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Chapter2: Queen of the Goblins and Labyrinth
Sarah hadn't heard the window open, hadn't felt his footsteps, but something told her that he was there before she heard his voice. She didn't stop crying not caring if he saw, but when she heard his voice, the arrogance and smugness of it made her blood boil. She stood her eyes flashing. She didn't bother with her tears, there was no point he had already seen them. Her voice held both anger and sadness when she spoke.
" What do you want, Goblin King?" Her anger rose to a higher level as she saw his smug smirk.
" Sarah, is that how you speak to a friend?" He saw her temper rising, and though he knew it wouldn't do him any good he couldn't help himself.
" You and I are not friends!" She said her voice quiet but angry.
" Oh, Sarah, you wound me." He said, his voice mock pain. " After everything we've been through."
" What we? I don't remember you there helping me get away from the cleaners, if I remember correctly YOU were the one to set them after me." 'What the hell does he want?' Sarah asked herself.
" Come now Sarah, did they or anything for that matter ever cause you harm?" He asked trying to prove a point. He saw her eye soften a fraction.
" No, but you scared the ever loving SHIT out of me." She said trying to keep her anger up.
" Tsk Tsk Sarah, a lady of your stature shouldn't use such language." Jareth smiled at her eye roll.
" Well thank you very much Goblin King but I have all the mothers I need or want." 'Why won't he just go away and leave me be?' She thought. She didn't see the curiosity flash in his eyes.
" 'Mothers' what is that supposed to mean little Sarah?" He asked sitting at the window. Her eyes rolled again with the 'little Sarah' remark.
" Why do you want to know?" She asked her suspicion rising.
" I am Fae, Sarah. We are curious by nature." He smirked and continued. " Please what do you mean?" Sarah looked at him mouth gaping. 'Did he just say please?' Going over it in her mind, he had. She decided to tell him.
" I technically have two mothers. MY mother is Linda Williams. She gave birth to me and left when I was five. She wanted to be a big actress and told me that my father and I were holding her back. Karen Williams is my step mother, she and I share no blood but by law she is my mother. In truth I would say that neither of them is very motherly to me, and never will be." Sarah looked at Jareth 'Was that sympathy?' It flashed in his eyes so quickly that she wasn't sure.
" What do you mean? Your mothers do not love you?" Jareth had dealt with enough wished away children to know it possible, but he never really could understand it. A mother and child share a bond that no one and nothing should ever compare too, at least that is what he was taught.
" No, I would suppose they don't. Karen doesn't consider me her child, she would never come out and say it, not unless I really ticked her off. But I see the way she looks at Toby, hear the way she talks about him, she doesn't love me, I wouldn't even go as far as to say she liked me." Her voice holding a sadness that Jareth never wanted to hear from her.
" And what of your birth mother? Linda, she does not care for you?" He was hoping deep inside that she would tell him that they spent hours talking, that she was never as happy as when she was with her mother. But the look in Sarah's eyes told him that it wasn't so.
Sarah sat on her bed and considered the question for a moment. 'Why should you tell him anything about you?' She thought. 'He'll probably just use it against you later.' But the voice in her head that seemed to always be in his favor spoke up 'Why not tell him? He seems to be genuinely interested. What harm could it cause?' Sarah looked at him it was right he did look as though he really wanted to know. 'All right' She said to herself. 'Here goes nothing.' " Prepare yourself for a long story Goblin King." She looked at him hoping that he would wave his hand and tell her to forget about it. No such luck.
" You have my undivided attention, Sarah." His voice holding no smug arrogance, just a softness that relaxed Sarah and gave her the strength to tell her story.
" Like I said before I was five when my mother left. She and I had just come home from my favorite park, when she got a call from a producer friend. I couldn't hear what he was saying but I could tell that whatever it was she liked the sound of it. She told him that she would meet him at 6 the next night and hung up the phone. She picked me up and took me up to her bedroom and sat me on her bed.
' Sarah, Mommy's leaving.' I didn't understand. So I asked if I could go with her. She shook her head as she went to her closet to get her suitcase. 'Mommy is leaving and she isn't going to be coming back.' She told me. That I understood. I started to cry.
' Why Mommy? Was I bad?' I asked thinking that I was the reason she was leaving, and I wasn't really wrong.
