CHAPTER 7: My sentance

Hello! It sure has been a while hasn't it? Well back again with Chappy 7! Enjoy if you can Oo;

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Sarah sat on her knees a few feet to the left of Jareth who was also kneeling, his head bowed before the High King Terram.
It was awquard.
It felt like primary school again, Sarah and Jareth had been called to the principal because they had been troublemaking...except this was worse...much worse.
The throne was at the end of a vast hall lined with respectable guards and honorable magicians. Both Jareth and Sarah knew how big this was if the guards had been called from thier posts.

"I expected better of you Jareth" He began peering down coldly at The Goblin king, "when i gave you that position as a leader of the underground i felt you would uphold your oath.
Jareth gulped.
"Yes your honor" is all he could reply. Sarah had never seen Jareth this badly ever, it was not like him to submit to anyone, yet here he was kneeling before a man half his hight.

"Miss Sarah" The king exclaimed once the room had gone silent. Sarah looked into the eyes of the man who sat before her and her heart sank. She knew she was in trouble she just knew it. "What you have done is an awful deed and what is in store for you, you must understand is not only in your best interests but also a difficult task."

Sarah didn't know weather to respond or wait for him to tell her, but she could see Jareth from the corner of her eye fidgit.

The king waved his left hand and Sarah felt a sharp pain to her ears and fingers and feet. Sarah closed her eyes and tried to block out the sudden pain and braced herself. It was like a cramp, It started from her toes and slowly washed up her body to reach her nose which felt as if it were about to break from some hidden pressure.
Then as soon as it had begun it was over. Sarah opened her eyes to look to Jareth who's jaw was gaping at her.
Sarah looked down to her hands which were no longer as she knew them to be. They were now longer, sharper and covered with fur. She knew immediately that the rest of her would be this way.
She kept still.

"Jareth, your punishment isn't quite as generous i'm afraid, venturing to human lands is against your call of duty and its only my job to take your position away from you entirely".

Jareth bowed his head, he knew there was no point in asking for forgiveness, it just never worked that way.

"And you will live there until you can prove to me that you are worthy of your position."

Sarah went cold when she heard these words,it was as if someone had just splashed ice water over her back.
It was Jareth's sentace, It was her sentance.

One moment later she was gone.

Sarah sat suddenly upright in bed. she was cold and sweat was running down her cheek and the back of her neck.
It was dark, the birds were singing but the sun hadn't come up yet.

It was only a dream, thats all! though it was all so clear to her. Sarah rubbed her forehead with the palm of her hand then reached for the glass at her bedside table. As she dragged her legs over the edge of the bed, she noticed she wasnt in her usual bed attire, On the contrary, she was wearing her work uniform, It was dirty and stained.
Sarah was now wide awake as ever before and dashed to the mirror to check her body was all in tact, However she didnt even make it half way before tripping over something laying in the middle of her bedroom floor.
Sarah reached for her head which had bumped the edge of the mirror and touched the new wound. It stung painfully.
The object she had tripped over began to move in the dark and to her horror, Sarah realised she was sprawled across the one thing she wished to never see again.

"Jareth!" Sarah cried out shuffling back against the wall as fast as she could. "What on earth are you doing!" She stared as the man shook his head and sat up. Jareth could only groan, he looked deadly exhausted from being sapped of his powers and had only the feintest idea where he was or who this woman infront of him was.
He reached forward to touch the woman's forehead but his judgement was horrible and he missed, accidently touching her left breast. Sarah swung her hand into his face as hard as she could muster before standing and running out the door as fast as she could, locking the door behind her on her way out.

Jareth rubbed his cheek and crawled on all fours to the bed where he used the last of his energy to heave himself onto the soft matrass where he slumped into a deep sleep.

The kitchen stove clock read 2:14pm before Sarah had any thought about going to her room again, even though she hadn't slept, she was having doubts about the events of that morning, And also curious to see if it was really what she thought she saw.
But by 4:45pm she knew she couldn't wait any longer, she stood, determination in her eyes and marched right upstairs to face her fears!
On every step of the stairs, her mind have her a new reason why NOT to go into the room, but she kept on going. She reached the landing and marched to the door...Then quickly turned around and ran back down again.
This just wasnt working for her, but sooner or later she'd need her things.
Second time was a failed attempt. This time she had unlocked the door and positively leaped out of her skin and ran to the front door ready to escape.
She straighened herself out and walked again for the third time up the stairs and reached for the doorknob and turned.

The door swung open to reveal a sunlit bed, atop which was a man, the man, the rather innocent looking sleeping man. There was something very odd about this scene, and Sarah couldn't pinpoint it exactly, but she knew it was odd, for once the Goblin King wasn't so frightening anymore...

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hmm sorry if there are any mistakes, I am typing this in notepad cause Word doesnt work for me anymore and i cant be bothered with anything else. Yeah it took me several attempts to write this Chappy because of where i left off with it. i wasnt at all happy with Chap 6 but i wont revise it anyway because it might come in handy in a week or so :) oh well. I'm back again and i hope i'll be more consistant from now on. Adi0s!