A/N: dodges anything being thrown OK I know its been almost a year since I updated and I know frankly that im bad for taking this long. But I've been extremely busy, with moving into a new room, college, theater, friends and work plus my computer died on me. I just about have time to sleep, but I promise I will try to update sooner. Anyway im off to London tomorrow, so I have my notebook with the story in it with so I decided to update since I really should. Wish me luck on my trip. I will hopefully be able to write on the plane.
Chapter 12
Sarah sat on her bed, when she heard a knock at her apartment door. She got up and headed out of her room and toward the door.
"Who is it?" She asked.
"It's Peter" Came the reply from the other side of the door.
"Go away. I don't want to talk to you."
"Sarah, can we please talk."
Sarah annoyed at the shouting , opened the door and said "FINE! Let's start with you telling me why you were going to tell Jareth what I told you IN CONFIDENCE!"
Peter was speechless, he had no clue how to respond to Sarah. He watched as Sarah sat down on the couch and started crying. He could tell that she was struggling with her feelings for Jareth, and also struggling to keep those feelings sealed up. He walked over and sat down next to her starting to comfort her.
"I..I...I just don't know what to do" Sarah said shaking in between sobs. "I want to be with him so bad, but at the same time I don't."
Peter took Sarah into his arms and curled up into a ball, and hugged her.
"Now, I can't tell you what to do, but I can give you one piece of advice. Follow your heart."
Sarah gave him a smile and said "thanks."
As he looked at her, he saw a scared little girl. She was a mess, her hair was all matted and tangled , her eyes were all red and puffy, ans she looked liked she hasn't slept in weeks.
"Come on, I think you need to get some sleep, you look horrid."
Sarah glared at him "Gee Thanks."
"You know what I mean, now come on off to bed with you."
"Yea, yea im going."
Before heading off to her room, she gave Peter a huge hug. "Thanks."
He smiled back. "Anytime."
Sarah went into her room and shut the door. As she lie on her bed, she tried to sleep but couldn't her thoughts shifting to Jareth. Which seemed to be the only thing she could think of at the moment.
"I wonder if he really meant it, when he told Peter he loved me?" Pausing for a second, she asked herself .. "Do I actually love him?"
Exhausted from the lack of sleep, and thinking about Jareth she finally curled up into a ball and fell asleep for the first time in a week.
Jareth sat in his room suking, he was thinking about her again. He wanted so much to tell her how he felt , but no he couldn't that would make him weak.. The Goblin King was never weak.
"I never offer myself twice" He muttered to himself.
Twirling his fingers he produced a crystal , looking into it he saw the image of Sarah curled up in a ball sleeping. She looked so peaceful, and angelic, he couldn't help but watch her sleep. He just wished that he could hold in his arms. He wished so much that he could take her pain away. Suddenly his mood brightened, he had an idea. The crystal in his hand vanished , as did Jareth.
-----Dream-------
Sarah was standing in the Escher room, nut wait this was all too familiar. She gasped in shock to see that she was watching herself running around the room trying to get to Toby. Since she was just observing she just heard something she hadn't heard the first time- Jareth singing.When she first encountered him , she was more interesting in getting to Toby and hadn't really paid much attention to Jareth at all.
"I... I can't live within you."
His words shocked Sarah.
"Oh god, he actually loves me."
Sarah continued to observe her 15 year old self run through the room after Toby like a maniac. The all of a sudden she was watching the final confrontation..
"Give me the child."
"Sarah, beware I have been generous up till now and I can be cruel."
"Generous? What have you done that's generous?."
"Everything! Everything that you have wanted I have done. You asked that the child be taken, I took him. You cowered before me , I was frightening. I have reordered time, I have turned the world upside down , and I have done it all for you. I am exhausted from living up to your expectations of me. Isn't that generous?"
"Through dangers untold, and hardships unnumbered I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the goblin city. For my will is as strong as yours and my..."
"Stop. Wait. Look Sarah, look what I'm offering you , your dreams"
And for the first time Sarah noticed that Jareth was in the crystal.
"And my kingdom as great."
"Just fear me, love me, do as I say, and I will be your slave."
"My kingdom as great, my kingdom as great..."
"You have no power over me"
As she watched she noticed for the first time the look on Jareth's face, when she said her final words.
"Oh Jareth, I'm sorry . No Jareth come back ..."
Sarah started talking in her sleep when Jareth appeared in her bedroom with his usual array of glitter. He walked over to her beside and sat down next to her.
"Jareth no, don't go. I'm sorry"
"There, there Sarah. It's ok. What happened between us in the past is no longer important. I'm here now , and it'll be ok."
Getting up he gave her a kiss on the forehead , and the preceded to leave when he heard Sarah cry out in her sleep.
"No Jareth. Don't leave me, don't leave me."
Humoring himself , he walked back over to the bed and took Sarah in his arms and watched her sleep turn peaceful before he too was claimed by sleep with Sarah still cuddled in his arms.
Tbc..
I promise I will update sooner, but I better get a bunch of reviews in my inbox when I return from London or I may make you wait longer.
Cheers!
A.M.