Chapter 2
The ambulance sped through the traffic, winding in and out cars.
"Kenny drive faster will you, I don't think he's gonna be with us for
much longer." The paramedic shouted over the scream of sirens.
"Mart, I'm driving the best I can, if you think you can do any better,
be my guest" Kenny smirked at Mart.
"Whatever"
Jareth meanwhile was in a terrible condition, sliding in and out
consciousness. He heard parts of the conversation,but was trying to keep
his mind on staying awake.
Jareth could only be hurt or killed aboveground, underground he was
safe from all this pain as long as he was near the magic. He even grew
old aboveground, he shivered at the thought of his handsome looks
disappearing.
"Oi Mart, radio in and tell em to be expecting a hit and run victim.
Tell em we'll probably be needin the crash trolley." Kenny turned quickly
to the victim, he didn't look too good.
"Sarah.... Sarah come here" Kati shouted over her college.
"Hang on" she yelled back. "Just prescribe morphine for now until we
know a bit more about Mr Saunders" Sarah told the nurse.
"Sure" 'God she's a great doctor' she thought to herself 'She never
hesitates, she never needs advice, she just knows what to do'
Sarah walked out from behind the curtain, her chocolate coloured hair
was pulled back in a neat ponytail, she wore hardly any make up, but her
cheeks shone a healthy glow and showed a slight tan. Sarah had many men
staring at her whenever she went out with her friends but she never took
any notice. Many of her friends thought she was still waiting for a
'mister right' but in truth Sarah was still waiting for a knight in
shining armour to whisk her of her feet and into the sunset. She knew
this would never happen in real life like it would in the books she read,
she just thought she had no need for a man in her life right now. The
past men in her life had let her down greatly, she always thought of one
man though, a goblin king named Jareth. The dreams from the crystal ball
still plagued her often. As she thought about about him she'd always
wonder what he was doing at that very moment in time. Was he still ruling
over the goblins and labyrinth, or did he spend his time with his own
queen locked up in his room. That thought always set of an unfamiliar
feeling of jealousy.
Sarah neither lived in a world of fantasy anymore or partied every
night, she thought of herself as someone in between all that.
"What is it kati?" she asked. 'Please let me home soon' she thought to
herself.
"Can you go and meet the ambulance? We're waiting for a hit and run
victim to arrive" Kati ordered her.
"Will do" 'Trust half the staff to be away on my watch' Sarah thought.
She ran out to meet the ambulance in the bay. "So what we got Mart?" She
asked the nearest paramedic.
"Pretty bad hit and run" He shouted as he began to pull the bed from
the ambulance. "This guy's got serious head fracture, he's losing quite a
lot of blood from his leg, he's fractured his arm in 4 places, has broken
his leg in 2 places with half the bone is sticking through, and a few
broken ribs puncturing his left lung. Poor bloke's lucky to be alive did
all this saving this kids life" Mart looked up at Sarah who looked very
pale and stood rooted to the spot.
"Jareth," whispered under her breath. She stared at his bloodstained
face ' Oh my god!' She slowly brought her hand up to stroke the side of
his face.
"SARAH!" Mart yelled "Do you know him? Sarah we've gotta move lets
take him inside or he'll die in minutes!" Mart shook Sarah.
"Huh, oh my god, sorry, quick resuscitations waiting for him" Sarah
faltered, how could they help a fae, or maybe he was just like a human?
Sarah though had no time to worry about any of this as she was running
along side the bed. She never took her eyes of his beautiful face. How
could this happen she thought, what was it that Mart had said? Then she
remembered that Jareth had saved a kids life, who was this? she wondered.
The bed burst into the ER "Can we have some help here?!" she yelled,
she and Mart pushed Jareth through to resuscitation and quickly hooked
him up to the monitors. The bleeping noise continued perfectly for
minutes as doctors and nurses worked to try and save his leg and treat
his head injuries.
Suddenly the bleeping stopped and was replaced by a low drone, Sarah's
face showed horror. "We've got a flat line, Sandra begin chest
compressions" Sarah told the other nurse standing by. Sandra began the
chest compressions, Sarah could only stand by and watch staring at the
monitor hoping at her will the beeping sound of his heart would start.
