This chapter was delayed because of real life it happens to everyone now and then.
This chapter is short but it is not the end there will be one more chapter, a kind of epilogue.
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A very different sleeping beauty chap 4
"So Sarah, care to continue what we started?" The Goblin King practically purred.
Sarah quickly spun around at the sound of his voice.
"Wh- what?" Sara asked, instinctively backing away from the looming predatory presence of the goblin king.
"Sarah you if anyone should know how Fairy-tales like this end, we only have the 'happily ever after' left now. Jareth said smiling showing off his pointy teeth and making Sarah feel even less secure.
"Wait a second, that was not a part of my contract!" Sarah protested and realised she was backing closer and closer to the wall and decided to hold her ground so she wouldn't back herself in to a corner. - literally.
"Sarah the normal reward for saving a kingdom and a royalty is at least half the kingdom and a prince or princess to marry. As I don't have any princes or princesses and doubt the labyrinth would like to be split in two, I offer you to be my queen and rule beside me."
"But… but ..I didn't really do anything! I just followed Hoggle and Didymus thru the labyrinth and the castle." She protested.
"Of coarse it was easy, you already solved the labyrinth, what did you think? Hoggle told you when you entered did he not? 'Once you've gotten to the centre you don't get out again.' 'You can check out any time you want but you can never leave' my dear." The goblin king explained still smiling, and showed that the Eagles reached even the underground.
"What?! But I won! I got the baby back and returned home! Sarah half screamed.
"Yes but that was a different story dear. Besides you can't really believe I would let the champion of the labyrinth grow old and die, sooner or later you'd come back here Sara, one way or another, I'm happy it was sooner rather than later." He said it with such self-assured smugness that Sara felt like screaming and acting like an angry 6 year old.
"And what if I'm not ready for a happily ever after?"
"Come now Sara you know sequels never meet up to the expectations."
"Maybe it's not a sequel, maybe it's another part in a series." Jareth gave her a long look that Sarah met whit out blinking.
"What do you propose we do then?" he said whit a sigh.
"Why don't you send me back aboveground so I can pass college at least and then we'll take it from there?"
"You'd rather go to college than be queen of the goblins?"
"It's not like that, it just sounds so final and there are so many things I haven't done yet. I don't even know you, how am I supposed to marry you?"
"I suppose you have a point. But how are we going to get to know etch other when you are above studying and I am here ruling?"
"We do as everyone does, visit each other. You can leave this place without anyone wishing something away right?"
"Of course I can." Jareth said a bit put off.
"And I can come here thru the mirror." Sara continued ignoring his anger.
"You think this will work?"
"I think it is worth a try." Sara looked at him whit her best puppy eyes.
"Oh I was never able to deny you anything Sara. Fine I'll send you home and we will visit often, and when you graduate you will come and be my queen. Right?"
"Unless we find it impossible to live with etch other."
"Fine. Shall I send you home immediately?" Jareth obviously was not happy with the arrangement but he would do anything for Sarah.
"Just let me say good by to my friends first." Sara said and hurried out the door. Jareth watched her go whit a stony face. She had defied him again and turned his world around. Shaking his head he wondered why she couldn't for once do as she was expected.
Thru the window he saw the girl hug her friends' good-bye. Feeling a sudden sting of envy he looked away.
After changing clothes by crystal puff he started looking over the kingdom to see what had happened as he was sleeping, until Sarah returned.
"Ready to go?"
"Yeah, Good-bye Jareth, I'll see you around I guess." She looked at him shyly a second before she took a step forward and gave him a quick kiss. Jareth quickly masked his surprise and smiled at her.
"Good-bye Sara, until we meet next."
A crystal crashed at the floor right before her feet erupting in a cloud of glitter, when the glitter settled Sara was gone. The Goblin king stared at the spot she had been a moment ago with a smile still feeling her lips against his. She defied him and turned his world but he didn't really want her any other way.