Chapter 10: What's the matter?

            "Sarah I want to go home!" Toby cried.

Jareth finally realized what it meant to love. He knew that he loved Sarah and that he would do anything to make her happy, but this was not the place for her or her brother. He thought to himself, *She would never be happy here, just look at her face, there is so much sorrow and pain. I…I must send her back* After thinking that he was torn, and could not look at her any longer. So he left the room to go to his throne room, to leave them alone. Sarah had seen he leave and wanted to get up and go to him, but she decided to wait until her brother was asleep. As she laid him back down and sang him a song, he quickly fell back asleep. She tucked him in the blankets once more, and kissed his forehead.

She told the goblin to stay there and to inform her if he woke up again. She left the room and went into Jareth's bed chamber, to look for him there, but noticed that he was not there or in the wash chamber. So she decided to go look for him else where. She started down the hall, looking in all the rooms. Then finally she came to his throne room. She saw him at the balcony and walked up to him. His back was turned to her so he did not know that she was there. She walked up to behind him and tapped his shoulder.

            "Jareth?... Are you alright?"

            "Oh…Sarah! How long have you been standing there?"

            "I just got here!" She looked into his mismatched eyes. She noticed that his eyes were puffy. He had been crying.

            "Jareth! What is the matter?"

            "Oh nothing." He said as he turned to look back out at the three moons.

            "Jareth, don't lie to me, obviously something is wrong… tell me! Jareth! Look at me!" She said as she turned his head towards her.

             "If you are embarrassed because you have been crying, don't worry about it. I don't mind!" She smiled.

            "I don't care!" Jareth screamed. "Just leave me alone!"

Sarah jumped back. His scream shocked her.

            "What the hell Jareth? If you wanted me to leave you alone alls you had to do was ask!" She whispered, and started to walk away, out of the throne room.

            "Sarah! Wait!" Jareth cried. But it did not matter. Sarah continued to leave. And he watched her turn the corner.

            "Ah! Damn it!" Jareth said aloud. Walking over to his throne, sat down and conjured a crystal. He watched Sarah walking down the hall. And when she got to the door to her bed chamber, she turned around and slid down, to sit on the floor in the hallway. She began to cry. Jareth took the crystal and threw it at the wall, as it disappeared. He sat in his throne for a half hour, than got up to go to bed. He strolled down the hall, than saw that Sarah was laying on the floor, in the hallway.

He sighed and picked her up, opened the door to his bed chamber and carried her to his bed. He laid her down on the bed and then pulled back the covers to the bed and slid her into the sheets. He covered her up, and walked over to the chair that was in the corner of the room. He pulled off his boots and sat down in it. Wiggling around trying to find a good position to fall asleep in, he had not luck. He walked over to the bed and grabbed a pillow. Then went back to the chair and practically draped himself over the chair. Having his legs hanging over that arm of the chair and his head at the other end, he finally fell asleep after about an hour.