Chapter 24: Confusion
The next morning Jareth left his castle to go to the castle in the Half-ground. When he got to the gates of the castle he was brought into the throne room where Rapture was waiting for him. He was sitting in his brother's throne.
"Leave him here, you may go!" He waved the servants on.
"Well it looks like you have already taken on the role of the 'King to be'!" Jareth stated looking at Rapture, cocking his head to the side.
"Shut up, did I say that you could talk?"
"No! And you can order me around either. No matter what I am still the head king and what you are doing can get you into a lot of trouble with me. And you don't want that do you?"
"Are threatening me Jareth?"
"It's Your Highness to you!" Jareth screamed.
Rapture snapped his fingers and a guard walked in with Sarah fighting to break free from his grasp. She was bleeding and her gown was completely torn, with her breasts exposed. He face, arms and legs were completely covered in abrasions. Sarah Jareth screamed starting to run to her. But Rapture threw a sword at him. It spiraled right into Jareth's chest, pinning him to the wall. Rapture walked up to Sarah, waved the guard on to leave. He threw her to the floor and pulled her gown off of her shoulders, licking her chest and neck.
"It is so amazing that after I raped her she is still calling for you." He enjoyed watching Jareth get all upset. And after he said that, Jareth grabbed the hilt of the sword and pulled it out of his chest. He gathered his strength and ran over to Rapture, swinging the blade across his neck. Rapture's head fell to the floor. After that, occurred the other brothers came running in after Jareth. They too were swinging their swords. Jareth pushed Sarah out of the way and crawled over to the corner of the room. Jareth fought all of the brothers at once.
He was getting sliced open and beat up but, his will power was much stronger than any of their swords, or all of them put together. Jareth glanced at Sarah sitting in the corner and screamed in anger at how traumatized she looked. Then in three quick swings all of the brothers, laid dead on the floor. It looked like a war zone, with body parts all over the floor. Jareth walked over to Sarah and wrapped his arms around her.
"It's okay Sarah I am here. Come on let's go home."
"Jareth I am so sorry. I never should have left. This never would have happened if I just listened to you."
"Sarah don't worry about it, let's just focus on getting you home and cleaned up."
Sarah nodded her head, in agreement. Jareth picked her up scooping her up into his arms.
"Jareth?"
"Yeah?"
"Does it hurt?"
"What, this little scratch?" He smiled referring to the hold in his chest that was bleeding profusely.
"Yes it does, but not as much as my heart did when I saw you sitting in the corner of the room. Nothing will ever compare to that!"
When they got to the castle Jareth carefully placed Sarah on the bed and went into the wash chamber to draw a bath. When it was finished he went back into the bed chamber to find that Sarah had fallen asleep. He sighed and picked her up and carried her into the wash chamber. He carefully pulled what was left of her gown off of her body, as he carefully pulled more of the gown down, tears began to stream from his face; because the more he pulled the gown down, the more the bruises and abrasions on her body. He slowly placed Sarah in the steaming tub, which caused her to cry in pain, because at first the water hurt her open wounds. Jareth bit his lip, trying to be really careful. When she was completely in the water, it began to turn a pink tone because of the blood. Jareth watched as her skin began to turn a pink color from the heat.
He grabbed a sponged and began to wash her wounds, fighting back the tears that were ready to come pouring down his cheeks. Sarah woke up after about ten minutes. She woke up to Jareth ripping her forehead with the sponge. She grabbed his arm and looked over to him. His wound was still not completely healed. She looked over the tub and saw a puddle of blood below his feet. Then she made eye contact with him. She could see that his mismatched eyes were puffy, and the tip of his nose was red.
He had been crying. She took her hands from the tub and placed them on his face. He took one of his hands and placed it on top of her right hand. She leaned over in pain, but did not care. And she kissed him passionately. She looked at him and nodded her head and then kissed him again. She then kissed over his eyes and on his forehead, stroking his hair. Jareth lifted his hand and put his index finger in front of Sarah's face as she stopped. He got up and pulled off his shirt. Then he pulled off his boots. Sarah got up from the tub and began to step out.
She took a towel and wrapped it around her body, which was still hurting her, but she again did not care. She stepped towards Jareth and kissed his again, throwing one of her arms around neck. She took her other hand and placed it over the wound on Jareth's chest, pushing as hard as she could. And she could feel that the wound was closing faster and faster. She looked down and saw that it was now completely gone. She looked up at Jareth and smiled.
"Jareth I am really tired, shall we go to bed."
"What ever you want Sarah."
She took his hands still kissing him as she guided them into the bed chamber. When Jareth hit the bed Sarah landed on top of him. She gasped in pain and then smiled.
"Sarah you are still hurt. I don't want to make it worse."
"The only thing that would make it, worse, would be if I was not here in this position with you right now." She replied.
"I thought you said you were tired?"
"Yeah I guess your right." She said climbing off of him and dropping the towel on the floor. She walked over to the wash room door and grabbed his robe and slid it on. She then walked back over to the bed and climbed in. Pulling the covers over shoulders and turning to the side, so her back was to Jareth.
"Good night Jareth. I love you."
Jareth sighed, he was so confused. One minute she does not want to be sexually active with Jareth and the next she does. What was going on?
