Authors Note: I will try to make the chapters longer. I am not on my home computer right now and I can't get back online untill Wednesday. Thanks for all the reviews, you guys gave me some great suggestions. I will try my best to make things better.
Chapter 5 - Down In The Underground
"I Wish The Goblin King Would Take Me Away" Sarah said "Right Now." Hoggle's smiling face was the last thing Sarah saw before her world exploded in a fury of glitter and stars.
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Jareth sat bolt upright in his bed, Sarah was calling to him again. Was this some fever-induced dream or was his true love really asking to be taken? Only one way to find out. Jareth sent a crystal to get her.
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Sarah landed in the center of the throne room right on the back on an unsuspecting goblin. Quickly righting herself Sarah looked around. Nothing had really changed in 3 years except for the absence of Jareth. Sarah was puzzled, if he brought her here, where was he? Hoggle came in through the door. "Didn't you travel here with me?" Sarah asked, puzzled by his appearance. Hoggle shrugged "Goblins have to travel a different way" was his only answer. It never mattered much to Hoggle how he traveled. Sarah didn't like this evasive answer but said nothing, she moved to the window to see as much of the rest of the Underground as she could.
Jareth struggled to get out of bed. His lady had arrived and he mustn't greet her looking as he did. Loudly summoning whatever goblin waited outside his door Jareth prepared himself. Sending the goblin to fetch Sarah from the throne room, where he knew she was, Jareth summoned a crystal to change his clothes. Normally he preferred to do such things himself but he knew he was too weak.
Sarah whirled around at a touch on her elbow; it was one of the goblins. "His majesty requests your presence at once" was all the small creature said. Sarah moved from the window eager to see the King. The goblins lead her into a winding staircase that Sarah didn't remember from her last trip into the castle. "His majesty's rooms are at the top of the stairs" the goblin said, disappearing before Sarah could say a word. Frowning at the stairs, Sarah decided she had to go up. Why else had she come if not to see Jareth? How could she now, after all she had been through, be afraid?
Jareth paced his room as quickly and aggressively as he could, considering his weakened condition. "Sarah was taking her time," he thought with a smirk, "some things never change."
Just then there was a knock at the door, a soft almost tentative sound. Sarah waited, trying valiantly to remember to breathe. Jareth opened the door and looked full on into the face of the sun. Sarah had returned to him of her own free will.
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A/N - Now that Sarah is back in the Underground things will pick up. I'm sorry it was a bit slow going for a while. I'll try to pick things up without losing my barely together plot. ;)