Hey here's chapter 5, hope you're enjoying. Ocean Fairy xxx (drop me a line and tell me what you think.)
Still don't and probably never will own the Labyrinth
Chapter 5
Jareth transported himself to his favourite place in his entire kingdom. It was an area close to the centre of the labyrinth, where only the king and queen of the goblins could enter. Also he discovered later that the first person who had beaten the labyrinth could also enter. He would always come here when he needed solitude to escape from who he was for a while. It was a garden of sorts but to just describe it as a garden is an extreme understatement, exotic flowers more beautiful than anyone could imagine bloomed everywhere your eyesight could stretch to. There were trees bearing the most delicious of fruits. He loved the garden a lot but it was not here that he loved, although it was beautiful there was too much going on the flowers, the trees .He went towards the orchard of fruit trees and zigzagged his way through the garden before entering in to a small gate in to a clearing.
This was where he had intended to come he found it more beautiful than the main part and more relaxing. In the centre of the clearing there was a beautiful crystal clear waterfall, whose sound you could stop if you did not wish to hear the rushing of the water , hanging vines with flowers hung from the tops of the trees which were sheltering the area , soft green grass just right to lie on and the tree bark at the bottom of some of the trees were shaped like chairs so you could sit.
Jareth sat on the grass and lay down facing the waterfall. His blood was boiling he couldn't remember feeling this angry for years. "How dare she speak to me like that, she knows who I am" he said aloud "I thought we were friends but she still insists on living in the past and blaming me for everything, why doesn't she understand that I had to, and I wouldn't even have had to if she hadn't wished the babe away in the first place?" he sat up "she hates me so much, why do I have feelings for her? She doesn't deserve any affection from me!" he questioned himself. He produced a crystal "show me Sarah" he ordered it. Sarah was crying on her bed, he felt bad now.
"I'm being to hard on her, she has no family left and very few friends, she's grieving and I've made it worse" he decided that if Sarah apologized for her behaviour he would forgive her. But if she didn't he would stay out of her life for ever however hard it would be for him.
A week past and Sarah could still not face going back to work; the grief was sucking the life out of her day by day. She did not eat and spent most of the night just looking at old photos of her lost family when she did get to sleep she was plagued with nightmares so she avoided it as much as possible. Felicity had called as promised but Sarah did not answer the door nor take her calls. She had huge dark circles under her eyes and she looked pale, gaunt and thin. She had not changed her clothes or washed her hair all week. The glass still lay on the floor from when she had broken the dishes, her feelings were all over the place and she kept going over her head how she had no one left, she just wanted it all to go away. She picked up an old photo and started looking at the pictures again for the fiftieth time. She fell asleep from exhaustion on the old rug her head leaning on the sofa.
Jareth paced his throne room, he knew what Sarah was doing to herself she was killing herself. From what he could see she had not eaten for the best part of a week and she sat up at night drinking that drink she seemed so fond of; coffee he had heard it being called, still it seemed to be doing her no good. He frowned he should go to her but she wouldn't want his help and besides she had yet to apologize to him. He sat on his throne deep in thought he didn't know what to do which angered and confused him he did not like feeling helpless.
Jareth had retired to bed early he had an awful headache he had them every night for the past week but tonight it seemed worse and he couldn't shake this bad feeling he had inside of him, for what he did not know. He had ordered all of his goblins to go to bed early as well, as he feared the destruction they would cause if they were left unattended. Another sharp pain seared through his head causing him to sit up and hold his head in his hands. "Bloody hell what is this?" he shouted he rarely got ill and never and he experienced something like this before.
The pain subsided slightly, he got up and put his head on the cool glass of the window, and he looked outside. He nearly fainted with what he saw. He recovered in an instant and transformed in to his owl form to get a better look at what was happening. Speeding out of the castle grounds and past the goblin city, he stopped and hovered over the labyrinth; it was twisting and turning ,bashing it's walls together ,destroying itself ,fire and water rampaged around corners destroying the creatures and their homes.
Jareth landed on the hillside where he had first gave Sarah her challenge and transformed back in to the goblin king.
"What is going on" he shouted to the labyrinth in its strange language "Why are you doing this?"
"Go to the girl now, she needs you, she is part of the labyrinth and it cannot survive without her. The queen of the labyrinth's life is in danger and you must save her or the results will mean the end of your kingdom and the labyrinth. Go now" the spirits of the labyrinth ordered him.
Jareth paled "queen of the labyrinth, you mean Sarah, what, what's wrong with her?"
Jareth was confused he had not spoken to the labyrinth since his coronation as Goblin king and know it was saying that Sarah was part of it and her life is in danger.
"Go now" the spirits hissed "or it will be to late or it will be the end of the labyrinth and your kingdom" Jareth transported himself once again to Sarah's flat and cried out with what he saw.
"Oh my God Sarah what have you done?" For Sarah was lying on her sofa, frail and thin she was pale, so pale. Jareth ran over to her and took her hand it was like ice her dark hair tumbled down over her shoulders framing her white face. All the pain was gone she looked so peaceful. She was dead he laid his head on her chest and sobbed tears coming hard and fast down his face, he had never cried about anything before. He lifted his head and stroked her hair
"why have you done this?" for he had seen what had happened, there were boxes of pills all over the floor she had done this to herself. He heard the labyrinth's whispers in his head "Bring her to us we will help her"
"How can you help her she's dead" Jareth screamed and it's my fault, "I should have come to her days ago"
"Trust us" the labyrinth whispered. Jareth lifted Sarah's lifeless body in to his arms, she was so beautiful even in death, he only hoped she had a chance with the labyrinth for he could not and would not carry on without her.
