Robert tried getting Karen's attention without the large black cloud seeing him. How had he never bothered to tell her about his family and what they could do - what he could do? He'd spent his life trying to forget magic after his mother and grandmother died. He looked at Karen with a sense of dread. She was standing there, staring up at the darkness, a blank look on her face. Turning to him, she smiled.

"Robert, I knew you'd be in my dream," she said and held out a hand. "Help me get Sarah and give her to the cloud, I think it wants to hug her or something." She shook her head. "I've never had a dream like this."

"It's not a dream Karen, it's all real. Get over here and we can go home," her husband whispered. Karen looked at him and frowned.

"You're glowing," she accused. "you aren't real. Nothing here is real. I don't like this dream anymore." She backed away and tripped, steadying herself against a rock wall. Robert cursed under his breath. His power only came out when he was near other magic. With all the repressed forces coming into play in this room, he'd light up like a forest fire if he wasn't careful. He had to try to only absorb good powers and not dark.

"I'm real, Karen. Everything is real here. There is a lot I didn't explain to you before we got married. But I don't have time right now. Just come over here and we can go home."

"I trusted you," Karen shouted. "I trusted you and Sarah to be normal and you had me drugged or something." She held her head and moaned, fighting her fears as Ludo tried to get closer to her so that Robert could calm her.

"Karen, listen to Daddy," Sarah called, eyes never leaving the dark cloud hovering over the room. "He's going to take you home."

The darkness laughed, an evil, dark sound that chilled Sarah even as it angered her. "You think to vanquish me, little one? I - who have existed for eons before your pathetic kind stood upright and claimed your planet? I will absorb all of the magic here and destroy everything that the Fae have built. Then it will be only my powers and my will as it was in the beginning."

Robert's glow became more pronounced. He looked at Jareth almost accusingly. "Your magic is joining with Sarah's - it's becoming one force."

"It is," Jareth said calmly. "She and I are one."

"Not yet you aren't," Robert said and Sarah rolled her eyes.

"Daddy, not now," she urged, taking Jareth's hand. In the distance, Jareth's parents appeared and watched the battle. Jareth froze, not believing what he was seeing. Had they come to tell him what a complete failure he was for not saving their lives? A stray bolt of lightning from the cloud hit near his foot and he instinctively threw Sarah behind him.

"My son," his father said sternly. "Fear is not to be discarded. Use it wisely."

"What is that supposed to mean?" Jareth said as the black cloud grew and the souls inside of it screamed with terror. Sarah frowned and readied herself for battle.

"You think you failed us," his mother said sadly. "Your fear of failing Sarah and your sisters is holding you back from what you must do."

"Karen," Robert grabbed his wife and shook her. "Snap out of it, we don't have much time." He glanced over at Jareth and Sarah, praying for something to end the stalemate.

"I did fail you," the Goblin King was saying fiercely. The High King shook his head.

"No, you will only fail us if you fail yourself. You are stronger with Sarah - trust in her to complete your destiny. Don't push her away out of fear."

Ariana lifted her head with much effort. "We believe in you brother."

Sarah held Jareth's hand and he looked at her, pain in his eyes. "Jareth, trust in us. It's the only way to save everyone."

The black cloud rained hot drops of fire down. As Jareth lifted his hands to shield them with magic, he realized he would not have enough range. Sarah nodded towards her father who nodded back and closed his eyes, drawing in all of the magic in the room. Staggering under the onslaught, Robert Williams pulled in everything around him and rose off the ground.

Sarah closed her eyes and channelled her powers into her father, guiding him in his task. The pain in her face was heartbreaking to Karen, was Sarah actually magical? Was anything real? Karen fought the pain in her head telling her that this was a dream. Had her fears caused this fight to turn against her family? The trust that had been lurking in Karen's heart bloomed. She trusted her family even though she was afraid. This had to end - now.

After a moment, Jareth's power joined Sarah's and filtered into Robert. Sarah's father opened his eyes showing bright golden sparks. The sparks shot out and hit the cloud who roared in disbelief.

The cloud screamed, its powers were being drawn out of it by a mere human? Robert screamed in pain and Karen saw that her husband and daughter were suffering to save her. To save everyone. She would not be afraid any longer. She ran to Sarah and took her other hand.

A bright light burst from Sarah, Jareth, and her parents. In an instant, the room was flooded with light and screams. After an eternity of blindness from the light, a loud whoosh was heard and a strong wind sucked the cloud out of the room and into the night.

Everyone was still. Ariana and Valeria found they could move. Darien jumped to his feet and helped them up so that they could prepare for the next attack. Nothing happened.

"Is - it over?" Karen asked, tearfully. At Robert's hesitant nod, she flung herself into her husband's arms and sobbed. "I'm so sorry," she cried, over and over.

"It's all right now, Karen," he said softly. He looked up at Jareth and Sarah to see them kissing passionately. He sighed. Whether he liked it or not, his daughter had found her magic and her destiny. Shielding her hadn't helped matters. He'd have to remember that.

Ariana looked around, noting that the Dark Lands did not revert into green hills and sparkling rivers. "There is still evil in this land. It shall return. We have not won."

"Today we have won, that is enough," Valeria said, staring at the pile of ash that had been her husband. "Let's go back to Sarah's world and regroup."

"Yes," Jareth said, lifting his lips from Sarah's long enough to agree. "We have done all we can do here for now." Lifting Sarah into his arms, he kissed her again, hard and fast. "My queen, we shall talk later about your willful disobedience to your king."

"And we'll talk again too, Sarah," her father warned, eyes narrowing at the way his daughter was being held by the Goblin King. Sarah sighed and rolled her eyes. A lecture from Jareth and her father. Lovely.

With a flurry of magic, the group disappeared into the mists, and back to Sarah's world. And somewhere in the Dark Lands, an evil chuckle filled the silent night.