A Shocking Discovery
Disclaimer: Nothing has changed since the last time, so I won't even bother. Just remember, if you sue, I'll have nothing for you.
Summary: Sarah makes a decision that she thinks is the right decision. But she soon realizes that it was anything but.
Hey all. Sorry that it took me so long to update this one, but I got backtracked with my work and school and adding chapters to my other stories (Feel free to read them also. I just updated one of them,) Anyway, feel free to leave feedback on your way out. And thanks for all the feedback that I got on the first two chapters. See ya.
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"Well, what do you say Sarah?" Jareth asked her. " Would you like to come and stay with me in the Underground?"
Sarah's mind was all mixed up. Jareth had just offered her a chance to stay with him until she got everything in her life sorted out, but she didn't know if she wanted to leave.
"I don't know, Jareth. I....I just don't know. I sure that I would be happy down in the Underground, but I would miss my life up here."
"What life?" Jareth asked. "I didn't mean to invade your privacy, but I have been watching you for a long time, Sarah. Ever since you defeated me." stressing those last words, as if it was painful for him to utter them.
Sarah stared at Jareth in shock. "Anyway," Jareth continued, "As I said, I have been watching you for a long time, and I have noticed that you haven't really had much of a life."
Sarah could feel the anger inside her rise up. Jareth could see it in her eyes and in her cheeks. He instantly regretted telling her his secret.
It had started very innocently. He had told her that he loved her when she wished Toby away, and when she defeated him, it broke his heart. After she had left with her little brother, he was very lonely. He thought it would be a good idea to see what she had been up to, so he began to watch her through his crystals.
"How dare you spy on me!" Sarah spat at him. "You had no right to invade my privacy the way you did."
"Sarah, please calm down. The only reason that I watched you is because...." he couldn't finish. He couldn't bring himself to tell her how he felt about her. He was sure that she would laugh in his face.
Sarah waited for him to finish his sentence. When he didn't, she said, in a very cold tone, "Because why, Jareth?"
He looked away and said, "It doesn't matter. The point is that you never did anything in you life. After you were in my Labyrinth, you grew up, graduated from High School, went away to college, graduated from college, and got a job.
Jareth stood up and moved over to the windows. As he moved, he said, "Like I said earlier, You really don't have much of a life, Sarah."
Sarah just stared coldly at Jareth. She knew that he was right, but she wasn't about to admit it to him. This was her enemy. This man kidnapped her little stepbrother so many years earlier. This man made her play his game and solve his Labyrinth. He also drugged her to try and make her forget about Toby.
"You had no right to invade my privacy, Jareth," She said as she sat up on the bed. "No right at all."
"Yes Sarah," Jareth said. "I know. It's just that I wanted to keep an eye on you." That was one of the biggest lies that he had ever told anyone. He regretted the words as soon as they came out of his mouth.
"Why. Jareth, what are you not telling me?" She asked him. Jareth looked at her for a minute. What should he say. He wanted so much to tell her how he felt about her, but he was a coward.
A thought popped into his head, and he smiled as he said, "Because I wanted to make sure that nothing happened to the one person who has defeated me."
He moved back over to the bed and sat on it while saying, "God knows that if anything happened to you, I would be eternally bored."
"I am not following you, Jareth," Sarah said. Jareth chuckled and said as he put his hand to her face, "When you went through my Labyrinth, you were determined to get through it because you were determined to get your brother back. Others who have gone through only do it to save their asses. That set you apart from others, Sarah. It made it more of a challenge to try and beat you."
"So like I said, if anything had ever happened to you, my greatest challenge would've disappeared and I would have had nothing to do." This last remark caused Sarah to smile. It was nice to know that she was his greatest challenge.
Jareth removed his hand from her face and said, "So what do you say? Will you come with me to the Underground?"
Sarah froze. She was still confused. She thought that Jareth was supposed to be his enemy, but the way he had sat with her last night, and the way that he held her or touched her, made it seem like there was something else to him, and for some reason, it terrified her.
"Jareth," she began. "It's very nice of you to offer this to me. But I don't think that I can do it."
Jareth was shocked. He had thought that Sarah would have come with him for sure.
"Are you absolutely sure, Sarah?" He asked her. Sarah hesitated, then nodded her head. She looked into his eyes and for a moment, she thought she saw something along the lines of sadness, but as soon as she saw it, it had faded away and replaced by the usual coldness.
Jareth sighed and said, "Very well. I will leave you to your life then. But if you ever need me for anything Sarah, anything at all, feel free to call out my name." And with that, he was gone in a cloud of glitter.