She stood for what felt an eternity, nothing seemed to be happening.
"Okay stop I'll start at 200, pass me the paddles, quickly!" she ordered.
She reached for the paddles "Okay, Clear." His body shook as the electric
current passed through his heart, still nothing happened the low drone
stayed.
Sarah was now crying freely, letting her emotions flow. "Please,
please stay with me,...Don't you dare die on me!" she whispered. She
reached for the paddles again. "300, clear" The doctors around her looked
at each other, by now the patient should be declared dead, Sarah had
never showed this emotion over a patient before. "Sarah...Sarah! List.."
The doctor was interrupted.
"WHAT?!" Sarah yelled, the doctor shrank back. "Okay,
ag..again...c..clear" she stuttered. Sarah pressed the paddles to his
chest, again the electric current travelled to his heart....moments
passed.. 'beep...beep...beep' the moniter sprang back to life. The doctors
around Sarah were amazed, "Thankyou god" she whispered, relief swept
across her face. She smiled to herself, he was going to live! His vital
signs were good, Sarah was amazed herself 'Jareth should be dead' she
thought to herself.
"Take him onto the ward." Sarah told Sandra as she quickly wiped her
eyes.
"Sure" Sandra stared at Sarah.
"Anything wrong?" Sarah asked.
"No.. well sort of... I mean do you know this guy? I know I shouldn't
really ask but you just have this twinkle in your eye now. Something I
haven't seen for a while" Sandra smiled at the bemused Sarah who smiled
back.
"He's an old friend... that's all," she answered, 'for now anyway'
Sarah's smile spread. She looked back at Jareth, even looking so ill he
made her heart flutter.
"Oh okay... do you want to take a break, you deserve it."
"Yeah thanks, I'll just be outside on the front if you need me" Sarah
smiled back at Sandra, and glanced at Jareth before walking out of the
room.
The sky outside was darkening, Sarah walked out to her favourite spot
and sat on the wall. Not many people were about, the wind was cold and
wisped Sarah's hair out of her face as she pulled the scrunchie out of
her hair. She sighed to herself and looked around, the car park was
empty which was unusual for this time of day. Sarah looked down at her
uniform, Jareth's blood stained her clothes.
'Oh my god' she thought ' what will I say to him? He is probably so
angry with me, and I wouldn't blame him.... I was such a brat' She sighed
again.
At first she had tried to contact her friends through the mirror, she
missed them so much but they were never there. She even tried calling
Jareth's name in front of the mirror, and thinking how stupid she was to
think it would actually work.
So Sarah slowly forgot about the labyrinth she always busy anyway
finishing her coursework for deadlines and finally earning her degree at
university. She had only been working at the hospital for under a year
and even at the age of 25 she outsmarted doctors twice her own age.
Although recently she had been asking herself if she was really happy,
she went out with friends every couple of days and they would nudge to
her and show her a man looking her up and down, hoping she'd make a move.
'You don't want to be alone in that flat of yours
forever do you?' Sarah would always smile back at her admirers just to be
friendly, but none of them were for her. The picture of the handsome
goblin king always came to mind, 'that was a face you could never forget'
she smiled to herself.
Maybe this was her chance to be happy, she didn't know what Jareth
thought about her but hopefully she thought, hopefully he'll forgive me.
The stars above her began to shine she lifted herself from the wall and
began to walk back into the hospital.
"Sarah..Sarah" Sarah turned quickly and frowned at the sight of Karen
running towards her, Toby and her father trailing behind. 'Still queen
over the family then she thought to herself' She didn't exactly hate
Karen, but would never think of her as her mother, 'she' was in
Hollywood.
"What are you guys doing here?" She puzzled "Has something happened?"
"No... well yes, Toby was saved by this man, oh Sarah I'm so worried he
should be here. Hit and run, he just pushed Toby out of the way and was
hit by the lorry himself blood was everywhere!" Karen frowned at the
blood staining Sarah's clothes. The family quickly walked through the
sliding doors into the hospital.
