Chapter 3.

Sarah walked upstairs to find Toby reading a book. "What are you doing kiddo?"

"Reading. Wanna hear me read it?" Sarah shrugged and nodded as she sat down next to him. "Okay, I'm gonna read this really cool really scary line, so here goes." He took a deep breath. "I wish the goblins would come and take you away— Hey!" He screamed as Sarah snatched the book from his hands.

"That's my book! I was reading it! I'm gonna tell mommy and daddy!"

"Where did you get this book?" She asked as she got to her feet and held it in her hands as she was trembling because of what just could have happened. She never wanted Toby to see the Goblin King again. She would do whatever it took to keep him away from Toby.

He put his head down. She sat down next to him and hugged him. "Toby, you are not in trouble. I promise, just tell me where you got the book from." She said quietly to him.

"I got it from your old room. I saw the color red and wanted to know what it was, so I started reading it. It seemed interesting."

Sarah was astounded. "Who taught you to read?"

"Mommy did. I've been reading since I was three."

How have I never known this? I guess I just never paid attention. "Well, I'm glad you're reading, but this is not a book that you should be reading. Okay?"

He looked at her curiously. "Why?"

"It's a grown up book."

"Okay Sarah. Can I read it when I grow up? Like when I'm eight?"

She giggled at him and patted his blonde curls. "We'll see." She looked down at him. "Let me go put this away somewhere you can't get it right now, then I'll be right back. Okay?"

He nodded and she walked out of her room. When she walked into her room. She dropped the book onto the floor and almost screamed, but didn't because she knew that Toby would come running in. She slammed the door shut instead. "Sarah, are you okay?" Toby called to her.

"I'm fine! I'll be right out!"

"Is that young Tobias I hear?" he asked her in the voice she thought that she was never going to hear again as he picked the book up from the floor. He was wearing the same exact outfit that she had met him in. His hair was a little longer, not by much, but you could notice it.

"Why does it matter?"

His head snapped up and she jerked back a step instinctively. "Why does it matter?" He hissed out. "Because, you just made him stop a wish. That's why. I could have you in my clutches again." He paused for a moment and looked her up and down then looked her in the face. "I will have you again. It's clearly fate my dear."

She laughed. "You will never have me. Do you understand me? Never."

He laughed. "Of course I will. I will have you, and there's nothing you can do about it."

"Sarah! Who are you talking to in there? You know mommy and daddy don't want you to have boys over when you watch me!"

She rolled her eyes. "No one, now go watch TV, I'll be right out!"

"Ah, so it is young Tobias. I should go meet him, again."

"Jareth, I swear, if you go near him again, I will kill you."

He laughed at her again. "What could a plain mortal like you do to me anyways my dear Sarah?"

She swallowed. "I'll think of something."

"Don't worry, I'll leave you to your babysitting duties, I just wanted to come tell you something."

She narrowed her eyes at him and waited for him to speak which seemed to have taken forever, because he was drinking her in again. "My how you've grown Sarah."

"Get to the point."

"My my, no need for rudeness. We'll have to change that when you are mine. You will be polite."

This time Sarah laughed. "Apparently you didn't hear me before, you will never have me."

"Oh, but I will." He walked over to her and caressed her face. She didn't flinch. She didn't want to show anymore fear than she already had. He leaned down to kiss her but just before his lips met hers, she stuck at him. He hissed at her. "Fine, you want to play it that way? We will. It will just make it that much sweeter when I do have you in my possession."

"Not going to happen." She said defiantly.

"Whatever you say, precious." He turned to walk away but stopped. "Oh yes, I forgot to tell you."

She looked at him with wonder. He really was beautiful. She was getting distracted. She shook her head to clear it. "What did you forget to tell me?" She asked him.

He smiled at her showing her all of his teeth. "If you ever, and I do mean ever Sarah. If you ever interrupt someone wishing someone away again, I will haunt young Tobias's dreams. I do have fun going into them now and casually reminding him of what happened to him back then."

He smiled even more if were possible and Sarah grimaced. "Would you like for his dreams to become dark and twisted, or would you like the whole truth to come out in the dreams?" He turned to leave. "Although, both would happen eventually. So, you really have no choice in the matter." He turned his face towards her. "Till we meet again my princess." Before she could even say anything to him, he disappeared into thin air leaving behind glitter everywhere.

"Damnit! This can't be happening right now." She opened the door and ran downstairs to see Toby sitting in front of the TV watching some kids show. "Toby, what are you doing?"

"Watching Sponge bob."

How was she going to let him go to sleep tonight? She knew that Jareth wasn't going to lie. He would make Toby's dreams horrible. She just didn't want Toby to know what she did to him. It would devastate her if Toby hated her. She had tried so hard to make it up to him. Sarah walked over to the couch and sat next to him. "Hey kiddo, how about I take you to the amusement park tomorrow?"

He looked up at her. "I don't think that would work. Mommy says I have school."

"Don't worry, I'll talk to her about it." He smiled at her and went back to watching the show. Sarah looked down at Toby and thought about how much she was going to miss him. He was her pride and joy now. A tear fell from her eye. She couldn't cry in front of him. She just couldn't. All of a sudden, a thought occurred to her. What did he do with the book? She jumped off the couch and started running upstairs.

"Sarah, what's wrong?"

She turned to look at Toby. "Nothing honey, I just forgot something upstairs. Don't worry, I'll be right back. Just watch your show." Toby nodded and she ran up to her room. She rummaged through all of her stuff. Throwing all of her old stuffed animals on the floor, going through the books on the shelf, and going through her vanity. "Where is it? Where is it?" She cried frantically. She just couldn't find it anywhere.

Sarah fell to the floor against her bed and put her head into her hands and let out a groan. "You would do this you bastard! You would." She paused and lifted her head. "But let me tell you something, No matter where that damned book is, it's not going to hurt me! You will not have me! You won't, do you hear me!" Sarah heard a ripple of fabric but thought it was from her bed.

"My dear god, the dead could hear you! They are begging you to shut up."

Sarah jumped to her feet. "What are you doing here? I thought you left for good."

He smirked. "I had. But then you decided to be so melodramatic." He lifted his hand and waved it in the air. The book appeared out of nowhere. "Is this what you are looking for my dear?"

"Yes. Now give it to me." She ran to him and tried to grab it. He popped out of the way and she ran into the hallway.

"My dear girl, that is no way to treat your future husband. Now is it?"

She rolled her eyes and walked back into her room where he was standing by her window. "You are not my future husband. Now give me the damned book."

"Shhh. I don't think you want young Tobias to hear us."

"His name is Toby! Stop calling him Tobias." She was getting really angry now.

He laughed at her. "My sweet Sarah, his birth certificate says Tobias, does it not?" She nodded. "Then there you go. Tobias it is."

"Around here, we call him Toby. Now give me the book!"

"I will give it back when I feel like it, and to whoever I feel like it."

Her mouth dropped open. "That's not fair!"

He rolled his eyes at her. "Have we not gotten over the whole, 'It's not fair' thing yet? Honestly, I thought since you were older, you would be over that. Seeing as how you're not, we will work on that also."

"We will not work on anything. I have a life Goblin King. It does not include you."

He smiled at her. "You would think that, but trust me, it does." He showed her the book. "I will give this back in due time. Until then, enjoy this night with young Tobias. It might very well be your last." He disappeared while laughing.

"That bastard thinks he has it all figured out. Well, just so you know Goblin King, you don't." She turned around and went to spend the rest of the night with Toby.