Chapter 2

Sarah did not stay up too late. She went to bed within the hour of her parents return. She dreamt of her time in the labyrinth that night. Not that she expected to forget it so easily. The dream started good. Meeting Hoggle, Ludo, Sir Didymus, but it slowly became dark. Thoughts of the oubliette crept in to her mind. How dark it was and how frightened she was. Then the cleaner. The blades chasing after her and Hoggle were getting closer and closer. Running faster and faster until...

She shot bolt upright in her bed with sweat on her forehead and her heart hammering in her chest. She held her hand over her chest to try and calm herself but it didn't work. She slid to the side of her bed and got out. The cool air was nice against her limbs compared to the stuffy bed clothes. She stepped through her door and slipped into her parents' bedroom that was still empty apart from Toby who was still sleeping. She took a few more steps and stood at the glass balcony doors resting her head against the glass. But quickly jerked away when she remembered that these were the doors that he came through to take her brother

"Jare..." she thought of the name in her head but could not bring herself to finish it. She couldn't and wouldn't. She would never have to think of that name again. It was over. These thoughts calmed her.

Her heart suddenly gave a huge jolt. She froze and looked at the reflection she could see behind her. His reflection, his mismatched eyes leering at her and his long blond feathery hair framing his cheeks that she was sure would cut through glass. She snapped her eyes shut and opened them again hoping that it was in her head and nothing else. But it wasn't. He was there staring her out. She brought up every drop of courage left in her and swiftly spun around to meet his real gaze. There he was, the Goblin King, Jareth.

"Get out! You have no power over me" she hissed through her teeth and sounding incredibly stupid and childish but she did not care. What in hell was he doing here? She had won and he had lost.

A low chuckle rumbled through his chest as he edged towards her. The smile he gave was full of evil and this frightened her even more.

"No. You are right, precious. I don't" he responded. This was not the expected reaction. Sarah felt her eyebrows crease with curiosity. Why was he agreeing with her? Was this a trick?

He placed his arms against the doors at either side of her blocking any chance of escaping. She held her face down as his came closer. If he agreed with her, why was she still so scared? and why was he here now?!

"But that doesn't mean I won't in the future, now will it?" He raised her chin with one long finger to meet his penetrating gaze.

"Well?" he asked now expecting an answer from her. She didn't know what to say. What was he implying?

"What in hell are you trying to do? Get me to fall at your feet again?!" she hissed at him again. "I'm not the same person anymore. I have grown in that thirteen terrifying hours. I won't be that stupid again"

"I'm sure you won't, my dear" he said with a great tone of sarcasm which made her blood boil. His hands now rested on her hips and he leaned in to her ear. Still having her pinned against the door as she trembled violently through the immense fear she felt for this creature and the frustrated anger she felt for him being practically incapable of giving her a straight answer.

"But even grown women can't help but wish sometimes" he whispered kissing her neck and slowly facing her again

"What are you talking about?" Sarah was now cringing at the contact Jareth had just provided. She was tempted to bring her knee to where she knew it would hurt, but she then knew she would never get an answer from him so she resisted.

"Well...," he drew out over a second as though he was beginning a story, "something may happen one day and the only way to solve it would be for you to make a... wish"

These word made her stomach churn with fear.

"What something!" she spat at him like some kind of viper. He stared at her for a second until his lips curled into a grin that revealed his teeth. He appeared as though he would let out a laugh but sarahs patience wouldn't let her wait for that

"WHAT SOMETH..." She couldn't finish her second attempt at pressing him as he had cemented her lips shut with his own. As he kissed her his hands remained where they were, but hers came up to his shoulders in an attempt to push him away. But it was useless. She'd have had better luck trying to shift a block of marble. She held her hands there in defeat and he lifted his face up from hers to stare at her. He brushed a strand of hair out from her face with his thumb. He brought his hands from her hips to the sides of Sarahs face and he rested his forehead against her own. Gently forcing her "Something bad"

These were the last words she heard before he vanished in to a cloud of black smoke laced with golden dust.

She stood against the door where he had held her. She couldn't move. Mainly through fear at the fact that she had seen the Goblin King again but she was also lost in thought. He was here again she thought to herself. Here with her. He would never leave her alone. Then there was anger surging through her like an electric current. What did he mean? What something? What would happen that was so bad that she would have no choice but to ask for his help again? What was he planning to do and when and to who? All these thoughts and questions made her stomach churn. She looked up. She glanced through the empty room. It was dark. She was alone.

"Sarah!" her father's voice broke the deadly silence "what's happened!"