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Chapter 6

When Jareth came back into the room Sarah was lying awake in the bed, staring at the ceiling. She appeared to be concentrating on something and didn't seem to have noticed his presence yet.

"Ah Sarah?"

She turned her head and looked at him, trying to hide her shock at seeing him there through anger.

"Ever heard of knocking? I mean you didn't know what I was doing in here!"

Jareth just smirked at her attempted anger. "Sarah, this is my home, I'll go where I like, when I like. Besides, I did knock and when you didn't answer I assumed you were sleeping. I only wanted to check how you were doing."

She looked down at her hands folded on the bed in front of her. "Oh, ah sorry Jareth. Just caught me by surprise is all."

"It's fine Sarah. Now, what were you looking at that you were concentrating so hard you didn't even notice my knocking or entering the room?"

"It's nothing."

"You're a bad liar. Now tell me."

"Really, it's nothing ok. I don't want to think about it."

"You're not in any pain are you?"

"No I'm not in any pain mother," she looked at him trying to contain her laughter at the look on his face.

Jareth crossed his arms and mock pouted a moment before asking, "I wasn't being that bad was I?"

Sarah laughed at that point, no longer able to stop herself. "You were getting there."

"Well you should have told me what was wrong."

"Yeah, well you need to understand that I'm not a little girl anymore Jareth. I can take care of myself, and I don't need you checking up on me all time. If there something seriously the matter and I thought you needed to know I'd tell you." She sat up in the bed looking at Jareth with a half glaring and half expectant look on her face.

Jareth looked at her in shock for a minute before moving over to her and leaning down so that they were eye to eye.

"Sarah, I know perfectly well you are no longer a child. I also know that despite your claims of being able to look after yourself, that your claim is entirely untrue. The events with that man in the alley from which I had to rescue from are testament to that. Now why don't you try appreciating that someone cares about you instead of whining and trying to turn people away from you. Now I'm going to leave you, and when I return later you'll want to be in a more accommodating mood."

With that, Jareth disappeared from the room, leaving Sarah to stare at the spot he had just vacated and let his words sink in.

Eventually she seemed to snap out of it.

"He said he cares. But he couldn't, not really. Since when does anyone actually care without wanting something? I can't stay here anymore; I need to get out of this place.

She got up from the bed and was glad she was still in her own clothes. She went and retrieved her boots and put them on then slung her jacket on. She went to the door and slowly opened it looking into the hall. When she saw that there was nobody around she left the room quietly and walked down the hall, thinking only of how much she wanted to get out.

Soon, to her surprise, she was outside. She looked around, puzzled as to how she ended up outside. 'What the hell?' she thought to herself, but soon stopped thinking about it and made her way as quickly as she could out of the Goblin City and into the Labyrinth.

Sarah wandered around for an hour or so until she discovered a new part of the Labyrinth which she had never seen before. It looked like another hedge maze except more overgrown and darker. The entrance seemed to be through a rusty old gate and the place didn't seem like anything good could be in there.

"Might as well take a look," Sarah muttered to herself. "It's not like Jareth's come looking for me yet."

Jareth was sitting in his study. His anger at Sarah slowly dissipating. "I shouldn't have lost my temper at her like that. But she didn't need to yell at me either." He sat like this for some time until he felt completely calm again. "Well I'd better go try and talk to her."

Sarah had been walking through the newly discovered area for about fifteen minutes when she finally decided she should start heading back. She turned around, heading back the way she had come. She made it to where the entrance had been and nothing was there. "Oh, not this again," she muttered. She heard movement behind her and turned around. "Who's there?" She called, trying to keep the shaking from her voice.

There was no reply and there was no more movement but she could still sense that something was watching her. "I know you're there. Come out and show yourself."

Jareth knocked on Sarah's door and there was no answer. He decided that, despite what she had said earlier, he should just go in.

"Sarah," he called as he walked into the room. "It's me, Jareth. I wanted to talk to you."

He made his way over to the bed only to discover she was not in it. He checked the bathroom as well as any other place she could be. "Where's she gotten to then?" he asked himself. He summoned a crystal and looked into it thinking of Sarah as he did so. After a moment the image of the girl came into focus and he saw just where she was. "What the hell is she doing in there! Maybe it hasn't noticed her yet." Then he saw her calling out to something he couldn't see. "It's found her." He disappeared from the room, hoping he would make to her in time.

AN: Sorry I took so long to update. I've been distracted with exams and all that other school stuff.

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