The colour was drained from Sarah's face, "Jareth saved Toby" she
mumbled to herself looking up she noticed all her family were staring at
her waiting for her to give them the news. She realized her brother was
as pale as she was and grabbing his hand she gave it a gentle squeeze.
"He's going to be fine, he's on the ward getting some rest but I'll
sneak you in, he's badly injured though" 'and died for the longest two
minutes in my life' she thought to herself.
"Thankgod" Karen smiled at Sarah. Toby let out the breath he had been
holding. Sarah's father led the way. "Well let's go thank him" He
smirked.
Minutes later Sarah stood in front on the door, the blinds shut out the
room. Karen raised her eyebrow at Sarah. "What is it?" she snapped.
"I'm just warning you, he's been through a lot and it will be a long
time before he recovers, months even, there are some machines just
monitoring him" She slowly pushed opened the door hoping not to make a
sound and wake him, even if he was drugged up.
There was an audible intake of breath as the family quietly stepped into
the room. Even Sarah who had seen people like this everyday gasped.
Jareth looked so innocent, so beaten.
Karen brought her hand over her mouth. "He,.....he did this, risked his
own life, went through all this pain... for our little boy" She sobbed.
"Yes, he's truly a saint!" father say's. "He truly is" Sarah
mumbled to herself
The machines bleeped around him and the wires from the morphine hung
loosely next to him, his pale skin on his chest was just visible. Sarah
stared at his chest rising and falling, his blond hair falling across his
face.
'It's shorter' she thought as she walked towards the bed. No-one made a
sound being careful to not to wake him. The realisation hit Sarah as she
walked to the monitors 'He risked his own life for Toby's... Maybe he's
really changed, a cruel goblin king would never do this' Sarah checked
the monitors, thankfully his vitals were stable. She silently picked up
the chart and wrote down his vitals.
Sandra walked through the door startling Karen. "Sorry folks your gonna
have to go, come back tomorrow" She smiled at Karen, Sarah's father and
Toby guiding them out of the door. Her eyes landed on Sarah, "Oh, hi
Sarah you ok?" She pulled the door shut behind Sarah as she shuffled out
of the room.
"Yes thanks Sandra, this is my mother and father and my younger bro
Toby" She ruffled his hair smirking down at him, Toby just stuck his
tongue out at her.
"Oh, so do you all know our mystery patient then?" She asked.
"Jareth" Sarah accidentally lat slip "I mean err.. um"
"Sarah, do you know this man? Why didn't you tell us!" Karen's high
pitched voice rang through Sarah's ears, she winced at the sound. "Does
it really matter?!" Sarah stood straight defending herself 'God Karen
gets wound up over anything, how could I let it slip' Sarah mentally
scolded herself. Unbeknown to them Sandra had already slipped away
leaving them to it. Sarah's father and Toby could only watch as Sarah
turned red.
"Explain yourself young lady!" Karen saw Sarah wince.
"I am not a 'young lady' anymore Karen you can't tell me to do what to
do anymore!"
Jareth tried to sit up but recoiled as the pain ripped through his
side.
"Where am I? Why do I really want to sleep?" he felt the drugs trying
to send him back to sleep. Jareth raised his eyebrow as he heard the
voices outside his room, could it really be? Was it his Sarah? Jareth
however couldn't fight the drugs any longer as they sent back to a deep
sleep.
"Sarah calm down! I know how you feel about me,but I do trust you. I'm
just surprised you know him. I won't ask again hopefully you'll tell me
when we come back tomorrow. Ok?" Karen placed her hands on her shoulders
bringing a very surprised Sarah into a hug.
"I'm sorry, It's just been a stressful day." Sarah turned to look at
Toby and her father. "You lot go home get some rest, it's getting late,
I'm gonna stay here for a while anyway." Sarah turned to the door 'I'll
stay here to see what he really feels' she thought.
"Ok, see you tomorrow... and Sarah take care," 'Karen's really trying
hard to get along with me' thought Sarah as she waved to them.
She decided to head down to the canteen before going to see Jareth. She
needed more time to think.
