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Chapter 3

Sarah stepped outside and Jareth looked at her with widened eyes.

Sarah blushed.

"Don't look at me like that."

"Truly, Sarah, you look stunning!" Jareth said impressed.

"Thank you." Sarah said.

"Toby's room is right over there." Jareth said and he pointed at a door just 2 rooms away from hers.

They walked together to Toby's room.

Toby wasn't awake when they got in.

He slept peacefully in the large bed.

Sarah bend and kissed her little brother on his forehead.

He didn't noticed it.

Jareth stood on the other side of the bed and touched Toby's cheek before taking the sheets and pull them up higher so Toby wouldn't be cold.

Sarah and Jareth left the room quietly.

"Are you hungry?" Jareth asked.

"A little." Sarah admitted.

She followed Jareth to the Dining Room.

Jareth led Sarah sit and he clapped in his hands so a bunch of goblins came inside who brought different dishes and bottles of wine.

Sarah looked at this with widened eyes.

"Did you prepared this in only a couple of minutes?"

He nodded and said: "Magic."

"What I wanted to discuss with you Sarah, while you where asleep I checked on your parents."

Sarah who just drank a little wine, choked and began to cough.

Jareth stood up immediately and tapped her softly on her back.

" Jesus, Sarah, don't scare me like that!" Jareth said concerned.

"Which reaction did you expect?" Sarah said still in shock.

"How are they?" She asked immediately.

"They are fine. Your father had a concussion and your stepmother had a couple of broken ribs. They are recovering very well."

"Thank God." Sarah said revealed.

"Jareth, do you remember when you came just after I beat…" She wanted to say 'you' but she didn't. Instead she said: "Jareth, do you remember when you came just after I beat your Labyrinth?"

Jareth looked into her eyes and said: 'Yes, I do. I still meant what I said, Sarah. I still ask for your forgiveness. But you must understand that I didn't had a choice.

It is after all my job. But I must say that I always hated my job. I don't recommend it."

Sarah nodded: "I reacted to fast, Jareth. After I send you away I regretted it already. I forgave you years ago. I was a spoiled brat who didn't understand, that in fact you taught me a lesson. And…now I think about it…I don't have to forgive you. It's me who has to ask you to forgive me, Jareth. It was ME who wished my brother away. It was ME who was immature. And…it was ME who broke your heart and destroyed your kingdom."

"I forgive you, Sarah. But you have taught me a lesson too. You taught me how to give friendship for free and not to be arrogant. I was the arrogant King with his immature games. You taught me what love is. If you want someone to love you, you can't force her with: "Fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave." That's not the way it works. Being someone's slave is not love. Love is support her in good times and bad times. Love her with all your heart. You can't rule her. You have to share. And most of all…you have to be grown up."

Sarah led down her eyes.

Than she said: "Jareth, I want to ask you something."

"Yes?" Jareth said while taking his glass of whine in his hand.

"What do I have to do to get us back Aboveground? Do I have to run the Labyrinth again?"

Jareth was a little surprised and disappointed.

He hoped that Sarah would stay here with him.

"I didn't figured that out yet. I'm not going to let you run the Labyrinth again, dearest. No. Why don't you stay here for a while. It will do you good. But first we're going to see your parents." Jareth decided.

Sarah was thankful.

She hadn't seen her parents for a while.

Then she realized that the gown she was wearing wasn't really Aboveground-clothes. Jareth's clothes weren't either.

"Uhm…Jareth?" she asked carefully.

"Yes, love?"

Sarah noticed he was calling her love, dearest,… . She kinda liked it. He wasn't so cruel as he used to be. He was nice, kind and gentle. She saw it the way he was looking at Toby when he was asleep.

"They don't wear gown's and cloaks in the Aboveground…so… ."

"Oh." He simply said.

He looked like he was thinking about something and then suddenly his clothes changed.

"Better?"

He was wearing a pair of black jeans, a deep red-coloured shirt and his hair was combed into a little pony-tail.

"Yeah." Sarah said.

She wanted to tell him that she still had her gown on when Jareth said:

"Just think about some clothes and they will appear."

"But I don't possess magic!" Sarah protested.

"Yes you do." Jareth said.

He began to recite: "But what no one knew was that the King of the Goblins had fallen in love with the girl and he had given her certain powers."

Sarah blushed.

She closed her eyes and thought about a black pants, a nice light-blue shirt with some little diamonds on it, a pair of short boots with heels and a black purse with her identity cart, drive-license and everything in it.

When she opened her eyes she was dressed like it.

She closed her eyes again and now her hair was in a pony.

"There." She said satisfied.

Jareth looked impressed at her.

"What?" she asked.

"You look beautiful."

"Thank you." She said.

"I never saw you with your hair in a pony." He said.

Sarah smiled and began to sing a little song from the cartoon: Fievel.

"Never say never…again!"

Jareth smiled and said: "Shall we?" while he offered her his arm.

She smiled and took his arm.

Both disappeared.

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