Chapter 5

Jareth carried Sarah to the park that they had been at the day before. It was pitch black out with only the moon as light. He laid Sarah down on the cool grass. She lay unconscious. He stroked her hair, summoned a crystal and while it was resting in one of his hands, with the other her tore open her gown. He rolled the crystal over her wound.

            "Sorry Sarah, this is going to hurt!" Jareth whispered into Sarah's ear. As the crystal was rolling around, it was forcing the bullet back up from where it entered, and was then trapped inside the crystal. Jareth then bent over and blew over the wound causing it to seal up until he was in the Underground to fix it properly.  Jareth lifted Sarah up and held her close to his chest.

            "Hold on, Sarah!.. No wait I can't. I can't bring her to the Underground!" Jareth frowned, took a deep breath and sighed.

            "Well, come on then!" He started walking out of the park and headed for the hospital. "This must be done the right way! She wants to stay here."

When he got to the hospital, he carried her in and asked a nurse for some help. The nurse grabbed a doctor and pushed Jareth aside.

            "You can wait in the waiting room, sir!" She pointed to the waiting room across the way. Jareth dropped his head and slowly began towards the room. It was full so he had to stand. He was so worried. He wanted to heal her, to be the one with her, not the doctors. Then he got an idea…

            "Tina, what's the stat?" the doctor asked.

            "She was shot in the chest sir. But the strange thing is that it looks like she started to heal already!"

            "Well let's have a look" The doctor leaned over and examined the wound. Since there was not bullet in Sarah alls the doctor had to do was seal the wound with some stitches.

            "Okay, send her to the ICU. And I will check up on her later!" The doctor said to the nurses that helped him with the procedure.

The next morning, the doctor went in to see Sarah, she was all wired up with IVs. He looked at her closely and wrote down any changes that occurred in the last hour. He had been checking in on her all night.

            "Doctor, why don't you go home, you have been here since this morning. And when she arrived you have not taken a single break. You have check up on her over two dozen times. Go and get some rest." The nurse told the doctor as he was leaning over Sarah, looking at her strongly.

            "Yeah, I will go in a little while, Yvonne… in a while."

The nurse left the room but stood looking in the window. She could see that the doctor was stroking Sarah's hair, and leaned in to kiss her on the forehead. She jerked and walked away, deciding not to say anything to him. Because she was afraid it could cost her, her job.

            "It is okay Sarah, I am here. You are save now." The doctor smiled to Sarah.

Sarah, lay in the hospital for two days unconscious. And the doctor was by her side every hour of the day. Finally she woke up, to see a face looking at her. It was a slender man, but built, who was tall, had blonde hair and mismatched eyes. Sarah sat up in her bed.

            "What…what's going on?"

            "Well good morning Sarah, how are you feeling?"

            "Jareth? Is that you?"

            "Why yes Sarah it is! Why?"

            "Well what are you doing in a doctor's suit?"

            "This is my job Sarah, I am a doctor."

            "What?" She laughed. "But!...But!"

            "Now Sarah relax, you have been through a lot."

            "I don't understand!"
            "I will tell you later today! Okay?"

            "Yeah, okay…ah, how long have I been sleeping?"

            "Two days, Sarah."

            "Two days!"

            "Yes! Can I get you anything to eat? You look very hungry!"

            "Ah, some oatmeal, maybe!"

            "Oh no you don't want their oatmeal, it is disgusting here!"

            "Well Jareth it is a hospital, hospital food is always disgusting."

            "How about this!" Jareth held out his hand and a crystal appeared and there was suddenly a delicious bowl of strawberry custard in Jareth's hand. It had a sliced strawberry in the edge of the dish. He handed it to Sarah.

            "This looks so good. But I thought that you said that you did not have your powers anymore!"

            "I told you that I would not use my powers unless I had to save you. And well two nights ago was my chance to use it. So now I get to keep it again. So anything you want   you can have!"

            "Jareth, why are you being so nice to me?"

            "Because Sarah, I love you. And I will do anything to make you happy!"

            "Jareth, honestly, do you miss the Underground?"
            "Well I have not really had time to think about it."

            "I see! When do I get to leave?"

            "As soon as you are feeling better!"

            "Well I feel fine Jareth can I leave now?"

            "No, not yet. Sarah you just woke up, you need to get use to your surroundings first. Now if you will excuse me for a moment. I will be right back."

Jareth left Sarah's room and stood outside the door. He was thinking to himself, whether she did not want him to be there. And when she said that she wanted to go home, did she mean that she wanted to go home and forget everything? Even him? He was unsure, and was going to have to do a test in order to see. He wanted to be introduced to her parents!