Hey everyone, this will be my last post for a week now because I'm doing my Gcse's therefore I have to go to bed early and stuff  wish me luck.

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Chapter 10

Jareth was tossing and turning a minute before he awoke. He sat up and ran his hand through his hair. "What am I doing up, it's still dark?" He muttered to himself. "What the hell's that noise?" He turned around and his eyes widened, "Sarah."

He shook himself awake and swiftly went up to her. She was curled up in a tight ball holding her stomach; tears were streaming down her face. "Sarah, what's wrong?" He smoothed her hair away from her soaking wet face.

"Owww," she moaned.

"Shhh, it's okay." He was frantic trying to think of what to do as she was obviously in a lot of pain. He picked up one of the potions he had made earlier. "Here, Sarah, drink this." He tried to lift her up so she could drink, but she just screamed with pain.

"Get away from me!" she shouted.

"Sarah you've got to, it'll make the pain go away immediately. Please." He begged her. But she would still not move from her curled up position to take it. He stood for moment thinking what to do, before making up his mind.

"I'm sorry, Sarah." and he scooped her up in his arms, and froze her body using a freezing spell. He then poured the drink down her throat. When he was sure it had all gone, he immediately unfroze her.

"Sarah, are you..." He didn't finish, for he had looked at her and seen the look of pure terror in her eyes. "Look you have to understand. I had to." He tried to explain, but she had jumped off him before running out of the room and down the corridor.

"Sarah, come back!" Jareth frowned. She was in no fit state to go running off. He hadn't meant to frighten her, but it was the only way he could have helped her. He got changed and ran out of the door after Sarah.

Sarah kept on running; she was out of breath and holding her side. She slowed to a walk.

"What kind of place is this? It's no better than the Labyrinth." She said breathlessly.

"Why, thank you Sarah, but I had hoped that my castle was just a bit more homely than the Labyrinth." She spun around and Jareth was standing right behind her, his face mere inches away from hers. She glared at him.

"Just get away from me!" She pushed him into the wall with all the strength that she could gather. He looked at her too shocked to move. She walked towards the nearest door and turned around. "I trusted you, and you've blown it Jareth." She opened the door and slammed it behind her.

"Oh, brilliant, she just had to go in there didn't she?" He decided that he would give her a few minutes to calm down while he thought of what he was going to say to her when he did go in.

She slammed the door behind her and looked around. As her eyes adjusted to the mid-darkness in the room, she breathed in slowly. "Well, at least Jareth will have a hard time finding me in here." She was in the Escher room, where she spent some time catching her little brother Toby during her time in the Labyrinth.

"Oh Toby, maybe if I'd left you here you would still be safe, at least I'd have known where you are."

She ran down some stairs that were in front of her and kept walking around for a while. She was getting used to this place. She had bare feet, but the stone underneath her was surprisingly warm. The pain in her stomach, which was far less but still nagging her, was getting to her now.

She put one arm around her stomach and the other on the grey stone wall that was beside her for support before she sat down. She felt her hair fall down; she was amazed to discover she was sitting upside down.

"This place is crazy." she muttered, but still she found out that she liked sitting like this and the new sensation seemed to ease the pain off her stomach.

She sat for some time, thinking. She was so angry at Jareth right now; she knew she'd do something she'd regret if she saw him.

"He used his magic on me." A voice inside of her told her that he was only trying to help her, but she refused to listen. She realised what a dangerous situation she was in, he could do anything to her at any time.

"Oh, come on," she told herself, "he may be an arrogant, spoiled, goblin king, but he was no monster." She was so confused; she didn't know what to do. She heard a noise and the sound of Jareth's heels on the floor and she mentally prepared herself for when he found her.

Jareth entered the Escher room and looked around. There was no sign of her. "Oh typical, yes, trust her to make this hard for me." He strode up and down stairs and across ceilings. He couldn't transport himself in this room, it just wasn't done. They were meant to be used, the stairs and ceilings.

Then finally, after he practically searched the whole place, he spotted her, sitting on a ceiling of all places! Her dark hair was hanging down about a metre off her head. She looked like some sort of crazed bat.

He walked up to Sarah as quietly as he could, being careful not to disturb her. Her eyes were closed, she was thinking. He sat down right next to her and waited until she opened her eyes.

He waited but she didn't open her eyes. Instead she said; "Is there something you want to say to me?" he jumped.

"No, but I wish to show you something. Open your eyes," he asked her.

She opened her eyes slowly, smirked and started laughing. Jareth looked at her bewildered.

She stopped "Well, it's your hair!" she laughed again and then stopped.

He grinned. He must look a sight with his hair hanging upside down. At least it helped clear the bad atmosphere in the room, although she still looked angry - good thing she came in here really. He decided to carry on with what he planned. He produced a crystal and handed it to her "Look inside it," he urged her.

"Why." she did not trust him.

"It'll show you why I just did what I did." She took it and looked at it curiously. Images were being played inside and she watched herself writhing in pain and Jareth trying to help her, using his magic as a last resort.

She sighed "I'm sorry; I had no right to be angry at you."

He lifted her head up so she would look at him. "Yes, you did. I should have warned you and I'm sorry."

"I've never heard you apologize before." She said with a grin.

"Well, I rarely do anything that needs apologizing for." he replied completely seriously.

She shoved him. "Big head!" and laughed at him when he pouted and replied "Who me?"

They both laughed then. She gazed at him a moment. Who'd have thought that the Goblin King would have a sense of humour? she thought to herself and quickly looked away. "So what's happening tomorrow?" Sarah asked.

"You mean today. It's four o'clock in the morning!"

"Really? I'm not a bit tired." she said yawning.

"I can tell. Well, my friends are looking after the goblins for a few days, so I do not have to worry about them. But I was thinking we could have breakfast and then I'll leave you to bathe, while I catch up with some paperwork," he said with a grimace at the word "paper work."

"Friends? You have friends!" she'd never heard him talk of friends.

"Don't sound so surprised." he looked at her. "Rialle and Kherron, King and Queen of the elves and fairies, we've been friends since school."

"Really? Can I meet them?" she asked him.

"You will, but not tomorrow, you have to rest."

"Okay. Oh…one more thing."

"Go on."

"Can you show me around your castle tomorrow evening, please?" She was hoping he say yes. She was so desperate to explore the castle; it was so full of mysteries.

Jareth thought for a minute. "Depending on how you feel, of course, I would be delighted." he smiled at the excited look on her face. Though why she was so excited to look around his castle he did not know. "Well, we can't go on like this, we have to go back to sleep. I have to be up in a few hours."

"Okay let's go, my head's feeling a bit funny anyway," she said rubbing it.

"We have been sitting upside down for over an hour you know."

She laughed. "Yeah, that could be it. Oh, Jareth, here's your crystal." In her hand she still held the crystal that he had given her earlier.

He waved his hand over it and said, "Keep it."

"What did you do?" It looked the same.

"You'll see," he grinned. She followed him out of the Escher room and he transported them back to Sarah's bedchambers.

She yawned and said, "Goodnight, Jareth."

"Yes, see you in the morning." And he jumped into bed, sleeping as soon as his head hit the pillow.

"Like a child." she muttered.

She lay down on her bed; the crystal in her hand glowed softly. As she gazed at it, it started playing the song that Jareth had sang to her at the ball all those years ago, so quietly that only she could hear it. She held it tight and pulled the blanket on herself. The crystal was warm.

She reminded herself to thank him in the morning and she lay there just listening to the tune until she fell asleep.

By a pool of water, deep in the Labyrinth, a group of translucent figures cheered, "Things are going well!" and they floated off in to the night.