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Thank you dearly to the following for your support and wonderful advice on helping me with this fic! You are wonderful!

Kyaku-kun

Fester's Love (definitely making them longer now! I also will check out your fics too!)

Thundara

Princess d'Etoile

luna-pendragon

Labyrinth Mistress

Princesspam

Chapter 4: Hiding the Love

As Sarah lay in that bed, her mind began to wander and produce very vivid and unusual dreams for her. She began seeing Jareth from a distance, she saw him sitting in his throne with one leg draped over the side and how he was leaning back at an angle and seemed very, very sad. There were goblins running about doing there tasks, some even ran past her, although they seemed to not even seen her. Realizing that no one could see her, she slowly crept up closer to the Goblin King to observe him better. He seemed so pale and so sad. His eyes seemed to hold such pain. Suddenly a larger goblin, possibly a guard, came up to the King and gently asked him, "Your majesty, what will you do now? Is it possible for her to return?"

Jareth slowly turned his face towards the guard and sadly replied, "I have lost everyone that I have ever loved. I first lost my parents as their lives were stolen from me and then I lose the love of my life. I don't know if I will ever see her again. She now knows that certain phrases will cause certain things to happen and I doubt that she will ever utter those words again. The only other possibility, since he is linked to this entire matter, would be for the babe to say the words. He is only a babe now, but maybe just maybe in the future he will say them in reference to her. But since that is highly doubtful, I must accept my fate that she is gone."

Jareth laid his hand in his face for a moment. Then he got up from his throne and walked out of the throne-room with a sad yet stern face. As Sarah observed these actions and heard those words, she began to ponder at what she had heard. 'What was he talking about, the 'saying certain words and a baby'? That almost sounds like he is talking about Toby and I. But I know that I certainly was not the love of his life, so it couldn't be about us. I wonder how his parents died? This is certainly an odd dream I am having.'

Sarah dreamed on and on seeing various visions, some odd and some familiar to her. She dreamed about the night that she danced with the Goblin King himself. She felt as if it were really happening again, that she was being led around, dancing in the ballroom in that glorious dress. How his eyes seemed so doting on her and her only. How his words that he sang to her flowed so smoothly from his lips, how they flowed around her aura and melted into her soul. This time she listened intensely to the words and searched for their true meanings.

"There's such a sad love, deep in your eyes, a kind of pale jewel, opened and closed within your eyes. I'll place the sky within your eyes. There's such a fooled heart beating so fast, in search on new dreams, a love that will last within your heart; I'll place the moon within your heart. As the pain sweeps through, makes no sense for you, every thrill has gone, wasn't too much fun at all. But I'll be there for you, ooh ooh, as the world falls down. It's falling, it's falling down, falling in love. I'll paint you mornings of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings. Though we're strangers till now, we're choosing a path between the stars. As the pain sweeps through, makes no sense for you, every thrill has gone, wasn't too much fun at all. But I'll be there for you, ooh ooh, as the world falls down, it's falling. As the world falls down, it's falling, it's falling, falling in love…."

Those words, those very lovely words that she had never really thought too much about, had such meaning to them. She wondered how she overlooked them all that time? She was sad and lonely, back then and still now. The pain that she endured from her home, her family, all the loneliness and confusion, he knew of them, some how.

Sarah pondered, 'How did he know of those things, if he really did, maybe its just coincidence. But everything seems so odd. First I hear him talking about losing his true love, and that this true love has something to do with saying certain words and a baby. Then I experience his song again and those words they ring so true to me, but he says something of being in love. Oooh, this is so strange. None of this has to do with me, it can't. Damn dreams.'

"Sarah, wake up, Sarah…."

Sarah mumbled, "Mmmm, no more voices in my dreams, go away." She then rolled over onto her side and clenched the bedding to herself.

"Sarah, you need to get up. It is not wise for you to stay in bed so long."

"Oooh, what is going on?' as Sarah begins to wake up and rubs her eyes.

She feels someone's hands on hers. She looks up and sees Jareth sitting on the bed next to her.

"Oh, its you again." Sarah groaned. "I had these very strange dreams. I am glad that they are over." She slowly pulled her hand away from his.

Jareth looked sadly into her eyes and said "I have someone coming to assist you with getting aquainted with your new room. Your new room is actually next to mine but I am sure that you will feel more comfortable with someone else giving you the introduction. You will find a bathing room that should fit your needs quite comfortably."

