'I need your help'

'I know my dear, I know exactly why you are here. Its all been written down.'

'You do? But if you knew why I was here then you knew before hand about what would happen, and if you knew all of that then why did you allow it to happen?' Sarah's temper began to flutter and her emotions were all over the place, all this goblin had to do was push another button and a volcano of built up emotions were going to flood the place.

'Sarah. Listen.'

'I won't listen...I won't have it! You could have stopped all of this and you didn't!'

'Sarah I couldn't change fate even if I wanted to!' Bookworm yelled back.

'Why then. What possible reason do you have for the actions you took?'

'Sarah...History is a complex thing, you can't change what is set in motion, consequences happen when you mess with things that are complex.'

'What- Consequences?'

'Are you familiar with the expressions, an eye for an eye or the phrase a life for a life?'

'Yes but what has that got to do with this?'

'Well you see, if you change or alter time, then time wants repaying.'

'Repaying? I don't understand?'

'Repaying for what you have changed, it can make an already bad situation worse, even if all you wanted to do was make it better.'

'How can our situation be worse?'

'It can come in all sorts of forms but in the Underground we call it the shadows' Bookworm reached to the third shelf of the bookcase that he was leaning on and brought down a very dusty book. The book had gold edged pages and was clearly a prized item, for if you didn't count the dust, you would have thought that the book was brand new. Bookworm flicked through the pages as one would do if they were familiar with the book and its contents, very much like one would do with their favourite book. Bookworms eyes finally landed on a page which was made up of images. His expression changed and the once enigmatic Goblin became one that was full of all the sadness of the world.

Sarah cocked her head concerned about the Goblin. 'Are you okay? Bookworm?'

'I'm fine. Just please understand, that I had no choice.' he gestured over the page of the book.

Sarah stepped closer and leaned over the book, she focussed in on the pages of the book. The first image showed a King and a Queen rejoicing over a wedding. The next image showed the a Goblin talking to the King and Queen, their faces concerned and horrified. The third image showed the Queen alone looking over a book and tears trickling down her face. The final image showed the Queen holding a crystal ball and crushing it.

'What happened?'

'She tried to alter fate.' Bookworm turned over the page, which revealed three further images.

The first image showed the outside of the kingdom in the paintings where an army had appeared to have fallen, the Queen stood at the balcony having watched it happen, her face showed relief. The next image showed black figures running towards the castle. The final image on the page showed the King holding his Queen, for she was dead.

'She died?'

'Yes'

'What did she see in the book?'

'She saw her love one die at the hands of the army that was set to storm the kingdom. She tried to stop that from happening by killing the army before it reached the border. But fate shouldn't be altered. The shadows came and stormed the kingdom, as the army would have done and it claimed her life instead of her lovers.'

'How awful. Please tell me that this story isn't true?'

'I am sorry Sarah but all of the events did actually occur, this is a hall of records.'

'How can I stop the imposter then? Without altering anything?'

'The answer to that lies within yourself. What would you do in this situation?'

'I. I don't know.' Sarah cupped her head inside her hands and sobbed, all of the built up emotions poured themselves out.

'M'lady we will solve this puzzle, I swear it on my honour' Sir Didymus said and he nudged Ludo who spoke, short and sweet 'Friends?'

Thierry watched Sarah from his crystal ball. It was a pity that Thierry couldn't hear what was being said but he knew that she was searching for a way to defeat him in the hall of records and he couldn't help but smile.

Thierry stretched and pondered over a change of plans. Sure it would be easy enough to just erase her memories and create a set of new ones but that was easy. She wanted to defeat the imposter and he wanted to grant her that wish, however it wouldn't be exactly the way she would have wanted it.

Thierry waved his hand and a door appeared on the wall, opening the door, he ventured down the staircase. 'Wake him up. We've got work to do.'

'Yes your highness' the Goblin replied and he poked at Jareth who was hanging from the wall. 'The master wants you to wake up and get ready' as the Goblin finished his sentence he chucked a bucket of water over Jareth.

Sarah ran to the bathroom in the hall of records and washed her face as all of the sobbing had left her with make-up trailing its way down her face. She grabbed hold of the towel and patted her face dry, then she glanced at the mirror and jumped.

It was not her face staring back at her but the face of Jareth, who was hung in chains.

'Jareth? Is that really you?'

'Sarah? Can you hear me?'

'I can. I can Jareth. Where are you? Please tell me, I'll bring help and we will get you out of there.'

'Sarah? If you can hear me, he's dangerous, don't listen to him, he's pretending to be me.'

'Oh Jareth! I know, he want's the kingdom. Tell me where you are.'

'He's got me locked up in the dungeons in a place called the Forgotten Forest. Do not listen to anything he tells you, it's all lies.'