Underground (Jareth X Reader)

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Y/N'S POV

  Falling. All I remembered was falling. Then I woke up in the middle of the forest. At first, I felt confused about how I landed here, but then I felt anger. "I knew I had to stop this trick if I wanted for you to love me again" Even if I wanted to ever love him again, there was no way I was going to now.

I got up from the forest floor, and then I set my destination towards the Goblin City, but that's when something strange happened. As I was walking, I must've blinked, or something, because before I knew it I was back in my high school. I thought to myself, "What the hell? I swear if this is one of Jareth's tricks.....". I stopped mid-sentence when I saw my younger self.

I was reading my book in study hall, just minding my own business. Then those jerks Justin and Ivan decided to mess with me. As I watched them throw my book back and forth, I dreaded what was going to happen next. They're going to tear apart my book. But then I thought, if they never did that, then Jareth would have never given me a new one...Which means I would have never met him.

I gasped with the new idea of stopping those boys and myself from ripping up my book. But, as I was running up to them, there was a sudden rush of wind that forced me to close my eyes. When I opened them again, I was back in my old house. I heard someone crying, so I headed up the stairs to find out who it was.

The closer I got to the crying, I knew who's room it was coming from. Mine.

If I was a fool or you a thief. Made it through the maze to find my one in a million. And now you're just a page torn from the story I'm building.

Thoughts that weren't truly mine started going through my head. "Why did you say you love me when you didn't really love me?" The closer I would get to the door, the further it seemed to be. The thoughts got louder. "Why did you lie to my face? Why did you let me leave? Why did you say you love me when you really didn't?" They kept repeating. Getting louder and louder. I wanted them to stop. I needed them to stop. So I ran to my door, but it kept moving away from my reach. "Why did you say you love me? I know it was a lie." I could feel tears running down my face. I felt defeated.

That was until I saw the door move closer to me. I quickly reached for the doorknob to turn it. I saw my younger self sitting on her bed, sobbing. Holding the box that held all my memories from the Underground. As I looked at myself, I quickly remembered how it felt in the moment. My chest grew heavy and I frowned. I looked over when I saw this glimpse of light. Jareth. Standing over me, smiling wickedly. He was causing these thoughts, and I bet he even made the door move away from me every time I got closer to it. The thoughts got quieter, but one stood out.

"Why did you leave me?"

It took everything in me to not scream at Jareth when I first saw him. But once that awful question popped into my head, I knew it wasn't going to last very long. So I did what every reasonable person would do if they got angry at the person they once loved would do. I yelled at him. "Get away from her! Haven't you done enough? Can't you see that you've hurt her enough? Now you have to torture her even more with these thoughts? Making her cry, wanting to make her feel so miserable with the one thing she did right since meeting you?"

After that last sentence left my lips, he disappeared with a sad look in his eyes. More than sadness, guilt. I then saw my younger self calmly taking the ring off our finger and placing it into the box. I felt the wave of sadness slowly disappear and the room went black. Exhausted, I slid up against the door and put my head on my arms resting on my knees. But I could still feel anxiety running through my mind. Wondering if I truly did the right thing. Leaving the one person who made me feel true happiness.

Thought we built a dynasty forever couldn't break up...

When I looked up, I was in the junkyard on the outside of the Goblin City. I got up quickly and took a breath. Knowing what happened to my mother, I knew not to talk to the junk people. I kept my head down and walked for what seemed like hours through the large piles of junk. "How did it get here?" I thought to myself.

"Y/N? Y/N where are you?" said a familiar voice. I knew who it belonged to immediately, Hoggle.

"Hoggle!" I yelled. We followed each other's voices until we met. We embraced each other for a while, it felt nice to hold someone familiar and trustful.  "I thought I'd never see you again!"

"Am I glad to see you! You don't want to know what happen' to me."

"Well, I think I'm entitled to know." Hoggle chuckled at your comment.

"Well, when you were answering the riddle, I went to relieve myself. And then, out of nowhere, I was dragged through the hedge and dropped right into the Bog of Eternal Stench!"

"Oh no! Are you alright?"

"Yeah, I'm okay, luckily I didn't get any of it on me.  It took me an hour to get out of it though. I'm assuming Jareth added a double of me to trick you." That's when it hit me, how long have I've been standing here? How much time have I been wasting?

"Crap! Hoggle, I'm running out of time!"

"Exactly! We better get going, follow me!" We both started to run to the entrance of the Goblin City, ready for anything, for nothing feared us anymore.

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