Jareth sighed "If you should need anything at all, just ask and you shall have it. I shall leave you now to prepare yourself." He then left the room, silent and stoic.

Sarah stared into the empty space that once was occupied by Jareth. "He seemed so sad, I wonder why.''

"Cause you are on his mind my dear!" stated a small old female goblin that suddenly appeared out of no where.

"Where on earth did you come from?" queried Sarah.

"Oh, just from that door over there. It connects your room to his Majesty's."

Sarah groaned, "How nice, we are even connected by rooms, yay."

The small female goblin studied Sarah's face as well as her words. She then walked over to Sarah and said, "My name is Maeryn and I will be your caretaker as you need me. If you like, follow me and I will show you to your room and let you get aquainted with it."

Sarah followed the goblin into what was to be her new room, at least for now. She still did plan on escaping, one way or another. She could see that Jareth meant well, maybe, but still, she wasn't supposed to be here. Sarah was amazed from the moment she walked through the opened door. Her eyes lit up and became huge with fascination. She had never in her life seen such splendor and especially with it all meant for her to use. There was a beautiful wooden bed at the wall in the center with tall canopy posts and elegant drapery and bedding. The colors were an exotic emerald green with the occasional dainty purple flower. There were rugs on either side of the bed of the same beautiful green. There was also a chest at the end of the bed and a huge wardrobe across from the end of the bed. Next to the wardrobe was a beautiful chest of drawers with an elegantly carved mirror on top. On top of the chest of drawers were an assortment of combs, clasps and jeweled hair clips. Upon opening the wardrobe, she found breathtaking dresses and gowns. At the bottom of the wardrobe was a drawer, she opened it to find a lovely variety of simple but elegant shoes.

Maeryn called out to Sarah, startling her out of her fantasy land, "My lady, you will have more than enough time to look at that, but for now, follow me."

Sarah followed the old female goblin through another door. Upon entering the new room, Sarah continued to be baffled by what she was seeing. She was in a huge bathing room. In the corner was what you could call a small natural pool that also had a small waterfall running into it. Along the rocks that surrounded the pool were these huge soft fluffy towels. There was another wardrobe in the bathing room. Sarah opened it to find many beautiful sleeping gowns and upon opening the bottom drawer, she found pretty slippers of many different colors. There was a small mirrored vanity table with a chair, combs, little glass bottles filled with some sort of tinted fluids, brushes and lovely clips lying on top. On the other side of the bathing room was another door. Out of curiosity, Sarah asked the goblin, "What is in there?"

"Well it's the bog of course!" stated the goblin.

"Bog?" asked Sarah.

"Well you know, the loo? You must call it something else, just go and take a look for yourself." Complained Maeryn.

Sarah walked over to the door, opened it and laughed. It was obviously a toilet, but it certainly looked different. "That's great that you have toilets too!"

"Well what on earth did you think we did, you silly girl!" stated an astonished Maeryn.

Sarah blushed and continued to walk around looking. Maeryn toddled over to Sarah and walked her to the pool and said, "Get undressed, you need a bath."

"Excuse me! I certainly would not mind taking a bath, but I would prefer to do that in private, thank you."

"Very well" stated Maeryn. "But I will be back shortly to see that you are dressed, the evening meal will be prepared soon and you will be eating with his Majesty.

Maeryn started to leave but Sarah stopped her, "Maeryn, can I ask you something?"

"Well of course you can." Obliged Maeryn.

Sarah then asked, "Why did you say that I was on Jareth's mind and why does that make him sad? Cause I know that if I am making him sad, I will be more than happy to let him send me back!"

Maeryn sighed, "I figured as much that you would ask. Well my dear, to answer the first part, and to put this as simple as I can, he likes you. As far as the second part goes, he longs for you to like him too, but it is much deeper than that, but it is not my right to tell you any more that what I have."

Sarah blurted out, "Likes me, how on earth does he like me? He made me run through that stinking labyrinth like a rat, teased me, and played games on me! That certainly does not sound like something nice to do to someone you like!"

Maeryn toddled up to Sarah with concern in her eyes, "My dear, like I said before, it is much deeper than that. There is more to it than meets the eye. There are so many things here in which you are not familiar with. If you are that concerned, I suggest you ask King Jareth himself. On that note, I leave you now to your bath. I shall return in one hour. If needed, I will help you getting dressed as well."

