Part Three

Well, so far the posting every week has been working, but only because I had some time off from school, so we'll see if this method sticks.

Disclaimer- I am not even going to establish that these characters ( or most of them) don't even belong to me. Not at all.

Summary- As Sarah dream continues as she goes through some major pains.

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" OOWWW!!" Sarah screamed as she placed both her hands onto her belly. " Jareth, I think that the baby is coming."

" Sarah, are you sure?" he said taking hold of her hands, and kissing her brow.

Sarah didn't even bother to respond to that question, because another wave of pain hit her like a ton of bricks and she instead screamed again and squeezed his hands. It hurt him, but he didn't say anything.

"How could I let you do this to me?" she asked him, gritting her teeth, trying to hold back another scream.

Jareth couldn't help but chuckle as he said, " You said that to me when we had our other children."

"Can't you do something productive, like run and grab the doctor," she said to him.

"Are you sure you want me to leave you?" he asked her, standing up.

"Get out of here, and leave me alone!!" Sarah screamed at him. Jareth turned and began to walk out of the room as another contraction came around. She screamed to him, "Jareth get back here!! Don't leave me!!"

He was instantly at her side, holding both of her hands in his, and shouting for one of the guards. When a small guard named Noj entered the room, he said, "Go after the doctor and bring him back!!"

" Of course, Sire," Noj replied. "Is everything allright?" He asked.

"Does it look like everything is allright? The queen has gone into labor! Now, hurry up and go fetch him!!"

"Right away, your Majesty." the goblin said as he ran out of the room after the doctor.

"Everything is going to be fine, darling." Jareth said as he cradled her in his arms and rocked her. Sarah couldn't say anything because the pain was to much, so she just held onto Jareth for dear life and cried as she waited for the pain to subside.

There was a knock at the door, and another goblin named Kaj entered. "Your Majesty," he said. "Your two children are waiting outside the door. I believe they heard their mother screaming and want to know what's wrong."

"Are you up to seeing Damien and Mikayla right now, Darling?" He asked her. "As long as they aren't in here for very long. I don't want them to see me like this right now. It will scare them even more." Sarah replied.

Jareth nodded and said to the goblin, "Please escort them in Kaj, and wait by the door. When we call for you again, please come and take the children out of the room."

"Certainly, your majesty." Kaj said. He turned out of the room and reentered holding the hands of two small children. It was the first time that Sarah had seen them.

Damien looked like a miniature version of Jareth. He was on the tall side for an eight-year-old, and he had his father's long, blond hair, and his dashing good looks. Mikayla, on the other hand, looked more like Sarah, having a beautiful head of dark curls and big brown eyes. One wouldn't be able to tell that the two were brother and sister by just looking at them.

"Come here, children," Jareth said, and the two were immediately at the bedside. "Now, are you scared because you heard your mother screaming?" The two children nodded. Sarah couldn't get used to Jareth calling her mother'.

"Well, do you remember the talk that we had with you a while ago when we told you that your mother was going to have another baby?"

Mikayla said, "You said that mommy's stomach was going to get really big, and that there was a baby growing in it."

"Yes The baby is in your mother's stomach, and now the time has come when the baby wants to come out." Jareth said to them. "It wants to meet it's big brother and sister."

"Why was mommy screaming then?" Damien said, his eyes full of fear.

Sarah said, "Well, when the baby is ready to come out, it moves around a lot. It begins to kick and pound on mommy from the inside. And it really hurts mommy. But the pain doesn't last for a long time because..."

Jareth stood and moved to the window while Sarah kept on talking to their children. He closed his eyes and used his telepathic powers to call on his father. After what seemed like a long time, Josephus finally answered.

"What is it, Jareth?" he heard his father's voice say to him.

"Father, I need to ask a favor of you." he thought. "Sarah has gone into labor, and the children are scared because they heard her screaming. Do you think that you can come here and take them to your kingdom so that they don't have to listen to the screams anymore? We don't want to traumatize them."

"Not a problem, son," Josephus replied. " I'll be there in a minute."

Jareth moved back over to The bed and took Sarah hand in his as she finished explaining why she screamed. " So it's okay if mommy screams right now."

"But I have a surprise for you, children." Jareth said. "Your grandfather is going to be coming to take you to his castle for a while so that you can spend some time with him. So why don't you go and pack a few things up for your visit?"

As he spoke with the children, Sarah felt another contraction and she gripped his hand tightly and squeezed her eyes shut, holding a scream in so that she wouldn't scare the children even more.

Jareth called for Kaj and led the children out of the room. He then moved back over to the bed and sat with Sarah.

They sat like that for a while, because the doctor hadn't returned yet to help them. It was pure torture for Sarah.

"Isn't there anything that you can do for the pain, like use magic or something?" She asked him as another contraction subsided.

"Sadly, my dear, there are certain things that magic cannot cure or help. And, unfortunately, the process of childbirth is one of those things." he said to her, a sad look on his face. Jareth didn't know how terrible the pain was for her, but to see his wife suffer through it was enough to make him hurt. He wanted to help her, but he couldn't do anything but hold her. It made him feel so helpless.

