Chapter 2: Continuing the memory

Back in the aboveground, Sarah was now nineteen year old. She looked beautiful. Her figure was perfect. Her hair was a more radiant brown, that shown like rich chocolate. Her lips were a soft pink color and her cheeks were always rosy. Her eyes were the clearest blue color anyone could imagine. She was incredible, a true beautiful and mature woman. Toby was now four and was quite the wild one.

 He was so full of life. He too was looking good. He was getting so big now weighing 38 pounds. His hair was changing from that golden flat top to a golden curl ball. For the past couple of weeks Sarah had been reading the Labyrinth to Toby, right before it was time for Toby to go to bed. He loved the story. Sarah enjoyed her time with Toby because he was now the only one that she ever cared about. But reading the story made Sarah sad, because she would think about all of her old friends and begin to miss them.

 She would try to ignore it so that she could concentrate on doing the different expressions, and voices of the different characters in the book. Toby liked, Jareth the best because Sarah would use an English accent. Toby could not remember Jareth. But somehow when Sarah acted him out, it seemed as though Toby could picture him in his mind.

            "I wish I could go back and enjoy my time there and not have to worry about a stupid clock, to be able to take in the Labyrinth's beauty." Sarah never regretted going to the Labyrinth. She liked the adventure, but she did not like that Jareth was so sneaky and unfair to her. She did not know, that if she ever went back, she would be able to trust him again.

Meanwhile, Jareth was thinking about Sarah again, and finally forced himself to take a crystal and look at her. After all he still loved her very much. He saw Sarah and Toby, reading the Labyrinth, this made him smile.

            "At least she has not forgotten me after these years, and apparently she is letting the little one know about me as well. Considering he can not remember me, being so young and all." Jareth was very excited to learn this. For the next few days Jareth gradually began looking at Sarah more and more in the crystals. He began to feel much better about her, and started thinking about the ball that he took Sarah to.

             "How I should have kissed her, than she would have learned about my feelings for her earlier. And maybe she would have had a different answer to my request. And she would not have defeated me." He said aloud looking at the crystal. This thought made him angry and he took the crystal and threw it against the wall of his throne room. It shattered into a thousand pieces and gradually began to fade away. After that he thought about the up coming ball that King Locket had mentioned to him. He decided to reply to his letter. He pulled out a piece of parchment paper, a quill, and started to write a reply to the letter. It read,

                        King Locket, this is King Jareth, King of the Goblins, I have, decided to take you

                         up on your offer about a bride. Perhaps this will be best for me. We shall discuss

                         the matter more on the day of the ball.

                                    Sincerely, King Jareth, King of the Goblins

                        P.S. Don't ever threaten me again!

Jareth rolled the letter up and tied it in red ribbon. He called a servant to have the letter delivered to the king of the Half-ground immediately. And with that he decided to go into the kitchen and grab something to eat. He wanted to do it himself because he had not left the throne room in a week and needed a new change of scenery. He scoffed down some bacon, sausage, and some pieces of stale bread. That did not make Jareth happy to see that the kitchen was not being taken care of. He than went to the wash chamber inside his bed chamber to take a bath and freshen himself up. When he got there he noticed that things there were also a mess and not taken care of.

            "What the hell is going on?" He yelled. Then he went into the washing room and stripped himself of his clothing and got into the tub of cold water, this made him angry that his water was cold. So he jumped out and made it warm himself. Using magic of course then got back in. After a thirty minute bath, Jareth got out of the tub and walked into his bed chamber. He opened a chest and pulled out some new clothes to wear. He chose a black peasant shirt and a black leather frontal vest to go on top of it. He chose black tights and black boots, with of course, black gloves.

He looked incredible and wanted everyone to notice it. He went looking around the castle and found that none of his goblins were to be seen. Jareth than realized, that he had sent a lot of his goblins to the Bog of Eternal Stench. But never thought about how many he had sent there. He ended up sending all of them except the one that he had deliver the message to King Locket. Now he had no one to wait on him. He left the castle in search of some goblins that would be hired to replace the ones that he had sent to the Bog. He did in fact find some goblins.

