An Uninvited Guest...

Sarah's Diary - Keep Out!

Mon 07/01/1991

Okay so here's the gist: The Goblin King is back! He is as arrogant as ever and still has the same spiky hairdo and ruffled clothes which are way past their sell-by-date. Oh and get this…he wants me to go back to the Labyrinth!!! I can't believe it! Does he really think that I will happily go back to that place just so he can become King again. Just so he can steal other babies and seduce tempt other girls into staying with him. Well there's no way! Who does he think he is. I mean he has never come visit me in five years and then suddenly he turns up and asks for a favour…I do actually remember him saying that it will benefit me as well but I just don't see how. His idea of it benefiting me would probably be turning me into a Goblin Queen or something and obviously I do not want that! I couldn't be queen anyway, especially not to a bunch of disgusting goblins. So that man can think again!

Sarah slammed her pen down on her bedroom desk and placed her head down on it as if she was going to sleep. She had made sure that the window was closed so Jareth couldn't get in. The strange thing was that she did not lock it. It was like she did not want him to come but she wouldn't be terribly upset if he did. For a while she thought to herself; thought about the Labyrinth, thought about him, thought about this mixed up messed up world she was living in. So many things were racing through her mind. For some reason the whole Labyrinth situation was much more stressful than five yeas ago, and she wasn't even in the Labyrinth!

For a moment she lay there in silence. Then the peace was interrupted by Toby's laughter.

'Odd' she thought. 'Toby should have been asleep hours ago. What could possibly be funny?"

Sarah stood up and walked over to her wall before banging on it with her fist.

"Go back to sleep Toby" she shouted.

He didn't listen. The little boy giggled away like there was some kind of hilarious clown in his room. No matter how many times Sarah shouted and thumped the wall he would not stop. After a while Sarah had given up.

"Fine!" she shouted. "But you'll be in big trouble when dad finds out.! You'll see!"

Sarah rolled her eyes, shrugged her shoulders and sat back at her desk. It was only when she heard two people laughing in Toby's bedroom that made her start to worry. She knew it wasn't Toby laughing anymore because the laugh was high-pitched and screechy,. Sarah had heard this laugh before. Five years ago. Her heart raced inside of her until she could hear her heartbeat more than the laughter. She closed her eyes and wished that the laughing would stop but in her head she knew that it was real…There was a goblin in Toby's bedroom!…

…That's right a goblin!

Sarah steadily walked up to her door and opened it so that it creaked slightly. Toby's bedroom was only footsteps away but it seemed like it was taking her forever to get there. As she got closer the laughter got louder. The butterflies in her stomach began to appear. She knew this feeling. It was the same feeling that she had five years ago when Toby was first taken from her. Only this time she knew what was coming.

With one sharp push of his door it flew open. Even though Sarah was prepared for what she would see, she still jumped out of her skin at the sight of the two ugly brown goblins that were picking Toby up and swinging him around as Toby screamed.

"Get off of him!" she yelled as she ran towards them and pulled them away from Toby. She hurled both of the goblins so hard that they went flying right across to the other side of the room.

"Sarah what you doing!!!" Toby screamed as he tug his sister's t-shirt. "Me wanna play with goblins!"

"What do you mean you want to play with them, they were practically attacking you!"

"No no, they good goblins. We were playing!" said Toby.

Toby ran back up to the goblins and jumped towards them as they began to pick him up again and throw him about. Sarah stood by Toby's closet and watched in astonishment as her little brother laughed alone with the disgusting creatures. They were being pretty harsh with him but Toby didn't seemed to care.

"Hey hey take it easy with him alright. He's just a little boy."

The goblins ignored her and carried on chucking him about.

"I said stop it!" she shouted.

Still they paid no attention. Sarah began to get impatient.

"If you don't stop it right now, I swear you will never go back to the Labyrinth and you will never see that obnoxious creep of a master of yours ever again!" she squealed.

"Oh what a pity" said a voice from behind her. "And I thought we were getting on rather well."

Sarah screwed up her face and turned around sharply to give the Goblin King the most evillest look she had ever given him before. This time he wore a much more casual black ensemble which showed of part of his smooth chest. If Sarah wasn't so mad at him she might have thought he looked rather dashing.

"What the fff…hell are you doing here Jareth!" she said trying to choose her words carefully in front of her little brother.

"You don't think that I'd give up that easily on you do I...I'm not about to sacrifice my Labyrinth just because a silly little girl wants to continue her grudge against me."

"I am NOT a little girl and I have already told you that I'm not going to the Labyrinth so if you're that desperate for me to go then you'll have to drag me there."

"That can be arranged" Jareth said smugly.

"Shut up" she angry replied. "And what are you doing letting those freaks torture my brother."

"I'd hardly call it torture Sarah. Your brother seems to be enjoying it. In fact I think that this is the most fun he has ever had in is life don't you think."

They both looked at Toby as he continued to laugh as the goblins tickled him. Toby found a moment to break free from the goblins and ran up to Jareth much to Sarah's disbelief.

"Hello again" he said to the Goblin King.

"Hello Toby" Jareth said as he smiled at him then signalled with his hand for him to go back and play with the goblins.

"What does he mean 'hello again', how many times has he seen you. Do you visit him regularly!" asked Sarah.

"Actually no. A Goblin King had better things to do with my time than to visit a small boy every week. Once a child visit's the Labyrinth no matter how young they are, the memory of it all seems to stick with them. You should know. Personally I cannot work out whether it's the magic of the Underground that captures them or the fascination of meeting me."

Sarah scoffed at his conceited remark.

"Okay well tell me this. Why did you come to Toby's room? If all you want is me why did you need to come here and disturb my little brother?"

"Don't tell me you've forgotten what I said in the park already. Remember, my sense of direction isn't all it was. Besides…I figured that you would have locked your window anyway."

"Well yeah of course I did" Sarah said, blatantly lying.

Jareth arrogantly smirked at her which infuriated her.

"You know what you are" she shouted, "you are a…."

"Ahhhhh!" screamed Toby.

Sarah ran up to him. He had fallen over after the goblins threw him too high. He had a bloody graze on his knee and a small bump on his head.

"It hurts" he said before he began to wail out loud.

"Shhhh" said Sarah. "It's alright, please don't cry. Mom and Dad will hear you!…shhhh…it's alright."

Sarah turned around to look at Jareth who was now looking rather guilty.

"Are you just going to stand there!" she shouted over Toby's loud cries.

"What do you expect me to do" he asked, half laughing.

"If you want any chance of getting me to go to the Labyrinth then you would go to bathroom and get a washcloth."

Jareth reluctantly walked out of Toby's bedroom door and went to the bathroom.

"And hurry! He's bleeding here!" Sarah shouted as Toby continued to scream in pain, exaggerating obviously as it was only a few cuts and bruises. "Please be quiet Toby, you don't want mom and dad to hear you do you. They'll send the goblins away."

But it was too late…Sarah heard footsteps coming up the stairs.

"Sarah" shouted her dad.

"Toby are you okay" called Karen as they approached the top of the stairs.

Sarah panicked. She quickly told the goblins to hide.

"Everything's fine" she said. "You don't need to come in!"

"Ahhhhhhhhhhh!" Sarah heard her parents scream. She shot up and ran over to the upstairs hallway.

That was where she saw her parents face to face with Jareth the Goblin King!