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Chapter Ten

Sarah sniffled softly as she lay on her bed above her covers. She hadn't gotten any sleep last night, and she was feeling it now. Her body felt heavy, unwilling to move. It took all her energy to roll and face Jareth sitting on the edge of her bed.

Sarah sprang up. She immediately regretted doing so. She felt sick, and the room began to swim around her in an impressive swirl of colors.

"Whoa-what are you doing here?" she asked as her hand held her forehead. He stood slowly and walked over to her. As he got closer she began retreating.

Every step he took toward her, she took one toward the wall.

"Sarah," he started softly. "I wanted to apologize for yesterday." He stopped walking and stood in the middle of her bedroom.

Sarah leaned a hand on the wall. She was trying to blink away all the circles. She looked to him, realizing he had said something, and raised an eyebrow.

"I went to far, locking you in your room."

"Yes you did," she said quickly. She isn't going to make this easy, is she? "What are you going to do to make it up to me?"

He wanted to roll his eyes, but didn't think that was a smart thing to do around her.

"Do you have anything in mind?" he asked, stepping closer.

Her eyes narrowed, and with the arm she wasn't using as balance, she stuck it out in an attempt to fend him off.

He smirked and took her wrist in his hand. With another step he was right in front of her, and he took her other hand. With her hands in his, he wrapped his arms around her, careful not to bend hers to awkwardly.

"Let go of me." She hissed. His answer was only to kiss her lightly on the neck and move slowly up to her mouth.

She freed one hand and tried to push him away. She glared when she saw the smile on his lips. He was laughing at her!

She jerked her other hand from his and as he held her, her back against the wall, she pounded madly on his chest. She knew she was so tired and confused it probably didn't hurt him as much as she intended, which was another reason for him to laugh at her, but she didn't care. She needed to do something.

He kissed her again. As the tears of anger and panic fell, her fists slowed and eventually stopped. When he felt the rain of attacks were over, he looked down at her. She was crying into the very chest she had been hitting, and she was clinging to his shirt.

"I just," she hiccupped. "I don't understand you."

He rubbed her back softly for a while, then just held her as she cried.

When she finally stopped, the two walked over to sit on the bed. Sarah sat with her legs crossed in front of her, hugging a cushion, and Jareth was lazily leaning on the small mountain of pillows.

The games up, he thought sadly as they sat there looking at each other in silence.

"Ask me," he said simply.

"What?"

"Ask me," he repeated. "I know you want to."

She shifted around before speaking.

"Were you lying last night? About why I was trying to leave?"

Jareth nodded slowly. She looked down and nibbled on her lip nervously.

"And everything else? About me knowing you, my time here with you, loving you?"

Jareth sat up and moved closer to her.

"When you first got here, I told you I loved you. I never said you loved me in return…but I had been hoping you'd assume you did as well."

Sarah felt her tears coming back. I'm so sick of crying!

"So…" she blinked slowly to keep the tears back, "it was all a lie?"

Jareth shook his head and gently brushed away a strand of hair from her face.

"Sarah I love you, that's why I did it. You wouldn't have come back to the Underground if I had asked you, and when I saw you had forgotten everything, I jumped at the chance to have you back. I was hoping you would fall in love with me before you remembered everything…" He had a slightly defeated expression on his face.

"I don't remember everything, and I do love you, but I just don't understand why you think I wouldn't have come back."

Jareth searched for a way to tell her this in the best possible way. No way seemed like an easy way.

"Remember that book you read, of the girl who was the first and only human to beat the Labyrinth?"

"Yes, what does that have to do with anything?" Jareth looked at her with a 'think about it' face, and her eyes widened. "You don't mean…" He nodded. "Oh my god…how is that possible?"

"You wished your brother away to the goblins. I heard your call and took him to the castle. You begged me to give him back to you, thinking I had kidnapped him, but Sarah I had to keep him." His eyes were pleading her to believe him. His hand cupped her face softly. "You ran the Labyrinth, won, and left."

"But…if you had to, and I knew that…"

"You were young and didn't want to blame this on yourself. It wasn't your fault you wished him away, but mine for taking him is what you were thinking. I didn't exactly make it easy for you either," he almost smiled. "I did my best to distract you. The ballroom, it was just a hallucination. Another attempt of mine to get your mind of the game. When you saw the clock it reminded you that you only had a few hours left to save Toby. You really love your brother, Sarah. You gave up your dreams twice for him."

Sarah looked sadly at him. The proud king she knew was falling slowly. Fading away as he admitted everything he'd done. Her first thought had been anger. He'd lied to her, and from what he'd said, taken her brother.

But…maybe that was the old Sarah thinking that.

Now, she knew he regretted it. He'd lied before, and she had every right to believe he was lying again, but she didn't think that even hundreds of years of practice could make the face he was now. She didn't blame him. He'd had to make her run the labyrinth, and she won. She had no reason to be upset. Besides, she thought, she'd ask him to in the first place.

Jareth stood up slowly.

"I'll leave you alone for a bit. If you still want to go home, I won't stop you." And with that, he was gone.

Sarah fell back on her bed. Like hell I'm leaving.

Finally, she thought, tears of happiness.

Hoggle, Sir Didymus, Ambrosius and Ludo crept quietly up the castles steps. Throwing a rock to get the attention of a guard, they snuck in as the easily distracted guard went to investigate.

Winding their way up the many staircases and down long, barely lit hallways, they found the corridor they knew to lead to Jareth's bedroom. Sarah's would nearby.

They carefully made their way down. It was almost thirteen o'clock. The assumed Jareth must be asleep by now, and they were making sure they didn't wake him.

Passing his room, Hoggle gently put his hand on the next doorknob. Positive His Majesty would somehow here the door open he squinted in fear. The door opened without so much as a creek, and he blinked in surprise. This was way to easy. Does he know we're here?

Slowly they all entered to see a body lying still on the bed. A soft hiccup came from the other side of the room.

"Lady Sarah!" Sir Didymus exclaimed. "Are you alright?"

Sarah popped up at the unfamiliar voice.

Hoggle hurried over and, looking at her surprised face, saw the tears streaming down.

"He didn't do nothing to ya, did he?" he asked worriedly.

"What? Who-?" before she could ask who they were Ludo had taken her hands to help her up and Sir Didymus was bounding back to the door.

"Jareth o'course. Now come on, we gotta hurry. I think he knows we're here."

They tugged and shoved her toward the door, and in her confused state, she couldn't put up much of a fight. For awhile.

"W-what are you all doing?" she asked.

"We are getting you out of here," Hoggle said simply.

"What? Why?"

"What do you mean why? We're getting you home."

"But-" she gasped as Ambrosius gave her a 'hurry up' nudge from behind, hitting her knees.

"But I have to stay-"

"Whatever he made you promise is worth breaking."

"Now listen here-" she started just before she reached to door.

"Come on, Sarah!"

Sarah was afraid. As she received another bump from Ambrosius, she grabbed the door frame with her hands and planted her feet firmly on the ground.

"Help!" she yelled.

"Sarah? What are you doing?"

"JARETH!" she shrieked.

"Well…what've we got here?"

Mirriam Q Webster: um...what? lol

Aisuru-chan: lol was it sad? nah he wouldnt hurt he, he's just a big softie lol

LadyLuck321: lol shake them all you want

Terri: ahh he's chasing me!

Dino: o yeah, real smooth

Solea: tada! he did!

Moonjava: lol but thats what we love about you :D