TBC...
The ambulance sped through the traffic, winding in and out cars.
"Kenny drive faster will you, I don't think he's gonna be with us for
much longer." The paramedic shouted over the scream of sirens.
"Mart, I'm driving the best I can, if you think you can do any better,
be my guest" Kenny smirked at Mart.
"Whatever"
Jareth meanwhile was in a terrible condition, sliding in and out
consciousness. He heard parts of the conversation,but was trying to keep
his mind on staying awake.
Jareth could only be hurt or killed aboveground, underground he was
safe from all this pain as long as he was near the magic. He even grew
old aboveground, he shivered at the thought of his handsome looks
disappearing.
"Oi Mart, radio in and tell em to be expecting a hit and run victim.
Tell em we'll probably be needin the crash trolley." Kenny turned quickly
to the victim, he didn't look too good.
"Sarah.... Sarah come here" Kati shouted over her college.
"Hang on" she yelled back. "Just prescribe morphine for now until we
know a bit more about Mr Saunders" Sarah told the nurse.
"Sure" 'God she's a great doctor' she thought to herself 'She never
hesitates, she never needs advice, she just knows what to do'
Sarah walked out from behind the curtain, her chocolate coloured hair
was pulled back in a neat ponytail, she wore hardly any make up, but her
cheeks shone a healthy glow and showed a slight tan. Sarah had many men
staring at her whenever she went out with her friends but she never took
any notice. Many of her friends thought she was still waiting for a
'mister right' but in truth Sarah was still waiting for a knight in
shining armour to whisk her of her feet and into the sunset. She knew
this would never happen in real life like it would in the books she read,
she just thought she had no need for a man in her life right now. The
past men in her life had let her down greatly, she always thought of one
man though, a goblin king named Jareth. The dreams from the crystal ball
still plagued her often. As she thought about about him she'd always
wonder what he was doing at that very moment in time. Was he still ruling
over the goblins and labyrinth, or did he spend his time with his own
queen locked up in his room. That thought always set of an unfamiliar
feeling of jealousy.
Sarah neither lived in a world of fantasy anymore or partied every
night, she thought of herself as someone in between all that.
"What is it kati?" she asked. 'Please let me home soon' she thought to
herself.
"Can you go and meet the ambulance? We're waiting for a hit and run
victim to arrive" Kati ordered her.
"Will do" 'Trust half the staff to be away on my watch' Sarah thought.
She ran out to meet the ambulance in the bay. "So what we got Mart?" She
asked the nearest paramedic.
"Pretty bad hit and run" He shouted as he began to pull the bed from
the ambulance. "This guy's got serious head fracture, he's losing quite a
lot of blood from his leg, he's fractured his arm in 4 places, has broken
his leg in 2 places with half the bone is sticking through, and a few
broken ribs puncturing his left lung. Poor bloke's lucky to be alive did
all this saving this kids life" Mart looked up at Sarah who looked very
pale and stood rooted to the spot.
"Jareth," whispered under her breath. She stared at his bloodstained
face ' Oh my god!' She slowly brought her hand up to stroke the side of
his face.
"SARAH!" Mart yelled "Do you know him? Sarah we've gotta move lets
take him inside or he'll die in minutes!" Mart shook Sarah.
"Huh, oh my god, sorry, quick resuscitations waiting for him" Sarah
faltered, how could they help a fae, or maybe he was just like a human?
Sarah though had no time to worry about any of this as she was running
along side the bed. She never took her eyes of his beautiful face. How
could this happen she thought, what was it that Mart had said? Then she
remembered that Jareth had saved a kids life, who was this? she wondered.
The bed burst into the ER "Can we have some help here?!" she yelled,
she and Mart pushed Jareth through to resuscitation and quickly hooked
him up to the monitors. The bleeping noise continued perfectly for
minutes as doctors and nurses worked to try and save his leg and treat
his head injuries.
Suddenly the bleeping stopped and was replaced by a low drone, Sarah's
face showed horror. "We've got a flat line, Sandra begin chest
compressions" Sarah told the other nurse standing by. Sandra began the
chest compressions, Sarah could only stand by and watch staring at the
monitor hoping at her will the beeping sound of his heart would start.
