I'm so very sorry for not updating in over a year. The last year hasn't been that great and I've struggled to do anything creative so this chapter has been on the back burner for far too long.

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Chapter 25

Sarah looked into the Goblin kings face and saw nothing but sincerity. "Is this the point in the discussion where I ask all those little questions about what the future might hold for us?"

"They will have to be answered eventually." He would avoid it if he could but she needed to know.

"What will this baby be exactly? Human, Fae, something in-between or something new?" Something wrong. The words she couldn't say, the thought of her child being inhuman scared her.

"If you had no magic then if raised in the human realm the child would remain mortal and powerless, if raised in the underground then it would be indistinguishable from any fae."

"But I apparently I do have magic, so how will that affect the baby?"

"This situation hasn't occurred in a very long time if it occurred at all, I can only give you my best guess." His thumbs very gently caressed the delicate hands that he still cradled within his own.

"Which is?" Sarah prompted getting impatient.

"That our child might hold the best aspects of both races. Magic and resistance to iron, immortality and fertility. Traits that could be the salvation of my race."

"But you would want him raised in your world just in case." She broke her hands free of his.

"My father would certainly. I would do anything you ask to even play the smallest role in my child's life; I will not force you to raise him below. I probably don't even have the power to make you do anything against your will."

"And if I was hypothetically to return with you, what would I do? What would I be to the rest of society? Would I be accepted? The mortal lover of the Goblin King and mother of his heir?"

"If you were to return with me," He began to reply trying to keep the eagerness out of his voice, "I would make you my Queen if only you would allow it, my subjects adore you so do my parents, your place in society would be assured. I would be the envy of every man in the underground to have you on my arm, you are so precious."

"But I'm just boring, plain, old Sarah Williams. I don't even know what I did to attract your attention."

"You believed and you dreamed. You are the most beautiful woman I have ever met and you certainly are never boring." His hands itched to cradle her face to tip her head back, to cover her mouth with his own.

Sarah felt the conversation was straying into territory that was just too deep, too scary, so she tried to lighten the mood, "And yet you still felt the need to set the cleaners on me." She broke eye contact and moved to continue walking.

"Only after you called my Labyrinth a "piece of cake", you insulted my Kingdom." Jareth knew what she was doing but being so close to her was a pleasure that he did not want to lose.

"I had just been frisked by the helping hands. Hands went places that they shouldn't have gone." Sarah retaliated, her lips twitching slightly. "And anyway Hoggle says the Labyrinth forgave me years ago."

They were nearing the edge of the park and it was almost time for Jay's feed by the time Jareth had sort of response. "Well she's very unhappy with me at the moment. The overgrown pile of rocks wanted me to come and steal you away."

"And what was your response?" They had slowed to a standstill so Sarah looked up into Jareth's face, directly into his eyes, so he couldn't try to hide anything from her.

"That I would steal you away in a heartbeat but I will not make you stay against your will." He lifted one hand to cup her face.

She turned her head into the smooth surface of his glove, the scent of leather filling her head. "For my will is as strong as yours."

"Yes, as you've proved many times."

He moved to kiss her and she let him almost euphoric at the taste of his lips on hers. He moved his lips gently upon hers almost afraid that she would fade away or stop him. Sarah raised her arms to twine around his neck pulling him closer to her, her hands spearing into his hair.

It was Jareth who had to break the kiss when he heard Jay started to fuss in his stroller "I think the little one needs feeding, shall we go somewhere for a drink or back to your apartment." His arms were around his mortal, clutching her still, hesitant to let go.

"There's a coffee shop around the corner." Sarah suggested smoothing back the silky blonde strands of hair that she had ruffled, delaying the moment she would have to leave the safety of his embrace.

"Sounds perfect."

"Are you certain that we can't introduce our grandson at court?" Titania asked her husband as they sat waiting in Sarah's empty apartment to pick him up. They knew they were early but eager to see him again.

Oberon looked at his wife, "You know we can't."

"I just want to show him off. A royal child after so many years, the court will be glad to hear of it."

"There have been too few births I agree, but if Thalia finds out, she is too desperate for a child, she will take Jay away from Sarah and from us."

The High Queen looked appalled at that.

"You know she would. I know it seemed a good match for Eric at the time but…"

"He has too much of you in him…" She wished it could be otherwise.

"She has no love for any of us, not anymore. Thalia cannot find out her husband sired a child. Imagine what Sarah would do, what she could do if someone tried to take Jay from her."

"True."

They didn't discuss the kiss but sat close together on one of the Coffee houses many sofas. Jareth with his arms around Sarah as she held Jay in her arms feeding him patiently.

"He is a beautiful boy, Sarah."

"Yes he is. I still don't understand how Lily could have given him up." She looked at the small figure in her arms as he fed from his bottle.

"Not everyone is you, Precious; ready to take on the wrath of the gods to ensure the safety of your family."

"Since when did you become a God?" She twisted to face him better.

"I can see my ego will always suffer around you." The Goblin King had to laugh at that before sobering slightly. "Sarah, it's not only fifteen year old sisters who wish away children, and not many of my challengers deserved to have their relatives returned to them."

"True."

Sensing a change in atmosphere he asked a few minutes later when it was obvious that Jay had finished his feed, "When do my parents arrive to take charge of the little man?"

Checking the time she replied, "Very soon, we should get back."