Sarah's eyes bugged out, "NO, thank you, I am sure that I can dress myself! Thank you though Maeryn. I promise to be ready when you get back."

Maeryn sighed, "Very well, till I return." And at that point, Maeryn left the bathing room, went back into Sarah's bedchambers and went out the door. Sarah waited to get undressed till she heard the clank of the second door closing. Knowing that she was finally alone now, she began to undress. She still felt sore, more than likely from the tossing around that she encountered from her car accident. She knew that a good soak in the water would do her wonders.

She slowly peeled her clothing off and then gently eased herself into the bathing pool. Thankfully it was very warm. The warm water felt so good to her aching joints. She lay back and relaxed. The water came up to the top of her shoulders. She ran her hands across her body, allowing the warm water to swirl around her. She glanced around at the beauty of it all, it was truly spectacular. The elegant waterfall pouring into the pool was so relaxing. She noticed at one side of the pool as a lovely large crystal bowl. She slowly swam over to it and looked in. There were many colorful soaps and sponges. She lifted each soap up and smelled them. She ooohed and ahhhhed over ever scent. She decided to take a soap that smelled somewhat of raspberries and then she grabbed a sponge.

She then lathered up the scented soap into the sponge and began to bathe away. Not seeing anything that looked to be like shampoo, she decided to chance it and wash her hair with the soap. The soap was very silky and seemed to work well with her hair. She rinsed her body off and rinsed her hair under the waterfall. She truly felt refreshed and she smelled wonderful.

Sarah decided to get out of the pool, she knew that Maeryn would be back shortly and she didn't want any help getting dressed. She grabbed a towel for her hair and one for her body. She wrapped herself up in them and walked to the vanity and sat down. She looked at the lovely bottles with the tinted fluids in them. She opened each, one by one and smelled them. She decided to use some of these fragrant fluids. She again, chose one that smelled somewhat of raspberries. She dabbed some behind her ears, on her wrists, on her neck and behind her knees. She then took the towel off her hair and began brushing it out, allowing the air to dry out her hair as best as possible. She then got up and decided to go back into her room and look at that wardrobe of dresses again.

She hurried through the bathing room and back into her bedchambers. When she got to the wardrobe and opened it, she gushed with joy in seeing such beautiful dresses and gowns. She truly felt like a princess. 'It certainly would be easy to forget that I don't want to be here!'

She poked through the dresses and gowns and decided to pick out a simple emerald green dress. She put the dress on and looked at herself in the mirror, she soon had a lovely smile grace her face. The dress may have been simple in pattern, but it was truly elegant. The dress came to her ankles then became snug around her tiny waist. The dress had a lovely scoop neck and it barely covered her shoulders.

She was suddenly brought back into reality when she heard a knock on her door and then Maeryn stating that she was coming in.

Maeryn gasped as she looked at Sarah. Sarah was truly a beauty, even with her hair being a bit messy. Maeryn knew that the poor King was going to have a hard time holding his tongue to keep from professing his love to her too soon.

Maeryn walked to Sarah and said, "My dear, you look absolutely lovely. Now lets work on that hair of yours to make it match the rest of you!" as soon as she said that, she grabbed Sarah's hand and they walked back to the vanity in the bathing room. Sarah sat down and allowed Maeryn to do her thing. She brushed and brushed, allowing the little bit of dampness that remained to disappear. Once her hair was completely dry, she pulled her hair up into a casual bun with little ringlets framing the side of her face. Sarah looked so pretty, so pure.

Maeryn stood back to look at Sarah one more time, "Well my dear, you look very beautiful. It is now time for you to have your dinner with his Majesty."

Suddenly Sarah felt nervous, although she didn't understand why. Sarah then replied to Maeryn, "Well I guess I might as well enjoy this, it is just dinner after all."

Maeryn then began to escort Sarah out of the door and down the hall, leading to the dining hall, to where the King was. They got to the door and Sarah took a deep breath.

Maeryn saw the nervousness in Sarah's eyes, "Don't worry dear, remember like what you said, it is just dinner!"

Sarah smiled and then said, "Well that is true, what can happen at dinner except eating, right?"

Maeryn coyly smiled at her and slowly opened the door to where their King sat in wait.

Thank you all dearly for reading my fic and giving me reviews. I appreciate all the wonderful advice as well. I hope you are enjoying this fic as much as I am. Again thank you and dont forget to review!

Katgome