Chapter 35: Goblin Gossip
Sarah rested her head on Jareth's shoulder and placed her hand on top of his as
he rubbed her belly. It was a very cold morning, they
could tell that fall was in the air. Jareth pulled the sheet off of the bed and
wrapped it around Sarah and himself.
"Here Sarah, it is
getting rather cold. If you stand here in the cold air, all wet like this you
are going to get sick!"
"Thanks!" Sarah said
wrapping her arms around Jareth to make her self even warmer. Jareth kissed her
on the cheek and then pulled away from Sarah. Walking over to the wardrobe, he
pulled out a gown for Sarah to wear, and handed it to her.
"Here, put this gown on,
love...Unfortunately even with this great news we still have to work, and watch
over our kingdoms darling."
"Of
course Jareth." Sarah nodded her head, dropping the sheet on the
floor and quickly tried to get into her gown.
"I
think that today is a good day to go to the Half-ground and see how things are
doing! So after breakfast we shall go!" Jareth stated while standing
behind Sarah, and helping to fasten her gown.
"Jareth what ever you
want to do, we will do it. And I have to ask, when did you schedule for the up
coming ball?"
"I believe that it is
scheduled for the twenty-ninth of this month. Why?"
"Well because we are
going to have to inform King Roth that the ball is set for that date and not for
the twenty-second."
"Umm I see. Yes we can do
that once we return, my love. And thank you for bring it to my attention."
"Of
course." Sarah smiled. She now was helping to fasten the vest onto
Jareth.
"There, you are all set."
"Excellent. Thank you
very much. Well I am going to get breakfast ready now. You can stay here and do
your hair if you wish. I think
that will be enough
time."
"Okay, that sound's good
to me. I will stay hear and do my hair. And when I am done I will just meet you
in the dinning room correct?"
"Correct."
"Okay." Sarah smiled
at Jareth and kissed him in the lips. And before Jareth left the room he placed
his hand on her belly. Sarah did her hair, while humming. She was in a glorious
mood. The thought of a child just blew her mind away. Walking down the hall
Sarah noticed that one of the doors to a chamber was open. That generally was
not open. And inside she could hear whispering. She quietly crept up to the door
and turned her head so that she could hear what was being said. She could hear
some goblins talking about Sarah. They were making fun of her. And say that
they hated her. That the Goblin King was much better off without her...
When Sarah heard this, she backed away from the door and ran to the kitchen.
She could see Jareth still hard at work. Running past him, she made her way
into the dinning room. Jareth could hear sniffling and heavy breathing coming
from the dinning room. And it sounded all to familiar.
He dropped the knife on the counter and ran into the dinning room. He saw Sarah
with her head, face down of the table covered by her hands. Jareth walked over
to her and knelt beside her.
"Sarah,
my love. What ever is the matter?"
"Oh
Jareth!" She said picking her head up to look at Jareth. Jareth
pulled off one of his gloves and began whipping away her tears that left a
trail on her cheek.
"When I was walking to
come here I saw one of the doors open in the hall. I could hear whispering so I
walked over and put my ear to the door so that I would be able to hear what was being said. I know that sounds
nosey but it did not sound good to me. So I listened. And what I could hear..they...they..."
"Yes love. What?"
"...They were talking
about me." She said quietly, dropping her head to look to the floor.
"And what were they
saying Sarah?" Jareth now had a completely concerned look on his face that
was mixed with anger.
"They were saying that
you were much better off without me, before I came here!"
Sarah was still looking down to the floor and could only see Jareth's boots
that were once directly below her, now out of sight. She looked up and saw
Jareth storming out of the dinning room. She jumped up and ran after him.
"Jareth!
Jareth! What are you doing?" She asked in a loud whisper. Jareth did not
turn around, but only continued down the hall. When he got to the door that was
partly open he stopped. He could hear that they were still talking.
"Alls she does is, get in trouble and His Highness is always stuck having to go
and save her. I heard him talking one day before they got married. He was saying that he was getting pretty tired of
all this rescuing and could not wait until she married him, so that he could
finally relax and not have to worry about her
getting into trouble."
"No!!" Another goblin
replied in shock.
"And who does she think
she is anyways, sneaking out of the castle, even after His Highness warned her
not to?"
"I know really."
Another goblin said in disgust.
By this time Sarah was now standing at the opposite wall, and was looking at
the floor. She felt so horrible. And was thinking about what, she may have done
to make them so mad at her, and to even cause them to hate her. Jareth looked
at Sarah and shut his eyes. Taking a deep breath he punched open the door and
barged inside. Sarah's head jolted up as she watched Jareth enter the room.
When Jareth entered the room Sarah could hear the goblins scream with fright.
One of them even tried to run out of the room. But Jareth tossed a crystal at
him, causing him to freeze in his place. Sarah just watched as, Jareth sudden
appeared back in the hallway, with and hand on an ear of each of the two
goblins. He looked furious. Tossing them downward, to kneel on their knees he
yelled at them, as they were kneeling in front of Sarah.
"Now bow to your queen
and apologize to her immediately!" He screamed. There were now other
goblins looking at the commotion that had stirred up in the hall.
"Apologize! Now!" He yelled louder, pushing the goblins.
"Jareth!
Stop it! Stop it!" Sarah cried. Jareth stopped and looked at her. Her eyes
were full of tears.
"Just listen to what they
have to say Jareth! Just listen!" She was gazing into his eyes waiting for
his reaction.
"Very well." Jareth
sighed. "Come on get up." Jareth grabbed their arms and helped them
to their feet. He began walking back down the hall to the throne room. And
Sarah slowly followed. When she entered the throne room Jareth was sitting at
his throne waiting for Sarah to take a seat at her throne. And so she walked
over and took her seat. As soon as she was seated Jareth began speaking to the
goblins.
"Now, I want to hear the
entire story. What were you both talking about?" Jareth said in a calm
manner. So they began to tell him. There were a few times where he began to
lash out at the goblins but Sarah would tell him to take a deep breath and
relax. So it continued. Jareth also continued to ask them questions. And he
could see that the goblins felt bad about what they had said. And one of them
told Sarah, that what he had said about, Jareth wishing for the wedding day to
come so that he did not have to save her anymore, was a lie. And he apologized.
They both did and were indeed sincere. Sarah could see that. Jareth told them
that they were not allowed to talk about her or about his affairs ever again.
And that this time was their first and only time of getting away with it. He
told them that he will not be so easy on them next time around. And they bowed
to Jareth and Sarah, thanking them both kindly for sparing their lives, and
left the room, to get back to work.
