Here you go, the second chapter. Thanks to my reviewers, you know who you are!Tee hee!
Now what will happen between Pip and Jareth when Sarah and the other's get involved? You'll just have to read to find out!
Chapter 2
"Pip, are you still there? Pip? Answer me already Pip, it isn't funny anymore!" Sarah called into the phone in her hand. What has happened to Pip and why isn't she answering me, Sarah wondered, worried. Pip never just drops the phone for no good reason. "Pip, answer me!"
And then Sarah had hears it, that voice. The voice she had haunted her nghtmares ever since the Labyrinth, the voice she hoped she would never hear again. It was the voice of Jareth, the Goblin King himself, on Pip's phone.
"I'm so sorry Sarah, Pip has to go now, business to attend to and such, ta ta." Jareth had laughed into the phone before hanging up her. Sarah knew this was bad. Jareth had tormented her, nearly killing her time and time again, only to profess that he loved her! And know he was after Pip's heart.
"Oh my god, not again!" Sarah paniced, running over to her mirror, rapping smartly on the glass as you might knock on a door you wished to be let through. Sarah knew she would need help to save Pip from the Goblin King, and she knew just where to get it too. "Hoggle, Ludo, Sir Didymus! I need your help, please! It's terrible! Hoggle please! Come quickly!"
The image of a stout dwarf-like man appeared in the mirror sitting on the bed, followed by what looked like a giant orange walking carpet and a dressed up dog-fox mix. They could only be seen in the mirror, seeing as they resided in the land of the Labyrinth that Jareth ruled over, not really existing in Sarah's room, only in the mirror did the exist to her anymore. Sarah knew she was alone in her room, but that didn't stop her from speaking to the images as though they were in the room with her.
"Oh thank you so much!" Sarah smiled, dropping to her knees before the mirror. "I wasn't sure that you would come, but I hoped you would."
"We said if you needed us to call and we'd come, so we have." Hoggle said, jumping up and down on the bed in the mirror.
"Sarah and Ludo friends." Ludo rasped. Ludo never spoke in full sentences, prefering to speak in parts of them.
"My lady, what is troubling you so?" Sir Didymus asked, brandishing his staff at her. "How can we be of assistence to you?"
"You see my dear friends, Jareth's gone and done something terrible again!" Sarah sighed. "I think he's taken someone I know back to his castle with him. But I can't be sure. You see, I was on the phone with my best friend Pip, and then she dropped the phone, but the next person who spoke was Jareth! He said he and Pip had some business to attend to together, so I'm worried. Pip's so stubborn, she'll never make it through the Labyrinth."
"That rat!" Hoggle scoffed. "Well then Sarah, let's find out if he took her. We'll go to her mirro and check to see if she's there in her room, okay?"
"Oh thank you so much, would you please?" Sarah begged. Her three friends nodded, walking sideways passed the frame around the mirror and out of sight. Sarah sat in a terrified silence the whole time they were gone. When they returned to her mirror, Sarah could tell what they had to tell he wasn't good by the looks on thier faces. "Did he take her away? Is Pip really gone?"
"Yes, Sarah, Jareth took her, I'm sorry." Hoggle said sadly, not looking at her.
"We found this on the floor, my lady. It looks like a note and it is addressed to you." Sir Didymus said, holding up the folded old piece of paper for Sarah to see.
"Press it up against the glass so I can read it, please!" Sarah said, moving to stand right in front of her mirror, hands pressed palms flat upon it. Sarah cleared her throat, reading the letter aloud:
Dear Sarah,
Don't worry about me, I swear I am safe with this Goblin King of yours. He's not as bad as you said he was, you must not have tried to get to know him like I did. I know exactly what I'm doing, so don't try to get in the way and save me like you always do. I'm happier now then I have been in ages.
Love, Pip
Sarah was shocked for a moment, reading throught the letter several times before smiling broadly, laughing. Her friends looked at each other, confused. What could be so funny?
"What does thou think is so funny, my lady? I see no jest." Sir Didymus said, patting his dog like stead on the top of the head, looking at Sarah through the mirror as if she was crazy or something. "I do not see what is so funny. This friend of your's is obviously delusional if she thinks she is safe with that scounderal Jareth. This is a serious matter!"
"Sarah laugh, why?" Ludo asked, more confused than he usually was.
"Because, that's not Pip's writting! Jareth must have planted this so I wouldn't try to help Pip and I'll stay away. It's a clever trick and it almost worked except for one thing. Jareth forgot she was my best friend. I'd know her handwritting anywhere." Sarah said, pulling her hair up into a pony tail. "We'll just have to go and save her then."
