Chapter 7
I laid there calming my breathing for a long time. The only thing being heard was our breathing, it was deafeningly silent, but yet it was a easy and comfortable silence. I sat there thinking about how much of a vixen she was, how she know just how to control me and how she could break me in a single second. When I could finally speak I said "As much as I regret having to break this silence, we seriously need to talk Sarah." she rolled off of me and onto her side facing me and gave me an inquisitive look. I said "Sarah, you now know why I left this morning and about the letter, now we need to talk about it." She looked at me with understanding but no she couldn't understand yet. She thinks we have twelve months to complete the demands of my family. No she couldn't possibly know just how evil and wicked their intent was. My perfect, precious Sarah, how could I drag her into this fucked up thing I called my life. I looked at her "What do you think you know about their demands?"
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As he spoke I was getting more and more confused. When he ask me what I thought I knew about their demands I got very worried because he ask with disgust, worry and sorrow. For Jareth to worry it had to be big. So I told him what I knew. I said "I know that it was from your family. That we are should be planning our wedding, that I'm looking forward to. I need to get pregnant, which I am very excited but worried about. We have twelve months to do all this. That's it." I smiled like I had won the lottery the whole time I spoke and so did Jareth. That is until I told him that we had twelve months, then he looked a little concerned. "Ah Sarah my precious that is where you are wrong, we most certainly do not have twelve months."
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A look of confusion was in her eyes and I had to make her understand. "Sarah while you were in the Labyrinth you had thirteen hours to beat it, to best me." I was a little saddened thinking about her last moments of those thirteen hours, when I asked her to stay, when she refused, and when she left me broken hearted. The was a small hand on my check brushing the tears I had not noticed had escaped. Pulling her hand away from my check so I could lay a kiss in the delicate palm of her hand, continuing to holding it and brushing my fingers across her knuckles so I could continue. "Sarah you were away from your home a full day in the Underground, when it had only been a few hours here. Time in the Above passes slower than the time in the Underground." A look of realization followed by fear flashed across her face and was then covered up a look of curiosity. Leave it to my Sarah to be curious at a time like this, at her curiosity I breathed a sigh and continued. "Sarah while there are thirteen hours in a day there are also thirteen months in a year but there are only twenty six days in a month. So instead of having what your used to as a year, you will have what will seem like less."
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Well this is certainly not good. Even though we will have thirteen months but in the Aboveground we have thirty to thirty one days in a month, in the Underground we will have twenty six day a month. Thirteen months with twenty six days adds up to be three hundred thirty eight days versus three hundred sixty five.
I thought we had more time. So many thoughts are running through my head I think I might pass out. It was so overwhelming! I still have so many questions and worries plus this now! Then the thought dawned on me. "Jareth, how long does a Underground pregnancy last?"
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Sarah's reaction was not what I expected. I thought that she would panic or cry but no not my Sarah. Her reaction was even more unnerving than any reaction I could have expected. Instead of being upset Sarah was unnervingly calm, but the muscles all across her body seemed to tense in a single second. Then came the question I defiantly wasn't expecting! "Jareth how long does a Underground pregnancy last?" When was I ever going to realize that I needed to stop trying to anticipate her, because she was going to surprise me every time. I was not looking forward to answering this question it will only make it more real.
"Sarah mine, in the Underground you now know that time works differently in months and years. A pregnancy in the Aboveground is typically about 280 days or nine months, in the Underground it is still 280 days. Time is different Underground though so instead of nine months a pregnancy is ten and a half months... There are thirteen in a Underground year. Sarah we only have two and a half months to get married and get pregnant."