Coming Home

Summary: Basically a resolution to the story. Jareth, Sarah, and Josephus return to the Goblin Kingdom, and Jareth reveals his past to Sarah.

Disclaimer: They aren't mine. Please don't sue me. I am having a hard enough time paying off my college loans (We can just say that I could buy four new cars with the amount of money that I am coughing up over the next four years.)

Author's Note: HELLO ALL!!!! Well, I have been so busy over these past few months, I haven't been able to catch up with writing anything besides the papers that I have to write for school. I started this chapter, then moved into and settled into college life, and now I have spent my Saturday night in my dorm room, watching sappy movies and writing this, instead of going out on the town in beautiful Decorah, IA, population about 500. Oh well, there is not much that I could possibly miss here anyway. I am debating doing one more chapter, but I am still unsure. It would really help if you read through this and let me know what you think about this. Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Sarah opened her eyes and looked around. She didn't know how long she had been sleeping. The last thing she remembered was falling asleep in Jareth's arms as they rode back to the Goblin Kingdom on Jareth's horse. She saw that she had been changed from her old bloodied gown into a clean dress. It was cream colored, and it felt like it was made of satin. Sarah thought that it felt much better than the old dress that she had on.

Sarah noticed that Jareth wasn't with her in the bed. She assumed that if she was tired enough to fall asleep on a moving horse, Jareth must've been exhausted. Sarah got out of the bed and walked out the door and down the long hallway. She heard voices coming from the throne room and walked in that direction. She heard the voices more clearly. As she reached the entrance, she peeked around the doorway to see Jareth sitting on his throne, while Josephus was pacing back and forth in front of him, obviously furious at his son.

"Jareth, I still can't believe you," she heard Josephus say. "I told you to stay put, and yet you disobeyed me. I told you to stay where you would remain safe. You were in no condition to do what you did. You could've been killed if you had been caught."

Father," Jareth sighed. "I did what I had to do. I know that Marcus would've gone back to the dungeon and killed her without even thinking twice. If anything had happened to her, I don't know what I would've done. I had lost her once, and I didn't want to lose her again."

Sarah decided that this was her time to make her presence be known. She entered the room, saying, "Well, you won't have to worry about that ever again, because I am here to stay."

Both men looked over and stood up as Sarah entered the room, following the traditional manners that both men had known for their whole lives. Sarah smiled at Jareth and he smiled back at her.

Josephus took this as his cue to leave the two of them alone. "Well, I don't know if you know it Sarah, but you've taken on more than you can handle. I hope that you are prepared for it."

Sarah laughed and said, "If I can handle Toby, I certainly can handle Jareth."
"You know," Jareth said in a teasing voice. "I don't have to take this, I could take back my offer and throw you into the Bog of Eternal Stench."

"You could, but you wont." Sarah said. "You need me here to much to carelessly toss me away, and you know it."

Jareth looked at Sarah for a minute, pretending to consider his options. He finally nodded his head in agreement with her. "Yes. You're probably right, darling. I will just have to do my best to keep you happy here."

"Well, I must be going then," Josephus said. "I must get back to my own Kingdom and let my people know that I am okay, and I must prepare Darren for a proper burial. Jareth, I just want you to know how proud of you I am, and that I love you my son."

Josephus then took Jareth into his arms and the two hugged each other. Josephus then turned to Sarah and gave her a hug and a kiss on the cheek, whispering into her ear, "You made the right decision, my dear. You have made him so happy."

"I know," she whispered back, her eyes brimming with tears. It had hit her that the two of them were really going to be together forever. And the thought of that made her incredibly happy.

Josephus let go of Sarah and moved three steps away from the two of them and vanished before their eyes, leaving the two of them alone for the first time since Jareth regained consciousness. Suddenly, both Sarah and Jareth grew incredibly nervous, like two teenagers on an awkward first date.

Trying to initiate a conversation, Sarah asked, "Did he tell you about Darren?"

Jareth nodded. "I asked him about it and he told me everything. My father slept with a woman not long after my mother died, and Darren was the result of that. But my father couldn't let me know about it, because he felt like he would've been betraying me. So he sent my brother to live in the Warlock kingdom, and went to see him often. He told Darren about me, but refused to let him see me whenever Darren asked him. And Darren was hurt but he respected my father's wishes."

