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Chapter 5

"NO!" Sarah screamed.

"Dad! Please, don't go! Daddy, please!" Sarah cried and she fell onto the ground.

Jareth caught her and hugged her while she cried.

"He can't die, Jareth, he can't!" Sarah cried.

Jareth held her firmly.

"Wait!" one of the nurses suddenly said.

"His heart is beating again! He's back! Good job, Mr. Williams, stay with us." The nurse said like she was talking to Robert.

Sarah looked up while her tears flew over her cheeks.

"Dad?"

"He's back! He came back, Jareth!" Sarah cried again but this time of joy.

Jareth smiled and watched how the doctors were busy with Robert.

A couple of hours later, Sarah was sitting with her father.

Robert was still asleep and Sarah held his hand.

Then she let out a sigh and looked on her watch.

It was midnight and she still had to check on Toby.

"Jareth?'

Jareth who was sitting on a chair and hadn't moved for all those hours looked up.

"Yes?"

"I'm sorry for letting you sit here al day…maybe we better go home." Sarah said.

Jareth was surprised because she said 'home'.

"Yes, I think it's for the best."

With a wave of his hand, he and Sarah disappeared.

When they arrived at the castle they both looked very surprised.

There was a loud noise and a couple of screams which you could hear over the whole castle.

They both ran to the throne room and found Toby in the curtains slapping a couple of goblins with a pillow.

Two goblins fell out of the curtains with a big scream.

Sarah just stood there with big eyes.

Jareth immediately made an end of this by shouting: "What the hell is going on in here?"

Everyone looked up.

Toby who still was holding the curtains and the pillow looked up too and shouted: "Sarah!".

Suddenly they heard something tear up and Toby looked up slowly to the curtains.

He fell and he screamed and dropped the pillow.

Jareth ran forward and caught him just in time.

Sarah ran to them.

"Toby!"

Sarah took Toby over from Jareth and hugged him.

"Oh god! Tobes? Sweetie, are you ok? What happened and why are you still up at this time of the night?"

In the meanwhile Jareth shouted to the Goblins to get out of the room.

"I'm fine, Sar, what WHERE those THINGS?" Toby asked with big eyes.

"Those where Goblins." Jareth answered.

"So they do exist?" Toby asked with widened eyes.

"Yes they do." Sarah said.

"Why weren't you sleeping?"

"I'm just out of bed, let's say 30 minutes ago?"

"Can we stay here forever?" Toby suddenly asked exited.
Sarah led her eyes down. She didn't knew what to say.

"What about mum and dad?" She said then.

Toby looked at his feet.

"Are they dead?" he asked with a frightened look on his face.

"No! Of course not!" Sarah said.

"Can I just come here whenever I want to play with these Goebins?"

"Goblins." Jareth corrected

"Yes, of course." He added.

Toby smiled.

"I like you!"

Jareth laughed.

"Thank you , you really are a lively little chap!"

Sarah didn't knew what to say for a moment.

She looked at the big clock and saw it was half past 12.

"Tobes, it's time to go to bed now."

"But.. I'm.. not.. ti-ti-tii-red." Toby yawned.

"Now, now, young man. Up to bed." Sarah smiled.

Sarah took Toby in her arms and carried him to bed.

Jareth went with them.

He saw how gently Sarah was with the little boy.

"Like if it was her own child." He thought warmly.

Sarah kissed her little brother on the forehead.

Jareth snapped with his fingers and next to Toby appeared Lancelot and Camelot. His favorite toys.

Sarah stared at it.

Jareth touched her arm softly.
"Come, now, we'll just let him sleep."

Sarah followed him.

She went to her room and they both wished eachother goodnight before disappearing into their rooms.

The next morning Jareth showed Sarah the library.

"Wow! And I thought you had to be bored!" Sarah said amazed.

"Me? Bored? No way. I love to read." Jareth said.

"Tell me about it." Sarah said while she looked to the books.

There where even Aboveground-books.

"Never ending Story, Snow white, Little red riding hood, the Labyrinth, Sleeping Beauty… Wait…the Labyrinth?"