' Sarah stop that crying. Mommy gave up a lot when she married Daddy and had you, I gave up my dreams of being a famous actress, but now I can get my dreams back.' She started to pack her suitcase. I didn't stop crying like she told me, as a matter of fact I started to cry harder." Sarah looked at Jareth wondering what he was thinking. When he didn't say anything, she continued.
' Mommy please don't leave I can be better, I'll do anything you want just don't leave me.' I said begging her to stay. She turned to face me her face and eyes filled with anger.
' Sarah you are a spoiled, selfish, stupid, child if you think I would give up my dreams AGAIN for you. You weren't really worth it the first time.'" Jareth watched in silence as tears started to fill her eyes. He honestly couldn't believe that anyone could say something that horrible to a child, who had done nothing but loved them. He had thought that she would stop but like the determined child that she was she went on.
" I didn't care what she said. I just wanted her to stay. ' Mommy please, I can be better, I won't be so stupid, I'll do anything you want.'" Sarah didn't bother wiping the tears that were now falling freely. " She started to rant about how she could ever have thought that I would be a good idea, she wondered why she ever bothered having me. And as if I wasn't in the room she said that I was the biggest mistake of her life that I should never have been born, that she never really wanted me and finally she would be free. I didn't hear the rest of what she said, I ran out of the room, down the stairs, to the front door, past my father who had just come home and out of the house." Sarah stood and started to pace. " I ran back to my favorite park, I ran into the woods and hid there wondering what was wrong with me that she didn't love me. As I sat in the woods alone I started to think she was right, I was worthless, I was a mistake, I shouldn't have been born, everyone would be better off without me. So I stood and started to walk further into the woods, not knowing where I was going or caring. Eventually I came to a clearing where a sat and cried myself to sleep. When I woke up, I saw a white owl staring at me from a near by tree. Something told me that I should have been scared, that I should run, but I wasn't and didn't, I found him comforting. " Jareth didn't have to hear this part, he remembered it, but still he payed attention. " Looking around the clearing I found 'The Labyrinth' I was too young to read it, but I thought that it was pretty, and decided to keep it. For a little while and sat just looking at the owl that seemed to be watching over me, then having nothing better to do I started to do one of my plays for it.
" The play didn't last long, for two reasons. One I was starting to get hungry and second it was starting to get very cold. I didn't know what to do, I didn't want to go home and I didn't want to stay in the cold. I looked to the owl and asked him what he thought I should do. He came down and landed on my shoulder and started to nuzzle my neck, tickling and comforting me, and with him on my shoulder I decided to walk back home." Sarah looked at Jareth her tears had stopped and the fire was back in her eyes. " When I go home and the owl nuzzled my neck once more before leaving, I would see him again later when I would go to the park. I walked into my house and knew that my mother was gone." Sarah looked at him she wanted to know what he was thinking and knowing that he wouldn't say anything unless she asked she risked it. " Well Goblin King, what do you think of my mother?" She asked her voice cold and sad.
Jareth stood his body relaxed and calm. He knelt before her and took one of her hands in his. Sarah told herself to pull away, willed her hand to listen to her, but it didn't. Jareth stroked her hand lightly, not a loving caress but a comforting one. " Sarah," He started his voice calm and soothing. " I am sorry that you had to live through something like that. No child should ever have a mother like that." Sarah not knowing what else to do nodded her head and gave him a sad smile. But soon logical thought came back to her.
" Goblin King . . . " He interrupted her.
" Jareth please." He said his voice still calm.
" All right, Jareth, why are you being so nice?" He stood and pulled her with him, letting go of her hand he took a few steps away from her.
" Sarah, you are the only one to ever defeat my Labyrinth. I originally planed on just leaving you alone and forgetting your thirteen hours in my land, but now I believe I have changed my mind." His voice was no longer calm and soothing, but sly. 'Oh God,' Sarah thought. 'I knew it wouldn't last.'
" What do you want Jareth?" Her voice tired and dismissive.
" I wish to get to know you Sarah. Hearing about your mother makes me curious about you." Sarah looked at him as though he were nuts, eye brows raised and mouth open.
" Why would you want to know anything about me?" Sarah asked.
" Because I find you interesting, and I'm curious to know how you a mere girl could defeat me." It sounded logical and in truth she would be lying if she said she didn't want to know about him.
" I have a few things that I would like to talk about before I agree." Curious yes, stupid no. Sarah wasn't about to do anything without laying down some ground rules. Jareth had seen this coming his Sarah was a lot of things but not foolish.
