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Chapter 6: Desires Awakened

Jareth gave Sarah a gentle smile as she sat next to him. Sarah could see the pain in his eyes. It touched her that he was willing to bare that part of his soul and life to her.

Jareth finally began, "I will try to make this as short as possible, as it is getting late."

Jareth made himself comfortable and began his family's story, "My father's name is Caedmon, and when he felt the time had come for him to find his queen, he took out the book, The Labyrinth. He then took this book to the aboveground, the same realm you are from Sarah. He placed it in a secluded spot and then went back home to wait. It had been about a month before he felt that his book had been found, found by his bride. He knew it would only be a matter of time before she would be before him. He waited for the book to do its work and allow her to speak the magical words that would allow him to come for her and the bait. The time finally came, he then appeared with some of his goblins as his aides. He ordered the goblins to take the bait, which ended up being a cat of all things, back to his castle. Apparently she was furious with her cat and wanted the goblins to take it away. Thankfully for father though, that she really did love this cat and was willing to come and get it back.

Jareth sighed and took a deep breath and continued, "During this time period, my father had some enemies, mainly Saxen who was the ruler of the wasteland area. He was a fae god too, but not as powerful, well at least he wasn't for the longest time. He discovered black magic and became stronger. He was insanely jealous over my father's kingdom and the extreme loyalty he had from his subjects throughout his lands. When my father brought my mother, Wynn here, Saxen saw her and felt he had to have her. You see Sarah, my father had brown hair and hazel eyes, which is the normal thing for most fae gods, but my mother had blonde hair and blue eyes. She attracted the attention of many, but mainly Saxen. Luckily my father was able to woo her very fast and convinced her to stay and be with him. But it was not without some sort of threat from Saxen. He appeared before the both of them, before my father and mother were wed, and swore that he would have Wynn, one way or another. Saxen then left but still interfered with father's kingdom whenever he could."

"Sarah, are you understanding everything so far? Jareth questioned.

"Yes, thank you, please tell me the rest of the story." Answered Sarah.

Jareth continued with his story, "My father was extremely protective of my mother. They eventually had a child, me. My father tried to keep this a secret, which he knew was impossible. When Saxen learned of this, he could not take it anymore and decided to lay his claim on my mother and to kill my father and me and take over the kingdom. Saxen and his army came to the castle, and a huge battle ensued. My father stayed with my mother and I, protecting us. He refused to leave us. We all stayed locked up in their bedroom, also in the room was my nursemaid, Maeryn. This is the same Maeryn that you have met here now. When father heard Saxen coming up the stairs, he knew it was about to be dangerous. He begged my mother to take me and leave with Maeryn. But she refused, she said that she loved him with all of her life and soul and would never leave him. But she did give me a kiss and handed me over to Maeryn and asked her to flee with me through a hidden door that she showed her. Maeryn protested a bit, but decided that she must do it. As she went into the closet with me and had nearly shut the door, she had seen it. She saw Saxen bursting through the door and then with all of his might he poured most of his power into a dagger he had in his hand and threw it at my father. Just before he threw it, my mother saw what he was about to do, and threw herself in front of my dad to protect him. The blade was long enough that it went into her heart and the power that was in it caused her to die. Maeryn said that my mother's last words were 'I love you' to my father. She then slumped into his arms and died. Both my father and Saxen screamed in anguish. The battle between my father and Saxen ensued. They were both determined to make the other die. At this point Maeryn quietly fled with me in her arms. She knew that she had to get us away from there as fast and as far away as she could. She took us through a tunnel that seemed to go on forever, but eventually ended up deep in the forest. She spotted a little cottage and went to it. There was one of my father's guards there at the door. Apparently, this cottage was for extreme emergencies like this, and we were safe there till we could go back."

"So what happened to your father?" asked Sarah.

Jareth answered, "We eventually went back, the next day one of the guards at the cottage went ahead to make sure it was safe first. He came back to let us know that we could safely return. When we got there, Maeryn soon found out that my father had died. Apparently the battle between him and Saxen lasted for hours, draining both of them of their precious power. Both had severe injuries, my father's injuries were severe, and with the love of his life gone, he did not want to survive and let himself pass on. Apparently Saxen survived long enough to make it back home, where he supposedly died soon after. They also discovered that while we were gone, that someone had taken father's Labyrinth book from its case. No one knows if Saxen did it or not."

"So what happened for you? How did you survive?" asked Sarah.

Jareth replied, "Thankfully Maeryn is an exceptional nursemaid, she raised me how my parents would have wanted to. She taught me their beliefs, ideas, powers, ways of life and most important how to be a proper fae god, the fae King of the Goblins. She also is the one that taught me about the book of The Labyrinth, what it was for and how it was used. She told me how it was taken, but that it still should only work for me even though it was in someone else's hands. If that someone tried to use it for it's purpose it would still only work for me, finding my bride and letting me know. Maeryn did warn me that it would be a slim chance of that ever happening and that if it did, the call from the book would come without warning."

