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Author's note- La dee da... Chapter two, yay! Ok, I REALLY need to know if you guys like this story, so don't hesitate to review!!!
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Sarah awoke to the sound of her blaring alarm clock, startled a bit. She groaned ungratefully and stretched her arm over to press the 'off' button and sat up. Rubbing the sleep from her eyes, she took a moment to remember what she was doing that day, and nodded silently when she did remember.
"Work..."
She swung her legs over the side of the bed and pulled the covers off herself. Looking in her vanity mirror across the room gave her a mild chuckle, due to the way her hair was messed up; knotted and sticking out randomly.
Grabbing her brush from the side table, she pulled it gently through her chestnut locks, fixing her part and smoothing her hair. She put the brush back on the side table when she was satisfied and walked out her bedroom door.
She strolled into the kitchen, humming softly to herself and pulling the bread off the fridge top, and some peach jelly from inside the fridge, on the door. She pulled out two pieces of bread and popped them in the toaster, pulling out a small plate to put them on when they were ready. She then plopped herself on a kitchen chair, setting the jar of peach jelly on the table beside her.
She looked to her left for a moment, and stared at what she saw, as if not beleiving it.
There, on her kitchen table, was a red rose, with a note underneath.
"But... how did it get here?" Sarah wondered out loud. She pulled the rose and note over to herself, and smelled the lovely flower.
"Mmm...." she mumbled as the sweet scent tickled her nose.
She picked up he note and noticed that the paper was tanish, like parchment. The writing on it was done in beautiful caligraphy, and obviously done by a quill and ink, something that made Sarah's eyebrows raise a bit. She shrugged her shoulders and started to read the letter.
'Dearest Sarah,
It has been much too long since we've last met. You're already starting to forget everything I taught you, everything I showed you. You are even hiring someone to help you forget. That is most ungrateful Sarah, it really is.
After everything I've done for you, you deny that I even exist? That my world exists? What about your friends, hmmm?
Well don't worry, I'm very much real. And Sarah, that was me in the red car.
Love,
Jareth, King of Goblins'
She nearly screamed when she read it, and threw it across the room. Tossing the rose along with it, her toast popped up, giving her a start.
She took a deep breath, trying to bring herself back into reality and grabbed her toast from the toaster, bringing it back to her seat at the kitchen table.
She smeared the peach jelly on her toast with shaking hands and took a bite.
"Calm... down..... it's just someone's idea of a joke..." she told herself, though not believing it one bit. The only person she'd ever told was Dr. Frustan, and she'd never spoken his name to her.
"This.... is not.... happening..."
Sarah shot up, and ran out of the kitchen and down the hall to the bathroom. She scrounged around in the medicine cabinet, looking for an anti-delusional pill, or anthing of the sort. But instead she came across a bottle of asprin, and a bloodcurtling grin appeared on her face.
"Asprin... yeah, take a few.... that'll make it stop..." she said, struggling to take off the childproof cap.
When she finally got it opened, she poured what looked like eleven or twelve pills in her hand, and filled a cup with water.
"Down the hatch..." she said, bringing her hand up to her mouth.
"I really don't think so, Sarah." said a cool, familliar voice, while a gloved hand grabbed her wrist, making her unable to get the pills.
Sarah screamed, knowing immediately whose voice that was, and struggled to get away, but Jareth only grabbed her other wrist forcefully.
"Sarah, yelling will do you no good. I live in a castle filled with goblins, all the noise in the world won't bother me." he said in loud enough so she could hear over her own screaming.
She stopped screaming, merely whimpering when he took a soft sigh.
"I'm not going to hurt you, the reason I'm here is to keep you from hurting yourself..." he said, voice never wavering.
Sarah remembered his strong voice. Though it was usually filled with demand or cruelty to her. However, she couldn't find a trace of either in it now.
He turned her around to face him, to find that Sarah's eyes were filled with frightened tears.
"Honestly, girl, you've become more of a scardy cat with every year I see...."
"I'm not afraid." she lied, looking at him with the strong teary eyes she once had looked at him with, in her parent's bedroom, before the journey through the Labyrinth.
"I don't believe you." He said, raising a thin eyebrow. Ther it was again. The harsh cruelty.
