Chapter Seven

Author's note/Disclaimer: Well, here's chapter seven. I hope yall like it (yall? There's my Texaness showing again.) Anyways, I'm gonna pick my editor this week, SO I'm all excited about that. YAY! Well, enjoy your chapter. Oh, and I don't own anything don't sue me or I'll send my goblins after you. HA!

Sarah woke slowly and looked around her room, Jareth had left earlier that morning. She stretched and turned over, she wasn't about to get up. Her stomach kind of hurt, but she ignored it, thinking that it was nothing.

"Sarah?" the ruff voice called from the crack in the door "can I come in?"

"Sure Hoggle," she said, still in bed. She brushed her hair quickly with her fingers as her old friends entered the room. Sarah hugged them all.

"My lady," Sir Didymus asked "will you be staying with us?" She didn't say anything in response.

"Sarah stay?" Ludo asked. Once again, she didn't say anything. How could she? She didn't know if she'd stay. Sure, she loved Jareth but-

"Sarah?" Hoggle asked, bringing her back from her thoughts.

"Yes Hoggle?" she yawned.

"If you DO stay here," he started "I don't think it's a good idea for you to stay with Jareth."

"Why is that?" she asked.

"Because, I seen you two argue yesterday," he said "and he's got himself a temper."

"So?" she asked.

"So," he snapped, getting annoyed with the girl for not listening "he may get fed up with your stubbornness and do something that may hurt ye."

"He hasn't done anything so far," Sarah mused. They all looked at one another. "What?" she asked now worried.

"Nothing my lady," Sir Didymus lied.

"Sarah mar-" Ludo started but Hoggle and Didymus covered his mouth.

"Well we must be going my lady," Didymus said quickly, attempting to drag Ludo out of the room.

"Guys," Sarah yelled after them and she chased them down the hall. She knelt down, took Hoggle by the shoulders, and looked him in the eye. "What are you hiding from me?"

"Nothin," Hoggle lied "nothin at all. Why?"

"You're a lousy liar Hoggle," Sarah sighed "please, tell me."

"Sarah," Hoggle said quietly "let me put it this way, everyone who's defied, argued with, hurt, or displeased Jareth all either got thrown in the bog or..." he stopped and whispered very quietly "or is dead."

"But he hasn't done anything to me," she protested.

"That's what we're sayin," Hoggle whispered "he must really love you or you'd be in huge trouble by now."

"Sarah gonna be married," Ludo bellowed and Sarah sighed.

"I don't think so Ludo," she chuckled "I'm only seventeen and... I, yeah, just leave it at that." Sarah loved Jareth, but... marry him? Seriously, her and Jareth, forever in holy matrimony, for richer or poorer, as long as they both shall live?

She'd heard that forever wasn't long at all, but Sarah still had her doubts about Jareth. She sometimes felt as if he was messing with her, daring her to just TRY and get him. Besides, marring him would mean he was the head of the household. This meant that he would, indeed, have power over her. Her friends had left moments before, seeing that she was shocked.

Now Sarah had a new problem to face, would she stay with Jareth? Or would she go home.