She stood for what felt an eternity, nothing seemed to be happening.
"Okay stop I'll start at 200, pass me the paddles, quickly!" she ordered.
She reached for the paddles "Okay, Clear." His body shook as the electric
current passed through his heart, still nothing happened the low drone
stayed.
Sarah was now crying freely, letting her emotions flow. "Please,
please stay with me,...Don't you dare die on me!" she whispered. She
reached for the paddles again. "300, clear" The doctors around her looked
at each other, by now the patient should be declared dead, Sarah had
never showed this emotion over a patient before. "Sarah...Sarah! List.."
The doctor was interrupted.
"WHAT?!" Sarah yelled, the doctor shrank back. "Okay,
ag..again...c..clear" she stuttered. Sarah pressed the paddles to his
chest, again the electric current travelled to his heart....moments
passed.. 'beep...beep...beep' the moniter sprang back to life. The doctors
around Sarah were amazed, "Thankyou god" she whispered, relief swept
across her face. She smiled to herself, he was going to live! His vital
signs were good, Sarah was amazed herself 'Jareth should be dead' she
thought to herself.
"Take him onto the ward." Sarah told Sandra as she quickly wiped her
eyes.
"Sure" Sandra stared at Sarah.
"Anything wrong?" Sarah asked.
"No.. well sort of... I mean do you know this guy? I know I shouldn't
really ask but you just have this twinkle in your eye now. Something I
haven't seen for a while" Sandra smiled at the bemused Sarah who smiled
back.
"He's an old friend... that's all," she answered, 'for now anyway'
Sarah's smile spread. She looked back at Jareth, even looking so ill he
made her heart flutter.
"Oh okay... do you want to take a break, you deserve it."
"Yeah thanks, I'll just be outside on the front if you need me" Sarah
smiled back at Sandra, and glanced at Jareth before walking out of the
room.
The sky outside was darkening, Sarah walked out to her favourite spot
and sat on the wall. Not many people were about, the wind was cold and
wisped Sarah's hair out of her face as she pulled the scrunchie out of
her hair. She sighed to herself and looked around, the car park was
empty which was unusual for this time of day. Sarah looked down at her
uniform, Jareth's blood stained her clothes.
'Oh my god' she thought ' what will I say to him? He is probably so
angry with me, and I wouldn't blame him.... I was such a brat' She sighed
again.
At first she had tried to contact her friends through the mirror, she
missed them so much but they were never there. She even tried calling
Jareth's name in front of the mirror, and thinking how stupid she was to
think it would actually work.
So Sarah slowly forgot about the labyrinth she always busy anyway
finishing her coursework for deadlines and finally earning her degree at
university. She had only been working at the hospital for under a year
and even at the age of 25 she outsmarted doctors twice her own age.
Although recently she had been asking herself if she was really happy,
she went out with friends every couple of days and they would nudge to
her and show her a man looking her up and down, hoping she'd make a move.
'You don't want to be alone in that flat of yours
forever do you?' Sarah would always smile back at her admirers just to be
friendly, but none of them were for her. The picture of the handsome
goblin king always came to mind, 'that was a face you could never forget'
she smiled to herself.
Maybe this was her chance to be happy, she didn't know what Jareth
thought about her but hopefully she thought, hopefully he'll forgive me.
The stars above her began to shine she lifted herself from the wall and
began to walk back into the hospital.
"Sarah..Sarah" Sarah turned quickly and frowned at the sight of Karen
running towards her, Toby and her father trailing behind. 'Still queen
over the family then she thought to herself' She didn't exactly hate
Karen, but would never think of her as her mother, 'she' was in
Hollywood.
"What are you guys doing here?" She puzzled "Has something happened?"
"No... well yes, Toby was saved by this man, oh Sarah I'm so worried he
should be here. Hit and run, he just pushed Toby out of the way and was
hit by the lorry himself blood was everywhere!" Karen frowned at the
blood staining Sarah's clothes. The family quickly walked through the
sliding doors into the hospital.
