What if Sarah took up Jareth's offer the last time?
Jareth: Cue dramatic music!
Sarah: Give me the child.
Jareth: Sarah, beware. I have been generous up until now, I can be cruel.
Sarah: Beware? You can be cruel? You honestly don't think you can intimidate me.
Jareth: You cowered before me.
Sarah: Not really. I flinched. There's a big difference between flinching and cowering.
Jareth: I am exhausted from living up to your expectations.
Sarah: Just to let you know, my expectations don't involve being chased by machines with weapons, being drugged, or being attacked by armies, but please continue. I am so eager to hear what truth you shall speak next, all-knowing one.
Jareth: You know you really shouldn't mumble because I cannot hear a word you're saying.
Sarah: I wasn't—
Jareth: MUMBLER!
Sarah: OKAY! IS THIS LOUD ENOUGH?! THROUGH DANGERS UNTOLD AND HARDSHIPS UNNUMBERED, I HAVE FOUGHT MY WAY HERE TO THE CASTLE BEYOND THE GOBLIN CITY—
Jareth: LALALALALALA! I can't hear you!
Sarah: FOR MY WILL IS AS STRONG AS YOURS, AND MY KINGD—
Jareth: Stop! Wait. Look Sarah, look at what I'm offering you; your dreams.
Sarah: And my kingdom as great—
Jareth: I ask for so little. Just let me rule you and you can have everything that you want. Just fear me, love me, do as I say, and I will be your slave.
Sarah: …How does that work?
Jareth: What do you mean?
Sarah: You said, "Let me rule you," and that I have to fear you and love you and do as you say.
Jareth: Yes, and?
Sarah: Then you say you'll be my slave. Sounds a little backwards.
Jareth: I call it a give-give relationship.
Sarah: **flashback of her singing in her room: If you wanna be my lover, you have got to give. Taking is too easy! That's the way it is.** You spied on me?
Jareth: What else is there to do at night?
Sarah: Ew! You're so gross! I mean, UGH! That is NOT okay!
Jareth: But Edward did it and Bella went head over heels for him! She even had a demon baby with him who will most likely eat her alive!
Sarah: And you used that as a model for how to act?!
Jareth: Yes! And I smell you and I constantly think about how easy it is to kill you and how I glitter and sparkle in the sunlight **begins to approach her** and how clumsy you are and—
Sarah: Get away from me!
Jareth: AHA! Gotcha!
Sarah: W-what?
Jareth: I made you cower!
Sarah: So none of that was true?
Jareth: Nope.
Sarah: Wow…so you're as determined to make your point as I am…We have a lot more in common than I thought.
Jareth: If you just take a step back, you can see the bigger picture.
Sarah: Tell me it's just this place, but I think I feel something towards you.
Jareth: Well it is a magical place, but flowers only grow where there are seeds, and fireworks only happen when there's stuff in the rockets already.
Sarah: Ask me the offer again.
Jareth: Stay?
Sarah: Yes!
Jareth: Yippee! I'll return Toby at once.
Sarah: Heh…He's already under my thumb.
Jareth: What was that?
Sarah: Oh nothing.
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Direct quotes from: Twilight (sorry again), Charlie and the Chocolate factory, and The 10th Kingdom, and, of course, Labyrinth.
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