Chapter 12
Sarah was having a seizure and I was getting ready to have a heart attack! How could I leave her alone when I knew she wasn't feeling well? I'm so stupid! The only person close enough to do anything would be my mother. I turned to her with tears about to spring from my eyes and said "Please mother do something! I just got her back I can't lose her now, I love her please! I'll die if I have to let her go again." by the time I was I was trying to cradle Sarah to my chest but she was still convulsing. I looked up at my mother and whispered "Please" and the look of sorrow was obviously caused by the pain in my voice but I was a fraud I was going to loose her again and this time I wouldn't be able to get her back. My mother came a knelt beside me and tried to remove her convulsing body from mine. Even though I knew I would have to let her go for her to help I didn't want to. She looked at me and said "Jareth son if I'm going to do anything you are going to have to put her down. I know you don't want to let her go so you can hold her hand it might also help if you tried to speak to her but you have to lay her down." Reluctantly I did as she ask and laid her on the floor but took hold of her hands so tight that I would of hurt her if she had been awake and spoke to her and my mother ran her hands over her body close but not touching her. I was speaking to Sarah trying to keep the devastation out of my voice I said "Sarah my precious please come back to me. I can't lose you, I love you. Just fight to come back to me please I need you." At this point I didn't care if any of the kings of queens around my saw me as weak I was losing the love of my life and I was scared. Finally she stopped seizing and I pulled her so close to my body that we couldn't have been and closer without becoming one person. I looked to my mother with pleading eyes and asked "Is she going to be okay?" She looked at me and said "My son some one has placed a spell upon her to kill her. If me your father and you all try I think we can force it from her." I turned around to find my father who was already coming forward. I looked at him with pleading eyes and he said "You shouldn't den have to ask my boy." with that he joined my mother and took hold of her hand and reached for mine. I took his hand and waited for my mother to tell us what to do. She looked at me and said "Jareth since you are the one most close to her I want you to lay one hand on her abdomen. When we begin concentrate on finding the alien magic and grasp hold of it you will act as a channel for our magic to attack it. Once you find it start trying to force it out. Oberon you and I will repeat the words for the repelling spell okay. Never break your hold on each other now let's start." My mother and father starred chanting and I focused on looking for the spell within Sarah. Once I found it I gave of the aura color of black meaning it was a type of evil magic. I focused on trying to drive it away and finally after what seemed like forever it was complete. My mother and father clung to each other while I clung to Sarah. She was alive I wasn't going to lose her. I raised my head to my mother and father and said the only thing I could "Thank you." My mother knelt down again and kissed me on the forehead and said "It's not over yet my son. She is very weak and needs lots of rest but I think she will be okay." I pulled my mother into a hug and thanked her once again. She pulled back and saw the line tear escape my eye, she brushed it away and said "Not here you still have people watching." she kissed me on the head again and said we will be by your chambers after everyone is gone now take her to bed." With Sarah cradled in my arms I stood and walked out the doors heading towards my chambers with my head hung down in sorrow.
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Darkness. That's all there was. Darkness. I was surrounded by pitch black darkness and it was silent. I tried to speak but no sound came out. I tried to look around but the blackness was disorientating I looked at what I guess was straight forward and there was a faint white light. I was so glad to see anything but the color black that I started trying to move towards it. The light was growing brighter and closer and finally I could see something through it. There were people on the other side some I recognized and some I didn't. I stopped when the people seemed like they were right in front of me. When I stopped they started motioning for me to keep coming but something was stopping me. The more I tried to get to them the more clouded my mind became. Someone in the front stretched their hand out to me and I reached out my hand and tried to reached out to them. I was so close to escaping the blackness behind me all I had to do was grab their hand. Suddenly it wasn't quiet any more their was a voice. I was clear and crystal but with a hind of sheer desperation and devastation. It wasn't jus any voice though, it was the only person that could clear the clouds from my mind. It was Jareth. "Sarah my precious please come back to me. I can't lose you, I love you. Just fight to come back to me please I need you." I wanted to respond to him so badly but I couldn't all I could to was listen to him. Once his voice left it was silent again. I was once again faced with the darkness to my back and the bright light with smiling waving people in front of me. I was faced with a decision but I didn't know what I was deciding. I tried to speak again but this time I could actually form words. "What is this place where am I?" I asked to no one specific. After a while I expected no one to answer me. The silence was once again broken but his time it wasn't Jareth. This was still a male voice but it was deeper, calmer and non-influencing, this voice sounded like music not the worn tired and desperate voice of my Jareth. "This is the void. This is the space between life and death. It is not yet your time young one but you have a choice." the voice said I could tell it was trying to make me understand by I was still so confused. "I have a choice?" my voice sounded meek and insignificant compared to the powerful and important sounding voice that was now my companion. "Yes child you have a choice. You may continue forward and go on to the land where your loved ones that have passed reside or you may turn back and go back towards the dark and where your present loved ones reside. The choice is your and only yours. Choose wisely." So the inviting smiling people in the light were my dead loved ones and the afterlife and the dark desolate loneliness behind me was the way back to Jareth. I wanted to go forward and on to the afterlife and not have to face the loneliness again but I couldn't leave Jareth behind. So I tried avoiding answering. "Who are you?" I ask. I was quiet again for a while and I though they weren't going to answer. "I am no one of any importance child you are the important one here. What is your choice." So the attention was back on me. I answered in as strong of a voice as possible "I choose to go back. I will face the darkness and I will return to Jareth. I only ask may I please keep my ability to speak?" I really needed to be able to talk or the silence was going to drive me mad. "So be it child. Turn around and begin walking. I only warn you that there are dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, you will most defiantly have to fight your way back. Take care and may you be successful." once again I was left in the darkened silence. "Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered I will fight my way back to Jareth. So let's go feet start walking we've got a long way to go I have a feeling."