me?"

She glared at him as he stopped in front of her. "How dare you?"

He smirked at her. "How dare I? Sarah, it's the truth. I gave you the powers. You might have wished it, but I gave you the means to make your wishes come true."

Sarah continued to glare and hiccup every once in awhile.

Jareth made a gesture with his hand and a glass of water appeared. "Here try this." He held out the glass to her.

Reluctantly, she took it. "Thanks." Sarah held her nose and gulped down as much as she could. Then held the glass as she removed her hand from her nose. "I think that worked."

"Doesn't it always for you." Sighing, Jareth walked over to the chair and picked up the book. "Sarah, this was not yours or mine fault. The truth is it doesn't matter. It's the Law. I have to obey it."

Sarah held her head up high. "So what do we do now?"

He gestured with his hand and the glass disappeared. "We have to officiate the marriage, Sarah."

"Please tell me that we don't have to have..."

Smiling, Jareth shook his head slightly. "No, we don't. We just have to have a wedding, but it need not be elaborate. It can just be us, Toby, Julian, and Vivienne."

Sarah shook her head. "This is just too much."

"Sarah, I can only give you so much time. I need your help to protect the Labyrinth."

She wanted to run. Run as far as she could. "Why does this always happen to me?"

"Because you are special."

"I'm just an ordinary girl."

Slowly he walked towards her. "You are not an ordinary girl." He flicked his wrist and a familiar crystal orb appear in his hand. "Remember this?"

Sarah looked at the crystal orb. "Why did you bring that here?"

"Now, what did I say five years ago? Oh yes. This isn't a gift for an ordinary girl, and it isn't. It's yours."

"And you said it was a my dreams, but I don't see what it has to do with now."

"Because, Sarah, they were never just your dreams." He held the crystal orb out to her. "They were our dreams."

Sarah placed her hands on her hips, refusing to touch the crystal orb. "Care to explain that?"

Sighing, Jareth retracted his hand. "It's simple, Sarah. We both want the same things."

"And what to do we both want?"

He smirked at her. "Sarah."

"I asked."

"I doubt very much you would wish to discuss this with Toby in the door."

Sarah turned and there standing in the now opened door way, was Toby with Hoggle.

Jareth bowed slightly. "We'll have dinner alone tonight, Sarah. Then we can talk more." He walked to the door and turned back to her just as he walked past Toby and Hoggle. "Till then, Sarah."

Hoggle stood wide mouth as his king walked past. Toby rushed toward his sister.

"What was that about?"

Sarah forced a smile at him. "Nothing, Toby"

Hoggle shook his head and looked at Sarah. "What did you do?"

"I didn't do anything. We were discussing you know what."

"Ah." Hoggle nodded. "Well, guess I'll keep him company while you and his royal pain eat dinner."

"Hoggle, I thought you said you liked him."

"I do, but doesn't mean I don't make fun of him. Besides I'm not afaird of him. I have you on my side." Hoggle smiled.

Sarah shook her head. Well, she would have to figure this all out tonight at dinner. They had to come to an understanding. Toby's safety came first. But could he really love her or was that a trick? Why couldn't it be easy?

Thanks for the reviews and well wishes. The last chapter was meant to be more Jareth, but I wanted to reveal it all in Sarah's point of view.

I know I didn't write the conversation between Sarah and Jareth in the last chapter very well. I hope that I did better in this chapter. I'm doing this in the early morning hours mostly, just before I go to sleep. Also, I'm still recovering. I'm still having some pain, but it's mild. It does come and go.

I know that I'm taking a while to update, but bare with me. But here is some bad news. I'm going to work on one of my other stories for a bit now. Most likely my Power Rangers story. I need to reread it and decide where I'm going with it. I will come back here. Now some bad news. For the last few years, I've done a story for Halloween. Well, my lovely readers, I can't see me being able to do one this year. I'm still not sure about Thanksgiving or Christmas at this point.

Review if you please.

Also, could someone make me an image to use for a cover for my stories. I'm asking cause well all I can come with hasn't turned out so well, and it doesn't seem right to have the image that is there now for this story.

Edited 5/14/14