Authors Notes: Well here is chapter five, this is me trying to make up for the stupidly boringness of chapter four, soory I haven't updated in ages its just I've been dead busy with getting a job (summer officially started last week so I've had this done for a while but just not had the time to post it up.!) also I have the ending for this almost sorted and a sequel in mind so please do review much thanks to all you reviewers, to mention two;

Notwritten; thanks for you never ending support, I dunno what I would have done without you reviewing (yes I do I would have chucked this story in the scrap heap ages ago)

Hogaboom; Thank you Sweetie for your never ending support both on MSN and by way of review this chapters for you because you wanted something different.

Disclaimer: None of this is mine so don't sue me, I don't wanna be called Sue!

I don't normally do dedications on my chapters but this one just fits really

For my mum my beacon of hope I miss you.

Sarah thought about her dream as she ate her cereal.

The goblin king had been there, for the first time in nine years she had dreamed about Him. Pondering on that fact for too long could lead to insanity, and insanity wasn't good if one was going to visit ones brother.

Every second Thursday Sarah would see Toby before and after school, after his mother's divorce Toby had been unstable, and had clung onto his sister like a security blanket. The shrinks had had a field day, saying that this was not normal for an eight year old boy. But Sarah how her brother felt. She herself had gone through the same thing, but she had gone through it when she was twelve.

So she had humored Toby, thinking that after a while he would grow out of it… but he hadn't.

"Sarah you're going to be late to see Toby, oh will you ask him what he wants for dinner too, we're out of most of his favorites." Marisa shouted from the bathroom

"Will do, you sticking around tonight then"

"Course I am, wouldn't miss a chance to see my little nephew"

"He'll be pleased, he really likes you, won't stop asking if he can marry you"

"Tell him that as nice as that sounds I'm previously engaged"

Sarah didn't hear her, she was lost to her own thoughts of Monarchs and goblins and dwarves.

"Earth to Sarah… Ohh dear your in your happy place again, do you wanna talk to me about it?'

'I had a … dream about Him"

"Good dream, bad dream, x rated dream?" Marisa asked

"It was just… strange, it was as if he was there, I mean… Ohh I dunno what I mean but it was strange, why am I dreaming about him now Marisa?"

"Who knows, anyway Come on, look your cereals gone soggy now and you'll be late to pick Toby up"

"Thanks Mar, I dunno what I'd do without you"

"You'd be in an asylum by now Sarah trust me!"

Smiling the brunette grabbed her car keys and headed out the door.

It had been a good Day for the Goblin king, so far at least, the goblins had returned from the bog, and on his orders were now keeping as far away from him as possible, and he had successfully managed to unsettle Sarah.

It was a good day.

Jareth, why aren't you out on a day such as this?"

The kings shoulders slumped as a fiery redheaded woman walked, or rather glided into the throne room

"Presenting princess… began Mutt

"Yes yes Mutt, late as usual, go and sort your timing out in an oubliette"

"Thank you Majesty" said the goblin and bowed before Jareth aimed a crystal at him and he vanished.

"Esmelda, to what do I owe this pleasure?"

"Father wondered if you were busy, and seeing as your not he asks that you join us for dinner tonight"

"Brilliant" he muttered

"I'm sorry I didn't quite catch that your highness" Esmelda said

"I said How Brilliant; I haven't seen my cousin in months"

"Ohh he will be soo Happy" said Esmelda with a large grin

"Oh I'm sure" said Jareth darkly

"Won't you come and walk with me?"

"No, thank you" he replied with forced joviality. To himself he muttered "I was actually thinking how nice a drop from a high window would be about now"

"Oh come on Jareth, it's not right that you spend all of your time locked up in here, it's not healthy"

He laughed and turned away from her choosing instead to study one of his crystals that was until she dashed it out of his hand.

He turned to her, his face a mask of anger and pain "Don't you ever do that again you hear me"

"I won't, just say you'll come for a walk with me please Jareth"

He regarded her for a moment before rising out of his throne and taking her hand in one of his lager gloved ones "Come cousin lets go for a walk"

"Come on Toby, Mar's waiting for us, and she said that if you're good she'll let you stay up late and not tell me" Sarah said as she tried to drag her brother away from the window of a toy store

"Well that would be pointless Sarah" Toby said, eying up some expensive toy

"Why?"

