The protector Of The Champion

Chapter 23

The Next Morning

Jolene opened her eyes. She was in her bed and she realized she must have cried herself to sleep. She sat up in bed. She was still upset for what she did to Kieran but she knew it was something that she had to do.

She quickly got out of bed, bathed and dressed since she knew her children would want to know what she had done with Kieran.

Jolene walked into the dining hall where she saw Jareth, Sarah, Tiana and Olivia sitting at the table eating breakfast. She looked at her family and smiled, and then she walked in quietly and sat down to join them.

They all smiled and nodded their greeting to her. After breakfast, Tiana and Jareth followed her to the library so they could talk in private.

Sarah stayed with Olivia.

 

Tiana and Jareth sat down on the couch watching their mother, while she paced back and forth in front of them. She eventually stopped and looked at them sadly.

“I made a decision about Kieran.”

“What is it?” Tiana asked as she moved forward on the couch. Jareth sat back relaxing on the couch while looking at his mother.

“I took away his crown and his magic, and then banished him from the kingdom,” she told them.

Jareth then sat forward looking at his mother in confusion. Tiana spoke up first.

“Mother why?” she asked.

“I didn’t have the heart to kill him. I do still love him,” she tells them unhappily.

Jareth stood up. “After what he did to Sarah?” he asks angrily.

Jolene walked up to her son and wrapped her arms around him. “He told me, he didn’t want her. He just wanted you to become cruel, so you could be the son he wants.”

Jareth looked at his mother cruelly. “He did those things to Sarah, so I would send her away and turn evil like him?”

His mother smiled at him and nodded her head, tears in her eyes. Jareth turned his back away from her.

Tiana walked up to her mother. “Mom, don’t you see how wrong that is?”

Jolene looked at her. “Yes, I understand and I know it was wrong for Kieran to treat Sarah like that, but he just wanted to be proud of Jareth.”

Jareth turned to look at his mother coldly. “And you are just as crazy as he is,” he tells her as he walks out of the library. He slammed the door behind him, making Jolene and Tiana jump.

Jolene watched Jareth go with tears in her eyes, and then she turned to look at Tiana. “Do you think I’m crazy?”

Tiana smiled gently at her mother. “No, I don’t. I think you are a woman in love and you are trying to figure out why father did what he did.”

Jolene smiled and hugged her daughter. “Do you think Jareth will ever forgive me?”

Tiana looked at her mother seriously. “I think in time he will forgive you.”

Jolene smiled happily at her daughter and Tiana grabbed her mother’s hand. “Come on let’s go spend some time with Olivia.”

 

Jolene and Tiana walked in to the dining room. They saw Olivia sitting in a chair alone, so they walked over to her, then sat down and started talking to the girl.

 

Sarah sat on the bed watching Jareth pace back and forth. “Are you going to tell me why you quickly grabbed me out of your mother’s castle and brought us back to your castle?”

Jareth didn’t say anything but he could feel Sarah’s eyes on him. She was still waiting for an answer.

He turned and looked at her, and then he kneeled in front of her, wrapping his arms around her waist. She started combing her fingers through his long blonde locks.

He smiled up at her and said. “My mom just dismissed Kieran out of the kingdom, not even getting him killed or at least placed in an oubliette.”

“Did your mother say why?” she asked him.

“She said that she still loved him and couldn’t do that to him,” Jareth said as he sighed and then laid his head on Sarah’s lap.

“I don’t think I could have you killed if you ever did anything like that,” Sarah told him with sadness in her voice.

He looked up at her smiling sadly at her. “You will never have to worry about that, I would not do something like that.”

“I know,” she tells him.

Jareth stood up, looking down at her. Sarah looked up at him wondering what he was doing. He gently pushed Sarah on the bed and then he lay down on top of her.

He kissed her and said smiling. “I love you.”

“I love you, too,” she replied smiling.

Jareth moved down her body and kissed her stomach. “I love you too so you hurry up and come out so I can hold you!”

Sarah laughed then cleared her throat. Jareth laughed and corrected, “I mean so we can hold you.”

He moved back up her body, wrapping his arms tightly around her and kissing her.

 

Kieran walked into a room and looked around. A woman with brown hair pulled into a braided bun, ran to him.

“Did it happen, did you kill them, and am I queen?” the woman asked.

He moved away from her. “No, Amber. I did not kill Jolene and her son. I just tried to kill Sarah.”

Amber looked at him confused. “Who’s Sarah?”

“Jareth’s slut of a wife and the Champion of the Labyrinth,” he told her.

Amber’s eyes glazed over and looked a little crazy. “A champion, huh? We could keep her.”

“And do what with her, dear?” he asked calmly.

“We could keep her locked in a cage and throw things at her,” Amber said as she laughed insanely.

“That might be a little hard to do my dear, since Sarah is married to Jareth and pregnant with his first child and he won’t let her out of his sight,” he tells her.

Amber pouted at him. “But I want to be queen!”

Kieran smiled at her softly. “I know you do dear,” he said as if talking to a small child.

“You promised,” she told him.

“Yes, dear, I know,” he said

“You said I could be queen!” Amber says while throwing things at him and having a temper tantrum.

Kieran dodged everything she was throwing at him. He then grabbed her and wrapped his arms around her. “You will get all you deserve, my love.”

She looked up at him smiling. “You are still my wife and I love you.”

“I am still your wife and you love me,” she says.

“Good girl,” he praised her and kissed her.

 

“So this is where you go when you left your wife, back to your first wife?” a male voice asked from behind him.

Amber and Kieran turned to look behind them and saw King Quinn and Zora standing in the doorway, both giving them evil smiles.

“I thought you were locked up for eternity” Kieran says.

“No, we just got sent to this kingdom. Where the court puts people to forget about them,” he tells him smiles cruelly before he continues. “I am here to help you with your problem.”

Kieran looks at him confused. “What problem would that be?”

“To get revenge on your family,” Quinn says.

“How, we don’t have magic anymore?” Kieran said

“We have Zora and she has never let me down, yet,” King Quinn said as he kissed Zora on the cheek.

“Fine. Let’s do this,” King Kieran agreed.