" Very well Sarah. What would you like to discuss?" He asked sounding as though he were bored with the conversation.
" First, if your going to getting to know me, I want to get to know you. You don't have to answer my questions if you don't want to, but then the same would have to go with me. Agreed?" She asked her voice calm and neutral.
" Agreed." He said almost immediately. " Is there anything else?" His voice still bored.
" Well yeah, you can't ever let my parent hear or see you." She said looking at him curiously. She saw the smirk coming a mile away.
" Sarah see or hear me?" He looked at her 'See not foolish.' He thought to himself.
" Yeah, just because you're invisible doesn't mean that you couldn't whisper sweet nothings in their ears." She said raising an eyebrow of her own. " No, hearing or seeing you. I don't even want to think of what my father would do." She said her face showing nothing of what she was thinking. 'I'm honestly not sure what he would do, Karen would want me thrown out and he might agree.' She gave a sad sigh looked at Jareth as he spoke.
" Sweet nothings?" He looked at her a devilish gleam in his eyes. Sarah raised her eyebrow and started to tap her foot. Two things that anyone else would be dropped in the bog for, but Sarah was special. " Very well, clever Sarah. They will be wonderfully oblivious to my existence." She gave him a genuine smile and he couldn't help but return it.
" Now the only thing that we have to figure out is where and when to meet, but I suppose that we could just make that up as we go. Do you agree Jareth?" There it was again his name. Something about the way she said it made him want to pleasure her right here and now " All good things to those who wait." A voice in his head said. 'All right I can wait,' He looked Sarah up and down. 'She's worth waiting for.'
" Is there anything else?" He asked voice still bored.
" Well I guess not." She said looking a little worried. Now came his terms. 'I hope I'm doing the right thing.'She thought to herself.
" I will agree to your terms if you agree to mine." He watched as she rolled her eyes. She of course had seen this coming. " First," He said creating a crystal and throwing at her. She didn't even flinch when she saw it leave his hand. 'Interesting.' Jareth thought. The crystal disappeared just before it hit her and a necklace appeared.
Looking down Sarah could see an owl on it with one brown eye and one blue, just like Jareth. Underneath the owl was the Labyrinth in all its glory. It was a simple silver pendent held on a simple leather cord that Sarah was sure would never break. There was something else about the necklace it was pulsing, sending a warmth through her body, Sarah looked at him, her eyes angry and scared.
" What the hell is this?" She asked trying to take it off with no luck.
" It's a necklace. I would have thought that obvious." He said walking over to her. 'Why is she so upset? And is that fear in her eyes? Where the bloody hell did that come from?'
" I know what it is, I want to know why its pulsing?" She looked at him eyes starting to tear up with fear.
" Pulsing? You must be mistaken." He looked at her with blank eyes. " The only reason that would pulse is if . . . " He didn't finish his thought aloud. 'If its pulsing then that would mean.' He moved closer and looked at the pendent. It wasn't the one that he had meant to put on her. This pendent was for the Queen of the Labyrinth and Goblins. 'Oh course how could I be so stupid.' " You needn't worry about it Sarah. The necklace is merely for your protection." She looked at him, and her eyes narrowed. " I may be many things, dear Sarah but I would never want any harm to come to you." Sarah rolled her eyes. She wasn't going to say anything about that last comment.
" And how pray tell is this supposed to do that?" She asked holding the pendent up.
" It is magic that you feel pulsing. It will keep you safe." He looked at her with eyes that said he wasn't going to tell her any more. Sarah nodded. Not really in the mood for a fight. It was way past midnight and she had school in the morning. All she wanted to do was curl up in bed with . . . "
" SHIT!!" She cursed, moving past Jareth who was utterly confused, to her bed.
" Pardon?" He said with an amused look on his face.
" My dog Merlin. I left him outside I have to go get him." She said slipping her shoes on and grabbing a jacket from the hook on her door. " I'll be right back." She said turning to find Jareth right behind her.
" Actually I believe that I should take my leave of you, My Sarah." He took her right hand and left a kiss on it and disappeared back to the underground, leaving a very confused Sarah standing with her mouth open.
" How could I have not remembered the prophecy?" He asked himself, alone in his bed chambers. " I'm going to have to keep a close eye on Sarah until I know for sure." He looked around the room. He really had wished to spend a little more time with her. She was truly an amazing creature. He changed for bed and lay to dream of his Sarah, and the day that she would rule the underground by his side.
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