The look of terror on Sarah's face was unfortunate, but, Jareth reasoned, it could be going much, much worse. The witch and her scar faced boyfriend were behind this, after all, and Jareth couldn't expect anything to go as it should with them involved. Ignoring Peter pointedly as he told him to leave, Jareth prepared to launch into more reasoning with Sarah.
Only seconds later, Jareth resisted the urge to groan as several things happened at once. First, Sarah's human boyfriend began doing something odd with his hands to make the room temperature drop and his hands glow. Perfect, he thought, she was in love with a cheap magician. As Peter sent the lightening hurling toward him, a group of goblins appeared, eager to fulfill Peter's wish.
In the hopes of capturing the lightening to later use against the human wonderboy, Jareth quickly reached for one of his crystal balls, holding it passively against his chest and expecting it to absorb the lightening's power. However, it didn't absorb it, instead, it deflected it. The lightening bounced back dangerously close to Sarah, but when it hit Peter Jareth let out a sigh of relief. Not bothering to look to see the damage it did to him, Jareth turned to deal with his second problem--the goblins.
"What do you imbeciles think that you are doing?" He hissed, glaring at each of them in turn. "Are you going to take me away? Your king? I think not. Learn to think with those minute little brains of yours before you go rushing off to fulfill a wish, and think of what I would say were I there...and NEVER listen to that man again." He pointed blindly behind him to where Peter was laying on the floor, unconcerned as to his present condition. It served him right, in Jareth's opinion. He had, after all, aimed the lightening toward another, it was only fitting that he would feel its wrath, and he was also stubbornly refusing to accept that he as interfering with Jareth's perfect plan.