Nightmare or not, May was re-catching her breath as the powerful Goblin King loomed over her. He released her, and she fell to her feet.
"You have ten hours left my dear." He said while facing away from her. "Oh , and no more of this cheating by walking on the walls." He looked over his shoulder at her then threw one of his crystals at the wall.
"What? How is using logic cheating?!"
"Now every time you try to climb a wall the wall will just continue going up." He gave her a smug smile to which she returned a crude hand gesture while sticking out her tongue.
"I can still win. You can fucking bet on that." May watched as he turned back into the owl and flew away. "Damn, if he weren't such a fucking asshole he'd be sexy as fuck…" she mumbled while dusting herself off.
"You can't win, it be best if you went back." Came a voice from behind. May turned around half excepting Jareth's return. But was gladly surprised when she saw the old dwarf.
"Hoggle, you found me, and so quickly too." May said in her kinder tone. Hoggle looked away from the woman for a moment trying to remember why he even bothered to find her.
"Jareth always wins, there's no point in hurting yourself."
"He lost to Sarah." May said trying to win the conversation.
"Sarah?" the dwarf said confused.
"Remember, you asked me if I was her when we first met."
"No Sarah has ever come here."
"Why don't you remember? She was your first friend, Hoggle." May looked down at the dwarf's wrists, "See." She grabbed his hand and pointed to the bracelet. "She gave you this plastic do-dad, as a sign of friendship, also so you'd help her, but mostly friendship."
The dwarf looked at the bracelet on his wrist then back at May.
"I don't remember how I got this thing." May thought for a moment then reached into her jeans and pulled out a gold ring.
"Then lets trade, Your bracelet for my ring." She held it out so the sunlight would make it shimmer. The dwarf's eyes grew large. He placed his hand over the bracelet to remove it, however tears grew in his big eyes.
"I don't wanna." He said desperately.
"That's why! That bracelet is worth more to you than all the gems in the world. That was who Sarah was to you. Jareth must have put you under a forgetting spell. Alike how he used the peach on Sarah." May spoke half to Hoggle and half to herself.
"And she was my friend?"
"Yes. Now I must be off I only have ten hours to rescue my kids and decapitate the king." Her smile set forth her seriousness.
"I… I want to help. I want to remember my friend." Hoggle said unsure at first, but built up his confidence.
"You can come, but don't expect me to eat anything you give me."
As they started to walk, Hoggle looked up at the woman. She could act and look terrifying when she wanted to, but in this lighting she looked so pure and innocent to the world.
"You won't actually kill him, will you?" Hoggle asked.
"If he so much as cuts a hair off of those kids, I will kill him and anyone who gets in my way."
The Castle was large and dark. Estella and Jayden had climbed their way out of the pit after Jareth had left. Without the King around the goblins didn't seem so bad to the children. In fact they were actually a lot of fun. Jayden and a large group of furry goblin's were playing tag, and Estella was having her hair braided by the newly one legged goblin.
"She wouldn't have done that if she knew you." Estella said while turning her head to the goblin braiding her hair.
The goblin just sighed not knowing what to say.
"She just…" Estella looked down. May was always so nice, it was hard to imagine her being so cruel.
"Estella! You wanna play?" Her brother yelled from across the room. The little girl looked over at the one legged goblin to see if he'd be okay without her.
"Go, play." He screeched happily. Estella smiled and started to run over to her brother, when she got knocked down by someone's legs. She hit the floor fairly hard and tears welled in her eyes.
"No need to cry, young one." Jareth said while extending his hand to help her. The little girl took it with little regard to her brother's warnings. She smiled as she noticed that he really didn't mean her any harm.
"You really are like what May said." She said cheerfully, still holding onto the King's gloved hand. Jareth eye twitched a little when he heard this.
"And what would that be?" he said sweetly while walking Estella towards the throne.
"That you are selfish, and use wrong methods." Estella said while pulling herself onto the seat. The king looked at the pint sized human wondering whereabouts she was going with this. "But you only did that because you loved her. And that you'd never really hurt her." The amount of innocence that the child possessed was almost enough to make you sick.
"He didn't love anyone!" yelled Jayden from across the room. He'd been so quiet the King almost forgot about him.
"Who didn't?" Jareth asked, the two children getting on his nerves.
"You stole her brother!"
"I didn't steal anyone's brother."
"You stole my brother." Piped the little girl sitting upside down on the throne.
"Well, he's the only one I stole." The king trying to keep his calm state starting to walk towards the exit.
"Get used to it here, children. You won't be leaving anytime soon."
Jareth had made his way towards his chambers and was staring out the large window. He picked up one of the crystals and found himself staring at the gothic babysitter. She wasn't anything like Sarah. Sure they both had tempers and a one track mind. But May seemed much more determined to get back the annoying brats that were currently messing up his throne room. But then again May never asked for them to be taken in the first place. She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. How in the world could she walk on the uneven ground in those boots? At least she didn't have that axe anymore. The king gripped his side. He had let Sarah and Toby get away from him once, he wasn't going to let some young vixen like her take away his second chance. A loud crash came from the throne room.
"It wasn't me." The King could hear the young boy's voice echo throughout his castle.
"These kids are going to be a lot harder to handle than their father was."