"He ended up working for Marcus, and when Marcus told him of his plans, Darren felt that it was his duty as a brother to help me out. He saved my life, and I never even got to thank him for it."

Sarah couldn't say anything, she just held Jareth's hand and the two of them sat in silence for a long time.

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"Well, my darling," Jareth finally said after a long silence between the two of them. "How would you feel about going on a walk with me through the kingdom?"

"Are you not at all exhausted after everything you've been through?" Sarah asked him.

"I am tired, and still a little weak, but I am sure that walking around will help me regain strength. So will you join me?" He asked again, offering his hand out to her.

"I would love to." Sarah took his hand and the two of them began their walk.

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Jareth and Sarah walked all over the entire Kingdom, and he had shown her everything. It was so much more beautiful than the first time Sarah had been here, but Sarah said that she was too focused on saving Toby to see all of the beauty.

They both grew tired and decided to rest by a beautiful lake, Crystal Lake, as Jareth said that was its name. It had water that was incredibly blue and a waterfall where a mist cast a beautiful rainbow over the rest of the lake.

Jareth had summoned a blanket out of thin air that the two of them could sit on so that they wouldn't get dirty. He was now lying on the blanket with his eyes closed, while she was sitting up, looking at the waterfall, and thinking. Something had been bothering Sarah ever since they returned from Marcus' Kingdom, and she figured that now would be a good time to talk to Jareth about it.

"Jareth," she said. "Can I ask you question?"

"Anything, my darling," Jareth responded, sitting up and looking at her.

Sarah took a deep breath before starting. "I was just wondering if you tell me about Diana."

Jareth stared at her for a moment, then said, "How do you know about Diana?"

"I had Marcus distracted long enough in the cell, and he told me why he was planning on killing you, and eventually me." Sarah said. "He told me that you took away the most important thing to him, and he planned on doing the same thing to both you and Josephus."

Jareth shuddered when Sarah said this to him. He looked at her and said, "What would you like to know about her?"
"Everything. I want o know all about her." Sarah said.

Jareth stood up and took a few steps towards the lake. He turned around and looked at her. He said "I haven't talked about Diana to anyone, not even my father, after she died."

"Please tell me." Sarah begged.

Jareth sighed again. He paused, then began.

"It has been a long time since Diana died, but I can still picture her clearly." Jareth closed his eyes and pictured her in his mind. He opened them and said, "But I suppose that I will start from the beginning."

"I first met Diana, with Marcus, when I was just becoming a young man. Our fathers were throwing a feast for something or other that was royally important. They had invited all of the neighboring Kingdoms to come and celebrate something or other."

"When I was first introduced to Diana, I was smitten. I thought that she was the most beautiful person in the world. She had this beautiful brown hair and these piercing eyes that were just so full of life. I actually was so smitten that I couldn't say a word to her, I just stammered and stuttered the whole time."

Jareth paused and looked at Sarah, and noticed that she was no longer looking at him, but down at her hands instead. "Are you sure that you want to hear this? I can see that it is making you uncomfortable."

Sarah shook her head and looked up at him. "No, I think it would be the best for both of us if you continued."

"Well, I spent the entire day with Marcus and Diana. We had so much fun together. By the end of the day, I knew that she was going to be the one that I would marry. I told my father, and he told me that when I was born, a prophet told him that my first love would bring about much conflict throughout the land, and that he should do everything to stop us from being together. He also told me that I wasn't to see her anymore."

"I went against my father's wishes and we continued seeing each other for years after that. Although I didn't know that she was also seeing Marcus at the same time. She had been for about the same amount of time that she was seeing me. I still cannot figure out how she pulled it off."

"The time had come when my father was to step down as ruler of the Goblin Kingdom. He grew tired after 600 years, and he felt that it was my time to inherit and rule. He said that once step was to take a wife, and I told him that I wanted Diana to be my wife, no matter what."

"My father was still against me marrying her, but he could see how much I loved her, so he agreed. I went to Diana to see her that evening to ask for her hand in marriage. Not long after I had proposed, Marcus showed up. It turned out that it was his time to inherit the Warlock Kingdom, and he was to marry as well. He asked what I was doing there and became furious that Diana had been seeing both of us."

