OK, so this is definately (did I spell that right? prob. not) the best I've written. I was just so excited to get this chapter to you guys. I'm kind of upset that it wasn't THAT funny. But I promise next chapter will be filled with (hopefully) hilarious scenes. Some notes:
1) A friend asked if Sarah was skitzophrenic. No she isn't. Liz is simply a part of her brain that I named. She's part of the comic relief.
2) Disclaimer: OMGOBLINS( thats for you tichtich2) isnt it soooo surprising that I don't own Labyrinth? Well it's true. I don't own it.
"What-are-you-doing-here?" She ground out angrily, pushing Toby protectedly behind her.
"I've got something for you Sarah." Sarah's eyes narrowed as he took out a crystal and began rolling gracefully between his fingers.
"What's that?" Toby asked, nearing the crystal and looking into it. Jareth smirked. "It's a crystal little one. But, Sarah, if you look at it this way, it'll show you your dreams." He purred, enticing her with the crystal and how it moved over his leather gloves. Against her will, she leaned forward and looked in. Blood rushed to her face as she saw what was inside and she stepped back once more, trying to glare at Jareth. He chuckled.
"Do you want it?" He asked, his voice low in his throat. Sarah's breathing hitched as a little voice in her head screamed out: YES! OH LORD PLEASE YES!
Shut up voice!
HEY!, the voice said indignantly, I HAVE a name you know! It's Liz and I would appreciate that to "voice"!
SHUT UP LIZ!
I'm sorry Sarah but I'm afraid I can't do that. I am the sexual part of your brain and have been developing secretly since your teenage years and I cannot shut up when such a-
"SARAH!" Toby whined and stepped back up to where the two were standing, " I wanna seeee!"
"Not now Toby!" she growled and looked up to see Jareth looking amused.
"No Sarah! I wanna see Jareth!" he yelled and bound forward, settling next to Jareth. Wait a second, she thought. Why did Toby remember Jareth? Because it's impossible to not remember such a deviously handsome and-
Sarah clamped an imaginary hand over Liz' mouth and tried to continue glaring at Jareth. Sarah tried to push Liz' thoughts out of her head and focus on what was going on. Toby seemed so familiar with Jareth... and then it hit her!
"You've been visiting him?" she accused, growling deeply in her throat. Jareth looked up from Toby and smirked. The crystal ball was still in his hands and Liz seemed to have somehow escaped from the bindings Sarah had put her in.
OOOOH! CRYSSTAL! she cooed, trying to get Sarah to look into it again.
STOP IT! Sarah screamed, fighting hard to get control over Liz.
NO GOD DAMN IT I WILL NOT STOP IT! Liz screamed. Jareth noticed Sarah eyes flicking from his face to the crystal ball he still held in his hand. He smiled a wolfish smile and began to stalk forward, a predator cornering his prey.
"To answer your question Sarah, no, I have not been visiting Toby. But you don't think I would really leave him all alone with you do you?" Sarah glared, walking backwards slowly as he advanced. Her mind went into superdrive.
Oh shit. Oh shit. STOP DROP AND ROLL! That was the protective side of her brain.
Oh shit. Oh shit. RUN AWAY! There was the reasonable side of her brain.
Oh shit. Oh shit. JUMP ME NOW! And there was Liz.
Sarah was panicking as she saw him smiling at her, a mixture of emotions swirling through her. "Oh really? So what did you decide to do?" She ground out, grateful that her voice was not breathy but angry that she couldn't sound more threatening.
" Well, I had to have SOMEBODY come and check in on him didn't I, precious thing?" He purred, chuckling as she hit the wall behind her.
"So, the goblins came once in a while to see how he was doing. But Sarah, you can't have expected me to just leave him alone now could you? Let's consider how well you've done at taking care of things before shall we?" He placed one hand at each side of Sarah's head and smirked. " When you were five, you were given a pet goldfish for your birthday. Two days later, it was dead." He leaned in closer and Sarah gasped, Liz rooting for her deep in her mind.
"When you were ten, you had to take care of the class hamster. Hammy, as you children so originally named him, was secretly replaced with a look a like after the original died." Sarah frowned at the memory. Really, it wasn't HER fault that it had died.
"And then in college, you got a babysitting job with one of your roomates friends. The child barely escaped a severe injury and the house was destroyed. Amazingly, those were all extremely easy things to take care of. I don't even want to think how you would handle something as complicated as a child. I don't think it would be wise to not check up on him, would it, pet?" He asked huskily, leaning in slowly, his nose touching hers. His eyes bored into hers, dark and filled with passion. Sarah tensed as she anticipated his kiss, as his lips moved closer and closer, electricity crackling between them. He was so close, she could smell him. She inhaled the scent of peaches and musk and shuddered, a tremor running through her body. Almost there, almost-
"RAPPPEEE!" yelled Toby and smashed into Jareth, a whirling blonde fireball. Jareth cursed and stepped back glaring down at toby. "R-A-P-E, get your hands away from her! RAAAAPIIISSTTTT!" Toby screamed at the top of his lungs, his faced scrunched with concentration as he focused on hitting Jareth any way possible.
