A/N I own nothing from the source material, songs, or oc's from MyraValhallah's story. Just doing this for fun.
Chapter 15
Erik and Christine had been on their way to the Court when Sarah had been found ill. They couldn't stay long. This was important; they tried to explain that to their son. They didn't discount the danger that something ancient was pulling the strings here but they had a previous engagement. Jareth stood in the corner of the room listening to them make their excuses. It didn't matter. Because what they were really saying was that even the High King and Queen could do nothing to dispel whatever magic had been worked over his Sarah. As he watched the Doctor and Rose leave an unconscious Sarah he knew it was his own fault. She had said it herself. He had given her certain powers all of those years ago. Not magic. No she had woven her own form of magic. He had seen what her life had been like. He didn't want her. Not in that way at least. Not then. He had to play the role she cast him in just as she played the roles of spoiled brat and angry step child. They were parts her stepmother had made her play and he knew that the little girl who had believed in fairy tales just needed to prove she was her own person. She wasn't her mother's cast off. She wasn't her father's burden. She was a girl that could be anything she wanted to be. Just as he was but a man who had been a boy.
He walked to stand beside her inert form and he knew it was up to him. She knew her family. She kept going on about Toby and having promised him she would be there for his birthday. The Doctor told him that there was nothing wrong with her. She just couldn't remember the Labyrinth, it's creatures, her adventures, and Jareth himself. Jareth sighed in defeat. She had been fifteen, fifteen, anything he offered then would have been criminal. Every girl wants to be a princess at some point. He had just been giving her that. He had wanted to show her what she was capable of. Being a hero, a princess, a friend...a sister. Now with him gone from her mind he knew that the feeling of sympathy between them which had grown into love, on his side, over those six years had to be forgotten. She could go with the Doctor back to where she belonged. Jareth could spend forever trying to forget her. For now he would stay by her side. Just until she woke and his princess would leave.
"Why do you think she can't remember any of this?" Rose had her hand placed on the paneling of the wall. The Doctor puzzled and pondered but couldn't think of what it could be. Then again there was a more urgent matter that required a bit more attention. Rose had been passed out, then angry, and now she eerily reminded him of Donna during the Meta-crisis fiasco. Something was wrong. He stared at her for a while then in a moment of inspiration pressed both his hands on either side of her chest. She gasped and he knelt to the ground listening to one heart beat and then the next while his hands curled around her waist. She placed her hands on his shoulders and pushed slightly. He looked up with an expression of wonder and a bit of fear. It screamed 'how?'.
"The TARDIS." It was said simply and he stood staring into her eyes as though looking for a confirmation. "She made me a Time Lord."
"No," He shook his head and she snapped her eyes from her fidgeting fingers to his face, "She made you Gallifreyan."
"Isn't that the same thing?" She was looking at him with a mixture of confusion and irritation.
"No, it's not." He stepped away and pushed his hands into his coat pockets and found the pocket watch. "Time Lords and Ladies, they're trained. They go to an academy. They are taught how to control what they are. What happens to their minds after they've seen the Time Vortex in the Untempered Schism. You didn't go through any of this. You can't..." He passed his hand over his face.
"I'm not good enough!" The shout brought a sound from Sarah and a look of warning from Jareth. Rose lowered her voice back to a hushed whisper. "That's what it was back then too! I was good enough to babysit your and Donna's mistake but I wasn't good enough for you." She stepped away from their corner and was half way out the door when Sarah started to speak. It was her mouth but not her voice.
"You're right. You Rose Tyler are not the Girl Who Waited, you are not the Impossible Girl, you are not the Doctor's Wife. You are not the last companion. You were not the first. The Moment has already come for this Doctor but he will still choose selfishly for you. He will not return. He will live forever stuck here. Two times should not happen at once. Sentimental." She turned herself to face the Doctor. "Sentimental old fool. You can not have the best of both worlds. It is her or Gallifrey. What will you decide?" Sarah collapsed against a scared Jareth who stared at the Doctor with wide angry eyes.
"Nothing wrong with her? Seems like there was something you might have missed, Doctor."
A/: The names should be spelled properly now, sorry.