yeaaaa! it let me update, sorry Anij, i told you it'd be up earlier but had a different opinion on the subject. Ok! here it is, as promised and demanded bows low before the readers hope it's to your liking!

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Part 3: The Act

Moaning softly, Sarah's world started to take shape in blurred grays and black blobs as she fought to return to the land of the living. Another moan escaped her as pain flooded her senses in time with her pulse. Trying to move her arms to ward off the pain in her head and get up she found she couldn't move her arms and there was something brushing against her cheek.

A confused look crossed her face as she tried to figure out why she couldn't move and flinched away from the thing on her cheek, whimpering softly. She noticed that her arms were numb and they bother were suspended about her head, and her head was pounding and she felt something wet trickling down her face.

: What is Phillips tie doing on my wrists? Why... why are my arms numb… what's going on, where's Phillip? Where's Toby!...: Panic and fear overriding sense, Sarah began to fight against her bonds, feeling as if she was running a race through waist high mud.

Seeing something move from the corner of her eye, she stopped struggling enough to try and get a good look at the specter that started to take a more definite shape as her eyes finally came into focus. As the pain from moving her head subsided she saw the face of a stranger in her husband's body.

"Wha…?" Swallowing she tried again, "What going on? Phillip why am I tied to the bed? Untie me.." her voice hitched in panic.

" Shshshshhhh… Calm down baby," he cooed, brushing aside the bangs that fell in her face during her thrashing. Sarah cringed away from his touch. "Nonononono, don't be like that darling, you may not like what happens when you do. You see, you've been very, very bad lately. It's time that you learned to behave like a proper wife, Sarah. I've been very lenient with you, hoping that with time, you'd settle into your proper place with out me having to do this," he sighed, a look of sorrow and pain cross his face as he continued to mutter softly to her as denial and disbelief flashed across her face as she firmly shook her head no, tears streaming down her face.

"Now, now, Sarah; we don't want to upset me, not in front of Toby. Who knows what could happen to an impressionable young boy like him…"

Gasping, Sarah pulled herself up enough to see Toby, gagged, bound, and unconscious, laying on the day bed; dried tear stains streaked his young face. Rage gave her tunnel vision as she struck out at Phillip.

"Don't you DARE touch him Phillip! If you're going to do something do it to me, Not a child! Who are you? What happened to the man I fell in love with? Come on, quit playing and untie me… I mean it Phillip, enough with the games. Untie me right now!"

Of all things Sarah was expecting, what happened wasn't it. Seconds after she finished her scolding tirade, his face twisted in a mask of rage and her cheek felt the brunt of it as the back of his hand whip her head to the side and wringing a cry of pain from her as her lip was busted open.

"You are never to do that again, Sarah, do you understand? Do you?" He growled, grabbing a hand full of hair yanking her head back, shaking it for emphasis.

"No I don't! Are you insane? ehehhh…" She hissed as he yanked on her hair again, "This is called abuse Phillip! Stop now before you make me do something I don't want to do…" Another blow, this time to both cheeks followed this as he laughed a bit too harshly at her broken and bloodied face.

"Who's going to believe you, Sarah-dear? It's your word against mine and I can keep you tied up to this bed and force feed you until your bruises heal. And if you ever did tell anyone, well... you know boys, especially seven year olds, they like to play with dangerous things and if he does, with no one around…" He shrugged grinning sadistically, twirling a strand of her hair around his finger.

"NO!" She screamed, starting to flay and fight against her bonds with a renewed vigor trying to find a week spot in the knots. At this point he straddled her at the waist putting all his weight on her lower abdomen, pinning her effectively to the bed, even against her bucking beneath him.

"Get off of me, you bastard, Help! Someone help me!" She yelled as a fist slammed into her jaw and a hand gripped her throat.

"How dare you call me that, you little Cunt! I am your husband," Smack, "You will treat me with the respect I deserve." He rips the buttons off her shirt, slapping her again when she flinched away from his touch and raked his hand down her chest and purred in her ear, "Now, isn't there something you want to say to your loving husband?"

Groaning and gasping from the assault on her body and sudden restriction on her air supply she open her swollen eyes. From the corner of her eye she saw a barn owl hovering outside her window, shrieking and hissing with outrage, trying to get in. She also saw the crystal he gave her on her wedding day cloud over inside with a core of churning mass of red fury.

"Yeah, I do have something to say to you Phillip." She spat, wheezing past the constricting hand, "I wish… I wish the Goblin King… would come and take you away… right NOW!" as the words left her mouth the crystal orb shattered, covering the room in a blinding pulse of white light which, as it dissipated, revealed a severely enraged Goblin King as her world fell apart.

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And this is as far as I've gotten so far, so be patient with me as I figure out how I want to write the next scene… Next time: Jareth and Phillip square off…. Magic or no magic? I think it would be much more fun watching Jareth beat the snot out of Phillip with his bare hands… lol but what do you guys think? i'll take whatcha say into consideration ; )

Part 4: Revenge: Sarah's Rage

sorry no bird this time sweat drop, he told me he had family to visit or something... :rolls her eyes: and of course he took the old man so no words of advice today or seliciting for reviews by advertising icons but i'll give it my best shot.:clears her throat: i work best with three things: threats, praise and/or reviews! i've been estatic over the 8 reviews i've gotten so far again i say, you guys are awesome! keep em commin!

Thanks go out to:

Ridel, Labyrinth Mistress, Anij, Enchantednight84, and The Faery Dreamer thank you guys sooo much! i would grovel at your feet but i have bad knees lol '