Nothing Is What It Seems

Chapter 10

Chapter 10

The Castle was quiet. The servants were enjoying not having their king in resident. They weren't throwing their own party in the Ballroom. No, they were just relaxing and enjoying the break his visit to the High Court gave them.

Sarah, herself, was enjoying her nice break. There wasn't much to do in the Kitchens, when they only had to prepare food for the servants. So when she wasn't doing what little she had to, she was sitting in the garden with Hoggle. She couldn't help but notice that he was being a bit rough with the plants, as if he was angry about something.

Frowning, she glanced at him, "Hoggle, what's wrong?"

He pulled a weed out rough and glared up at her, as he quickly looked around. "Whats was ya thinking?" He lowered his voice to a whisper, " whats if he hads recognized ya?"

Sarah sighed and whispered, "it's not like those thoughts hadn't past through my mind."

Hoggle sighed, "If hes discovers ya're here."

"Hoggle, did he really go and petition the High King to be allowed to marry me?"

Hoggle stopped and slowly turned to face her, "wheres did ya hear that?"

"I over heard two Far women talking about it in the Market. Is it true?"

Hoggle turned his face away from her, "he did, but after ya wons he began making laws that made even mention yar name a major crime. There's no telling whats he would had done if hes discovered ya were heres."

"Why didn't you tell me? That isn't something that you should hide, Hoggle."

Hoggle stood up shaking, "ya wasn't here, Sarah. Ya didn't see how angry he was. He almost destroyed the Kingdom. If it wasn't for the High Queen, whos knows how bad things could had been."

Sarah sighed, "you still could had told me."

"That mays be true, but Sarah, I'm trying to protect ya. Ya've never seen an angry Fae." He walked over to her, "are you to go to any more balls?"

Sarah looked at the ground before her, "I honesty don't know, Hoggle."

"Just be careful, Sarah. I don't want to see ya get hurt."

"I know, Hoggle."

The dwarf sighed and picked the stack if weeds beside him, before walking away.

Slowly, Sarah stood up. Hoggle was right, in a way. She didn't know what her winning had caused here, but she truly couldn't say if she would go to anymore balls or not.

Not after she had slipped, and said what she had last time. He knew she was here, but didn't know where she was. That is if he remembered what it was she had said. She wouldn't tell Hoggle about that; he had enough to worry about with everything else she had already done.

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Jareth was not happy. His mother had him sitting and chatting with women she knew he hated. He would rather be planning his next ball. It had to be perfect. He couldn't have her running away again. He had enough of that. That wasn't going to happen, again.

What would draw her out of hiding? Jareth was already going to recreate the ballroom he had tried to dazzle her with years ago. He could only hope she would actually make an appearance. She could always not show up. Did she fear he would hurt her? He couldn't do that. Yes, he had done that horribly, but he wouldn't repeat that mistake.

The two women, friends of his mother's, were boring him almost to tears, but he couldn't leave. Oh, no. Even as old as he was he couldn't escape his mother's plans. No, he had to sit here and pretend to listen to his mother and these women.

Why had his mother called him here anyway? What was she planning? He glanced over her as she laughed at something one of her friends said. She wouldn't be doing this unless she had something planned? It was bad enough she was throwing him a ball to welcome him back to Court.

Now if only he could escape from this form of hell and return home.