Hey everyone sorry for the long wait, i've been very busy but to make up for that i did some Fanart which i will be posting links to in up coming chapters but for now you have ch 9 and a image i made of sarah's necklace art/Laby-Fanfic-art-Sarah-s-Necklace-336572765 so enjoy!

Chapter 8

Jareth's P.O.V

In a whirl of glitter The Goblin King appeared in his study chair. Leaning back he props his feet up onto the desk and sighed contentedly. His plan had gone well but would not be completed for another month. Damn the stupid laws that stated he must be engaged for one month before he could actually marry. But still she was here now and had no way of escaping him.

He thought back on the events of the morning he had known it wouldn't be hard to manipulate Sarah into signing the contract without reading it properly, she had been worried about her friends and he had been able to use it against her as well as getting her back up by calling her a coward. He knew she was no such thing, no coward would risk their lives to rescue a baby from his Labyrinth, but it had been just the thing to cause her to act rashly. Now he had Sarah's written agreement to marry him, let him pick the date, to obey him in every way and to perform all wifely duties all in exchange for her worthless friends' freedom. He had told her that if she broke the contract her friends would be tossed back into the dungeons what he hadn't told and what she would have discovered had she read the contract was that should she break the contract she would have to remain in the underground as his wife and not return home.

Jareth smiled, he knew full well that had Sarah known about that she would never have agreed to sign. He knew it was very unlikely that Sarah would risk her friends' safety and break the contract but he had wanted to make sure that even if she did, she would never be able to escape him.

Now all he had to do was find a suitable punishment for her friends, one with the benefit of them never seeing Sarah again, he couldn't risk them plotting against him. But what punishment, he could send them to the Bog for the rest of the miserable lives; Sarah would surely never want to return there again. No, that would not do, that fool of a knight actually liked living there and as such would not see it as a punishment. He could send them to work on the Labyrinth's border, which would be even further away from Sarah but perhaps still too close to risk it.

He sat there pondering for some time tapping the side of his face as he did when he was deep in thought. He thought of everywhere in his kingdom, the Labyrinth although vast and complicated to navigate would be a bad place to send Sarah's friends. The Dwarf knew his way through it very well and would have no trouble in finding his way back to Sarah. He would have to set them a punishment that would mean they would never again be able to get close to Sarah. The contract stated that he could not do them any harm as a punishment so he could not kill them unless they defied him again. A slow smile flickered across his, a wonderful idea had come to him, he'd finally found a punishment for the traitors that would prevent them from ever getting near Sarah again. He wondered why he hadn't thought of it before, Sarah would not like it, but he would be in no way breaking the contract. It also meant that Sarah would unwilling to see them again for fear of the consequences.

There was a bang as the door to the study flew and in rushed a small hairy Goblin who fur was slightly smoking and smelled strongly of singed hair.

"What?" The Goblin King snapped glaring at the Goblin who had rudely interrupted his joy over finding a punishment that suited his plans so well.

"Majesty," The goblin panted, "Majesty, the chicken house!"

Jareth sighed loudly, he had a feeling he knew what was coming.

"What about the chicken house? He asked exasperated

"It's on Fire!"

"Again?" he asked, the Goblin just nodded in reply.

"Why haven't you put it out then?" Jareth snapped out impatiently, why did he have to rule over a bunch of imbeciles?

"It's too big and hot sire!" The Goblin replied

Jareth rolled his eyes and shook his head, twisting his wrist, produced a crystal. He lent over the desk and handed it to his scorched looking subjects.

"Throw that into the flames and it should undo the damage." The goblin snatched the crystal and ran from the room. Jareth was about to sit back down when he remembered something.

"And don't drop it this time!" he yelled after the Goblin.

Sarah's P.O.V

Having been left alone standing alone in her new room Sarah had begun to explore she crossed over to the windows. They looked out onto the Goblin City and beyond that the Labyrinth.

"I really did travel a long way." Sarah mused as she gazes at the giant maze. A flicker of movement from below caught her attention. One of the buildings on the edge of the city had caught fire. Sarah could see Goblins rushing around trying to put it out she watched as one Goblin tried to put out the flames by swatting at them with a blanket which too caught fire. When the Goblin realized this he or she flung the blanket away into a pile of straw which then also burst into flames. The Fire was rapidly getting bigger. She also heard the shouts of them arguing over who was going to tell the king, from what Sarah could hear, this wasn't the first time this had happened. She watched as one hairy looking Goblin rushed towards the Castle doors. Probably to get Jareth, Sarah thought. She turned away from the window not wanting to see any more of the chaos occurring outside.

