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Chapter 2- Remembering
"This was your favorite book?" Matt asked, shocked.
"Yep, I used to hope that the Goblin King would come and take me away from this life," Sarah laughed.
"Hmmm...is that so? Well, we might just have to see if it works," he joked. "I wish the Goblin King would take us away to the Underground."
Sarah laughed at how crazy she thought he was acting, thinking things were finally back to normal, until she heard the voice that haunted her every dream at night.
"So, you wish to be taken to my Labyrinth, do you? It is not as easy as just wishing yourself away. There are consequences for all," the strange man mocked in an arrogant tone that made her grit her teeth. Then he looked at her, "That is, for all except you, Sarah."
Sarah was clearly puzzled now. She had never seen this man before, except in her dreams. She would have remembered his wild, golden hair and mismatched eyes of ice blue and forest green. No, she couldn't remember ever meeting this man in real life before.
"Do I know you?" she questioned
Jareth hid the pain he felt in his heart. This girl had defeated his Labyrinth, stolen his heart and then crushed it before his very eyes and yet she did not remember him. But she would, he would make sure of it. And when she did, he would make her feel the love he had felt for her, and take his revenge.
Ignoring her, or trying his best to, he turned to Matt and spoke.
"As you were the one to make the wish, you shall be the one to run the Labyrinth," he informed the mortal. Going on, trying his best not to look into Sarah's questioning emerald eyes, he said, " You have thirteen hours in which to make your way to the castle at the center, beyond the Goblin City. Should you make it, you and Sarah may both return to the Aboveground. However, should you fail, only you get to return home. Sarah must stay with me in the Underground."
Sarah finally came out of her shocked daze and said, "Hold on a minute! That's not fair!"
He smiled on the inside at this showing of the Sarah that he had come to know, but outwardly he sneered at this remark and replied, "You say that so often, I should wonder what your basis for comparison is."
Jareth hid another expression, this one a grin, as her eyes sparked with recognition. She remembered some things, maybe not everything, but some. Soon enough she would remember everything. He just had to get her back to his castle.
Turning to Matt, he said, "We shall be waiting."
He heard Sarah gasp as the ground disappeared beneath her feet and everything in her world when dark. All that was left of where they previously stood was a cloud of golden glitter.
Sarah clenched her eyes shut, hoping that if she just ignored the feeling of falling, of disappearing into an endless void of nothing, that it would all be a hallucination or a dream, just like the man.
When she finally dared to open her eyes, she was in a throne room. The Goblin King's throne room. Looking around, memories started to return to her. They started to break through the wall her subconsious had placed to block out the entire event.
A stormy night, an unwanted wish, the challenge, running through a maze, a baby surrounded by goblins, a room full of stairs.
"You're eyes can be so cruel," she whispered, remembering where she had heard the words that had raced through her mind earlier that day.
"Just as I can be so cruel," man replied. He seemed as if he knew what was happening.
A place just out of existance, the final words, a white owl.
Suddenly, Sarah remembered everything that had happened to her that night. Wishing Toby away becuase she was mad at Karen. Now she knew why she always felt as though something was missing...the Goblin King, even if only in memories, wasn't there.
She had escaped this man...no, this monster once, but he would not willingly let her go again. With no though of how to fight him, her fear and weakness temporarily crumpled her resolve.
"Jareth," she whispered before she fell to her knees, kneeling in front of her enemy, the Goblin King, in her time of weakness.
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