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Finally, the doctor returned. He had arrived at his house at the edge of the kingdom when the guards finally caught up to him. He proceeded to check Sarah to see how she was doing.

"Well, it looks as though you have a ways to go, your majesty." He said to her. "You are only about halfway through the labor, and if we began to push now, it would risk both your's and the child's life. And I am deeply sorry to say that there is nothing that I can do for the pain, either."

"Just great." Sarah said under her breath, as another contraction began to hit her.

Jareth looked at the doctor and said, "Is there anything that we can do to help ease the pain while we wait for the time to pass?"

The doctor said, "Walking is probably your best bet, although bathing in lukewarm water helps. But I would go with the walking. It apparently takes your mind off of the pain if you focus on things around you."

And so for the next few hours, Sarah walked around the halls while she leaned into Jareth, since she couldn't walk normally because of the pain. They had to stop many times so that Sarah could wait for the pain to subside. She focused on all of the beautiful paintings while Jareth told her about everything, trying to keep her mind off of the pain.

Finally, the doctor checked her again and told her that she was ready. He told her that she could begin to push when she was ready, to which she replied, "I'm ready!! Just get this thing out of me right now!!"

Jareth moved behind her on the bed so that she was sitting in his lap. She took hold of both of his hands as the doctor told her to start pushing. She pushed, but the pain was so immense that she had to stop. "I can't go on. I can't do it!!" She said, as she relaxed into Jareth's chest.

Jareth said to her, "If you don't continue to push darling, the pain will last longer."

"But it hurts to much. I don't know if I will be able to make it all the way through." She said, as tears started to form in her eyes.

Jareth kissed the top of her head as he whispered, "I know that you can do this, my love. I just know. You have that spark in you that says that you won't ever give up. You have always been a very stubborn woman, don't let this stop you now."

Sarah let all these words sink in and decided that he was right. "Allright." she said. "Let's do this."

She took hold of his hands again and began to push when the doctor told her to. She held her breath, closed her eyes, and squeezed Jareth's hands. It hurt so much for her, but she decided to hold it all in. She felt as though she was falling apart from the inside out. She kept pushing until the doctor said to relax.

After about ten more pushes, she felt as though she was going to pass out again. The doctor said, "Okay, I just need one more big push from you, and you will meet your new child."

Jareth kissed her head again and coaxed her to go for it. She squeezed her eyes shut and pushed with all her might, But this time the pain was so different. It hurt even more, and she couldn't help but scream this time. When it got so bad that she thought she was going to explode, it finally stopped.

Sarah just sat there, with her eyes still tightly closed, not believing that the pain was gone, and waiting to hear the child cry. It seemed like a long time before she heard the first wail. and when the child began to cry, Sarah began to cry as well. It was the most beautiful sound in the world.

Jareth finally said, "Look, Sarah. Look at our child. See how beautiful it is."

She opened her eyes to see that the child had been cleaned, wrapped in a blanket, and placed on her lap. It was the most beautiful thing that she had ever seen.

" Well, is it a boy or a girl?" she asked the doctor. " It's a girl." the doctor proclaimed proudly. " A very healthy little girl." He added as he began to pack up his things for the second time that night.

Jareth looked over her shoulder as he began to cry. "A girl. The most beautiful girl in the world. Or one of three." he said as he kissed his wife's cheek.

The little girl had a little wispy patch of blond hair on the top of her head, and her face looked like a mixture of both her parents. Her father's dazzling blue eyes, and his slim nose, while she had her mother's lips and chin.

They sat there for the longest time. The doctor had long since left, and the little girl had long since fallen asleep. Sarah look from the child to Jareth and asked, "What do you think we should name her?"

"Well, what do you she looks like?" he asked her. " I think that she looks like a Hope."

Sarah thought about it for a second, then said, "Hope. I like it. It's perfect."

They sat there as they watched the child sleep for a long time, neither of them saying anything or moving.

Jareth finally decided to break the silence and said, "You know that you are the most beautiful woman in the world and that I will always love you and our children for the rest of my life."

"Yes. And I will always love you and my children for the rest of my life as well." She said as she looked into his eyes for the first time that night.

He moved in and captured her lips with his, and proceeded to move around her face, panting little kisses here and there. As he continued around her jawline, he began to whisper, "I love you....I love you...I love you..." every time he kissed a new spot.

Sarah closed her eyes and enjoyed the pleasure that he was giving her, but then she didn't feel anything. None of the kisses that Jareth was planting on her face. Nothing at all.

When she opened her eyes again, all that she could see was black. She closed them again hoping that she would return to Jareth.

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Sarah woke up with a start. She looked around in the darkness to see that she was in her room again. She realized that she was breathing really hard and that her pajamas were soaked in sweat.

"It couldn't have been a dream. It was too real. There's no way that it was a dream." she thought to herself.

She kept repeating these words to herself as she curled into a little ball and began to cry.

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