"We decided to let Diana choose who she wanted to be with, and she chose me over him. Marcus grew even more furious and challenged me for her hand. I tried to reason with him, telling him that I had been chosen by Diana fair and square. I told him no, and he swore that we were enemies from that point on, and that he would be the one who was behind my death."

"I never saw Marcus again until today. When I saw him, I saw the rage in his eyes, and that he was determined to keep his word."

"What happened with you and Diana?" Sarah asked him.

Jareth sighed again. "We got married. We had a huge celebration, with everyone there. Well, everyone except Marcus, of course. Diana was so beautiful, she took my breath away."

"Things seemed fine for awhile. Then something happened. Diana became very ill. She grew very weak, and there was nothing that I or anyone else could do to help her. She was on her deathbed, and I was there with her the entire time. She died, and I was torn apart inside. I was so lonely without her for the longest time. I eventually grew to become a very angry person. I hated everyone and everything. I didn't even want to live for a while."

Jareth moved over to where Sarah sat and took a seat beside her. "I didn't think that would be able to feel anything for anyone until I saw you for the first time. When I saw you, emotions that I thought had died inside lit up again. I felt about you the way that I felt about Diana."

"That is why I tried to distract you with the Ballroom. I didn't care whether or not you were able to save Toby or not. I wanted you to really see what you meant to me. But you were still so young, and I decided to let you go when you said the words to me."

"So all of that stuff that you put me through was just an act to get me to stay?" Sarah asked him.

"No, just the Ballroom. Everything else that you went through was what everyone else who wished a child away went through. But I let none of them have their children back. You were the only one that I gave a child back to."

"When I let you go, I swore to myself that I would never feel anything for anyone ever again. But when my father asked me to find a suitable mother to have a child with, all I could think about was asking you and having you say yes."

A thought just popped up into Jareth's head. He stood up and said to Sarah, "Stand up."

"What." Sarah said.

"Stand up. Come on." Jareth offered his hands out and Sarah put hers in his. He pulled her to her feet and as soon as she was standing, Sarah said, "Now what?"

Jareth cupped her face with his hands and said, "You are the most beautiful person in the world, you know. And I want to do this the traditional way." And with that, Jareth knelt down on one of his knees and looked deep into her eyes.

"Sarah, would you do me that greatest honor in the world, and accept my proposal of marriage? Please accept and make me the happiest person in the world."
"Well, what's in it for me?" Sarah teased him.

"Well, my undying love for you for all eternity, many fringe benefits including free housing and food, and you'll wake up to find my arms wrapped around you every morning." Jareth said with a huge grin on his face.

"Well, when you put it that way, I will happily accept." Sarah said, a huge smile on her face.

Jareth laughed and stood up and took her into his arms, and kissed her deeply. It was their first actual kiss, and it was electric. Sparks of electricity flew up all around them.

When they finally broke apart, Sarah noticed that they had been transported back into Jareth's bed chambers. She smiled at him and said, "Did you have something in mind Jareth?"

Jareth smiled back at her and said, "Well, I was thinking of a few things, but if you want to wait, I would be the gentleman and wait until after we were married."

Sarah smiled again. She was so in love with this man, and she knew what she had to do. She grabbed his hand and intertwined their fingers. She kissed his hand and looked deep into his eyes. She then pulled him over to the bed, and the two of them shared their passion. When the emotions ran over and exploded, Jareth repeated his love for her into her ears as they rode the waves of passion out together.

Later, when they had settled down to sleep for the night, Jareth was spooned up behind Sarah with his arms around her, holding her tightly. Just as they both were beginning to fall asleep, Jareth kissed her on her cheek and said, "You'll never know how much I love you, my Darling."

Sarah smiled and said, "I think I do. And I love you too." And the two of them fell into a deep, wonderful sleep.

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AHHHHHH!!!! Finally finished with this one. As I said before, I am thinking maybe one more chapter, maybe the royal wedding between the two, but I really don't know. What do you think? Leave any feedback that you may have. I would really appreciate it. A little fun fact, the name of the lake in the story is actually a lake not too far from my house that has a waterfall. Only the one that I described for you was a lot prettier looking than the other one. Anyway, I hope that you enjoyed it.