Chapter 9.

Sarah was getting ahead of herself. Amanda and Keith hadn't been in her life for much longer than Sandra. She didn't what she would do if Amanda or Keith walked in. After what they did, she couldn't bear to see them. Yes, Amanda was her very best friend at one time, but best friends don't do what she did to her. Then there was Keith. Keith, her first boyfriend. Of course they hadn't been together for very long, but long enough that it hurt when Amanda and him hooked up at a party. When she walked in and saw them, it looked they were in a daze, and they tried to deny that they knew what they were doing. She didn't care. She saw it with her own eyes.

Tears started pooling in her eyes so shook the memory away and walked over to Darin and took his order, then put it in. After that, she walked over to Sandra at the bar and asked her what was up.

"Nothing. Just having a rough day."

Sarah placed her elbow on the bar and rested her head on her hand. "Why?"

Sandra groaned. "Just lonely. I mean, I know I have Jay, but he just doesn't seem so interested." Sandra sounded so sad, like she about to cry. "In fact, he keeps asking about you." Sandra looked up at Sarah and she could see resentment in Sandra's eyes. "Nothing for nothing Sarah, I know we're best friends, but this sucks. He should like me. Not you. You have Darin, and Eric."

How does she know this? Sarah thought to herself. "What do you mean?"

"I can tell by the way Eric's looking at you, and Darin. I mean, it's common sense. If you can't see it, then you're really dumber than I thought you were."

Why the hell is she being this way? "Okay, how about you have a drink? It's on me."

Sandra stood up. "You know what Sarah? I don't want your sympathy, and at the moment, I don't want your friendship!" Sarah was sincerely hurt by Sandra's words. Sandra turned to walk away, but stopped in her tracks and turned back towards Sarah. "Oh and Sarah?"

Sarah looked up at her and was hoping to hear her apologize. "Yea?" She said hopefully.

"I wish the goblins would come and take you away right now!"

She said it so fast that Sarah didn't even have a chance to stop her. All of a sudden Sarah's breathing slowed. Everything else happened in slow motion. Everyone in the restaurant stopped moving besides Sarah and Sandra. Sandra looked around confused. "What did I just do?" She looked into Sarah's eyes. "I don't know why I said that."

Sarah let one of the earlier tears that she had kept in, fall out of her eye and off of her cheek. "One of the worst things imaginable you could have ever done to me." She walked over to Sandra and just before she made it to her Jareth grabbed Sarah by the wrist. "How could you say those awful words?" She screamed at her.

Jareth stepped in front of Sarah. "I made her. Well, not technically. I actually just jumped into a dream of hers and mentioned to her casually that if she were mad enough at you, she could say those words and be done with you." He waved his hand dismivelly.

Sarah went to slap Jareth, but he grabbed her other wrist. "Oh no, there is no need for violence my pet."

"Jareth, I can't go with you! I have to stay with my family. I have to spend as much time with them as I can."

There she goes again, begging. She wasn't the type to beg. Maybe she could get him to forget about this whole thing?

"What's said is said." He smiled at her. "You, more than anyone should know this."

"I realize that, and you also said you wanted to play a game! What kind of game is it, if you just get me handed to you?" She asked nervously. "I mean, seriously Jareth, this doesn't suit you. You know this and I know this!"

Jareth looked at Sandra then at Sarah and laughed. "I'm sorry precious, but what's said is said. That's all there is to it." He looked back at Sandra. "Say goodbye to your friend now. Although she won't remember this in the morning."

Sarah started crying. "Sandra, I- I'll miss you." Then she turned to Jareth. "What about my parents? What about Toby? I haven't even gotten to see them today! Or say I love them or anything!"

Jareth leaned down and kissed her forhead. "They'll forget all about you by tomorrow anyways. So don't worry about it."

Sarah stopped the tears at once. She stomped her foot. "I will worry about it! That's my family! You may not have family, but I do and I love them deeply! I know you don't have a heart, but I do!" She screamed at the top of her lungs.

Jareth who looked calm during her explosion lost his composure. "Enough! I will not have you talk to your King in such a manner!"

She spit at his feet. "You are not my king."

Jareth turned towards Sandra, "You have two choices. 1. You can let her go and never see her again or 2. You can go through my Labyrinth to try to win her back." He held a finger up to Sandra before she could speak. "But I will warn you, my Labyrinth is not easy to navigate and it is not a friendly place. Only one person has beaten it, and it was only because I allowed her to. I wanted her to win. I wanted her to become my bride." Sarah was completely shocked. She thought she had won because of her own accord. "I wanted her to be my queen. Everyone else who has ever been through my Labyrinth has perished. And I don't want to let her go, so I shall assure you, you will have no luck in my Labyrinth."

