Chapter 4

Jareth looked at her with a little smile and tilted his head a little to the right.

"Now Sarah. Is that how you welcome an old friend?" he asked with hidden amusement in his voice.

Sarah looked at him coldly.

"You're no friend of mine, goblin king." She tried to keep her voice from trembling.

"Hm?" his smile got a little bigger. "At the moment that may be true. But that will have more than plenty enough time to change. To hope for the better."

His eyes dropped to Toby in her arms, who looked shyly and a little scaredly at Jareth and waved a little, but kept his other hand around Sarahs neck.

"I won't let you take him." She said protectively and pulled him away from Jareth.

"Oh, I'm not here for the boy." Jareth answered casually and took a few steps into the room, coming closer to Sarah and Toby.
Sarah backed untill her back hit the wall.

"Then why are you here?" she asked without taking her eyes from Jareth.

Jareth stopped and looked around a little, ignoring her question.
After looking around the room, he looked back at her again. His eyes wandered over her face and then over her body.

"My, Sarah. How you've grown." He looked at her face again and smiled. "You've gone from a princess, taking care of her hated baby brother, to a princess who paints her lover's walls."

Sarah opened her mouth in shock to ask how he knew that she's been painting.
But… she didn't really want to know how he knew, so instead she said:

"Answer the question."

His smile disappeared.

"I'm here to obey the law, Sarah. The words has been said."

He sighed annoyed when she didn't understand and turned his back to them.

"I have come to take someone with me to the underground," he turned his upper body back a little towards her. "You, Sarah."

Sarah's mouth fell open as she stared at Jareths calm, cold face. She could see traces of triumph in his eyes. His lips looked like they were holding back a grin.

"No!" she finally said. "I won't go back to that awful place!"

Jareth's eyes flashed in fury as he turned entirely to Sarah. Even though his face remained calm, the anger in his eyes caused Sarah to look away.

"The law must be obeyed. You know that better than many, Sarah."

It was true, she did know that. But she wouldn't admit it.

She opened her mouth to fight back, but Jareth was suddenly right in front of her.

"Do I need to remind you of that you don't have any choice in the matter?" he asked, and he couldn't help but to smile, if only just a little at her surprised expression when he came so close.

"Or perhaps," he continued and started to walk about the room. "You don't want to see your dear friends Higgle and that fur ball."

Sarah's heart stung at the memory of her friends, whom she had tried to call so many times, but they never came…

She looked angrily at Jareth, who was throwing her old teddy bear Lancelot in his gloved hand before he threw it away like garbage.

"That's Hoggle and 'that fur ball' has a name!"

Jareth turned to Sarah again with annoyed eyes.

"Come now, Sarah. I don't have all night." he said with restrained anger. His patience was running low.

"N-"

She didn't get to finish the sentence before Jareth once again was in front of her, taking her wrist in a firm grip.

"Put the boy down or I'll take him as well. You can't stop me Sarah." he said coldly and Sarah knew he was serious.

She looked down at Toby before looking back at Jareth and nodded a little. With triumph back in his eyes he smirked and let go of her wrist.

Sarah walked Toby back to his bed and put him down.

"Toby," she said softly. "I have to go away for a little while. But don't be afraid. I'll be back soon. I promise."

"Pwomise?" Toby asked, looking at her with big eyes.

"Promise." she smiled to him.

"Sarah!" Jareth said impatiently from the windows. All the goblins stood around him, looking at her.

Sarah gently kissed Toby's forehead before tucking him to bed.

He looked at Jareth and the goblins by the window and waved again.

"Goodbye goblins. Goodbye goblin king." he said in a small voice.

The goblins all waved back. "Goodbye goblin child!"

The bigger of them stopped waving and looked at the others.

"Has he said it?" he asked with a surprised face.

All goblins stopped waving and turned their eyes to their stupid friend.

"Idiot!"

All of them started to call out things at the same time, causing a minor chaos.

Jareth rolled his eyes.

"Quiet!" he angrily called out and kicked the goblin closest to him, causing the whole group of goblins to fall to the floor.

"Sarah." Jareth raised his right arm in Sarah's direction in a gesture for her to come to him.

With an unhappy sigh she got to her feet and walked over to Jareth who gently put his hand on the small of her back.

A warmer, softer wind blew in from the windows.

Once again the enormous labyrinth stretched out below the hill where Sarah and Jareth were standing. The goblins had all disappeared.

Sarah's heart began to race when she saw the labyrinth with the castle in its middle.

Somewhere down there, hopefully unharmed, where her friends.

Hoggle…

Jareth let out a short, quiet chuckle, as if she'd said it out loud, and removed his hand. He leaned in from behind and said softly in her ear:

"Welcome back, Sarah."

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Wohoo!! The Labyrinth!! =''D