But they were all inexperienced, but he was going to have to deal with it. Later that day, Jareth got, the letter back with a reply that told what time the ball was going to take place at and where it was going to be held. It was to take place in one week, at King Locket's castle. Jareth thanked the goblin for returning. Then ordered him to teach the other goblins what each of their jobs was going to be, and what they were going to have to learn.

Sarah and Toby, had finished the book, now Toby would much rather act out the book. So they scheduled a day that they were going to act it out and they made props. Well Toby was in charge of props, this made him feel special, and Sarah made the costumes that they were going to wear. Sarah was going to be herself and Toby wanted to be Jareth.

The night of the ball came and Jareth got dressed in a maroon coat, with a white peasant shirt and black tights. He wore, black boots and black gloves. The coat was sparking and it looked wonderful on him. He was incredibly handsome. Jareth was pleased with the way he looked. When he was finished he took a deep breath and then changed into an owl and flew to the Half-ground, to King Locket's castle in the center of his world.

Meanwhile, that same night was the night that Sarah and Toby were going to act out the book. They wore their costumes, and were going to perform in Toby's room. Sarah liked that she was able to act as a child again. Sarah was wearing a beautiful gown, it was maroon and it sparkled when the light hit it at different angles. This was a very good color on her. It brought out the blue in her eyes. Her hair was down but some pieces of her hair were tied up in maroon ribbon. Sarah made Toby a little cape and he wore some of Sarah's old tights that she had found in the attic. She made his peasant shirt. Sarah even put some of her eye shadow on him. He looked so cute, Sarah was so proud. They were now just waiting to perform, well Toby had to go to the bathroom and so while waiting for Toby to come back, she started practicing her lines.

Jareth was meeting lots and lots of beautiful maidens, but none of them really appealed to him, he was starting to regret coming, because in every girl he saw a little bit of Sarah in them, but they were not what he wanted. He wanted Sarah herself. When he was dancing with the women, they all claimed that they were virgins, but by the looks of what they were wearing they all looked more like whores. They all had gowns on that were ripped at certain places that revealed things that Jareth really did not want to see on them. How could they be virgins, or even ladies for that matter? But to King Locket, he enjoyed it all.

Jareth did not like the setting that he was in, how could he choose to be with any of these girls?

When Sarah was rehearsing her lines she had always practiced saying, "Goblin King, Goblin King, where ever you may be, take this child of mine far away from me!" But for some reason, she could only think about the words that she said the night that Toby was taken away. She always did fear to say those words because she did not want him taken away again. Sarah then thought that the only reason why those word worked three years ago was because Jareth loved her, but tonight she thought that he did not love her any more, after the years, she was sure that she no longer had the "certain powers" and so something inside was forcing her to say, "I wish the goblins would come and take you away, right now." Not realizing what she had done. So she continued with her lines…

Jareth was now standing in the corner of the ball room trying to stay away from the "virgin" girls. He was thinking about Sarah and how shocked she was to realize that she wished her brother away, and he said the magic words in his head, "I wish the goblins would take you away, right now!" and it echoed through his head. Then he heard a familiar voice calling for him, to take their little sibling away. Jareth's head jerked when he realized whose voice it was. He ran to King Locket and told him that he had to leave to ball, because he was called and that he might return, but that was just a lie. He was not planning on coming back. So Jareth, turned into an owl  and left the castle, all of the maidens were hoping to get with Jareth, but once he was gone they all turned to King Locket.

"Toby, are you almost done using the bathroom? We are not going to be able to act it out of you don't hurry up."

But Sarah received no answer from Toby.

"Toby, Toby, are you alright? Why aren't you answering me? Toby!"
Suddenly there was a burst of wind that came from Toby's window, Sarah went over and looked outside, she saw an owl, sitting in the tree staring at her. The owl flew into the room while changing into the Goblin King.

"Jareth!"

"Hello Sarah!"

"Wha….what are you doing here?"