Sandra's eyes popped opened. "Yes, you heard that right my dear Sandra. Perished. Now, what is your choice? I need to know within the next thirty seconds."

Sandra looked at Sarah. "Sarah, I'm so sorry, but I don't want to die." Sandra looked back at Jareth, "I choose number 1. I hate to let her go, but I don't want to die."

Jareth gave a smile that showed his crooked teeth. "Excellent."

"No! No, this can't be happening! Jareth, please? Please! Don't do this to me! If you really love me as you say you do, you won't do this to me!"

Jareth looked at Sandra, "Say goodbye Sandra." He drawled. "You won't remember a Sarah Williams by the time you wake up in the morning." Sarah felt the tears falling. She had lost. How could she fight this? How could she get away? "Sarah, are you ready?"

"No! Never. I'll never be ready for you to take me away! EVER!" And with that, he wrapped his arms around her and they were gone with a puff of glitter.

When she woke up, she was in a huge bed in the biggest bedroom she had ever been in. She had to blink a couple of time because the sun was so bright. She walked over to the window and realized there was no escaping from the window. It was to high, and and she also realized that she really was in the Underground again. "Beautiful view isn't it?"

She jumped and turned around. "Usually I would say yes, but under these circumstances, I'm going to say no." She walked back over to the bed and sat down on it. "Why can't you just let me go home? Where I belong?"

"You are home. You belong here. You are my equal." He walked over to the bed and sat down on it, Sarah stood up and walked over to the window again. "Can't stand to be near me?"

"I can't stand to be anywhere near you! I hate you!" You don't hate him. You just hate what he's done. Admit it! Her subconsience screamed at her.

"Come now Sarah, things will change. You will see." He gave her a sly smile.

She spit on the floor near his feet. "Nothing will ever change! Why can't you see you that?"

Jareth growled. "You will not act like this to your king!"

"As I said before you are not my king! You will never be my king!"

"I grow tired of you acting like a child. You will accept the fact that you are here forever. Whether you like it or not."

Jareth walked over to Sarah and she backed into the corner. "Jareth, I want to go home! Just let me go. This isn't funny anymore. I don't even get a chance to get rescued. The person who wished me away was scared away because of you!"

Jareth pushed up against Sarah and she felt herself shiver, both because of the brick wall behind her and because of the contact between them. "That was all her own decision. She didn't have to make that decision you know. She could have risked my Labyrinth. She could have chose to come to your rescue. That's what a real friend would have done. She obviously was not a true friend my dear."

Sarah pushed Jareth with all her might. He moved maybe two inches she thought and then he was back again. "Would you like to keep this up? I have work to do, but we could go like this all day."

"I want to go home! I want to see Toby!"

A small smirk played at the side of his lips. "You want to see young Tobias huh?" Sarah nodded. Jareth waved his hand and a crystal formed. "Take a look. Here he is. He's packing. For his move to Texas."

"I haven't been out that long!" She looked at him with wide eyes.

"No, but time does move here a bit differently than it does where you're from. While you were sleeping, a whole two weeks went by." He caressed her face. "And you did sleep for four days my dear. That journey here did so knock you out. I was actually kind of worried about you."

Sarah stared at Toby. She couldn't believe he was moving already. Her heart ached. She had never hurt this bad. She grabbed the Crystal ball and threw it.

"Had enough of that of my pet." He said as he stroked her hair.

"I hate you! I hate you! Why can't you understand that I hate you?" She screamed at him.

He growled even louder than last time. "I've had enough of your attitude. It's time for you to go."

Sarah's eyes lit up. "Go? Go where? Home?" She almost kissed him. She wasn't sure if this was a dream or a joke. "You're sending me home? Oh thank you!"

He laughed a maniacle laugh. "Oh no my dear. You'll see." With a snap of his finger she was gone from the bedroom and in another room.

There was a cot and a window with bars on it. She tried the door, but it was locked. "Jareth!" She looked out the window and saw that she was in the tower. "How did I end up in this mess?" She walked over to the cot and cried herself to sleep.

My computer is STILL being fixed. Hopefully I'll be able to get it fixed and be able to write more soon, I noticed that I messed up a bit in this chapter so I went and fixed it up. I'm going to write another chapter right now. Hopefully you all like it!

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