She wandered over to the bookshelf and began to read the names of some of the books. Some were Fairy tales; others seemed to be History books on the Underground others were books on the species that dwelt in the Labyrinth and beyond. They were all beautifully illustrated with pictures and luckily all the books appeared to be written in English. She noticed that none of the books had any authors name on them. It was something she had puzzled at when she found The labyrinth book, surly the person who had written the books would want people to know who had done it? She looked down at the little red book she still had in her hand. She had longed to know who had written it but now she wished she'd never found it in the first place then none of this would be happening, her friends would be safe and she would be home with her family. She sighed and slipped 'Labyrinth'

onto a shelf with the other books.

Next her eyes fell on the wardrobe, curiosity over what exactly Jareth thought fitting for a queen was what drew her over to it. Inside hung beautiful dresses made of silks and satins and other materials. Some had jewels sewn into them, others were more simple. Ever since she was little Sarah had loved to dress up. But she did not feel her usually urge to rush and try on the beautifully garments instead she felt an anger and a determination not to wear any of them just to annoy the Goblin King in revenge for blackmailing her. She slammed the doors shut and stormed over to sit on the bed. She sat their seething for a time muttering insults under her breath till she had calmed down.

This wasn't forever like Jareth believed, if her dream had been real then soon both she and her friends would be safe from Jareth and she could go home to her family, although how her mysterious dream visitor would help them she still didn't know. She reached into her top once more and drew out the medallion. She stared at it, it's red stone catching the light from the window. This was proof that the dream had been real; the knowledge that she would have an escape had been the only thing that had made her brave enough to sign the contract. She stared down at the medallion; she had been told that it would lead her to the cloaked women who'd entered her dream but Sarah couldn't see how, it seemed like an ordinary necklace to her, but then things aren't always what they seem in the Labyrinth.

A knock at the door caused her to jump and she hurriedly hid the necklace under a top once more. The door opened and in hurried a little Goblin woman, she had gray skin, salt and pepper colored curly hair, big round eyes and large floppy pointed ears that peeked through her hair. She rushed over to Sarah and began fussing and talking in a high pitched voice similar to Meep's.

"Lady Sarah! What an honour to meet yous!"

"Err, not to be rude but, who are you?" Sarah asked as the little Goblin scurried around her tutting at her clothes and hair.

"Me? I's Greta Lady, I's your Lady's Maid." The Goblin proclaimed proudly.

Sarah remembered now, Jareth had said something about a Lady's Maid.

"Err again not to be rude but I really don't need a Lady's Maid." Sarah said. The little Goblin smiled up at her.

"Yes you dos Lady! What with you gunna be Queen and alls. All Queens need Lady's Maids. King be very angry with Greta if she not help Lady" with that the Goblin grabbed Sarah's hand and hauled her off through a door next to the bed Sarah hadn't noticed before. Sarah gasped at the room she found herself in; It was a stunning semi-circle shaped bathroom. The only flat wall was covered with mosaic pictures of sea creature except for where the door frame was and where the toilet and washbasin was, the curved part of the wall was made up of entirely windows that did, much to Sarah's relief, have glass in them. They were covered with a curtain of white gossamer like material that only hindered the view from the windows slightly. Under the windows was a long window seat with a blue velvet cushion running its length. In the center of the room was a sunken bath around the edge of which were placed towels and small colored bottles.

Greta, who had let go of Sarah's hand, hurried over and turned on the taps and water gushed into the bath next the goblin opened a glass bottle and poured some of the liquid into the bath. The room was quickly filled with a floral smell that Sarah thought resembled lily's but couldn't be sure, the bath was soon filled with water and bubbles and Greta quickly turned off the taps.

"Nows Lady can have a nice bath whiles I's go sort lady's clothes and with the she rushed from the room, it seemed to Sarah that Greta never did anything slowly. With nothing else to do, Sarah stripped and sank into the bath. The water was lovely and warm and the bath was deep so only her head was above the water, it was more like a small swimming pool than a bath in Sarah's opinion.

