Chapter 25 (One written, or begun, at 10:16 pm on Sunday night, when Monday school begins at 7am;))

"What is it Fowler?" Jareth said boredly. "As you can see, I am extremely busy here with my lessons, and I told you not to disturb me unless it was urgent."

"But Sir, Your Majesty, it is urgent, Highness." Fowler said nervously. "We believe we have reached the LUSCT."

"What in the world are you talking about Fowler?" Jareth said, sitting up and scowling at the small creature.

"Well, Sir, LUSCT stands for the Lead Up Stages of Child Takege, majesty." Fowler said, twisting his little skirt in his hands, his beady little eyes focused on the floor.

"Indeed?" Jareth asked, eyebrow raised. "I had best come back then. Sarah, we shall continue your lessons once I return." He said, taking a crystal and changing his clothing to a long blue cape, black tights, black boots and a white poet's shirt. He bowed to Sarah, and with a flourish of his cape and a wave of glitter, he had disappeared. However, Fowler remained.

"Oh, uh… excuse me my lady Sarah" He said, bowing deeply to her and, spinning into a little all, disappearing.

"My lady Sarah? Really, that's a bit much, poor little thing was scared to death." She said to Numy, who she thought was still sitting beside her. But who was absent

"Where in the world could he be?" She said. A single piece of pure white parchment floated down towards her.

Dear Sarah

Darling Little Jareth has followed me down to the Underground. I trust you will not mind, as he shall be well taken care of. The Goblins have never seen anything like him, and it should provide much entertainment.

Jareth

PS I shall not be gone more than a week. However, if I am gone for a longer time, my lesson plan shall be found on my desk for you to take care of. I am sure you will not mind explaining to Dumbledore about my absence.

"The nerve of tat man." Sarah grumbled, mounting her broom and flying back towards Hogwarts.

However, when she came to the front doors, she found they had been locked

"Damn" She muttered. She flew back towards the window she thought was her dorm room, but actually discovered that it was the Ravenclaw boys shower room.

Trying to erase the memory from her mind, she suddenly realised that she should probably just go back the way she came out.

Sadly, someone else had noticed the open window and shut it. Even trying to open it with magic did not work.

"Damn, damn, double damn." Sarah yelled, past hearing distance from the castle. "It's not fa… I grew out of that saying, Dammit, but this isn't fair! Why does it always happen to me?"

Sarah continued to fly around the castle, looking for any sort of open window…

IN THE GRYFFINDOR BOYS COMMON ROOM

"Ron!" Harry whispered. Everyone else in the common room was asleep, lights out had been a half hour ago. Harry had been looking at the Marauder's Map, trying to work out why Sarah and Professor Sidhe had flown together over to the opposite side of the lake. Then, something called fowler had shown up, causing Sidhe to disappear, along with Numair, then Fowler itself. Then Sarah had been flying around outside the castle for some reason.

"RON!" Harry whispered, right into his ear.

"Bloody hell Harry." Ron said sleepily. "What's the matter?" He asked, rubbing his eyes.

"I think Sarah might be locked out. There've been some pretty weird occurrences outside tonight."

"Sure there have, Harry." Ron said, rolling over.

Try as he may, Harry was unable to reawaken him.

Looking back at his map, Harry realised that Sarah, if she continued along the path she had taken the last thirty-seven times she had flown around the castle, would be flying past the common room window in exactly seventy-three seconds.

Harry ran down the stairs, silently, and flung open the biggest window, one that would be easily visible for Sarah.

"Sarah!" He whispered loudly, trying to be loud enough for Sarah to hear, but not the rest of the school

When Sarah saw the open window, she immediately flew towards, almost crying in relief. Because her eyes were so tear filled, she could not see straight, and almost crashed right into Harry on her landing.

Luckily, though, due to his quick reflexes needed as a Seeker, Harry was able to successfully dodge his classmate.

"Blimey Sarah" he said

"Oh thank god Harry! I thought I'd be stuck out there all night!" She cried, wiping her eyes. "But how'd you know I was out there?" She asked

"Well… I kind of have this thing, that because of this stuff, let's me see other stuff and stuff."