Sarah stared as the glitter fell and settled into her carpet. She got up and entered the bathroom to see how terrible her bruises were. she was shocked to see that her face was clear as day. She wondered how that could be possible. The she remembered that Jareth had been touching her face earlier.
"He must have healed me somehow when he touched my face." she thought to herself as she walked out of the bathroom into the living room. She saw that her message light was blinking and pushed the play button.
" Hey babe," she heard Rob' s slurred speech talk to her. "Look, babe. I got a small problem. I somehow wound up in jail last night, and I need you to do me a favor. If you could come down here and post my bail, that would be great." he hung up.
Sarah sighed as she walked back into her bedroom to get dressed to head down to the local jail and bail Rob out.
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It had been nearly a month, and Sarah was even more miserable. The beatings that Rob had given her had gotten more frequent, and they were a lot worse.
After she posted bail for him a month ago, the two of them sat down a talked for a while, and Rob promised that he would get some help for his drinking problem.
Unfortunately, his sobriety lasted for only about a day and a half. They had gone out to a fancy restaurant to celebrate their new life together when Rob excused himself to go to the bathroom. When he hadn't returned for a few minutes, Sarah became worried and she walked towards the bathrooms to look for him.
When she saw him in the bar, she was furious. She walked over to him to confront him, and he said that she was overreacting and that he had only had one little drink. Sarah wasn't dumb and could see that Rob was working on his fourth or fifth drink.
She grabbed him and pulled him out of the restaurant where they were eating and started screaming at him, telling him again that their relationship was over. She had called him a no good, lousy drunk, and that his life wouldn't amount to anything.
Apparently, that last comment had hit a nerve with Rob, and he smacked her hard across the face, just like he had done a few days earlier. He shoved her into his car and drove to her apartment at about eighty miles per hour. When they had arrived, he forced her into her own apartment and smacked her around some more until he passed out.
When he came to the next morning and saw what he had done, he ran out and bought her a bunch of roses and a beautiful diamond tennis bracelet as an apology.
Sarah wanted to spit in his face and throw him out of her house, but when she saw that he had bought all this for her and was expecting an apology from her, she became frightened. If she had refused his gifts, he would've probably hit her again. So she had accepted his apology.
Since then, the beatings haven't ceased at all for her. She was terrified of Rob, and wanted to get away from him. But she was afraid that if she tried to break things off with him again, the same thing that happened before would happen again. And that terrified Sarah even more. She felt terrible.
And to top everything off, Sarah had been waking up almost every day and immediately felt sick to her stomach. Then she would run to the bathroom and throw up. She felt like she knew what it was, but she refused to believe it. She told herself that it was because of Rob that she had been sick to her stomach, even though she knew it was a lie.
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Jareth was furious. He had continued to watch Sarah after their last confrontation nearly a month ago, even though she had yelled at him. Every time he watched, he grew more and more angry. At Rob, at Sarah, and at himself.
He desperately wanted to go to Sarah and talk some sense into her, but she had turned him down. He was still bitter about that. He had thought of every possible way to get Sarah out of the state she was in, but with every plan there was a downside that showed that plan wouldn't work.
Jareth had thought of everything and couldn't think of a way to get Sarah out of her relationship. It worried him. He thought that the longer he took to reach a solution, the worse her chances of surviving the hell that she was living in would be.
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Sarah jumped as she heard the timer go off in the bathroom. It was the longest ten minutes that she had to wait. She nervously walked into the bathroom and picked up the test. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She then looked at the test to see what the results were. She then looked at the box and back to the test, to make sure that she had read the results right.
She dropped both the box and the test, and backed over to the toilet and sat down in shock. It was her worst thoughts coming true right in front of her very eyes. She was trapped in a living hell with Rob as her own personal Satan. Now to top it all off, she was pregnant with his child. Sarah buried her head in her hands and began to cry softly. The cries escalated into sobs, which then escalated into screams.
She continued to scream until her voice was hoarse and she continued to cry until she was cried out. Finally, she picked herself up off of the floor and walked back into her bedroom. She crawled under the covers and curled into a little ball where she fell asleep, hoping that she would wake up and this would all be a dream.
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How was that little installment for you. What do you think I should do in the next chapter? I really would appreciate your opinions, and would give you the credibility that you deserve for your ideas. But if you have no ideas, I would appreciate any comments on the story. It's not like I sit in my dark room and watch the review counter on my computer screen all day. (I am just kidding.) See you all later, and please leave the comments.
