Sweet Revenge

Chapter Twelve

 

Sarah woke up feeling much stronger then the day before, she looked at the flowers next to the bed they were still full bloomed she smiled, she was thinking that if Jareth came back she thinks they should at least talk out everything and see where it goes from there if nothing comes from it the nothing does but if a relationship develops then it does, but she would wait to see what happens.

Madgie walked in carrying a tray of food, Sarah sat up as she draped the tray over her lap, Sarah took the cover off her food, she saw pancakes, and sausage and syrup in a bottle next to her plate, and she drenched her pancakes and sausage in the syrup.

Madgie stood there staring at her; Sarah didn’t notice at first, she was too busy devouring her breakfast. She looked up at Madgie surprised to still see her standing there.

“Is there something you wanted?” she asked

“I wanted to let you know that the king has been pacing back and forth all morning in the hall, waiting to speak to you” Madgie told her

Sarah thought for a moment “after I eat breakfast you may allow him to come in”

Madgie nodded her head, she left the room to go and talk to Jareth. She got out into the hallway and Jareth stopped pacing and stared at her “so what did she say?”

 

She smiled at him noticing he was acting like a child that couldn’t wait to do something. “She said as soon as she is done with breakfast, she will talk with you”

Jareth smiled widely, Madige went back in the room to see Sarah, when she walked in the room where Sarah was kept, and she saw Sarah wiping her face with her napkin. She walked over to her and looked at her plate “all done dear?”

Sarah nodded her head as she said “yes”

Madgie took her tray away while Sarah sat there looking out the window, she was bored of being in bed and not doing or going anywhere, but she is stuck in bed for at least another day or two, she knew she was still weak from losing the child and as she looked out the window, she couldn’t help but think about the child she lost, was it a girl or a boy did it look like her or Jareth. Just thinking about that brought tears to her eyes, she quickly wiped them away, and she never really wanted to be a mother since her mother abandoned her when she was young, so she was afraid she would do that to her own child, but after losing this one, she realized how much she wanted a child and can’t wait to become a mother again someday.

She heard someone clear there throat, she was shaken out of her thoughts by it, she turned her head and saw Jareth sitting next to the bed.

“You wanted to talk to me” Sarah blurted out

“You get right to the point don’t you” Jareth said

“No point in beating around the bush is there?” she asked

“Your right and yes I wanted to talk to you” Jareth says

“what did you want to talk about?’ she asks curious

“Us” he tells her

She gave him a confused look “I wasn’t aware there was an us anymore”

Jareth looked at her sadly and replied “I realized I acted like an ass to you, and I apologize”

“Just because you apologize does not mean you’re are sorry for the way you treated me and any other woman” she said

“I know that” he says

“Why did you treat woman like that?” Sarah asked

Jareth thought for a moment “I never used to”

Sarah looked at him puzzled “what happened to you to make you do that?”

“You” he told her

Sarah looked angry at him “what did I do?”

“When I first met you, I used to pretend these women were you, and I treated them as they were even calling them your name. But then they would argue with me and tell me they weren’t you and they were leaving me and I don’t know what happened I got really mad and would hit them.”

Sarah thought over what he said “was this before, during or after I ran your labyrinth?”

“Before, when I first noticed you in the park rehearsing from the book” he said he noticed her shocked look and added ‘then after you defeated the labyrinth and me, and turned me into an owl. I was really mad at you but in love with you at the same time, so I was just confused and I hated that I was feeling that way, I know I should’ve been mad at you and hated you but I couldn’t. So the more I hated myself the more I forced myself to hate you”

Sarah gave him a scared look “that is why you whipped me, for punishment”

Jareth looked down and said quietly “yes”

“You know any kind of abuse, is not good for a relationship” she told him

“I know” he said

He looked up at her “if you promise that next time you get mad at me and want to hurt me, you find something else to focus that anger on”

“I promise”

She looked at him thoughtfully “what do you usually do when you get mad?”

Jareth thought for a moment “I usually kick a goblin”

Sarah covered her mouth and gasped in fear, he saw her face and spoke up “believe me it doesn’t hurt them, they laugh about it, sometimes even beg me to do it”

Sarah was having a hard time understanding how anyone would beg to be kicked, but Goblins were known to be unintelligent creatures, so maybe to them it was like Jareth was having fun with them.

She smiled slightly at him “okay next time you feel angry go kick a goblin” she then heard what she said and couldn’t believe she said that and spoke “I can’t believe I just encouraged you to kick something”

Jareth laughed at her and said “I won’t tell if you don’t”

“Deal” she said and held her hand out to him to shake, he looked at the hand confused, he then grabbed it and brought the hand up to his mouth and kissed it. Sarah smiled at him and said “you were supposed to shake it not kiss it”

“I think kissing it was better than shaking it don’t you”

Sarah blushed at his comment and nodded her head, Jareth smirked at her, he was glad that Sarah seemed happy and not as sad as she would, which could only mean that she was healing. But Jareth still wanted to know where they stand if they still had a chance for a relationship or not, so he though the best thing would be to ask.

“About our relationship, do we have one?”

Sarah thought it over carefully and replied “why don’t we start as friends and see if anything develops if not then maybe it wasn’t meant to be. If something does then we know we were meant to be”

“Okay” Jareth said

Sarah smiled relieved that he was good with that answer; he looked at her and returned her smile then said to her “I will leave now and let you get your rest”

“Thank you” she said

He stood up then he bent down and kissed her forehead, he then walked out, Sarah watched him leave with a bright smile on her face, and she lay down on her pillow and closed her eyes.

Jareth walked out of the room and into the hallway, he closed the door behind him and leaned his head on the door, he smiled then he took a deep breath and disappeared.