Hey peeps. Back again. This is Chapter 5! It's late and I'm going to bed now, but if you R&R, you just might find out what happens next. So send 'em in, and I'll keep writing!

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"Hello again, Sarah," Jareth said softly, his face aglow with a smirk.

"Hi," she muttered. For some reason she couldn't bring herself to look him in the eye.

Lindsay, on the other hand, was quite a different story.

"Oh…my God…You're the Goblin King!" She jumped up from her hiding place behind the bed. Her eyes were wide and wondering, and she seemed unable to find the right expression to plaster on her pretty face.

Jareth ignored her. "So, Sarah. Did you get my little present?"

"W…What present?" Sarah moved nervously in front of the bed where the crystal was hidden.

"Come, come. You know very well "what present"." He flicked his wrist, and the crystal rolled itself out from under the bed.

Lindsay gave her a disapproving glare. "So THAT'S what you were doing!"

"Shut up, girl!" Jareth commanded. She fell silent in shock. "That's better. I am here for Sarah and Sarah alone." He walked smoothly over to where the crystal lay, picked it up, and turned to Sarah. "This is yours."

"But-"

"No buts." The king pushed the bauble into her hand. He leaned close to her. "Sarah," he murmured. "Please take it. I would give you the world if you asked, but you refuse. So I beg of you, take this little trinket…to remind you that in the Underground, there IS someone true."

"Jareth…I have a life here! I have a boyfriend who loves me…" She grimaced at the pain evident in the Goblin King's eyes. "Just…stop it!" She pulled away from him and tried to run, but he grabbed her hand.

"Sarah! Don't run away from me again!"

"Let go! Leave me alone!" Sarah had tears streaming down her cheeks.

Lindsay looked on in disgust. "I feel like a third wheel here," she muttered. "Jareth, why don't you come take me to your labyrinth?"

He rounded on her, sending her scurrying behind the bed again. "Because, little girl, you are an insolent piece of filth that hasn't the right to be trodden under my boots," he snarled. But the gleam in his eyes fascinated the girl. She pulled herself to a squatting position and stared him back unblinking.

"You have such a beautiful face," she ventured.

His face lit up with interest. "Go on," he prodded.

Relieved by his reaction, she pressed on. "And your eyes are so…sweet," she invented. Though his mischievous gaze was anything but that, it was good enough for the time being.

Sarah felt her face start to burn with fury. It seemed hot enough to catch the room on fire. "Um, Jareth," she broke in. "Don't you think you should-I don't know-attend to your goblins or something?"

He waved her away. "No. I left Hogsbreath in charge." Cape fluttering ominously, he turned back to Lindsay.

"Hoggle!" Sarah corrected in a low voice trembling with anger.

Basking in her sudden small victory, Lindsay moved closer. "And you just seem so…muscular." She decided to try and work a little of her cheerleader charm on the Goblin King. A smile so bright it would have made the sun drop its head in shame flashed across her face. "Could I…touch them?" She motioned toward his biceps.

Jareth leered at Sarah, who was obviously wrestling with her emotions. But he couldn't bring himself to torture her that much. "No. If you're done building my pride, I think I'll get back to the task at hand."

Sarah let out the breath she hadn't known she was holding. The crystal ball in her hands was steamed from the heat of her grasp. She hastily wiped it on her shirt.

"Oh?" Lindsay demanded. "And what would that be? Trying to persuade Sarah to love you?" She laughed. "Didn't she already prove that she didn't back in the Labyrinth?"

A tight grimace formed on Jareth's lips. "I'd advise you to hold your tongue, girl."

But Lindsay wasn't backing down. She believed she had the Goblin King cornered, and she wasn't giving up her prize. "But I don't want to, Jareth. Why don't you give up on her and go after someone that can give you what you want?"

"No one can give me what I want but Sarah. After all, she IS what I want." A pained look flashed across the room to Sarah.

She looked back at him helplessly, still doing battle with her feelings.

By this time, Lindsay was fed up. She was getting what she wanted, and now.

So she flung her arms around Jareth's neck and kissed him.