Sarah may have grown, looked older than she did at sixteen, but Jareth had remained the same. Just as she last saw him.
"Killing yourself through drugs that are supposed to help your headache is something I most definately do not intend to let you do." Jareth said, "And besides, what would your shrink say?"
"She's not a shrink, she's a skilled phsyciatrist, helping me to forget you..."
Jareth let out a cold laugh and wiped a tear from Sarah's eye.
"As if you could forget me..." his voice had an unmistakeable arrogant air to it.
Sarah whimpered at his touch, but only barely audibly.
"I visited her by the way. Gave her a bit of a startle..." he chuckled.
"What? No, you didn't!"
"Calm down, I didn't hurt her. I just showed her how very real I am."
"Jareth..." she said admonishingly.
"Oh, now you can say my name! After all these years..."
Sarah bit her lip. She didn't want to be here with Jareth, not at all.
"I'll be staying with you for about a month, Sarah. I'm taking a vacation. Felt I ought to see your world for a change."
"WHAT!? You can't do that! You can't barge in on me like this!"
"Oh, but Sarah, I very well can. I may be on vacation, but I can still use my magic you know." And with that, he formed a single crystal ball in his hand, letting it roll around it and up his arm for Sarah to see.
By now, she was absolutely unfit to play hostess for him, to angry to take her glaring eyes off him.
But this only made Jareth let out an evil laugh. "If you're thinking of calling the cops, it won't work. My magic has stated in the records that we're to be married, and all the neighbors know me as such, and so do your friends."
Sarah's mouth fell open. "You didn't..."
"Your boss knows, your coworkers.... everyone..."
"You dirty bastard!"
"Such language, Sarah! Entirely unsuitable for a young lady!" he said coldly, voice laced with sarcasm.
"I'll show you young lady!!!" she said, about to take a swing with the hand he'd freed but he instantly took her wrist.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk..." he clicked with his tongue, leaning his face in to look at her, "What kind of a fiance do I have?"
"I am NOT your fiance!" she yelled.
"Oh really, then would you mind telling me what that is on your finger?"
Sure enough, on her left ring finger was a diamond ring, sparking in the dim light..
"You really must check yourself before you speak, sweetie." he remarked, adding a bitter note on 'sweetie'.
If looks could kill, Jareth would have dropped dead by looking at Sarah. But instead, it only made him smile.
"Such a pity..."
"Go away! Leave me alone! What have I done to deserve this!?" she roared at him, caught up in all her emotions.
"Lets see.... beat my Labyrinth and took the runt.... then refused to say my name or believe I exist..."
Sarah sighed and looked away. "He was my brother, I had to save him."
"I know. That's why I let you."
Sarah looked up, there was no sign of joking in his face, not even a smirk. He was just looking back at her plainly and calmly.
"You... let me..... win?"
Jareth sighed. "Getting your little brother back was the only thing that would make you happy. You didn't want me, so I gave him to you."
Sarah didn't know what to say. He had let her have him? But he was still evil, after all, he took Toby in the first place...
"I only did as you asked."
He let go of Sarah, who let the pills drop to the ground and looked at the ring. "Well.... I'll let you stay.... but no funny stuff, and no messing up my life! I want it back exactly as it was before you came, once you leave."
"Very well." Jareth said.
Sarah bit her lip and looked out the bathroom door. Never in a million years did she expect to be standing here, in her bathroom, with Jareth.
"By the way, would you make me some breakfast, dear?" Jareth asked with a grin, attepting to take full advantage of his vacation.
"You wish..." Sarah said, leaving the bathroom to go get dressed. Jareth sighed and leaned against the wall.
"She's going to be a little more difficult than I thought..."
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Author's note- Bwah bwah bwah..... Jareth returns! Will he ruin her life? What will the cute guy at work say? Will Sarah fall in lvoe with the King of Goblins!?!?!?!?!? Ok, enough of that. Please review because I know I'm not the best writer and I'd love tips on how to be better. I would be mucho happy. Now, in the next chapter you'll get to know just what happened with Dr. Frustan's incounter with Jareth. XD Hehehehehe.... I'm so evil. 0:) Note: I redid this chapter slightly... so.... yeah... o.o
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Author's note- La dee da... Chapter two, yay! Ok, I REALLY need to know if you guys like this story, so don't hesitate to review!!!
