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"Hoggle, I need you."

As she looked into the mirror above her dresser, Sarah found herself calling for her friend. She didn't know what to do, and she knew that she had no choice but to ask Hoggle what was going on. With Jareth there in the Aboveground, it felt like she needed to talk to him. If she didn't, she had a feeling she would fall apart.

"Sarah?"

"Oh, Hoggle!"

When her old friend appeared inside her room, she felt herself relax. It seemed as if all of her problems would go away now that she had someone to talk to. After all, it wasn't like she could discuss this with Toby, even if some times she felt like she could have a real conversation with him. It was just that...well, he was a baby. And unfortunately, even with her brilliant imagination, it wasn't enough to forge fake responses from her young half brother.

Rushing over to give him a hug, she carried on in a distraught tone. "I have been waiting for you. Oh, I can't believe what's happened. I'm so nervous and I don't know what to do."

Hoggle immediately looked at her worriedly, wondering what could possibly have gone wrong. It seemed as if her world, just like the Underground, was turning upside down. For some reason it had seemed if the Labyrinth had lost control.

"What is it, Sarah? Are you alright?"

"That's the thing, I don't know," came her passionate response as she looked towards her door with worry, half expecting Jareth to come through it. "Jareth is here, he's in my house. And he's staying for the rest of the year. He's convinced my parents that he's some sort of exchange student. What am I supposed to do?"

Jareth was in the Aboveground? Well, that certainly explained to him why she was so agitated. Not only that, however, but also why the Labyrinth was darker and emptier than usual. He wasn't there to take control of anything.

"You mean he's here, right now?" Hoggle asked, eyes widdening. "Oh this is bad. What if he hears me in here?"

"He won't do anything, I'll make sure of it," Sarah swore to him. "Please, Hoggle...stay with me, don't worry. I need you, I need to talk to you. I can't help but be worried and you're the only friend I have in all of this besides Sir Didymus and Ludo. You're the only one I could talk to now. You're my best friend in the whole world."

"I am?"

"Yes, Hoggle. Of course you are. That's why I need you to help me plan on what I'm going to do to get out of this. We need to get him out of here, back into the Underground. Will you help me?"

Sighing, trying his best to gather his little courage, Hoggle nodded. "Of course, Sarah. You're my best friend, too," he admitted before continuing. "But it may take some time for us to figure out what to do. I'll try and talk to the other Fae here...I don't know who I can all be permitted to talk to but I can try and find out why he's in the Aboveground and maybe if we can get him back down."

"Would you really do that for me Hoggle?"

"Yes, Sarah. After all, I agreed to help you, didn't I?" he asked with a grin before looking around her room. "Do you suppose he can hear us right now?"

"I don't know," Sarah sighed before a sudden defiance crossed her face. "And I really don't care. I hope he does, I want him to know that he's definitely not welcome here and I'll send him back at whatever it takes."

"That's good, Sarah. Because I don't know how much it will take," Hoggle admitted. After all, it could very well take a lot more than they could think of to get him out of her realm and into his own. "I should probably get back and see if any of them are willing to talk to me."

"Okay, Hoggle. Thanks again...I'll call back for you tomorrow," she told him, giving him a smile. "I don't know what I'd do without you."

"Of course, Sarah. Any time you need me, just call," he nodded to her reassuriedly before smiling. "We both wonder."

With that, he was gone and Sarah found herself alone. If only she knew, however, that she wasn't entirely alone. For infact, right at that moment Jareth sat in the room that had been prepared for him...the one that would eventually become Toby's when he was old enough for a room of his own. He lounged casually on the bed while a crystal floated above him, allowing him to keep track of everything Sarah had said.

"Hrm...so Sarah, you think you can get rid of me that easilly, do you?" he questioned more as a murmur to himself, shaking his head. "You won't be able to escape me, you pretty little thing. I'll make sure of it."

He had allowed her some unknown privacy as she prepared herself for bed, and then as he once again watched her adjust into her bed, he couldn't help but be captivated by the girl who so quickly fell into a peaceful sleep. It almost made him wish that he had found a way to keep her in the Underground, so he wouldn't have to go through all this torment.

With that he allowed the crystal to come back in corporal form as he tried his best to think of what he could possibly do to get back her attention. Vaguely remembering the peach he had forced Hoggle to give to her, he felt a smirk come upon his lips before he once again let the crystal fly into the air. Sure, without a peach or anything else to forge her memory to forget, she would know very well the factor of this dream. However, there was nothing she could do about it, not when it was true sleep.

"Oh yes, Sarah. You will never be able to escape me. Not even in your dreams."

Okay. I lied. The next chapter will have Jareth inside her dreams. I just figured this was a good end to a chapter and I could be free to not push myself on the first actual reaction between both Jareth and Sarah.

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