Sarah looked as if she could cry, "Jareth, I never knew. I am so sorry. What an incredible amount of grief you have had to go through." Sarah reached over to Jareth's hand and took it. She looked deep into his eyes that were full of the pain he was so trying to hide. With her other hand she reached up to caress the side of Jareth's face. Jareth leaned his face into Sarah's hand and closed his eyes. 'Oh how she comforts me so. By the gods, please let her love me.' Jareth mentally sighed.

Jareth then grasped the hand that was holding his face and looked at it sweetly. He stroked her hand and marveled at its wondrous silkiness. "You have such beauty. Everything about you is more than a treasure. Your skin is like the finest silk." He then gently kissed her hand and watched her reaction. 'I must be careful with her, I cannot lose her again.'

Much to Jareth's excitement, she smiled dearly and even moved closer to him.

"Jareth, I do not know what to say to you. I do not quite understand what I am feeling for you. I certainly feel very drawn to you. I feel so connected to you know. It meant so much to me that you were willing to open up to me like that. I want to tell you that I am willing to stay for now to see what happens between us. I am willing to give you a chance."

Jareth smiled so happily at Sarah. "Sarah, I promise you will have no regrets. I will show you things I have shown no one, things that I have kept in my heart for only you to see."

Sarah smiled delicately for Jareth. "Jareth, I feel tired, do you mind if I retire for bed?"

Jareth smiled, "Of course not, please allow me to escort you to your room."

Sarah winked and said, "Well, if you must!" then she giggled.

At that point Sarah grabbed Jareth's hand and allowed the now smirking Jareth to escort her to her room. Jareth began to think along the way to Sarah's room, 'I still cannot believe that I have been given another chance to win her heart. How my heart beats so strong, feeling her hand in mine. This is certainly going better that I had even hoped for. I will wait forever for her.' They were soon at Sarah's door, and Sarah turned to say goodnight to her King and found his face close to hers.

Jareth decided to be brave, her pouty pink lips beckoned unto him, "Sarah, would you allow me the pleasure of giving you a kiss before you retire?"

"Well, uh, ummm, I guess a little one could not hurt, after all we are dating n---umphhhh!"

At that point Jareth laid his lips on Sarah's not allowing another peep out of her mouth. He felt brave, yet prayed that she would not slap and reject him. Her lips felt a bit stiff out of the shock of the moment. But there was no slap, no pushing him away, no rejection whatsoever. She began to slowly warm up to this kiss. She was truly innocent, in all of those years, she had never even let a boy kiss her on the lips, only on her cheek. But now, now it was different.

Jareth was slow with her, allowing her to learn and relish in this kiss. She began moving along with his lips, enjoying the smoothness of them, how smooth and divine they felt as they softly moved across her lips. Sarah began to enjoy the kiss more and more. Feeling brave she started pressing back against his lips with her own. Jareth groaned at her wondrous response. His hand moved up to caress her hair and face. Sarah was now the one to groan. As soon as she did, Jareth took a chance and allowed the tip of his tongue to slip into her mouth. He was oh so gentle to her mouth, and she responded to him. She felt she was in ecstasy. Again, feeling brave, Sarah allowed her tongue to do things that it had never done before. She felt her own tongue graze against his. She slowly and surely allowed her mouth to open further and further. Jareth had his hand mangled into her hair, enjoying Sarah's taste. He suddenly stopped, pulled back from her face and looked at her.

"Sarah, I must stop."

Sarah groaned, "But why, didn't you like it, I know that I did."

"Oh Sarah, this is so much more than you understand. I more than enjoyed that kiss. I had to stop, this needs to stop here before it gets any further. I want to earn your respect Sarah, and I certainly am not one to take advantage of you. I must go for now, please understand. I will see you in the morning. I bid you a goodnight." Jareth then walked away to his bedchambers with his fingers clenched up into his hands. He had to get away from her, she was driving him insane. He wanted her so badly, more than anything is this world, but he knew that if he had not stopped, things would have gone on further than what he would have wanted, at least for now.

Sarah went into her bedchambers and was getting ready for bed.

In the room next to hers, Jareth's, he was trying to keep from pulling out his hair. 'Oh how she does things to me. I need her so badly. I am ready to make her mine, to have her as my queen. It is going to be hard having such patience.' With that, Jareth changed into his night-clothes and retired to bed, trying to keep from thinking of the girl that he knew was laying in bed in the room next to him.

