The king stared at frustrated girl in front of him. Never had he seen so much various emotions passed through someone in just one outburst. He went to say something to her when a strange feeling washed over him. He may be winning the battle, but looking at the angry woman he knew he was going to lose the war if he didn't think quickly.

"I'll let the children go back home… However you will have to stay."

"No games, no tricks." May said not fully convinced that she had won over the Goblin King.

"No games." He extended his hand out for her to take. "No tricks." He placed his other hand behind his back and crossed his fingers.

"Do I get to say goodbye?" May said her arms crossed.

"No."

"Then how will I know that they're safe and at home!" May's back was up again.

"Here." Jareth calmly threw an orb her way. May looked down to see the two kids asleep in their beds.

"I don't understand, not three minutes ago you would do anything to keep them here."

"If that was your deal breaker than I was willing to do so." The king lied.

"There is one more thing I want."

"Please do not say that you want your axe back."

"I want to keep this room." May sat down on her bed.

"Why? Nothing here is useful in this world." Jareth said while taking a photograph off the wall.

"Its comforting, plus all my clothes are in here." She flopped down. Jareth looked at her in amazement, five minutes ago he was sure that she would rip him limb from limb and laugh when she was through. However she now talked to him as if he was her friend.

"Might I asked who was in these photographs." A twinge of jealousy carried in his voice.

"My fiancée." As the words escaped her lips, Jareth grew angry.

"You are to be married?" Though he already knew the answer it did not stop him from stirring.

"I was supposed to." May rolled over on the bed, her mind filled to the brim. Relief and paranoia filled her subconscious.

"Do you still love him?"

"Yes." Jareth ripped the photograph involuntarily. "But he doesn't… Let us not dwell on that past…"

Jareth slowly sat down beside the girl on her bed.

"Don't get any ideas!" May said while sitting up from her laying position. The goblin king raised his hands up to assure her.

"The castle is bigger than this." Jareth said while kicking his feet up on to the bed.

"I don't want bigger. This is the closest thing to home now." She hugged her knees.

"Why is there so much better?"

"It makes sense. My family is there, and I have my freedom." Her snarky tone had returned.

"You are free to roam anywhere you want in this world."

"So I can walk around the castle, the deadly labyrinth, the desert and this room?" she flopped down so that her head was at the foot of the bed. She looked up and saw the belt that she had looped around the frame. She unhooked it and started rolling in and out of a spiral.

"There is more beyond the labyrinth, it just isn't as kind." May sprung up in anger.

"What could be worse than this death trap!"

"Well to be honest, you are the only creature to cause so much harm in such a short period of time being here."

"That's because I don't belong here." May was staring at the comfortable king, her hands clutching onto the spiraled belt.

"You do belong here." May refused to make eye contact.

"The pain you wanted Sarah and Toby to feel, is the pain that I have endured… How can I forgive that?" May was about to stand up when the king grabbed on to her wrist and pulled her to him.

"You don't have to." May was on top of the king who was mesmerized by his own intentions. Quickly she unraveled the belt and tied the kings wrists to the head board. And for the first time during the conversation May looked at the king straight into his eyes, her eyes fiery with hatred.

"You think I would fall for that?!" May got off the bed and started towards the door. "You said yourself when someone leaves here you can no longer track them with those crystal things! So why would my kids be any different!?" She opened the door and the sound of her labyrinth friends calling out for her filled the air.

"May, please…" The king said as he attempted to get loose from the belt.

"All you do is lie and hurt people! I don't know what your angle is, and frankly I don't care anymore!" She slammed the door behind her and the room's image morphed back into the hemps of trash. For a moment the Goblin king sat in a pile of rubbish staring at what used to the door. He tried running through different scenarios to which he could have everything, but alas there was no way. Eventually May would find the children, and she wouldn't be content with them here. For the first time Jareth had to choose between May and Sarah.

((Sorry this took so long for me to post. I've been busy with University stuff.))