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Sarah awoke to the sound of her blaring alarm clock, startled a bit. She groaned ungratefully and stretched her arm over to press the 'off' button and sat up. Rubbing the sleep from her eyes, she took a moment to remember what she was doing that day, and nodded silently when she did remember.
"Work..."
She swung her legs over the side of the bed and pulled the covers off herself. Looking in her vanity mirror across the room gave her a mild chuckle, due to the way her hair was messed up; knotted and sticking out randomly.
Grabbing her brush from the side table, she pulled it gently through her chestnut locks, fixing her part and smoothing her hair. She put the brush back on the side table when she was satisfied and walked out her bedroom door.
She strolled into the kitchen, humming softly to herself and pulling the bread off the fridge top, and some peach jelly from inside the fridge, on the door. She pulled out two pieces of bread and popped them in the toaster, pulling out a small plate to put them on when they were ready. She then plopped herself on a kitchen chair, setting the jar of peach jelly on the table beside her.
She looked to her left for a moment, and stared at what she saw, as if not beleiving it.
There, on her kitchen table, was a red rose, with a note underneath.
"But... how did it get here?" Sarah wondered out loud. She pulled the rose and note over to herself, and smelled the lovely flower.
"Mmm...." she mumbled as the sweet scent tickled her nose.
She picked up he note and noticed that the paper was tanish, like parchment. The writing on it was done in beautiful caligraphy, and obviously done by a quill and ink, something that made Sarah's eyebrows raise a bit. She shrugged her shoulders and started to read the letter.
'Dearest Sarah,
It has been much too long since we've last met. You're already starting to forget everything I taught you, everything I showed you. You are even hiring someone to help you forget. That is most ungrateful Sarah, it really is.
After everything I've done for you, you deny that I even exist? That my world exists? What about your friends, hmmm?
Well don't worry, I'm very much real. And Sarah, that was me in the red car.
Love,
Jareth, King of Goblins'
She nearly screamed when she read it, and threw it across the room. Tossing the rose along with it, her toast popped up, giving her a start.
She took a deep breath, trying to bring herself back into reality and grabbed her toast from the toaster, bringing it back to her seat at the kitchen table.
She smeared the peach jelly on her toast with shaking hands and took a bite.
"Calm... down..... it's just someone's idea of a joke..." she told herself, though not believing it one bit. The only person she'd ever told was Dr. Frustan, and she'd never spoken his name to her.
"This.... is not.... happening..."
Sarah shot up, and ran out of the kitchen and down the hall to the bathroom. She scrounged around in the medicine cabinet, looking for an anti-delusional pill, or anthing of the sort. But instead she came across a bottle of asprin, and a bloodcurtling grin appeared on her face.
"Asprin... yeah, take a few.... that'll make it stop..." she said, struggling to take off the childproof cap.
When she finally got it opened, she poured what looked like eleven or twelve pills in her hand, and filled a cup with water.
"Down the hatch..." she said, bringing her hand up to her mouth.
"I really don't think so, Sarah." said a cool, familliar voice, while a gloved hand grabbed her wrist, making her unable to get the pills.
Sarah screamed, knowing immediately whose voice that was, and struggled to get away, but Jareth only grabbed her other wrist forcefully.
"Sarah, yelling will do you no good. I live in a castle filled with goblins, all the noise in the world won't bother me." he said in loud enough so she could hear over her own screaming.
She stopped screaming, merely whimpering when he took a soft sigh.
"I'm not going to hurt you, the reason I'm here is to keep you from hurting yourself..." he said, voice never wavering.
Sarah remembered his strong voice. Though it was usually filled with demand or cruelty to her. However, she couldn't find a trace of either in it now.
He turned her around to face him, to find that Sarah's eyes were filled with frightened tears.
"Honestly, girl, you've become more of a scardy cat with every year I see...."
"I'm not afraid." she lied, looking at him with the strong teary eyes she once had looked at him with, in her parent's bedroom, before the journey through the Labyrinth.
"I don't believe you." He said, raising a thin eyebrow. Ther it was again. The harsh cruelty.
