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Tweak says, "They're watching me..."

sarah_williams (sarah_williams) wrote in mirage_rpg,
@ 2009-02-15 20:10:00

Entry tags:

arrival, complete, day 32, jareth, sarah williams

Day 32: Intro
Who: Sarah Williams & Jareth
What: Sarah arrives
When: Day 32, just before sunrise
Where: Garden
Status: Complete
Rating: PG at the moment

It was so quiet that Sarah could have heard a pin drop. If she had been paying attention. She was more focused on something else. Something that had settled in her stomach like an icy ball of dread. Her knuckles were white as she held the blankets tightly to her chest, eyes wide, staring straight up at the ceiling.

It's finally happening.

The clock was ticking in the hallway. The clock that had been there 3 years ago. The one that was safely at her father's house a thousand miles away with Irene and Toby and their perfectly normal, ignorant lives. She had no clocks in this apartment. None that could tick, that is. Yet there it was. Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick.

He's finally coming back for me.

Something about the room changed. It wasn't as dark anymore. Light was creeping in through the blinds? No, it looked more like cracks in the walls of the room. Sarah sat up straight as an arrow in the bed with a muffled cry in her throat. Tears began to stream down her cheeks and she opened her mouth to scream.

Then the garden.

At first she thought she must have passed out or had been dreaming of being in her own apartment a few moments ago. Because this garden looked exactly like the one in which she had been practicing her lines all those years ago on the night she first visited the labyrinth. Upon inspection she saw she was indeed wearing the long, white dress she had used for playacting then and the wreath of flowers in her long, dark hair.

It was all a dream? All of it?

"Am I fifteen again? That's not f-" and she stopped herself, feeling the old petulance rising and the fear subsiding. And as it did she realized that this garden was nothing like the one she had practiced in. In fact, it was so dissimilar that she reached up to be sure she hadn't imagined the wreath of flowers in her hair. But it was still there.

"Where am I?" she whispered.

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sarah_williams
2009-02-20 12:43 pm UTC (link)

Instead of ordering her coffee directly from the golem as he'd recommended, Sarah closed her eyes briefly and imagined the tall, steaming, nutty-scented drink she wanted. If Jareth was right, the Planet would just drop the drink in front of her without the necessity of the golem. She could have magical powers of a sort! Wouldn't that be a fun way to start a... conversation for a truce. No, no, that would not be good. Her eyes snapped open and she smiled sweetly at the golem.

"I'd like a hazelnut latte, please."

Her stomach knotted a little and she turned her gaze back to Jareth as the golem scurried away, presumably to have their order handled by actual hands. She smiled at him pleasantly and then looked around the room which was rather non-descript as far as cafes went. It looked like the sum of the parts of every cafe she'd ever been in before. Nothing discernible to make it stand out as special. That was calming in a way.

She folded her hands on the table and played with her fingers for a moment before taking a deep breath and speaking, her eyes on her hands. "So, do you think we have a shot at figuring a way around this whole pink elephant?"

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labyrinth_king
2009-02-20 02:46 pm UTC (link)

Jareth watched her curiously as she closed her eyes. Moments later, the green orbs snapped open again, and he couldn't help but wonder what she'd been doing. It was probably slightly odd, but he'd never even considered ordering his food the way she had. He should have, since he was well-used to wishing whatever he wanted into existance, but for whatever reason he just hadn't thought of it.

The golem, given it's orders, stumped off. Now, there was no reason not to look at the girl on the other side of the table, and slowly, his mismatched eyes turned to do just that. He didn't look down, as she was, though it was somewhat tempting. Tackling things head-on like this wasn't exactly his style, he prefered a more subtle approach.

"Well, it seems to be that the best way to deal with this is to be direct." Talking around it, it had already been made all too clear, wasn't going to work. He sighed softly. "I suppose I should go first, since it's my idea." But where to start?

"Direct. Very well. I kidnapped your brother to make him my heir. I didn't expect what happened between... us." And it was true. He'd thought to use her childish story to gain access to Toby, but that had all changed. "But things changed."

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sarah_williams
2009-02-20 03:30 pm UTC (link)

Keep it together, Sarah. You wanted this.

She kept her eyes on her fingers, not trusting herself with the emotions this was going to bring to the surface again. His heir? That just would not make sense in her mind. And of course all she had to go on with the immortality was the play she'd loved so much and had memorized. The Goblin King was immortal in that setting. He had also loved the girl... So perhaps the play was not entirely accurate.

"Your heir? Aren't you immortal, Jareth? Why would you need an heir?"

She lifted her eyes to look at his face, her expression purposefully blank and as neutral as she could make it. "And why my little brother? Weren't there any babies languishing away, forgotten in some foreign orphanage who could have benefited from being the heir to a kingdom?"

The golem had returned with their coffees and Sarah was grateful for the heat between her fingers as she grasped the red ceramic mug in her palms. She held the mug until her hands were red and painful from the heat and then she took a sip.

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