May awoke on a large white bed. She was huddled in the middle, wrapped up in the silk. She remembered being hit by the swinging axe, but nothing else. She was still wearing her tattered clothes. She looked to where the axe met the skin to see it all healed, in fact everything was healed, just like when she swam in the fountain.
"Good morning, it was starting to look as though your rest would be eternal." The confused woman looked up to see Jareth looking down at her. She sat up quickly and scrambled to the back of the bed leaning her back against the wall. "Are we lacking confidence?" May turned her head away and to her surprise the ends of her hair brushed against her face. "You had so much before."
"You cut my hair." She ran her fingers through it. It now ended just a little above her shoulders.
"I healed more cuts than I made." Jareth stood at the opposite end of the bed. She stared at the man, she wasn't sure on what was happening.
"What? No thank you?" he smirked while spinning the glass orbs. The young woman kept her silence. "I don't know what I was expecting…" the king turned and started towards the door.
"Why?" Jareth stopped and looked at the woman who stood beside the giant bed.
"Why?" he asked.
"You knew I was coming…" she looked around the room, " that I was coming here. That I would stop you when I arrived. Why save me?"
"I think you know." He tossed the orb over to her. She looked down at the ball, however when she looked back up Jareth was gone. The ball shone in the dim room. May peered into it and thought of Estella and Jayden. The two children were playing happily. Jayden was playing some strange sort of sport with a large number of goblins and Estella was playing an endless game of stella-ella-o-la with a one legged goblin.
"there's a throne in that room." She whispered to herself. Then, within the orb Jayden bashed into a stone bust of Jareth and it shattered. Suddenly May noticed that the sound was nearby.
She dashed out of the room and started down the long corridor. At the end was a large door with chains and locks wrapped around the entire thing. She looked down at the orb and thought of all the times Jareth had turned those things into different objects. She closed her eyes and fixated on the object of her desire, when she opened them she was holding the old axe. May lifted it above her head and swung with full force, the chains broke off and the door slowly opened.
The room was large and housed an elegant throne fit for the king. However the amount of creatures in the room was exaggerated in the orb. There was only three; Jayden, Estella, and Jareth.
"May!" Estella ran and wrapped her arms around the young woman's legs.
"I found you." May's eyes filled with tears as she kneeled down to hug the little girl. She looked up to see Jayden dressed like the goblin king looking at her with cold eyes.
"Jayden?" She smiled at the young boy. He looked away and folded his arms.
"Took you long enough!" he scoffed.
"Jayden! What are you doing?" Estella whimpered as she clung harder to the woman.
"What am I doing?! What are you! She wants to take us back!" the little boy yelled.
"But.. but…" Estella choked out.
"Don't tell me you WANT to go back!" Jayden stomped over and pinched his sister's ear so she would let go. The little girl whined in pain.
"Jayden!" May snapped as she broke the two up. "What did you do?!" May screeched as she pointed to Jareth.
"He going to give me this whole place if I stay! SO I'm not going anywhere!" Jayden pushed May, forcing her to take a step backwards.
May looked at the children with horror, her eyes watered, her lip trembled, and her eyebrow began to twitch.
"Kids say the darnest things, don't they." Jareth placed his hands on Jayden's shoulders and smirked. May turned and started towards the door, she bent down and grabbed the axe se had dropped when Estella rushed her.
She walked past the two children and ignored their threats and tears. She stood at and arm's length away from the king and looked into the king's eyes.
"What now?" he asked while looking at the axe pointed at his face.
"You win." And with that she dropped the axe. Jareth stared in shock, her eyes were sad and honest. All that she had done for those children was a waste of time and she had finally realized it. She turned and started to walk away from the still at shock king. She kneeled down to Estella and hugged her with all her might.
"just give me some more time." The woman whispered to the frighten little girl. She then turned to Jayden.
"Don't you even try! I don't want your pitiful affection, especially not when you're dressed like that!" the sadness quickly turned to flame in the woman's eyes. She didn't go through hell just to be rejected. And so May started to laugh, just a little giggle which surprised everyone, then it grow more and more maniacal.
"How you turn my world you precious thing," she ruffled the little boy's hair as she sang. "You starve and near exhaust me," she threw him back a few steps, "Everything I've done, I've done for you, I move the stars for no one," She was now terrifying Jayden. His muddled mind was starting to return to normal, not that May noticed. "You've run so long, you've run so far, Your eyes can be so cruel," This time she started to walk back over to Jareth, "Just as I can be so cruel," She turned back over to the children and smiled sweetly, "Though I do believe in you, Yes I do," She took Estella's hand in her own and sang to little girl, "Live without the sunlight," then she extended her hand to the little boy, who took it slowly, "Love without your heartbeat…" the three of them stood before the King.
"I...I can't live within you" he whispered as he admired them. She had freed the young boy from the spell. The young woman bent down and looked into the little girl's eyes.
"You're going to have to say it for me, ok." Estella nodded. The three of them stood toe to toe with Jareth.
"You have no power over…" Quickly the young woman forced the little girl to take her brother's hand, in the process of removing her own. "me" and with that the children returned to their home. May on the other hand continued to stand toe to toe with the goblin king.
"Why?" the confused king asked, his voice echoing throughout the giant empty room, "I thought…"
May placed her finger over his lips, "I only ask for so little. fear me, and love me, do as I say and I will be your slave."
((I might make a sequel. I already have an idea for it, but it may take a while. I hope you guys liked the fic))