Thanks to Djinn.  My faithful and only reviewer.  I don't own Jareth or Labyrinth.  They belong to Jim Henson.  I'm just borrowing them.  I do own myself, Leo, Screech, and Lady my dog.

Chapter Nine: Salvation

            "Jareth!!" Amanda yelled.  No one appeared.  "Meagan call Jareth damn you!!" Amanda screamed.

            "Why should I?" I asked weakly.

            "He won't come for me!"  I just closed my eyes and smiled.  Feeling the blood leave my body was like being in a warm bath.  I didn't hear a thing and could feel myself slipping.  Then I felt like I was caught on something.  It was preventing me from slipping into the abyss of death.  "Let me go!" I moaned.  Then a cultured, worried, male voice slipped through the fog of impending death.  "Not on your life!" it replied.  Then I felt something pulling me back toward life, toward light.  I struggled against it.  "Don't struggle!  I won't lose another loved one," said the voice full of tears.  I now recognized the voice as Jareth's.

            Soon I was on the platue of life but still unconscious.  "Took you long enough!!" I heard Amanda scream.

            "Well I wasn't at first," I heard Jareth state.

            "Yeah I had to say that she was dying for you to finally come."

            "I'm sorry okay?"

            "Is she alive?"

            "Yes she's just unconscious."  I smiled dreamily while being cradled in the warmth and soft darkness of unconsciousness.

            A few days later I was still unconscious.  Jareth had been using his magic to keep me fed and hydrated.  He also sat by my bedside every night to watch over me.  The end result was that he was exhausted and drained.  One time Amanda walked in and saw him sleeping with his head on the bed.  Instead of waking him she let him sleep and left.

            One day I had a horrible nightmare.  Jareth killed himself when I left.  I was trying to get to him to stop him but couldn't get there.  I had to watch helplessly as he slit his wrists.  Then I felt someone shaking my body lightly.  I heard Jareth's voice saying, "It's alright.  I'm here."  I opened my eyes, mumbled, "Jareth," and fell back asleep.

            Two weeks later neither Amanda nor Jareth were getting much sleep.  I was constantly having nightmares.  I also developed a high fever.  One night I totally stopped breathing.  Jareth gave me CPR and got me breathing again.  Then he carried me into the bathroom, filled the tub with ice water using magic, and set me down in the tub.  It took two hours before the fever broke.  Then I woke up and looked into Jareth's mismatched eyes.

Sorry for the extra shortness.  Sigh. Review plz.