Well, I hope you all enjoyed that last chapter. Now here is the last one. I know that you would like it to be longer, but this is all I can give you. I have to get back to working on Persephone. I have to finish it before I can start on Twitter Me This. Ok, it is a working title, but you should get the idea from the idea on my profile. Also are you guys following me on Twitter? I do update tweet about me, but I also tweet about the stories so if you follow you can know what's going on.

Any who, thanks for the reviews. Of course we all know whom the owl is don't we.

Chapter 3

Sarah smiled as Toby and the others became even more drawn into the movie. It did sort of help that as she started the movie a storm had started. She knew it was safe for Toby. He had seen it last year when he had stayed with her. Sarah glanced at the screen. Who didn't love the 1932 "The Mummy"? Sarah loved the old horror movies. They were safe for kids of Toby's age to watch, but they had so many different meanings behind them. It was getting near the end. Sarah gently moved a goblin, who had fallen asleep, off of her, and went into the front entry. She glanced at the clock on the wall. Soon she would have to get Toby up to bed and send the Labyrinth creatures home.

Sarah sighed. The night was almost over. As soon as his parents got back, she would have to go home. Well it wasn't really home. It was just where she lived. She hadn't felt like she was home for seven years. Even since that night, but she wasn't going to dwell on it. Sarah walked into the kitchen. The candles had already been blown out, she had done that before she had left to go watch the movie. So as she entered the kitchen, Sarah reached her hand towards the light switch. She flicked into the on position, but nothing happened. She knew the power wasn't out as she could still hear the movie. Could the breaker have gone off?

A bolt of lightening filled the room. Sarah thought she saw something near the window. She shook her head. She grabbed a candle near the door and lit it. She walked to the table and placed the candle beside the Jack o lantern. She then began to gather her things. She would have to take the bags of trash and the jack o lantern out to her car before Toby's parents got home. So she grabbed hold of the trash bags and headed out to the back door. She flipped the light switch and the outside light came one. Then she blew out the candle. Quickly she made the way to her car and threw the bags in the back seat. As Sarah reentered the kitchen, she thought she heard a sound coming from the window. She shook her head and head back to the living room.

She smiled at the sight before her. Almost everyone was asleep. The movie was over. She walked to the VCR and stopped the movie. She hit eject and placed the movie back into the case and as she turned the light on, Sarah tossed it into her bag. She then began to wake everyone up, saving Toby for last. Toby and her waved good-bye as the creatures all went home.

Toby went upstairs to his room. Sarah finished cleaning up as he changed into his pjs. Sarah took one more look around to be sure that she had everything. Then she made another trip to the car. The last thing she would take to her car was the jack o lantern.

Sarah made her way upstairs. Toby was sitting on the window seat looking out at the old tree.

"Toby, what is it?"

Toby turned to look at her. "There's a white barn owl in the tree. He's watching me."

Sarah walked over and stood behind him. "I don't see anything."

"But he was there."

"Come on you need to get to sleep. You don't want me to get in trouble with your mom, do you?"

Toby reluctantly went back to his bed. Sarah tucked him in. "Do you need a story or you fine?"

"A story please, Sarah. Mom or Dad won't tell me any."

"Oh, all right. What do you want me to tell you?"

"The story about the girl in the Labyrinth."

"Again. I tell it to you every year."

"But it's my favorite. I tried to ask Hoggle if it was real, but he wouldn't answer me."

Sarah nodded. Of course he wouldn't tell him. "Toby, why don't I tell you a new story?"

Toby crossed his arms over his chest. "Please, Sarah."

Sarah sighed. "Oh, all right. Once upon a time…."

Sarah smiled as she gently closed the bedroom door to a sleeping Toby. She quietly made her way down stairs. She was about to enter the kitchen when she stood in the doorway. The Jack o lantern was not on the table. It was on the counter. But how? She walked over to the counter. All the goblins had left, she had counted to be sure. Then who did it? Then she remembered the white barn owl.

"It can't be." She walked over to the window and looked out at the old tree. Just as Toby had said was a white barn owl. It wall watching her. Sarah looked at it and then slowly backed away. That was the same owl from seven years ago, the one that had transformed into the Goblin King. Sarah didn't know how to react. She knew he hadn't come before.

