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Chapter 13: Worries

Toby was quite happy playing with all of Jareth's goblins in the throne room, Amelia on the other hand got bored after a while and wandered to the other side of the room. She sat down on the floor, leaning against a wall and just watched Toby and the goblins play.

"Jareth?" Sarah asked after a while. "Can you check how Toby and Amelia are doing please?"

"Of course Sarah." He summoned a crystal and looked into it, letting Sarah see too.

"Well Toby seems to be enjoying himself," she said. "But what about Amelia?"

He adjusted the crystal so that they could see the girl.

"She's alone. Jareth I think I should go back and see what's wrong with her. She's not usually anti social like that."

"As you wish."

They appeared outside the throne room and Sarah opened the door and walked in. Toby and the goblins paid her no attention, busy playing 'tag'. Sarah walked past them and headed over to the other side of the room where she spotted Amelia sitting alone.

Once Sarah reached her she sat down beside her cousin. "Hey sweetie, why are you sitting over here all alone?"

"Sarah, what's going to happen to us?"

"I told you Amelia, Aunt Karen is going through Jareth's labyrinth to win back you and Toby. Then you can go home."

"But Sarah, what if she doesn't win?"

"Amelia, sweetie, I don't think she will win but that doesn't matter. When her thirteen hours are up, you get to go home to your mommy."

Amelia smiled. "Alright Sarah. I was just worried I wouldn't get to go home."

Sarah pulled the five year old onto her lap and hugged her. "Oh Mel, you'll get to go home, and then you can see your mommy and your daddy again. Alright?"

"Yup, can I go play now?"

Sarah let he go and smiled at her. "Of course you can, go on, get going."

Amelia ran off and Jareth came over to Sarah's side.

"I gather that went well?"

"Yeah, she was just worried that she wouldn't get to go home at the end of all of this."

"Oh I see. By the way, who's side of the family is Amelia from?"

"She's from my father's side. Her mother Celeste is my fathers sister."

"Does her mother look after her?"

"Yes, Celeste is a good mother, she just works long hours. She's separated from her husband but Amelia still sees him every second weekend and they all get on. The only reason Amelia was staying with us was because Celeste is on a business trip or something, Karen never gave me many details."

Jareth looked a little dejected.

"What's wrong Jareth?"

"Oh nothing's wrong."

"Don't lie to me. What's wrong?"

He sighed in defeat. "It's just that I like the girl, and I would have let her stay here too if she needed to."

"Oh, I see. Jareth don't worry. Celeste goes away a fair bit so I'm sure I can baby sit her regularly. You'll see her again, don't worry about that."

He smiled at Sarah. "Good."

Then they just sat against the wall and watched the two children play.

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