Sarah still could not believe what had happened. 'Did I really do that? Did I really just kiss the goblin king, the same man that tortured me with that labyrinth? I did! Oh what a kiss it was too!' Sarah reached up and touched her lips, remembering how it felt to have his lips on hers. She suddenly blushed, remembering the other half of the kiss, where they both had used their tongues. 'It was a good kiss. I certainly want to try that again sometime! Now, off to dreamland, I am beat!' and with that, Sarah turned the fire down to low on the lamp that was at her bedside table.

Jareth finally fell into a deep sleep. He would sleep well tonight, things seemed to be working out wonderfully for him. He would surely dream about his new angel.

Meanwhile………………

"Your highness! Your highness! I return with new information!" squawked out a devilish looking goblin.

"What is it now? It had better be important this time, if you waste my time, you die." Screamed the black haired fae god.

"But your highness, it is important, it pertains to Jareth, he has found his queen again!" again squawked the goblin.

"Ah ha!" yelled Kael "So he has somehow managed to get her to return! "Ha ha ha! This is good news! Now it is time for me to exact my revenge on that bastard Jareth. For what his parents did to my father, causing him to die. So, tell me, is this queen of Jareth's the same one that came through before?"

The goblin grunted, smiled and then replied, "Oh yes your highness! But now she is even far more beautiful than she was before!"

Kael smiled seductively, "Well of course, that does make sense, now she is a woman and with that comes the body of one. She was breathtaking to begin with, I can imagine what she looks like now…" Kael sneered at that thought. "This time I will not let her get away from me! Last time I was weak from a battle, my powers were drained and I could not get to her in time. That bastard Jareth could not coax her into staying longer than what she did, so I did not even have a chance. This time will be different, very different. I will take this woman and make her my bride, all in the name of my father Saxon! Your death will not be in vain father! I will avenge you in the best way I know how! I will take Jareth's bride, make her my own and do all the things I want to do to her. I will surely enjoy knowing that Jareth will know that I am taking his bride for everything she has. I will make that woman squirm beneath me in my bed, it will be me doing it not him! She is MINE!"

With that said, the wasteland king, King Kael gathered some of his officers to plan, the plan that would take Sarah away from Jareth….

A storm was brewing outside. It was getting closer and closer. Soon, the storm had come to Jareth's lands. Lightning danced across the sky. The thunder was getting loud. But luckily both Jareth and Sarah were still asleep in their rooms.

From Jareth's expression, he was most definitely having a pleasant dream. He continued to sleep like a baby, having the most pleasant sleep in his life.

In the next room, Sarah's room, it wasn't the same lovely experience that Jareth was having. Sarah tossed and turned, groaning in her sleep. Unfortunately for Sarah, she wasn't groaning out of pleasure, she was groaning out of fear, fear that was coming from the nightmare she was having. Sarah was reliving the argument with her parents and experienced the rain, thunder and lightning again, she was driving that same car and then…. She drove around the corner to find a man in the road, the same as before. She jerked the wheel of her car and saw the tree in her path. Sarah screamed, not only was she screaming in her dreams, but she was screaming in her sleep.

Suddenly, Jareth was up like lightning. He kicked open the door that was between his room and hers and ran to her. He was relieved when he found that she was only having a nightmare. Even then it bothered him to see her in pain and fear. He sat on the bed and began to gently wake her. Lightning reflected across her face and thunder was heard around the castle.

"Sarah, please wake up." Jareth whispered.

Again Jareth tried again, "Sarah, wake up, you are having a nightmare, this is not real. Come back to me Sarah."

Sarah slowly opened her eyes out of the fear of not knowing where she was. When she realized that she was truly safe, she threw her crying self into Jareth's bare chest. Wrapping her arms around him and laying her head into his strong chest, she began to weep.

"I thought it was real, it felt so real, it sounded so real! I was reliving that night, the night I had that horrible fight with my parents and I left. I was driving again, and then it was you, you in the road and I crashed. Oh Jareth, it was awful!" Sarah sobbed.

"Shhhhhhh" cooed Jareth to Sarah. "It was just the real thunder that you were hearing that brought back those memories to you. It's ok now, I have got you, just relax." Jareth began stroking her hair and soon she was quiet. He slowly began lying her back into bed when she startled him, "Jareth, wait, please do not leave me alone. I need you."

"I will do anything for you Sarah, you know that." And with that, Jareth sat in the bed, up against the headboard and held his Sarah in his arms all the while caressing her silky hair with his hand. 'I don't care if do not get any sleep, all of this makes it more than worth it.' Jareth said with a gentle smile.

Soon, Sarah fell fast asleep, and Jareth followed soon after.

I hope you enjoyed actually getting to see some romance finally between the two. It will continue for now on so get ready! It is all delicate now, but will get more romantic later on! Anyway, thank you for reading my fic, it means the world to me! I do hope that it is enjoyable! If anyone has any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to ask! I will be more than happy to reply!

Thanks again!

Katgome