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This chapter was written by: Epic Failing Again

Chapter Eight

Sarah, Jareth and Iris sat down for dinner with Toby's highchair between Iris and Sarah. As usual, Iris was wearing a dress with a neckline far too low to be considered wearable in court. The deep red dress did complement her dark eyes and give them a hint of brown. Sarah, in a light blue dress, completely ignored Iris as she fed Toby his bottle and laughed as he managed to spill most of the liquid all over himself and her.

"Does he really have to eat with us?" Iris asked disdainfully, watching Sarah slowly get splashed with baby formula.

"He's not eating, he's drinking," Sarah replied coldly.

"Whatever he's doing, why does he have make his mess here?" Iris asked, throwing Toby an elegantly disgusted look.

"Because he's my son," Sarah replied. Toby giggled, clapping his hands. Sarah laughed and set to work wiping down Toby's face and hands with a small damp cloth, heedless of the damage to her own dress.

"Jareth," Iris whined. "Why is he eating with us?"

"Because he always eats with us," Sarah cut in, setting down the dirty cloth on the little table attached to Toby's highchair. Toby started banging on his little table and accidentally hit the dirty cloth which made a squishing sound. Toby stopped banging and hit the cloth again, giggling as he made the squishing sound again. Toby picked up the cloth, shook it around and then dropped it again, getting little spots of formula all over the high chair and floor.

"Alright Toby, that's enough," Sarah said, sighing as she reached to take the cloth from him. Toby picked it up and swung it out of her grasp, but accidentally let go. It flew a short distance through the air and hit Iris squarely in the upper chest, where decency said there should be cloth but there wasn't as usual.

Iris' look of disgust and horror was priceless as she peeled the dirty cloth off of herself and dropped it on the table. Sarah would have gladly paid half the value of the goblin kingdom to see that look on Iris' face again.

"Ok Toby, bedtime," Sarah sighed, pulling Toby out of his highchair, barely containing her laughter. She didn't really want to leave Iris and Jareth, but she knew she had to take Toby out before Iris personally kicked him out.

"Excuse me," Iris said, standing up and walking swiftly out of the room, passing Sarah as she went.

Sarah walked Toby to her and Jareth's room. Once there, she burst out laughing. Finally, regaining her composure, Sarah walked Toby over to his crib. She kissed his head and gently set him down. Toby remained wide-awake, grinning at her.

"It's time for bed, Toby," Sarah sighed. "As in, go to sleep," she said to Toby's wide-open eyes.

"Need some help?" a voice asked from the door, sounding amused. Sarah turned around. Jareth was leaning against the doorway, smiling at her.

"Yeah," Sarah replied. Why couldn't she get Toby to sleep?

Jareth smiled and walked over. He picked up Toby and rocked him. Within the first verse of "I'll be there for you," Toby was fast asleep. Jareth gently placed Toby back in his crib and put his arm around Sarah.

She looked at him with a perfectly blank expression, but her eyes said it all. They were questioning, asking him if he still loved them and their owner.

Jareth held her face gently in his hands, leaned down and kissed her, easing his lips gently over hers. He hoped he could answer her unasked question with a definitive "yes."She kissed him back, her arms slowly curling around his neck. He held her to him, his hands stroking her back, loosening the laces on her dress.

A loud rap on the door broke the trance. "Dinner is served," Hoggle called from the other side of the heavy wooden door. Well at least he learned his lesson and knocked, Jareth thought vaguely, having no intention of going to dinner. Sarah's stomach growled loudly. Jareth burst out laughing.

"Let's go to dinner," he said, offering her his arm.

Sarah turned red, but threaded his arm through his anyway.

"I got us some wine," Iris said when they entered.

Jareth smiled at her. "Thank you."

"Dig in," Hoggle said as Jareth and Sarah sat down.

There was an awkward silence as they ate. Even Iris wasn't flirting with Jareth, probably because she still smelled faintly of baby formula.

Sarah couldn't keep her thoughts straight. They bounced from Iris to Jareth to Toby to food and back to Iris again.

Sarah reached for her glass of wine, but then retracted her hand again. Was alcohol really the best thing for her right now?

"A toast," Iris said, raising her crystal goblet. "The health of all of us and the labyrinth."

"Us and the labyrinth," Sarah and Jareth repeated.

Sarah raised her goblet to her lips and took a swallow. The crystal fell to the ground as fire coursed through her veins. The crystal smashed into a million pieces as it hit the floor but Sarah didn't notice. Her eyes widened as the fire burned through her as if her blood was a river of gasoline. Sarah's head began to throb and burst into flames in pain. She became confused, unsure of what was going on and where she was and then proceeded to vomit violently all over Iris.

Iris stood up rapidly and ran out of the room. "Murder! Murder in the castle!" she screamed as she ran.

Jareth watched his queen in horror as she gasped in pain from whatever was in the wine. "Sarah! Sarah!" he cried. "Answer me!" She looked at him through unfocused eyes. She stood up slowly, balancing herself on the table. Jareth stood up quickly and went to her side, catching her when she fell over and slipped into a coma. "Sarah!" he cried, shaking her. She went still. "Sarah! Sarah!"

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