"Hey, do you even read your own story?" Sarah asked while she flipped through the book of the Labyrinth.

"Well, of course. I like the story. But it's not my favourite. My favourite is 'Gisele'." Jareth said.

Sarah stared at him with widened eyes.

"What?" she asked.

"I said that my favourite was 'Gisele'. The ballet-part. Why are you looking like that?" he asked.

"Because that is my favourite too! Since, I bested your Labyrinth, I hid the Labyrinth- book in a dark place in the attic." She confessed.

"Such a pity." Jareth said.

"Stop that." Sarah said.

Jareth grinned.

"I just think it's sad how they lost each other because of death." Sarah said

"Yeah, I think that part is sad too. We seem to have the same opinion about it." Jareth said smiling.

Sarah blushed a little.

"Yeah." She quickly changed the subject.

"Do they watch movies in the Underground?"

"No. They watch plays. I'm actually the only one who can watch movies. Accept for my brother and sister of course.

I call upon a movie and my crystal shows it on the wall. Like they do Aboveground. Only they call it…cinema?"

"Yeah. I liked Labyrinth with David Bowie & Jennifer Connelly." Sarah said.

"Really? I watched that movie a lot. They really are our twin brother and sister are they?" Jareth said.

"Yeah, she looks identical to me. And David looks identical to you. Only he's much older than you. He's in his fifties."

"Well, I'm not. I'm 29 in human age, if you must know." Jareth said.

"I never guessed how old you where. You look…I don't know. You look like someone you just CAN'T guess their age."

"Thank you. Tell me, what is YOUR favourite movie?" Jareth said.

"Well, beside Labyrinth, which I still watch sometimes, I like Legend and Edward Scissorhands." Sarah said.

"I love those movies! But I like the Dark Crystal and The Neverending Story also." Jareth said.

"You are just unbelievable, you know that?" Sarah laughed.

"Why? Because I have the same interests as you?" Jareth laughed.

"Yes." Sarah said simply.

"Now YOU are unbelievable." Jareth said smiling.

"Thank you very much, sir." Sarah acted smiling.

"No thanks, my lady." Jareth played along the game.

"Jareth? Do you have some books about names?" Sarah asked then.

"Names?"

"Yeah, you know, to find out the meaning of names."

"Yes of course. I know a lot about that." Jareth said.

"Really? What does Toby means?" Sarah asked.

Jareth thought for a while.

"Toby is from Tobias and that means 'God is good'."

Sarah smiled. Suddenly she wanted to test him.

"What does Sarah means?"

Jareth looked at her in the eyes and said: "Sarah means Princess."

Sarah blushed. "Idiot, you shouldn't have asked that!"

When Sarah looked up, she saw Jareth peeking to his watch.

"Do you have to go?"

"Yes actually, I have a meeting with Sani." Jareth said.

"Sani?" Sarah asked.

"Yes, Sani Wyndam Jerom."

Sarah looked with a face like she was thinking: "What the heck is he talking about."

Jareth sighed: "The Wiseman?"

"Oh! Yes, I remember him! Is that really his name?" Sarah asked.

"Yes." Jareth said.

"What does THAT mean?" Sarah asked again.

"Sani means: The Old one. Sani is over the 2.000.000 years old or was it 2.000.022 years old? Hmm.. I forgot. Anyway, Wyndam means the field with the winding path and Jerom means Holy man. Are you well informed now, Miss?" Jareth teased.

"Why are you so interested in this?" he asked.

"I don't know, Semine was telling me about her kids and their strange names and told me all of her kids' names had a meaning. I thought it was interesting."

Jareth nodded.

"I have to leave now but if you want anything just ask for it and it will appear."

He turned and walked over to the door.

"Jareth." Sarah called.

"Yes?"

"I have just one little tiny question." Sarah said.

"Shoot." Jareth smiled.

"What does your name mean?"

Jareth sighed smiling.

"My name is from Jared with a 'd' and it means 'one who rules'."

"Thank you." Sarah said smiling.

Jareth smiled back. "You're welcome."

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Ok. So this was chapter 5. What do ya think? Please review and if you have any ideas, tell me please, I could use some help ;-) .