"STOP DROP AND ROLLL!!!!! RAPPPISTTT!" he screamed once again, trying to inflict pain on Jareth but not succeeding. Jareth looked down on him with an irratated and slightly amused smile on his face.
"AGGGGHHHHH!!!" Toby let out a battle cry and took both his fist up and then punched them forward. Jareth caught them.
"Nice work Toby." Sarah piped up from the wall, her eyes sprinkling in amusement.
"MEANIE PETUNIA!" Toby yelled and kicked Jareth. Right in his, ahem, sensitive spot. Jareth fell down to the ground, howling with pain and Sarah smiled.
"Sarah!" he screeched holding out a hand desperately while the other clutched the wounded area. "Uh uh uh, precious thing." she said, imitating his british accent. "You think my job is so easy right? Well, then how about a little test?" She smiled a smile very similar to his and crouched down to where he was glaring at her.
" You and Toby. Babysitting. Every day for a whole month." Jareth's eyes widened and he shook his head. "Oh no? Well then I guess the Goblin King is too much of a coward. Amazing how you pretend to be so evil and you can't even accept a little offer." she leaned forward, her breath tickling his face, the pain gone now. He shivered.
Sarah was not giving up. She wanted this too much now. She needed a night off for her acting classes. Lord knows, she didn't enjoy herself anymore. So she did something she would never ever do under different circumstances.
"Scared?" she whispered in his ear, smirking as his pupils widened and he growled.
"Never." Sarah smiled, triumph coursing through her veins. "Good. Be here tomorrow night, 6 PM sharp." ______________________________________________________________________________________
Toby scrunched up his face in displeasure as Sarah lectured him on saying things that he didn't know the meaning to.
"Toby, do not ever ever repeat words told to you by Sebastian again." she stated, making a mental note to keep Toby away from Sebastian. Seriously though, what nine year old's mother would let her kid watch a TV show that mentions rape? Sarah shook her head in disbelief.
"Toby, you know that rape is a bad thing right?" she asked him, concern written on her face.
"Well, duh!" he said, rolling his eyes. "Sebastian said it was when someone touches someone inapro-inapro-" his shoulders slumped when he couldn't say the word.
"Innapropriately?" Sarah asked.
"Yeah that and they are scared or don't like it. And Sarah you seemed like you really didn't like Jareth and so I thought you would be mad if he touched you inapopately." He explained matter a factly, mispronounching the word once more.
Stupid baby brothers! huffed Liz.
Shut up. Sarah said irritably.
"Well Toby, I'm really glad you were concerned for my safety-"
NOT! yelled Liz. "but next time ask me what words mean before you throw them around and accuse people of being rapists." Liz said something very innapropriate at that moment (that the author is too dignified to put on here) and Sarah blushed.
Toby sighed. "OK Sarah." he perked up once more. "So is Jareth coming over?" he asked, his voice a mixture of excitement and anger.
"Yes he is. Are you excited?" she asked, confused at the tone in his voice. Why would Toby be excited when he had desperately tried to maim Jareth yesterday?
"Kinda. The goblins say a lot of good things about him. Sarah, I'm sorry but I thought you would be really mad and hurt if he kissed you because I think you think he's really bad."
"The almost kiss wasn't bad." she muttered. Oh shoot. Had she just said that aloud? Toby looked up, confused... and then the doorbell rang. Sarah let out a breath of relief and went to answer it. As she opened the door Liz screeched in her head.
DAMN HE LOOKS SEEXXXY! Sarah rolled her eyes and let him in.
"Jareth." She nodded to him and then turned to Toby. "Ok kiddo. You know the drill... call 911 if anything happens, don't mess with the oven, call for pizza and don't disturb the neighbors. You've got my numbers if anything major happens." She kissed the top of his head and Toby nodded.
"And you," she turned around and faced Jareth. "You do anything to hurt him, I will hurt you. I swear Jareth if you do ANYTHING, there will be consequences." she hissed and took her purse off the hook on the wall.
"Bye." An akward silence ensued, as Toby looked at Jareth and Jareth looked back. "So...." Jareth trailed off.
"Why are your pants so tight?" Toby asked curiously. Jareth rolled his eyes. Tonight was going to be a long night.
OK, in case that was a bit confusing for you guys I'll clarify. Jareth sent goblins to check up on Toby and on these occurences the goblins would brag about how AMMMAZZING Jareth was. So Toby was very curious to meet him and holds him sort of like a celebrity until Jareth corners Sarah. I'm sorry about this chapter not being the best it could be but I hope you enjoyed! :) REVIEW PLEASE!