Sarah may have grown, looked older than she did at sixteen, but Jareth had remained the same. Just as she last saw him.
"Killing yourself through drugs that are supposed to help your headache is something I most definately do not intend to let you do." Jareth said, "And besides, what would your shrink say?"
"She's not a shrink, she's a skilled phsyciatrist, helping me to forget you..."
Jareth let out a cold laugh and wiped a tear from Sarah's eye.
"As if you could forget me..." his voice had an unmistakeable arrogant air to it.
Sarah whimpered at his touch, but only barely audibly.
"I visited her by the way. Gave her a bit of a startle..." he chuckled.
"What? No, you didn't!"
"Calm down, I didn't hurt her. I just showed her how very real I am."
"Jareth..." she said admonishingly.
"Oh, now you can say my name! After all these years..."
Sarah bit her lip. She didn't want to be here with Jareth, not at all.
"I'll be staying with you for about a month, Sarah. I'm taking a vacation. Felt I ought to see your world for a change."
"WHAT!? You can't do that! You can't barge in on me like this!"
"Oh, but Sarah, I very well can. I may be on vacation, but I can still use my magic you know." And with that, he formed a single crystal ball in his hand, letting it roll around it and up his arm for Sarah to see.
By now, she was absolutely unfit to play hostess for him, to angry to take her glaring eyes off him.
But this only made Jareth let out an evil laugh. "If you're thinking of calling the cops, it won't work. My magic has stated in the records that we're to be married, and all the neighbors know me as such, and so do your friends."
Sarah's mouth fell open. "You didn't..."
"Your boss knows, your coworkers.... everyone..."
"You dirty bastard!"
"Such language, Sarah! Entirely unsuitable for a young lady!" he said coldly, voice laced with sarcasm.
"I'll show you young lady!!!" she said, about to take a swing with the hand he'd freed but he instantly took her wrist.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk..." he clicked with his tongue, leaning his face in to look at her, "What kind of a fiance do I have?"
"I am NOT your fiance!" she yelled.
"Oh really, then would you mind telling me what that is on your finger?"
Sure enough, on her left ring finger was a diamond ring, sparking in the dim light..
"You really must check yourself before you speak, sweetie." he remarked, adding a bitter note on 'sweetie'.
If looks could kill, Jareth would have dropped dead by looking at Sarah. But instead, it only made him smile.
"Such a pity..."
"Go away! Leave me alone! What have I done to deserve this!?" she roared at him, caught up in all her emotions.
"Lets see.... beat my Labyrinth and took the runt.... then refused to say my name or believe I exist..."
Sarah sighed and looked away. "He was my brother, I had to save him."
"I know. That's why I let you."
Sarah looked up, there was no sign of joking in his face, not even a smirk. He was just looking back at her plainly and calmly.
"You... let me..... win?"
Jareth sighed. "Getting your little brother back was the only thing that would make you happy. You didn't want me, so I gave him to you."
Sarah didn't know what to say. He had let her have him? But he was still evil, after all, he took Toby in the first place...
"I only did as you asked."
He let go of Sarah, who let the pills drop to the ground and looked at the ring. "Well.... I'll let you stay.... but no funny stuff, and no messing up my life! I want it back exactly as it was before you came, once you leave."
"Very well." Jareth said.
Sarah bit her lip and looked out the bathroom door. Never in a million years did she expect to be standing here, in her bathroom, with Jareth.
"By the way, would you make me some breakfast, dear?" Jareth asked with a grin, attepting to take full advantage of his vacation.
"You wish..." Sarah said, leaving the bathroom to go get dressed. Jareth sighed and leaned against the wall.
"She's going to be a little more difficult than I thought..."
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Author's note- Bwah bwah bwah..... Jareth returns! Will he ruin her life? What will the cute guy at work say? Will Sarah fall in lvoe with the King of Goblins!?!?!?!?!? Ok, enough of that. Please review because I know I'm not the best writer and I'd love tips on how to be better. I would be mucho happy. Now, in the next chapter you'll get to know just what happened with Dr. Frustan's incounter with Jareth. XD Hehehehehe.... I'm so evil. 0:) Note: I redid this chapter slightly... so.... yeah... o.o
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