CHAPTER 2

Meanwhile Jareth was on his throne relaxed and laid back with his feet up over the arm of his throne. The fae woman walked into the throne room and said, "Your majesty, that human is uncooperative, acts vile like an animal. The vulgarity and lack of any decorum makes my task unbearable. She would not put the dress on so I did it for her and took away her underwear as instructed. I went to brush her hair and she screamed at me and cursed, throwing the brush across the room like she would hit me."

Jareth was angry, got up, marched down to his bedroom and slammed open the door. He then slammed it closed. Sarah jumped each time. He marched up to her scaring the crap out of her not knowing what he was capable of doing to her being he and the woman were hitting her. He froze. He saw both sides of her face that were turning purple, swelling with the bloody tear in her split lip and her makeup was smeared with tears. Her face looked painful.

Jareth reached out and Sarah shrank away from him touching her. Jareth softly said, "Oh Sarah, I am so sorry. What did she do to you?" Sarah's lip started to tremble and watery tears came to her eyes, but she sucked it up and refused to show that she was hurt by all of this.

Sarah said, "Nothing you hadn't already done to me yourself after I was trying to defend myself. Is this how it's going to be from now on? Your hospitality leaves much to be desired, Goblin King. Making me a prisoner in your bedroom, violence towards me by you and your employees. What's the deal about taking away my underwear, Jareth? You're determined to humiliate me and rape me?"

Jareth said, "I will deal with my employee for ever laying a hand on you. I don't want to rape you Sarah, but you must understand that you being human in my world poses one big problem. You must be bonded to a fae and the only way is through sex. If another fae, male or female, claims you willingly or not, you will be considered chattel."

Sarah said, "You're already playing the chattel game tonight. Kidnapping me from my home, threatening to force sex on me, taking away my underwear, taking away all of my choices, hitting me and imprisoning me in your bedroom. What happens after you claim me?"

He said quietly in a low volume, "You will belong to me. You will be enthralled and enamored with me."

Sarah looked at him in disdain saying, "That's disgusting. Is that how your people deal and control us lowly humans, physical rape and emotional enslavement too? How barbaric and you have the nerve to look down your noses at us just because we don't possess magic and are not as long lived. Really, Jareth, did you really think I would just rollover and just cooperate with that plan?"

Jareth got angry and said, "No, I suppose you of all people wouldn't, you stubborn woman, whether you know why or not it would need to be done! Really Sarah, how do you recommend I claim you? Do you have a better idea?" Sarah stared at him with her mouth open, shocked by his audacity to try and make it her fault in some way.

Sarah was incensed and said, "Don't you dare turn this back on me! I recommend not claim me at all! You took away all of my choices the moment you ripped me away from my world and ruined my life! How dare you just assume this is all ok or think it's normal! You force me to just...just...have to accept it, like it or not! You did this to me, destroying everything of mine! Trying to force me to have sex with you is depraved! Why is that Jareth, huh? Bored and wanted to screw up someone else's life today? I hope you're happy because I hate you for doing this to me and I'll never forgive you for it either, no matter what punishment you dole out from this moment forward and no matter how many times you hit me! I have a solution, kill me now and just let me die! I will die inside anyway under this kind of slavery!"

Jareth was frustrated with her and he shouted, "No! You are mine no matter what happens! Don't you understand? I will not let you go! You belong here with me forever!"

Sarah looked at him scathingly, "A possession, property only living in a gilded cage of things with no substance. Just like your first offer. SLAVERY!" She saw him turn and storm out the bedroom door slam it shut and locked it.

Sarah stood up and went to the dresser and looked for a pair of underwear and found a pair of bloomer panties. She put a pair on under the dress. Sarah went over to the fireplace after retrieving the brush off the floor and started brushing out her hair after removing the pins. She avoided the place where that woman tried ripping out her hair. It was very tender. Sarah stared into the flames and started to cry, looking into the flames because her arm and face hurt and she was just plain sad over everything that had happened to her.

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In a room full of goblins horsing around, Jareth threw himself onto the throne and materialized his riding crop, tapping incessantly on his boot. Jareth muttered, "Damn her."

One goblin looked over at another goblin and said, "Female troubles." The other goblin sighed, shrugged and nodded his head.

He cast a crystal and tossed it on the floor and Letty appeared. Letty said, "Your majesty."

Jareth asked, "Letty, do you know where the split lip and bruised cheek came from on Sarah?"

Letty's eyes got big and said, "The human would not sit up to let me brush her hair, so I pulled her up by her arm. The human said vile things and yanked the brush from my hand and threw it across the room, so I backhanded her in her filthy mouth before she could hit me."

Jareth was steaming because he did not know about her upper arm. He did not give her permission to lay a hand on Sarah. "You hurt her twice and insinuated that she was going to hit you? It made me angry defending you and I was ready to punish her, when I should have been punishing YOU for daring to lay a hand on my claim. For this you will be harshly punished." He waved his hand and disabled her magic and sent her to the dungeon. He knew it was too little too late, in Sarah's eyes.

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Sarah was frustrated and pissed off that he put her in this situation to begin with. How the hell was she to find her place in a world like this under these circumstances? All she kept coming up with was despair in her mind. She sat by the fire. She was getting hungry and yet she was tired because she never got to eat dinner out with that guy anyway. Who knows how long she has been here so far. She knew she would just have to tough it out and fall asleep on an empty stomach. She stretched out on the little divan in front of the fire between the chairs. She laid down, curled up and wanted to sleep away her jet lag from traveling between worlds.