Disclaimer: Nothing has changed since the last time, so I won't even bother. Just remember, if you sue, I'll have nothing for you.
Summary: Sarah makes a decision that she thinks is the right decision. But she soon realizes that it was anything but.
Hey all. Sorry that it took me so long to update this one, but I got backtracked with my work and school and adding chapters to my other stories (Feel free to read them also. I just updated one of them,) Anyway, feel free to leave feedback on your way out. And thanks for all the feedback that I got on the first two chapters. See ya.
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"Well, what do you say Sarah?" Jareth asked her. " Would you like to come and stay with me in the Underground?"
Sarah's mind was all mixed up. Jareth had just offered her a chance to stay with him until she got everything in her life sorted out, but she didn't know if she wanted to leave.
"I don't know, Jareth. I....I just don't know. I sure that I would be happy down in the Underground, but I would miss my life up here."
"What life?" Jareth asked. "I didn't mean to invade your privacy, but I have been watching you for a long time, Sarah. Ever since you defeated me." stressing those last words, as if it was painful for him to utter them.
Sarah stared at Jareth in shock. "Anyway," Jareth continued, "As I said, I have been watching you for a long time, and I have noticed that you haven't really had much of a life."
Sarah could feel the anger inside her rise up. Jareth could see it in her eyes and in her cheeks. He instantly regretted telling her his secret.
It had started very innocently. He had told her that he loved her when she wished Toby away, and when she defeated him, it broke his heart. After she had left with her little brother, he was very lonely. He thought it would be a good idea to see what she had been up to, so he began to watch her through his crystals.
"How dare you spy on me!" Sarah spat at him. "You had no right to invade my privacy the way you did."
"Sarah, please calm down. The only reason that I watched you is because...." he couldn't finish. He couldn't bring himself to tell her how he felt about her. He was sure that she would laugh in his face.
Sarah waited for him to finish his sentence. When he didn't, she said, in a very cold tone, "Because why, Jareth?"
He looked away and said, "It doesn't matter. The point is that you never did anything in you life. After you were in my Labyrinth, you grew up, graduated from High School, went away to college, graduated from college, and got a job.
Jareth stood up and moved over to the windows. As he moved, he said, "Like I said earlier, You really don't have much of a life, Sarah."
Sarah just stared coldly at Jareth. She knew that he was right, but she wasn't about to admit it to him. This was her enemy. This man kidnapped her little stepbrother so many years earlier. This man made her play his game and solve his Labyrinth. He also drugged her to try and make her forget about Toby.
"You had no right to invade my privacy, Jareth," She said as she sat up on the bed. "No right at all."
"Yes Sarah," Jareth said. "I know. It's just that I wanted to keep an eye on you." That was one of the biggest lies that he had ever told anyone. He regretted the words as soon as they came out of his mouth.
"Why. Jareth, what are you not telling me?" She asked him. Jareth looked at her for a minute. What should he say. He wanted so much to tell her how he felt about her, but he was a coward.
A thought popped into his head, and he smiled as he said, "Because I wanted to make sure that nothing happened to the one person who has defeated me."
He moved back over to the bed and sat on it while saying, "God knows that if anything happened to you, I would be eternally bored."
"I am not following you, Jareth," Sarah said. Jareth chuckled and said as he put his hand to her face, "When you went through my Labyrinth, you were determined to get through it because you were determined to get your brother back. Others who have gone through only do it to save their asses. That set you apart from others, Sarah. It made it more of a challenge to try and beat you."
"So like I said, if anything had ever happened to you, my greatest challenge would've disappeared and I would have had nothing to do." This last remark caused Sarah to smile. It was nice to know that she was his greatest challenge.
Jareth removed his hand from her face and said, "So what do you say? Will you come with me to the Underground?"
Sarah froze. She was still confused. She thought that Jareth was supposed to be his enemy, but the way he had sat with her last night, and the way that he held her or touched her, made it seem like there was something else to him, and for some reason, it terrified her.
"Jareth," she began. "It's very nice of you to offer this to me. But I don't think that I can do it."
Jareth was shocked. He had thought that Sarah would have come with him for sure.
"Are you absolutely sure, Sarah?" He asked her. Sarah hesitated, then nodded her head. She looked into his eyes and for a moment, she thought she saw something along the lines of sadness, but as soon as she saw it, it had faded away and replaced by the usual coldness.
Jareth sighed and said, "Very well. I will leave you to your life then. But if you ever need me for anything Sarah, anything at all, feel free to call out my name." And with that, he was gone in a cloud of glitter.
