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Chapter 4 Nothing lasts forever

Jareth's POV

She's more beautiful then I remember up close, her raven hair, luminous skin, her lashes so long it rests on her upper cheecks, and when she opens her eyes the color of the deepest green greets you only to capture you in its depths. An angel. Holding her now after all these years feels unreal. Especially since she's so peacful, since she fainted. I know she would demand to be released if she awoke. Her stubbornes has not subsided in the least, and that is the way I like it.

Watching her grow from babe to women has been tortorus to say the least. It does not get any easier the second time around. From first cry to final breath I watched the first time she romed the earth but this time there will be no finial breath, for it will be mine first before her's is every taken away from her. Four thousand years of dreaming of her, yearning for her embrace, searching but never finding, keep calling her name and never recieving an answer.

"oh Sarah, please don't be difficult, I've waited so long for you." I gently place her on her bed. I can't resist the need to touch her face, I trace her delicate jaw and her red plump lips that once yearned to be kissed by mine, just as I yearn for hers now. Time has had no impact on the strength of my love for her, I've endured the trails of hell litteraly and still my love is a bright beacon shining only for her. She was and will be again mine.

I carfully raised her nightshirt up a little only see my mark. Still there and as bold and dark as ever, reborn this time with a new future. Overlooked as only a "birthmark", true that it is a birthmark but it is also my mark. If she really paid attention to it she would see it resembles my amulet with the exception of a snake wrapped around it. Two snakes to be exact coming from two ends to meet in the middle. That paticular part I have cloaked with my magic since her birth, my only protection for her that has come from years of exploring and strengthing my magic. I have shielded her from the others and most importantly form him. And so far it has worked but now... now that she has truly began to awaken, she will be in danger again. The sooner she is truly mine the better for safety. For he will come again and try to take that which does not belong to him or destroy that which he cannot have, if only in spite of me.

Dimitri, commander of the dark magic will not cease until he has taken away all that is precious to me. Until i am left with nothing but my hallow dreams and a shell of a being is left of me. Now that she has awaken he will know and he will come.

If only she accepted me in the labyrinth three years ago, together with the power from the Labyrinth she would have recovered her memories and gained back her powers. But she had lost her trust along with her memories and she refused, left me again, unknowingly, but left me she did.

The light and slight sound of my cousin arriving tore me from my thoughts "Armond, what news have you of him?" I turned to look at his face. Armond as always never betrayed any emtotions weather good or bad, he was here to serve or die protecting me and mine.

"He's aware" was his only stoic reply.

My hands ball into fists, "Has he contacted you?"

"Not of yet, I believe he waits till you take the girl down with you." he warned.

"I have no other way to protect her, we must leave at once." urgency in my voice cloaked with worry. "Prepare the the elders for the cermony, and prepare the servents and goblins to recieve their new Queen with the same joy and respect they recived me, go, we will follow soon." my voice resonating authority once again.

Armond just stared at me a moment as if to question my command but thought better of it and vanished with a swirl of light.

I turn to Sarah once again, if only I could hold this moment forever....I could but in the end Dimitri will still be waiting and watching.

"Awake, precious." from her head down to her toes I run my hand above the her, gentle magic to calm and wake her from her sleep. She shouldn't put up much of a fight until after the ceramony, this spell will work since she has no idea how to use her magic. After the ceremony, there will be quite a battle going on. For all her memories past and present will collide and if she is still the Sarah I know she will be one angry Queen. Well, as these mortals here like to say "We shall cross that bridge when we get to it"... a soft chuckle escaped me, for Sarah and bridges do not mix very well.

She began to move and scrunch her eyebrows together, as she struggled to wake up. I watched with a hungry of thousands of years, coveting that which never should have been, but longing and aching for her. She strected her arms above her head, arching her back and pushing her breasts forward. ohhhh how she can be so cruel without knowing.

Now, she has matured into the beautiful bewitching woman I remember and not the unsure little girl of three years. Every inch an alluring women and every inch ready to join me. No more waiting this time. I take what is mine, what was given to me freely then will have to apply for my overtake of her will.

For lessons have been learned. And learning that nothing lasts forever makes one contingent of only your own plans.

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