"Well you've just said that she'll let me stay up and not tell you, but if you already know then you don't need to be told"

Sarah rolled her eyes "Since when did you get soo smart?"

"Since you got Stupid sis" said Toby with a chuckle. With that He ran off, dodging shoppers and leaving Sarah to catch up as best she could.

"So Jareth because she beat you, you feel that it's only right that you exact your revenge?" Esmelda asked, they were sitting under one of the trees in one of many palace gardens.

"You don't understand" said Jareth playing with the glove on his left hand, somehow being around Esmelda made him feel jumpy, like he was about to be reprimanded for something.

"Explain then, you haven't been doing a very good job so far"

"Esmelda… It's complicated"

"I'm a big girl Jareth"

"I… I have never had my labyrinth beaten by anyone"

Esmelda arched an eyebrow before saying "Yes Dear, we've been through this, you're a sore looser"

Jareth just scowled at her before continuing "And it took a bloody long time to rebuild after her destruction, it wasn't like I wasn't kind"

"Kind! Even I know some of the things you subjected her to, Oubliettes, and cleaners… Honestly!"

"I created the peach dream for her and she threw it back in my face not once but twice"

"When?"

"Uhhh, the first time when she used the chair… and uhhh…" It was an unwritten law that you did not harass runners after they had beaten or lost in any kingdom.

"Uhhh…"

"Tell me you didn't, its one thing sending her Peach juice and peaches, but it's totally another to invade her dreams, it's against the law!"

Jareth had the good sense to look ashamed

"It was just…" He began

"It was just nothing Jareth, Please don't do that again, the council will have a field day, father will be beside himself with worry, and mother will be inconsolable if they know!"

Sometimes Jareth wondered who was the younger out of them.

"If it will ease your mind I will say that I didn't"

"It will not, because I still know that you did"

"There is not any point in denying my statement then" he said, his tone icy

"She even had the gall to say that she was displeased with the peach dream!" he continued voice taking on a hurt tone

"Heaven forbid!" Esmelda said with as much sarcasm as possible

"Funny!" Jareth remarked drolly

"So you're annoyed because she didn't like your peach dream?"

"Partly yes"

"And the fact that you're a sore looser has nothing to do with it?"

"Absolutely not!"

Esmelda couldn't help but giggle 'Your not fooling me"

"I had to try!" he said with a small smile

"Course you did, you wouldn't be my favorite cousin if you didn't"

"Oh I'm your favorite am I?"

"Well to be honest I've only got You, Lorcan and Saffir, Lorcan's a pig and Saffirs just plain boring and bookish"

"There's nothing wrong with being plain and bookish" said Jareth thinking of another person.

"Haven't you got some wished away to be taking care of or some runner to annoy?"

"No..." He began thoughtfully "It's been a bad month; all I've had is homework and… a bag of rubbish"

Esmelda looked thoughtful before saying "And you actually had to say to the runner 'In thirteen hours your homework will become one of us forever' did you?"

Jareth grimaced "It has been a slow month"

"And for the rubbish too?"

Jareth nodded

"Ohh Father will have fun with you tonight when I tell him"

"You wouldn't"

"Only if you promise to leave that poor ex runner alone, it wasn't her fault she caught you on a bad day"

"Fine, fine I'll leave her alone" then he realized what he had said and his shoulders slumped.

"It was a her?!"

"Yes"

"What was her name?"

"I don't remember"

"Oh I'm sure you do Jareth, you never forget a runners name, please tell me"

"I really can't remember Esmelda"

"I bet you Can"

A playful glint came into Jareth's eyes at the mention of the word bet.

"What are the steaks?" he asked

"Well if you tell me her name then I'll think about helping you with your stupid revenge game, but if you don't then I will have to tell father that you've been visiting an ex-runner"

"That's not a bet that's blackmail"

"It's up to you dear cousin" said Esmelda standing up and dusting off her dress

"Where do you think you're going?"

"For a walk to give you time to think over my proposition" she replied with an innocent grin

"You mean blackmail?"

Esmelda just grinned again and walked off

"Esme!!"

There we go another chapter and another character… Sorry for making Jareth slightly out of character but this is his youngest cousin not sure if Saffir and Lorcan will make an appearance but you never know with this, hell even I don't know!

Anyway this was to make up for the slightly bad previous chapter (Slightly bad who am I kidding it stunk!)

Anyway enjoy enjoy