Sarah stared as the glitter fell and settled into her carpet. She got up and entered the bathroom to see how terrible her bruises were. she was shocked to see that her face was clear as day. She wondered how that could be possible. The she remembered that Jareth had been touching her face earlier.
"He must have healed me somehow when he touched my face." she thought to herself as she walked out of the bathroom into the living room. She saw that her message light was blinking and pushed the play button.
" Hey babe," she heard Rob' s slurred speech talk to her. "Look, babe. I got a small problem. I somehow wound up in jail last night, and I need you to do me a favor. If you could come down here and post my bail, that would be great." he hung up.
Sarah sighed as she walked back into her bedroom to get dressed to head down to the local jail and bail Rob out.
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It had been nearly a month, and Sarah was even more miserable. The beatings that Rob had given her had gotten more frequent, and they were a lot worse.
After she posted bail for him a month ago, the two of them sat down a talked for a while, and Rob promised that he would get some help for his drinking problem.
Unfortunately, his sobriety lasted for only about a day and a half. They had gone out to a fancy restaurant to celebrate their new life together when Rob excused himself to go to the bathroom. When he hadn't returned for a few minutes, Sarah became worried and she walked towards the bathrooms to look for him.
When she saw him in the bar, she was furious. She walked over to him to confront him, and he said that she was overreacting and that he had only had one little drink. Sarah wasn't dumb and could see that Rob was working on his fourth or fifth drink.
She grabbed him and pulled him out of the restaurant where they were eating and started screaming at him, telling him again that their relationship was over. She had called him a no good, lousy drunk, and that his life wouldn't amount to anything.
Apparently, that last comment had hit a nerve with Rob, and he smacked her hard across the face, just like he had done a few days earlier. He shoved her into his car and drove to her apartment at about eighty miles per hour. When they had arrived, he forced her into her own apartment and smacked her around some more until he passed out.
When he came to the next morning and saw what he had done, he ran out and bought her a bunch of roses and a beautiful diamond tennis bracelet as an apology.
Sarah wanted to spit in his face and throw him out of her house, but when she saw that he had bought all this for her and was expecting an apology from her, she became frightened. If she had refused his gifts, he would've probably hit her again. So she had accepted his apology.
Since then, the beatings haven't ceased at all for her. She was terrified of Rob, and wanted to get away from him. But she was afraid that if she tried to break things off with him again, the same thing that happened before would happen again. And that terrified Sarah even more. She felt terrible.
And to top everything off, Sarah had been waking up almost every day and immediately felt sick to her stomach. Then she would run to the bathroom and throw up. She felt like she knew what it was, but she refused to believe it. She told herself that it was because of Rob that she had been sick to her stomach, even though she knew it was a lie.
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Jareth was furious. He had continued to watch Sarah after their last confrontation nearly a month ago, even though she had yelled at him. Every time he watched, he grew more and more angry. At Rob, at Sarah, and at himself.
He desperately wanted to go to Sarah and talk some sense into her, but she had turned him down. He was still bitter about that. He had thought of every possible way to get Sarah out of the state she was in, but with every plan there was a downside that showed that plan wouldn't work.
Jareth had thought of everything and couldn't think of a way to get Sarah out of her relationship. It worried him. He thought that the longer he took to reach a solution, the worse her chances of surviving the hell that she was living in would be.
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Sarah jumped as she heard the timer go off in the bathroom. It was the longest ten minutes that she had to wait. She nervously walked into the bathroom and picked up the test. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She then looked at the test to see what the results were. She then looked at the box and back to the test, to make sure that she had read the results right.
She dropped both the box and the test, and backed over to the toilet and sat down in shock. It was her worst thoughts coming true right in front of her very eyes. She was trapped in a living hell with Rob as her own personal Satan. Now to top it all off, she was pregnant with his child. Sarah buried her head in her hands and began to cry softly. The cries escalated into sobs, which then escalated into screams.
She continued to scream until her voice was hoarse and she continued to cry until she was cried out. Finally, she picked herself up off of the floor and walked back into her bedroom. She crawled under the covers and curled into a little ball where she fell asleep, hoping that she would wake up and this would all be a dream.
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How was that little installment for you. What do you think I should do in the next chapter? I really would appreciate your opinions, and would give you the credibility that you deserve for your ideas. But if you have no ideas, I would appreciate any comments on the story. It's not like I sit in my dark room and watch the review counter on my computer screen all day. (I am just kidding.) See you all later, and please leave the comments.