Chapter 10

A/N: Here is chapter 10, took me a while to come up with it because school is time consuming... anyway, hope you guys enjoy this one... Also... about the worms, there isn't really anything known about them but the one Sarah meets reminds me of IT the clown w/ his face... so I figured, what if they weren't as nice as they had led most people to believe, what if they were evil little meat eaters? And so the last chapter came to mind...

Sarah lay in her bed, struggling to regain the use of her body after the worms had paralyzed her, sweat dripped from her forehead as fever came upon her from the poisonous tea... wild dreams came to her...

Sarah's dream

Sarah was drinking tea with the worms when she realized that she couldn't move, she then noticed their hungry looks, "What have you done to me!" She cried as she fell over, her body numb for some reason.

"I'll get the knife Frank..." Frannie said to her husband, "So you can carve the human..."

"No!" Sarah cried, "Why!?!"

"Sorry dear, it's nothing personal, but its been awhile since fresh meat has wandered into our cozy little home..." Frannie said apologetically, "I really like you but we've gotta eat..."

That was when Jareth showed up, Sarah lay, surprised to see him, his blue and brown eyes blazed, "You cannot interfere, lest you pay the price and take her place!" Frank growled angrily.

Jareth's eye met Sarah's, "Gladly." He replied, "Sarah means the world to me..."

"W-what!?!" Sarah cried, she sat straight up in her bed, "Please don't be true!" She cried, running from her room and into the trees, the rest of the paralysis gone, yet the fever remained, she saw Jareth nearby, slicing off a good sized chunk of flesh on his arm, he grimaced and looked away as he set the dripping meat on the ground, Sarah gasped and dry heaved for a few minutes as it was pulled into the worm's hole... Jareth didn't notice her until she appeared before him, pale and thin, unsure of what to say, he looked at her angrily, "What are you doing out here?" He cried, "You should be in bed, resting..."

Sarah saw the look on his face before it disappeared, she looked shocked at the emotion that rested upon it, she went to Jareth and grasped the arm in her tender hands, she used her teeth to rip fabric from her shirt and wound it around the torn and bleeding flesh before wrapping her arms around him, "You really do care, huh? Y-you would've given your life for me had I not crawled out of that damned hole, and you gave into them, allowed them to have a part of you to make sure that they don't go after me-" As Jareth opened his mouth to say something, Sarah hurriedly continued, "It was in my dream... and I know that it is true..."

Jareth's hand massaged her head, "truly..." He said softly, putting his lips to her forehead.

Sarah raised her face to his and they shared their first kiss, each feeling the longing of the other slowly rising inside of them...

A/N I'm going to be mean and stop this there... make you wait until the next chapter to find out what happens... remember they must pledge their love for one another under the purple moon of the underground... this relationship that they have may or may not go very far... especially if Jareth acts the way he normally does... you know all arrogant and stuff... leaving you in suspence...R&R...