The colour was drained from Sarah's face, "Jareth saved Toby" she
mumbled to herself looking up she noticed all her family were staring at
her waiting for her to give them the news. She realized her brother was
as pale as she was and grabbing his hand she gave it a gentle squeeze.
"He's going to be fine, he's on the ward getting some rest but I'll
sneak you in, he's badly injured though" 'and died for the longest two
minutes in my life' she thought to herself.
"Thankgod" Karen smiled at Sarah. Toby let out the breath he had been
holding. Sarah's father led the way. "Well let's go thank him" He
smirked.
Minutes later Sarah stood in front on the door, the blinds shut out the
room. Karen raised her eyebrow at Sarah. "What is it?" she snapped.
"I'm just warning you, he's been through a lot and it will be a long
time before he recovers, months even, there are some machines just
monitoring him" She slowly pushed opened the door hoping not to make a
sound and wake him, even if he was drugged up.
There was an audible intake of breath as the family quietly stepped into
the room. Even Sarah who had seen people like this everyday gasped.
Jareth looked so innocent, so beaten.
Karen brought her hand over her mouth. "He,.....he did this, risked his
own life, went through all this pain... for our little boy" She sobbed.
"Yes, he's truly a saint!" father say's. "He truly is" Sarah
mumbled to herself
The machines bleeped around him and the wires from the morphine hung
loosely next to him, his pale skin on his chest was just visible. Sarah
stared at his chest rising and falling, his blond hair falling across his
face.
'It's shorter' she thought as she walked towards the bed. No-one made a
sound being careful to not to wake him. The realisation hit Sarah as she
walked to the monitors 'He risked his own life for Toby's... Maybe he's
really changed, a cruel goblin king would never do this' Sarah checked
the monitors, thankfully his vitals were stable. She silently picked up
the chart and wrote down his vitals.
Sandra walked through the door startling Karen. "Sorry folks your gonna
have to go, come back tomorrow" She smiled at Karen, Sarah's father and
Toby guiding them out of the door. Her eyes landed on Sarah, "Oh, hi
Sarah you ok?" She pulled the door shut behind Sarah as she shuffled out
of the room.
"Yes thanks Sandra, this is my mother and father and my younger bro
Toby" She ruffled his hair smirking down at him, Toby just stuck his
tongue out at her.
"Oh, so do you all know our mystery patient then?" She asked.
"Jareth" Sarah accidentally lat slip "I mean err.. um"
"Sarah, do you know this man? Why didn't you tell us!" Karen's high
pitched voice rang through Sarah's ears, she winced at the sound. "Does
it really matter?!" Sarah stood straight defending herself 'God Karen
gets wound up over anything, how could I let it slip' Sarah mentally
scolded herself. Unbeknown to them Sandra had already slipped away
leaving them to it. Sarah's father and Toby could only watch as Sarah
turned red.
"Explain yourself young lady!" Karen saw Sarah wince.
"I am not a 'young lady' anymore Karen you can't tell me to do what to
do anymore!"
Jareth tried to sit up but recoiled as the pain ripped through his
side.
"Where am I? Why do I really want to sleep?" he felt the drugs trying
to send him back to sleep. Jareth raised his eyebrow as he heard the
voices outside his room, could it really be? Was it his Sarah? Jareth
however couldn't fight the drugs any longer as they sent back to a deep
sleep.
"Sarah calm down! I know how you feel about me,but I do trust you. I'm
just surprised you know him. I won't ask again hopefully you'll tell me
when we come back tomorrow. Ok?" Karen placed her hands on her shoulders
bringing a very surprised Sarah into a hug.
"I'm sorry, It's just been a stressful day." Sarah turned to look at
Toby and her father. "You lot go home get some rest, it's getting late,
I'm gonna stay here for a while anyway." Sarah turned to the door 'I'll
stay here to see what he really feels' she thought.
"Ok, see you tomorrow... and Sarah take care," 'Karen's really trying
hard to get along with me' thought Sarah as she waved to them.
She decided to head down to the canteen before going to see Jareth. She
needed more time to think.
TBC...