Grim Tales:

Chapter 5: Betrayal of the Heart

            Sarah's head felt like a boulder had hit it. It ached and throbbing. She searched her pounding head for a memory of what had happened last.

            Karen.

            Sugar Apples.

            Jareth.

            Knife.

            Jareth.

            Castle.

            "No!" She said quietly to herself, but seemed more like a yell inside her head, as she shot up from her previous laying position. Her vision blurred for a moment before coming clear, seeing a large stone room. A side window had light moonbeams streaming through; it's curtains wavering in a gentle breeze that reached her. She realized she was sitting on a large medieval bed, in a large medieval bedroom, which was almost completely dark besides the glow of the moonbeams. "Oh no." she said calmly as she rubbed her face with both her hands unsure. Then she moved her hands to her temple, messaging her thumping head, as she closed her eyes relaxing.

            Suddenly a cold light wind brushed past her, and a pair of cold hands covered her own atop her head, following the same circler motion. Sarah stopped abruptly and opened her eyes, to find Jareth sitting next her on the bed, his gloved hands still on her head. She moved her hands away, as did he, and she looked up into his eyes. "What do you want?"              "Here take this for your head ache." He handed her a small bottle, the liquid inside contained with a small cork. Sarah eyed it nervously, as he pushed it towards her.

            Jareth saw she wasn't about to take something from him. "Ok if you don't want it, I'll have to give you a massage to lessen your headache." He smiled as she immediately grabbed the bottle from his hand, opening it and drinking it's liquid.

            Immediately, like a fog being lifted from her head, the headache was completely gone.

            'Wow that's amazing!' Sarah thought, but she soon turned her attention from her healing ache to the form still sitting on the edge of her bed.

            "Now, that wasn't so hard was it." He said in a mocking tone.

            Sarah ignored his comment. "Alright, you've saved my life, and relived my head, so now you can send me back home. Thank you!" She said in a snotty voice, as she started getting up from the bed.

            "No." He said simply, gently pushing her back into the bed. Sarah gave him a confused stare as he placed her small hands within his own.    "Sarah, I can't let you go back to your home. Your step-mother has nothing but evil intentions for you."

            "Ha!" She yanked her hands away. "Yeah like you don't. If you think that I'm just going to stay here, you're…."

            Jareth, who had made a swift motion, bring him ever so closer to her, abruptly cut off Sarah. "Wha…What…What are you doing?"

            "What do you think I'm doing?" He questioned her, giving her his famous half-smile.

            Jareth moved closer and closer to her, while Sarah's heart stopped beating… momentarily.

            'What am I doing!? This is ridiculous. This guy may have saved me, but what about Toby- Remember what he was going to turn that sweet baby into.'  Sarah thought while his mouth got nearly centimeters from hers, before raising her two shaky hands, and heaved him away from her.

            "You jerk!" Was all she could say, but got a sudden pain in her stomach seeing his hurt face. 'Don't feel bad, you hate him!' She tried to convince herself. She cringed as she remembered where she had shoved him away; that it was the same place that Karen's knife had collided with him.

            Jareth abruptly stood up and walked away from her, placing a hand on his shoulder where she pushed him. "You'll join me for lunch in two hours." He commanded as he left the room in an instant, he tried to do it looking strong, but his eyes let on a hint of weakness.

            "I won't, and you can't make me." She yelled to the already disappeared Goblin King. 'What makes him think he can just tell me what to do?!' Sarah's mind was furious, but her heart was contradicting.

~*~*~*~A/N: Sorry it took so long to get this chapter out. It took a short but encouraging e-mail from a lovely fan to push me to get this one out. I don't know why it takes me so long to post, but I'm not giving up on this story, so if it is a couple weeks till I get the next chapter out, don't worry, I'm just busy with the new semester starting.

Speaking of next chapter, I believe the Baddies shall return, so be prepared for

 "Grimm Tales:

Chapter 6: Invasion"~*~*~*~