Declaimer This is my first fanfic and I'm not to sure how good it is going to turn out so I hope who ever reads it enjoys it. Also I don't own the Goblin King, Sarah or any other character that I use in this story.

Just As I Can Be So Cruel Chapter 4

"You Stupid Bitch, you don't work so the house should be clean and supper prepared before I get home. Can you not get that through you thick skull?"

"Dave you're early, I would've been done by noon," Sarah tried stepping away from her husband.

"Oh, by noon huh, I have to go by your schedule now, who the hell do you think you are, and who said you can talk back to be," this last comment was accented with the force of his hand making contact with the side of her face. "No please not again Dave, I'm still in pain from last night please I beg you don't!"

"Don't what. you say, who said that you can talk back to me!" Dave said grabbing Sarah by her hair and dragging her to the middle of the room flinging her against the couch so that she couldn't move away from him.

"Please Dave it won't happen again, please stop!" Sarah begged as Dave's foot made contact with her ribs bruising two of them. "Ahhhh.." Her scream of pain was cut short by her face being forced against the couch muffling her.

Jareth watched with a bit of remorse and satisfaction the horrific scene before him wondering if all this was worth getting Sarah back. 'Yes it is,' he thought.

Dave was over Sarah driving his fists into her over and over again until he felt that she had been punished enough for her disobedience. Then he just walked out the house as if nothing had happened.

'Help me someone please, anyone!' Sarah thought as she tried to force herself from the floor so that she could clean herself up, even though it really didn't matter what shape she was in because it wouldn't be the first time that this has happened to her, and it won't be the last time either.

Unable to hold herself up because of the pain, Sarah, collapsed, out cold.

Jareth watched and listened "Sarah wouldn't you just call on me and save yourself the pain that no one can free you from." He laughed a bit but the laugh wasn't as strong as before.

"Sarah call to me."

Chapter 5

Jareth walked over to where Sarah laid and stared in mild shock at the condition that she was now in. Then with a wave of his hand Sarah was transported to her bed, and her wounds and the living room cleaned. Jareth walked around her and Dave's room picking up little pictures of Toby and her parents. 'These pictures are so old, and to think you fought your way through my "Labyrinth" for the babe and now you can't even see him.' "What a Pity."

"Let the games begin Sarah," Jareth said while laying on the bed beside the sleeping woman. "You will call to me my dear and then you will be mine" he whispered brushing her brushed cheek with careful fingers. He smiled when she leaned into his touch thinking 'And here I thought that you hated me, Sarah.'

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The sun was shining directly on Sarah's face, 'Ow. everything hurts,' she thought rolling over so that the sun was not directly in her face. She started trying to get comfortable 'Why is the bed not comfortable today,' then she shot right up in the bed, "How the Hell did I get in bed," Sarah said out loud looking around the room, astonished until her eyes landed on perfectly round crystal sitting on the pillow next to her where Dave should be.