Electra paced angrily up and down her bedchamber

Electra paced angrily up and down her bedchamber. "Damn you Jareth!" Being repeated every few minutes. Having been sent to her room like a scolded child, in front of that 'mortal', it was humiliating. Her, the most powerful Seer in all of the Kingdoms, and he had humiliated her in front of the one who would destroy him.

"If you think I'm going to wait in here while you destroy everything, you have another thing coming." Deciding to change, yet again, Electra concocted her plan. The guards would be easy to overpower, but Jareth and the girl, they were another matter. Choosing another elegant gown with beads and jewels, Electra unleashed her wave of blue hair. The girl was not going to win that easily. "I would rather die than have to serve a mortal." With a quick look in the mirror, Electra began the first steps of her plan to kill the girl.

* * * * *

Jareth, Toby and Sarah sat alone in the big, dining hall. Sarah had changed into a flowing blood red gown that Jareth had picked out. She hated it, she hated being in the room with him, she hated the way he stared at her, but most of all she hated him! And the fact that he was sitting there safe in the knowledge that he could have anything he wanted annoyed her to no end. But wait, no he wasn't. Electra had said so! She could ruin him, kill him maybe, whatever it was that she could do she had to do it fast, before she lost her brother forever.

"Could you be happy here Sarah?" Jareth asked her, his voice quiet and smooth.

"No! I want to go home. I want to take Toby and go home."

"But you can't. You belong to me now, both of you do. I can't let you go."

"Why not? I can never be happy here. I will never love you!"

"You don't know that." He sounded wounded, like a child lost and alone.

"Yes I do. I don't belong here. Please! Let us go home. Release us from whatever hold it is that you think you have. I want to go home."

"That can never happen. You will stay here until you love me."

"I WILL NEVER LOVE YOU! I HATE YOU! YOU REPULSE ME, LET US GO HOME!" Tears were streaming down her cheeks as Sarah unloaded all of her emotional strain of the past few days. "You killed my friends, held me against, took my brother."

"A task that you asked be performed."

"I asked, but I didn't mean it."

"But what's said is said, and what's done is done. It cannot be taken back unless I will it to be so." He stood, pulling her up with him, keeping ahold of her wrists. She began to struggle.

"LET ME GO!"

"NEVER!" He tightened his grip. "Everything you asked for I have done. Now it is your turn to do as I ask. You will stay with me in this castle until you see that your only option is to love me, or die!"

She looked into his eyes and saw a hole so deep that you could get lost in. There was no feeling, no emotion, no light of any kind within him. "I will never love you."

"So you keep saying, but I shall see how long you to change on your decided view." He turned to the goblin guards who quickly stood to attention. "Take her back to her chamber. We shall leave dinner for another time. When you are feeling more, 'co-operative' perhaps."

"Don't hold your breath. Electra is right. I would rather die than spend eternity with you." With that, Sarah turned and stormed from the room, guards in front and behind her.

You stupid girl, she scolded herself. Why did you not agree with him, accept his offer?

You know why. You can never love him, or be happy here.

Sarah knew that she was right. Death at that moment did seem more appealing than an eternity with Jareth. All she had to do was learn how to destroy him, Electra had said that she could, and she truly wonted to. She was willing to do anything to get her freedom. ANYTHING!