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Ch.2 The start of trouble

Sarah and Toby's bags were packed and by the sofa. Sarah was reading a book with Sam on her lap and Toby was playing a video game on his PS2 when Jareth popped up. In mater of seconds Jareth was on the ground getting licked by Sam's wet tongue. Sam liked Jareth and missed him a lot.

"Alright Sam, let me up." Sam did as he was told and got off Jareth. "Are you ready to leave?" They nodded their heads and with a flick of his rest their bags were gone and they were in a hallway. "Toby your room is on the right, Sarah yours is on the left."

Sarah opened the door to her room and gasped. The room was twice the size of hers at home. Just then Toby came back into the hall and asked, "Jareth, will I get to see the goblins?" there was hope in his eyes.

"Of course Toby, he does have to rule over them from time to time," Sarah said while smiling

"Sarah, I'm hungry. Can we go eat lunch now?"

"Actually lunch sounds nice right now. How about it Jareth?"

"Why not. I could go for some food right now anyway." Jareth offered his arm to Sarah, who took it. Toby and Sam followed behind them.

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They had just eaten lunch in the garden. Toby had decided to go play with Sam somewhere in the gardens, so Sarah and Jareth were alone. They were talking about what had happened in the last year. Sarah had told Jareth about her most recent book Terrible Mischief. Jareth had found her novels most interesting especially the main character Dineain; who was worse than ten goblins combined in Jareth's opinion. Jareth talked about his best friend Deon who had proposed to Cerenity (the nymph queen). Sarah had only met Deon twice, but thought that he was a sweet guy.

Right before Jareth could move onto another topic a goblin walked up to Jareth and said, "Someone's here, Majesty."

Jareth was a little ticked that the goblin had interrupted his conversation with Sarah. Right before he left to get Toby and Sarah he had specifically said not to interrupt them at all.

Sarah saw anger on Jareth's face and shoot him a look that translated into be nice. He sighed and said with a come voice, "Who is it?"

"Your mother."

Jareth sighed deeply. He would prefer anyone else's interruption to his mother's. He turned to Sarah and said in a sad tone, "Sorry Sarah, I must take this. I'll send for your friends if you would like?"

"I'll do it. Go ahead and go talk to your mother." He sighed and walked of toward the thrown room (the goblin had gone a soon as he delivered the message)

He opened the doors to the thrown room and saw his mother sitting on a step. She looked like she had just been watching someone in a crystal. "What are you doing here mother?" Jareth knew she had something up her sleeve.

"Oh I'm here to invite my own son to a ball that's all," she said in a sweet tone, "It's two weeks from now. I would advise you to go with someone, maybe Danyella."

"Now what makes you think I'm going?"

"Because it is the Annual Autumn Festival. You are required to go," she had a look of satisfaction on her face. "See you later Jareth." She disappeared and the room was empty. He sighed; his mother had finally cot him in a hopeless arrangement. He was required to go. Every royal in the underground had to go or face great consequences and to make it worse he had to go with someone. An idea popped into his head, he could take Sarah. She probably wouldn't mind and it would give him a very good reason to dance with her, not that he needed one. With his mind made up he started to walk down the hall back to where he had left Sarah.

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Sarah had formed a crystal to try to contact her friends. She had acquired magic after defeating the Labyrinth, but wasn't strong enough to use it Aboveground. There was one thing she could do that Jareth could not though, she could sense when magic was being used near or on her. Hoggle, Ludo, and Sir Diddymus had got the message but were extremely busy right now, so she sat on a bench enjoying the scenery. They were going to meet later in the day when they were done. Suddenly she felt uneasy, as if someone was watching her, but she wasn't sure. She thought about Jareth and where their relationship was. They were best friends, but Sarah wanted more than that. The feeling had gone away and she started to talk out loud but didn't care. "What can I do? I don't want to drive him away but I want to be near him more." She sighed. The strange feeling came back, but it was so small that it was hard to feel. She thought about what she could do about her and Jareth when she herd foot steps,

She looked up and saw Jareth heading toward her. He sat down next to her asked "How was your visit with you friends, Sarah?"

"Oh, they were busy, so I'm going to see them later, if that's ok with you."

"Of corse it is Sarah. You may do as you please here." He was waiting for later tonight to ask her if she would go with him to the ball.

The sound of running and barking was getting closer. In a matter of seconds they could see Toby running after Sam who was chasing a faire. Sarah couldn't help but laugh, the looks on all three of their faces was priceless, Jareth soon joined in laughing too.

Toby stopped and blushed a little at what they had caught him doing. The faire had gotten away and Sam was walking toward Sarah, and had an exhausted look on his face. Toby walked over to Jareth and asked, "Can I have a tour of the labyrinth Jareth?"

"Sure Toby," he turned to Sarah, "would you like to come too. We could go the other way that you didn't go."

"No, I'm fine you two have fun."

"Then I'll see you at dinner."

"Ok, Toby have fun."

"Ok Sarah." They walked off and were out of site soon enough. Sam hopped up into her lap and took a nap. Sarah waved her hand and a book appeared and she decided to catch up on her reading about the Underground. It was just pure coincidence that she had grabbed a book about holidays, festivals, and royal arrangements. The feeling of being watched had disappeared when Toby showed up.

How was that. Sorry it took me so long I had a writers block. There will be more splitting later on. Hope you liked it. Ch 3 coming soon