Some concern has been raised over the shortness of my chapters. I'm really quite sorry but the ideas for these chapters don't come pouring out. I'll try to combine some ideas to get longer chapters…might be posting less often b/c of it though. If you've been reading since I first put this story up you'll notice that I've re posted chpts. 1-5. I've replaced the originals with the same text just with fewer errors. I hope it works better for the readers who are sticklers on grammar and spelling (thanx go out to Makoto Tanaka Yuy for the editing help). Now on with Chapter 6! Enjoy~
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Chapter 6
Without Purpose
Scooting her plate away, a very full Sarah smiled at what a lovely breakfast it had been. "Well, thank you so much Jareth. It was quite nice. I need to be getting to work though." She politely excused herself from the table and went to fetch some order forms. When entering the room to say good bye she noticed the table had vanished and the smiling fae to be throwing some of her clothes into a bag with a few flips of his wrist.
"What do you think you're doing?" Half asking half shouting she angrily stormed over to the suitcase to unpack. "I'm in no mood to play games Jareth!" Approaching her bag she found it to be gone in but an instant.
"We can do this the hard way or the easy way Sarah. Which will it be?" Arms crossed, a very serious Goblin King replaced the fae she had just had breakfast with. He glared down at her as though she was 15 years old again. It wasn't going to work this time.
"How dare you! Marching back into my life as though you own me. Get out Goblin King. Go back to your little maze and your minions. They might bow down to you but I will not!" Her demands seemed to pass right over him as though she hadn't said anything at all.
Choosing his words as closely as his steps he slowly walked toward her, "If I want your opinion Sarah, I'll give it to you. Still that little girl from all those years ago. Perhaps with out your toys and costumes, but you're still that child." There was but not more than 4 inches between them. The blaze of his stare burned into her as she went to push him away. He was like solid stone in his stance, unmovable. "I see you everyday moving on idly in a life that doesn't matter. If you were to disappear right this very moment not a soul would know Sarah. Other than a pile of books collecting dust, your life is just running by without purpose or thought."
She felt his hand grip around her wrist as he bore into her as though searching for something in her dull eyes. "You used to have such passion Sarah. Where has it all gone? Surely not 6 feet below ground in a cold grave. The Sarah Williams I used to know wouldn't give up like that." Exasperated from trying to find any life in those eyes he shook her with frustration and shouted out, "bad things happen to good people everyday Sarah! You aren't the only one who suffers. What makes them human is their ability to heal and move on! Every tear you shed I bleed for. You think your pain effects only you!" Pushing her away he stumbled over to the window seat practically fuming with rage.
A frozen shaking little girl stood huddled in a corner. Staring blankly she had no response to what he said. How could she? She wanted to be anywhere but here with him. The silence in the room seemed to be her only consolation out of the events. Closing her eyes she tried so desperately to hide in their darkness.
"Sarah, I'll say this only once. You are coming home now!" His voice was even yet it seemed to be cracked with a bubbling anger. She began to shake from a childish fear that she had never managed to escape. Right as she opened her eyes she was thrown back into darkness losing all sense of position with her body falling for what seemed to be a small eternity.
"Where am I?" Her voice cried out into the open nothingness. All that surrounded her was dull and dead.
"Why Sarah, don't you recognize my Labyrinth? Then again it has changed a bit hasn't it?" His echoing arrogance bounced off the lifeless hills sending her spinning for its source. But to not avail, The Goblin King could not be found. Helpless and confused Sarah was again that little girl at those gates.
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