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Chapter 25: A History Lesson

By the time they found Toby he was back in his bedroom playing with the toys that Jareth had given him. The newly engaged couple walked into the room smiling and Toby looked up at them from his place on the floor.

"What happened," he said, giving them a curious look.

Jareth laughed at him for a moment before looking at the boy and seeing the questioning look still on his face.

Sarah walked over to her brother and sat down beside him.

"Toby how did you know that something had happened?" Sarah asked him.

"I could just tell," he answered.

"Well you were right. Jareth and I, well," she looked up at Jareth and he nodded, telling her to go on. "Well Jareth proposed to me, so that means that we're going to be getting married."

"You and Jareth are gonna get married! Does this mean that you'll be Queen Sarah?" Toby asked her excitedly.

Sarah sighed with relief that he was happy about the news. Not that she had expected anything else but it was still good to know.

Jareth decided to speak now, in answer to Toby's question since Sarah had apparently gone off into her own little world for the time being. "Yes Toby, Sarah will be my queen, and you my boy, will be a prince."

"Oh wow, that's so cool! When are you gonna get married? Can I come?" Toby was jumping around Jareth now, and Sarah was still sitting on the floor with a content, but not all there, look on her face.

"Well we're not sure yet when we will get married, and yes you can come."

"Cool!"

"Yes it is. Now Toby, why don't you play some more while your sister and I go and talk about some things. Ok?"

"Yep, sure Jareth." He then ran off to play and Jareth knelt down beside Sarah and shook her a little.

"Huh? What did you say?" She asked, coming out of her daze.

"Nothing love, you just kind of went off into your own world for a minute there."

"Oh, sorry. Hey, where's Toby?"

"He's gone off to play again. Come on, we need to discuss a few things."

He took her hand and helped her off the floor, then guided her out of the room and to his study.

"Well, what are we talking about then?" Sarah asked Jareth from her place on his lap.

He wrapped his arms around her before speaking. "Well, when are we going to do this? I mean, do you want a long engagement or do you want me to make an honest woman of you sooner rather than later," he smirked at her as Sarah mock glared at him.

"Very funny Jareth. Oh and I think the sooner, the better."

"I was hoping you would say that," his smirk was now a smile and he hugged her to him before relaxing a grip a little. "Now, we have a lot to organize, and you will have to meet my family."

"Family?"

"Well of course. What? Did you think that I just appeared here one day?"

"No, but, just…ok I'm worried."

"Don't worry love, you don't have to meet many people. There is only my sister and her husband."

"What about your parents?"

"They have been gone for a long time Sarah. The Underground has not always been a peaceful place."

"What do you mean by that?" She settled deeper into his embrace, waiting for him to fill in all of the details for her.

"Sarah, as I said, the Underground has not always been a peaceful place. There have been many wars between the different kingdoms, some more brutal than others. Well the last one was a little over five hundred years ago, and both of my parents were killed during the war."

"Oh Jareth, I'm so sorry."

"Sarah it was a long time ago. It's alright."

"Who was the war between?" She asked.

He sighed before he continued to speak. "It was between some of the darker kingdoms in the outer regions of the Underground and the more powerful lighter kingdoms. Basically, the previous King of the Vampires, Vercint, rallied the support of the werewolves, vampires and Queen Celina of the Ice Kingdom so that they could over power the lighter kingdoms of the Underground. My father was the Goblin King at the time, and had a close friendship with the High King of the Underground. The High King was threatened and called upon all of his allies, including my father, to aid him and the kingdoms under threat. My mother was staying at a camp waiting for my father to return from battle when some vampires attacked. They killed her and the few other women that had remained there. My father never even found out about her death as he never returned. The battle he was in was the last one of the war. He killed Vercint but was then murdered by a werewolf."

Sarah hid her look of horror in Jareth's shoulder. She didn't want him to know just how much his tale had disturbed her.

"Sarah, love are you ok?"

She composed herself and looked at him. "Of course I am. What happened after that?"

"The vampires no longer had a king and had lost a lot of their number, they accepted their defeat and retreated. I was only a teenager in aboveground terms at the time but had to take my place as the Goblin King. My sister, Lilah stayed with the High King until she married his nephew Marcus."

"Where's your sister now?"

"She lives in one of the provinces of the Elven Woodlands now. It's not that far from here. On one side of the Goblin Kingdom is the Elven Woodlands, and on the other is a kingdom of the High King Andareiks"

"So when do I meet them?"

" I'll invite them over sometime in the next few days."

"Alright. So dinner?"

"It will be served up soon love. We'd better get going, I know how much you love your food."

She growled at him, "Why you-"

"Ah ah, you know you shouldn't bite the hand that feeds you."

She began to protest again, but he silenced her with a kiss. "Come on then love. Dinner awaits."

AN: I'll be bringing Amelia back in soon. Also sorry if this was a bit muddled, I've never written a background like that before and wasn't really sure how to go about it. If it was too bad I can edit and repost. I wanted to being in some of the other kingdoms and some new characters, and this is my very bad attempt lol. Basically there's the 'Good' kingdoms of the Underground, the Goblin Kingdom, High Kings, Elven, Dwarves, and a few others. And the 'Bad', Vampires, werewolves, the Ice Kingdom and so on. And surprisingly enough they don't like eachother.

As always, thank you my wonderful reviwers, you can all have a cookie.

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