"How Sarah?" Ludo asked, tapping the glass between them with a large finger.
"What do you mean how?" Sarah asked, slipping her arms inside her jacket sleeves. "I'll just - just..."
"Sarah, you lef the Labyrinth, so you can never return here to us. You can't help Pip." Hoggle explain wearily. Then he looked up, excited. "But we can help her! Yeah, I got a plan! Me, Ludo, and Sir Didymus can go and watch over her when she's with that rat who calls himself Jareth, alright, and make sure she comes to no harm by him. When we see our oppertunity, we'll snatch her up and save her! We can bring her back here, and force her back into your world somehow."
"Oh thank you Hoggle! It's a brilliant plan!" Sarah said, jumping up and down. "Please bring Pip back quickly, before it's too late to save her!"
(Jareth POV)
"Um, your Highness?" Pip asked quietly, pulling away from me slightly. Had I unwillingly scared her somehow? "What do we do now?"
"Please my dear Pip, call me by my rightful name, it's why I have one after all." I commented lightly. All this calling me by my title stuff was making me feel a little umcomfortable. She was sweet and all, but I could tell she was also nervous being arund me. I was intimidating her without meaning to. I'd just have to try harder to be nice to her and not to scare her then from now on. "And now that your bored staring at the scenery, how would you like a private tour of my castle?"
"I'd love that!" Pip cheered happily, skipping in a circle around me where I stood. So much energy and spirt, I laughed to myself as I watched her skipping around. Sarah was never like this, especially not around me. My heart stood still, sending an acheing feeling throughout my body as I sighed. I have to stop thinking about Sarah, it only upsets me. Memories of her only make me remember the pain I'm feeling inside my heart.
"What's wrong Jareth?" Pip asked, stopping her playful skipping in front of me. She stepped closer ito my body, reaching up a delicate hand to caress my cold face, sending shivers up my spine, fogging my brain from thinking clearly. "What's troubling you so?"
"Nothing." I said sharply, too sharply I knew, pulling away from her, sad to feel her warm hand leave my freezing skin yet oddly relieved as well. I can't risk lossing my heart again. I might not ever get it back this time! I turned back to look at Pip where I had shunned her. She looked a bit put out by the whole ordeal, hanging her head to the ground, twiddling her thumbs. I felt sorry and guilty that I had upaet her, but I just wasn't ready to hand over my heart just yet for fear of it getting taken advantage of again, like with Sarah. Still, Pip doesn't deserve this, I sighed to my self, taking one of her hands in mine. "Come with me Pip, I'll give you that tour of my castle then."
"Alright." Pip said quietly, barely more than a whisper. I was scared I had destroyed her spirt, put she found it again upon walking through the gates to my castle. She could hardly believe her eyes as she looked around, staring in wonder at my strange collections of odds and ends I had stored up over the years. She was happy at least, I thought as I placed my self down upon my high backed throne. At least Pip's happy, for now anyways. I'll just have to make sure it stays that way, somehow.
(End POV)
"Look there she is! That must be Pip!" Hoogle murmered out of the corner of his mouth to the other two with him. It had taken them mear moments to get to the castle, not that Hoggle was willing to show them the way. Pip looked happy enough, skipping and jumping around, touching and exploring the differnet things around Jareth's throne room as Jareth sat resting in his throne, watching her. Pip didn't seem to need rescuing, at least not at the moment.
"Did you hear that?" Pip asked, stopping in what she was doing. She had been messing with a strange suit of armor when she had heard it. Mutterings, like someone was talking or hidig close by. She looked up at the Goblin King, scared. "I swear I heard something, or someone. Really, I did!"
"It's fine dear, probably just a servent or one of my gaurds on their rounds." Jareth moaned, dangling over his throne upside down so that Pip laughed. She still looked a little concerned, so Jareth gave in. "Would it make you feel better if I went and checked it out?"
"Oh yes it would." Pip said, smiling at him as he stood up. He pulled out an other crystal, throwing it down at his feel and dissapearing in a cloud of smoke and sparkles. Pip coughed, placing her hands over her mouth as she gagged. The smoke cleared, and Pip looked around. The Goblin King had gone just like her said to check on things for her. Sarah is such a lier, Pip thought as she settled herself in Jareth's throne. He's so kind to me and so sweet. Sarah's just wierd.
"Where did he go?" Hoggle asked Ludo and Sir Didymus as they peered through the window. "He's vanished!"
"What have we here?" A voice asked, placing a large hand on Hoggle's shoulder, forcing him around. It was Jareth smiling cruely down on them. "Well now, don't you three look familiar."
Well, wasn't that fun? New chapter soon, I'm working one it. Review please