"Riiiight." Sarah said incredulously (How many times have I used that word in this story?)

"Well, I suppose I'd best be off to bed." Sarah said. Harry nodded, and followed her to the stairwell.

"Listen Harry." Sarah said, "Hermione told em about what happened between you two. I think… her signs can be easily misconstrued, and you should wait for her to answer you, because I'm pretty sure you won't be disappointed with her answer."

"What are you saying?" Harry asked.

"Oh nothing" Sarah said, "my lips are sealed." She made a zipping motion over her lips and ran up to her dorm room.

The next two weeks passed as normal, except their Dark Arts teacher did not return. Instead, Professor Dumbledore himself took the class, following Jareth's lesson plans as well as he could (As well as one could when it mainly continued 'find a random page and then write an essay' and a list of pages already worked on.)

But whenever students asked for previous essays to be returned, neither Sarah nor Dumbledore could find them, although Sarah swore she spotted parchment with Ron's writing on it being used as kindling in Jareth's rooms.

Eventually Jareth returned, and he and Sarah continued their lessons, returning to their spot by the lake. Sarah finally mastered food spells and scent spells, as well as spells to turn a crystal ball into any object she desired.

One afternoon, Jareth even took her into a tower above the school courtyards, and taught her how to change the appearances of others.

Sarah took great joy in giving Hermione black hair, Ron purple hair, Harry pink skin, Ginny yellow and orange eyes, and Malfoy red and gold hair and robes, for which he swore revenge.

Soon, the Christmas break drew close, and the other students began to prepare to return home for the holidays.

Sarah sat at her dorm window, watching as another heavy rainfall began. It was almost dawn at Hogwarts, and the rest of the school had yet to rise, but soon would. It was the day students left for Christmas break, and the rest of the students were excited. Holidays meant rest, family, food and presents.

For Sarah, it only meant three of those things. She had told her father and Karen not to worry about flying her home for the holidays, not wanting to give them any financial troubles. Instead, on their last Hogsmeade trip, Sarah had bought them all presents, and was sending them back with a school owl.

Although Numy was now an extremely successful flyer, Sarah did not want to risk sending him all the way back to America.

Suddenly, she felt a presence behind her.
Whipping her head around, she realised it was Jareth.

Then she realised that she was still in her pyjamas

She screamed. He rolled his eyes.

"What are you doing here?" She yelled. Then caught herself, not wanting to cause the other students to be alarmed and attempt to come to her rescue. "Why are you in my dorm room?" She asked again

"Well, I woke up super early and I was bored, so I thought to myself 'what's Sarah doing?' So I looked at you through a crystal and I noticed you were awake, so I came to say hello. What's wrong?" He asked.

"What?" She asked, gobsmacked

"You look sad." He said, sitting on one of the spare beds opposite her "Doesn't one usually ask what's wrong when someone looks sad?" Numy jumped onto his lap, and Jareth began to pet him

"I just.. miss my family." Sarah said, leaning her chin on her hand.

"Then why not go home for the holidays?" He said, rubbing Numy's belly

"Because I can't afford it."

"But what about all of the money I gave you?" He asked, stroking Numy's ear.

"I haven't spent it, but I don't want to make you pay for my trip back to America. That money is only for use at school."

"Oh, I see." Jareth said, putting Numy back on the floor. "Hey Sarah" He said, his hand behind his back. "Catch."

He threw a crystal at her

When she caught it, Sarah's world went black…

LALALALA ANANANANAN

I found this totally awesome nail polish today, called Princess Rule! By OPI. TIS GREAT! And super pretty!

I have writer's group tomorrow, so I will do you another chapter then

My weekend has been totally chockablock, so I haven't been able to write anything til now

Has anyone heard that song by Mika called Grace Kelly? ITS SUPER AWESOME! Been listening to it non stop whilst doing this chapter

Perfect theme song for me, lol

Anyways

Enjoy chapter 25!

Have a loverly week!

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Except for the actual band Queen, whom I adore. And actual Queens of countries

Ok ok, the Greatest Queen on earth named Charlotte P who rules Nymphs. That's totally accurate!

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