She approached the edge and examined the bottles on closer inspection she saw that each one had words engraved on them. The one Greta had opened had 'Bubbles' engraved on it, others had 'soap' and 'shampoo'.

Deciding that she would wash her hair she quickly ducked under the water, it was then that she noticed that she had forgotten to take the necklace off. She resurfaced and studied the medallion carefully; the water hadn't appeared to damage it in any way but to be on the safe side she placed it on the edge. The shampoo smelled just like the bubbles did and she quickly washed her hair with it. She was starting to enjoy herself but every time she glanced up at the room she was reminded that she was only here because Jareth had blackmailed her.

She reached over and picked up the necklace and began examining it again. It just seemed like an ordinary necklace.

"How do you work?" Sarah mused aloud

"What did you say Lady?" Greta asked as she scurried back into the room. Sarah quickly hid the necklace behind her back.

"Nothing." Sarah replied.

"Wells I's brought you some clean underthings Lady all made from silk, nothing but the best for you Lady!" Greta said happily as she placed a white chemise and some underwear on the window seat.

"When yous ready you can come and put on one of the beautiful dresses King had made."

"I'd rather wear the clothes I came in." Sarah said. Greta's face fell at that.

"His majesty said yous might Lady and he also said that I's to tell you that if dos it would be breaking Lady's contract with King." Sarah groaned her teeth together.

"Fine." She relented angrily. Greta beamed again and hastily picked up Sarah's jeans and blouse.

"Don't be upset Lady your new clothes are much nicer than these! Why these are more fitted for a servant not a Queen!" Greta squeaked as she hastened from the room.

"Well I don't want to be a Queen." Sarah muttered.

The water in the bath was starting to get cold and the bubbles were starting to disappear. Sarah reached for a towel as she got out of the bath and dried herself off. She then dressed herself in the chemise and underwear Greta had left for her and hid the necklace under her clothes went more. Before leaving she used a hair tie she had found near the wash basin to tie up her damp hair.

Stepping back into her bedroom Sarah saw Greta standing on the bed holding the historical torture device known as a corset, beside the little Goblin was a red and black dress and a few petticoats.

The goblin motioned for Sarah to come closer and turn around. Sarah did as she was bid and allowed the Goblin to start lacing her into the corset.

"Are you sure I have to wear this Greta?"

She winced as Greta tugged the corset tighter.

"Oh yes Lady, it isn't proper for Ladies to go out without a corset."

Half an hour later Sarah was looking at her reflection in the mirror. The dress she wore was gorgeous. There was an under skirt of black silk but the rest of the dress was scarlet the dress contrasted well with her pale skin. Sarah would have liked for the dress to look terrible on her just to spite Jareth, but looking at her reflection she had to admit that the dress suited her perfectly.

"Lady shall be the loveliest Queen the underground has ever seen!" Greta piped up, "But Lady should really have her jewellery too but thems still at the jewellers so snows all we need do is Lady's hair!" with that she pulled Sarah over to the Vanity and made her sit. Greta started going through ideas about how to style Sarah's hair. However well Sarah said she would prefer for her to be down Greta stated that she would leave it down but curl it slightly.

"You have such beautiful long hair." Greta said as she untied Sarah's hair. She then reached for a brush on the dress. Its teeth of the brush were glowing orange and as Greta brushed and curls Sarah's hair she realized that somehow the brash was heated.

"What is that and how come it's hot?" she asked

"It's a hot brush Lady, Magic stone heats it sees." She showed Sarah the back of the brush were a small red stone was glowing slightly.

"So it's magic?" Greta nodded and went back to Sarah's hair

Ten minutes later and Greta was satisfied with Sarah's hair. The Goblin had tied the front strands of hair at the back to keep them from her face.

"There now Lady looks perfect, if only those dwarfs would hurry up polishing the jewellery then you could have the ruby necklace that goes so well with that dress."

Sarah was actually quite pleased that the jewels weren't ready she was feeling overwhelmed as it was.

"Will Lady be alright whist Greta tidies up?" The little Goblin woman asked.

"I thought I might go for a walk." Sarah said longing to be out and away from the fussing Goblin

"Very good Lady, but be careful, this castle as tricky as that labyrinth!" Greta cautioned

Sarah nodded and hurried over to the door and out into the corridor. The little Goblin smiled and shook her head.

"Such a pretty girl, but still too young for this." She muttered and she scurried around tidying the room.