—--

When Sarah woke up at one point, it was dark, she was warm, a bit too warm. She realized that she had an arm around her, and her back was touching someone. The back of her legs were bent and had a body up against them. Her eyes widened realizing it was Jareth. Sarah went to get out of the bed to go to the bathroom. He tightened his hold. She kept trying to move and he finally let her up. She went to the door not far from the bed that was a huge bathroom. After she did what she needed, she came out of the bathroom and took the heavy velvet robe hanging by the bathroom door. She went to the fireplace and laid on the couch covering up with the robe.

Jareth watched her go into the bathroom and come out going to the couch to sleep. He was going to wait until she fell asleep and move her back into the bed. He was surprised how comfortable it felt with her laying next to him.

—--Day 2

When she woke up in the morning, she was in Jareth's empty bed. Sarah realized he more than likely put her back in the bed and had her locked up again.

She got up, went to the bathroom, and then tried the door. Yep, locked. Her breakfast was in front of the fire on a small table. She sat down in front of the fire and ate every bite from being hungry the night before.

After breakfast, she went to the bathroom and took off her nightgown, underwear and his robe. She stepped into the in-ground pool that was the bathtub. It was big enough for eight people and was constantly cycling water from a small waterfall with plants around half of it and cascading down the wall. It was deep enough to come up to her breasts. There were bottles of shampoo, conditioner, bath oil and salts.

She took the soap bar and a washcloth from a small, stacked rack on the side of the pool. Sarah bathed and washed her hair, going underwater to rinse her hair a couple times. When she came up the last time, she swore she was being watched but nobody was in the bathroom but herself. It gave her the creeps. She got out of the pool and wrapped her hair in a towel and dried off, she still was feeling like she was being watched. She turned to gather the clothes she had taken off. They were gone but for the robe. Putting on his robe, she walked out of the bathroom and saw a clean nightgown on the bed but no underwear to be had. Sarah thought, 'Jareth you are not funny not giving me underwear again and now I wonder what you are up to this time?'

She was tired after bathing and her face was hurting. She put on a nightgown. She looked for another pair of bloomer panties in the dresser like before, but there wasn't another pair. She used the comb on the dresser to comb out her damp hair while sitting on the edge of the bed. She put it back on the dresser and laid down and took a nap.

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She woke up to a sensation of being touched between her thighs. She opened her eyes, finding her one knee over a naked Jareth's hip, his one arm around her and his hand massaging her clit. She flew off the bed, fell onto the floor and scrambled to her feet putting distance between them.

Sarah yelled out in shock and embarrassment, "What the hell do you think you're doing taking advantage of me in my sleep?! Is that why I didn't get clean underwear?!"

Jareth laid there in all his naked glory, stretching out like a cat. His thin toned muscled body and hard large penis were certainly attractive, but he was being far too familiar as far as she was concerned. They barely even knew each other at all.

He looked at her seductively and said sexily, "Not quite the reaction I expected, but good, you're not asleep anymore. Come back to bed. I know you were enjoying it, judging by the sounds you were making."

She blushed and accused, "What?! You just came in and molested me while I slept?! That is so crazy and insane! What makes you think I want you to do that to me while I'm not even conscious and still hurt and in pain?! I am shocked you would take such liberties with me after everything yesterday." Sarah was glad she woke up before he could penetrate her.

Jareth snapped sitting up, "You stubborn woman, you just won't admit that you liked it!"

She exclaimed, stomping her foot with her arms waving in the air, "That's not the point at all and you know it! You just assume I'm going to have sex with you still after everything said and had occured yesterday?! Just like that at the snap of your fingers you ignore everything and do what you want?! I haven't laid eyes on you in thirteen years since I was a child. Here I am, not even here but maybe a day at the most. I have not been conscious even that long and you threaten and then take advantage of me by attempting to do this?!" He got up and sauntered towards her, his still hard cock bobbing up and down. She circled him to skirt him from touching her or getting too close.

He turned towards her direction and said seriously while drawling her name, "Sa-rah, I must claim you, better to do it now and get it over with. As I told you yesterday you, as a human, you cannot exist in the Underground without being claimed by a fae. I will treat you well." Sarah huffed at him and thought to herself, 'Hmm…yeah, right. My time has run out quickly with him trying to do this again. I must get away from here.'

She was holding her head in pain with a pounding headache being her face was swollen. She replied and tried to reason with him, "Look, I'm not ready to deal with this in any way. I don't even know you. You haven't a clue who I am anymore after so long. My head hurts so badly and I refuse to have sex with anyone."

Jareth magically put his clothes on and said exasperated, "You're going to have to submit, Sarah! You have no choice in the matter! Let me heal your face?" He reached out and she shied away from him.

He said softly, "I have to touch you to heal you." He reached out slowly again and touched her face. She let him because she had no choice the pain was excruciating. His hand glowed as he caressed her cheek. The pain melted away as the swelling and the split lip receded and faded away. He removed his hand.

He said, "We will talk over dinner in a few hours." He exhaled loudly and walked out the door locking it behind him.

Sarah sat down on a chair and just couldn't believe him trying that on her unaware. That was outrageous and he acted like it was no big deal to him still. She needed to find a way out of here to put distance between him and herself. She was trapped in his bedroom. Sarah did not feel safe with him running around now that he was sexually groping her in her sleep. There had to be a way out of this.