Chapter 21: Going to the Throne room
Sarah woke up early in the morning and looked at Jareth who was sound asleep on the left hand side of the bed. She smiled at his sight, and liked the fact that she was able to wake up next to the man that she loved. She leaned over and kissed him on the cheek, then climbed out of bed. She walked over to the balcony. She saw that it was raining out. This really bummed her out. She came back to the bed and sat on the edge of it. She was thinking about what she was going to do today while Jareth was working in the throne room.
She did not want to be alone again today. Getting up from the bed she walked over to the door and opened it. She did not have her robe on so she peeked out into the hallway to see if there were any goblins around. There were none so she stepped out she was going to find a gown that she could wear. As she stepped out a goblin ran by and hit her, causing her to loose her balance and land on the floor. She cried in pain, she had landed the wrong way on her foot. The goblin didn't even look back to see if she was okay. He just continued running down the hall.
"Bastard!...Ah! Damn this really hurts!" She cried. A moment later Jareth was down on the floor with a worried look on his face.
"What happened?"
"One of you servants practically ran me over, and I lost my balance and fell. I think my ankle is broken!" She was trying to fight back the tears of pain.
"Hold on." He took her arms and wrapped them around his neck. And he scooped her up into his arms. He carried her into the room and sat her on the bed. He gently lifted her foot and examined it. It was indeed broken. Jareth took his hand and put it on top of her foot. He rubbed it continuously. Then he took his hand away.
"Now Sarah I want you to stand up." So she did. The pain was gone and she could walk perfectly fine.
"Thank you Jareth. How come it seems that you are always there to rescue me?"
"I don't know, maybe because I want to be!"
"Yeah. I could see that." She smiled. Sarah sat back down on the bed and looked at Jareth.
"Are you sure that you are okay with what I said last night?"
"Sarah! Yes, I am perfectly fine, what ever you want. It is your body, not mine."
"Well that's the first time I have ever heard a man say that."
"It is still early Sarah go you not want to go back to bed?"
"No I am okay. I was just leaving so that I could pick something out to wear for today, when the goblin hit me. No I am not tired. I am actually wide awake. Oh and sorry that I woke you up."
"No need to worry. I am usually up by this time anyways. And when I find who hit you, they are going to be in serious trouble. For hitting the future queen and not excusing himself, or even checking to see if you are okay for that matter."
Sarah could see that Jareth was getting really upset by this.
":Jareth, I am sure that it was an accident please don't worry about it. Besides I am better now, so what is the big deal?
"He should have watched where he was going, and not to say sorry. That is the big deal."
"Now Sarah I have more work to do today, yesterday at the meeting, was a complete waste. No one did anything but fight. So I took matters into my own hands. You can do what ever you want today, until I have time to come and teach some lessons on being queen okay." He smiled stroking the side of her cheek.
"But Jareth I don't want to be alone again! I would rather you stay here with me!"
"Well Sarah, instead, would you like to come with me to my throne room, so that you can see what my life is like as a king?"
"That would be great!"
"Good, just let me go and inform the council that you are going to be there, and that they going to need to be on their best behavior, while you are there."
"Why what do they do in there?" Sarah asked but she knew the answer to that question too, because she walked in on them yesterday.
"Things that you really don't want to know Sarah."
"Really, try me." She laughed, taking her hands and placing them on Jareth's shoulders.
"Alright. They pick their noses, grunt, well things like that. Things they should diffidently not do in front of a lady."
"Oh, Jareth. Sarah could see that Jareth was getting embarrassed, by his council, and that he was not proud of what they did either.
"Jareth if you don't like what they do, then why don't you tell them to stop?"
"Because, it is the only thing that they really are allowed to do, they really don't have much rights, Sarah."
"Oh I see. But today you are going to tell them not to do any of those things."
"Your right!" Jareth got up, kissed Sarah's hand and walked out of the room and down the hall to his throne room. Sarah went into her bed chamber and found a gown to wear. It was cream colored. The sleeves were a cream colored lace that came to a pointed "V" at the end of the hand. Then from the waist down, the gown was cream silk that was overlapped by the same cream lace at the sleeves. This time the gown was not puffy but if was very fitted, pushing her breasts up a bit out of the top of the gown. There was a cream colored rope that tied in the front of the gown. And again the gown had an incredibly long train in the back.
She took a seat at the vanity and pulled all of her hair up into a bun at the top of her head. She took ribbon from the vanity drawer and began tying it in her hair. There was a knock at the door.
"Come in Sarah said, turning around on the stool to see who it was. It was Jareth. He was wearing, a cream peasant shirt that opened in the front, to show off his chest hair and the pendant that hung around his neck. He then wore some dark grey tights, black boots and black gloves. He smiled at the expression on Sarah's face. She looked confused.
"How did you know that I was going to wear this gown?"
"Sarah how many times do I have to tell you? I know everything." He laughed.
"Then you should know how many times you are going to have to tell me the answer to that question!" She smirked. She liked being wise and seeing the expression on his face.
"Sarah once again you look exquisite."
"Thank you. You too." She said, not realizing the words she used.
"Oh I was hoping that I would look more handsome." He smiled. But apparently Sarah did not catch on. So he moved on to the next thing.
"Sarah, are you ready to see my life?"
"Yep. I mean of course your highness." She got up and bowed to him. Jareth just smiled. He took her hand and wrapped it arm around hers. They went down the hall and Sarah just happened to look at where Jareth's picture had been but it was not there. It was just any empty space that had the lines of dust that showed where the picture use to be.
"Jareth, where is that painting of yourself, that you had hanging on the wall?
"I am getting it cleaned. I noticed that you looked at it so much, and I feel bad that you have to look at it with dust all over it." Jareth explained.
"Oh okay."
