Chapter 7: I am so sorry!

Jareth fabricated at crystal and it transformed into a sword. Locket did the same. They began to trot around. Jareth definitely knew what he was doing. Suddenly there was a cry of pain, but the blades continued to hit one another. After twenty minutes of fighting there was a drop of a sword. Sarah had been looking down at the floor, when she saw Locket's head roll right past her feet. She screamed and closed her eyes. Then she felt hands on her shoulders. She pushed them away and then began to rock back and forth, crying.

            "Sarah! My darling Sarah." Jareth spoke softly into Sarah's ear. But she just turned her head.

            "Sarah, are…are you alright? I mean well he didn't… well…?"
            "No Jareth, he didn't, but he came pretty close. But it does not matter how close he was, it is that he came near me to begin with, that matters! He treated   me like I was his play toy, I felt so trapped and you didn't come to help me! Just leave me alone!"
            "Sarah I can't do that! You have been harmed. I can not leave you like this after what just happened. I have come to help you, and help you I shall!" He tried to pick her up, but she pushed him away.

            "Jareth, if you help me than I will not be able to save my brother from the Labyrinth! And you will turn him into a goblin!"
            "Sarah, are you alright? Did he hurt you in any other way?"

            "Of course what do you think? How can I ever forgive you for what you have put me through? All because of your stupid job! I hate you!" Sarah screamed, still not looking up from the floor, and there fore she did not notice that Jareth was physically hurt. He groaned and fell to the ground. Sarah saw that something was not right.

            "Jareth! Jareth? Are you alright?" She looked at him and saw that his hands were over his stomach. He was bleeding everywhere.

            "Oh damn it. I am sorry!"

            "Sarah…what….what ever do you mean. Why shou…should you, be sorry?"

            "Here let me help you." Sarah took some of her torn gown and ripped them so that she could wrap the pieces around the wound.

            "God, how could I be so selfish!"

            "Sarah, what are you talking about?"

            "Jareth don't talk."

He had been sliced open, the blood just pouring from his body.

            "Sarah."
            "Shh! Press here and try to stop the bleeding!"
            "Sarah…! You are selfish, but that is one of the things that I love about you, don't worry, be…because of what happened here. I am not going to let you finish the Labyrinth, you are going to go…go to the castle and see your brother… and take him home, Aboveground."

            "Oh, Jareth, please stop talking, it will only make things worse!" She started to cry even more, placing her now bloody hand around his neck.
            "Sarah, I will be okay, I just want you to go to the castle. Really, go!"
            "Jareth I am not going to leave you!"
            "Sarah, stop being so stubborn, now listen to me, as long as you are here you are to answer to me. And you are going to the castle."

             "No!"
            "Sarah you are going and, this the last time I am going to tell you Sarah!"

Sarah hesitated and got up from the floor.

            "I am going because I want to go. Not because you told me to." She stood back, than looked at Jareth. She knelt down again and kissed him on the forehead.

             "Thank you for saving my life."

Then Jareth conjured a crystal and tossed it in the air. It shone a bright light and then Sarah was gone. Jareth laid there on the cold ground breathing heavily, and patiently waited while his wound slowly began to heal…