Slowly she walked towards the window. Sarah opened it and placed one of the two cupcakes on the windowsill. "It's yours if you want it."

She turned back and closed the case with the last cupcake. She then put the case inside the Jack o lantern. Sarah opened the back door and took her last bunch of stuff out to her car. She didn't even look to see if he was still in the tree, while she was outside. Quickly she got back in. She glanced at the window; the cupcake was still there.

She walked back to the front entry and made sure she had everything in her bag. Then she heard a crash come from the kitchen, with a lot of cursing. Slowly she made her way back to the kitchen. She looked around the corner.

There standing by the sink, was the Goblin King. He had apparently gotten caught on something. She couldn't see what it was. He was trying to get lose and not lose the hold on his cupcake. Slowly she came into the doorway.

"Need some help."

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Jareth stopped struggling to free himself from what ever had him and looked at the doorway. He almost gasped, but caught himself. After seven years, well he still couldn't believe that Sarah was standing in front of him.

"It would be appreciated."

She came over to him. Gods, did she smell wonderful. She found what held him and quickly got rid of it.

"There you're free now."

He straightened himself up. "Thank you."

"Well it seems finally you got your cupcake."

He looked at the tiny cupcake in his hand. "What do you mean?"

"I've left one for you every year, but you never came and got it?"

He looked from the cake to her. "Really?"

"You were always invited, but I don't think you knew."

He had been invited. Why hadn't anyone told him? Whom ever it was to tell was going to pay tomorrow.

"Of course that's what I get for telling it to a goblin. I don't think they remember."

A goblin of course. They barely remember anything. He glanced at the doorway. "Well I believe I should be leaving."

"Wait."

He turned back towards Sarah.

"I have a question."

"Yes." Please be about the one thing he wanted it to be.

"What exactly did you mean by "fear me, love me and I will be your slave?"

"What do you think it meant?"

"Jareth, just tell me. Do you love me?"

Well he could go another seven years or an eternity without her, or he could tell her everything. Now was the point of no return.

"Yes."

He noticed she blinked her eyes. "So you never wanted Toby?"

"No, I did it only because you asked me to."

"So the dream and the stuff at the end was to get me to what?"

"To choose me. I would have sent him back if you had chosen to stay."

"I was fifteen years old, Jareth. I barely knew what love was. Think about it I haven't had it in my life. My mother left and then my father married that horrible woman. So don't expect me to realize love."

Jareth hung his head. "Well, I thought if I gave you what you wanted then…"

"Then what? If you had talked to me instead of oh, sending the cleaners after me or having Hoggle give me a drugged peach, then I would know."

"You did. You yourself said, "and what no one knew what that the King of the Goblins had fallen in love with the girl."

"I thought I made it up."

Jareth sighed. "Well you didn't."

"So why didn't you come to my Halloween parties?"

"I told you, I thought I wasn't invited."

"But this year I gave the invite to Hoggle."

Jareth thought back to about to the beginning of the month with the dwarf had shown up. He had said her name and that was all. Now he knew the dwarf was only trying to tell him that Sarah wanted him to come.

"I'm sorry. I punished him for nothing. I made it a against the law to say your name in my presents."

"So that's why Hoggle didn't answer me when I asked him did you get it or not. But why would you do that?"

"Because I didn't want to be reminded of you everyday."

"I think you did that on your own. I think you were reminded of me even if you didn't want to be."

Gods, was she good. She knew things that he didn't want to admit.

"I better be going." He turned towards the window.

"NO, wait. Jareth, please could you make it where they won't get home for a may be another half hour."

"Yes, but why?"

"We need to talk."

"About what?"

"Jareth, you have made me wait seven years. So you can give me thirty minutes."

Made her wait. She had made him wait. "Very well." He flicked his wrested and a crystal appeared. He then allowed it to fall slowly to the ground. "You have half an hour."

"That's all I need at least for now."

Well, that's all. Since typed this is 5 pages long, I've decided to end it here. Since I've done that. There is another chapter. I'll try to get it up tomorrow. So I hope you enjoyed this chapter.

So review please.

Sorry, Sarah, I just had to update it. The next chapter will be worth it. I hope.